CADOGAN, ELDA MAGILL - Elda Magill Cadogan, of Mount Saint Joseph Nursing Home, Miramichi, N.B., a journalist, poet, playwright and short story writer, died Tuesday, November 18, 2003. She was 86. As a playwright, she was best known for her one-act play, Rise and Shine, which has the distinction of being one of the most frequently-performed Canadian plays ever written. Her short story, "But You Can Get a Man with a Gun," won the largest cash prize ever offered by Chatelaine magazine in the 1950's. She attended the premier performance of the Stratford Festival in 1953 and took a special interest in the organization after retiring from Miramichi to Stratford in 1985. While there, she was a regular contributor on theatre subjects to The Beacon Herald. Born Dec. 17, 1916 at Mount Forest, Ont., she was the only daughter of Robert, a lay minister at Conn, and Katherine Herron Magill. In 1939, she married George Cadogan, of Woodstock. The couple later purchased newspapers in Durham, Ont., Pictou, N.S. and Oromocto and Newcastle, N.B. George Cadogan died in February, 1996. Mrs. Cadogan won several awards for her newspaper articles and she and George were the first husband and wife to be jointly named honourary life members of both the Atlantic and the Canadian Community Newspapers associations. Surviving are two sons, David and wife Michelle, of Miramichi, N.B., and Michael, of Scarborough; daughter Katherine Hilder and husband Stephen, of Prince George, B.C.; and Elizabeth Jean Morgan and her husband Dan, of Fredericton, N.B. Also surviving are six grandchildren, Joanne and Colin Cadogan, Craig Cadogan and Sheryl Udeh and Kristin and Leslie Hilder, and one great grandchild, Benjamin Udeh. Besides her husband, she was predeceased by four brothers, Max, Weston, Rex and Robert, and a daughter-in-law, Susan (Young) Cadogan. Friends will be received at the W.G. Young Funeral Home in Stratford, Friday evening and the funeral Saturday morning at 11. Rev. Greg White of St. John's United Church will officiate at the service.