Aug 18 1870
The Late Fires: We have from time to time recorded the damage done by the fires in the woods, which continued to rage for several weeks with unabated fury.The residents near Lawrence Station and on the Woodstock Road have been heavy sufferers.Messrs. J.E. Kelso, Alex. Dunn, Harrison Dunn and Jas. Evans have all sustained serious loss in the burning of hay fields, fences, etc. Mr. Kelson had seven or eight acres of hay destroyed, and it is not only this year’s loss, but the roots are so burned as to destroy the prospect of next year’s crop. We learn also that Mr. James Anderson on Woodstock Road had about 4 acres of hay land destroyed. For miles on miles in the same vicinity there is nothing to be seen but the blackened debris of the fires.
Feb 9 1871
A way office is wanted at Lawrence Station. There are forty or fifty families who live in that vicinity and have their center of trade there, who are debarred postal privileges altogether. Letters and papers have to be entrusted to private hands or Railway officials, and they are often thrown off into the snow and lost. The expense of establising a way office at that station would be very trifling, as every day: and, we have no doubt, Mr Harrison Mercer would willingly undertake the duties of way office keeper.
March 28, 1889
A terrible accident occurred at Lawrence Station on Thursday evening last which resulted in the death on Friday of Mrs. McGregor, wife of Rev. Mr. McGregor, Baptist minister of Buffalo, New York, and daughter of Mr. Levi Richardson, of Lawrence Station. Mrs. McGregor came home last fall to spend the winter with her parents, and, being troubled with sciatica, had tried many remedies. The only one which gave her any relief was kerosene, and, while applying the remedy too near the open stove, her clothing caught fire, all of which was destroyed, leaving her body frightfully burned. Everything possible was done to relieve the sufferer, but without avail and, after suffering the most excruciating pain for some hours, she expired.
Her sister in striving to extinguish the flames was severely burned about the hands and arms. Mrs. McGregor leaves a family of five small children, the eldest being about thirteen years of age. Her husband was telegraphed for and arrived on Monday, when the burial took place.