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.-?__.._.______: ___-_ TM1 Pages -_1_-__1-gg:__ - BARBIE _ADvAN CE T. 12g-M-in nn+.sn~in. T11es:dav. March 21. 1939 1)1`('l:'0l1EZlT.1VC. Ottawa, Mar. 15, 1939. Dear E1ecto1'--I want to acknowl-1 edge your Globe and Hail ballot? ,.._.l 1.,` .\...`..n,.. \n\' !\nn1`P.{`i`:1f.iOl1 `E01 : and to express my zxppreci`z1t1on for} the interest you are taking in the` c0n public a'airs. I knowll that those who have written me will: lezui the way in co-operation for the. common good, and in so doing will? play an important part in the im-l pi-ox-mm,-11.1 of our social and econ-II omic structure. l People often criticize the purtyl system. which is not perfect be- cause it is human. 11 1121s, however, been the instrument tl11`ou:li which i we oluuineil the free 1.,-'0\'ernment'5 known throughout the British Em-:'. pire. May the interest taken mg; present in politics assist to build}: better upon our present founda-Ii tion, rather than to destroy them liberties we enjoy. | ' L---- L. :.. .\..m:,. urn rm-l edge "move 'cu1u xau ..........1` l1l)Cl'L1C:1 we UllJU_\. I have been in public life for many years and my only objective while a member of the Barrie town muncil. Simcoe County council, (Please turn to page ve) Crop Imp;ovement Meet A fxatliering of importance to all farmers interested in crop improve- ment and niatters pertaining there- to will be held in the Oddfellows Temple, Barrie. on Friday, March 81, when an all-day session of the Simcoe County Crop Improvement Association will hold a convention and seed display, commencing at ten am. and continuing until 4.15 r...,. The North and South Simcoe branches of the Ontario Crop and Imrprovement Association were or- ganized on January 17 of this year and have already formulated plans' for a busy and protable season. Full particulars of the projects in! (Please turn to page n) all crops for Simcoe County fa` ers, and last but not. least, problem of marketing will rec: serious consideration. The convention and seed dis] announced for March 31 is bu (Please turn to page ten) VI- -1;:-1'1;(iviI'ereMurch 319 he im_'-Enginer s Report Accepted` CCOX1- . s by Counci1-Fee1 Pro- 1nu't.\' posal not Feasible. Barrie imdeman Says Chilrm Eat Batten Fruit. \ 9 w 5 8 \ vv UC\:UJ.1\. {% What ha V` dump in t 5 We will all as soon as if something condu'tions r W. D. Pad< . cil Monday [ing of enq What's man Paddis the school ` dump and W` and eating *1` think this at of affairs 1 1' allow to al- Hunt Through Offensive Dump to Secure It, says Aid. Paddison -- Thinks Citizens Will Have to Wear Gas Masks or Clothes Pins in Warm Weather. has been done about the the Agricultural Park. have to wear -gas masks the wzirm weather comes something ism: done to rectify right at once, Alderman Paddison protested at coun- .cil evening under the head- enquiries. I snxn...u- m.-A nrmHm1pr1 Alder- 1 I A thief with a. yen for the finest in the culinary art and an appreciative eye for all the trimmings, broke into the prem- ,r uI--..___v. Rynnd Earlv trimmings, bl'0l{e ll.U me 3...... ises of VVeston s Bread early Monday morning and made off with a three-decker wedding cake, trimmings and all, valued at ten dollars,` that was await- ing shipment to a home where a nuptial knot is soon to be tied. The stableman, making his rounds in the early morning hours, noticed that the door of the shop had been jimmied and notied the manager, J. R. Reid, who discovered the loss. E.fMus.aster St. gBoulevard ;gBeiecieo1_ There will be no flowers blooming: in the middle of .