This past weekend the town came to his aid by staging a three-day fundraising weekend. The event wound up Saturday night with “An Evening with Black River”, a dance with the popular Campbell’s Bay band.

Benefit organizer Cletus Ferrigan announced the total of proceeds up to that moment, and led the room in singing “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow.”

Larocque takes first in Bryson Fish Derby: Roger Larocque won the big trophy at the annual summer fishing derby in Bryson Saturday, put on by the Pontiac Fish and Game Protective Assoc.

Larocque’s winning catch was a 13 pound, one ounce catfish.

Betty Leach won second place with her nine pound, 11 ounce catfish. Stephanie Paquette won third for a five pound, twelve ounce pickerel.

July 15, 1970

50 Years Ago

Missing from our files

July 19, 1945

75 Years Ago

Local News: On Sunday afternoon, Shawville United Church was crowded to capacity for a memorial service in honour of eight boys from the congregation who made the supreme sacrifice during the war.

The pastor made a citation telling of the life of the eight boys and the circumstances of their death. The eight boys were: Sgt. John Barber, who was in a plane crash in Nova Scotia when returning from reconnaissance over the sea; Able Seaman Ronald Masson, who was lost in the sinking of the ferry steamer, Cariboo in Cabot Strait through enemy action; Flying Officer Raymond Lynch whose plane crashed in the sea off the coast of Scotland; Flt. Sergeant Leslie Hodgins, whose plane disappeared with all the crew while flying over Heligoland; Pilot Officer Gordon Strutt who was lost with his plane when on bombing and coastal patrol over the North Sea; and Pte. Neilson Campbell, Pte. Maynard Morrison, and Pte. Earl Russett, all three of whom were killed in action on the Western Front in France or Germany.

Mr. Joe McGahren of Campbell’s Bay who has been operating a bus service from Fort Coulonge, Campbell’s Bay and Bryson to the New Calumet Mines is now seeking a franchise to operate a daily round trip bus service from Chapeau to Ottawa.

The only one of hundreds of Canadian-built tanks which landed on the Normandy beaches on D-Day to still be in action on V-Day was “bomb”.

The tank now famous, was driven and fought by men of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment up the Normandy beaches, across northwestern France, Belgium and Holland and into Germany. Battle-scarred and frequently repaired, it is still a 100 percent fighting vehicle.

July 8, 1920

100 Years Ago

Local News: Quite a number of young Shawvilleites attended the dances at Scobie House and Burnham Hall, Norway Bay on July 1.

Grasshoppers are reported to be very numerous in North Clarendon and in some localities have devoured the crop almost entirely.

The Bank of Nova Scotia goes into its new permanent home this week, on the corner of Main and Centre Streets, in other words, into the remodeled J.H. Shaw building, the ground floor of which has undergone a striking change in appearance since it ceased to be a mercantile business place. What was once regarded as the finest store property in the county, has now become ideal banking premises, roomy, cheery, well lighted, well ventilated and conveniently arranged as to their internal appointments.

Two events, associated with the prorogation of Parliament on Dominion Day stand out as particularly important and are likely to have an appreciable effect upon the public affairs of this country. One was the tendering of his resignation as head of the government by Sir Robert Borden and its acceptance by his Unionist supporters in parliament. The other event was the changing of the name Unionist to “The National Liberal and Conservative party,” and the adoption and promulgation for a new policy or platform upon which the re-named party intends to stand or fall when the next appeal is made to the electorate of Canada, which it is predicted, may be some time this year.

Sir Robert Borden’s plea to be relieved from the arduous responsibilities of office was the same as that advanced in the first instance, namely, impaired health. Regarding Sir Robert’s successor to the Premiership, whose name is to be submitted to the Governor-General this week, several prominent members of the cabinet have been mentioned as possibilities but the likelihood of choice seems to lie between Hon. Arthur Meighen, Minister of the Interior and Sir Henry Drayton, Minister of Finance. Following the selection of a new leader there will be a reconstruction of the cabinet and several by-elections which will afford a good idea of how the public pulse is running.

July 11, 1895

125 Years Ago

Local News: Those two pestiferous Yankee importations, the Colorado bug and the Texas horn fly which have baffled our protective tariff, are very much in evidence this season. The latter is such a constant annoyance to cattle that they have great difficulty in feeding and hence there is considerable shrinkage in the flow of milk of late.

It is said that a little coal oil poured into he head waters of a creek or pond occasionally will destroy all the mosquitoes in course of incubation in the waters. The plan is worthy of a trial as it is cheap and where tried is declared to be effective.

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