100 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 28, 1907

• Dufferin County Council has voted an honorarium of $100 to warden James Armstrong, of Orangeville, in acknowledgement of his services during the year.

With respect to the deficiency of the levy for rural school purposes under Bylaw 349, the Education Committee recommended that the Treasurer be given authority to pay the deficiency out of general funds and that the amount required to make the levy equivalent to the government grant be assessed to the several municipalities by next year's council. The report also recommended that the Clerk write the Education Department explaining the cause and nature of the difficulty and requesting that a statement of the amount of the government grant be forwarded in future in time to lay before the council at its June session.

The County's Roads and Bridges Committee expressed its satisfaction at the fact that all the county roads and bridge work contracted for this year, and last year's work as well, had been completed and paid for, so that there were practically no road or bridge liabilities to meet the incoming council of 1908. The committee recommended that the Council cooperate with the county council of Halton in a petition to the Ontario Legislature to amend the Good Roads Act, by increasing the Legislature grant from one third to one half of the total expenditure.

• When on the Second Line of Amaranth on her way to school before 9 o'clock Friday morning, Winetta Hunter, daughter of J. S. Hunter, saw what she at first thought was a calf at Budd's Creek. Getting nearer, she came to the conclusion that she didn't know what kind of animal it was, and becoming frightened went to James Graham's house and told Mrs. Graham what she had seen. Messrs. Graham and Budd followed up the animal and found it taking refuge in Robert Sawyer's bush. It was a fine big buck deer with magnificent antlers. The men measured one place where the deer jumped and it was 15 feet. Adeer in Amaranth Township is certainly a curiosity, and Miss Winetta can pat herself on the back for being the lucky one to "see it first." As the animal when first seen was apparently making its way north, possibly it was the one of which the Orangeville Sun told of last week, which was seen by a number of people running in the swamp north of Caledon Lake and which, it was conjectured, had wandered down from the Proton Swamps.

• The new CPR steamer, Assinaboia, which was built in Glasgow, and brought through the canals in sections, arrived at Owen Sound from Buffalo on Sunday morning last and received a great cheering. A thirteen knot speed was maintained from Sarnia, the machinery working very satisfactorily. A sister ship, which is now at Buffalo, having its two sections joined, is expected in a few days.

75 YEARS AGO Thursday, December 1, 1932

• Highway 10 is now open for traffic from Owen Sound to Toronto, the newly paved section from Melancthon to Corbetton having been opened on Friday, the "seasoning" period having been shortened because of the poor condition of the Back Line detour. Shouldering and ditching are still in progress but will not be completed until next year.

• Different Shelburne business places are reported as broken into during the night in the past few weeks, but last Thursday night was the cap sheaf, when no less than four establishments were entered - J. E. A. White's, Hogg's Service Station, T. J. O'FLynn's and H. Cowen's. Money and goods were taken from the White store and money from the service station, but no loss was reported from the other two places. Friday afternoon, Provincial Officer Butler and Chief McCauley went to a home in Melancthon Township and placed Clarence White under arrest as a suspect and brought him to Shelburne and placed him in the lockup, or rather in the cellar. They left him in his stocking feet, taking his boots with them to see if they fitted the marks in the snow at the rear of some of the entered business places. They were away longer than they had intended and when they returned the prisoner had disappeared, having squeezed himself through a pipe hole in the ceiling to a closet on the ground floor of the Town Hall. White went to his parents' home in Dundalk. They promptly returned him to Shelburne and he was taken to Orangeville jail.

50 YEARS AGO Wednesday, November 27, 1957

• The Ontario Department of Transport has appointed Roy Coleman, Shelburne's former clerk/treasurer, as an official licence issuer and examiner for motor vehicles.

25 YEARS AGO Wednesday, December 1, 1982

• Stanley Tufford, president of Heritage of Canada, a Christian resort located in the former Hockley Hills Hotel, has been banned from using the name of the PTL Club in his promotions.