Pallbearers Chosen 2 Years Ago: Ill for three months with an infected foot, William James Tubman passed away Monday, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Wilfred Bean, Shawville.
Born at Caldwell, son of the late Thomas Tubman and Lillian Telford, he was in his 89th year. A farmer all his life, prior to moving to Shawville seven years ago, for 37 years each fall he was a familiar figure at threshing time. Mr. Tubman was also active in church affairs and a member of the Pentecostal Church.
He leaves to mourn besides his widow, the former Sarah Jane Donaldson, four sons, Percy and Clarence, of Shawville; Bert of Timmins, and Milton of Ottawa, and two daughters, Mrs. Wilfred Bean (Gertrude), and Mrs. Sam Harris (Irene). Two years ago, Mr. Tubman selected his own pallbearers, grandsons, Erwin Tubman and Wilmer Harris, Nephews, George Kenneth and Gregory Tubman and his very close friend William Roberts.
Thirty days for next time: The first moves in a campaign by provincial police to stop drunk and reckless driving were made at Campbell’s Bay, Monday, when Fred Bowie, J. P., sentenced two local men to jail terms for drunk driving and fined another for reckless driving. Mr. Bowie warned all three men not to appear before him again on similar charges. “If you come back here again it will be 30 days in jail and your licenses will be suspended for one year,” he declared.
A little of this and that: Some people are lucky . . . Last summer Mack Mayhew went to a raffle at the home of his brother-in-law, John Dagenais. He won a calf and the same night his son won an organ. This June 11 Mack went back to a raffle for a rifle at the same place. You guessed it. He won the rifle for a $1.00 ticket.
Mother love . . . Down at John McCredie’s farm, Bristol, they picked up a few-days-old skunk, motherless. They took it home and the family cat, nursing her own family, took in the orphan as one of her own.
Still unidentified . . . The 3.5 inch spider reclining in THE EQUITY window. The girls at the Bank of Montreal had him there for a few days and he returned to us gorged on apples and bread.
