Local News: The Breckenridge Bridge, closed to traffic since Aug. 6 when a truck carrying a heavy steam shovel owned by the Quebec Department of Highways broke through, was re-opened to general traffic last Thursday.

Weekend campers will have to postpone trips into the Quebec woods until further notice. Dry weather greatly increased the fire hazard and a ban on forest travel is an attempt to prevent fires being started by carelessness.

An elaborate scheme of renovating, coupled with the installation of a new oven and other bake-shop material, has made quite a change in the Shawville Bakery plant, which is now owned by Mr. Norvis Horner of this village. The plant will have the capacity of 4,000 loaves of bread a day, and at present is turning out over 2,000 a day; and also will be making pies, cakes, doughnuts, cookies and buns.

Jean-Marc Berger, 26, of St. Epiphanie, near Rivière du Loup, Que. fell with a huge electric hoist 61 feet to the rocks below at the Quebec end of the C.N.R. bridge that crosses the Ottawa River near Portage du Fort. Mr. Berger, who was an exceptionally strong and skillful worker, was up in the crane when a chain that held it in place loosened and crashed. The body was reached by nearby workmen at once who found the man terribly mangled and his head crushed in. If he had fallen only ten feet away, he would have fallen into the water and his injuries might not have been so serious.

Mrs. Edwin Pirie was hostess to the members of Elmside Women’s Institute on Wednesday evening with the president, Mrs. Stewart in the chair, assisted by the secretary, Mrs. Graham.

The Daily Vacation Bible School held each day for the past two weeks in the Camp Ground Tabernacle, was proven a real success. The workers, Miss Muriel Barrie and Miss Jean Carns, graduates from the London Bible Institute, were well pleased with the response among the children of the various church Sunday schools of the town.