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.. -v\au\.\/1. Ly.LUlJldoUUo The expenditures under the `var-A ious departments were as follows: _Debentu1-es redeemed, coupons, in_- terest on temporary loaxgs . . . . . 141:4.-:n:n HA -.-......vuu us on uuuuulg 1a,qJUUU.UU.' | The liabilities of $42,238.41 in- `elude, an overdraft of _$7,783.99. The big; items are schools $21,324,- 36; street lightipg $5075.00; county war tax $3636.57; Water and light account of Carriage Co. and Canada Producer $1632.00. mu. - 1 ....nv uyywsuuu .I..J.\Jl.Il. uicu. LUDULVU. The total receipts amounted` to , $108,088.68. __ Of this taxes of all ' kinds amounted to $92,814.42.` There was expended the sum of _ $143,013.15; leaving a decit of re- eeipts ` over "expenditures of $34,- 924.47. The council began the year with a similar decit of $25,- 387.23- Against the deficit there are assets amounting to $36,531.83, gnade up of unpaid taxes, overdue manu-' facturers instalments, electric light department debentures, and 8 other smaller items. This year $4,476.88 was Written off as loss on the Spen- cer Industrials, which has been car- ried for three years past; this should have been done. at the time the building was sold to the Under- hill people, at present the town s . interest in the building is.$900.00. ` I '1`-Ian Ii.-.lnl.'J-3.... .4 : duo nno A1 - I j placed in the hands of the electors l The abstract of the` town treas- urer s ~ report, presented at the statutory meeting of council and at the nomination` meeting on Mon- day evening, shows how the citi- zens money has been spent by the town fathers during 1915. . Re- trenchment was the motto at the beginning of the year, and it canont be said the members of _council have departed from their resolve. N11... J...L_1 _,.._:,,n - - ` - The `Expenditures. iof Each_ Department` of Town's Activities. ' HOW"TOWN MONEY = ; WAS sum in 1915 3, I915 and damages . .. rartment :1 ....E Jand Simcoe levy ....] mission )rary .. :00 once onus noon (1, Anne..- town hall mainten- . . . . .4-12.87 ....1428.03 and . . .198.17 ftment . . . . . . . 2902.00 ....256T0.15 ad . . . . . . . . . . . .600.00 mcoe . . . 10691.52 . ....688.4'2 ission . . . . . . . . .1739.00 try . . ;. . . . . . .1400.00 . . . . . . . . V. . . . .2921.62 's . . . . . . . . . . . .6306.11 quare, 1914-19151 556.71 reet lot` . . . . . . . .497.55 ;_ ....1763.68 ruction . . .' . . . . .. 1834.88 zement . . . . . . . .-.419.97 [ts . . . . . . . . . . . . .4095.00 .. . .....471.87 at lot ation nent ..... Vwanlipd I . .- ;`45'0'5.74 . . . . .124.00 ...' ....105-4.56 ....6179.18 ofces main- `I . . .. 578.46 BY-I BRYSoN s :1 go All Property Owners are entiitcd to vote on this By-law. Voting on the By-Law will take place on Monday, Jan.-3rd, 19I6,- The attenon of the Ratepayers `is calledto the By-law to raise by Debentures the sum of $7,500 to re- tire the overdraft in connection with the Bradford Street Roadway Im- provement, and to complete the roaqway` on Bradford Street over Bun}-Ler s Creek ' `, All rx ) l w`.