\Iu1caste1- Street this summer as proposed by the Horticul- -1 mural and Town Improvement Society `at a recent meeting of the Town iCounci1. Town Engineer |Rz1\\'s0n submitted :1 report to coun- icil through chairman of Works, A`:- derman Cavaxmgh, Monday evening`, which appeared to meet with the ap- proval of council. While members were sympathetic with the plans of the society, ;~2eve1'a1 expressed the (Please turn to page ve) .j._ E. O.` that .1 (` only in were osc- P . . 1 mind will he given out at the con- 1 ventior\ on March 31. Naturally, only a start can be made this ;.'eur, but during the next` few years the Crop Improvement Association plans to make war on weeds and the` wastage of soil fertility; to drive rust: and` smuts out of `he ounty so far as is possible; to produce within Simcoe County an adequate seed supply of the best varieties of Simcoe County farm- the receive on` ,, ___u ___.x .I-_I..`-. u.._.u. -.\,..-__-- (Please turn to page ten) display being On Ladder of Fame Oun_ \IUI-l.L\4\o-L `run.-. '-7% ` Cured if Treated $1 In Early Stages ho-r< Barrie Jail Break Has Toronto3;;Press Aflutter Just a Couple of t1_1e` Lads Out for a Run, Fat` They Cause Sensation Miles from Home. Barrie had a jailbreak on Monday which caused Toronto papers to work themselves into a dither and` kept press wires, telephones, etc..` hopping" for some hours. in an at- tempt to get the low down on the whole sensational affair. In the ` Queen City, to which the report , trickled some hours after the actual "wholesale delivery, came requests for answers to such questions as: Why, who, what, when, where; tion a request or two to nd out if" if not, why no:, etc., not to men-X] `the guards at the local institution had been manhandled, if any re- works were in evidence and what sly and wily plans were used by `local provincial police in the recap- ll ture of the desperados. F2161` is, there was :1 jai'-break. if it could properly be teruncai th'.\t,i but the jail wasn't broken and no- thing: more serious occurred than couple of the la(l.~:" attired 15 work . and overalls, 1- e.~'corted back to Ca:-`tle Stone "'---- 1...... 4... Damn I | ' Winners among 2,500 .`~:creen aspirants in :1 New York com- petition for 21 chance in Hollywood, were Dorothea. Dz1\":.-, 17, :1 model from Wimiipeg, 312111., and Charles Ruppert, 23, student in a New Lon-zlon, Conn., military ac adem_\'. It looks safe to . ihat Canzulizms (and others) will foilo w Miss Davis career with relish. | __~ :gancer Can be The importance of anyone sus- pecting that he or she has cancer seeking and acting on medical ad- vice, was stressed by Dr. C. C. Ross, of Toronto, at Kiwanis on Monday night. Tn 1001! nn Inc: than In 1936 no less than 12,500 died of cancer in Canada, and over 11,- 000 in 1937. One death out of `every nine in the Domini-on is caus- `ed by cancer. This dreaded disease is increasing in spite of every effort to control it. The unfortunate thing is that from 30 to 50 per cent. who die from cancer might be ,saved if treated in its early stage. I .-. ,_ _ . _, -I ---- A u .-.90 !Uvl\ID+`\ . . 1' W Town Truclzs Rec1_u:'ec1 to - c-;t,13 Haul 1,o0alT;E,tel5 " Bottles from `L'a..'-;`.`s See,-'W`nii eake ' ond-Hand Shop on Bay- Hf t le Wll ye] eld St. he_ culinary i53Vea II I-T881330 III we balmy Dvo:5\.o ' Cancer is a disorder or growth of some cells of the body. It has been known throughout ahistory; it affects male and female of every race, and all animals. It is not con- tagious, nor is it hereditary. All living organism is composed of (Please turn to paga ten) 'R. C. C. ROSS, OF TORONTO, AT ~_ KIWANIS, STRESSES TRAGEDY a` OF NEGLECT. __ Barrie, Ontario, Tuesday, March 21, .'L'Ul`Ll:\l Iuun LU \.l.l-\4|\_ Please turn to Page 5 1 `Fail 01: Street Proves Fatal to Earrie Lgly MRS.. J. A. KNOX PASSES DUR-I2 INC. OPERATION IN TORONTO!