Local News: On Labour Day Monday, about 4,000 persons jammed into the village of Bryson for the first annual Lions Club Labour Day celebrations. A spectacular 80-foot dive by an Ottawa swimmer and a draw for a new car and other prizes were highlights of the event which produced what police called the “greatest tie-up of traffic we’ve ever seen in Pontiac.”

The capacity crowd swarmed to vantage points near the bridge joining the mainland to Calumet Island in the Ottawa River, where Ray Wood, a professional swimmer and diver from Ottawa, left the 80-foot structure in a perfect swan dive into 12 feet of swift water below.

D.G. Wolfe of Eganville was the lucky holder of a ticket drawn for a new 1949 sedan. A washing machine went to Donatt Watt of Glasgow Station, Ont., and a combination radio was won by Rev. T. Tait, parish priest of Bryson.

Games of chance and a softball game got the celebrations underway in the afternoon. Foresters Falls defeated Bryson 5 to 2. Other sport events included boxing and wrestling in the village skating rink.
Quebec Provincial Police are searching this area for a person or persons who stole a Shawville Bakery truck early Sunday morning and smashed it on Highway 8, 12 miles from here. The theft is believed to have taken place at 3:30 a.m. Orla Young, residing beside the bakery, told police he heard the car starting but thought that it was one of the employees. The truck was wrecked when the driver missed a detour on the highway and crashed into a pile of stones used for road repairs. Norris Horner, manager of the bakery said the car was demolished beyond repair. Constables Linden Young and Roger Chartrand of the Quebec Provincial Police are investigating.

The 1948 Fair was a definite success and a large event. This caused the members at their annual meeting to favour a four day fair for 1949. Judging in the barns will begin Friday as usual with races both Friday and Saturday. Dates are Sept. 21 to 24.