125 Years Ago

Local news: La grippe still holds sway in town and the surrounding country. Whole households have been prostrated by this universal malady. At the Pontiac House on Monday night the outsiders’ hockey team treated their late opponents to an oyster

Local news: Mr. Harry Newham, Mrs. Newham and child are visiting friends in Thorne. Mr. Newham informs us that he has disposed of his store at White Lake and intends knocking around a bit before resuming business. Mr. D. R.

Local news: Sickness is rife in the district in various forms of lagrippe and pneumonia, and local physicians and clergymen are very busy. Mr. Edward Dale, of the 4th range, has a cow which surprised him not a little last

Local news: Saturday was one of the coldest days of the year, the mercury having dropped down to 26 (some say 28) degrees below zero at 7 a. m. This keen freeze, accompanied by a biting wind made the weather

Local news: Friday and Saturday gave this region more snow than we have had for several years at this early date. Looks like an old-time winter say many who remember “the winter of the deep snow.” The church services on

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County council: The Sec.-Treasurer informed the Council that Mr. Barry had been instructed to make a demand on Mr. C. Lafremier for the amount due for the maintenance of his son in the Lunatic Asylum. Mr. Lafremier replied that in

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Local news: A gang of men are at work from the foot of the Calumet Falls downward, in the interests of the Georgian Bay Canal survey. Another gang is at work from Paquette’s rapids down, and will follow the north

Local news: Mr. Robert Barker, an old resident of Clarendon, died at Mr. Jas. Carson’s on Sunday last from paralysis. He was over 90 years of age. Mr. Colin Campbell, of Rankin, and friends, while hunting in Leslie last week