` By now you will have read of us losing our Captain, Mr. Mc- Kay, killed instantly by a burst- I 3 ing shell. We have lost a good oi- deer and his actions will always bring ' up pleasant __ ' oicers whose request at all times. D remembrance to all ' was kind and also inspiring. Story ` upon story of the things done out here could be forwarded, each one [in itself worthy of highest praise. A week ago. to-day, about five o - clock in the evening a party, de- tailed to go for rations under a N. C. O. (myself) started from the trenches to go to our quartermas- ter s stores; it was just dark, we jumped over. the parapet and were to meet at a certain place and then proceed, this was done, but some- one of the boys must have drawn the enemy s attention; for we had not gone more than 500 yards be- fore we heard the coming shells, as usual, we lay prone awaiting the explosion and flying shrapnel, this was done safely about four times, but we were only human. beings and could not do impossibilities. a shell deceived us as to its pathway and before I could say down, it had arrived, and one instinctively real-' ized our danger and awaited the results, which came` in time, meas- ured by fractions of seconds. Upon rising after the explosion` I could feel agpushing, squeezing sensation, after that a blank! _ Two of the boys had been,instantly killed and four injured, myself . thrown about er, otherwisenninjured. I was car- ried? a distance and walked the re-. mainder to the dressing withnothing worse- than a close shave from concussion,` and in. the morning a painful shoulder and a sore lung made me report to the doctor, who sent- me to the hospi- tal where I am doing nicely and expect to be out soon again. six.- feet, alighting upon the shoul_d- ' station ' Rev. P. W. Roberts, in sharge of the Anglican Missions at Wye- bridge, Newtonville and Victoria Harbor, has been appointed assist- ant rector of St. Luke s Church, Toronto. ` . V M. UPHAM - - Mmggg son: I: 1 DD IIU ` In another column is an. `-item` stating tl1at- Mr.'Fred. Marr had re- ceived word that his boy, Beech- er had been wounded some- , . Where In. France. This Week Mr. Marr received a letter from Beecher, dated" Dec. 8th, in which he told of the event and the narrow escape from the death that overtook two of his party.- Ex- tracts V from the letter are here giv- D114" Lance-Cvorp.' Beecher Cenron Had'Narrow EscapeVWhen } , Shell Burst. DODGED 4 smzus % nrru an may -.,- _ we-rs ` All our Xmas lines were" sold on TXmas Eve, _so em`. erything wi1l'be frcsh for New Y ea|"s. New. Year. _s Cakes,-Vail-H mond i|Ct:d,.fpe1` lb, Strictly Fresh Candies for New Year s at Our Special Xmas Prices. ' {$1.00 PE ANNUM lN"Az6iANcl snugu on-jun franc: curry Yespectfulply soli for % 1 . I _g11!!j!!11t.1!!.1!11l.! Each. maturing son and. daughter. {should have a personal Savings`Ac- count in the Unioin. B.a.nk"of "'oa,n`. ada, with the opportunities to save reg-ularly, and training in how to '.-expend money wisely; Such `an ed- ucation iii`. thrift anii saving [will prove invaluable in; later life. ' ' $2o.ooo,oo stock "all re- duced in price. :`':Are Your A i Learning to Save Money? A great. opportunity to purchase good furs for far less than ` the regular_ fess` Ath'at: rgulaf J prices. - ' ` Fur sets Black and N atral Wolf, Fox, Sable, Racoon, V Mink, _ Segl, Persian` ms: etc.