We have been presented with interesting items, that if we knew the exact year, we would have placed them on their proper page. The stories are interesting and we wish to share them. With information new to us, we hope to move these pieces to their proper place and space.

Beat this one if you can The Island Farmer, one of Island Press' papers, is looking for the biggest tree on Prince Edward Island, and The Eastern Graphic is offering a challenge to all its readers to respond to this giant Elm in Glencorradale, which is estimated to be 450 to 500 years old. Robert Dixon, East Baltic, said a forest fire in 1738 (sic - 1727) destroyed all the trees east of the Hillsborough River except this one, and a sister tree which was cut down over 80 years ago. All the wainscoting in his house is from that tree. This one measured it at 16 feet, 9 inches. Photo by Beverley Roach of the Eastern Graphic date unknown.

Sturgeon Caught at North Lake Mr. & Mrs. Clark Campbell of Boston, visitors to P.E.I., were pleasantly surprised when in the company of Major Young of Red Point, who was hauling his cod nets, brought to the surface the above sturgeon. The catch was made at North Lake. The fish weighed 14 pounds and was about 35 inches long. The sturgeon, seldom caught in the area, is a food fish, having an air bladder from which izinglass is made. However it is better known as it produces a roe from which caviar is made. In the picture with Major Young, is his son-in-law, Spencer Llewellyn. from the Charlottetown Guardian. (undated) prior to 1969.

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