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July 2, 2025

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The Way We Were:

Local news: The roads for the past week are said to be in a more wretched condition than has been known for years.

Mr. George Ballantine started ferrying between Bristol and Sand Point on Monday.

A staff of masons and stone cutters have commenced to prepare the material for the Portage du Fort bridge.

A thunderstorm, the first of the season, passed over this neighbourhood on Wednesday night last. It was accompanied by several short, heavy showers.

The rumour is revived that the Bell Telephone Company are thinking of extending their service through this county, to the extent of opening central offices in Shawville and other business centres.

The patrons of the Elmside Cheese Factory held their annual meeting at No. 9 school house on the last day of March. There was a good attendance and the prospects for the coming season are quite bright.

Mr. J.R. Booth has purchased Mr. Francis Murtagh’s timber limits on the east branch of Coulonge.

Mr. Thos. Argue, whose illness we reported last week, is still in a very critical condition, his case having developed the symptoms of typhoid fever, of a serious form.

Mr. and Mrs. R. Bowes are leaving Campbell’s Bay this week, Mr. Bowes having been appointed agent at Clarke’s Station. He will be greatly missed as he made many friends during his residence amongst us.
Fresh eggs taken in exchange for boots and shoes at Stewart’s boot store, Shawville.

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The roads are drying up very nicely in Otter Lake and Leslie and that is greatly appreciated. The bicycle and all other spring birds are out.

Mr. George E. Murphy left on Tuesday with another gang of men to work on Gilmour and Hughson’s Pickanock drive and it is reported that there is lots of water and the drive is coming down well.

There is a great deal of sickness here in Otter Lake just now colds and influenza, and mostly everywhere there is a patient.

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