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Letter Headings Note Headings Statements, Bill Heads Envelopes of every kind -n SI-IAMPTON E. J ORY - King Block, Barrie ~..n~r~niwa.... Iifn, (`n_<'nnltv. Plate Glass. Automob 1Ju.I`l. U1. Luv wuuu. u\;AvAuu uA.|\4 ....... ... -. D_0.\lINIO.\' EXPRESS MONEY ORDERS Telephones: Omce 188, Residence 5-19 SPEClAL_: FURNITURE 1 An up-to-date stock of Folders, Programs Posters, Dodgers Sale Bills, Cards Mercantile Circulars Invitations, Circulars Announcements `Blotters, Receipts Memorial Cards Circular Letters CARPETS LINOLEUMS ETC. FURNITURE 60 Elizabeth Stfeet. . $300 .00 . $200.00 Verandah and-Li`v_in;g-Room Furni- ture and Garden Seats at Toronto prices. Fe`*$`; f3:,*:;*;s* A. E. SMITH \V:\l{ .\lEl\lORL-\L PARK DEDICATED AT LEFROY Lefroy Merchant's Gift Is Muchl Appreciated by Residents. Hundreds of people ~fro1n various pairts of Simcoe `County gathered in Ithe village of Lefroy last Saturday to celebrate the opening of the new War Memorial Park, Park Lloyd George, which was formally dedi- cated on Satuftlay afternoon. Crowds came from neighboring vil- lages. Belle Ewart, `Stroud, Cooks- town, Chvurchill, Tliornton, Bradiford, Beetion and Ivy all contributed their quotas to the cars which lined the nra-in street of Lefroy. A few came from Barrie and Toronto, several ex- residents of the village motored in from more distant points of the Province. His Excellency the Go\'erno was prevented from `attending only `by the press of previously made vengagetneilts. The hark whir-h is valued at previously made v(:`-Ilgageluvuta. The park, which is valued $10,000, is situated in the centre of..the village, and was set apart for public use by the `general merchant, .\. Kirk-pa.tricl<. It is a level `piece of land, seven acres in area. and very suitable !fOI` games. At one end is a group of shade trees and an zurtesian well. The cellar -and `oor of a. future pavilion have been built, and at the entrance to the grounds .\lr. Kirkpatrick has erected a -pair of Imemorial gate pil1a.1's. Upon one olt` these, with veuy simple ceremony, the war trophy, zi. captured German machine gun, was mounted, H. J. McLeod otnciatixig. .\ n.nv-nninfinn nf tho now hm-lr nvas noneou 0l;II(:1i.lL1n'5. Appreciation of the new park .was expressed from the platform. The chairman, J. J. D. Banting, cousin of Dr. Banting of Insulin fame, con- ducted the opening ceremonies and at the request of the managing committee, rconrposed of citizens l0f the village and township, conveyed to ;\lr. Kirlcpatrick thanks -for his generosity. In his address, -.\I`r. Banting declared that Park Lloyd Geonge would prove a boon to the community. The need for such a place had long been felt. He re- minded his heare-rs that no politics" was t.he order of the day. It had been specically stated that .there would .be no political discussion -from the platform, and this, he felt, was entirely in keeping with the spirit which should prevail at the dedication of a war memorial. It is an excellent thing, he declared, that we can assenuble here tlor a day and forget our political and ail other differences," and he hoped that the same hanrmony would be enjoyed at the many annual celebratvioxis which he felt would zfollow the present one. 'T`hn nnm-nnnn was taken in) with present one. The afternoon was taken up with games and athletic events under the direction of Sam Todd of Churchill. The .princiwpzu1 baseball game, be- tween Thornton and Stroud, resulted in ,0, victory for the latter, the nal score standing at 4-2. Several other games of hard and soft ball were rplayed. In an after-supper soccer match South Innisl lost to north in a itight game which closed with`a score of 1-0. An -interesting pen-fiorniance was put on by an equestrian troupe under Sergeant Whitehouse of `Toronto, and by a youthful ventriloquist, who amused the clrihlren. Music was provided by the Thornton thirty-piece band. Supper .was 'Sil'Ved in the picnic ground {by a comn1i.ttee of ladies. Canada is now the w0u'1d s second or third largest producer of wheat and the world's second largest ex- porting country, tiherefore, it is of the highest importance to obtain early -and accurate knowledge of the total output. The information con- cerning wheat and other farm pro- ducts, numrber of animals and acre- age is of value to elevator and trans- portatiion comnpanies, bankers and the farmers themselves. 