150 years ago
August 31, 1876
DRUG HALL, Nearly opposite the Huntingdon Post Office. In addition to the Drugs and Patent Medicines usually kept in a Drug Store there can be found at the above place a large and varied assortment of Paints, as follows: – WHITE–Zinc, Flake, Florence, Ground and Dry White Lead. BLACK–Ground and Dry Drop Black, Black Lead and Lamp Black. RED–English and American Vermillion, Red Lead, India and Venetian Red. BLUE–Ultramarine, Celestial, and Prussian Blue. GREEN–Paris, Bismarck, Chrome, and Bronze Green. YELLOW–Ochre and Chrome Yellow, Raw and Burnt Sienna, and Umber.
125 years ago
August 29, 1901
HOWICK: The stone walls of the Georgetown church are built to the tops of the windows.
STE MARTINE: We have been enjoying fine weather since Saturday. Of late it has been too hot to be pleasant. The spell of fine weather has brought more visitors from the city, and on Sunday we noticed many strangers in Church. … The Exportation Co. is pressing hay, for the second time, at this station. They have a special press, making 100lb bales of about eighteen inches square. It needs five wires to keep them tight.
100 years ago
August 26, 1926
WHY HAVE EXTRA TROUBLE Short hair mars an otherwise good coiffure. Singeing makes those short hairs grow that cause you trouble in combing. Come to us and assure yourself of good results. Razor honing is a special feature of our trade. Expert work.
75 years ago
August 29, 1951
Plant No. 2 Beauharnois Turned Over to Hydro Commissioners – Premier Duplessis Inaugurates Second Section to Double H.P. Output – It was a proud moment for Beauharnois on Saturday, when Premier Maurice Duplessis and Hon. John S. Bourque, Minister of Hydraulic Resources, officially turned over a new huge electric power plant to Quebec Hydro Commissioners. The people of this city have been watching the progress being made in the harnessing of the waters of the St. Lawrence River so that a huge supply of electrical energy would be available. The waters of the St. Lawrence are those between Lake St. Francis and Lake St. Louis. Plant No. 1 was inaugurated several years ago, the new one is Plant No. 2 and immediate work is to be started on Plant No. 3 which will complete the entire project.
50 years ago
August 25, 1976
SOME AREA ROADS – have boasted big cahouts all summer. Big enough to be hazardous. Right now there appears to be a flurry of patching … even resurfacing. Sometimes this has been taken as a harbinger of an election. Could it be that we’re going to have a fall provincial election after all? And if so, who will seek nominations? In this day and age it could be he or she but one thing we know, it won’t be a couple of hims we know.
[BATHTUB RACES] – The whole event was good for laughs, as certain tubs one aptly named “Titanic,” seemed to be doing just beautifully, and then suddenly and unexpectedly san[k] on the brink of victory. “Luckily the water was less than five feet deep … so anyone who found himself in the drink simply waded out.” Combined with the races were a series of wheelbarrow, sac, and potato races for the young fry, and spectators gave lots of business to the refreshment stand set up at the picnic grounds on Route 138 south of Huntingdon where the event was held.