100 Years Ago

Local News: The old-time January thaw that people in our grandfathers’ day looked forward to with certainty and were rarely out in their calculations, had nothing on the article which the usually blustery month of February contributed to the discomfiture

Local News: Mr. R.J. Hamilton, who has been home from the Rouge for a few days, reports that his forwarding operations in that section are proceeding well. There has been some pretty heavy road-breaking to do, as the snow is

Local News: Saturday’s Ottawa Journal features conspicuously, an event in the business life and progress of the capital that is of special interest to Pontiackers, inasmuch as it concerns the activities of two young men who were born and brought

Local News: The big coffer dam at the head of Calumet Chutes, which has been holding back the water of the channel while the work of constructing the dam and power plant at the foot was in progress, was blown

Local News: At R.J. Wilson’s on Wednesday, John J. Hodgins, who is operating the syndicate clover huller in that district, hulled 600 pounds of seed from three loads of clover in the short space of two hours and 40 minutes.

Local News: In the minutes of Clarendon council, council makes a request to residents of the township who have wooden gates on their property along winter roads to kindly remove the same during the winter months and thus prevent snow

Local News: Mr. Jas. R. Horner of Cobalt has been spending a few days in town. He reports a much heavier snowfall up north than in this district up to Saturday, when the desires of those wishing for sleighing were

Local News: Don’t forget to visit the Orange Hall at supper time on New Year’s night and after you have satisfied the cravings of the inner man, walk over to Wilson’s Hall and enjoy the pictures. Fire which is presumed

Local News: A.G. Proudfoot, proprietor of the Pontiac House, which was utterly destroyed by the recent fire, has opened up the Howard building on Main Street as a place of public accommodation. Every effort will be made to serve old

Local News: Shawville sustained another severe ordeal from the fire fiend by the destruction of the Pontiac House, the only public hostelry in the village, between 8 and 11 o’clock on Tuesday night. Bad and deplorable as was the scourge,