The Kickapoo Indian Med. Co. have been in town for the past week and are entertaining large crowds nightly with amusing programmes. A word about their medicines: the purest, safest and most reliable medicine known to humanity. Their elements are blood-making, blood-cleansing, blood purifying; no poisonous ingredients enter into their formula; no subtle chemical fumes in their medicinal properties.

The directors of Agricultural Society No. 1 held a meeting on Wednesday afternoon to further arrange for the approaching exhibition which it has been decided, to hold on one day only, Tuesday, Sept. 18th. A. Smiley, Jos. A. Smith and Dr. Alexander, have been appointed a committee to arrange a program of attractions. 

Treacherous Lake Deschene last week added another chapter to the long list of victims it has engulfed within the past ten years. Tom and Leo Steers, sons of Mr. Connell Steers of Ottawa, were the young lads who met an untimely fate, while they with their father and two younger brothers, were crossing to Aylmer, after having spent the day fishing around the islands in that locality. A terrific thunderstorm broke over the lake as the little party were out in mid stream and the wind-tossed billows gradually filled the little craft until it finally swamped and Mr. Steers and his four boys were left floundering in the angry water. Mr. Steers strove heroically to save his sons, but the task was too great and the two eldest, weakened through fatigue, lost their grasp of the boat and sank out of his sight. The other two with arms locked around his neck, he managed to sustain until three young French-Canadians arrived in a lumber boat and plucked them from the jaws of death. The bodies of the two unfortunate boys were recovered near Aylmer Wharf. Very much sympathy is felt for the grief-stricken family under the very sad circumstances.