The Register,
February 13, 1902
Dalhousie and Vicinity
A wood social at Oakdene, a quadrille party in Exchange Hall, and Cotillion parties at Glendale and Oakdene, have been among the pleasures of the past week.
Work in the woods is not progressing very rapidly, owing to the lack of snow, or rather the changeable weather.
The Agricultural Society of this place has purchased two fine animals, one from Cambridge (Nova Scotian register) and one from the Woodworth Road (Dominion register.) They feel quite pleased with their bargains.
Probably some of your readers imagine Dalhousie to be a mean little backwoods place, but I will try to dispel that idea. Dalhousie boasts an area of nine miles in length, from the first to the last house, and from Forest Hill Cottage to Oakdene Hermitage it is about the same distance, if not more, giving the breadth. It lies in three counties, Kings, Annapolis and Lunenburg. It has four schoolhouses, all, with one exception, in Kings Co. It has three churches, well finished. It has mails coming from three points of the compass, direct – that is, from Aylesford, Springfield and New Ross. It has a public telephone connecting it with the outside world, and it is the centre for large lumbering operations. All that it wants is more enterprise and it might be added, more money.