Local news: The building boom in town is now going briskly on. Last week, Messrs. George and Thomas Findlay began the mason work of the proposed bank block, which Mr. G. F. Hodgins is having erected alongside his store; directly opposite Mr. Caldwell’s building, is advancing satisfactorily, and Mr. Albert Horner is erecting a good-sized wing to the rear of the building lately purchased by Mr. W. B. Crawford from Mr. Silas Young. The new Methodist parsonage is also taking form, under the management of some Aylmer mechanics, and promises to be a most creditable structure, when completed. The building stands on elevated ground on a first-class 8-foot basement and will undoubtedly present a fine appearance.

Queen’s Birthday: Friday, May 24th, will likely be pretty generally observed by our citizens as a holiday, although nothing special will take place to mark the time-honored event. The stores will remain closed during the day to allow the employees to get out and absorb the sweet spring air, and incidentally anything else which may turn up. 

The cow nuisance: Complaints have been made to the Mayor by several parties that owners of cows are allowing them to ramble about the streets to the annoyance of the complainants, who aver that that their gardens are trampled down and door yards made filthy by the marauding bovines. It should not be necessary to remind the owners of cattle, that there is a local enactment prohibiting such from running at large, but it would seem that because the council have not as yet appointed an official to enforce the by-laws, parties are taking advantage of the fact by ignoring the law. Any ratepayer, however, who has a grievance in this respect, has the right to act in his own behalf, by impounding animals found straying about the streets. But people generally are loth to take this step, and would rather bear with the nuisance than run the risk of quarrelling with their neighbors. Hence the propriety of having a corporation official always on hand for the performance of such work. It costs something, of course, but we take it that people would prefer paying a little rather than undertake a disagreeable task themselves.