` Hudson Seal and Musk-T rat Coats. Tripity Church F_INEFUlS AT XIV. No. 52'. \\!I-ioL:`N`o "`.Afq`ai~.o`;_} THOMPQON CHEW. PUBI3I.I:|`R' C ` " Bargain Prices, PARISH or vns1>n.A- Maker of Pfartraits Janua;'y -2nd, 1916 V-rx A 1-r A -vary:-u-us-. .q.v--re`-r """ , V110 Vuaaxxuxau UL `D1137 _Education said/`the Cpl- mstitution cost ` less `_per, an the average-" bf *`t'heT "pro-_ Barrie Branch ?C ree1,1q6r ' ~.Cl.:.-1_4;i,s`fx`t:1a:s1;i;?::ftzir;i;:; vedg.fits.%popu1arity.3 _ :Wh1l_e__ .:-the F 4% ``1`1??9$:`?3t.1%3?% f - .~ exh:~bzts_.: 3 _ 1: Card? of Thanks. . I Wish to thank my many friends `W110 worked for me in the Prize Contest fcondueted by the W. C. Hunter Co. of Barrie, and althaugli I did `_n'ot7- Jwin the automobile, through the fact `-that at "the `close votes were transferred, which caus- ed myedefeat, _I wish ` to `exonergte The. Co._,; Lhowever, from `a;ny`7?blame. tor. fault" whatever,- as they, in. my etpinion, did the square. an-d...-. honorable thing from start to nish. Wishing. `you ti one .an,i";:all7 , a Happy rPr__o_s.p,erous A V7 (V3 llllal KLLJ V 101 [I890 The hocke season was opened Christmas afternoon,` when a Milton team met the local juniors in the Barrie irink.- The visitors were no match for the home team, receiving a coat of whitewash while the -.home team ran up a score of 13 goals." "`KboTft"hi{I' of the `- morning `mail the re alarm sounded, and after _ a short interval sounded .2 again. An. alarm was itelplioned to` the re hall from Bolger s that there was a re in the restaurant. Smoke was discovered coming up through the oor around the smoke pipe of the furnace. The alarm was A sent in, and some sol- diers Who were in the place pro- ceeded tq the cellar, and "after mak- ing their Way `through the smoke to the furnace, found the joists and oori_ng'aboye- the furnace pipe _on re. A few` pails of Water extin- `guished the blaze, all danger be-: ing ,.over by the -` time the remen arrived on the scene. The oor at the -spot where` the blaze occurred was badly charred.`-' The smoke in the two stores; was so dense that` the- light from the electric globes was `hardly visib'le_.._ ` m1-- 1.-..1---- ..........-- ........ ...,...-.....1 : AAAAAAAAA Ll. uzssuu U186 Wu]. UCSGII. There_ was no sign. of a green .Christmas this year. In fact it turned out to be a very white "" one. ` From the appearance of the ground when ' the r_st . look-out was made thatmorning, it looked as if it _had been snowing all night. Snow continued -fa1ling all day, making ' outdoor exercise anything but pleasant. As 'a consequence the day was observed probably more than usual indoors. . . n .. G.T.R. oicials state that the t traffic in` and out of Barrie {was ' much heavier than last year. At the local post ofce, the oili- L cials were -almost at their wits _ends to know how to handle the rush of e letters and parcels._ Dur- : ing_ the two days before Christmas, -`sue-h an avalanche of parcels and` letters as were handled beats every- thing' in the history of the office since.M1_f., Paton took charge. They. seemed to come in car loads, was the way `the postmaster described the` rush, . One class of parcels has] been missing this year and last- the plum puddings from the Old ,_Land have not come to Barrie Eng- ..lishmen since the war began." Thorn ttrna snn (u1.runvu l\ .. l........'... 