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A STRANGE ANOMALY Luckily Barrie and district escaped serious or fatal motor accidents over the week-end despite the fact that traffic was the `heaviest on record. This section seems to have been pecul- iarly immune for the same cannot `be said of r other sections of the province tfrom which; fourteen fatal accidents are reported. Years` ago, news of this nature would have been re- garded as nothing short of a -catastrophe but the public appear to have become hardenedto %"Lo Bws 'nn37c Tin-17c Jar39c 39 Items Marked Special on Sale at These Prices July 5 - Julyll j-:c jp17c1`<'I.'?Es} again A \.rl\ IA` n\n.anIu|I`AhJ\.mI-an` I `|vJ\r\.rna That veteran newspaper man, H. J. Petty- piece of the Forest Free Press, -in last week s , issue had an article on Pleasant Recollections which excited provincial-wide interest. Mr. Pet- typiece has had some unique experiences in his lifetime. These fall to the lot of most news- papermen but possibly not in the same unique degree as to the Free Press editor. He was-one of the first three passengers to ride on an elec- tric street car to operate in Canada or the Un- ited States. This was in 1886 and he gives an interesting account of how: A gangling, gaw- ky-looking object, resembling nothing quite so much as an unusually long milk wagon, its walls broken by windows, groaned and creaked its way out of a big barn near the present Peabody bridge, in Walkerville. The day was June 3rd, 1886, according to records made at the time. Now we will see if the darn thing will start, muttered the man at the lever. Twisting the bar around, he felt a vibration beneath his feet. A moment later the weird vehicle was in motion, rolling down Sandwich street toward Windsor, with a crowd of shouting men and boys out be- hind it. 1' 1 Io PACKAGE XYDOL SPECIAL- OOMBINATION OFFER 141/26" 7 SHOP SPECIAL- Peanut 32.1 Butter 1 our Jack 8 Jill` SPECIAL- Pure Red Plum 4003. 8 oz. Jar 21` Page Four -..._--._._ I>EE"1TfL_7--5"?-E The world s largest magnet, weigh- ing 120 tons, has been completed in Paris. An I.-.,..4...'.. .l..-.:-_ 1-__, ._,,, V -I - V -0-- electric device for recording the growth of plants has been invented in Germany. Tt i: nu-nrlir-Pm-I fknlr u... :..L..... While each man, through thy height` pnino afporn v-nu \.u:uAA Au.aLL, uuuugu lull] LAC ening steam, Does like a smoking Etna seem. ucx uxuuy . It is predicted that in the future X-rays will be used instead of nger prints in the identication of crim- inals. tffxis. J. W. Stone of Bond Head was elected as 15!: Vice President of the Federated Women's Institutes of Can- ada at Saskatoon on Thursday. --:>---*` No. 2 WNOT SOUND BUSINESS PRACTIC'E` ,._1JA1' m:I.i:b?fIEiI'f PRODUCTS WM, L. BRENNAN DABDTE 29` Thursday. Jill! 4. 19 21 llll GET RID OF THE BARBEl`l`RY' Alliston Herald-County council members let W. J. ` Johnston, reeve of Orillia and chairman of the county printing committee, down too easily in connection with the award he made of the printing contract last Febru- ary. Mr. Johnston pleads ignorance in connection with regular practise inhandling tenders. Then the county council is at fault for appointing an incompetent man to the position of chairman of the printing committee. As we understand it the tenders submitted by the Orillia tenderer were taken away by Mr. Johnston and were re- tained by him for months. If this is the case the man who took the tenders is liable. Awarding the printing tender the first of the year was a. very irregular proceed- ing and nothing but the feeling of good fellowship which exists among the county councillors saved Mr. Johnston from censure and perhaps something more serious. He has` reason to consider himself lucky and! should next December retire from the reeveshi/p of Orillia township for he is not a worthy successor to men like the late Jay Walker. ...