Ninety-two-year-old William John Armitage, who was born in Onslow before there were any binders in the township, has brought some interesting historical notes to our attention about the early mail carriers in his area.

Although there was a lot of information about this subject in the Quyon Centennial booklet, here are a couple of facts that weren’t included  William Foran drove mail from Maryland to Weirstead, to Anacin on old Pat Flaherty’s place, to Rutledge and Wolf Lake every Tuesday and Friday, right after the train started. Also young Muldoon drove mail on horseback from Muldoon’s to Steele Line on the Seventh Concession where Jim Craig kept the Post Office, to Johnny O’Donnell’s Post Office in North Onslow which was less than six miles from Rutledge. That’s the way they covered the territory, and we have Mr. Armitage to thank for telling us about it.

Police news: A road block was set up for three hours late Sunday night on Highway 8 at Shawville hoping to catch an armed robber. The theft had occurred in Chelsea but all detachments in the area joined in the campaign to prevent his escape. On Monday two men were picked up in Hull in connection with the case.

There was no excitement of a police nature relating to the Shawville Fair but they were called in to investigate a game of chance which they felt might be illegally operated. It was a marble throwing game with a teddy bear as prize but Gaston Knight of Hull had spent $16, Barry MacMillan of Quyon had spent $75, and Glen Hodgins of Ottawa had spent $180 and still not won a teddy bear. The police were summoned by an anonymous caller and interrogated three men who will be brought to court by warrants and charged with illegal operation of a game of chance.