7`l"kn T\I\vs\tv\.:nr| Tlnv-nun nF Qfntiatiina U18 l.i1l'lll!:`l'5 LlH:.'lllSt5l\'t.'5. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics announce that they shall begin next month to collect the agricultural statistics for Canada. Cawds will be distributed -by means of the ru~ra.l school system. .-\(iRlCl'L l`UR.-\L CENSYS The No1'the1'n Advance Felt Mattresses, $7.00 up Sl.\lCOIr] Y. M. (7. .-\.~I R0\'lDES ` 1 SL'.\l.\lER C.-\)lP FOR BOYS i The camp is not only a well conduct- It may ,-be news to, many parents! and :boys that the Simcoe County! Y.;\I.C.A. has `been conducting a1 camp for boys at Beausoliel isla-nd.l Geo~:'gi`a-n Bay. This camp has been, operated for the last three. years and has estlaiblished a reputation as one of the finest camps for `boys in On- tario. Last year lb0_\`s vfroin Midland, Barrie, Orillia, Victoria 3-lanvbor, Port .\IcNicoll, .=\l1i Brampton and Toronto mvere in attendance. ed recreational effort, but the man- agement h`a-ve pnovitled high grade instruction in nfany rsuibjects not provided in any schoo-l CiI`I`lCll]L1`.l1. Last year -18 boys successt`-ul passed the tests set by the Royal Life Sav- ing Society rf:0.r prociency in the knowledge of how to save drowning persons and lessons are given in bird and plant life and `Bible study. This year the staff of instructors contains the following well known names: E. R. Thurlo-w, B.A., Dir- ector, Secretary County Y.i\I.C.A.; A. E. `Allin, M.A., Jarvis St. Col- legiate, Toronto; V. A. Ellis, Coiling- wood Technical School: \V. S. Odell, Central Emperim-.ental Faurm, Ottawa; L. A. Harper, Taxidermist, Honey Harbor. Ont.; H. .\1"Al..*t0l1. Instructor Royal Life Saving So- ciety, Hiclland. Instruction is offered in bird, plant and fungi life, life saving, swimming, athletics, "elementary taxidermy, rustic handicraft work, aquatics, icampcxraft and Bible study. The r-nmm is n-nerated along Tuxis \ l study. The camp is o-perated along and Trail Ranger Lines and has the endorsation of tihe Ontario Religious Education Council. This camp scored 100 .per Icent. in icamp man- agement last year in competition with an other Y..\I.C..-X. camps in Ontario and Quebec. n := nvinnr-fb that manv Fbovsi Ontario and Quebec. 1 It is expected that many Fboys| fvom Barrie and vicin-ity'wi11 at- tend the `camp this year again. 1-` rluluc, ,nn.\.:- lI\Jlll\ .-\l was out wt-1Wki11g in the garden and his `golf sticks were on the` front porch, when a neigh1bo1` stop-` ped by. I: the wife: 11011119. A '2 yuu lllllll if she wasn't ? an my. Is the wife home, "Do you think I'd be doing this i I plan uvn=n`f 9 l Above, C.P.S.S. Empress of Scotland" arriving at uuen ing prior to the unveiling. Inset. the Memorial. WHO was Abraham Martin? been asked-one year ago probably not one Cana- dian in a hundred thousand would have been able to answer it. Today it is different. Most Canadians now know he was first King's pilot on the St. Lawrence river, and the first known Canadian of Scottish ex- traction-two claims to distinction either one of which might have made him famous. Had that question i 2 1 J 1 1 l 1 Latterly other things ` to his credit have come to be known, and they will be ` recorded in their due place. _ In the meantime is it not remarkable how little Canadians know of Canada's history--as rich 3 bit of _ nation history as ever was crowded into a space of three hundred odd years. The high points of the splendid story some of us know fairly well, but the little byways and side-lights, so full of human interest, they lie in a deep obscurity from which they are being rescued one by one, at the patient digging of this or that person or institution actuated by a love of the heroic past and a realization of its value in building the national life of the future. Aln-ul-yarn Martin was some figure of a man, in his much information about the man and his times. national life or the 1ut.ure.' _ _ Abraham Martin was some figure of man.,1n day although most of his just claims to fame seem to f It was hardly more than 5 have been thrust upon him. a matter of accident that the Plains of Abraham should