100 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 4, 1906

 Acclamations have resulted in Henry White becoming Reeve of Shelburne, Thomas Oldfield Reeve of Melancthon and P. J. Cunningham Reeve of East Luther. In elections I. J. Murphy became Reeve of Mono. Across the province, Local Option carried in 51 municipalities and was lost in nine, with a few more municipalities to be heard from. In Grey County, Local Option carried in Collingwood, Derby, Egremont, Keppel, Osprey and Sydenham townships, the town of Owen Sound and the village of Thornbury.

 Shelburne Public School opened Wednesday morning with a full staff of teachers on duty and a good attendance of scholars, although some rumours to the effect that the school would not open this month are understood to have been in circulation through the country.

 Meetings in connections with Dufferin Farmers’ and Women’s Institute will be held at the following places: Perm, January 4, Relessey, January 5; Camilla, January 6; Laurel, January 8. Separate meetings in the afternoons at 1:30 and joint meetings in the evenings at 7:30. Besides the local speakers who are expected at each point of meeting, the speakers will be Duncan C. Anderson, of Rugby, and Miss Blanche Maddock, of Guelph. These speakers will handle such of their subjects as are chosen by the various meetings. Mr. Anderson’s subjects are: “Soil cultivation,” “Rotation of Crops,” “Clover as a fertilizer,”“Manure — its care and application,” “Beef Cattle — purebred grades and fat,” “Horses, draught, agricultural and general purpose,”“Sheep — the different mutron breeds,” “Swine, especially the bacon type,” “Conformation and feeding of the dairy cow,” “Farming as an occupation,” and “Our country.” Miss Maddock’s subjects are: “Science of butter making,” “Bread making,” “Our Women’s Institutes and how to make them interesting,” “Bacteria — their relation to health and disease,” and “A girl’s possibilities.”

 Councillor Robert Curry has bought a 100-acre farm, lot 15, con. 5, New Survey, Melancthon, from Samuel Burns. The property is only partly cleared. The price paid was $1200. Robert Ewing, Reeve of Amaranth, has bought the east half of lot 18, con. 5, Amaranth, 100 acres, from Edward Lang. The price paid for the property was $4800. Mr. Lang intends going west.

 On Friday, December 22, the closing exercises at the Coleridge School were followed in the evening by a concert given by the pupils and to which the parents and friends of the pupils were invited. The program consisted of readings, recitations, dialogues and drills by the children and also a series a gramaphone selections. These were interspersed by short addresses by J. S. Hunter, the school trustees and several of the visitors. A collection for the Sick Children’s Hospital amounting to $5.35 was taken up.

75 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 8, 1931

 Dufferin County Council members for 1931 will be: Reeve J. E. Burnside and Deputy Reeve W. S. Golden, of Amaranth; Reeve W. A. Donaldson, of East Garafraxa; Reeve W. E.Tovell, of East Luther; Reeve T. E. Watson and Deputy Reeve James Stinson of Melancthon; Reeve Norman Lindsay and Deputy Reeve T. J. Parks, of Mono; Reeve Delmar Gallaugher and Deputy Reeve Ray Cunningham of Mulmur; Reeve T. S. Parkinson and Deputy Reeve J. E. Thompson of Orangeville; Reeve T. F. Brown of Shelburne and Reeve William J. Baker of Grand Valley. The only ex-warden in the 1931 council is Reeve Parkinson.

 A new method of keeping roads open in the winter, as far as this district is concerned, will be tried in Perth County, according to a decision made by the county council in session at Stratford. This experiment will be made on the road between Shakespeare and Tavistock and the method employed will be rolling the road.

 The snowstorm Monday piled up “the beautiful” on the roads quite nicely. Tuesday afternoon, the Dept. of Highways snowplow made it from Orangeville to Shelburne and turned around and went right back again.

50 YEARS AGO Wednesday, January 4, 1956

 Leo and Dora Velleman, of Orangeville, have been on a tour of Michigan with their puppet show and report having made a very successful tour in which they travelled 3,000 miles.

25 YEARS AGO Wednesday, January 7, 1981

 One of Orangeville’s oldest buildings and historic landmarks will be demolished this year to make way for a new site for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. The present brick building was purchased by the Bank of Hamilton, which subsequently merged with the Bank of Commerce, and has undergone several renovations.

 Sources say Shelburne’s long-awaited first licensed dining room, Timberline Lodge, is to open within the next few days.