News 10 Years Ago
Wed, May 9, 1990

Born a son to Carl and Anne Margeson on March 31.

Died Mrs. Annie Sarah Elliott, 85, Ontario, on May 1. She was born in Linden.

Wed, May 16, 1990

Died Melvern Oderkirk, 75, Rockley, on May 12, in North Cumberland Memorial Hospital.

Died Vida Ferne Patton, 82, Glades Lodge, Halifax, May 10 in the lodge. She was born in Oxford.

Died Florence Alleen Chapman, 78, Lorneville, May 10, at home.

News 20 Years Ago
Wed, May 7, 1980

Died Frederick MacInnis, 87 of North Wallace on May 5 in East Cumberland Lodge, Pugwash.

Died Leonard Carter, 54, of Westchester on May 5 in Highland View Regional Hospital, Amherst.

Died on May 3, Doris Isabel Myers, 66 of Pugwash

Wed, May 14, 1980

Died Arthur Claude Baxter, 70 of Wallace on May 11 in Pugwash.

Died on May 5 in Highland View Regional Hospital, Laurie Thomas Mitchell, 81, of Linden.

News 30 Years Ago
Thurs., May 7, 1970

Three local students, Henry Knol, son of Mr.& Mrs. Henry Knol, Oxford; Gay Gordon, son of Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Gordon, Oxford; and Brian King, son of Mr. & Mrs. Joe King, River Philip; graduated from NS Agriculture College.

Burton (Junior) Dixon, 18, of Oxford, lost his life in a one-car accident at Collingwood on Friday night.

Died at Saskatoon, Sask., Mrs. Margaret Mitchell, 81, a former resident of Westchester Station.

Died at Bras D'Or, Cape Breton, Bert Carroll, 39, formerly of Oxford.

News 40 Years Ago
Thurs., May 12, 1960

Among the graduates from Mount Allison University are Jean Marie MacLeod, George J. Hassell, Pugwash; Robert Johnson, Port Philip; John Grew, Oxford; Starr Jodrey, Northport; Gerald Langille, Wallace.

Died at the VG Hospital, Halifax on May 10, Gordon Piers, eldest son of Mr. & Mrs. Wathan Piers, Pugwash, as the result of injuries received in a car accident near Waldgrove on May 7.

Thurs., May 17, 1960

Died at South Oxford on April 10, Mrs. A. James Rushton, 85, a native of Westchester.

Died at Millvale on May 5, Mrs. Annie E. Stonehouse, 90, widow of the late Arthur Stonehouse.

News 50 Years Ago
Thurs., May 18, 1950

Died at Oxford on Tues., May 16, Mrs. Harvey Hatt.

Died Mrs. James Carde on Wed, May 3, at 76 years of age.

Thurs., May 25, 1950

Died at Misericordia Hospital, Winnipeg, on May 11, Mrs. Ida McLellan at the age of 87 years.

News 60 Years Ago
Thurs., May 16, 1940

At the annual closing of N.S. College of Art on May 9, Miss Barbara Jackman of Pictou and formerly of Oxford, was awarded the Elizabeth Crabtree Nut Memorial Prize as the best woman painter of the year at the college.

Died at Pugwash River on May 12, William L. Lynds, age 60.

Thurs., May 28, 1940

Mr. & Mrs. J. Frank Smith of Pugwash have resigned as superintendent and matron of Cumberland Home, Pugwash on May 12, after 12 years service. Mr. Smith has accepted a similar position at the new Municipal home in Halifax County.

Rev. L. Carl Swan, son of Mr. & Mrs. M.A. Swan, Oxford was admitted to the Holy Orders of Priest at St. James Cathedral, Toronto on May 19.

Died at Gulf Shore recently, Mrs. Catherine McLeod, age 100.

News 70 Years Ago
Thurs., May 15, 1930

Mr. T. Sourvan, a native of Holland and formerly butter maker at
Tatamagouche Creamery, is manager of the new Malagash Creamery.
Clayton Lank, a native of Campobello, was drowned last Thursday at Gulf Shore when his boat struck a reef while returning with a catch of lobsters.

Died at East Wallace on May 7, Stephen Seaman.

Died at Oxford on May 14, Mrs. Wm. Dunsmore.

Thurs., May 22, 1930

Millard Trenholm of Pugwash, deckboy on the C.N.S. Champlain, rescued a Norwegian sailor from drowning at Halifax recently. This is the third near-drowning tragedy Trenholm has averted.

Died at Highland View Hospital on May 14, Mrs. Gilbert Harrison of Nappan, eldest daughter of Mr. & Mrs. George L. King, River Philip.

News 10 Years Ago
Wed. May 23, 1990

Died - Annie Sophronia Keiver, 91, Wallace Station, May 20 in Lillian Fraser Memorial Hospital.

Died - Donald Boyd, 90 of Wallace Bay, May 19, in North Cumberland Memorial Hospital.

News 20 Years Ago
Wed., May 21, 1980

Died at his home in Truro on May 18, Charles Lockhart Fillmore, 78, formerly of Williamsdale.

News 30 Years Ago
Thurs., May 21, 1970

Cheryl Delaney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Delaney, received her Diploma in Physiotherapy at the graduating exercises at the Memorial Dalhousie Rink, Halifax.

Died - Mrs. Melinda Dotten, 89 of North Wallace on May 13.

Died - Mrs. Lloyd Adshade at her home in Little River on April 24.

News 40 Years Ago
Thurs., May 21, 1970

Beatrice Mattinson, Shirley Moore, Garnette Wood and Patricia Wood were among 32 nursing graduates at Moncton City Hospital.

Died at Springhill Hospital on May 18, Albert E. Mattinson, 75, life-long resident of Mount Pleasant.

Died at Truro on May 13, Garfield Coulter, 79, formerly of Richmond and Upper Malagash.

News 50 Years Ago
Thurs. June 1, 1950

Died at Amherst on May 29, Norman MacFadden, age 42, formerly of Oxford, as the result of an industrial accident at Robb Engineering Co. plant.

Died at Pugwash on May 16, Allison McNairn, age 69.

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