Local news: Attending the Royal Winter Fair from Shawville and vicinity were the following: Allan McKay, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dagg, Kark Dale, Bert Starks, Kenneth Woods, Mr. and Mrs. Emmerson Cotie and family, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Young, Mr. and Mrs. William Lucas and Orval Smart.

Residents shocked by sudden death of Mervin Smith: Residents of Shawville and vicinity were shocked at the sudden death on Sunday of Mervin Smith, 21, of Ladysmith, who was instantly killed when his heavy truck left the highway a mile and a half north of Shawville, overturning in a ditch and pinning him beneath it.

A passenger, Shirley Brown, 18, of Campbell’s Bay, Que., managed to stay in the cab of the vehicle and escaped with minor bruises.

The accident occurred at about 3 p.m. as Smith, who was employed as a truck-driver with the International Co-operative Company of Waltham, Que., was returning to his home after taking a sister to Shawville. As the vehicle came off the hill just north of town to negotiate a flat-bed vehicle, Smith swung his truck so that the wheels careened into the ditch, turning over and over until it came to rest in the field.

His passenger, although dazed by the mishap, managed to get out of the cab and run for help. At the nearby home of Warren Richardson, the girl summoned help from Shawville. Dr. S. E. McDowell was called and pronounced the youth dead after a tow-truck had freed the body.

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This week your Editor, Bill Kinmond, is in Woodbridge, so if The Equity is not quite what you expected, it’s because I have not quite found my bearings. So just bear with us and we hope to have a bigger and better Shawville Equity. Thanks! – Clarissa Kinmond.

To the Pontiac Lions Club for organizing a Trust Fund for the recently orphaned Asselin Children. The entire proceeds of this drive will be turned over to the committee in charge of the children’s welfare. So give and give generously.

Congratulations to S. Wyman McKechnie, of Wyman, on his third straight win with his Ayrshires at the Royal Winter Fair. This gives him permanent possession of the trophy.

Congratulations To Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Tubman on the birth of twin girls on November 20 at Pontiac Community