- vuuy pun... But we rather think Mr. Johnston is the victim of poor practice and of circumstances. In the name of common sense, why a printing committee is wanted at all is hard to under- stand or why the chairmansliip should be sought, as was the case with Mr. Johnston, is hard to understand, unless it is to curry favor with certain newspapers, a probability not at all y remote. County.Council put Mr. Johnston, an agriculturist, at the head of the printing com- mittee knowing full well that he had not oc- casion to buy a dollar s worth of printing in `his liretime. He -said as much himself. What would `become of this county -if the same practice was put into effect with respect to other committees which spend thousands as compared with 'the paltry few dollars of the printing account? County Council did not act in the best interests of those whom it represents. The w'hole thing savors of soft soaping an aspiring committee chairman. Perhaps after -all Mr. Johnston is not entirely to blame for something for which he has been adjudged unintentionally blameless. County Council may also `have done this thing unintentionally but it_ was not sound business practice to do so. A WOMAN ON MODERN DRESS Parkhill Gazette (Mrs. Dawson, editor)--Can you im- agine a.woman in a `hoop skirt behind the wheel of a car? Can you imagine a woman with leg-o -mutton sleeves squeezing into the back seat with three others? Can you imagine a woman with a stovepipe skirt so tight that a natural walk was impossible, playing tennis or softball? Can you imagine `a Woman wearing a hustle and a draped skirt driving _an aeroplane. If not, then cease to nd fault with the clothes worn by the modern, active woman. FAILURE IN POLITICS NOT TOLERATED High River Times-Failure is the one thing they will not tolerate. Some Conservatives demand the head of Stanley Baldwin; Liberals cry for Uhe hoary locks of Lloyd George. The lucky man is Ramsay McDonald. See what he escaped by winning. THE THRIFTY SCOTCH Meaford Mirror-Why do mourning doves mourn? The Fergus News Record says there are several in that town and that perhaps they mourn for the extinct cousins, the wild pigeon. Most birds mourn in Fergus. There are no crumbs thrown away there. Toronto Telegram-The lull in the mining stock mark- et is teaching a lot of those who rush in where angels fear to tread that buying mining stocks is a speculation, `rather than an investment. H11... .._.__.___;. u,_L _1-_.,u,,,, The prospect that develops into a mine is the excep- tion no matter how -bright its prospects look in the early stages of development. Gold is still where you nd it and still particularly hard to nd-in paying quantities. Nnv Rn ("ho him nvnnnnr-c v-acorn}-do n-A111 hands on an, av I.ua.A\-A -Jvadm ya; uA\.auAuu. IJ anus uv J.J..L1\.A:AL1 yaytus \.`ua/LLULULCE. Nor do the big producers resemble gold bonds as se- curities. A couple could be mentioned ohand that a short time ago looked as good as the bank. Now they have shrunk to less than one-third their former market values. Nor is there immediate prospect of them mount- ing to their former magnicence. mi... .....-.....1 -4` -11 n..:.. :. u...4. an.-...-.1- a1..m.1.:| .Q.-.4- 1...... on; vv vLA\4AL L\lLA&l\aL JILK5Al&L\/VLL\4\tl Ehe moral of all this is that people should not buy mining stocks out of the family budget. If they do the family is liable to go on short rations. After all the ballyhoo `in the Toronto sport- ing pages over the Jackie Johnston-Kid Chocolate prize ght in Toronto, in which Johnston lasted less than one round, these same sporting wri-ters state that Johnston was overmatched, but are at a loss to accoun-t for the small crowd. Probably, the sporting pub- lic knew all along what it took the sporting writ- ers weeks to find out, or admit. Here at least is an instance which -has all the earmarks of Bar- num being wrong. ' T\vent_v thousand automobiles from all parts of eastern Canada and United States passed through l3arrie s main business streets over the holiday week-end and Barrie received much favorable publicity as a result. Let it be said right here that Barrie has nothing to be a- shamed of in its front street. It is about the snappiest and most cityed of any town its size in the province, a fact which visitors are not