7 Sunday January -2, 1916 -A Midhurst, 11.00` a.m.,-_Holy Com- V}i--'Inunion. Vespra, 2.30" _p.m., 7 Holy kommunion. Minesing, 7.00 p.m:., :;?'DaY_ of National prayer and inter- 9SS10,n--_Rev.V A. Strother, R_ec4tor.V . 11300 uu out; b1UUW&l.&5 -`\"i'ri?if the heavy Christnfas trade, 0 the store illuminations were 1115 creased. The light people say that the biggest lighting load ever car- ried Was during the` Christmas! Week. Beginniiigtfxliisiekl of Dec. 20th, the stores_ felt the rush of the `Christmas buying. .Thursday `and the Christmas niarket was the be- ginning of ` the bus_i_est two days [of business p_ Barrie -merchants have! ever experienced. - Good sleighing, ` i 1 and Weather with just enough win- ter tang, made shopping a pleas- ure. Thursday was a -big day for business, and there is little. doubt Friday, would hate, been equally as ' good if the Weather had not turned soft, threatening rain in the early` part of the day. By _ evening the crowds of shoppers thronged the streets -and stores, -and till a late; hour parcel-laden citizens` Were. to be seen Wending their Way .home- Wards. . At times it was nigh im-it possible to pass on the sidewalks ;l +111) l`lt\l'I1`IY (`lac-:z-wl-v.Q.~~ J----- J- The Christmas of~A1915 j is but a memory, and a pleasant memory for most people, if the volume of trade 1 done in Barrie the` Week" beforx Xmas isany _indicat_ion'. j 'I'\ Iiggst %Christn1 a Trad; it " Y g?a.,1i's.,._?--it-BiA`g`fgesbt"`Bt!|siV1 1ess4` ~ .V ` V l:'ve't'f'_t_,:itl_ig Posf V Heavy S1'1ow'S1':'orm Kept Many in- ` doors--Sma.ll Fire in ' T` the Morning |BARRlE S cmsrnii T`f.a1'h, Yd1ifs;.trul'y, V` ZEEMAN 31 RUPERT, ` `l'.1.`l.'..._... . At the annual commencement tex- ;,`. riS0S of the `CollingwoodtVColleg?` fi-)te_Institute, the Chairman of the fflinald Of Educatlon _Cpl- gwood institution per than the average-eft`Vt1teT;;preg Edenvale. I i?iaiai?.1T5v7 n.5"s3n"1i%:. Major G. E. McLean, 35th, Regt. Capt. W. M. Knowles, -late 36th Regt. (10th `Butt . C.E.F.) - Capt. M. Robinson, 35th Regt. - Fourth Co. Commander. not yet chosen. i V - Company t_SJec_ondV in `Conunand Capt. Dnncan, 35th Regt; V . ;.Cap_t.j Br_own,(' 35th Regt`. A Capt. A. P. Potter, 35th Regt.' ' _ `Fourth not yet chosen. T `_ VV ;; _ ..Lientonants - V G.-W..-Vansick1e,.ft35th Regt.- `~ .13, 1xr..*n-...-. `-:mn. .'o.....`a. --..d........ ....,... .1. - ` Regt., Barrie. V Assistant . Adjutant--Lieut. Leslie! . M. Frost, 35th Regt., Orillia. I Quartermaster--Capt. H. V. Ar- dagh, 35th Regt., Barrie. it Paymaster-Capt. W. Finlayson, 35th -Regt.,. Midland. ` 4.`: uxalxuy, IJJlIll' Medical AOicer-Capt. F. G. Wall- bridge, 35th Regt.,V Midland. Signalling Oicer*-- Lieut. R.- W. Stewart. 35th Regt., Barrie. _ Machine Gun Officer--Not yet chos- -. en. . _ . _- . . Chaplain-`-To be- appointed on mob- ilization as per regulations. Co11ipn3r VComm'9.nders`--4 - wMMmw$#M$M-MmMm; arrie s {Military : Life` ,_..-..__j._._ _:.---..:..__ g l orrrcmzs ron THE 157th. The following officers have been recommended by Lt.-Col. MacLaren, the oicer commanding, for the sev; eral appointments _ for the Simcoe County Overseas Battalion. "The list was sent to the Hon. the_ Minister of Militia for his approval early last vveek. ` .