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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 11, 1901
Page
8
VAIR VICKERS & CO offers a homelike shopping atmosphere with open access to Millinery and Tapestry Departments and the White Room. This week and early next, shoppers are drawn to the Dress Goods Department for four lines offered at special value, inviting customers to explore privileges and variety.
Fine French Venetians satin finish 42 inches wide in navy cadet fawn and black at 60c All Wool Covert in navy grey fawn green and black worth more All Wool Crepoline 44 inches wide in navy blue and pastels 50c All Wool Estamene navy royal blue rot to spot at low price Curtain display cleared at once 25 to 60 percent off regular stock Millinery offers up to date styles at low prices with strong store leadership noted
In homes tea enriches evenings and social life, soothing and warming, while prompts to seek pure honest tea. The advertisement touts a 25c Blend Tea as a reliable product representing aroma flavor and strength.
Numerous residents and visitors from Toronto and beyond spent Easter in town or with relatives. Highlights include Dr. W. C. Laidlaw resigning Bellevue for a nervous disorders course in Scotland, J. F. Craig and others in Toronto for Easter, and Misses D. Milne Norma LeRoy returning from Toronto for holidays. Notable local honors include Knox College graduates with Clarke prize for Old Testament Hebrew and scholarships to Morris, Miller, and Harley.
Large attendance at CHRIST CHURCH annual business meeting. Reports by rector wardens and Sunday School were read and found satisfactory. Officers elected include Wardens Judge Ardagh and Robt Buchanan. Secretary Treasurer W E Foster. Vestrymen and Sidesmen named. Synod representatives elected. Trinity Church vestry on Easter Monday adopted wardens reports and listed officers and delegates. total year receipts near 2300. Losses noted for Messia Pepler McKeggie and McVittie with resolutions of regret.
At Allenwood and nearby towns new births are recorded for April with families named Clemence White Scully Busby Budd. An obituary notes Tess Hartt, 17 years 10 months, late Wm Hartt Train Despatcher, Barrie. Also Charles Worster, son of Selina and Charles J Worster, died in Toronto April 4 1901. Mary Morlan relict of T S Morlan passed at Toronto April 6 aged about 85. Remains interred in Barrie Tuesday.
Advertising claim for Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets curing a cold in a day with no cure no pay and a price of 25 cents.
The dispute between Nottawasaga and Sunnidale townships over a December road obstruction causing a Creemore veterinary surgeon’s son to crash has ended. Damages amount to 65 dollars, with each township paying 17.50 and the dumper contributing 20, a settlement the Stayner Sun calls wise and a warning against using public highways for lumber dumping.
April 9 Easter drew many visitors including Willie Bishop of McKeggie's bank Codwater Chas Sneath Bank of Toronto Stayner Miss Mable Lawson Sollingwood Mrs Manning Mr and Mrs Hipwell Atlandale Miss White Barrie Hugh Ritchie BC Mrs R Elliott stayed in Barrie Robertson visits Alliston Churches were festively decorated and Rev A Bedford of Toronto preached in Methodist services Census enumerators faced no major age issues Currie census commissioner helped class them Orillia reports 2000 cost from smallpox stay Midland plans 150 new houses Collingwood Shipbuilding Co payroll 300 Rev A H Wright Stayner Anglican clergyman to Whitby congregation.
A vintage advertisement touts Dr Humphreys' Specific for numerous ailments including dyspepsia, kidneys and bladder, malaria, diarrhea, neuralgia, rheumatism and more. It claims 77 for Grip as one option among thirty six varieties, priced 25 cents at drug stores, with a pocket epitome mailed on request from Humphreys' Homeopathic Medicine Co., New York.
Easter visits span Allandale as residents return from Toronto and Battle Creek while others train in nursing and new schooling. Robi Levin excels at Greufel, B R Budgeon sells to S Mortime, and Lyon joins Sixth Ward business ranks. Easter services at St George's report record offerings and wardens reappointed. A G T Trains staff celebrate Cantata in Presbyterian church and a G T railway employee C Tillman leaves after 21 years with a farewell gift.
Salvation Army notes three Good Friday services marked by spiritual victories and strong crowds. Adjt Burrows enrolled eight soldiers, promoted one sergeant to sergeant major, and commissioned two local officers. Ensign Perry assisted with Easter services and led an illustrated Klondyke program. Over fifty sought holiness and pardon as six weeks of siege revival concluded. Public meetings announced nightly 8 pm midweek, Sunday services, and children's meetings.
For several seasons the Double Stores' Millinery receptions have been a feature of general interest to ladies. Our display of this season has been an exhibition of progressiveness in the millinery art. The most advanced ideas in New York and Parisian studies, cleverly adapted to Canadian requirements, are here illustrated, together with many handsome special designs by Miss Wright. No "Show Hats" by foreign makers on view in our rooms all manufactured in our own rooms by our own staff and can be repeated for our customers.
Largest floor covering emporium in Northern Ontario invites buyers with a wide range of New Brussels Carpets in fresh colors and designs for dining and living rooms. Tapestry Carpets offered at low prices, plus floor oil cloths and linoleums in various widths. Direct imports of Japanese mattings available, with prices from 12c to 50c per yard.
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