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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 29, 1924
Page
5
The town records numerous residents and guests traveling to Toronto Barrie Elmvale and other points for holidays. Local professionals and families note leisure visits from Hepburn Creswicke Judge Hewson and many others while relationships and engagements unfold including Eva Kissock and Hos Kissock wedding plans.
Miss Vera Jones visits Mr and Mrs Girdwood prior to June 6 graduation in Kingston. R S Atkey, ex Examiner staff, plans war history material for Grey County this summer. Mrs J J Gibson suffers broken thigh after a fall. The Clark family sails May 24 from Montreal to London England and the Continent. Gerald Quinlan appears in a St Augustine Seminary graduate photo and will be ordained June 14. Barrie doctors Brereton and Richardson attend a Toronto dental convention with Dr Don Gallie of Chicago speaking. Arthur McNab of Hollywood visits Barrie after 25 years.
Alice Armstrong wed Dr. Rollett Andrew Carson M B of Cleveland Ohio son of Andrew Carson of Barrie in Collier Street Methodist Church. Rev. H E Wellwood and Rev. Wm Stewart officiated. Bridal party included Florence Armstrong and Nora Armstrong. Reception at 194 Dunlop Street with buffet luncheon and house decor of spring blossoms.
At a police court room meeting the Barrie Bowling Club voted to admit ladies as members at an annual fee of 3 dollars. A committee led by Mrs. Maclaren and three others will seek female memberships and integrate them with the men until a separate ladies club forms. The season opens with a local tournament on June 11 and Allandale bowlers may occupy the green for a June 4 tournament.
The June W C T U meeting is moved to the third week to receive the county convention report. The group thanks town ladies for backing the June 3 convention banquet. Mrs Pugsley will address the Temperance Rally in Barrie June 8, representing Mrs Smythe, Ontario Women’s Prohibition Committee. Police seek the so called meanest thief in the country after a floral grave tribute disappearance in Hammond Indiana. Clock from 1708 being overhauled by a Cleveland jeweler aims to run for 200 more years.
Mrs Carson departed for a motor trip through the Muskoka district with the bride in a navy blue tricotine suit and blue French hat wearing a fox fur gift from the groom. Out of town guests came from Toronto Hamilton Guelph and Owen Sound.
A Cassell's Saturday Journal snippet recalls a visitor startled by a figure peering through curtains on a path. The brief note captures a tense moment and a wary reaction to an unseen presence.
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