A little of this and that: Building homes . . . Herb Wilson, on King Street, near the Creamery; Mick Hodgins, on a lot formerly owned by Duncan Campbell; Lawrence Young; next to Orla Young.

Catch of the week . . . By Roley Wickens who found a black Mallard duck in one of his muskrat traps. The duck, one leg broken, wore a wildlife conservation tag from Washington, D. C. Roley plans to repair the bird, put another tag on it and let it go.

3 Men Drown At Campbell’s Bay, Six Rescued After Boat Overturns: Thrown into the flood-swollen O.tawa River when their boat overturned Monday night, three district men lost their lives. Six others were recued when searchers in the local ferry found them clinging to the overturned boat and to bushes on a small midstream island.

The dead, all miners, were John Sloan, 32, William Holland, 30 and Allen Donnelly, 25. Rescued were George Foley, 31 and Eddie Ranger, 34, both of Campbell’s Bay; Austin Sloan, 36, a brother of John and his cousin, Clement Sloan, 30, both of Vinton; Marcel Larmond, 25, of Fort Coulonge and Ovila Giroux, 50, of Calumet Island.

The men had decided to take the boat after missing the bus to the New Calumet Mines. They decided to return home and met Ovila Giroux, the boatman, at the Calumet Island shore. The nine men got into his new 16-foot boat and set out across the river to meet the regular ferry half way over.

Seconds later as the ferry neared the Calumet Island dock, the boatload of men was swamped. Ferryman Rene Asselin, 30 turned his boat back into midstream and spotted the men with a portable searchlight fixed on the ferryboat. With the help of Marcel Pigeault, 16, he was able to drag the six survivors abroad and they were rushed to emergency quarters at McConnery’s Hotel where Dr. D. M. MacKenzie treated them for shock.

Dies in mine: Shawville and district was shocked to hear of the death of Leslie Horner on Tuesday. He was killed instantly in the shaft of the Dome mine, at South Porcupine. Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Horner, of Radford, he leaves to mourn his wife, the former Hazel Hodgins and two daughters, Sandra, 6 and Gail, 4.