Pontiac’s meanest man?: A candidate for the title of the meanest man in Pontiac County has been put forward by Harland Rowat.

The story concerns a 41-year-old blind pensioner near Wyman who’s a 90 per cent blind, father of five children, whose wife just recently left hospital. One of the children picked up a rusty old saw balance wheel which had been lying in the grass for five years and sold it for 25 cents.

A neighbour (the meanest man candidate) claiming the wheel was his, had the provincial police in to talk to the blind man and later made him sign a note for $22, which he claimed was the value of a rusty old wheel sold for a quarter. Do you think he wins the title?

What now Mr. Editor?: That’s the question that was put to us after last Friday night’s “Citizens’ Meeting.” The meeting, originally called to discuss the hospital dispute, was restrained from doing so by an injunction taken out by the Board of Directors of the Pontiac Community Hospital.

Dr. S. E. McDowell advised the more than 500 who crowded into the Shawville Theatre that he and the other doctors had been served with the injunction and advised those present to leave the hall. They did so, for the most part, returning within a few minutes. A “Citizens’ Meeting” then carried on and the doctors and others repeated the story which we had heard at the first meeting.

Our answer to the above question is, therefore, exactly the same as it was two weeks ago. The public have been presented with only one side of the story. When both sides have been told, THE EQUITY will report them.

A little of this and that: The girls have it . . . The population of Wyman sharply increased over the week-end with three births reported and all daughters for Mr. and Mrs. Ronald MacKechnie, Mr. and Mrs. Mirl Young and Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Young.

First in Shawville . . . A motor transport carrying five new Ford cars which unloaded in front of Sheppard Motors last week. Previously cars had been driven here or came by railroad. Incidentally, one of the cars had our name on it.

Oddity . . . A hen’s egg, shaped like a bowling five pin, now on display in THE EQUITY’s window. It was brought in by John Tracy 9.

Oddity Number Two . . . A calf owned by Ernest Hahn, of Otter Lake, which has two hoofs on its left hind foot. Two months old, the calf gallops about just like any normal animal.