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Old Time Fiddlers Contest and Local News in Schomberg
Miss Ruth Gordon and sister Mrs Wallace Boughen of Newtonville attended the Old Time Fiddlers Contest in Schomberg last Saturday night drawing a large crowd and good time. Also notes of a August 16 wedding in Port Hope, a severe electrical storm affecting televisions, crops, and harvests, visits among Cobourg and Courtice residents, a Cobourg drowning of Gary Holmes, a Newcastle man killed in a road crash, and an Ontario snakes exhibit at the Canadian National Exhibition with various species on display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Gordon
Wallace Boughen
Newtonville
Schomberg
Leonard Hoy
Nni
St. John’s An Church
Port Hope
Jean Isobel
Helen Pa
Keith Wood
M. Wamboldt
Stan Hoy
Reid Cochrane
Warren Pemberton
St. John’s Parish Hall
Happ
Chas, Gay
Cobourg
Gary Holmes
Wm. Holmes
D'Arcy Street
F. N. Blackwell
Gary
Billy Cooper
Morrison Ave
Toronto
Don Armstrong
Burnet Drive
Ontario Snakes Co. N. BE
Ontario
Department of Lands and Forests
Dufferin Gates