News 10 Years Ago
Wednesday, January 16, 1991

Died - Thomas Albert GILBERT, 89, Oxford, January 11. He was born in Parrsboro.

Died - Melbourne Lloyd TEED, 88, Wentworth, January 14.

News 20 Years Ago
Wednesday, January 7, 1981

Died - William Arthur EMBREE, 78, Oxford, January 5
Died on January 5, Mrs. Jean Isabel (MacIntosh) MACINNIS, 84, of Wallace.

News 30 Years Ago
Thursday, January 14, 1971

New directors elected from this area to the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture were Donald FISHER, R.R.4 Amherst, representing the Nova Scotia Hog Producers; Ralston RIPLEY, River Philip, representing the Nova Scotia Strawberry Growers Association; Tremaine FINLEY, R.R. 4 Amherst, representing the County Federation of Agriculture.

Oxford's new mayor, Donald L. SWEETE, and councillors Ernest FILLMORE and Royal SIMPSON, were sworn in for three year terms at the town clerk's office on January 7.

Holmes Manufacturing and Equipment Limited of Halifax, will open a branch office in Amherst, which will employ 25 to 30 persons. Mr. Harold GIDDENS, Halifax, and formerly of Collingwood, said the firm would be producing equipment for the tire retreading industry.

Amherst's second major fire within a year, on January 6, destroyed a two-storey commercial building housing the printing plant of Russell B. AMOS and the club rooms of the RCAF Association, with a total estimated loss of $162,000.

Died at Amherst on January 7, Mary P. RIPLEY, 82, of Amherst and formerly of Oxford.

News 40 Years Ago
Thursday, January 12, 1961

Mayor G.E. FULTON presided at the January meeting of Oxford town council, when councillors Layton STONEHOUSE and Eldred PATRIQUIN were sworn in.

The modern store and garage of Ron ROUTLEDGE at Northport was levelled by fire on January 6.

Died at Colchester Hospital on December 30, Mrs. Mae Gertrude MACDONALD, 85, Thomson Station.

News 50 Years Ago
Thursday, January 18, 1951

Rev. A.D.D. PUDWELL, a native of Newfoundland, was inducted as Rector of the Pugwash Parish on January 10.

St. Charles Roman Catholic Parish, Amherst, have purchased the boys' camp at Gulf Shore, formerly operated by Springhill Rotary Club.

The new planning mill of T.C. GLENNIE Lumber Co. Ltd., at Folly Lake, began operating last week.

News 60 Years Ago
Thursday, January 16, 1941

The truck of Mr. Earl WOOD, which broke through the river ice at Port Howe on January 7, was safely removed from its resting place under forty feet of water in the channel recently.

Merton SEAMAN of Mansfield, councillor for Oxford district in the Municipal Council, was elected Deputy Warden at the annual session in Amherst on January 14.

The bungalow residence of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin REID, Little River, was destroyed by fire on January 11.

News 70 Years Ago
Thursday, January 15, 1931

Oxford won from Mt. "A", January 13 by a score of 10-2. Oxford line-up was goal, T. Guinan; defense, K. Chapman, D. Glennie; forwards, V. Marchant, A. Slade, H. Blair, P. McLean, O. Dixon, C. Wood.

A northeast blizzard Saturday piled snow in big drifts and blocked roads. A 6-horse snow plow made a road to the Junction.

Died at Pugwash on January 8, Miss Anna MCLEOD.

Died at Westchester on January 9, Mrs. M. J. O'BRIEN, widow of Thomas O'Brien.

A Look Back ....
The first Highland View Hospital, Amherst, was built in 1909, with a
maternity wing added about 1920, was destroyed by fire on Friday, May 25th, 1928 estimated a loss of $100,000. The fire started in a clothes closet in the new maternity wing. The present hospital was built in 1928 and served the public well for over seventy years. The new hospital that is being build now (2001) is located on the MacDonald Road, just outside of the town of Amherst.

In Memoriam
TATTRIE, Charles Leslie, passed away January 29, 1991. Missed by wife, Marion; daughters, Bertha, Linda and Helen.
RUSHTON-JOBB - loving member of our mother and father, who passed away, Father - June, 1934; Mother - January, 1975.
FORTUNE, Jordan Nicole, stillborn on January 13, 1999.
HICKEY, Ethel J., passed away January 26, 2000.
BLANCHARD, Dollie, passed away January 13, 1999.

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