News 10 Years Ago
Wednesday, October 10, 1990

Died - George Thomas KITTILSON, 48, Wallace, Oct. 4 in Victoria General Hospital.

Died - Freda O. (Redmond) BROWN, 81 of Oxford, formerly of West Wentworth, Oct. 8, in All Saints Hospital, Springhill.

News 20 Years Ago
Wednesday, October 8, 1980

Died at All Saints Hospital, Springhill on Oct. 6, Carl E. MATTINSON, 74, Mount Pleasant.

Died - A Wallace native, Alexander Ruby RHINDRESS, 82, at his home in Amherst on Oct. 2.

News 30 Years Ago
Thursday, October 8, 1970

Died at Pugwash on Sept. 30, Karon Paula MYERS, infant daughter of Ida Mae Myers, Pugwash.

Died at Pugwash on Sept. 29, Vernon Leland M. TREEN, 80 of Malagash and formerly of Oxford.

Died at his home in Collingwood on Sept. 25, Mr. James PERRY, 86.

Died at Amherst on Oct. 6, Ernest Raymond MORRIS, 86, of East Leicester.

News 70 Years Ago
Thursday, October 9, 1930

Forty-seven Britons met a dreadful death on October 5, when the R-101, largest dirigible in the world, crashed in France and exploded while enroute to India.

The lighting plant at Mattatall Brothers, Westchester, was destroyed by fire October 7, at a loss of $1000.

A Look Back ...
From the Journal Nov. 10, 1954. A Ghost Story.

This is a true story, though I don't know the exact dates, and am not sure that Bill is the correct name, however EAGLES is, of that I'm sure. Stated by the author"Old Subscriber".

Sometime about the year 1880 a man, EAGLES by name, disappeared on Westchester Mountain. A search was made for him but he was not found.

Some time after, a ghost was reported to have been seen by several different people, and always at the same place on the Halifax road. One evening, the sun was down, but it was not dark, Hugh SCOTT, who had been on a short visit to his brother William, was coming home over the mountain on horse back, as that was the way many folks travelled at that time. His horse had trotted or cantered for several miles. He had eased him down to a walk and was about to fill his pipe, had got from his pocket, knife, tobacco and pipe, had commenced to cut tobacco, when he noticed what he supposed was someone walking close to his stirrup.

He took a second look and recognized Bill Eagles. He then whipped up his horse and hurried away from there. Some time after he met his brother William, who asked Hugh why he did not speak to Eagles and said that if he ever saw the ghost he would ask him what he wanted. Several months after this William SCOTT was travelling the same road on the way to visit Hugh and at nearly the same place on the road he had allowed his horse to walk and had started to fill his pipe, when he noticed Bill EAGLES walking beside his horse. William Scott said, "Hello, Bill, what do you want?" Bill Eagles said, "I want to be buried." William Scott said, ''How will I find you?" Eagles said, "You will find me just a short way up this little brook under a pile of old brush." William Scott said, "All right, Bill, I'll attend to that tomorrow", and went on his way to Hugh Scott's.

Next morning he wanted Hugh to go with him to look for Bill Eagles' remains. Hugh could not go, so William went up on the mountain and got someone to go with him. They found the pile of old brush without much trouble, gathered Eagles' bones up the best they could, carried them out and buried them. Bill Eagles' ghost was never seen again.

Many years afterwards, an old man by the name of SHACKSTEED died at Springhill and before he died he told that many years before he had killed Eagles and took his boots. Eagles was known to have a new pair of boots shortly before he went missing, but no sign of boots was found with his bones.

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