slow to comment upon. One town out West is strong for safety first, having a by-law which provides as follows: When two cars come to a crossing both-shall stop and neither shall start until the other is gone. If this be carefully observed there will not be many collisions, though there might be some slight traffic congestion. `and I JIAIJ \II A All-I I-ll Il\l.'ldl\l\ A It barberry bushes are causing the damage to Simcoe County crops which those in best pos- ition to know state-hundreds of thousands of dollars a year-it should not take intelligent Canadians long to get rid of it, but it is obvious there will have to be co-operation practiced and in some cases sacrifices made. England and Denmark rid themselves of barberry in nation- wide campaigns quitea number of years ago. Many States in the Union and three western provinces are well on with their campaigns. And here in old Ontario we pride ourselves on being so much more advanced? It -has been proven both from a scientific and practical standpoint that common and purple-leaved barberry is the cause of grain rust, greatly re- ducing if not destroying the value of cereal crops. The course open is obvious and it is up to farmers and summer home owners to think not only of themselves, but also of their neigh- bors. What is also wanted is weed inspectors who inspect and above all, act. The Picton Gazette, with its customary enter- prise, issued a special section last Saturday in connection with the installation of a new pure water system, consisting of high-pressure pump- ing equipment, lters and chlorination plant. A good water supply is a prim`e essential for the health of a community.A Not many places are as fortunate as Barrie with its "unsurpassed artesian supply. A newspaper heading in the daily papers states The ice has gone out at Churchill. This does not mean that the Reives have just stop- ped curling. The Churchill referred to is locat- ed on Hudson Bay. In our own Churdhill they have been playing softball for two months or more, and it is the Reives who are starring on the diarriond, as they do on the ice. An exchange says: An appie a day may keep the doctor away and an onion a day will keep everybody away. - Manchester authorities have banned mendi- can-ts who sing_ as they beg, rightly deciding that begging is bad enough. this sort of thing. The brief record in` the dgily I press is soon n`orgotten`as people make t eir` arrangements for the next week-end outing. To a large extent precautions to avoid accidents are ignored by a large number of the motor- ing public. This callous disregard of slaughter, comments the Toronto Telegram, is a strange anomaly in a generation that is aroused to the task of the preservation of human life in `al- most every other way. It sometimes takes a lot` of fiction to explain the truth. We often wonder how a high-powered sales- man makes out when trying to convince his wife of something. Some are so determined` to let their lights shine before -men that they never use dimmers. Just to think that only a few weeks ago everybody was complaining of the cold and the excessive rain. A SPECULATION, NOT AN INVESTMENT ' "L3" ""0 at the June sessioii for his part in the letting of the ctmtmct for printing the 1929 minutes, simulti quit public life at the end of his present term of otlice. This, of course. is entirely up tn Mr. .ln1nistnn. He apparently has enjoyed the continence oi his fellow citizens in his own township or he wotiltt not be where he is to- day, and he mzty still enjoy that condence, for zttter all the letting of :1 contract for printing the council minutes is :1 small thing except when a principle is involved, something which seems to LltlIlllll11tC the case in point. Rut urn rnflwor f1a3nl- AIL I/'\1-urn!