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

Local news: Lord and Lady Minto, accompanied by Princess Aribert, (the Queen’s granddaughter), have been visiting the Chats Falls. A number of our citizens were awakened from their beds between one and two o’clock on Friday morning by the prolonged

Local news: The annual Dominion Day picnic is to be held again this year at the Calumet Slides, Bryson. So successful did the Portage parishioners make the last picnic at Bryson that it is quite likely many from far and

Local news: The almost continuous down-pour of rain on Thursday last interfered seriously with the success of the church picnic at McCord’s grove at North Clarendon. Mr. Archibald Campbell, one of the family after whom the village of Campbell’s Bay

Local news: The building committee of St. Stephen’s Church, Thorne West, are calling for tenders for the completion of the stone tower and belfry. A gentleman named Mulligan has engaged in the enterprise of catching sturgeon on the Ottawa River

Local news: A new bell for St. Stephen’s church, Thorne west, arrived here last week.The Church Workers’ social on Wednesday evening was favoured with most delightful weather and a rather enjoyable time was had by those who attended. Empire Day