` HOSPITAL _ THREE cAsEs-;1 FRACTURED BONES REPORT-' ED TO COUNCIL. !1 l Barrie will have two tag days in close succession as the result of the granting requests by the Salvation Army and the Can- adian National Institute for the Blind to hold tag days in Bar- rie on Saturday, May 20, and Saturday, June 3,_ respectively. The Salvation Army tag day will be in conjunction with the annual Self-Denial Campaign, while the Ladies Auxiliary of the Barrie Lions Club will spon- sor the tag day for the blind. i. L'nu. \\'euthe1' conditions, re-ig sulting; in s1ippe1'_\' sidewalks, have re- 0 .sulted in three persons suffering` ibroken bones as a result of fa1ls!V jwithin the past few days, one end-is ` ing fatally with the passing of 111$.` ' J. A. Knox in the Toronxo General ` Hospital, where she died on Monday` V while undergoing an operation for 1 i_ a fractured hip. `1 Mrs. Knox, who \\".x.~- i1`3l' sixty-ii =fou1'th year, and a well-known P-81'-`i isecond Hand Dealers Must Keellifcords A by-law governing local second-l hand dealers and amending the former b_v-1aw, was given three read- =--_. .4 ....,.....,I my mmnnil Mnndav V01. XCIII. N0. 3. Iormer D_\'-1aw, \vas givcu uuuc Luau" ing and passed by council Monday evening which requires that persons operating second-hand stores within the corporation of the Town of! Barrie, keep a book in which must be recorded the names of all per; sons from whom purchases have` ,1- vvuu been been maue. The by-law was pased` .upon 'the recommendation of Chief Constable .AJex.. Stewart, who informed coun- | cil at the last meeting that he desir- -J.l_.`l ......:..4.......;. ~"'.{u.i' b'an_ Cu at but: last. un7t:uu5 ulna `nu u..... ed such added assistancp :fm_' keep- ing track of transacons of this _..4....... ........l.. 1.-usolln lug uacn u; uuuusu nature made locally. Taggays Please turn to Page 5 Plan Protection For Children -L-u-.sn.--.u-r;-u-u--u--e --w-_ .-z,-... _:= , .1 utsiaei` Eliminated From 6'1 Applications Alluminle Ean Bady miured Falling at Armed with a market basket and supported by `four husky assistants in the persons of Sgt. J. Case, Con- stables Beaxty and Whitey, Chief stablels cBatty and Whitely, Chief Alex. Stewart headed a raid (an- other one )on Arthur Tuck s second- hand store on Bayeld St. Friday afternoon in search of milk bottles belonging to local dairies. The market basket proved far too inadequate to accommodate the nd, however, and following three or four hours of rummaging through boxes, barrels, packing cases and a general assortment of odds and ends of every age and description, the of`ficcr.< were 0bll_L,"0(l no place a call for two town trucks to assist with the removal 01' scores upon scores of milk bottles. Friday s seizure included 498 bottles l)c~l<)n;'i1i_<.,~` to l7u1'rie-.-\llan(lale Dairy, 40 Citizen s Dairy bottles, and (33 hearing the Lakeview Dairy sianm, in addition to over two hundred bottles belonging to Toronto dairies or having no designating marks. The bottles belonging to out-of-town dairies, together with those not marked, were sorted from the Barrie lot at the police station and returned to Mr. Tuck. As a result of the raid, Mr. Tuck will appear in police court on Wed-i uesday charged with receiving stolen goods. I 1 l `Bert Owen, Centre St., Allandale, \\'a;< critically injured this afternoon while assisting in the lifting of 21 boat belonging` to Mr. Harry Bry- son to its place in his boathouse near the foot of Mulcaster St. Owen was rusherl to the Royal Vic- toria Hospital, from where he was later removed by ambulance to To- ronto General Hospital In an e`ort to save his life. A _-.',J L- 1.... .