Local news: The tracks of two wolves of apparently large size were seen last week in the vicinity of Green Lake by parties living in that neighborhood.

THE EQUITY advertised as lost a valuable Collie dog belonging to Clarence Carson, which he prized very much and which was a great favorite with the children. A few days later he found the dog lying dead near the C. N. R. railway track—shot through the head. A low-down trick, surely!

Regarding the meteor that was recently seen by some of our citizens and by many people throughout the country, Dr. Ralph Delury, astronomer at the Dominion Observatory, Ottawa, states that people living two or three hundred miles west of Ottawa would probably have information as to where it landed. Dr. Delury explained that from descriptions given of the spectacle, it was probably what is known as an iron meteolite of approximately 70 per cent iron and five per cent nickel. He estimated that it would weigh several hundred pounds. Had anything been struck by it reports would no doubt have been received before this.

Start off well: Quite a number of subscriptions to this paper fell due on January 1st. besides arrears that have been running from two to five years. It would be very gratifying to the publisher if all would make a prompt effort to clean off the slate during this month. It is not a pleasant thing to keep nagging at people to come across with the belated “toadskins,” but the truth is we haven’t yet discovered a method of running a newspaper without the basic element of all legitimate industry, namely — kold kash

Death: It again becomes our sad duty to record the death of one of our oldest citizens in the person of Mr. David Wilson, who passed away peacefully at an early hour on Friday morning, aged 82 years. He had been in declining health for a lengthy period, and for several months past had been a helpless invalid, so that his end was not unexpected.

The late Mr. Wilson had been a resident of Shawville for many years, and his departure creates another blank in that fast diminishing group of citizens who composed the original inhabitants of the village. For years before the advent of railway accommodation, Shawville’s mail connection with the outside world was had through the medium of the service performed by Mr. Wilson, between here and Bristol Corners, which was the distributing point for all the district lying north. Mr. Wilson creditably performed this service for a good many years. Later on in life he and his amiable wife (long since deceased) conducted a confectionary shop on the corner where now stands the Bank of Nova Scotia; he also for a time operated a bake shop in a building on Centre Street, south, that was destroyed by fire. Later on the family moved to Ottawa, resided there for a time and then returned to Shawville.