Feb. 3, 1993
25 Years Ago
Curling Club celebrates 25 years: The Shawville Community Bonspiel is being played with a touch of nostalgia this year. January 1993 marks 25 years since the Shawville Curling Rink was built.
The original construction committee was at the Shawville Curling Club’s Bonspiel opening which consisted of Doug McLean, Watt Taylor, Don Dods, Bill Hanna, Bill Orr and René Latreille.
Doug McLean was chairman of the building committee 25 years ago.
He spoke fondly of the days when the Curling Club decided it needed an indoor facility.
“The outdoor rink was built in the 1920s,” he said. “The ice was not the best, on number two ice, the rock would take a curve over a bump, then another and finally the rock would end up on the right side of the house.”
Mysterious cattle infection probed by Ontario, Quebec: Animal health authorities in Quebec and Ontario are working together to try to solve a mysterious bacterial infection that has killed five dairy cows in Pontiac County.
The bacteria, which infects only adult cows immediately after they calve, has killed five animals on one farm near Campbell’s Bay.
The problem was thought to be under control but then traces of the infection were detected at two other farms up to 15 kilometres away.
The bacteria causes an infection that damages blood vessel walls and causes hemorrhaging.
When it occurs, it can be noticed a few hours after calving, when the cow refuses to eat and feels cold.
Feb. 8, 1968
50 Years Ago
Grateful parishioners present Skidoo to Rev. Father Klatt: Parishioners of St. Mary’s, Quyon have voiced their sincere appreciation for the untiring devotion and uplifting influence exercised by their pastor Father Klatt on less formal occasions, and an opportunity for giving a tangible proof of their gratitude, fidelity and love came on the night of Jan. 20. It took the form of a presentation of a Skidoo with all its trappings and trimmings.
Quoting the words of the trio who conceived the idea and pushed it into its conclusion, Mr. Martin Rady and Mr. and Mrs. Irvin McCann, “We were overwhelmed with the quick, wholehearted and generous response received from the parishioners when asked for a contribution.”
St. Mary’s wins TV quiz game: Those who watched the Quyon students on CBOT’s “Reach for the Top” Tuesday night were well rewarded with a fine performance. The quartet from St. Mary’s won hands down over a similar group from Buckingham.
Emmett O’Donnell could also take certain credit for the big win as he put the Quyon team through practice quizzes at school before their appearance on television so they would be prepared for anything and they were.
On the team were grade eleven student Peter McCann, and grade ten student Marilyn Curley and Bob Fitzsimmons.
Feb. 4, 1943
75 Years Ago
Local News: A war saving stamp campaign started at No. 9 school, Bristol has already realized the amount of $50.18.
The Canadian Film Board will show another series of wartime pictures at Pine Lodge on Friday evening. The show will be given under the chairmanship of Mr. Leslie Dean and collection will be taken in aid of the Red Cross.
The talking pictures will feature some of the high points of the war.
Newsmen chosen by lot were allowed to ride British planes bombing Berlin on the night of Jan. 16 for the first time on an offensive flight from Britain.
James MacDonald, New York Times correspondent represented by the United States tells of the extremely heavy attack on Hitler’s capital: I was a passenger aboard one of the planes comprising the large force that battered the German capital. I saw a great number of 4,000 pound high-explosive bombs and thousands of incendiaries blasting buildings right and left and starting widespread fires reminiscent of some of the big German raids we have gone through in London.
The Berlin Radio says the Germans are using “tanker submarines” which are able to refuel and repair U-boats everywhere in the operations area.
Feb. 7, 1918
100 Years Ago
Local News: Shawville has good prospects of a creamery or butter factory being in operation here this year. Mr. Alex G. Brough has laid a proposition before council which the latter has accepted and agreement will be entered into with Mr. Brough at once so that building operations may be proceeded with as soon as possible.
Last week the presbytery of Ottawa met in Fort Coulonge to induct the Rev. W.J. Fowler, Westmount, as minister in that church.
Fatal fire at Calumet Island: Rose Laporte, aged eight, youngest daughter of Samuel Laporte, Calumet Island four miles from here, was burned to death in a fire which destroyed the family home early yesterday morning. Other members of the family, including an aged grandmother were forced to jump from an upper window.
Samuel Laporte lit the fire in the kitchen about three a.m. before going out to feed his horses. Returning in about fifteen minutes, he found his house ablaze and entrance impossible.
Sleeping upstairs were Mr. Laporte’s mother, his brother and his four children. His yells awakened them. Simon, a child of seven, broke the window glass with his little fists and together with Edna, aged ten and Albert aged eleven assisted the grandmother to make her escape. Little Rose was not missed until too late. She lay sleeping with a pet kitten clasped tightly in her arms.
The survivors suffered greatly, having to walk in bare feet through the snow to a neighbour’s.
Feb. 2, 1893
125 Years Ago
Local news: Now that the new year has fairly set in and has done so with an item of frost, business has again begun to drag along.
New tin shop: Mr. George Wainman wishes to announce that he has opened a shop on the corner of Main St., Shawville (opposite Turner’s) for the manufacture of all kinds of tinware, stove pipes, etc., repairing a specialty.
He has engaged a first class mechanic and is therefore in a position to do all kinds of work in first class style. Hides and pelts taken in exchange for work or part cash paid.
No. 1 school room has had a ‘turn over’ not from Grit to Tory or from Tory to Grit but the platform, black board and maps from one end of the room to the other, the seats all faced the other way.
We understand that indefatigable grain buyer of Elmside has in company with the indefatigable horse trader of Bristol, made a contract to deliver several hundred tons of hay to Arnprior. We do not know the price, hay is very plentiful and to fill a large contract will be an easy matter.
Mr. R. Young of Westport drank water out of his swamp three years ago and since then had a peculiar feeling in his stomach. The other day he drank some hot liquor and vomited a large black-headed lizard.
The P.P.J. regular train is now being hauled by a coal engine, a change which is likely to be followed in the near future by a lessening of the present scheduled time between Aylmer and Fort Coulonge.
The county councillors were much pleased at the very comfortable quarters they now have in Mr. W.H. Walsh’s hall, Bryson which has been enlarged and neatly finished off.
Mr. J.Y. Caldwell of Ottawa has been up some days anxiously watching over the couch of his little daughter who has been lying at the point of death from Scarlet Fever.
Jan. 31, 1918, 100 Years Ago
Local News: Mr. and Mrs. Alex McDonald formerly of Shawville, have received the news of the mGerman city of Karlsrhue, a miliary centre. This action, although somewhat belated, is quite in order and the oftener it is repeated the better and more quickly the people of Germany will come to understand it’s a poor game that two or more cannot play at.
Jan. 26, 1893, 125 Years Ago
Local news: It is probable that a slight change will soon takeis t the post office in the evenings but we understand they devote their time to the interesting game of “playing tag”.
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