~u4n\.lnrr 'l'vnn1 I Reeve Donald MacLax-en, chairman of the Police Com- mittee, accompanied by Alder- men Twiss and Garner, will meet the Board of Education at their next meeting in an at- tempt to get together and de- vise a. means of protecting school children from trafc dan- ... . n. xnxr via: a. -u\....... __ r, , , __ gers on Bradford St. We should no`. tn-"5' to place our responsibility on the Board of Education, nor will we accept theirs, but we do not want any accidents to happen, and I feel that in co-operation we can work out something to meet the " H, W. IA..-` r-war` L0 S'd.\'l: Illb 1u.c. Owen is said to be sufferinsz from i`?f}`J;-`:"iE? `:Zf3`:DePW-Reeve Verbal I ` `1 S, c S - - - dition is 1'epo1'te'i as extremely cri-` .el?a`r(1: 10 V S 011 tical. M1`. Owen, who works for Mr.` M.`O.H. Salary Increase-- B1'_V.=on, had assi: in the removal Suggests Resignation_ __ .1_- L..." +.-. Hm WOTK ULIL aunucuu-.5 u. .... -- ._.- situation, Reeve MacLaren stated in sponsoring the sugges- tion for a meeting, which was approved by council. `Seeks Former \Barrie Emily ucai. Mr. of the boat across the bay to the .|boat.house where the large craft was being raised clear or the ice on chains. In some manner the chain 1 (Please turn to page ve) ifcupd Wins The Day in II AEIIE- f1---...L i Chief of Police Alex. Stewart is Oil 31 in receipt of a letter from Harold the 5 Nelson Watson, of Ponoka, Al- kY10W berta, in which the writer is seeking Ii `to locate former Barrie residents in Reev lthe persons of William Isaac Simp- N955 son, his son, Isaac, or daughter, this Nina Simpson, said to have been`the `residents of Barrie from 1894 to Very `L900, or later. Mr. Simpson, a(:- ter. ; cording` to the information received the _{by the chief, was an engineer on DI`- '.,the C.N.R. thei '| Miss Nina Simpson, according` to If Ilthe letter, was the nurse in attend- 511113 lance at his birth and through the lie Simpson family he is attempting to D1`0` :iobtain proof of birth-date for sub- ; I-`(Ya `mmission to the Albertam Legislature, Thf which now requires that all civil Of "' l se1'\'ants submit birth certicates. . U31 Any information regarding the Th` 1 whereabouts of the Simpson fa1nil,\'iW?1~` Y.` will be appreciated by the chief or` '11 '1 `by Mr. Watson, at Ponoka, Alberta. l Ori11ia.-Dan Cupid, looking very` _much like Magistrate Bick, presided; iat a session of Oriilia police court! ' on Friday and decided to do nothing] at all in the case of Edna Crippsgi iaged 17, and charged with the ser- ious offense of perjury. I` Edna, it was stated, went to Bar-: rie in company with Nathan Shaw, `also of Orillia, and there assisted in the obtaining of a marriage li- `cense by stating her age was 18. i'She was some 30 days short of that | E E Leadership League Supporters Get Reply Pro_r_n__ Member ' gge. CBC- Mrs. M. Cripps, determ'ir_1ed to pre- vent the marriage, charged her daughter with perjury. 13;- ;_1_..L 2.0 `I 4...!` uuusuuc; nu... ,....,..-_,. Do you `realize that if I nd your girl guilty as charged she` is. liable to a maximum prison sentenae - ..--._- on ..'...u._,: `n... r1,,,,;,1 1018 EU '4 H1`a.AuHu-un ysnaun c1.um.u..ul seven years ? aked Dan Cupid, A "Court Appearance 26 local Applications Weed- ed Down to Six who Will | Appear Before Next 3 Meeting of Council. Judging` by the number of appli- cations received for the position of constable for the Town of Barrie, being a local constabule" is a n1uch-to-be-desi1'~ed job. Sixty-seven applicaiions in all were received for the position advertised to pay one tliousand dollars per year. Replies were received from 26 local appli- ' cunts and from out-o-town would- be constables from such places as Timmins, Wiarton, Burwash, To~ ronto, Lindsay, Fleslierton, Hami- ton, South River, e`Cc., as well as many of the surrounding towns and villages. nr.