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Barrie mmmm 5min mirrome an 0993 smear 89th Yearelite in aloenouns whodme iarrir Emotion it on Fall Fair Will Feature Womens Seetion ThisYear For First Time Since World War it For the first time in 11 years women will be exhibiting radicth and home cooking at the Barrie Agricultural So ety Exhibition this week When the fair opens on Thursday one end of the Barrie Curling Rink Exhibition space will be devoted entirely to womens work Since the middle of World Wart this first ycar of iLsurncti activities 11 there has been no space avail able for womens displays at the annual exhibition The last time similar display was held was in 1942 at the old fair grounds beside the Barrie Arena Due to the war and subsequent small accommoda tion there have been no womens exhibits since that time When construition on the new curling rink was begun it became evident that there would be room for the women once more The ladies this year have the section of the curling rink that will eventual ly be comfortable lounge and club room Womens Section The weaponssection is starting out fairly small but is ambitious in its scope In the home cooking division there will be entries of bread and buns cakes pies and tarts home canned floods pickles and honey and in several special ivisions Crafts on display will lude handwoven anticles leci er metal craft knitted articles living and dining room accessories kitchen and bedroom accessorits mens and ladies wear childrens weanaquilts bedspreads rugs and miscellaneous needlewmk Mrs Sterling Grant 14 Parkside Drive Barrie who was chosen chairman of the committee in charge of womens Workis one of the busiest women in town this week With theassistance of her committee members Mrs Ken Cuvhnagh and Mrs Lloyd of Barrie Mrs Dwight Nelson of Stroud and Mrs Jennett of Ivy she will be working to set up her pant of the Womens display tinngin the early part of the week and will be arranging to be on hand the three days of the fair mursday Friday and Saturday Oct and 1lt Romanoon Mrs Eric Simpson the chairman of the committee in change of the home cooking cirhlbit aliamovingL from Elmvale toher new home in Barrie this week just beforethe fair and has meanurhile been pre paring for several months with her committee Mrs WJ Maguire of nosing Miss Joyce Hunter of ntyxxBay Mrs Fred Mulholland Strand Mrs Warnica of Painswick and Mrs Charles New ton of Barrie The home cooking exhibit is partly Womens Institute project There is Womens Institute Special section open to branches in Smioc County Divisions are kitchen curtains breakfastcloth tea towels dish cloth pot hold ers kitchen apron and flowers suitable for breakfast table Prizes for this class have been do nated by Painswick Womens In stitute Stroud Womens Institute Mlnesing Womens Institute Saurin Womens Institute the former Wo mens Fair Board and Barrie Wo mens Institute Womens will be from this source However interest in the mens section has been great on all sides William TVliilctifiloll suc rotarymanager of the exhibition has been stormed with trcmcnd our number of inquiries about the womens displays since early spring The return of the ladies is being welcomed by the fair board Lllju Eugene Smith president of the Barrie Agricultural Society says in his Ccmcnnial Your nnssagc to exhibitors that the officers and dir ectors are very pleased to be able to include the Womens Work sec tion this year after having sccn unavoidably crowded out during the last few years Distinguished Judge Among the distinguished judges present at the fall exhibition will be the assistant curator of textiles of the Royal Ontario Museum from Toronto Miss Vera Clark who is knoWn throughout the district for her former assistance with the quilt and rug fair Mrs Grant has enjoyed serving on the fair board this year She has been meeting with her com lTurn to page two plcasc wu Health Unit Asks Realistic Approach To Polio Problem The Simcoc County Health Unit was plagued with poliomyclitis during the month of August in the icbminunicablc diseases field How ever in looking at the apparent2 eupswing in the incidence of thiltlx ldiscase authorities asked the public loot to become panicked but to keep realistic approach to the problem With this in mind the health unit attempted to reassure the publ in comparing this disease withi votlicr crippling discolcs such asl tuberculosis we have much more to worry about in the case of tuby ciculusis slates Dr Scotl health unit director The number of cases of polio reported by thcbcginning of Sep tember in the county was 57 made up of 15 resident and 12 nonresi dent cases with ve deaths Four cases of mumps were also ieportcd during August and three cases of measles There