News 10 Years Ago
Wednesday, February 27, 1991

Died - Lillian MacLeod FORBES, 78, Wallace, February 25 in Lillian Fraser Memorial Hospital, Tatamagouche.

Died - Frances Elizabeth HENLEY, 64, Roslin, February 19 in All Saints Hospital, Springhill.

News 20 Years Ago
Wednesday, February 18, 1981

Died - Mrs. Edna Jane (Forshner) ADAMS, 98, Westchester, Feb. 14 at Oickle's Rest Home, Oxford.

Died - John Walter RUSHTON, 82, Oxford, February 16 in All Saints Springhill Hospital.

Died - Guy D. SUTHERLAND, Halifax, formerly of Oxford, in the Halifax Infirmary, February 13.

News 30 Years Ago
Thursday, February 25, 1971

Died at Lower Greenville, Mrs. Bessie M. BROUGHTON, 92, Feb. 12, one of Westchester Station's oldest residents.

Died at All Saints Hospital, Springhill, February 14, Mrs. Eva May
MURRAY, 82, wife of Dan MURRAY of Pugwash River.

News 40 Years Ago
Thursday, February 23, 1961

Died at Springhill Hospital on Feb. 17, Mrs. Emma WILKINSON, 85, widow of the late William WILKINSON of Pugwash Jct.

Died at Pictou on Feb. 2, James TEED, 73, of Malagash.

News 50 Years Ago
Thursday, March 1, 1951

Died at Truro Hospital on Jan. 18, Mrs. Florence KING, widow of the late Oliver KING of Pugwash.

Died at Oxford on Feb. 26, Frank Amos PURDY, 75.

Died at Truro Hospital on Feb. 26, C. Robert KING, 72, former prominent lumberman, a native of Mt. Pleasant, and until recent years, a citizen of Oxford.

News 60 Years Ago
Thursday, February 27, 1941

Three crewmen of an eastbound CNR freight extra were injured on Feb. 20 when their train crashed into the rear of a way freight, damaging four of its cars on the main line in front of Thomson Station.

News 70 Years Ago
Thursday, February 26, 1931

Oxford Egg Circle held their annual meeting Feb. 18, with president H.W. CHASE presiding. Since the circle's organization in 1927, its business has increased from 4,400 dozens in 1928, to 25,739 dozens in 1930. Sufficient stone for the present has been hauled by 14 teams in four days for the Water Street widening project, now underway. Piles are being driven in Black River preparatory to moving Mrs. HICKMAN's building back 18 feet.

In Memoriam
RIPLEY, Donald Hartley, passed away March 1, 2000.
MURPHY, Valence V., passed away February 28, 1998, in North Sydney, formerly of Roslin and Oxford.
FILLMORE, Myra, passed away February 29, 2000.
PETERSON, Bob, passed away February 26, 1998.
PETERSON, Robert G., passed away February 28, 1998.
(Could be the same person as above)
ATKINSON, Gladys, passed away March 4, 1994.

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From the Springhill and Parrsboro Record, dated Wednesday, February 28, 2001.

In Memoriam
JOBE, Lois M., passed away on Feb. 28, 1996.
DAKEN, Marion, passed away March 1, 1998.

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