` Senior 'Major---Major W. D,` Smith, 31st Regt. (late- 13th Batt., C. ELIE) A Junior 'Maj`or-Appointment pend- ing. " Adjutant--C apt. F. N; Grandy, 12 Ann`- .35th ' Dnmac: A l `Jan: Jan. ` Jan. J an. Jan. ' J an. Jan. ` Jan. Jan. ' Jan. Jan. .' 14--Midland at Collingwood Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan I . Junioi 4--Midland at Barrie 6--_Orillia at Midland i10---`Barrie at ' Orillia 13--Barrie alt Midland 18--Oril1ia at -B_arriel 21-Midland at Orillia Intermediate--Sectioni A. 3-Orillia at Collingwvood 3--Barrie at Midland 7-?-Midland at Ba-rrio i10--C0lling*w_o_od at` Barrio 11-O1'illia vat Midland 14-Ba1'1'ie at O1"illia' 17-4Qrillia at Barrie . 20-Collingwood at Midland 24--'Bar1'ie' at Collingwood 24_--Mid1zind at Orillia `Jan. J an. Jan. ` U vuLL\AvIzL EIILLI .LU.LV 32nd SUNDAY AJFTER CHRISTMAS ` . 8.30 a.m.--Holy Communion. ` ' 11.0"a.m.--Ma_tins,-and Sermon. .3-0 p.m.--Sunday School. _ .00 p.m.;~Evensong'.and Sermon. `_ j 0}` ' JOHN P. CRAIG Mayor of. Barrie for a second term. vs~4xo.u.v;n.y_, u u guys, Walke1*, 35th Regt. .v ` K. Mair, 35th. Regt. 0. Powell, 35th Regt. TL. Hogg, 35t11_ Regt. . Harvie, 35th Regt. E.sl.-Tudho`pe, 35th Regt- s;Hipwe11;g%:435th Regt. n..;;`..... " ~ (nut. -Ln.-...L 3 WlSHE nfs R~EADEl3S, ONE AND ALL, % A \(ERYVa*~HAPPY _ NEW `YEAR HocK:>:Y SCHEDULES ,Movements ofsimcoe "Battalion That Is Now Being Recruited. nrtlyrml Amman J. F rankJackso; Q Recruiting was a little slow Vlast t Week owing to Christgnas. The in`- crease for the week.was~6;8.l-.The total up to ;Sat1ir"day, 4December.-_:25,7 was 771,t5.sAfo1lows: , p .._' _. ._.;. y. .7`. A_..;.-.'"` (9. .-"."'.'i.3. The 'foll<->'w:i_r;g have enlisted Barrie during the` pastweek. . Sergt.-Major W .H. Gale . .Ba: Q, M. Sergt. Stanley Davis..Ba: M. Bregg ` . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ba: ,W. R. Bogardis . . . . . . . . . .Ba1 D. Kirk .' . . . . . .. ....Ba1 _ ---\a VA , AAAA l \J\Illl' Emissioned oicer end man from the County of Simcoe, for indeed there is no necessity to_ go outside ofthe County to nd men who can ll every- rank in the battalion, with credit to themselves and the county - = they represent. V..- mu, ucuucuaub LU ue selected. It will `be noted that every officer is a citizen of the county except Major Smith,` who comes from the border of our County (Meaford), and who was appointed to the Bat- talion on account of his services at the a `War, from which he returned` wounded. `It is the intention that [this will be `a truly County Bat- }talion, with every officer, n`on-com- missioned officer and from (`I\`I'IV|`-Iv --9 03--~--- " ' " ` A 'K. S.`Drummond, 35th Regtf C. McRae,.35th Regt; E. E. Stewart, 35th Regt. Gordon Millar, 35th Regt. V. Lynch, 35th Regt. M. Carter, 35th Regt. One more lieutnant to be selecte. T4-. mm -1... ....L-n um g u J Ross. Ward 3--A.. E. Stapleton, J,_ S. Fisher. ' Ward 4--\V. D.- Minnikin, G. A. Warnica. A _ ' T '- Ward 5-C. Ho1_'se_1d, W. J. Grey Ward 6--J. D. Wisdom, A. Clarke Board of Education . P. Love, VV. C. Andrew; Donald RQGQ - 1 Mayor John F. Craig Reeve J. H. Bennett 1st Detuty Reeve . . W: P. Soules 2nd Deputy Reeve V `H. G. Robertson 5 V ` Councillors ` Ward `1-C. Thompson, " I Vwell. . ` - Ward 2-A. H. Brother, Davis. ` - There will be no municipal elec- tion in Barrie for 1916, as far as the Council and Board -of Education are concerned. By 9 o clock Tues- day evening `the only candidates to qualify. were for the Water, and Light Commission, Messrs. Hambly and Brown. So that the electors will have but two ballots to mark. Town Clerk Smith declared the following gentlemen elected to the ..... ...'