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' OUR cu-:AN1Nd PLEASES t0~se1i by Public Auction at w. H. MARTIN H. ELSTON Mayonnaise ; A fork is the best implement to use ;when making mayonnaise dressing. A boat- ier is likely to cause the egg and oil to tseparate. while a fork will thoroughy mix . the ingredients. I 3 Modern Bathroom Fixtures lIa1_`r_y_`Barron are a necessity. Health and comfort demand it and there is `nothing that adds greater value to the interior of a house than up-to-the-minute plumbing x- tyres. We will gladly come around and talk things over and give you an estimate, whether you intend to buy now or later. Excltuive Agent for PEASE FURNACES Phone 180 133 Dunlap. St. Thursday, November 23, 19.22 Five Points, Barrie Page I3 IUIIIIIJ unlulurvwww Herbert G. Robertson. Druuim Bum.` Raw from Eczema 9999" 99.1993! `?_*" > THE GRINDER or 991,9 MEDAL FLOUR __ L9_c- .I\ jtvwvut -7.: --__..- 3. Forty years I entered. One leg raw lmn tees to body. No living men could believe whet I Iulfered. It wu D.D.D. that relieved me. nm! for three V new I haven't had I sin of eczema." Then word: ere taken from the letter of 3:- Garrett. Cheltervllle. Onturio. Mr. Garrett I ll answer any question! you care to ask him. If you haven't tried the coollng henlinc D. D. D. for skin dleeue we then glad to Ian you 0 bottle today on out nenonel guer- nun. 01.00 A bottle. Try D. D. D. soup. too. ij ninjas; -n -- #1 has an army of,satised zcustomers. ` Never a _com- plaint--ealways happy he- :ause the bread. is so white . and aky. .-Always the same. , Over 300 bags of our a day. You do not have to o out of towg : for `the best of Flour for 1 Bread and Pastry. `E Fisher Flour Mills Ask ttfocer for Fisher s Flours. if he has V not it in stock, our retail delivery wi1Lhave it to your doorjn a few min- utes time.- THE FISHER FLOUR MILLS, LIMITED In A 11l1 if LTIo1l;, heat and oats wanted: ' `better. ._\ .\ in your mouth then you V get the delectable gum center. And with Wrigley's three old standbys also affording friendly aid to teeth, throat, breath, A appetite and digestion. Soothing, thirst- quenching, Making the next cigan taste Candy jackettjust melts`. I] `TWO DOORS WEST OF TELEPHONE OFFICE 3An'Iuz, out WIIII VVl`lgl.Cy D tlllcc \Jl\I ; :eth, breath,` d`gestio'n. A I . ; l a (Toronto Telegram) . r l Yonge Street, chief roadof York County. Lstarting at the great city of Toronto,Ater- 1 minutes 38 milesnorthward. at the quaint '; old village Vof.I-Iolland Landing, which `bit- ; lterly resents the new Highway cutting it goff. Motorists who have whizzed past the lcollection of venerable houses comprising! I this little villagemay `smile at the resent- . ment, and ask who wantsto go to Holland E Landing anyway? How many such travel- {lers realize that Yonge Street was made i127 years ago for the ex ess purpose of 3' connecting the future Toro tp with_Holland 3 Landing? It was even so. though it. .2 strains the imagination to picture the busy 1 highway which T.T.C. and Good Roads mvorleers ere engaged on today, as covered till -1795 with primeval forest. the first, "rank of whose giant pines down about Queen istreet were that year falling before the axe `blows of Governor Simcoe s green- leoated Queen : Rangers; the men who ` cut Yonge street through the bush. _ e I . . A .....-4.. 5...... m.duv m cut a road from l > I I l l D l l I V l I `HOLLAND LAND1NG S GREAT IMPQRTANCE `Wits Main Centre on Route From Toronto to Barrie;. 