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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 02, 1908
Page
1
A partial OCR item shows a small financial note listing payment amounts of one dollar and one dollar eighty cents with the phrase payable to advance and Wf got se paid. The readable line is dated Thursday April 2 1908 in Barrie.
Editorial denounces Toronto Labourites plan to field one candidate in each of four ridings with two seats per riding. It accuses Whitney and government gerrymandering to tilt Toronto boundaries, warns of biased seat redistribution, and notes by elections challenging the government amid tariff reform debates and socialist concerns.
Dr Rundle noted the Govers’ prior focus elsewhere while 70 hospitals face a request to raise per patient per day from 20 to 20 cents. The deputation urged an official inquiry to secure timely funds from the Provincial treasury to sustain hospital work and efficiency.
A flurry of neighborhood notes show Miss Maydee H staying with Greenside in Bethesda while relatives visit Barrie. Several residents travel to Toronto and Sault Ste. Marie, with Mrs Hindle healing well after a shoulder injury. A Bible Society meeting in the Methodist church will feature a missionary from South Africa and Japan. One horse injured on ice. Mrs Carr returns from Thornbury with daughter Mrs Pedwell in good health. Snow receding, wheat appearing, and Dr Hanna assisting during Dr Wohaley’s absence.
March 30 report from Painewick notes councillor Martin’s debut with Deputy McConkey clearing bad road sections. Weather worsened W B Quantz moving picture show. audience satisfied with views and phonograph music. Local men report summer work secured with good wages. Rumbles of buggy wheels replace sleigh bells. Mrs Richardson recovering. housekeepers discuss cleaning as illness subsides. Roads remain in very bad condition.
March 30 reports visiting relatives in Barrie Stayner and Kirkville plus Toronto trips. March 31 notes bad road conditions from heavy use, maple sap season progress, local famers and townsfolk visits, John the wouter engaged for March, trades good at McCraig sale, and upcoming FM church services by Rev. Burnham on April 5.
March 23 entry highlights H Davis and sister of Beadhocd visiting friends. Maggie McConkey and Mrs Cowan visit. F Faris and Mrs Onwald Mackaré visiting. W Nelson and W Gibbons left for the Mies Libells birthday party. Robert Nelson recovering from appendicitis performs well. Roads are poor. Olive Cuthbert of Barrie visiting grand mother Were. Mr and Mrs W Dobson of Barrie visiting in Utopia. Dobson recently returned from Winnipeg. Tenie Jennett recovering from grip. Edgar Renwick seriously ill with Dr. Ross of Barrie in attendance.
March items report John Stokes leaving for Toronto in the morning. George Peacock sold land to Thomas Casey for 450 dollars. John Rose bought Casey’s 50 acre farm on the 11 con Ves pra for 3100 dollars. Bertha Reynolds returned home after winter in Midland. Mrs. Vickera visiting relatives in Barrie. William Wilson Sr. recovering from a slight pneumonia attack. William McDougall from Sanford, Michigan, visited friends here last week and is rumored to have bought the farm he left 16 years ago.
Shanty Bay hosts Miss Margaret Glennie of Allandale at an An event with guests including Mr and Mrs William Goulter of Manitoulin Island. A school meeting yielded no definite plan. A silver wedding anniversary celebration for Mr and Mrs Jas ended with a refined supper and various performances by local artists. Gifts included a silver teapot and arm chair. Winnipeg Liberals use Hon Clifford Silton for fundraising in that city.
A collage of small items shows a brief sale ad for farms near Barrie, a quiet Lefroy marriage at Zeta Sprias Centre, social notes from Lefroy and St. Peter’s Branch W.A., and wedding reports. Details describe a near Bay area farm sale, a Cross and Spring wedding with gifts, arrivals and visits in Barrie and nearby towns, and church notices with officers and offerings.
New York live stock prices show strong demand with beef cattle at 9 8 to 10 3 per hundredweight and steers around 9 0 to 10 8. Yearlings and cows listed with varied bids while trade activity remains robust across major markets.
In Indianapolis a serious coal strike looms as miners from United Mine Workers of America and coal operators clash over wage scales and local differences. The dispute prompts temporary suspensions and potential prosecutions. Flora Whiston faces perjury charges in New York after testimony in a grand jury.
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