Local News: The Portage du Fort bridge will carry a heavy grist of traffic this week, Pontiac people going to Renfrew to attend the annual fair which it is claimed, will be bigger and better.

Harvesting operations in this section, in fact throughout Eastern Canada, have been very much retarded by the wet, unsettled weather which has prevailed for the past two weeks. A large quantity of grain was still in the fields on Saturday.

Messrs. John Argue and Harold Armstrong and families motored out in the country on Friday in quest of partridge and returned in the evening with several trout, caught in Phillip’s Lake, one a 12 pound grey trout.

Mr. Alex Bean of Starks Corners section, has handed in an excellent sample of White Fife wheat, picked up, without regard to particular selection, from a twelve-acre field of this wheat after it was cut. The stocks measure 4 feet 9 1/2 inches and the well-filled heads are 5 inches neat.

It took 30 pounds of 600 foot twine to bind this field.

There has been quite an exodus of Shawville young ladies within the past two or three weeks, several going to MacDonald college, and others taking schools in this or the neighbouring district.