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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 19, 1908
Page
5
The Rev Dr Withrow of the Methodist Publishing House Toronto died at his home Thursday night at the age of 69 years. Toronto’s population per Commissioner Forman’s assessment is 87,201, up 14,401 from last year. city assessment stands at 223,207,418, an increase of 16,822,160.
City visitors and arrivals fill town chatter with dozens of small items. Deer hunters return, trains cross, and local shops promote sales while church events and charity bazaars outline the social calendar. Accidents and a fatal rail brakeman death in Ontario punctuate the page.
Nov 16 social notes list visits and movements of residents and relatives in South River Alliston Barrie Orillia North Bay and Toronto. Mrs Rose and Miss Larmon honored at a surprise party by Women’s Institute. Intercolonial at Moncton employees plan to seek leave to enter politics.
SHANTY Bay reports return of Miss Windfield to Toronto after an extended visit with Mrs. J. R. MacLean Col O'Brien spent days in Toronto Rev Mr Meek to preach at St Thomas Church next Sunday Mrs and Miss Hutcheson back to Toronto accompanied by Mrs. Oliver who will visit briefly Shanty Bay grieves for Loonie Parrott typhoid fever in Kenora Louie well known in town Father mourns his loss Pioneer Mrs Ambrose Budd dies after long illness Funeral held in St Thomas Cemetery with family present including Mrs Robertson Mrs Jas Day Mrs Thompson William and Ambrose Budd of nearby towns
Flos Council met at Elmvale on November 14 with all members present and approved payment of various accounts including repairs, gravel pit care, culvert work, bridge repair, tile drawing, and sanitary inspection. The council authorized inspections of a sand hill, regulated gravel pit use, and ordered the Reeve to receive the Collector's Roll for 1907 with tax adjustments, adjourning for December 16.
Reader letters praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the remedy relieving women's suffering without drugs. The article cites a laboratory receiving thousands of letters from women claiming cures, asserting the product is natural and herbal in composition.
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