Local News: Seven persons were made homeless and $3,000 damage caused when fire destroyed two frame houses at Fort Coulonge. The houses destroyed were the residences of Hermeneglide Belair and Albini Charette. Mr. Belair also owned the house the Charette family occupied. The fire was believed to have been caused by a smudge children in the Charette family were making to drive away mosquitoes. Both Mr. and Mrs. Charette were away at the time. Before the Fort Coulonge Fire Brigade could arrive, both houses were engulfed. No insurance was carried.

A meeting of the executive of the Pontiac Farm Forum Council was held in Shawville High School on Monday evening with twenty-five members present. Grant Elliott was in the chair.

A large and representative delegation from the Ottawa Presbytery attended the Montreal and Ottawa conference of the United Church of Canada in St. James Church, Montreal.

A meeting of the directors of the Pontiac Telephone Company Ltd. was held in the secretary’s office.

A motion was brought forward that the provincial electricity board be notified that the Pontiac Rural Telephone Co. objects to the granting of an application to build power lines until the Gatineau Power Company agrees to re-imburse the Pontiac Rural Telephone Co. for all expenses that they may incur in the event of the proposed power line being built parallel to, or over the telephone lines, thereby causing the moving of the telephone lines.