1 Little Left Today. M cut Yonge street. tnrougn we uuau. i A party lbegan to-day to cut a road _ hence to the Pine.Fort near Lake Simcoe" ` says Mrs. Simcoe locanically. referring in her diary an 28th December, 1795, t0_t.his epoch-making event in the history of York County. V V r.......:.... .. fr-uvnnor fmm Toronto` to summer. _ . . _ I was a little girl then," stated the` old lady to The Telegram and we had` [just come to Canada from the Old Coun-- 'try with my father. John -I-`Ia-Howell. who .`was -afterwards a sergeant-major and in `Fort William coaching "up Yonge street York uounty. . Imagine a -traveller from Toronto` and taking-a boat at Holland Landing. [for the first stage of his. journey. That was the route in early days. Up till 90 years ago the trip'down the narrow. `muddy little. Holland river and across `Lake Simcoe to Orillia was by bateuux. and from 1832 by steamer. ' . l AL 1-..; M... nornnn m Tnrnnto reoalls At least -one person In Toronto recalls `this long forgotten route. Mrs. David. gReynolds of\l8 Mitchell Avenue. whose! [husband is an old employee of the Royal; Canadign Yacht Club, traveed thus from; Toronto to the then military post at; Penetanguishene just 70 years ago last `summer. V ..--..' .. Incl- nlvl than M stated the Sauu llUlll aux:-1 Iv; ........_---. my steamer. reoalls n4-om. manta Mrs. Dav1d, r:u--.- ___ -Peppe1.'mini:W Lacket over Pep- ` pet-mint gum . ASCOT SHOES FOR MEN 3AM .Wlll'l'B%Y C17 charge of the xnili ary hospital at Pene- tang where. the 71st British Regiment of Foot and some volunteers were quartered. Automobilists who grumble at Yonge street nowadays and find fault w-ith Mr. Biggs ` should have seen the road in 1852. We ` had a rough journey by wagon from Tor-. _ onto. especially bad from Newmarket to| ; the Landing. They had to use ropes toe , get the wagons up some of the hills. We} flslept in a barn by the Holland river that! j night and I mind that the Old Country folks were scared out of their wits when they saw fire flies for the first time, *-Mm vnnvnirur um fnnl: thp` little nmldle. B zwas ' awful." they me mes I01 HIE tutu mum, ` Next morning we took the` little paddle ,i wheel steamer, sailed down the river andl` through the marsh for about 10 miles, toi `Cookie Bay and from there on to Barrie?` gand Orillia where we got 3 bateaux down!` .the Severn to Penetang. There were. lots-' !of Indians about the post at Penetangl land I mind the squaws coming in for`_ 'medicine and standing their papooses upl against the l walls of the` Fort in the| birch bark cra les the Indian women car-l `tied on their] backs. Whiskey was very` .cheap in those days, everyone seemed to` make it. It -cost only fourpence half penny a quart and the poor emigrants drank it by the jugful and went almost crazy. More than half the cases in the, hospital there had the horrors" and `had- to be strapped down in their beds. The` shouting and yelling of the poor things` 1:..- n_-.....I.J.. -A-v\:n:;-nnnnnni nf Vnnae was awrur. , Mrs. Reynolds reminiscences of Yongel street travel recall that in 1838 it is saidl to have been very bad, that only in 1845} warit macadamized as far as.Newmarket and that not till 1850 was Barrie even fairly easily accessible from Toronto. In: 1853 one year after the old lady's tripi the Northern Railway. 0ntario s first liuc,; reached Holland Landing and presently toi lollingwood, after whch. the old boat] `route via, the Landing was abandoned andi the whole aspect of t!.':',\'el from Toronto] l northward was changed. , V 1.`..- L....I. :... H... nhl I4`.