-n- .4-_.. ..4...,.1,n n4-` Han non, H10 and vluages. With one stroke of the pen, the names of all outside applicants were .~:t1'uck from the list of (3lljll)lS for the position, council taking the view that a Barrie man if possible should be rgivcn the preference. There he- ` ins: no dearth of police timber local- ` ly, the committee sifted the quarter , 1 1_....1 ....n1nnnf~.- rlnuv-n ie is A scathing rebuke was admin- in istered` a l3arrie Alderman in coun- n cil Monday evening when Deputy- Reeve Mills in forceful words took Alderman `Cubitt-Nichols to task for the recent publication of a letter in the press relative to the increase in salary granted the M.O.H., which Alderman Cubitt-Nichols claimed was not properly dealt with by coun- and that if the item did" receive 314 approval, it was without his A1- knowledge. `mg Not long ago, said Deputy- Reeve Mills, there appeared in the up. press a letter by an alderman of ;e1-, council regarding the salary of een`the Medical Health Officer. I take strong objection to such a let- The nance committee and ved mayor considered the request of 011' Rogers and were unanimous in their decision to increase the salary. the M .O.H. cared to, he could md--appear before the judge and I be- lieve the judge would set a salary ;to probably much higher than that ;u1,.ll granted by the nance committee. m-e,'The M.O.H. is entitled= to a salary fteen cents per capita. For _ lllarrie, that would be about $1,200. The alderman said that the report mi1_\~`wa.~: not read at council and if it if 01-: \\'a.< read he did not hear it. He erta. (Please turn to page ten) _ ly, me COIIIIIIILLUK: auwu we .,......v- of :1 hundred local applicants down to an even half-do7.en and these will appear before council at the next L'e::ular meetin'_r:,, Monday evening, April 3, to explain their qualica- tions and tell council just why they (Please turn to page ve) ? I Resivdeluts of Simcoe County who` fo1'wa1~dred' Leadership League bal- lots to Duncan I\IcCuaig, M.P., r~-- .... ....n.. wmaiunrl H19, 1'01. Alderman Is Rebuke Fm `Public Letter a nun u... .........-_. _,, page alias .VIagistrate Bick. ' u\V._ T ,1:,I..un ,,."]na anas .\lag'lSl;1`au: ulcn. No, I didn t, gulped the mother, please let me withdraw the charge." ,.-.. .1. ," J ..._.........I H.` uxlzuy.-.x:. Not right now," demurred thd magistrate, I think I ll let things `. stand a week on remand and see : what happens. There was 3 l twinkle in his eye as he said it. - . .~. , ,,____-..L5-- l Lwuuuc nu um \rJ\- ...., .... .._.._ H, Half an hour later the prospectivl !bridegroom walked on air to the Chief `Constable Wm. Carson's olee and there announced that all par- ental opposition to his marriage to Edna had vanished. \ann\a ...... ...__-___, And you can bet your life on this, pointed out the chief, Mag- istrate Bick will be the last person on earth to separate a. bride and groom for seven long years, or even I seven minutes. ` mg OI I1qL1l1'n`.a. more," continued Alder- Paddison, small children from are running over to the rummaging around in it Resivclents who`and rotten fruit I donyt is a very nice condition 10"- Mccuaig: for the town of Barrie to Ottawa, recently, received the fol- exist Mrs woods has lowing letter of acknowledgement been getting out to her dump all from M15 Mccualg t'd3Y- winter and Livingstone should get The Advance has been unable to out to his too and not use the ascerzain how many ballots \vere'ats1.ieu1tm.at grounds for a dump.-! received by the Simcoe County re-. 3133.01. Robertson assured _\1,._ _..;...L:.... nu.-rn 1-nn\ i I /1-u,, , 1.....- 5.. 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