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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 06, 1922
Page
6
Editorial comments mock thrift misuses and social pretensions. The piece skewers idle bands and minds, jokes about paying, wealth, and marital pretense, and urges tangible support for Allandale open air sportsmen seeking a grounds for athletics.
In his country tour Lord Byng rejects formal ceremony preferring simple welcome. Canadians respond with straightforward appreciation rather than display.
Toronto accounted for about 20 percent of Public Works spending last year while its population makes up about six percent of the Dominion. The hogtown nickname is not solely due to packing houses in Toronto, suggesting broader city factors.
The piece rebuts the Star on school grant calculations showing a $700 salary yields $35 grant and $1,000 salary yields $400 grant, arguing real grants are a percent on the amount above $500. It notes Newmarket residents favor permanent pavements under local improvement plans and calls for a ratepayers meeting in Barrie before striking a frontage rate.
A court last week accepted a guilty plea for receiving stolen property but found no proof the items were stolen. The judge favored the doubt over convicting, asserting it is better that the guilty escape when evidence is uncertain. The proceeding reflected broad doubt among the parties involved.
Mr Thompson leaves Canadian Street Car Advertising Co after twelve years to join Canadian Advertising Agency. His Ottawa Citizen and Free Press Farmers Advocate Winnipeg Montreal Daily Star experience marks him as a strong hire. Barrie Old Boy ties noted. family roots traced to Barrie with relatives still living there.
The piece critiques unpaid magistrate salaries, notes Barrie pays $1000 yearly, and questions tax fairness while discussing Agnes McPhail’s salary ethics. It reports on county costs, memorial funds, wood deficit, and tax writeoffs. It includes a critique of reformatories, their discipline, and reform schools’ effectiveness.
The county issued a 30 pound bond in October 1851 to improve the Cree more Mills to Barrie road, a modest sum by today’s standards. Susan Cassidy, born in Paris, became Bradford’s first schoolteacher at 14 in 1837, later teaching French in Boston. West Gwillimbury’s first teacher was Wm Moffatt before 1826, and the Sir John Colborne was Lake Simcoe’s pioneer steamer, famed for slow trips and colonial stops between Holland Landing and Kempenfeldt.
A photo from Adam Smith of Kindersley Sask formerly of Barrie shows two Simcoe Farming Co. outfits hauling wheat. Loads reach 187 and 210 bushels, the largest ever hauled in the Kindersley district. Scales delayed weighing for two weeks. two teams of horses pulled each sleigh.
The article notes Rose O’Neil, creator of the Kewpie doll, carved the original figure from a carrot. It also compares ship breadth to draft and lists large historical figures in production and trade such as gasoline, raisins, and Alaska exports.
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