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In your travels, wherever you may be and in your work in the future, you have our heartiest best wishes for your success and comfort and we commend you to Him who doeth all things well.

We request you to accept this small gift as a token of our regard.

Signed on behalf of Campbellton Women’s Missionary Society,

Mrs. Louisa Thomson

Mrs. John MacKendrick”

“Dear Mrs. Dodd,

Hearing with regret of your departure from Campbellton, we, your Sunday School scholars, feel as if we cannot let you go from amongst us without trying in a humble way to express our love and gratitude for the teaching and training you have given us in the years you have been our superintendent and teacher.

We have listened to your voice lead us in song and prayer and then explaining in a way that the youngest amongst us could understand the truths of the Bible and you may rest assured that your labors have not been in vain and that we will always remember you as a kind and faithful teacher and trainer as you have always lived up to the teaching of Him who said, “Suffer little children to come unto Me and forbid them not.”

While sorrowing over the coming leave taking we look forward to having you again with us, if not to reside at least to visit our Sunday School.

Our good wishes and prayers for your happiness will follow you wherever you go and we wish you to accept this small accompanying gift as expressing in a very small way our appreciation of your labors of the past years.

Signed on behalf of the Sunday School. Dorothy MacKendrick”

On January 28, 1959 came the news from New York City that Mrs. Janie Dodd, widow of the late William Dodd had passed away in her 92nd year. The funeral was held in New York on Friday, January 30, 1959.

CAN ANYONE BEAT THE RECORD OF THIS RAILROAD MAN FROM CAMPBELLTON? By Keith William Pratt

Previous to the years that James R. MacKay worked on the railroad, there weren’t any rural route services. The mail was delivered to post offices throughout

the country by postal employees. Mr. MacKay was required to meet the train every

night at Bloomfield Station at 11:00 p.m., although the train was frequently late. He then drove to the Cape Wolfe Post Office to deliver the mail, and then return to

his home in Campbellton, a round trip distance of twenty-three miles. James MacKay was employed by the Post Office for seven years during which time, he travelled forty-five thousand miles. When the opportunity arose, he applied for a position on the railroad and was accepted. He was destined to continue his career

as a travelling man.

James R. MacKay of Campbellton, Prince Edward Island, a retired Section Man on the “Island Division”, now a part of the Canadian National Railroad,

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