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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 26, 1922
Page
8
The Flos Pioneer Methodist Church marked its fifty year Jubilee with two crowded services on October 22 led by Rev. R. E. Morton. Donations supported church repairs as Rev. Charles Langford recalled starting the congregation fifty years ago.
In 1872 a man traveled partway by buck-board then borrowed a saddle. When roads failed his horse he left it with a settler and walked the bush trail. His talks with settlers along the route helped shape the memory of a once modest area becoming a prosperous community. Rev William Higgs of Madoc, a former schoolmate of local congregants and Barrie Collegiate graduate, was bound to a notable future.
The Allenwood church observed its fiftieth anniversary with sermons by Rev. Higgs and community leaders. A morning address urged members to interpret God’s mind in service to neighbors while evening remarks explored future challenges and the church’s role in world fellowship.
In a will dated October 1 1912 and a codicil July 25 Percy A Manning late owner of Sil versmere Kempenfeldt Bay died August 2 this year leaving real and personal estate totaling 987226. Personalty entered at 869580 includes household goods implements stock cash promissory notes bonds stocks and an Alexander Manning Estate share with executor's fees and income. Home at 7 Walmer Road Sil vermere and New Toronto lands figure in the bequests to relatives friends and servants.
A local theft is reported at the general post office where an unknown culprit stole the coin collector for the Graven. Town residents are warned of a bold thief active in Newmarket and possibly York county.
Vancouver celebrates the first Canadian Pacific Railway trans continental passenger train arrival in 1887 with No. 874, old ceremony details, officials, and citizens cheering as the line completes ocean to ocean link.
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