Marsh was in town for the Junior B’s Ottawa Senators Night. Before the game, which Shawville won 14-4, he held two clinics for the Atom and Pee Wee players.

It was all part of the Ottawa Senators Hockey night in Shawville, Jan. 29. Elwyn Brownlee, organizer of the event, set up the day that started with Marsh skating with the kids in a clinic designed with different drills and just to have fun.

Bérubé chosen Miss Teen Pontiac: Marie-Josée Bérubé, 17, of Campbell’s Bay was crowned Miss Teen Pontiac 1994 at the pageant Saturday night held at the auditorium of Sieur de Coulonge High School. Jasmine Sauriol, 16, of Fort Coulonge was the first runner-up and Melanie McCann, 15 of Quyon, was the second runner up.

The choice was a difficult one but came after judging each of the six contestants in a number of categories.

Feb. 5, 1969

50 Years Ago

Fast action needed to move old bridge to head of island: The people of Grand Calumet Island, especially the farmers at the head of the island in the area known as Barry River, have been in a state of frustration for a long time. From their front porches they can look across the river and see the town of Fort Coulonge which is only three miles away. In fact, the river at this point is only three hundred and six feet wide. Yet to get to Fort Coulonge, they have to drive around by Bryson which is a twenty-five mile detour.

It would benefit the people of Barry River all the folks on Calumet Island, the town of Fort Coulonge and indeed the whole of Pontiac County if there were a bridge over that 306 foot gap of water.

A proposal would require immediate action before the present bridge between Bryson and the island is scrapped. With the new bridge at that point nearing completion, the old bridge will be taken down very soon and could be moved up to the head of the island where it is so badly needed.

Vietnam medal conferred on Roy Beattie’s son: David Beattie, 21-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Beattie of Quyon has been awarded the Bronze Star medal for heroism in Vietnam. He received the award for his action as a radio-telephone operator with the 8th Cavalry during a search and clear mission in Quang Tri Province.

His unit came under hostile fire and he crossed an open area during the battle to administer first aid and evacuate a wounded soldier.

Sp. Beattie entered the army in November 1967 and was assigned to Vietnam last April. He also has won the Combat Infantryman Badge. He is married to the former Stevie Ann Colyer of Loveland, Ohio and he is a graduate of Oak HIlls High School in Cincinnati.

Feb. 3, 1944

75 Years Ago

Local news: Pte. Leslie Horner who had been serving with the Royal Canadian Fusillers on Kiska, Aleutian Islands, arrived here on Saturday to spend a furlough with relatives. He was accompanied by his wife who has been residing in Ottawa.

Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Harris and daughters Betty and Barbara Harris and Mr. Douglas Fulford attended the graduation exercises at Uplands, Ottawa on Friday where their son, Sgt. Pilot Iverson Harris received his wings.

An interesting feature of the ceremony was the “wings” were pinned on his tunic by his sister, Aw 2, Laura Harris of R.C.A.F. Trenton.

Ad: Dairy pails: we have now on hand a limited supply of good dairy pails. A few good all-cast Findlay furnaces are now available. Dale’s Tinshop.

Land and weather against Allied forces in march toward Rome: two questions which for months have intrigued or frequently disturbed the mind of the average American are why the Allies have been so slow in opening a Western front and why are we making such little progress against the Germans in the march toward Rome, says The Argonaut of San Francisco.

Simms says the weather is holding up the invasion of France. “It is a known fact that from now until the end of March the weather in Northern France and the low countries is abominable.

Nearly every military strategist agrees with the logic of a later date for the invasion. Simms further says: “The Yanks and British will first have to cross the English Channel. They must carry tanks and guns and all the rest of their equipment with them. They must get ashore in the face of deadly resistance along the world’s most powerfully fortified coast.”

Jan. 30, 1919

100 Years Ago

Local news: Mrs. Sam Sinclair recently received a letter from her son Carney, who is still in France in which he expresses thanks to the Shawville Red Cross for the Christmas parcel that he received which enabled him to have a fine Christmas dinner. Carney does not expect to reach home til some time during the Spring.

The government has given authority to the Minister of Justice to expel all alien enemy prisoners in internment camps who are regarded as dangerous.

The Peace Conference, the most important world tribunal which ever assembled together began its deliberations last week upon the greatest problems which ever engaged the attention of statesmen. So great is the task before them that it is stated it will take til June before the preliminary peace proposals are ready for signature.

Feb. 1, 1894

125 Years Ago

Local News: The tea meeting at Knox Church is reported to have been a grand success.

On Monday last a young man, son of Mr. William Mooney of North Onslow had his leg badly broken and one arm severely bruised and was otherwise seriously injured by being precipitated to the bottom of a well 52 feet deep.

The story of the accident is a peculiar one. It seems a little sister of the young man dropped a saucepan into the well and the latter undertook to recover it. The well was provided with a windlass and chain and it was by means of this chain that he proposed to descend. His father advised him to exchange the pair of leather mitts he was wearing for woolen mitts but this advice he did not act upon. Grasping the chain, he swung himself over the mouth of the well and immediately slipped to the bottom like a shot, the result of the fall being that he fractured his leg as stated.

An attempt was made to haul him up but unfortunately just as he was nearing the surface he somehow slipped to the bottom the second time, without apparently however, sustaining any additional injuries aside from the shock to his system. Again he was pulled up by windlass and as in the previous attempt, had almost reached the top when the crank broke and down he went for the third time. This time he fell into the bucket and it was by this means that he was finally rescued after the third trial. At once a messenger was dispatched for Dr. Lyon who hastily drove back to the scene of the accident. That the young man has escaped with his life seems almost incredible.

Mr. Wm. Richardson of Radford who has been travelling some of the lumber limits above Des Joachims for some days, came down on Friday and he says the men have stopped cutting logs owing to the depth of snow in the bush. On rollways that had been laid up in the fall, the snow measured 56 inches. He also states the ice is very bad.

Mr. John McGuire delivered 3,721 pounds of pork at Gillies Bros. depot on the Coulonge last week. His load consisted of pork and his feed, the pork being weighed on delivery. John prides himself with having delivered the largest load that has been taken to that depot for some time.

A few evenings ago a sleigh party numbering about a dozen persons, the youth and beauty of our village of Quyon, drove over to the harbour to attend an entertainment at that historic hamlet.

A magnificent silver grey fox, the skins of which variety of the Reynard family are quoted now as high as $125 owing to their scarcity, was trapped by Mr. Jas. M. Hodgins of North Clarendon last week. James very naturally feels elated on account of his valuable catch.

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