PPHS junior boys lose to RCI: If Pontiac High’s junior boys’ basketball team had committed fewer fouls, they would have won the game against Renfrew Jan. 6.
Fifteen points, one quarter of Renfrew Collegiate Institute’s (RCI) scoring came from sinking foul shots.
The Panthers played hard, but the RCI Raiders outscored the home team and ended up winning the game 60-54.
Neil Horner of PPHS started off the scoring 25 seconds into the game, sinking his first of three baskets in the first quarter.
Pontiac’s Kirk Davies followed that up with a rebound shot more than one minute later but the Raiders would not be contained and Andrew Cameron nailed a three-point shot and Renfrew dominated the quarter.

Portage pulp mill gets new name: Pontiac’s largest industry begins its second quarter century under a new banner.
As of the first of the year, the Stone Consolidated pulp mill at Portage du Fort will be known as Stone Container (Canada) Inc. or in French, Emballages Stone (Canada) Inc.
The name change comes about as a result of a restructuring of the parent company, Stone Container Corporation of Chicago. Stone’s newsprint mills will not be separated from its cardboard and fine papers plants which include mills in Bathurst, N.B. and New Richmond, Que. as well at the Pontiac mill.

Jan. 15, 1969

50 Years Ago

Jail staff honours retiring guard: A surprise party was held recently on the occasion of Mr. Matt Kluke’s retirement after 10 years of service as a guard at the jail.
Mr. Kluke was met at the Court House main entrance by Sheriff Sloan and escorted upstairs where he was met by the warden and his wife and the guards and their wives. who all sang: “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow.”
Every one of the guards, the warden and the sheriff each has a kind word to say about Matt and all were sorry to see him leave.
As a parting gift, Mr. Kluke was wished all the best and presented with a lazy boy chair as a token of his good service.
Cunningham named PCH administrator: Chairman Bill Main of the Pontiac Community Hospital Board reports that the board is delighted to announce the appointment of Mr. Alexander Robertson Cunningham to the position of Hospital Administrator to commence duties on Feb. 1, 1969.
Cunningham has been employed as Division Controller for Consolidated-Bathurst and has been living in Shawville for several years. The Hospital board is particularly pleased that upon his resignation from his present job, Mr. Cunningham chose to remain in Shawville and devote his talents to our hospital.

Jan. 13, 1944

75 Years Ago

Local news: On Monday evening, Jan. 3, and for the second time in about eighteen months, fire demolished the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Ewart Hodgins at Charteris with all contents.
Cause of the fire is unknown and started when all of the family were absent, Mrs. Hodgins being in Ottawa with the children and Mr. Hodgins had left home earlier in the afternoon to meet his family who were returning by evening train at Shawville.
On July 18, 1942, the Hodgins family lost their home by fire with most of the contents and had rebuilt on the same site, occupying the new home in September of the same year.
For the time being the Hodgins family are occupying a dwelling belonging to Mr. Richard Richardson in the Charteris district.
The opening meeting of the Shawville Ladies’ Curling Club was held in the club room on Tuesday afternoon. Tea was served by members of executive committee.
Cpl. George Stephens, R.C.A.F., Nova Scotia and L. Cpl. Woodrow Stephens of Cornwall have returned to their posts after spending the holiday season with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. John G. Stephens at Quyon.
The preservation and condensation of food will have a tremendous postwar growth, enhanced by the food needs of currently Axis-occupied countries, said W. Smallwood of the Canadian General Electric Company in a recent address in Toronto.
On the morning of Dec. 19, under a grey winter sky, the sentence of a military tribunal was executed on three German war criminals and a Russian traitor. The gallows at Kharkov where four men have been hanged after conviction of war crimes against the Russian people, throws a dark shadow across any hopes Nazi war criminals may have entertained as to their future, says the Christian Science Monitor.

Jan. 9, 1919

100 Years Ago

Local news: Col. Theodore Roosevelt, ex-president of the United States is dead. Such was the startling and unexpected message that flashed over the wires on Monday.
Little snow but very good sleighing, the farmers reported who came into town on Thursday morning after Wednesday evening’s brief soft spell.
Mr. Geo. B. Campbell, ex-M.L.A. for the county was an overnight visitor to Shawville on Thursday. Mr. Campbell has just returned from an exploratory trip to Northern Saskatchewan.
Pte. Emerson Thomson, son of our townsman, Mr. Wm. Thomson who enlisted iwent overseas early in the war arrived in town on Wednesday evening. Emerson has been through the thick of it and knows all about the horrors of war. Once he was wounded in the arm, the bullet passing through and killing a comrade a few feet off. He went through the battle in which Clifton Woodley and a good many other Canadian boys were captured and says the fearfulness of that engagement is simply indescribable.

Jan. 11, 1894

125 Years Ago

Local News: While pressing hay at Mr. Ed Dale’s on Wednesday last, Mr. Wm. Park had one of his feet badly jammed in the machine. Although severely bruised, Dr. Lyon found no bones broken upon examination.
The hay press is responsible for more accidents than any other machine used in connection with agricultural pursuits. It seems very strange that no better and safer way of feeding the hay to the machine can be discovered than by cramming it in with the foot.
On Dec. 30, a Christmas tree and entertainment was held in the school house, Thorne Centre. The walls of the room were tastefully decorated for the occasion. All went home well satisfied with what they received and heard.
The municipal elections in this village both for the village and township passed off quietly. For the township Messrs. Henry T. McDowell and Thomas Prendergast were retiring. For the village board, the election of two councillors was necessary in the room and stead of J.H. Shaw and Dr. H.H. Knox. It was moved by J.A. McGuire and seconded by D. McRae that J.H. Shaw be re-elected and that Geo. Hodgins jr., be elected in the room and stead of Dr. Knox. Alex N. Wilson moved, seconded by Samuel Armstrong that Dr. Knox be re-elected. No other proposals were made and when the hour elapsed, a poll not having been demanded presiding officer H. Hobbs called for a show of hands between the nominations of Geo. Hodgins and Dr. Knox. The vote resulted in a tie. Mr. Hobbs gave the casting vote in favour of Geo. Hodgins, explaining that the doctor was a good man for the position but the fact of his being unable to attend regularly was against his appointment and then he believed it was not a good policy that such positions should be held too long by the same individuals.
The A.O.U.W. entertainment at Quyon on Thursday evening last was one of the most successful events of the season. Grand Master Bennitt, Rev. Mr. Clendinning and a number of other Ottawa people were present. A choice program of music, etc. in addition to the installation ceremonies made the entertainment most interesting and pleasing to the large number who attended. Following the entertainment a grand supper was spread in the hall (Lang’s) to which about 150 persons sat down.

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