Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Cecil Stewart of Fort Frances by virtue of two victories on Saturday night, won the lightweight title at Hibbing’s ninth District Golden Gloves tournament and the right to participate in the Minnesota tournament at Minneapolis opening on February 9. In the semi-finals, Stewart won over George Elich of Hibbing and […]
J. M. Newman, Liberal-Labour Fort Frances, is the choice of the electors of the Rainy River as their candidate to the Ontario Legislature as a result of Monday’s election. in 75 of 81 polls he has a majority of 243 over his nearest opponent, Mayor R. O. Wilkes, M. C., […]
Widely Publicized “Hot Stove” Case Is Concluded Three men, William Shmidt, 29, of Fort Frances, George Skrypnyk, 25, and Anthony Skrypnyk, 22, both of Atikokan, paid with their lives on the gallows in the jail jail this morning, the penalty for their participation in what has become known as the […]
Four men from this district, Anthony and George Skrypnyk, Eino Tallonen and William Schmidt, were committed for trial on a charge of murder in connection with the torture slaying of Mrs. Viola Jamieson, 49, of Flanders, Ontario, at the preliminary hearing before Magistrate Wolfe at Kenora Monday. George Armstrong of […]
Mrs. Viola Jamieson of Flanders, died Sunday morning at ten o ‘clock as a result of burns allegedly to have been inflicted when, according to her statement, three ruffians entered her home Saturday evening, June 10, unable to get money from her, placed the tiny woman on a hot stove, […]
Mrs. Jamieson who resides in the vicinity of Flanders was reported to have been robbed with violence at her home Saturday night. Three men were said to have thrown a sheet over her head when she entered her the house and when she refused to tell them where her money […]
Over 1600 Million ft. Of Lumber Cut; Payroll Totalled $20 Millions The Shevlin-Clarke Co. Ltd, which operated Canada’s largest pine sawmill in Fort Frances from 1911 to 1940, has suspended operations and, by mid-June, will pass completely from the local scene. On June 5, 1911, the first logs were run […]
Patients in LaVerendrye Hospital will pay the following rates: Beds in public wards will cost $1.75 per day, which is the standard rate throughout the province. At the present, there are only 4-bed public wards in the hospital, so that even here the patient will have more privacy than in […]
From rumour the found little basis in fact early Canadian explorers dreamed of the discovery of the Western Sea, a short way to the advantageous trade from the east. Jacques Cartier had sought it, followed by Samual Champlian who reaching the Lake Nipissing and descending the French River, was the […]
LaVerendrye Hospital stands as an imposing monument to the early French-Canadian explorer, Pierre Gautier de Varennes, Sieur de LaVerendrye, as a symbol of the faith which the Sisters of Charity, Order of Grey Nuns, has in the future of our town. For LaVerendrye Hospital, rising prominently in clear view of […]
Will be Known as Ontario And Minnesota Paper Company; Kenora and Fort Frances Plants Are in the New Company MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Formation of the Ontario-Minnesota Pulp and Paper Company Limited under Letters Patent granted under date of April 28 was announced by R. H. M. Robinson, President of Minnesota […]
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.— R. H. M. Robinson of Minneapolis, was elected president of the Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company, March 1, at the initial meeting of the board of directors of the reorganized company appointed on January 10 by Judge Gunner H. Dordbye, U. S. District Court of the District of […]
