Official returns showed McKeown won local by-election by 93 votes
100 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 8, 1907
The official returns of the Dufferin by-election on July 24, have been supplied by Returning Officer James Patterson of Orangeville. The chief difference from the SHELBURNE ECONOMIST's detailed report, printed the morning after the election, is at Duffies School in East Garafraxa, where the real vote for C. W. McKeown was 38, while the figure given over the telephone was 28.
The official returns show that Mr. McKeown, the official Conservative candidate, received 1,943 votes compared with 1,850 given Prohibitionist R. J. Woods, a Melancthon farmer.
In Orangeville, McKeown polled 314 votes to 157 for Woods, while in Mono the two candidates were almost tied, with Woods getting 296 votes and McKeown 295. Woods edged out McKeown in Amaranth (279-243) and East Luther (141-120) and won handily in Melancthon, 514- 184. McKeown was the winner in Mulmur (371-230), East Garafraxa (205-91), and Shelburne (120-96).
Shelburne Council has accepted the resignation of Jeremiah Brundige as the village's constable, which will take effect as soon as a successor is appointed.
There have been stray stories about big fish at Mulmur Lake for several years back, but nobody placed very much reliance on the reports until the opening day of the trout fishing season last year, when W. A. Hillhouse landed a fellow that weighed 3 1/4 pounds and was 22 inches long. It was by far the biggest fish that had ever been pulled out of the lake and Shelburne was hardly big enough to hold W. A. the day after his catch, he felt so important. But no more big fellows were landed last season and the anglers began to think there had been only one big fish there. However, last week, while James Jelly and a party of friends were camping at the lake, John Jelly made the interesting discovery that there were a number of the big fellows in the lake, and traced them to their favourite haunts. Excitement reigned. The party were determined to land one of them, anyway, and they succeeded. The fun of it is that the one landed beat the Hillhouse record by 1/2 inch. So there is a new record; the Mulmur Lake Club know for sure that there are a lot of big lake trout playing hob with the speckled trout supply; they presume they got in there with the spawn put in the lake 15 years ago; they presume they'll have to get them out of that if the preserve is to be any good for speckled trout - and there you are. If the conditions don't produce some first class fish stories - we miss our guess - that's all.
The following letter from F. H. Silk, manager of Shelburne branch of the Union Bank, appeared in the TORONTO WORLD of Saturday: "My attention has been directed to a despatch sent from here which appeared in your issue of July 27, stating that citizens were startled to learn that an order had been issued from the head office of the Union Bank in Quebec to the manager of the bank here, that absolutely no more loans were to be negotiated here, no matter how gilt-edged the security. I wish to say that the article is incorrect; that no such order was issued by head office and must have been sent to your paper with the intention of doing the bank harm."
In Shelburne Police Court last Thursday, evidence was heard in the trial of James McManaman, William Connor, Pat Connor, James Whitten, George McAuley, John Bennett, Joseph Adamson and Frank Gray, all charged with being drunk and disorderly in Shelburne the previous Saturday night. Police Magistrate George Rutherford did not deem the evidence sufficient to warrant action in the cases of Whitten, McAuley, Bennett, Adamson and Gray. McManaman and the Connors had evaded service of the summons and were not present.
75 YEARS AGO
Thursday, August 11, 1932
As of Tuesday afternoon, detour signs are not yet up on Highway 10 between Melancthon Station and Dundalk, which includes the portion of highway that is to be paved this season by the McGregor Co. We have not been able to ascertain the cause of the delay in getting the work actively under way. County Council was told in mid-July that the contractor expected the laying of cement to start within two weeks.
50 YEARS AGO
Wednesday, August 7, 1957
The youngest player entered in this year's Canadian Open Championship Old Time Fiddlers' Contest this Friday and Saturday is 10-year-old Brian Mulhall of Toronto. Kentucky journalist/hiker Howard Hardaway plans to mark his 59th birthday by hiking 59 miles to the contest, from the Humber River bridge on Toronto's lakeshore.
25 YEARS AGO
Wednesday, August 11, 1982
Don Reed of Sudbury has won his third straight
Canadian Open Old Time Fiddlers' Contest championship, matching feats of Johnny
Mooring (1964-66) and Graham Townsend (1968-70).
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