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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 10, 1924
Page
5
Shareholders in Stroud on 924 meet for a general assembly at 2 at which W. Black is elected President of Pany Limited.
Fragmentary text discusses industry, confidence, market stages and theatres. It mentions a factory and a built up area with business recommendations. Names and specifics are illegible, making concrete facts unavailable in readable form.
Elmvale hosts visiting friends including Mrs E Ford Owen Sr and Miss Ferry spent days in Toronto. Miss Anderson of Lochlin visiting, Mrs Bennett of Midland guests. Hawkestone resident visits, Mrs Metcalf. Ms McKee and Marguerite head to New Orleans for winter. Bruce Riddell of Detroit visits sister. Mrs Mansbridge to spend winter in New Lowell with family. Dorothy Otton returns from Toronto for holidays. John Mackay aged 87 ill with cold and bronchitis. Caldwell of Edmonton visits father. Mrs Albert Vansomern of Hamilton visits sister Mrs W Avis. Parker Carruthers visits brother Wallace Carruthers. Hind and Kathleen Randall return from two weeks with Mrs Ness. Currie and Margaret Currie sail to the South of France from New York. Speers returns to Queen’s University. W H Dyment and sons return from Edmonton after weeks with relatives. Mrs Hforsfield and daughter head to Easton, Maryland due to ill daughter Gladys. C M G Smith installs officers at Orillia Lodge. Two Barrie students pass Fall Law School exam: Herbert A Wilson and Donald F MacLaren. Mrs Geo Moberley and son to England. Miss Christena I Smith to Hawick, Scotland.
Letters from Barrie electors express sincere thanks for election to mayor second deputy reeve and school board. J F Craig Wm Rusk C W Poucher Mrs T R Huxtable extend gratitude and pledge service to town and county councils and voters.
The letters express gratitude from L. J. Simpson E. L. Brereton T. R. Huxtable and F. C. Lower to Barrie voters. They pledge to advance educational interests and honor the trust placed in them with threefold responsibility to residents pupils and teachers. Ward I and Ward II electors are thanked for strong votes received on January 1 and January 9, 1912.
Ethel Lena Mayor youngest daughter of Harry Mayor and the late Mrs Mayor Allandale and Harold Otter eldest son of Mr and Mrs Chas E Robinson Barrie were married Saturday evening January 5 at Walmer Road Baptist Church Toronto. Rev Dr Jno Mac Neill officiated in front of close relatives. The bride wore a navy blue French suit with grey fox and oriental embroidery. She carried a corsage of roses lilies of the valley and violets. Groom presented a rope of pearls with diamond clasp. The couple left for Montreal and Ottawa for their honeymoon and will reside at 182 Neville Park Boulevard Toronto.
Good body wood available at $6.50 per large load from Lakeview Fuel Co. with phone contact 962.
Fern Lorene Win grove and Walter J Teasdale wed at the Win grove home on Wednesday January 9 at 2 30 in a small ceremony officiated by Rev E T Douglas of Barrie. Rita Wingrove played Meditation as the register was signed. The couple left for Toronto and Niagara Falls after a shell pink georgette gown wedding.
To the electors of Innisfil I thank you for the hearty support on Monday and for electing me to the council. The message speaks to gratitude and civic transition.
George Arnold of Painswick expresses gratitude to electors for their confidence in electing him to the council board for 1924 and pledges to merit their support in the future.
Barria residents may see the English production The Sporting Earl on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday at the Capitol Theatre. The play blends laughs romance and melodrama with a fiery stable scene sensational fights two steeplechases and the Sir Horace Pilkington will affair creating suspense.
Sympathy is extended to Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Gillen Bradford Street in the loss of their ten month old daughter Margaret Mary who died early Saturday morning after two days illness. The child was bright and the funeral, private, was held Sunday afternoon at St. Mary's Cemetery.
A series of birth announcements from 1923 to 1928 lists new daughters and a son born to families in Elmvale Victoria Square Wyevale Hamilton General Hospital and Allandale. Names include Phyllis Elizabeth Beardsall Leonard Mervin Frisby and others. Additional entries note births to Davey Beardsall Herbert Main St. Clair with dates in January 1924 and December 1928.
Death notices for Mrs. James Davey of Barrie born January 8 1924 infant Leonard Mervin Frisby born January 1 1924 infant Margaret Mary Gillen ten months old born January 5 1923 and Sarah Jane Dowthwaite of Allandale Ontario died January 5 1924 with interment at Orillia January 8.
In Toronto at Carleton Street Methodist parsonage on January 2 1924 Muriel Nelson of Dalston married Emerson Hickling BSA son of G W L Hickling of Barrie. In New Toronto January 7 Mary Josephine Shanahan youngest daughter of Elmvale Ont to Charles Loftus of Phelpston Ont. At Barrie Central Methodist Church January 9 1924 Alice Alexandra Vair to Albert Edward Tuck both of Barrie.
Friday January 18 a credit sale of farm stock and implements in Angus will be conducted by trustee D C Howard of the Bert Middlebrook estate at 1 PM, with W A McConkey as auctioneer. Saturday January 19 W H Martin to auction 17 cows at Martins Yards Barrie at 1 PM, with W A McConkey again presiding.
This week’s correspondence arrived 100 late for insertion in this issue. The delayed material affects page layout and may shift space allocations for local notes and columns.
Mrs Monetta Viola Davey of Barrie aged nineteen died Tuesday morning at Royal Victoria Hospital. She and her stillborn child were interred at Thorn ton Cemetery after funeral services led by Rev S M Beach. Wife of James Davey they lived at 17 Sophia Street and she was active in the Methodist church with three sisters, her parents Mr and Mrs Jago sharing in the family's grief.
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