Local News: Well over one hundred people attended the Farm Forum Short Course held at Pine Lodge in Bristol from Monday to Friday last week. Participants ranged from a lad of fourteen to married women with families and came from as far as Fort Coulonge and Wyman in Pontiac and Alcove in Gatineau county.

Shawville and Clarendon fittingly kept Remembrance Day and paid tribute to their honoured dead at a service held in the Memorial Park before the community cenotaph on Friday.

Sunday was Men and Missions Day in the United churches and despite the inclement weather, four laymen from Ottawa conducted services in the churches in the district.

Extra Christmas help will be required this year by various post offices through the country and they will be recruited, in part, through local offices of the National Employment Service, Hon. Humphrey Mitchell, Minister of Labour, announced last week.

The Empress of Scotland, pre-war flagship of the Canadian Pacific Steamships’ Pacific fleet will enter the company’s transatlantic service next May after completion of a two-year reconversion programme in a Scottish shipyard, it was announced in Montreal by H.B. Beaumont. Famed for her still unequaled world-wide war service as one of transpacific speed record and for her ships, the 26,000 ton luxury liner will be the largest and fastest vessel in the St. Lawrence service.

She will ply between Liverpool, Greenock and Quebec City.