were two cases of German measles in the county and one case each report cd of sCarlct fever and tubercul 0515 Canadian Musi Has Come at Age Speaker Tells Audience Teachers Present Fine Program Canadian music has come of age Phyllis ElworthySmith FTCL Mus Ban vicepresident of the Ontario Registered Music Teach ers Association told capacity audience of music and art lovers in Hillcrest School Auditorium on Friday evening Speaking at gathering spon sored by the Barrie branch of the music teachers association the noted Toronto teacher and musi ciantraCcd the growth of na tional music in Canada over the past three and halt centuries Music has developed in this country to gradual style recog nizable as nationalstyle Slow ly but surely it is gaining recog nition everywhere fact of which we should be very proud Program By Pianist To illustrate her theories of the worth of modern Canadian music she had with her young pianist Margaret Ann Nixon ATCM who played two compositions by the modern Canadian composers Rob ert Fleming and Dr Eugene Hill and The Cat and the Mouse by the contemporary American composer Aaron Copeland In Flemings Sonatina and Hills Rondo Francaise the competent young artist revealed very sound technique and gift for shading and experience Opening program was piano recital by pupils from the studios 01 the Barrie branch of the Ontario Registered Music Tea lnstitutes have been chers Association third high pushing their groups to exhibit plight of theevening was the show in the fair and it is expected that large number of the exhibits in to Barrie FallExhibition Will Have Womens WorkDisplay This Year ing of the excellent color lm Vienna Art Treasures showing tlic famous Hapsburg collection Traces History The speaker traced the history of Canadian music back to the col onization of the French 350 years ago The rst French settlers re talned their music from their m0 thcr country and music was taught to the Indians by the early missionaries The folk songs of the French have been very influ ential right up to the present day ori Canadian mute and the love of the French for dancing and singling led to opera The second period in Canadian music came with the conquest of the country by the English when English folk songs made their in uence felt Musical life centered in the cities in the middle of the 19th century when pianos were rare and music lessons for young ladies were vogue But as yet there had been no Canadian muSIC as such From 1882 on musicians from Europe contributed greatly to Can adian musical growth particularly in the field of church music After 1918 when the radio and gramo phone were invented music was brought to all the little hamlets and following that there was revival of the folk songs Com posers began to compose Canadian inusic As Canadian music emerged com posers tried to nd national style for their work The 493075 marked the beginning of com positions in the modern fashion Listen to modern music urged the speaker Everything in its Turn to page two please Prospect Today lCitizens Band Partly Sunny Fresh Breezes Last week was variable with assorted rain and shine but pleasant for September Nights have been cool but no frost has been reported in town so far with the lowest tempera ture 31 on Sept 18 Since 31 of Sept thehighcst for the month was 75 Very heavy min felt on Friday evening and showers on Saturday and Sunday mornings Today start ed sunny and cool and with variable prospect Temperatures were High Low 73 51 Sept 21 61 44 Sept 22 53 19 Sept 32 Sept 24 69 3t Sgpt 25 71 52 Sept 26 60 44 Sept 27 62 45 900 not Sch to lic of the dangcrand at the game time not to be swayed by unfoundl cd rumors Frigidaire refrigerator at the final day of Loblaws weeklong ficu ClOklllg school on Friday afternoon Complete Series Sunday Concerts lhc paymg summer season of outside BARRiE ONTARlO CANADA MONDAY SEPTEMBER 28 1953 engagements has practics all clcscd and the bandsmcn hopei that the public have enjoyed their music as much as they enioyed rendering it it is their ambition ll be of real coinmumtyscrvicc On Friday evening Oct they ii ill be playing at the Barrie Auri cuitural Exhibition and trust that everyone klllCUIllC along and make tin cvan an outstanding success 01 Sunday night Oct ill they arc presenting concert in the Roxy Theatre after church time leitur of appreciation was re cclvcd recently by McCarroll baud chairman which reads llcllo Tum it gives us great pleasure to thank you and yours the Barrie ClllZLIiS Band for their grand support upon the occasion of Legion Appreciation Night Please thank Mr Joe McNeillie and all the members of your fine organiz ation for job well done This town needs good band and be lnve me you have one Signed Paul Hart Chairman