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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 14, 1906
Page
4
A Barrie weekly page records small town events and visits across June 11 to 14 1906. Entries note guests and travel such as Miss Lizzie Watt and Miss Victoria Olidon visiting, nurse Reive on holiday, Rev L McLean away at the Assembly, and garden party plans on KR Sproule’s grounds.
Local updates from Craighurst and Sunnidale Corners detail railway damage east of Craighurst with culvert washout and track breaks after heavy rain, house impacts, visitors and weddings, temperance lodge meetings, district notices, and community events including a strawberry festival and church revivals.
June 11 report recalls a junior football game last Saturday in Stayner, a 1–0 loss that leaves the series tied and a decisive bout planned at the local venue on an unspecified date. Weather, community notes, and local events fill the page alongside this game report.
For wedding presents the shop offers cut glass silverware clocks and other gifts bought specially for weddings. Prices are reasonable and the assortment is large and attractive with a variety to choose from.
June 11 meeting reports business transacted at the Sons of Temperance division in Illinois. A program was given and Rev and Mrs Sanderson were honored with an address, silver butter dish, and cake tray as they depart. Miss Groves of Toronto visited relatives here. Mrs Carr and children, Thorn, host visitors. Weather delays garden party Friday.
For sale listings include 3 acre and 96 acre farms with water via wells and creeks, a large frame barn, orchard, and proximity to a county road. Also 900 acre shipment land with stable and sheds, laundry dwelling in a village, plus town properties including stores and 5 to 12 room houses. Contact J. N. Brown, Box 260, Barrie for the full list.
Liverpool wheat futures closed lower while Chicago prices edged higher in the latest quotations. Winnipeg wheat options also reported closing bids for June and July deliveries. Domestic markets showed dull futures in Liverpoo t spot and mixed activity in other grains and dairy.
The Presbyterian church, damp in the morning, was filled Sunday as Rev. C. R. Ashdown delivered his farewell sermon expressing sorrow at leaving and praising his officials. An Angos Methodist Circuit gathering on the parsonage lawn gave the minister and Mrs Sanderson a warm sendoff with stories, speeches, and a purse of 70 in gold.
Joness Robert McCullough travels from the city and aims to relocate his family to Churchill Avenue, Toronto in about two weeks. Public schools plan a Sandy Cove picnic on Friday June 23 with a long sports program and prizes, including football from 2 45 to 8 30 and a Stroud band performance. Ben Peacock passes Osgoode Hall exams with honors. soldiers leave for Niagara on Tuesday. cement work completes barn foundations while community updates note Methodist church growth.
Market notes from Barrie dated June 13 1908 list prices for Pall Wheat flour at .55 per barrel and other commodities including shorts per cwt bran per cwt and various hides meats poultry and eggs with unclear OCR fragments indicating pricing and quantities for beef hides tallow calfskins lamb skins horse hides and horse hair along with dairy and egg entries.
Cattle exchanges show mixed quotes with Chicago firming stock values while Toronto and East Buffalo report steady to higher bids. New York and Chicago live stock markets reveal varied receipts and price ranges for cattle hogs sheep and calves amid a tight supply. A Toronto market update lists hundreds of cattle and sheep carloads with price bands from four to five dollars per cwt and noted shifts in demand for different classes. The day includes notes on a plans and reports from London and Toronto about cattle imports, price ranges, and market activity.
In performing the duties of executor administrator or trustee, a trust company provides security, effective management and continual service while discharging duties at a minimum cost. Correspondence invited.
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