Local News: The crows and the blackbirds and the robins are here, all harbingers of spring. The snow has disappeared and some who have ventured out in the country with their cars find the roads not too bad, still people are skeptical of getting real spring weather till after Easter.

Mrs. Jason Woods, who has been suffering from failing eyesight for some time, went to the Civic Hospital last week to be operated on for cataract.

After a somewhat sensational trial lasting some time, and one in which many witnesses were examined; the young farm hand of Glenlevit, Que.; charged with the murder of Joseph Bouchard, the aged hermit of St. Pierre de Wakefield, was found “not guilty” at the Hull assizes last Friday morning and immediately set at liberty by Mr. Justice Loranger. The evidence put in by the prosecution in the case was purely of a circumstantial nature and the jury saw nothing in it to justify the conviction, hence their decision was not long in being arrived at. Judge Loranger complimented the jury on their decision, stating they had done right in giving the prisoner the benefit of the doubt.