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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 10, 1914
Page
3
Ad for Fruit-a-tives tablets claim they purify and enrich the blood by cleaning the stomach liver bowels kidneys and skin. The ad states the tablets make blood pure as the stream of life and are sold by dealers at 50 cents a box or mailed postpaid by Fruit-e-tives Limited Onawa.
The riverfront flames lit the night sky as a blaze roared south of the bridge. The fire burned out without damage, and Monday’s rain halted further risk. Local residents Wesley Brooks, Wm Hill, and Sam McDonald are noted in brief items. The skating rink project advances despite delays.
Wm Middlebrooks of Sask has moved into Wm McKinnon's house in the Flats. A M Clarke returned Saturday after visiting his ill sister in Sterling. Dr and Mrs West and Jas Walker Jr visited friends at Lisle last week. Mr and Mrs H L TarBush of Toronto visit agents and Mrs Lorne Davidson. Wm Walkinshaw is slightly unwell. Cottage prayer meeting Friday at 7 30 p m at Mr Carson Sr's home.
School report for No 6 Ves pra for November lists pupil names by class from Sr IV to Jr I with a teacher credit to M. F. Millen. Names include Leo Doran Irene Lemon Frank Garvin Lorne Barrett Islay Gill Clarence Ward Elsie Wallwin James Handy Melville Wattie Ruth Horton Margaret Fieldhouse Bernard Doran Lottie Cochran Emily Taylor Agnes Horan Elsie Horton Dalton Doran Roy Schandlen Morley Schandlen Willis Handy Duncan Black Sadie Black Glady Monteith Lloyd Spence Hunter Russell Nedra Lemon Cecil Cameron Gladys Wilson Lilian Woods Robbie Fieldhouse Sydney Ward.
Miss Itella Reid returns from visits in Alliston and Egbert. Mrs. Chase King and Rus sail wintering with her brother at Guelph. Mr. King at Salisbury Camp with the First Contingent. Mrs. Frank Ayerst and Miss Gladys Platt visit Cookstown friend. Frank Gibson and Scott Sharpe in Minesing. J. Watson weekend in Barrie. Charles Preston leaves Wm. Sharpe’s service to work for Andrew Crawford. Mrs. Thos. Gibson recovering at home. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Small a daughter on Nov 26.
The November report lists class sections with names across grades Sr IV to Jr Primer. Notable names include Viola Murphy Walter Wallwin Ethel Pratt Harold McDonald and Kathleen Murphy Belinda Murphy Florence Degear M J Murphy Dolly Yard Irene Murphy and Beatrice Wallwin. The report credits M. Currie as teacher.
Local Option in Bradford planned for next January. Wm Spence, longtime Bradford resident and former shoe shop owner, died in Toronto on November 26 at age 79. C F Ewers named head master of Aurora high school starting January, S Wightman to fill Bradford vacancy. A marsh fire near the river spread rapidly Sunday threatening Campbell’s wood and coal yard and Lakes flour mill as onlookers watched and fought its spread.
At the last regular meeting L O L No. 985 elected officers for the year led by W M William H Sheffield and D M Ernest Caston. Various social and church activities are listed with visits, shipments, and a marriage in Winnipeg on November 25.
The wedding of Mary Strathearn and Charles Herbert Anderson took place at the Strathearn home in Oro with Rev. F. W. Anderson officiating. Attendees included family from Montreal and Orillia. the couple planned a two week honeymoon to Toronto and Montreal before settling in Orillia.
Beeton markets show butter 25 to 28 cents, eggs 40 to 53, chicken 6 to 10 cents per lb, fowl 7 cents, ducks 8 to 12 cents, geese 8. Alliston had no quotations. Collingwood wholesale prices list wheat 1.10 to 1.15, barley 50 to 61, oats 42 to 45, peas 1.25 to 1.30, buckwheat 55 to 63, butter in tubs.
The Toronto Daily Star notes eggs asked at 80c per dozen at St Lawrence Market last Saturday, though 70c was the common price. some houses paid 43c in Barrie. A box social is planned at the old school on the seventh line in Vespra on Friday evening December 48th, with 25 cent admission and free for ladies with boxes.
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