-mu-l-x rnaivnn states that u Bank Arctic expioier, ianueu at Luluubu m._.. Inxhls party havmg come from England wa -h.h,iNew York. After a state reception by the line, .GV"`" and `e"'di"g mzS the great t0!Englishnian stage-coached from Toronto to ,hOati`N6Wlllal'l(8l', where he stayed o\-eriflght ati and ithe house of Hon. Peter liobinsoii. Thencel he proceeded next morning to the Lower ,. , . northward . .Landing on the Holland River and Far back in the old French regime. statesllaunchinti his Cami`. 813?!" hf` 4i;1000'm:9 Parkman. the Jesuits had a stockade at '-l"`e-V 3 Wat? W `C 9 `mt 0"` t en the Loweh Hhuahd Landing . and it is shores of Georgian Bay to the Soo, thence it-bought that venturesome British trademlm `Fmt Wimmni up the English "her ml years before the conquest of Canada in1`Wi'.`ipeg' 3"-S the . ` St *0 the Mac`; 1759 may have crossed Lake Ontario from kenzie and down that mighty stream past`. . l ` British territory and ventured up the Don'F Norma" to the Amt Ocean` l - - ! Of H ii d Lnd`n `n th 1827 d h L, h J 0 an ii i_gi e year \] an t wee pomjd mm the H01 md R `John Galt. Commissioner of the Canada -er, The canoes and heavy hate.-aux of, , , . _H V the North West \Fur Company of Monti'<=a.l #00" 3.3 1 his atb gmphy' `The ext morning we went. forward to a place on `certainly `used this route to reach Lake` ._ h. h Huron from about 17-75. but it was north H1_1and' R``eri 8 09 Sl7ae.w 1 _ until 3 golden October day of 1792 that the_Indians and for traders were in the Governor Simcoe and his party first peii-!hl 9f f""qe"m`qg' If i'3"td .t "e etrated through the forest from York aiichsomethmg 0f .3 *`msh ` aspect ' t 6 set eyes on the vast yehowh marshiahds gstyle of the cottages; but` instead of 11101111-' 4:: the Hohahd hats and the hrmm Shlg_ :,tains the environs were covered with treesf ish river which emptied into the hhle-pWe embarked at this place (for Goderichy waters of the Lake which the French hadiVin,_Pe?t'a?g":iS3fne2' I A. h. hi --n nn rn a tuna!` Ji H12. W K! and tnence portugeu mm we rlulmnu un-; -er. ol'Jl the \Fur rC' certainly not th` lb` penwhal and*S` vast yellow,-marshlandsstl of ats `ta blueiW' waters hadivl` called Lac Aux C-laies and` which the new . Governor of Upper Canada. named Simcoe is`? in honour of his sailor `father wno had died '1 V1] with Wolfe on the way to Quebec. Ad-[M vised by a _friendly Indian chief, Old Sail. ;m` to return by the east branch and so avoidith the swamp, Simcoe went on with his can-$3 oemen to Matchedash Bay, impressed with 5 `the strategic position of the landing on,' the Holland river which the Indian had;t undoubtedly used from time immemorial, ;l Simcoe presently establishedi Fort Gwil- ;' limbury there. hard by. _ '8` After the. first opening- of the` rough m track through the woods by Simcoe s Rang- l' ers, Yonge Street very gradually beganisl to assume the appearance of a road, butjc` a narrow gradeless road dotted with big?` stumps and stones and `awful mudholes,}1 such as one encounters to-day leading to a lumber camp. The granting `of land along: the route was contingent on each settler: making a road where Yonge street crossed`! his; property... and in this connection the! Niagara. Cons:.ellation" of 23rd August, 1799. remarked editorially that it hoped` people possessing property .on that street and vicinity would exert themselves in opening and completing what may justly be considered as one of the primary ob- jects of attention in a new country-a goodt roadl The York (Toronto) Gazette, of' the same year. noted that the Northwest. Company had donated 1200 to help im- prove Yonge` Street over which their Boats were lsportaged, and predicted a great 'boom in trade for the infant town of Toronto, due to the commerce which this rival to the Hudsoffs Bay Cowas going to brirg. ' | Tn nun-In (`ova VIHIDP fft. t. Old G31 '[hey__arc the best money can` buy. Fuy guaranteed. .10 t1; 60-watt Tungsten. 