Local news: The curling rink was sheeted and roofed last week, all with galvanized iron, and unless some internal conflagration starts up as the result of superheated enthusiasm among the curlers when the “roarin’ game” gets a-going, the new structure is practically fire-proof.
Through the good offices of the popular agent of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Mr. C. A. L. Tucker, the proprietor of the new Pontiac House, Mr. A. G. Proudfoot, has procured for the rotunda of the hotel three of the splendid large pictures which are issued by the Co. as one of its numerous methods of advertising this stupendous railway and steamship system.
Mr. August W. Dahms, a native of Thorne Centre, and for the past eight years a resident of Ottawa, was killed on the Gatineau road one mile east of Kirk’s Ferry, last Thursday, when the car he was driving—on his way from Thorne to the city—suddenly left the road and crashed into the bottom of a 6-foot ditch, top side down.
Mr. Dahms was pinned down by the back of the seat, and when extricated shortly afterwards was found to be quite dead. Deceased was 63 years old and married. A number of years ago he served on the Ottawa police force for some time, afterwards removing to Saskatchewan, where he engaged in farming till his return to Ottawa.
Shawville lost another well-known citizen, when at 3 o’clock Thursday morning last, Mr. Geo. E. Wainman, passed away from heart disease, following an attack which seized him about 6.30 the previous evening. The deceased had been in rather poor health for a considerable time, and for some days preceding his death he had remained at his home; but on Wednesday evening he was feeling better and spoke of going to the shop next day; but the Great Disposer of Events had decreed that the light of another day for him would dawn in the spirit world beyond the vale. The deceased was one of the oldest residents of Shawville, having spent the greater part of his life there. He embarked in the stove and tinware business about 30 years ago and was, therefore, from his long business associations well-known throughout this district.