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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 18, 1917
Page
11
On New Year’s Day a black and tan hound with white spots was lost. The owner Jno Vair of Barrie provides contact info on the dog’s collar. Any person harboring the dog after this notice will be held liable. 3-3
Lost black and tan hound with grey head answers to Ring. Reward offered for return. Detaining the dog leads to prosecution. From Dr. McConkey, Barrie. Also several ads for farm sale or rent 450 acres Innisfil area with wells spring and buildings. quick sale brick house on Elizabeth Street. typewriting service by Box K. farm for sale 125 acres near Edgar with brick house and barns.
Lot 22 con 2 Oro 80 acres two barns stone foundations implement shed buggy house nine room solid brick house cement silo two acres orchard power for pumping supplied by stationary gasol line engine. For particulars apply to G W L Hickling Shanty Bay RR 2. 3-2 mos.
For sale an amateur Kodak printer or printer and film tank two percent in films. Complete and first class condition slightly used. Also includes quantity of photo graphic supplies Azo paper developing powders Hypo solution. Whole outfit offered for a reasonable price. Full particulars Box 6 Examiner and Saturday Morning Office.
Local items note Dougall Bros. and 37th County Council meeting next week. Advertisements list prices on sugar rubbers boots and shoes, with sales and demonstrations at Careys Newmarket branch. Obituary mentions Harry G. Brown of Vancouver dies January 7 of pneumonia. prior regional notes include ice harvest plans and cinema at Grand Opera House featuring Ann Pennington.
Classed advertisement notes rental space over Simcoe Marble Works on Owen Street. Apply G. W. J. Eastman. Also lists sale of 3 4 barred Plymouth Rock cockerels by C. G. Hinds of Barrie, winners in multiple shows including Guelph Ottawa Toronto and Barrie.
Mrs Bishop and children of Carbon Alta visit her father Wm Taylor. Rev Wm Stewart of Regina visited Barrie relatives on route home from Ottawa. Capt A J Key MD of the Military Hospital Quebec spent days with relatives at Dalston and Barrie. Reports from Toronto on Sheriff Harvey's condition are very satisfactory with steady improvement after the operation. Mrs Hugh MacFarlane of London has passed the pipe organ examination and earned the AC Guild of Organists degree.
Pte Jack Rodgers, son of J D Rodgers, home on last leave before overseas. Bert Reid and others join 67th Battery in Toronto. Lieut Eric Harvey to return to a Toronto hospital after being wounded. Mrs A E Hooper informed her husband Pte A E Hooper is in an English hospital with bronchial pneumonia. Soldiers noted in correspondence. Maj Whitewood welcomed at Craigvale. Pte Higgins at Craighurst. Cookstown budget highlights Trumbhley family war record. Lt Col Ballantine to France soon as second in command.
The report notes the fourth battalion remains in position while transfers and reassignments continue, with soldiers maintaining leadership roles and duties unchanged as the military structure evolves.
Elmer Braden of H. H. Otton & Son Hardware left Saturday for Toronto to join the Aviation Corps but was told to apply at Ottawa. He then sought enrollment in the 255th Queen's Own Battalion and was welcomed by the officer commanding who hinted at sergeant training. At medical exam, Braden was found medically unfit and discharged with his AR button and certificate.
The Master Will of Stratford staged by BCI students drew a near thousand at the Monday night premiere in the opera house with many unable to enter. A repeat show attracted about six hundred more, and a full report is postponed to next edition.
The Burton Ave Methodist Church led by Rev. C. W. Reynolds schedules Sunday January 21 with 11 am service A Model Queen and 7 pm Well Honored. On Sunday January 28 anniversary services will be held with Rev. Hiram Hull of Toronto preaching. See window boards for more details.
Barrie Baptist Church lists Minister Wm Harris Wallace Cor Clapperton and Worsley Streets sermon topics for January 21 with 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. messages Our Greatest Task and Our Greatest Privilege plus 3 p.m. Bible School for all. Strangers and visitors welcome. Read the Adlet Column.
Unclear fragment mentions a Janet Banting daughter and a possible miss designation. No full names, dates, or places are readable to establish a complete news item.
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