>From: "Carolyn Wallace" <[email protected]> >Old-To: "ns roots" <[email protected]> >Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 23:37:47 -0300 >Subject: [Guys.] Obit: Dan Allan MacDONALD, Antigonish; Sherbrooke News >Item-1942 >Eastern Chronicle, New Glasgow, N.S. > >I had an occasion to look back till January of 1942 and found an obit I >missed before. >Tuesday, 27 January 1942; > Antigonish, Jan.23- Dan Allan MacDONALD, well known farmer of Lakevale, >passed away at St. Martha,s Hospital following a brief illness of pneumonia, >at the age of 82. Tragedy entered the kindly hearted, children-loving >gentleman's life in 1933. Three daughters, Mrs. Gus Masson. of Penoka, >Alberta; Misses Christina MacDonald and Mary Magdalen MacDonald, school >teachers, also of Alberta, and Mrs. Masson's two children, Marie,6 and John >Kenneth, 12, met death in an automobile-train collision at Chesterton, Ind. >They were returning home on August12, after spending a happy vacation with >their parents and grandparents at Lakevale, when the accident occured, Mrs. >Mrs. Masson's automobile and others were held up at the railway crossing on >a highway detour waiting for a clear passage. Other cars were behind them >and one was in front. Seeing it make the crossing after a train had passed, >the Alberta bound Masson car proceeded to follow but a fast express train >running on another track crashed into them. All five were killed instantly. >Six days later they were buried in a single grave at Lakevale. > Mrs. MacDonald, the former Margaret MacLean, of Georgeville, predeceased >her husband in 1936. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm MacLean. >Mr. MacDonald's parents were Allan MacDonald, Lakevale, and >Annie(MacPherson) MacDonald, Georgeville. > Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. Dennis Murphy, Millis, Mass; Mrs. >Frank Sellers, Brookline, Mass; Mrs. D.A. Boyd, Lakevale; Mrs. Robert King, >Havre Boucher; Mrs. Edward MacLeacher, Cape George; besides a brother, Hugh, >and a sister, Mrs. Dan MacInnes, Boston. The funeral was largely attended. >Solemn requiem high mass was celebrated in St. Columbas Church, Lakevale, >by the Rev.A.I. MacAdam. >xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >Tuesday, 23 April 1942: > Sherbrooke > > It was good news to learn that Sherbrooke has not been subjected to a >scourge of Diphtheria. The suspected cases proved after expert examination >to be a bad sore throat. Half a century ago the most beautiful village >experienced an epidemic of diphtheria and almost from every home there was >taken a child victim and in some cases, several. Today such epidemics are >rare, since the introduction of toxiods that are a positive prevention. This >precaution has and is being used in Sherbrooke and the young people are >being immunized. > The County og Guysboro and in particular the district of St. Mary's is >suffering a depression such as it has not felt for many years. The gold >mines have failed at Goldenville, Seal harbour and Miller's Lake and these >enterprises have been closed. The Scotia Lumber Company that through dark >days kept the light of prosperity and sufficiency shining, has had to cease >operations because of an attack of Crown Land righteousness that was short >lived and confined exclusively to that district. > At present a rather serious situation exists. The young men have gone to >the war, the elders are left to carry on and the outlook is none too >assuring. > The salmon season has opened in the St. Mary's River and some good >catches have been checked up. Gasoline shortage will no doubt effect this >industry, and it does not promise the return of former years. > Yet St. Mary's is doing its part for the nation in its needs and very >many of its fine young men are in the King's uniform and doing their bit. >xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Carolyn Wallace