-/-\u-\ 2-. LL- OPINIONS OF OTHERS COUNTY `PRINTING CONTRACT EDITORIAL NOTES EN CHIEFl FE-!RUSON of Wal- ` kerton unwittingly inaugurated daylight saving one morning last week, ringing the town hall bell at 6 instead of 7 a.m., he awakened the entire town and caused consternation among the population. Neil Smith, the town blacksmith, rushed to his anvil an hour early, cooks, waitresses and guests of hotels jumped out of bed and hur- ried into their clothes and others rushed to work without eating break- fast. It was the first time in 18 years the Chief has made this error. He ex- plains that his specs were not work- S THEY SAY in -the slang classics of the day, this stuff about Under the spreading chestnut tree the village smithy stan is all applesauce. It may park there but it Won't stand, says-the Meaford Mirror. The Ont- ario rural blacksmith shop has got on- to wheels and is running around like a circus. It started with a smith in Erin, Ontario, who put his shop into a truck and started out to the farms in- stead of having the farmers come to him. With rural mail delivery, gen- eral stores on trucks, cream trucks calling at the door, sermons by radio and now the blacksmith bringing his shop right up to the stable door the farmer won't have to set foot off his own broad acres for a year at a time. The Weekly Mirror Reflecting High Lights in the News from Ontario Town Newspapers YQU BUY`. H EALTH Alpine Club For further particulars see your local Store Manager. This list covers a few cials which you might for reference and profit by O1" recem 11111111115 several veteran weekly C.ii1:1I'5 have taken up 1'emi11isCe11t writing. It 111:1ke_~; 111ust e111`e1't:1i11i11g 1`e:1di11g and is of much 11i.1:>1"ic;11 value. Let us have more of it. You`re probably thinking of your vacation-that im- mediately suggests the pro- blem of the food supply and such problems vanish when _.... ..'I..... all... 'I -`L'I.._.. _.___. ..:_l. -1- .-v_.__... .. ..J- jl-1;t go to your nearest _Loblaw Groceteria and make your selections--We VACATION GROCERIES SPECIAL- SOAP spEcmL- rmnsr QUALITY 12 02. Box ""`}"'3`f-`a -:'f_E 13 GUEST IVORY DON"? FORGET L wrnrnx/:.n.I.uJ v QQLLADLI. usllrmp the Loblaw V` In 34 LA --..__- - -. ...s ..w... ..- -,.--.. .... Nor is this :11]. Early in 1902 D. McGi1licud- dy, President of the Canadian Press Association, Mr. Pettypiece, Vice-President, and John A. Cooper, Secretary, were in Ottawa to interview the Government in regard to the duty on paper. While there they witnessed a demonstration of wireless telegraphy by a young man named Mzlrconi, W111) the same year succeeded in sendin_q' siggnals across the Atlantic and two _\ears later eslahlislred an ocean news service. "F"ii`E E Ginger Ale AGnbecoaCnp................ W Golden LUIS Matches IIAPLI IIAFC H13`--X'I........a mg as well as usual, when on looking ' at his watch they made him believe it was 6.30 am. instead of 5.30 and get- ting up he hopped to the bell rope when half an hour later the town clock struck. One error at the rope in nearly two decades is not a. bad re- cord, but the entire town is having a good laugh at the Chief's expense. BJECTORS to second-hand smokes" fought a. close, but losing battle. at the June session of Renfrew County Council when by a vote of 18 to 17 they failed to ban smoking in the county council chamber. In the Renfrew County -cha-m'ber they smuke with council in session on both side nf fhn ro can-u-u-.-.+....... 4.1.... ...-...L..A- nu... uvuaauu All acamuu uu uutu :.'(l(-.5 of the rail separating the members from the public space, whereas in Simcoe s chamber they smoke only in the public space, with a four-footl railing between. This may and does give the members in their seats much desirable dignity, but from a non-. sm'oker s standpoint we cannot see: what difference a four-foot railing makes. Rev. A. E. Baker at the Jan- uary session gently chided the mem- bers on their smoke-lled chamber despite the prevalence in the corridors ` of no smoking ? signs. These signs were put up for the benet of the public when court is in session and not for county councillors, among whom there are very few non-smokers. Anyone attempting to ban smoking in the Simcoe County chamber would I have a man's sized job on his hands. If Editor Wm. McDonald, well- known prohibitionist, had his way, however, he would make a clean sweep of the smokers, judging from the fol- lowing comment on the Renfrew vote: -_______-_-- __- -_.... __..