1893 Social Notes
| Paper Date | Event |
| Fri Feb 10, 1893 Renfrew Mercury |
The Soo train due here at 8 a.m. Tuesday morning, did not arrive until ten p.m. It is understood that the train left the rails somewhere near Webbwood; and that two of the passenger cars were overturned. Two or three persons were cut and bruised, and one had a rib broken; but the majority of the occupants of the coaches escaped any injury. It is supposed that a broken rail caused the accident. |
| Fri June 9, 1893 Renfrew Mercury |
The office of trainmaster at North Bay having been abolished, Mr. W.P. Martin, who held that position, the Journal says, has been appointed Agent at Sudbury. Mr. J.B. Way, late agent, goes to Webbwood as dispatcher. |
| Fri June 16, 1893 Renfrew Mercury |
Webbwood is agitated over a proposal for incorporation, the oppositionists to the scheme contending that municipal institutions lead to heavy taxation. |
| Fri Sept 8, 1893 Renfrew Mercury |
A young French- Canadian, in the employ of the Cutler & Savidge Lumber Co’y, was killed by a falling tree last week. He was buried at Webbwood. |
| Fri Dec 15, 1893 Renfrew Mercury |
Died in the Woods
The body of a young man, the son of Mr. Edward Roy, of Hull, was found in the woods near Webbwood, on the Soo branch of the C.P.R., under circumstances which first led to a report that he had been murdered. A later account, given to the Ottawa Journal, states that he perished from exposure to the cold on Sunday last. He settled in Sudbury about two years ago, but lately removed to Massey, about twenty miles further up the line, to carry on his business as a tailor. He was on his way to the shanties about ten miles beyond Webbwood, to deliver some suits of clothing which had been ordered; and when about half-way he took a wrong turn and became lost. Fortunately he was met by two men, who directed him to the right road. He told them he was very tired and almost exhausted with hunger, but thought he was strong enough to reach the shanty. The men bid him goodbye, and that was the last seen of him alive. On Monday morning, he was found dead within one hundred yards of where the men had met him. A gold watch and four dollars in bills were in his pockets, but the suits were not with him. It is supposed that in his eagerness to reach the shanty, intensified by his exhaustion he had hid them in the bush intending to return, as he was too tired to carry them. The body was brought back to Webbwood, where an inquest was held, and a verdict of "death from exposure and fatigue, while suffering from the effects of alcoholic liquor" was rendered-He had two bottles of liquor with him when met by he men- The friends of the deceased state that there were no indications of foul play whatever. The deceased was 26 years of age, and about six years ago married Miss Davidson, of Hull, by which marriage he had five children. His wife and children will reside for the present with a friend at Webbwood. Roy was known as a sober and temperate man, but the long walk and weakness caused by having nothing to eat since breakfast that morning probably induced him to partake of some of the liquor, which made him fall into a sleep from which he never woke. |