Messrs. Armstrong and Dale, having just burnt a large brick kiln, are preparing for the erection of Mr. Jas. Cuthbertson’s residence opposite the exhibition grounds in Shawville.
Mr. W.B. Crawford is still nursing a pretty badly sprained foot, which he received while getting out of the way of a runaway team with a binder attached, some days ago.
Mr. Henry S. McDowell of the 6th range, Clarendon, was in town on Monday, seeking signatures to a document petitioning Mr. D. Gillies, M.L.A., to obtain a grant to aid in opening a part of the 6th line between Ebenezer Church and Bryson. It is claimed the proposed road will greatly shorten the distance between Shawville and Bryson.
The Baptist congregation of Renfrew ran an excursion on Friday last to Norway Bay at the Quebec side of the Ottawa River opposite Sand Point. There was quite a large number that went and these, together with the campers which were there, made a fairly large crowd. The usual games and sports were indulged in and the party report a good time. They returned on the evening local train. Norway Bay is an ideal spot for a camping ground, but the place is not easily accessible from the Ontario side owing to there being only a horse ferry across from Sand Point.
Dr. Alexander was called down Thursday to attend a young man named Dods, of Maple Ridge neighbourhood, who accidentally had the prong of a pitchfork run into one of his eyes.
Haying is past and harvest is begun in Radford and autumn with its golden fields of grain is here.
Last week a number from Radford attended the attractive picnic grounds which nature has provided at Mr. S. Horner’s lake.
The signs in the political atmosphere of a general election taking place this fall seems to become more apparent as time rolls on.
The dreaded bubonic plaque has broken out in London and two deaths from the disease were reported on Friday.
The Pontiac Pacific Railway company has made further progress in the matter of securing right of way between Aylmer and Hull.
The Arnprior Watchman reports Wm. Otterson, butcher, has what he says is the biggest pig in Canada, or at least that he has ever seen. It is fully eight feet long and weighs over eight hundred pounds. If he does not soon kill it, and it grows in proportion to its age, he will likely build a house in which to exhibit it.
Mr. R.G. Elliott is engaged at present on the erection of a commodious residence at Bryson for Mr. W. Lothian of the Upper Ottawa Development Company.
After an absence of nearly four years, Mr. Hiram Morrison returned home on Wednesday evening without notice, and therefore much to the surprise and delight of his mother and relatives here. Hiram left Dawson city on the 16th and was only 12 days actual traveling on the road, a remarkably short time. He looks none the worse for the several years roughing it, incident to mining life, unlike many thousands of other who went to Klondike. On the contrary, he with a couple of other adventurous young fellows have established a “stake” in the country from which they are realizing substantial profits and intends returning again before navigation closes, thus his visit will necessarily be cut short.