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SIMCOE COUNTY TOPICS.The Events thpt Took Place During* the Past Week or so.THE COUNTY’S NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.Orillia wants a Custom House.Diphtheria is raging in Stayner.Stayner wants a new town4mll and street lights.Orillia has ninety telephone instruments in use.Rev. Mr. Barnes, of Barrie, is lying dangerously ill. lt;A new railway station is to be erected in1 Orillia in the spring.Orillia Winter Races will take place on the 30tli and 31st inst.•A Farmer’s and People’s Institute has bCeu organized 1n Flos.’Orillia recently beat Waubfrttshene at curling. Score : 33 to 32.The Doherty Organ Co. want $40,0u0 bonks to remove to Orillia.A Catholic Mutual Benefit Association was recently organized in Allistou.The Stayuer Sun says there are twenty* seven dressmakers located in Stayner.Meelonte registration statistics for 1888 are : Births 102, Marriages 2(5, Deaths 34.Arch. MeShaonoek, of Reeton, recently cut his instep badly while splitting wood.Revival Services are now in progress in the Collier St. Methodist Church, Barrie.The following is Barrie’s vital statistics for 18S3' births 100, marriages 445, deaths 56.Stayner Chief of Police had 200 cabbages recently stolen from a pit near Colling* wood.George Vick, of Orillia, intends erecting a costly brick block in that town in the spring.Mr. T. J. Ryan has been engaged as bead master of the Penetang School at a salary of |600.The Sun wants the Manager of the North Simcoe Industrial Association to be paid a salary.An apprentice in the Orillia Timea Office is said to have fallen heir to an immensefortune.A lamp exploded in the Wellington HoteV Bartie, recently, but no serious damageoccurred.- ' - •- u.-;A rumor is current that the G.T.R. Co will shortly remove their car shops to Uandaiej. - ■., -U- f.
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The Witness
Bradford West Gwillimbury, Ontario, CA
Thu, Jan 24, 1889
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