100 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 12, 1906

 The largest sturgeon ever caught in fresh water was received by the Doyle Fish Co., of Toronto, last week, and the remarkable catch reported to Mr. S. T. Bastedo, deputy commissioner of Provincial fisheries. The mammoth fish was caught in Georgian Bay, near Wiarton, and weighed 323 pounds. This is the biggest ever heard of in fresh waters, the previous record being a sturgeon of 185 pounds, caught in the same district some years ago. Some idea of the value of the huge specimen, which was caught in a pound net, can be seen in the fact that the flesh sells at 12 to 15 per pound, and being a female, has over 180 pounds of roe, which sells at 70 per pound. Mr. Bastedo at once instituted steps to have the fish preserved and mounted, but, unfortunately, its great length had so inconvenienced the shippers that they had cut off both head and tail.

 Before Rev.W. J. Tribble, son of Mrs. Tribble of Andrew St., Shelburne, left Palgrave for his new charge at Corbetton, he and Mrs. Tribble were the recipients of marks of appreciation of their work while labouring on the Palgrave circuit for the past four years. These took the form of handsome and useful presents accompanied by addresses. The Palgrave congregation presented a handsome parlour clock, Church Hill Epworth League a silver fruit dish, and the Shiloh congregation a beautiful music cabinet.

 The ringing of the fire alarm startled Shelburne citizens who were left in town about five in the afternoon of Friday last (civic holiday). The roof of Robertson's sawmill, immediately west of the C.P.R. station, was ablaze, but the fire engine and hose reel were soon on hand and the fire was extinguished before it had made any considerable headway. A few minutes delay, however, would have meant the destruction of the building.

 A very heavy hail and thunderstorm passed over this section Saturday afternoon. The hail did considerable damage to both windows and crops south of Shelburne. Some telephones in town were burned out by the electrical fluid. A chimney on the house of William Theaker, William Street, was struck by lightning and demolished. The current went down the stovepipe and out on the ground floor. The residents received shocks, pictures were knocked from the walls, etc., but no serious damage was done.

 The union Sunday school excursion to Niagara Falls on Friday last (Shelburne's civic holiday) was largely patronized, the cars of the excursion train being crowded. The trip from Toronto to Lewiston, made on the steamer Corona, was most interesting. The waves heaved, the ship heaved, and the people - well, just ask some of those on board all about it. Those who returned to Shelburne on the special train timed to leave Toronto at 10:30 p.m. arrived shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday. Many remained in Toronto until Saturday or Monday. With the exception of the going passage on the boat, the weather was all that could be desired, and the excursionists unite in saying they had a good time.

75 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 16, 1931

 The rain of Friday night and Saturday morning did not daunt the Orangemen of Dufferin and other parts and they turned out in large numbers for the Dufferin County Lodge celebrations in Orangeville. In all, 53 lodges were in line for the parade, which included Shelburne Citizens' Band, Fergus Fife and Drum Band, Scottish Pipers, Mono Mills Fife and Drum Band, Laurel Fife and Drum Band, Primrose Fife and Drum Band, Waldemar Fife and Drum Band and Orangeville Citizens' Band, in that order. The prize for oldest Orangeman on parade went to George Redick of Horning's Mills, 93.

50 YEARS AGO Wednesday, July 11, 1956

 Joan Fairfax, pretty star of the Denny Vaughan television show, has been engaged by the CBC to be guest artist at the finals of this year's National Fiddle Contest. The contest is expected to have the benefit of the very latest in sound systems, supposed to bring perfect sound from the stage to every part of the Shelburne arena.

25 YEARS AGO Wednesday, July 15, 1981

 Eighty-three lodges from within the Georgian Bay Alliance of Orange Lodges held their annual Orange Parade in Shelburne last Saturday in conjunction with the centennial of Dufferin County. Coming from as far away as the Parry Sound area, Woodbridge, Guelph and the Minden area, the lodges marched with bands and banners through downtown Shelburne before listening to speeches from invited guests at Hyland Park. MP Perrin Beatty, MPPs George McCague and Jack Johnson, Shelburne Mayor George Morden and Dufferin Warden Bill Young were on hand.

 MP Perrin Beatty has called on the federal government to intervene in the national mail strike by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.