75 to '300ev.vai'tt Nkrogen. for gvery purpose; Phone 453. {dbl In early days Yonge street. at, Gal- lows Hill, which has almost disappeared -in the_ new grading below F-arnham Avenue, ran through a deep cut across which had fallen a giant pine tree, whose sinister suggestion of the gallows tree is alleged. to have given the hill its name. Here, long years ago tis said that the remnants of `an old windlass remained .which had been used for hauling the Northwest Com- . pany s boats-30 and 40-foot hateaux of I he period. propelled by oars and suu s I brirg. \ the steep incline on trucks. How those old fur traders would have stated at the procession of radial cars and the fleets of autos which ~to-day rush over distances in two hours which it to)`: the toiling oxen with their heavy lgadr t.w"6 days to sceomplish. Passage :3 and fro of the Northwest Company s boats on wheels with {heir upward cargoes of goods for the Indians and their return bales of crackling furs. was a picturesque feat- ure of early Toronto. `Boys of the old District Grammar Schoo!-.larvis Colleg- iate s parent--li_ked to watch the fur bat- evx being, dragged across the sandbar at the resent Eastern Gap -and pulled across lthe ay to thefoot of. Yonge street. The , youngsters loved to talk to the ac- EDISON MAZDA L A M P S 36 Bayfield St. Tag BARRHIVE .EX}\M1NER 3 half-"'e"``?'. . ~~ , . . V Wrltlng in 181.3, Buchette, In 1118 Topo- graphical Description of Upper Canagia, the says of Yonge Sreet.Th1s route belng nd hadjof much more Importance has of late [_ vl-he;been greatly improved by the Noythwost thingsompany for the purpose of shortening the distance to the Upper Lakes and avoiding any contact with the American frontiers. iigrants Yongo n Tho unar `R95 SAW an imnnrtant CVet- DR. s. .'wEs'r IS M.o;H., succammc ms 1=A'm1-:R A meeting of Essa Council was held at Thornton on Tuesday afternoon. Nov. 14. with all members present. - Accounts -as follows, were ordered paid :-- Wm. Elliott, work on road at lot 12, con. 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $3.25 Thos. Edgar, use `of roadway to gra- vel pit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.00 Percy Fleming, building culvert lot ' V 4. con. 7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 24.50 Pedlar People,`for pipes . . . . . . . . .. 50.88 G. W.-Van Doran, work in southern .1:-_:_... 76,70 % ma-..;,`; ..".`.".". .?f.i iii'.iZT .'Z`.'. Ingham Sharpe. 31 yds. gravel .. . J. J; Marks. repairs to hill. con. 9 O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . `Wm. Turnbull, draining and putting 3-A ' : G D 3:, 12922 xwm. lurnouu, uruuun; `auu puum5 j in pipes. 57 S. R. . . . . . . . . . . .. 4.25 [Richard Bell. gravelling. con. 6, .. 135.00 `Andrew Miscampbell, `cedar and re- .,..:..n .. ..,...,:-on Q 1:: man Auurew Al.ubl:z1u1pucu, `Lana: uuu Iv pairs to road`25 S. R. . . . . . . . . . . Jno. Annett. g'rave1li~ng 20 S. R. . . Jas. Foster, conveying Dan Shaw to I.u'.~L...-u Flu-~.-Inn 1121-`. LVIEBIICI, UUIIVVJIIIE 1./u.11 yuuuv |'\.r Fishery. Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Advance . . . . . .; . . . . . . .. Municipal World,` supplies . . . . . . . Frank Addis, repairs to hill, con. 3 . Omfmon Turnbull. putting in ipes. 1`! C D _ l . . - . . .-Io.o--a...-.--a I-Morgan. M-urphy, repairs to 15 S. n Dr. S, E. West of Angus was by byl-aw appointed M.H. Ofcer for remairfder of the year in place of the late Dr. Stephen West. - ' ,2! ,..l:-__...__-.l 4.- .......; -4 I`.