Local News: Don’t forget to visit the Orange Hall at supper time on New Year’s night and after you have satisfied the cravings of the inner man, walk over to Wilson’s Hall and enjoy the pictures.

Fire which is presumed to have been caused by an overheated furnace, completely destroyed the Chapeau Public School at an early hour Christmas morning. The school which was completed two years ago at a cost of approximately $20,000, is a total loss.

The school was a four room building built of cement blocks, with recreation rooms in the basement.
The Chapeau convent, which stands not far from the school, had a very close call and was saved after a hard fight.

The annual supper and entertainment at the Methodist Church on Christmas night came off very successfully, there being a large attendance from the village and neighbourhood, and all enjoyed the good supper provided; except those perhaps, who had fared too sumptuously at the family Christmas dinner.

The power dam at Calumet is now suspending a sufficient body of water to obliterate all the lower chutes of the group which constituted the Grand Calumet Falls. When the dam is allowed to fill up, as is the intention some time this month, the remaining chutes higher up river will also have disappeared to the public gaze and a fine stretch of rugged scenery will be known no more except in memory, or as registered by the eye of the camera.

Cedric Shaw and Clarke Cowan were aboard the Canadian National train which was derailed near Woodlawn on Tuesday night and which happily did not result in any injuries to the passengers or crew, except the engineer, who had his wrists broken when he jumped from the engine before the latter turned over. The boys were on the way home from Toronto to spend Christmas and for a time were stranded at Woodlawn until they induced some rustic to convey them to Quyon in his “Lizzie”.