-----u nu.-- Legis_1ative bodies do not seem to DII5\."B X 51. ILWHX Junket Powders A._._A..I X1..- T300 FEVCFE Oxo Cubes The AI1i_ Herald thinks that Reeve John- .~t.m of ()riIli;1 townsliip, chairmztn of the i iii1t.ing Committee in the County Council, who \ .'1t>` extm.er:1teti frzmi intentional wrongdoing 1!'.'11 iii A\{;l`:3 l`l1;c ml: r-nnrro 1'.~ ant-3.-n1 nu p;?m""'rg_s; -I41 I-`OX I IL.` B?>`-'-OCl L: .4I.l_A Kg- Vila-Weat -on-.`:3.'u"-.-...`.:-?;'s`. .. 2 ..."J._ End: tin contain: ve oaw. ........... Peaches . &lva-'n-on 1 in 113.... Peanuts )1 11 CAT AKYII '1"! 1.`..J A _ -4 XUl|l`dll'I.1`-Ii Fruit Salad _I`lIf\,If Z_.4g. lIo.1Iuoun...... Fruitsalad mBQ1\`IJL._:. DALTON S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~ ~ . . Grape and Cherry Punch] HARRY HORNE S.. Lime Juice ] IMONS'I'ERRA'l'........ IW__ _. 'I`-_!_- nmunau~.1u(A1...... ' """"" "' Gra e Juice w1:'1.gn s-nea1um Sin Botth. .... "B01119 323 Lemon Cup and Orange Cup twnnnnu 111-!` cu. .p~w-q---up-go. `Q __ I\_AAI_ 'I0X0I0X<>X<>X<>X<>X<>X0X0X<|X<>X0X<>X0X0X< II II . >X< 5; EDITORIAL COMMENT >1- cnossn AND BLACKWELL 8..l3 oz. Bottle 33 O'K9_2_1de and Lemonade: Tim 25 OOOOCOOOOO COTE? Salmon I111:-Iirrtu 3---; ._., 4: unolceneuuo .... Canned Grapefruit It's: I)ellcInnn"__Nr; '2 ulna Gm Glil-Eva Jelly % `KIIAHA RI-nn&_-II WT HQ llk-- R % IY!A_ `I1- -A. l'ISAL-UKIIITI-- IL--- `I?x-I. L\I- IJIGILI. FIRE? "Nv rou'nuhuan".. I\ (`II . _ A . -_. I C GUI` HITCH? Nmldutln. ... rs___g.. n-1_'.: L A A L Au IL- Mr. Pettypiece also had the pleasure of hav- inb a ride in the first automobile brought to Tor- onto. There `had been serious objections to the devil wagon being run on the streets, and the owner, with Allan Aylesworth, a Toronto law- T yer, appeared before the municipal committee of the Ontario legislature asking for legislation that would permit the use of the car. In order to convince the members that it was not `the dangerous vehicle the citizens thought it was the owner invited several of the members to take a ride with him. It was a small open car, Carrying only four passengers and was steered with a wooden lever. Twenty miles an hour was about its speed limit. k!.\v4:r~`1-1:1` all Cn.-1.,3.. Ann l ll -fi112.....l \"OQDvIO Irwin; mama n:ana-ax L1 DAL- I).._;. 1"... 1ocubePkg.24c __`______3Ib.Tin%C _____,_3 'understand that tobacco smoke is ob- noxious to non-smokers. What right have members of municipal councils to smoke while in session any more than members of the Legislatures of Canada or of the House of Commons while the business of the country is being carried on in the different leg- islative chambers? Wouldn t it pre- sent a beautiful spectacle if the 244 male members of the House of Com- mons would light up while a discus- sion was on and Miss Macphail, M.P., would put! on a cigarette! Of course the member who was speaking wou::i have to put down his pipe, cigar or cigarette while he was holding forth and the speaker would find consider- able difficulty in getting satisfaction in draughts of nicotine between his rulings. Can't any one see how nec- |essary it is to have rules forbidding ismoking while the higher legislative chambers are in session and county councils should take a pattern by- ;Parliamentary rules. 'I'o put our op- inion of the 18 members of Rerfrew `County council who favored allowing smoking during the session, in a, few words, we would say they are a selfish ` aggregation. I Tchvarles Lamb, the most original` and delightful of English essayists and critics, who was noted for the beauty of his English and the quiet hu.oor of his writings and who passed away nearly one hundred years ago, long before cigarettes were manufactured, did not have a- very high opinion of tobacco fumes in the society of his day when he wrote: Thou in such a cloud dost bind 15, That our worst foes cannot nd us, And in fortune, that would thwart us, Shoots at rovers, shooting at us; f1Ih.'I'in2k :1bs.21c Q-Q rat ` `lb. 57c }lb.29c %&&w%%%&%$%%%%&%i WEDITQR IN REMINISCENT