Local news: Mr. Robt. G. Elliott has just completed a truly artistic job of work at Dr. Lyon’s residence, being the completion on modern lines of that gentleman’s drawing room and the finishing touches thereon have been performed by the master hand of decorator A.J. Jackson, the labours of both tradesmen combining to make one of the most handsomely finished rooms to be seen anywhere in this section.

There was a very pleasant gathering of young people at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Farrell, of Otter Lake, where all enjoyed themselves very heartily until the wee small hours.

Letters patent have been granted to the Dowd Milling Company of Quyon, with a capital of $100,000, divided into 10,000 shares of $10 each. The company is composed of the following gentlemen: H.S. Dowd, Jos. Amm, W.H. Meredith, Geo.T. Mohr, Caleb Brooks, William Harrison, Quyon; Ed Graham, Bristol; B.W. Dunnet, Pakenham; John A Cameron, Dominionville; John Pritchard, North Wakefield; D.B. McLaren, Fitzroy; R.H. Sayer, Aylmer; George Walsh, Onslow.

We observe from an Ottawa exchange that the redoubtable “Dr.” Douglas, who is known to many of our readers, especially in Clarendon, has been getting himself into trouble again. Regarding that eccentric individual, our contemporary says: “R.G.M. Douglas was tried by County Police Magistrate Smith yesterday on a charge of practicing medicine without a license or privilege to do so. Douglas is said to have traveled up and down among the farmers prescribing for their various ills. A bottle of medicine was given and a fee of $11.50 collected. Douglas said that he was an army surgeon having served many years in the British army. A fine of $5 and $10.60 costs was imposed.”

A report is current that the Bristol iron mines are to be operated again at an early date. Good news, which it is to be hoped is true.

Military organization for Pontiac – should we have one? The development of the past few months, culminating in the dispatch of some thousands of Canada’s sons to assist in fighting the battles of the Empire in South Africa, have naturally tended to intensify the feeling that we ought to be doing something on the lines of getting up a military force, if the idea was taken hold of, and sanctioned of course, by the Department of Militia and Defense.

Old Pontiac, all will admit, can muster as fine a body of Canadian stalwarts as can be found anywhere within the compass of this great Dominion, of which we are all so proud.