Local news: Mr. H. Imison, photographer, is still confined in the hospital at Ottawa in a very serious condition, so reports Mr. F.A. Parker, who called on him last Monday.  Sunday was the hottest day of the season so far

Local news: Mr. John B. Ralph of Bryson has the contract for building the several stables, sheds, etc., on the exhibition grounds and began the work last week. Mr. W.D. Armitage has been re-engaged as principal of the Portage du

Local news: Messrs. Dale Bros., Tinsmiths, have removed their stock into the building lately occupied by George Swatman. The shop vacated by them is to be fitted up at once for a drug store, for Mr. Box, a Renfrew young

The Kickapoo Indian Med. Co. have been in town for the past week and are entertaining large crowds nightly with amusing programmes. A word about their medicines: the purest, safest and most reliable medicine known to humanity. Their elements are

Messrs. Armstrong and Dale, having just burnt a large brick kiln, are preparing for the erection of Mr. Jas. Cuthbertson’s residence opposite the exhibition grounds in Shawville. Mr. W.B. Crawford is still nursing a pretty badly sprained foot, which he

Local news: The favourable weather of the latter half of the past week enabled farmers to get pretty well through with their haying. Prof. Workman, the well-known musician, was in town on Monday. He is talking of opening a music

Local news: Our citizens were treated to an outdoor entertainment on Saturday evening, the performance being of an acrobatic nature in which the artist executed some rather perilous feats from a ladder held vertically with guy-lines. The fortieth anniversary of

Local news: Quite a pleasant time was spent at the house of Mr. J.J. Hodgins Wednesday last, when the Templars gathered together to spend their last evening with Miss J. Currie. The evening was whiled away in games of all

Local news: Hon. Mr. Duffy, Commissioner of Public Works, Quebec, passed up through here by train to Coulonge on Monday in company with Hon. George Bryson. He visited the government buildings at Bryson on Tuesday. The good people of Dunraven

Local news: The thirty-third anniversary of the birth of the Dominion, although not observed by any special celebration in Shawville, was generally recognized as a holiday by our citizens. There was a general exodus from town of the young people