.`l -$--.. - -..--v -v Anna b\1ALUl' I several ofes: Money "By-Law Should` B - ' Carried. ' 'vCohte3t F_o_r Wter and Light I ` Commissioner. TOWN` COUNCIL ' BOARD EDUCATION I E BY ACCLAMATION T(%1t*nd Barrie Recruits T. D. .Barrie. y Davis. .Barrie .Barrie .Barrie ....Barrie . . , . . . Barrie ....Barrie ....Barrie . . . . . . . .Barrie . . . .Barrje . . . . . ,Barrie % . . . ._._Bradford . '.'. .B radford .. ._.Ai1ten'-Mills . . .. .New .' Lowell. . L . ,Nw Lfo_well . ._, .N,ew: Lo`yell . J .i.'3i-S3? . . . .Tottenham . . .'. . .Stroud . V. .1. ,St1`oud" R. Bid- at -....,,.... .4 \ But the -question is: `will the by- law ' carry? or will the ratepayers imagine by defeating the measure, the" payment can be_ delayed. It should not be a question of will the by-law carry,_ rather should it be a matter for every rate-payer to see that it does carry. - A~"defeat_ means that nexteyear or 1917 at the latest, the whole amount of $7500` will have to be. levied to pay olf the- overdraftl in -the bank at present standing against _this- work. _Carry' , the `by-law `-and the payments `will be extended over a period` of twenty . `years at an annual` cost ._to the town" "Of $601-82st Defeat . the by~1;1w,: and`, . `PW .`1I'.iiXt1._'avi W0 `mill aSSeS`Smnts`? need. a 131'8l1:0f~ very * keanf xiii` iigxxt; .t;!?13i?ei*gie; 'w,1iiiih " as \_T_he machine, shop`-of the Geor- gmn Bay _..Lumber.. Co;, Waubau'- I sraene ' re~A%w .,......-.._, .l.\IA uuu ;u.uu.c_y uculg 1'u1seu. I As far as The Advance-can learn the trouble arose in the engineer s oice, in that the estimate for the wo_rk,and upon which the construc- tion by-law was voted,Was for a less amount that the work `cost when completed. Such mistakes often oc- cur in similar municipal; undertak- ings and " this time Barrie got caught. .. ~ " ` V n_-_; my, _ _- .3 . . ... .- - .~\.nu-J ,u;; 1JLa:u.J.U.lu. lo1UUl;- If the by-law" fails to receive the necessary votes to carry, the blame can fairly be placed at the door of the council of 1915; not that they are responsible for the money hav- ing to be raised, but because no effort was made to explain the neci essity for the money being raised. ' .Aa "pays no r"l`\l\ "A J-------- ---~ '-- - l At the municipal elections. on Monday next theeratepayers will be called upon to vote for or against a by-law ,to raise the sum of $7500 necessary to pay for the Work done last year in building the cement roadway on Bradford street. TB LL- I___I, ` I` BRADFORD STRBET ance. . V . . . . Indigent . . . . . . . . Law costs Police ' `department Educational . . . . `Citizens band County of Printing Park Commission Public Library Salaries Public Works . Post Oice Square, 1914-] Bradford -street lot Street oiling: . . . . . . . . 1 Sewer construction 1 Road improvement Special grants . Other `items. . Elections . . . . . . . . . Board of Health Fire Department . . . Fire Hall and civic I jcenance. . . lMa_1'ke`t and ` Happy New Year pTo\ `