-...ly- iicuznpanyihg half-wild French-Canadiap voy- ,-ageurs in buckskins and coonskin caps. and iwere filled with dreams of joining a bri- Qgade of boats'and going off to their mys- |teri0us destination in- the far Noijwest. i Mn _.-__ t....... ...... ...... .. M... c`..., W351. , Council adjourned .to meet. at Cooks- towu on Friday, Dec. 15. at 10 11.111. IETIUUS uesuuuuuu 111- but? 121.1 nun wcm. It was from such lsources, says late Dr, Henry Scadding in Toronto of |0ll. that a certain idea was derived, iwhicb. as we remember, was in great gwogue among the more fractious lads at {the school at York. The proposition cir- `culated about whenever anything went lcnunter. to their notions, and always was to run away to the Nor west; What that process really involved, or what the Nor - lwest precisely was. were things vaguely lrealized. A_sort of savage land of Co- caigne, .a region of perfect freedom among the Indians was imagined; and to reach it "Lakes Huron and Superior were to be tra- lversed." l u1,,:.:__ :_ 1512 D...'.l....44.. L. Li. "`Avhn_ |any Clllit wuu um rxulcuuan llullwnvnwn u The year 1825 saw an important event- :in the history of Yonge street in April of 'that year, Sir John Franklin, the famous Arctic explorer, landed at Toronto with L:-.. ..uu-I-u lnoxndr nnvnn frnm England Vl 1`-via Penetanguisnenel. ; . ` Thus looked the Lower Landing, which ` 7 ,,situated two miles north of the present village, was a century. ago the head of_ _ navigation. What of it to-day`? One _mellow afternoon of the past week when lithe country was bathed in golden October _`.sunshine :1 Telegram man tramped over the {sandy road which. crossing the l lains"; J x and skirting what is left of the forest men-, iltioned by Galt, leads on past scattered farmsi '.to the Upper Landing where the Indians L: lonce launched their birchbarks. A grassy,-E. lgently sloping bank bordered by cedars, h , marks the spot where moccasined feet; ,_ once trod, and below it lies the brown` sluggish strearn, its current barely per-E Iticeptlble, winding away through flats .gf _ g sere cat-tails into a seeming w-ildernessg 3 iof tam-arac and poplar scrub. i all Less than a mile below it where the I urance '1J.l:u1L\.-u:.u;;.sau::.~..~... ._ to a business man what the telescope and microscope are to the scientist and what the compass is to p mariner -- they enable him to steer a clear course. The thinking man of busi- ness becomes very much in; terested when he nds that _ he can secure a scientic eye examination and the proper \ glasses at the price we , charge. And then he pays` us a visit. 0. R. RUSK, om). ADDRESS: 38 Elizabeth Street, Barrie 7 Next Door to Singer -Sewing Machine Co_. `LEAR-SIGHTEDNESS i`s -_- __-L..L Phoxe 143 76.70 6.20 10.00 4.00 9.75` 3.25 Auction Sale of 17 Extra Good New Milch Cows and Springers :447w_ }Marrin s Yavr'd's',? Harrie, on e Saturday, Nov. 25 DRY CLEAMNG! Emarshlands widen and the deep. dark riveri fbroadens to some forty feet, a clearing: `among the thickets marks the site of: `the Lower Landing whence the-\bateaux; and later. the pioneer steamboat, Simcoe, . imade their way down eight miles to the,` lake. The Simc0e`was built in 18323 for about $7,000-sueh prominent people as the` Robinsons. Ridouts, Lounts. Jesse Ketchuni. Lucius O Brien (father of Henry iO'Brien. K;C.), Major Barwick. Geo. Play: xter, Charles McVittie and Thorne and Parx sons subscribing] the money. ' V i -- u 1 I ., L- J ____ ...l 4I.