Local news: Messrs. Dale Bros., Tinsmiths, have removed their stock into the building lately occupied by George Swatman. The shop vacated by them is to be fitted up at once for a drug store, for Mr. Box, a Renfrew young man.

The Dolan (mill) property in Shawville is advertised to be sold by Sheriff’s sale at Bryson on the 5 September next.

Work was resumed on the construction of the P.P.J. extension between Aylmer and Hull last week. 

The Department of Public Works have called for tenders for the construction of piers and abutments for the proposed iron bridge across the Ottawa River to Des Joachims.

Last week was harvesting week; the jingle of the binder was to be heard in all directions in Radford. A.W. Chamberlain wore a smile of contentment as he drove out his new binder through the fine fields of wheat.

In Bristol, harvesting has followed so closely on haying it was difficult to say when haying was done and harvesting commenced.

Picnics and moonlight excursions on the lake are the order of the day here. Those “poetical effusions” from Elmside and Peerless Lodges speak well for the Temperance cause in Bristol.

Schools have commenced in Otter Lake and Leslie this week with Miss Lowe of Buckingham again at No.1, and Miss Brownlee at No. 2, Leslie. There were several parties and a wedding last week which somewhat relieved the usual monotony and some of our young men who had indulged rather freely in the use of their fists were heavily fined.

Messrs. Gilmour and Hughson sent a gang of men up the Pickanock to work on improvements under charge of Mr. Murphy.