150 years ago
January 21, 1875
TEAS – The Choicest In The Province: At almost Importers’ Prices. Largest Stock in Town. Staple Article. Pleases Everybody. Trade Continually Increasing. Customers Wanted Everywhere. Best Inducements. Don’t Waste Time. Come at once for your TEA to GEO. O’NEILL’S, Huntingdon, P.Q.
125 years ago
January 18, 1900
HOWICK: Mr. John Duncan, the well-known dealer of milk and manufacturer of pasteurized milk in Montreal, will erect a large barn with stable on the old Currie farm, which he purchased last summer, and stock it with a large herd of cattle, so that he will probably be able to supply himself with all the milk her needs from his own stock.
There is excellent sleighing here since the recent fall of snow and there is much hauling of ice, firewood, and logs being done.
100 years ago
January 1, 1925
HENS NEED CLEAN WATER: “This is the season when hens often suffer from lack of water,” points out a successful poultryman. “Too often they are forced to get along with a drink in the morning only, as it is given them in shallow drinking pans and soon freezes. Water can be given in an eight or ten-quart pail set in a stand which permits its rim to rise about six inches above the platform. This amount of water prevents it from freezing so rapidly, but even when it is given in this way a fresh and warmed supply should be provided two or more times daily, in order that the hens may not be chilled by continual drinking of ice water.
75 years ago
January 18, 1950
APPROXIMATELY $100,000 DAMAGE FROM WIND STORM: Chateauguay Valley Suffers Much Damage From Saturday’s Cyclonic Wind Storm, Farmers Among The Heaviest Sufferers From 70-90 Mile-an-Hour All Day Wind – [Mr. Patenaude] Injured While Repairing Damage Done By Wind [he fell from his barn roof – ed.] – Cement Block Garage [in Howick] Blown Down – Damage About $10,000, Many Buildings Damaged – Phone and Power Lines Disrupted For Hours. […] two horses and a cow were killed when the barn… collapsed upon them.
50 years ago
January 15, 1975
RIVERFIELD’S 150th ANNIVERSARY EPIC IN CHATEAUGUAY VALLEY: The Riverfield Curling Club this week moved from its special 150th Anniversary Invitational Bonspiel and the attendant celebrations straight into hosting district playdowns for The Briar. Nothing could have been more successful than the four days of curling competitions and general festivities which marked the anniversary of the Riverfield Club on the banks of the English River, the fifth oldest in Canada.