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Oxbow Notes Brightening War Front Returns and Relocations
Local items recount Mrs McBride's visit to Sandwich Ontario and road crews heading to Gainsboro. News covers W W Wiggins road gang departure, Perrin family visits, new jobs for J P Trippacy and H E Roche, Hood joining auto. Pickard plans 900 mile Ford trip west. John Cartwright buys cottage, Auburn school children picnic by Souris. Belgian farmer Peter Tavenier proves thrift by sowing 190 acres himself. Walter Moon joins Oxbow Herald staff. Community celebrates Glorious Twelfth and welcomes returning soldiers including Corporal Ralph Branson of the 78th Fusiliers with hospital care after war injuries.
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I. McBride
Sandwich
Ont
W. W. Wiggins
Gainsboro
B. Perrin
Cavanville
Oxbow
J. W. Byers
W. J. Lang
J. W. Elliott
Cady Lang
Glen Ewen
Gordon O' Brien
Forest
J. P. Tripp
H. E. Roche
Alberta
Joseph Hood
Orangedale
John Hurst
Norman Pickard
Pickard
Ford
Swift Current
John Cartwright
W. A. Oon
Caewright
Auburn
Souris
Noble
Elm Valley
Peter Tavenier
Alida