125 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 10, 1885

• At the recent meeting of Shelburne Council Mr. Berwick gave notice that at the next meeting of council he would introduce a bylaw to add certain lands inside the corporation to Shelburne Union School section. Mr. Wilson gave notice that he would introduce a bylaw to enable the Council to lease a chemical fire engine for a term of 10 years.

• On learning that Mr. A. A. Lester, who has been an active member of Shelburne’s Beaver baseball club, was about to leave town, a few members of the club assembled in Deitch’s ice cream parlor on Friday last and presented him with a handsome gold ring, accompanied by the good wishes of those who contributed towards the present. Mr. Lester returned his hearty thanks and stated that he would always look upon it as significant of the friendship of the boys of Shelburne toward him.

• The Cyclones of Stayner are a conceited lot of boys and anything but courteous. A communication in the yesterday’s Mail from Beaverton contains a well-merited rebuke and doubtless the Cyclones feel it. When visiting Shelburne our boys treated them courteously, and we understood at the time that the Cyclones went away well pleased with their treatment while here. It would seem now that the Cyclones cannot even treat written communications from our boys in a respectful manner. The Cyclones are fast getting up a reputation for unfairness which even Alliston lacrosse players might envy.

• Mr. Lue Foy, who has been with Foy & Mason for a few years past, left yesterday morning for his old home in Port Perry, thence to Michigan. Lue has the good wishes of his old associates in Shelburne wherever he may go, and on Tuesday night a meeting was held in the Mansion House to give expression to these feelings of good will toward him and presented him with a gold watch and chain.

• As announced last Sabbath evening, a meeting of the teachers, officers, scholars and friends of the Methodist Sabbath School was held on Monday evening last in the church to bid farewell to Mrs. John Stinson, who has been an active worker in the Sabbath School for a number of years.

100 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 8, 1910

• The Orangeville Banner has had its office enlarged and thoroughly renovated, and a vast improvement has been made in the arrangement and appearance of their book and stationery store in the same building.

• The following losses were passed by the directors of the Dufferin Farmers’ Mutual Fire Insurance Company on Saturday, September 3. Total losses paid out for the one month amounted to $1,226.25 and in each and every case the damage was caused by lightning.

• The Amaranth Telephone Company has opened a new central office in N. E. McCutcheon’s grocery store in Shelburne. For some time the line ran into the Bell Telephone office but we have not heard why the change was made to an independent office.

• A E. Wrigglesworth, who has been in the employ of R. A. Jelly for

number of years, is starting in business for himself. He has secured a shop in the Riky block on Owen Sound Street, Shelburne and will confine himself to tinsmithing, plumbing, heating, electric wiring and supplies. He is a good mechanic and will do well.

75 YEARS AGO Wednesday, September 12, 1935

• The 68th annual exhibition of the Dufferin Central Fair Society will be held in Shelburne Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. The large attendance each year and the quantity and quality of exhibits have well0justified its title as “The Show Window of Dufferin County.”

• Mr. Arthur K. Fletcher has been chosen from among more than 100 applicants for a teaching position at Shelburne High School, so that Principal J. H. Short will have the same complement of five teachers on the school’s staff provided last year. Currently a resident of Ivy, Mr. Fletcher is a specialist in physical education.

• There are 20,162 names on the voters’ list in Dufferin-Simcoe riding for the coming federal election.

50 YEARS AGO Wednesday, September 7, 1960

• The Ontario Hydro Electric Power Commission has recommended the return of $76,000 in Hydro dividends to power users in its Georgian Bay system, which included Muskoka, Dufferin, Simcoe, Bruce and Grey counties.

• An 11-unit co-operative apartment project in Shelburne is nearing the construction phase, with central Mortgage and Housing Corp., the government lending agency, financing 90% of the building costs.

25 YEARS AGO Wednesday, September 11, 1985

• The Town of Orangeville has received its first-ever application for an estate residential housing development off B Line, featuring single family dwellings on lots between 1/2 and one acre.