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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 31, 1917
Page
8
A list of signatures showing business leaders support or oppose Wednesday half holiday and five o clock closing was presented to The Examiner. A meeting in the police court Friday evening, chaired by L. F. Cross, will discuss the committee report with petition signers urged to attend.
Announcement seeks furnished houses or rooms to rent and board for summer visitors. Respondents must supply full written details on accommodation and rates to J A MacLAREN Chair Publicity Committee Barrie Board of Trade.
Two Army Service Corps members from Camp Borden rode in a green Buick racing car that overturned on a sharp turn two miles west of Allandale. Driver Stewart Murray was trapped beneath and taken to Royal Victoria Hospital with serious bruising. his companion escaped with scratches. Soldiers arriving at the scene aided the rescue. Murray remained unconscious for two hours and suffered back side and hand injuries with no broken bones.
Wool buyers J. W. Gossling visit Apple Factory at Sophia Street and Maple Avenue to quote prices before selling wool. Contact for offers and terms.
Miss Lillian Wearing learned her brother Norman is among the missing from the 76th Battalion. Geor ge A. Clark of Allandale also reports Lance Corporal P. T. Clark of the Winnipeg Rifles died of wounds in France May 13. Other relatives and officers are named with injuries, deaths, and postings across Canadian units and hospitals overseas.
In Friday's casualty list the name of Robert Morgan of Allandale appears. He was a sectionman on the G T R who enlisted in May 1916 with the 157th Battalion. Born about 26 years ago in Co Antrim Ireland his mother lives at Mossley Carnmoney Ireland. His sister Mrs Edward Hagan Gowan Street has received no official notice and suspects a misprint with Morgan’s service number 643673 vs casualty number 644673.
Private Seales recalls hospital stays after Courcelette and Vimy drives, noting heavy 76th casualty levels and Cuban homecoming. He describes comradely visits, men missing or killed, and grim scenes of trenches, while Lt. Guthrie Bell reports camp life at Otterpool West Sandling and a burial at sea for D. W. Kerr, with cautions on rationing and discipline.
The Ball Planing Mill Co Ltd under new management, manufacturers and dealers in lumber and building materials, offers drafting of plans and specifications by a registered architect manager. Local contact in Barrie Ontario includes phone 109 and office on Bayfield Street.
Charles Wyman foreman in the cutting department at Underhill's shoe factory died in R V Hospital yesterday at noon from heart failure following pneumonia. He was about forty, unmarried, from New Hampshire with a sister in Boston. He had gone to Toronto for the 24th and became ill on his return. He came to Barrie from Quebec.
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