Local News: On Thursday the Pontiac Lions Club held their regular meeting at the Bryson Lodge Hotel in Bryson. The guest speaker of the evening was Miss Marlene Shearer of Ottawa, who has been hired as swimming instructor by the Pontiac Lions Club to teach in Campbell’s Bay and Bryson.

The following boys from Pontiac took part in the Provincial Judging Competition at the Sherbrooke Fair. From Shawville, Irwin Hayes, Franklin Kilgour and Vaughan Harris; Ronald Russell of Bristol; James Fox and Bob Jennings, Sheenboro; James Fitzpatrick and Buddy Culleton, Demers Centre.

In the Swine Judging Competition, the Bristol Swine Club represented by Ronald Russell and Franklin Kilgour comprised the leading team. The two boys had a combined score of 934 out of a possible 1000.

The Donkey Baseball game sponsored by the Shawville Rotary Club on Friday night was a riot of fun. The 2,000 or more people who made up the crowd around the circle in the exhibition grounds said it was an enjoyable evening.

The scores were made by base runners on donkeys going the round of bases, these being “Red” Dale and Irwin Watson and the half-score went to Pete Murrell, who unable to get his donkey to proceed, carried him around the bases.

There were many spills, some had difficulty getting on their donkeys, and many donkeys refused to go where they ought to go and had to be pushed, pulled or carried to the bases. Often the crowd howled with merriment at the strange things that happened.