Local News: While in Montreal last week, Mr. G.A. Howard bought a carload of horses, which arrived here Friday.
That group in our social economy known as the younger set held a supper in Wilson’s Hall on Friday evening last at which about forty were present. Mr. W. Sereney was the caterer for the occasion and performed his part in a very satisfactory manner. Mr. Wilson’s radio set with “loud speaker” contributed to the enjoyment of the evening.
The village council have entered into an arrangement with A.D. McCredie to supply a temporary lighting system during the winter months, or until such time as power can be procured from the plant at Bryson.
While Lennon Thomas, Robert and George Thompson of Clarendon Front were deer hunting in the vicinity of Sand Bay on Saturday, the last named party had the rare luck to shoot a large timber wolf. This is a rather remarkable incident as wolves have not been seen or heard of in that section of the country during the last fifty years or more.
Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Jessup (nee Miss Lila Rennick) who spent part of their honeymoon with the parents of the latter, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Rennick, of this town, left on Saturday for their home in North Bay.
The regular monthly meeting of the Women’s Missionary Society was held in the vestry of the Presbyterian Church on Tuesday. Since 1913, the auxiliary has given $2,000 for missions.
Ottawa’s magnificent new Civic Hospital on Carling Avenue, costing three million, five hundred thousand dollars, and claimed to be one of the most up-to-the minute institutions of the kind on the continent, was officially opened last Thursday.