Local News: The Norway Bay Ferry begins running on May 1.

The Advance reports that Mr. Maurice Sloan has been appointed chief fire ranger for the south division of Coulonge.

The Rev. W.F. Crawford of the Bible Society will be at Bristol Corners Sunday morning next and at Starks Corners in the afternoon; at St. Paul’s Church, Shawville, in the evening.

Saturday evening’s train brought home Mr. George Dale, Miss Arletta Dale and Miss Norma Smith, all having come through operations for appendicitis at the city hospitals within the past three weeks.

From the driving shed at the Holiness Movement Church on Saturday night, three buggies were robbed of their contents and it is said the owners of the missing articles have a good idea of who the culprit or culprits are and if the articles are not restored within a reasonable delay, something interesting will eventuate. Two rugs, a brown overcoat and a grey overcoat and umbrella all vanished, loss representing a value of $70, rather a serious theft to be perpetrated in what is supposed to be an ultra-civilized community.

Federal experts are by no means skeptical on the question of gold having been discovered at Cobb Lake, a section of country some 15 miles from Chapeau, Quebec.

The English pound sterling, it is predicted, will ere long reach par value. A dispatch from London dated April 24 says: “new high marks for the post-war period were made by the pound sterling today in its advance toward parity with the dollar.”