100 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 3, 1908

• Dufferin's Conservative MP, Dr. John Barr, gave an interview to the Orangeville Sun last Friday during which he stated that the Liberal government would allow no Conservative candidate to take a seat by acclamation and would pay a Liberal to run in Dufferin if it were impossible to get one in the harness otherwise. "Our present member fully expects opposition in the coming contest, which he says will likely take place in November," the Sun said. "Dr. Barr certainly looks like he was ready for the fray at any time, come when it may. As to the increased indemnity, he declared that he had earned every cent of the increase and more, and was tired of long sessions."

• Some of the prime movers of the proposed Pine River Electric Power Co. went up to Shelburne from Toronto Tuesday to look over the proposed power site at Horning's Mills. They expect to be back again in a couple of weeks when we will perhaps hear something more definite as to the scheme of supplying electric power for light and power purposes for Shelburne, Orangeville and Grand Valley.

• The Shelburne telephone exchange has installed two new house telephones — one in the residence of Dr. S. T. White, Main Street West, and one in the residence of J. E. A. White, First Avenue. A line is also being built to Melancthon Station this week, which it is expected will be in operation the end of this or the first of next week. The line starts with three subscribers — James Brown, T. K. Slack and the Canadian Grain Co. elevator. The new line will fill "a long felt want."

• Says the Orangeville Sun: If the parents of a number of boys between the ages of 7 and 14 are called upon to defend their sons in police court some of these fine days, do not be surprised. It is strictly against the law for children not accompanied by a proper guardian to visit the railway station. Out of 20 boys at the C.P.R. depot Monday night who were questioned as to their business there, only six admitted being on the premises for the sole purpose of delivering the evening papers. To meet the trains and get their supply of evening papers is a necessity, but when the other 14 of the 20 boys are rip-tearing around the station, through the cars, in front of moving trains and into other mischief, such as cutting their initials on the station house, etc., we do not wonder at the officials sending a detective to make trouble for the parents who allow their youngsters to run at large. After this, only newsboys will be allowed to visit the station without a guardian and they will be required to furnish proof that they are there for that purpose only. Others caught there out of idle curiosity or mischief-making will be forced to give their names and the parents will be called upon to defend them on a charge of trespass. For quite a while a number of girls have been meeting the trains every night and making nuisances of themselves and they, too, will be asked to vacate the premises. The girls' ages range from 13 to 17 and some of them have already started on the downward path. They have become such a nuisance at the depot that the railway authorities have determined to prohibit them from hanging around the station where they chatter to freight train hands and generally make fools and nuisances of themselves. Patrons of the C.P.R. will be glad to hear that measures are being taken to rid the station premises of the youthful male and female bums who have infested the place for so long.

75 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 7, 1933

• Shortly before 2 p.m. Tuesday, two gunmen entered the Orangeville branch of the Royal Bank, forced the staff into the bank vault, gathered the loose money in the teller's cage, estimates of which vary from $2,000 to $3500, hurried out to their car and made their escape east on Broadway. Whether they went east to Mono Mills or south on Highway 10 was not known, but the car they used was found abandoned in York Township, near Toronto, the next morning. The car is owned by Chas. E. Morris, of Toronto, and had been stolen in Hamilton the previous Sunday.

50 YEARS AGO Wednesday, September 3, 1958

• The Ontario Department of Highways has advertised for tenders for a contract for grading, granular base and hot-mixed paving on Highway 24 from Orangeville to Camilla, 6.07 miles.

25 YEARS AGO Wednesday, September 7, 1983

• Orangeville's 126th annual fall fair was a clear-skied success, bringing in more than $6,200 in gate receipts. "It was very good, the best we've had in some time," said agricultural society secretary Gordon Weech. "The entries were way up this year and so was attendance."

• Orangeville's third annual Terry Fox Run is set for Sept. 18.

• Orangeville's CAMCO plant is doing a booming business. Last month, the plant on the Orangeville bypass hired 90 more employees.