75 Years Ago

A little of this and that: The weather . . . Saturday morning John Hitz’s thermometer at Ladysmith registered 52 below, according to Walter Smith. At J. M. Argue’s lumber camp in the Lake Dumont area the low is unknown.

A little of this and that: No place for a man . . . Is a clothes line in an apartment building as we discovered the other day. Bringing in the clothes for the better half we had just finished

A little of this and that: Mammoth on the job . . . A huge rotary plow, purchased by farmers of Stark’s Corners, which will blast snow drifts as high as itself—six feet. There’s a reason . . . If

Old Pros Trim Shawville 9-8:  The old stars of pro hockey emerged from the dim past last Friday night and aided and abetted by such Shawville oldsters as Ritchie Dale and Ebert Richardson trimmed the local team by 9-8. Although

A little of this and that: Accident of the week . . . At the hockey game the other night when a puck hit the left eye of Lorna Romain, daughter of Constable Romain and a few minutes later another

Good Samaritan knocks man down: Ice on the shoulder of No. 8 Highway turned what was intended as a “Good Samaritan” act into a near tragedy last Saturday. H. Graham, of Wyman, was returning home after being a good neighbor

A little of this and that: The Drape Shape . . . The newest in underclothing is being worn by Ed Reinke who was poured in a plaster cast on Wednesday by Dr. F. C. Cowley, assisted by Dr. C.

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Nearly 500 Crowd into High School For Second Annual Talent Revue: The walls of Shawville Theatre were bulging last Wednesday night as almost 500 people crowded into the building to see the second annual Talent Revue presented by the students

Local news: More than 1,000 patients were admitted to the Pontiac Community Hospital in Shawville last year, according to the report given by Secretary-Treasurer Harry Thompson at the annual meeting. The hospital was described by one speaker as one of