Local news: “RIN-TIN-TIN” in “Clash of the Wolves” is the feature attraction at the Shawville Theatre on Tuesday night, next.

On top of the very plentiful supply still in evidence, the 4-inch snowfall last Friday morning, caused some people to think seriously that there may, after all, be something in the prophecy that 1926 is to be a “summerless year.”

Mr. Lionel E. Thomson has opened shop in the Hayes block, and is stocked up with a full line of the well-known R. J. Watkins Co. goods, and other household requisites.

Messrs. Thos. Shore and Pedan Wilson, of the Lake Dumont Hunt Club, with Mr. J. H. Brownlee and his team, took a large boat up to the club house on the lake last week, to be used as a sort of utility craft for conveying men and dogs to the various “watches” on the lake. The boat—which is of the lumberman type—is 35 feet long and equipped with an automobile engine. Mr. Andrew Roy, of Bristol, was the builder.

A. D. McCredie, our local Willard Battery dealer, has switched on to the electric power, and has now in operation an up-to-the-minute equipment for charging batteries on a large scale, and, thus by degrees the electrical current is being adopted for power purposes by our tradespeople and mechanics, and contrivances, which hitherto had rendered good service, are giving way to the more modern methods. So far as power is concerned, industry is now in the transition stage What will it be like 25 years hence?