Local News: Saturday’s Ottawa Journal features conspicuously, an event in the business life and progress of the capital that is of special interest to Pontiackers, inasmuch as it concerns the activities of two young men who were born and brought up in the county, namely, Cecil Morrison, a former Bristol boy, and Richard Lamothe, whose home was on Calumet Island. Ten years ago, these men without any capital worth mentioning, formed a partnership and launched out in the bakery business on Hilson Avenue under the name of the Standard Bread Co. Last week, the Standard Bread Co. opened one of the finest and most thoroughly equipped baking establishments to be found on the continent, or elsewhere. These two enterprising young Pontiackers, who from such small beginnings, have achieved such marvelous success in the short space of 10 years.

The suggested amalgamation of Clarendon and Shawville school boards, action on which was taken several months ago, is in a fair way to become an accomplished fact before very long.

A young man from Poltimore has been charged with the murder of Joseph Bouchard, the aged hermit who was shot to death in his lonely cabin at Wakefield Lake Creek some time during the closing days of December and whose body was discovered in the cellar some days later.

Premier Taschereau has received an open letter from the mayors, councillors and ex-civic dignitaries of the villages of Point Fortune, Carillon and others of the Ottawa Valley between Carillon and Ottawa, asking that he give favourable consideration to a project to develop power at Carillon and permit a portion of it to be exported to the United States.

Canada is the world’s greatest wheat exporter and in 1923 harvested her greatest crop.