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Things I don't quite know how to classify, but that I have found in my research.

Letter from Mary Jane Halls to the Johns Family in Elimville

From the Canadian Letters and Images Project, http://www.canadianletters.ca/letters.php?letterid=12596&warid=3&docid=1&collectionid=441

Date: November 15, 1917

To: Mr & Mrs Johns

From: Jennie (Halls) Matheson

7 Lucerne Apts

Wentworth St

Winnipeg. Man

15 Nov/17

To Mr & Mrs Johns

Elimville. Ont

Dear friends

Only a few days ago I saw in an Exeter paper that a friend gave me an account of your dear brave soldier boy giving His life for His Country.

What more noble deed can any man do. I know dear friends you are lonely and heart-broken at the thought that your dear boy will never come home again.

My prayer is that you may strengthened and upheld by our kind Heavenly Father, and some day you will meet your brave soldier boy again. in the Heavenly Home. How is Addie I send her sincere sympathy. the rest of the family will not remember me. but I send my sympathy to you all and when ever I visit Ontario I will come and see you. I do not forget the old friends. The years have brought many changes to us all.. My sisters wish me to extend to you their sympathy.

We are all very well and like Winnipeg. I find the winters long and cold but our apartment is allways very bright and warm

Your sincere friend

Jennie (Halls) Matheson

Engagement Notices

Mr. and Mrs. William Albert Hicks, Port Colborne, announce the engagment of their only daughter, Anne Charlotte, to Dr. William Cecil Gardiner, Niagara Falls, New York, only son of Mr and Mrs Peter Gardiner, London, Ont., the wedding to take place inearly August.

From p10, c3, the St. Thomas Times Journal on July 16, 1931

Death Notices

Former Resident of Union Dies in West

Mr. and Mrs. Ray Gilbert, Steele street, city, have returned home after attending the funeral of Mrs. Gilbert's sister, Mrs. E. J. Halls, Beloit, Wisconsin.

The deceased lady was formerly well known in this part of Elgin County, having been born in Union. Her maiden name was Miss Emma J. Hunter, and the news of her decease came as a considerable shock to many who remember the deceased lady.

For the past 35 years Mrs. Halls had resided in Beloit, Wis., and had been prominent in the life of the city where she passed away on March 19., at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. K. Hay, 1120 Hubbard Place, where she had lain ill for some time.

Besides her husband, J. P. Halls, the deceased lady leaves to mourn her loss four sons, John, Philip, Orla A, and Emerson; two daughters, Mrs. R. O. Ellis and Mrs. W. K. Hay, all of Beloit; two sisters Mrs. E. A. Fordyce, Sparta Road, and Mrs. Ray Gilbert, Steele street, and one brother, Eugene Ferns, Rockford, Illinois.

From p4, C3, St Thomas (Ontario) Daily Times, Mar 24, 1915

The same notice appeared in the St. Thomas Journal on April 1, 1915, p4, c4, under the heading "Attend Funerrl of Former Union Lady"

Peter Gardiner Dies at 77

London, Ont. Aug 25 -- Peter Gardiner, 77, died Thursday at the Queen Alexandra Sanatorium. A resident of London for the past 15 years, Mr. Gardiner formerly operated a general store at Blyth. Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Ellen E. Halls Gardiner and one son, William Cecil, of Niagara Falls, N.Y.

From p9, c1, the St Thomas Times Journal, Aug 26, 1948.