125 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 5, 1909

• While a lad was spearing for fish in the pond at Orangeville, his spear brought up two empty cash bags. They were identified as the bags containing some $350 that had been stolen from the railway baggage car last fall while on their way to the C.P.R. treasury department in Toronto. They belonged to Owen Sound, Markdale and Orangeville stations, and the thief after rifling the contents had evidently thrown the bags into the pond while the train stopped for water.

• Air brakes have been introduced on the Toronto, Grey and Bruce division of the C.P.R.

• A light flurry of snow again Friday morning last, May 30th! This is somewhat phenomenal. It is thought no damage has resulted therefrom.

100 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 3, 1909

• At its meeting at Mono Centre on May 28th, Mono Council passed a motion asking that the Reeve, Deputy Reeve and Councillor Anderson be a committee to meet a committee of the councils of Caledon and Orangeville re opening the townline between the depot and Centre Road.

• Miss Johnson, Provincial Government Officer for the removal of insane women to places of safety, arrived in Orangeville last Wednesday evening to take Mrs. Mary Jane Johnston and her daughter Ada to the Hamilton Asylum. The five Johnstons have been confined in the county jail for some time awaiting the directions of the Government. The mother and daughter had been prepared for the journey. Mrs. Johnston told the matron she was going back to the farm, but was firmly told she was to be taken to the insane asylum, whereupon she threw off her bonnet and, with a fierce imprecation and considerable bad language, declared she would not go. It became necessary to strap her up securely, and she was placed in the waiting bus with difficulty. Ada went quietly enough and assisted the officer. The three Johnston men have given little trouble, and have much improved under the kind but strict discipline of Governor Bowles. They talk for the most part rationally enough, and blame their mother's actions for any evidence of insanity they have exhibited. What disposition will be made of them by the authorities is unknown. They are undoubtedly weak-minded, but capable of doing a large amount of manual labour under proper supervision.

• Melancthon Station: Our popular mechanic, T. K. Slack, is reshingling the town hall, which will add much to the appearance of the building and was much needed.

• Shelburne council has approved the purchase for $450 of a gasoline engine to pump water for the village's waterworks system. The tender, from a Brantford firm, was the lowest of four submitted.

75 YEARS AGO Wednesday, June 8, 1934

• Nominations for the coming Provincial Election will be held Tuesday next, June 12th. The election will take place Tuesday, June 19th, with the polls open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Since 1905, the Conservatives have won all but one election, the exception being 1919 when the United Farmers of Ontario formed a minority government with 44 of the 112 seats.

• Mulmur Council has instructed its Clerk to write the Department of Forestry asking that fires of recent date be investigated, as such fires are believed to be on incendiary nature.

• The STAR WEEKLY magazine says there should be state health insurance in Canada which would include sickness benefits to tide families over such periods of misfortune.

50 YEARS AGO Wednesday, June 3, 1959

• Robert Wales, a tobacco farmer from Everett, has been named Liberal candidate for the riding of Dufferin- Simcoe in the June 11 provincial election. The only other candidate will be Rev. A. W. Downer, Progressive Conservative.

• In the riding of Wellington- Dufferin, John Root, Progressive Conservative and Bert Holtom, Liberal, will be the only names on the ballots.

• Shelburne Council has passed a new Subdivision Control Bylaw.

25 YEARS AGO Wednesday, June 6, 1984

• Orangeville Council has given approval to construction of a new separate school on a site west of the Blind Line. St. Peter School currently has about 13 portables and the Dufferin-Peel Roman Catholic Separate School Board is being pressured to build a second school in Orangeville.

• A contract has been awarded to Fermar Paving Ltd. of Rexdale for resurfacing Highway 10 between Caledon Village and Orangeville. Work is to begin this month with completion set for late summer.

• Perrin Beatty has been re-elected by acclamation as Progressive Conservative candidate in the federal riding of Wellington-Dufferin- Simcoe.