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September 1909
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Local News
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International News
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Exhibition
Formal Opening
The Exhibition will be formally opened on Wednesday 2 o'clock, by Hon. Jas. S. Duff, Minister of Agriculture. Major Currie, MP and others will speak.
Don't Fail To Visit The Magnificent New Main Building costing $15,000.00
In addition to the regular exhibits of Live Stock, Agricultural Products, Ladies Work and Fine Arts, the Management have secured the following splendid features which will give visitors to the exhibition a programmed of unusual magnificence
BROS. MORAN -
Comedy Acrobats in their laughing Trick Cabin
MADAM PARCOR -
Famous Trombone Soloist
THE HAZYAS -
In wonderful and pleasing International Dancing
GEORGE BOLBBY -
In gymnastic Ring Act
THE BURKES -
Comedy Acrobatic Act
SECULAR AND MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY OF FIREWORKS THURSDAY NIGHT BY HAND & CO.
LIGHTNING PLAYED HAVOC WITH 'PHONES AND ELECTRIC LIGHT.
A dispatch from Strathroy says: The worst storm of the season visited Strathroy and vicinity on Saturday night. The fuses at the electric light works were burned out, and half the town was left in darkness. The telephone service was put out of business for a time, no less than 25 'phones being burned out.
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Sept 9
Jack Johnson fights Al Kaufman to
no decision in 10 for boxing title
Check Back Monthly for Updates
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Sept. 2 King Edward VII (who as Prince of Wales visited Collingwood in 1855) signs the South Africa Bill
Sept. 6 American explorer Robert Perry sent word that he had reached the North Pole 5 months earlier
Sept. 13 Ty Cobb clinched AL HR title with his 9th home run. (all inside the park)
Sept. 18 Largest paid baseball attendance (35,409), A's beat the Tigers, 2 - 0 in Detroit
Sept. 22 Oakland California, Fung Joe Guey made the first west coast flight of a motor driven airplane at Piedmont Heights. He flew for half a mile some 15 feet above the ground.
Sept. 25 The First National Aeronautic Show opened at Madison Square Garden
Sept. 27 29th U. S. Men's Tennis: W. A. Larned beats W. J. Clothier (6-1, 6-2, 5-7, 1-6, 6-1)
Sept. 28 Al Capp, (Alfred Gerald Caplin), cartoonist was born in New Haven, Ct. From 1934 to 1977, Capp wrote and drew the cartoon, "Li'l Abner", with its cast of wonderful characters Mammy and Pappy Yokum, their son Abner, the lovely Daisy Mae, Fearless Fordick and the lovely Schmoos. Al Capp even invented a holiday, Sadie Hawkins Day. Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend?"
Visit: www.lil-abner.com
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Learn about some of Collingwood's history with
Historian Bill Barclay
Daily at 11:00AM, Bill will accompany guests on a historic walk
within
the downtown core of Collingwood.
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