Mar. 10, 1993

25 Years Ago

Shawville brings home the silver: On March 2, 1993, the Shawville Junior men’s curling team travelled to Baie Comeau to represent the Outaouais in the Jeux du Québec.
Tom Fraser and Richard Allen accompanied the team who played three games from March 3 to the 5, racking up 53 points, enough to move them to the quarter finals along with only five other teams out of the 17 participating in the games.
They lost their final game by only one point, securing a very respectable silver medal for the Shawville rink.
The team: Lead Ralph Lang, Second Robert Lang, Skip Steve Allen and Third Rick Allen.
Murphy: Kings’ Rookie of the Year: This season there are only four hockey players in the Central Junior A Hockey League who have their roots from this side of the river and the Pembroke Lumber Kings have three of them on their roster alone.
Two are Shawville’s Ian Lang and Matthew Schock. The other is Shawville’s Luke Murphy, who was named this year’s recipient of the James Monsour Award for Lumber Kings’ Most Outstanding Rookie.
The Jr. A. hockey club, along with the parents of the late James Monsour, Eli and Marlene Monsour handed out the annual award at a special ceremony during a Feb. 28 match against the Cumberland Grads. The award took the first year centerman by surprise.
Murphy has 20 goals and 47 assists for 67 points so far this season.

Mar. 14, 1968

50 Years Ago

Willow Hill daughters qualify silver medal bull: The Jersey bull Campburn Aim Carom, Very Good, has just been designated a silver medal bull by the Canadian Jersey Cattle Club.
This bull was bred by Chas. Robison and Sons, Harvey Station N.
B., and has been used in the herds of Robert Younge’s Willow Hollow Farm in Shawville and Vincent Boyd, Manotick.
The daughters which qualified him as a silver medal bull are Willow Hill Carom Sharon G.P. with a record at one year 351 days of 7,865 lbs. milk, 421 lbs. fat, 5.35 per cent; Willow Hill Jill llU, Very Good, with a record at 3 years 194 days in 305 days of 10,204 lbs. milk, 582 lbs. fat, 5.70 per cent and Willow Hill Ruth Ann 24T, Very Good with a record at 2 years 13 days in 287 days of 7,230 lbs. milk, 422 lbs. fat, 5.84 per cent.
Portage holds rabies clinic: The Portage du Fort Citizens Committee arranged for a Rabies Clinic which was held by Dr. Roland Armitage. The committee placed Mr. and Mrs. Red Farrell in charge of arrangements and they advertised it by means of posters and phone calls throughout the area.
Thirty-five animals were immunized at the clinic. The reason for this special clinic was to service those who had taken advantage of the free clinics set up by the government in towns throughout the county.

Mar. 11, 1943

75 Years Ago

Local News: On March 2, Mrs. Jas. Riley, Shawville’s oldest citizen, received best wishes and congratulations of many friends and relatives on the occasion being her 93rd birthday. Mrs. Riley is particularly proud of six grandsons in the Canadian Armed Forces: Clifford, Delmer, Webster, Denzil, Clinton and Dalton Devine, the latter two being overseas.
A full night and a few hours of the early morning were spent with the irons at the local curling rink on Thursday and Friday when four rinks of the Ottawa Curling Club were here for friendly games.
The matches were run off in two sections. Gordon Paul and F.W. Howe vs. A.G. Brough occupied the ice in the first session which finished in a tie, 17-17.
In the second stage, J. Bradley vs. A.D. McCredie and D.M. McCann and H.M. Turner’s rinks were on the two sheets of ice. At about the fifth end, brooms were stacked and all the players and a few friends repaired to the Pontiac Hotel where a delicious luncheon was served.
After the luncheon the games resumed and finished with the Ottawa rinks up three shots, the score being 14-11.
However the war may end in detail and however difficult and possibly circuitous our road to victory may still be, this much has already been decided, another and perhaps the most formidable attempt in history by any one man or nation to conquer the rest of the world has again ended in failure.
The eloquent appeal for greater aid to China made last week by Mme. Chlang Kai-Shek came almost at the moment when dispatches from China announced the opening of a new Japanese offensive. Attacks have been launched at widely scattered points in North, Central and South China.

Mar. 14, 1918

100 Years Ago

Local News: The roads are to be in a very bad condition after the furious blizzard of Saturday night and Sunday morning.
Several young people from town attended the social at Mr. Wm. Cameron’s, Murrells on Wednesday evening last week and report having had a good time.
The Merchant’s Bank people, through their local manager Mr. Drum, closed a deal on Saturday for the purchase of J.J. Turner’s corner lot with a view to erecting a bank building thereon.
On Wednesday evening last, a bevy of young people from Shawville and surrounding district, forty-five in all, drove to the home of Mr. Thomas McDowell “Village View Farm” to enjoy a sociable time and judging from reports, it is safe to venture in saying that nothing stood in the way of everyone having what might be termed as a “royal good time.”
Mr. McD’s large house offered ample room for the carrying on of the numerous games that were indulged in.
Apart from this line of amusement, some of the bunch found good sport in tobogganing on a nearby hill.
In the famous Thirty Years’ War it is estimated the population of central and western Europe was reduced from thirty million to less than fifteen million and yet during the whole of that time, there were only forty important battles fought and their total death casualties did not reach half a million.
All the rest of the frightful sweeping away of life was from plague and famine, which not only followed in the wake of the armies but mowed down the combatants themselves.

Mar. 9, 1893

125 Years Ago

Local news: Quantities of hop poles and pulp wood are being delivered at the station here at present by a number of the famers of the surrounding neighbourhood.
After the first of July next, any person found with firearms or weapons on his person and not having a certificate from a Justice of the Peace permitting him to do so, will be liable to imprisonment without the option of a fine.
We have to report the death of Mr. Walter Bradley of Thorne which occurred on Saturday last; just two months ago Mr. Bradley’s death was preceded by his wife.
The body of a man who was frozen to death was found in Farrelton on Monday night on the Gatineau River. He is supposed to have perished in the storm a week ago. His name is Mathew Fox of Low township. He was lately in the employ of John Spillano of the same place.
Messrs. John Steward and John Toohey, two of the foremen employed by Gillies Bros. on their Coulonge works, went through here on Saturday having got through with the compliment of logs they had to take out this season. They start at once to travel limits for the concern on the Dumoine.
On Thursday last, Drs. Gaboury of Bryson and Lyon of this village, performed another operation on James Lang of Thorne, who it will be remembered, received terrible injuries some time ago while drawing wood out of the bush. The operation consisted in the removal of a portion of a rib on the right side, which was necessary to relieve the sufferer of a large quantity of puss which had accumulated. When this was removed, the doctors, upon examination, discovered that the man’s right lung had entirely decayed away. Since the operation, the patient has shown marked signs of improvement, the swelling having left his legs and his appetite is good.
They have been down with the measles at Mrs. M. Leroy’s these two weeks past. They have had it from the youngest to the oldest with one exception and the old boy shuns it as yet.