Local News: The Norway Bay Ferry Co. will discontinue their trips for the present season at noon on Oct. 27.

This section has enjoyed a remarkably fine spell of weather this October, enabling farming and other outdoor activities to be carried on without interruption for a ten-day stretch.

Canada has one telephone for every nine persons. The number of telephones in the Dominion in 1923, according to figures available today, was 1,009,203. Of the provinces, British Columbia stands highest with 15.57 telephones per hundred population. Prince Edward Island is lowest with 6.08.
The Radford Guild (Holy Trinity) entertained the ladies of St. Paul’s Church Guild at the home of Mrs. R.A. Hodgins on Wednesday afternoon last.

Local sports who have been out gunning in the outlying timbered stretches, report that partridge are very scarce this autumn and the few that have been seen have systematically evaded bagging.

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