them to Caleb. Carlton proceeded to the sell the lot through the day. He returned home that evening to discover that he had been cleaned out. 120. Poole and Beer Construction. It raised the highway six feet from the bridge that it replaced.

121. M. Frank McIntosh. He was born in New Harmony and lived most of his life in Souris.

122. Dr. A. A. (Gus) MacDonald of Souris, invested in a ceremony | presided over by His Excellency Governor-General Roland Michener in - September 1968. Dr. Gus was unable to travel to Ottawa to receive the award. The investiture, rarely held away from Rideau Hall in Ottawa, | was witnessed by close to 500 Eastern Kings residents.

123. Shirley Battersby. This pageant eventually led to the establishment of the winter carnival at Souris Regional High School.

124. Mrs. Stoffer (Walena) Boertein of Kingsboro won $2,500. | Contestants were asked “to match the twins”. From scrambled. photographs of eight twins, family pairs were to be determined. Mrs. Boertein had all eight correct, no doubt in small part due to the fact that} she was the mother of twin daughters herself.

125. Annie E. (Cummings) MacPhee. Souris Regional High School bus , driver, Sterling Burke, left Souris with a full load of students at 1:30, due to a raging snowstorm in January, 1961. Winds were clocked at 85 miles an hour. He stopped at the Bear River North School and picked up Mrs. | MacPhee. At St. Margarets, there was a sign of things to come when Burke was forced to stop for five minutes to wait for a lull in the storm. He turned south on Route 308 to drop off a student, then turned north, | but became stuck fast in a snow drift before he could get back on Route 16. When all were rescued the next day, the bus occupants were told that | their plight had become a national news item as emergency calls were put | out by the snow plough dispatchers in an attempt to find the bus.

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