Local News: Monday, Nov. 3, marked the date of the first real snow storm of the season in this section. In some sections to the north of here, snowfall measured about 4 inches but the balmy weather of the following

Local News: Wednesday, Nov. 10 is Thanksgiving and a holiday. All Shawville stores will be closed. Just as the threshing mill was about to leave the barn of Mr. Ben Howard, of North Onslow last Friday, the straw caught fire

Local News: Mr. Wm. Sereney has commenced the erection of a modern bakery alongside his residence on King Street. According to the government, manufacturing statistics covering the year 1922, Toronto is the leading industrial city of the province of Ontario

Local News: The Norway Bay Ferry Co. will discontinue their trips for the present season at noon on Oct. 27. This section has enjoyed a remarkably fine spell of weather this October, enabling farming and other outdoor activities to be

Local News: Mr. George Dunlop of Morehead section has a general purpose team which carried off five first prizes at recent fall fairs, two at Campbell’s Bay and three at Cobden. While Pontiackers were getting the tail end of the

Local News: One of the amusement features at Campbell’s Bay Fair this year was a step-dancing contest in which there were 13 aspirants for the honour of capturing the prize. Among the bunch was the veteran shoe-maker, Richard Coughlin, who

Local News: Saturday evening last, for the second time since electric lights were installed in Shawville, the village suffered the loss of its lighting plant by fire. Saturday evening’s misfortune hits the town pretty heavily, as the land was municipally

Local News: The Portage du Fort bridge will carry a heavy grist of traffic this week, Pontiac people going to Renfrew to attend the annual fair which it is claimed, will be bigger and better. Harvesting operations in this section,

Local News: The Chapeau village suffered a serious fire on Monday night, Sept. 1, when the stables of Andrew Keon’s Hotel, several dwellings and the building occupied by the Bank of Montreal were destroyed. Loss of $25,000 partly covered. Quyon

Local News: The 69th annual fair held in Shawville this week in several respects was inferior to the attainments of past years. This was due in the main to the early dates decided upon this year, and to the agricultural