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It can be safely said without any exaggeration that the “Community Sale” staged by our tradespeople last Tuesday was by far the most successful business venture ever attempted in Shawville and furnished conclusive evidence that the principle of cooperation, if acted upon in good faith invariably works out to the satisfaction of all concerned.

The G.F. Hodgins Co. Ltd. stated: “what about the sale? Well, it was some sale, the best one-day sale in our experience. We weren’t prepared for anything like it, in fact we were swept off our feet.”
Drought and high winds have practically ruined the grain crop prospect in this district. Many fields, it is said, will scarcely yield the equivalent of the seed sown. The hay harvest, however, promises to be a fair average.

Monday’s Ottawa Journal states that changes in the Dominion cabinet are likely to take place shortly. Messrs. Fielding, Low and Murphy to retire on account of ill health, to be succeeded by Hon. A.B. Hudson of Winnipeg; H.B. McGivern of Ottawa and A.R. McMaster of Brome.

Out of the tumult, the discord, the antagonism that conspicuously marked the Democratic convention which assembled in New York to nominate a candidate for the presidential election, came, strange to say; the choice of probably the best man available for that high honour, namely John W. Davis; a former U.S. ambassador to Great Britain. Yet whilst his selection seemed to be the only solution of the intense, unprecedented situation which developed in the course of the long, drawn-out struggle; that result may have come too late to be as fully effective as had the proceedings which led up to it become more harmonious and tranquil at an earlier stage of the game.

The Litchfield council is looking to the Ottawa River Power Co. for financial assistance towards the Bryson Road and deserves to get a liberal contribution from that source, as more damage has been done to that section of road during the past two seasons, as the direct result of the operations at the Chutes, than was occasioned by the traffic of the previous ten years.

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