come to be named after him, and yet that was plenty to set all good Canadians wondering who he was and what manner of life he led. Much digging in the archives of Quebec, and there are none more interesting or more faithfully kept, has brought (ll: e was born in France, his father being a Scot, which is probably why Jesuit writings of the times refer to him as Abraham Martin. called the Scot. probably came from Perthshire and was one of the Scottish Guards of Louis XI. In 1614 Abraham brought his French wife to Canada and that he saw the actual founding of New France may be gathered from the fact that his name was on the list of the 31 white persons who lived in Canada from 1629 to 1632, and he was then known as_a pilot. He later had ten children .5 l l 1 ( l ( l 4 ? His father } Recommends Chiropractic for Billiousness ENVEILING MARTIN "Empress Scotland an-ivlnz : silimz. Inset. Get Your Clothgs Cleaned .E%1\oves Cleaned \Ve do everytlling in the line of Cleaning and Dyeing. All Work Done on the Premises Goods Called for and Delivered. Give Us a Trial. 29 Elizabeth Street. McC1..**v s Electric Ranges and Circulating Water Heaters Sold and Installed. VVE CARRY A FULL LINE OF ELECTRIC IRONS I-IOT PLATES TOASTERS I-[EATERS LAMPS BUL House `Phone 698. 1. W. ROBINSON Mrs. Ashton, of 127 Ascot .-\ve.. T01-onto, Under date of April, 1922, write ` that after suffering nine years, she was made well by taking adjustments from Electrical Contractor H. ELSTON FIXTURES AND SUPPLIES at Quebec. Below. F. L. Wnnldyn of the C.P.R. addresses the gather- 101 DUNL1 Pressed from whom have come a vast number of descendants among whom are numbered some of Quebec's best families and leading citizens. Bishop Tache of Sn Boniface is one of his descendants in direct line. Champlain g-ave Martin a deed to the farm land on the Plains of Abraham, and documents telling of his living there still exist. He apparently travelled greatly up and down the river for Cape Martin in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is also named after him. A11 +1.5. urn: dintinntivs-. enoutzh to iustifv the me- is also named atter mm. All this was distinctive enough to justify morial which has been raised to Martin in the Harbor Square at Quebec. The handsome shaft of granite. designed by Henri Hbert and T. Roxburg Smith, was unveiled early in May by Hon. Athanase David. Quebec's Provincial Treasurer and the event was marked by a athering of notables including the Gov- ernor of Que ec, Sir Charles Fitzpatrick. Among those who spoke were F. L. Wanklyn, representing the Canadian Pacific Railway Company by whom the` memorial was erected. Lieut.-Col. Alex. Fraser. A.D.C.. to the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Law- rence Burpee, President of the Canadian Historical: Society and Monseigneur Laflamme, Cure of the Basilica. The latter spoke as the successor of the first Cure of Quebec who was Martin's parish priest and who was afterwards martyred by the Iroquois. He read the baptismal certificate of Abraham Martin's first child who was also the first white child born in Canada. He also read the ba tismal certificate of; Martin's third child upon which appeared the name of Samuel de Champlain as godfather. The memoria has been _set up by the Canadian Pacific in honor, no only of Abraham Martin but of the stout-heartedl pilots who for over three hundred years have done sol much to make the St. Lawrence River a safe and speedy route to and from Europe. That Compan uses the route more than any other, and the arriva at Quebec of the great liner Empress of Scotland". on her first trip of the season with 731 passengers from Europe later in the day of the unveiling empha- sizes what has been accomplished in the making of the St. Lawrence route a great highway for ocean borne commerce. Hats Clea11ed:hd Blocked : Repaired JOB} Phone 441w. Page Seven Dyed Chiropmctors . Phone 406, Barrie. .I.'.LA.l.Vl.|.".l'U.LV .|`.i. dU.l:ia.I. xxuxg Luuvn, .a.m,;u-.. [NS[ l{.-\NCE-Fh~e. Life, Casualty, Glass, Automobile. TICKET .-\(.`ENT---Czm*adian Pacic Railway and StezLmsh'1p Lines. Likewise C:nzu'd. Anchor and Anchor-Donaldson Lines. Bookings to every part. of the world. Service unexcelled. 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