-nnn1-si l a Just Like New . IF IT _S SOILED ---SEND IT TO US We ll save you many times the cleaning costs by add- ing months df service to your things. Then, too, there's the satisfaction of having them always spic' and span. We `cleanarerything, _from the finest laces to the cours- est rags. Send them to us. Cleaning -- Pressing - Repairing - Dyeing A-trial will convince you that we are the best. Goods called for and delivere\d. Prices reasonable. ruu ft: in A nlillri I'\I l'| A OED 50115 BUUBUIILMII5 nun; u-uu-.._y. The vessel had to be draggedzthrough: part of the stream by wixudlasasses an_Lot.ore a whole piece of.the floating marsh away.` How odd the clumsv little side-wheeler; must have looked as. wi_th ponderous pact! dles slowly turning she crept round the sinuous bends of a river which nothing ]but- a gas-boat would venture to-day. The steamers Peter Robinson and Bea- ver succeededeher and lastly, the Emily May." ' A ~ | rl-V, ,l-__ ___.I_... C... 61.}. twvInan_l'II't\II1I'\ uxhnnl 29 Elizabeth St. ; Phone 441W. Imuy. Today, saving for the grass-grown wheel marks of the old coach road from Toronto, nqt a trace remains to show the activity which this spot witnessed in the long ago. Every vestige of the old wharf has van- ished, and of the warehouses where goods were stored. Relic hunters have apparently long since removed what remained of the old bateaux which antedated the steam- boats.` As the writer gaaed on this his- toric spot, the sole evidence of human life was a lad cutting marsh hay with a scythe. A brace of blackrducks were feeding `half hidden in the dead rushes whose dun hue made a foil for the scarlet and gold of the maples and the wild grape vines laden with purple clusters of fruit, A Sabbath still- 1.... nvnr thn Iandaaane; broken only pufple Sabbath snu- n lay over the landscape,` only b the chatter of a squirrel or tlg oc- 'casional-rasp of the hay cutter s stone on his scythe. I V , the following : , Durham Cow, 5 yrs. old, with calf at foot. ' Durham Cow, 4 yrs. -old, with calf at foot. Durha`mC0w, 6 yrs. old, with calf at foot. Durham Cow, 5` yrs. old, due by date of sale. " Durham Cow, 5 yrs. old, due Dec. 4. " ,..,.,, A Ayrshire Cow, 6 yrs. old, with calf at foot. to Ayrshire Cow, 4 yrs. old, with calf at foot. "'-I"'v; ` Ayrshire Cow, 5. yrs. old, due by date of sale. R ` Ayrshire Cow, 6 yrs./old, due Dec. 6. Ayrshire Heifer, due by date of sale. Jersey Cow, 4 yrs. old, milking. Pure-bred Holstein Cow, 5 yrs. old, with calf at foot. Holstein Cow, 6 yrs. old, with calf at Afoot. . Holstein Cow, 4 yrs. old, due by date of sale. Holstein Cow, 5 yrs. old, due_ Nov. 29. Holstein Cow, 3 yrs. old, due Dec. H. Holstein Cow, 6 yrs. old, due Dec. 15. The above cows are all in good condition and extra good _ milkers, . All will be sold without reserve. 'FrmS of Sa1e--Six months crcdit given parties furnish- ing approved joint notes; 6% per annum off for cash. Sale at 1 p.m. W. A. McCOKEY, Auctioneer. The Yukon river is still open at Dawson, with slow moving ice running between that town and Selkirk. _ '71- -----s- In In: a v-uh: nf. fl! that in and beuurx. "It. seems to be a rule.o_ life that in proportion as a man looks for trouble he becomes less able to meet it. l"I.l.I.IJ' llvnlnraaan navv -nu - v-- -...._- - __ _ We are specialists in robber. Our success depends _entirely on the quality of rubber we sell, whet-her m footwear or auto tires. ' IUULWC'dl U1 dutu Luca. You can therefore rest assured of getting quality goods when ycfu buy fro? us. We are out of the high rent_district and can gi ekyoubetter values, quality 4- __ t\Al\L _r\`t\/\--v`-\f\O'1`) {Cut UIDUILL ctuu pan Ssvp yuu. up`.-. ......-.,, ..... _-_, ponsidered, than you can getwelsewhere. We also repair rubber boots; half soles and heels a specialty. . _ Remegnber: Your satisfaction means our success. Guaranteed Vulcanizing. The undersigned has received instructions from Mcl_)opald_