Ms. Heise’s daughter’s cat was recently shot, a loss that prompted her to attend the Oct. 24 MRC meeting urging the mayors to pass a by-law prohibiting motorized vehicles, except maintenance and farm vehicles from using the trail.

Woman lucky to be alive after car hits train: A Norway Bay woman escaped with only minor injuries when her car smashed into the side of a moving train near Norway Bay on Friday.

The woman suffered only from shock and minor bruising after her car ran into a train at the crossing on the laneway leading to Donald and Mary Wylie’s farm.

After the train and car collided, the car was swung around and hit again in the rear, Cpl. Gilles Mathieu of the Quebec Police Force in Campbell’s Bay said.

Amazingly, the woman walked away from the accident.

Because the laneway crossing is so close to the road, she maybe have been watching the road and not have seen the train in front of her. There are no warning lights at the crossing where the accident occurred.

Nov. 5, 1969

50 Years Ago

Mill fire at Quyon: The saw mill owned by Lloyd Balharrie was completely destroyed by fire in the early hours of Nov. 1.

The mill which had been standing idle for a number of years still contained much valuable equipment and machinery including a large diesel power unit.

Located on Egan St. between the Balharrie feeds grist mill and the Farmers Co-operative creamery, it was, of course, a source of great danger to these structures as it burned.

However, due to a lack of high wind and with the efforts of the Quyon Volunteer Fire Department, the flames were prevented from spreading.

Wilson and Soucie win mayoralties, McColgan and Rowat win heavy votes as new councillors: Numbers told the story, Monday night’s counts revealed that though Bill Burke had been acclaimed mayor, his council is not to be the same as before.

Chris McColgan polled 203 votes to Leo Gibbons for seat 5.

Lester McCann took 187 votes over Ed Trudeau’s 164 for seat 4 and Tom Fraser took seat 6 with a vote of 167 to Terrence Mulligan’s 144.

Shawville’s Mayor Orla Young was returned by a vote of 373 while Dr. Wallace Hodgins received 199 votes.

Athol Dale proved the most popular councillor with 276 votes and Bud Rowat came second with 273.

Léo Piché polled 197 votes in Bryson and took over there as mayor.

At Campbell’s Bay Harold Wilson was brought in as mayor with Elwyn Frost, Roland Haley and Jean Landry as new councillors.

Litchfield’s mayor Melvin Brown was returned and Hector Soucie was voted in in Fort Coulonge.

Robert Ladouceur won the election for mayor of Mansfield.

In Otter Lake Basil Quaile was elected mayor of Leslie.

Nov. 9, 1944

75 Years Ago

Local News: The name of Lt. Gordon John Booth appears in a list of 75 new awards for gallantry in action announced on Saturday by the Defense Dept.

Shawville High School Boy Scouts journeyed to Campbell’s Bay on Friday to meet the school in the most exciting game of rugby these teams have yet played.

The Scouts were defeated by a score of 16 to 5. The Scouts were also unfortunate in not having Dale Thomson to play for them as he is their star quarterback.

Osborne McTiernan was the star player for the Bay. He scored two touchdowns and one convert. Larry Flood scored the other touchdown for the Bay.

Four servicemen were tendered a reception and welcome at Wilson’s Hall on Friday evening by a large number of townspeople.

Arriving at Shawville Station on or about Nov. 20, a car load of feed wheat.

Postponed since last Sept. 6 because of damage caused by the earthquake, graduating ceremonies of Cornwall General Hospital School of Nursing was held Nov. 1 when 13 nurses obtained their diploma. Miss Grace Carty of Campbell’s Bay, Que. led the class by winning the $100 scholarship awarded by the hospital for general proficiency and also captured the prize for the highest theoretical standing during the three-year course.

Miss Carty has been on the nursing staff of Pontiac Community Hospital, Shawville since concluding her studies last spring. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Carty of Campbell’s Bay.

Two Lion Squadron crew members told the story to the younger brother of one of them who recently arrived in Britain from Canada. F/O V.C. “Kurt” Sunstrum, navigator, Cochrane, Ont., his rear gunner, Sgt. P.E. Regimbal, Sudbury, Ont. and Sunstrum’s visiting brother, F/O. Alex Sunstrum, an air gunner were hit by flak over its target, Struttgart but the pilot nursed it back to Northern France where he told the crew to “hit the silk”.

Setting course for the enemy lines he then bailed out himself. Regimbal broke a bone of his left leg on landing. He and other members of the crew arrived at their base 24 hours after take-off for Struttgart. All crew members are safely accounted for.

In another incident, eleven crew members, although shaken, cut and bruised and some wounded by flak, miraculously escaped death when their bomber “the House of Bourbon” crash-landed at its home base in the Marianas following a mission over Iwo Jima, 650 miles from Japan. The entire crew received the purple heart.

Nov. 6, 1919

100 Years Ago

Missing from our files

Nov. 9, 1894

125 Years Ago

Local News: “Lily” cheese factory, Clarendon, manufactured about 22 tons of cheese this season, an increase of 5 tons over last.

G. Fred Hodgins has received a large stock of chopping axes, cross cut and buck saws, all first quality and at low prices.

Bryson sustained its reputation on the 30th of being able to get up a first class concert.

We refer to the entertainment got up under the auspices of the Bryson Brass Band which came off on that date. The attendance was not so large as anticipated, no doubt the bad state of the roads keeping many from attending who would otherwise have done so.

The band expect to have a small balance to the good after expenses have been paid, and have commenced preparations for another entertainment to be held about New Years.

The concert given by Sara Lord Bailey in the Masonic hall here on Friday evening was very well attended.

Mr. William Moore, Otter Lake, has within the last few weeks erected a spacious and comfortable brick dwelling house adjoining his store.

From the Eganville paper we learn the facts of a very distressing accident which occurred on Sunday whereby Adeline, the eldest daughter of Mrs. Wm. Prendergast of Mink Lake, Ont. lost her life.

It appears that the family went to Eganville to attend service and left the deceased to mind the house and prepare dinner. A few minutes to 12 o’clock a gun that was heavily loaded with shot which was standing in the corner of one of the rooms fell down and while in the act of replacing it, the charge her body a little below the ribs to the left of the stomach.

When the family returned shortly afterwards the unfortunate young lady was seated in the rocking chair, her life blood ebbing away. A doctor was immediately sent for, but everything that could be done to relieve the victim proved of no avail and she passed away about 5 hours after the accident.

She was well known in this section and was a niece of Messrs. James Thomas and John Prendergast of Clarendon.

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