of Projects Committee Barrie Branch No 147 The Canadian Legion Saturday Mr McCarroll phoned Win Refrigeration lOiic for $25 received two further donations Star and the other also for $25 W115 anonymous Yesterday afternoon the band presented another concert on the Her name was drawn from untanleMCA verandah at Allandalc be thc 900 people who lined up tol crowd into the Roxy Theatre for the last session The end of the week crowd brought the cooking school attends ancc close to the 3300 mark for the week tribute to Mrs Elsie Clay Rogers exuberant personality The worldfamous cook had an al most packcd house each day The sponsoring firm Loblaws and Monarch RefrigerationCo of Barrie which presented an electric appliance each day and through whose courtesy the grand prize was presented on Friday could be well plesacd with the success of the third annual cooking school Each clay Loblaws gave away 15 bags of groceries to lucky mem bers of the audience and all of the samples of good cooking pre pared at the school Winners of food prizes on Friday afternoon were Miss Miller 77 Mary St Mrs William Binnie Cundles Mrs Grant 72 William St Mrs Diemert 178 Hayfield SL Mrs Johnston 26 Feel St Mrs Bishop uo lnnisfil St Mrs John Ney Ross St Mrs Ivan Crowc 215 Dunlap St Mrs Annie McFadden 57 Campbell Ave Vfrs Martha Kelland 40 San ford St Mrs Webb 99 Sophia St Mrs Athenian 157 Bay fore alargc and appreciative audi encc There was good turnout of musicians and the program was all request series of to concerts for the sum iCl season Barroy Wins Ontario legion $300 Scholarship are wincrs of scholarships award ed byythe Ontario Provincial Com mand of the Canadian Legion it was announced last week and Russell George Ross of Stay ncr have each been awarded $300 scholarships based upon the 1953 matriculation results They were hinting 21 Ontario students to re ccivc the prizes Only children of veterans were eligible and as far as possible the scholarships were divided among applicants from various Legion districts of the Ontario Command The Barrie student who passed 11 upper school papers this year obtaining nine firsts second and third also won the Reuben Wells field St Mrs Annie Bowser 3Leonard scholarship at University Market Square Beatrice Little Edgehill Dr Mrs Firman 76 Mary St Mrs Waneta Wal lace 38 Thompson Avc Mrs Reeve 24 Poyntz St Marion Blain 196 Dunlap St Mrs Goheen 7t McDonald St Mrs Buttress Toronto and Stroud Mrs Joseph McGowan 191 Bradford St Fran McNabb 67 Peel St Fridays bags of groceries went to Mrs Norma Spence 39 Collier St Mrs Leo Gibbons Stroud Ger aldine McKee 251 Duckworth St Mrs AnneChurchward Letitia St Mrs William Muir Painswick Mrs Brown 60 Burton Ave Mrs Rankin 64 Dunlop St Mrs Corbett 12 Pellew St Mrs Langman 34 Bradford St Lillian Dallimore Stroud Mrs Margaret Ball 240 Codrington St Mrs Wally Da Silva 45 McDonald St Mrs Margery Allen Angus Mrs Daisy Dickson 27 Collier St Helen Wick 45 Dunlop St College of the University of To ronto where he has enrolled in an honor arts course SCOUT PAPER DRIVE Waste paper totaling 96 tons was collected in one Saturday paper drive by Boy Scouts of Kitchener and Waterloo recently in their sec ond successful paper drive this year was from Bayvicw Mrs Ray Johnston till StriiudCliaitci No 105 Order of Eastern was winner of the grand print This completes the member Linn mo Audit Eurois Ciao One Happy Occasion For Barrie ilegionnaires CHARTER PRESIDENT TOM BURTON and Treasurer Al Millican ptll fire to the mortgage which Barrie Legion Branch has Barrie Legion Branchrcelebrate Completion Building Fund Barrie Branch 147 of the Canadian Legion BESLnever 53m and Staff 511mm celebrated happier occasion than that of burning the Mortgage Saturday evening at their building at 26 Owen Street It ended an approximate five years of tireless promo tional activities aimed at the Building Fund which flowed to R055 Edward Morrow Barrie the ownership of their own hall As speaker Ray Mann vicepre members through those years could sident of the Provincial Commandincvcr properly be assessed said the amount of hours contri buted by the officers and committee coach Students For Plow Contest At Painswick 0n the Barrie farm of Charles Newton on Saturday about 16 students of the BDC under the leadership of Nor man Synnott of the agricultur al department of the collegiate were coached in the operation of tractor plows in order that they might be qualified to enter the junior contest being held in Inuisfll near Painswick to day lnwnislil Brigade Ouells reOn farm 01 MorrisOn 61h line By re which had it not been discovered when it was could have had serious consequences was extinguished by the Innisl Sire Department on SurToayaftEP noon at the farm of Morrison 6th line The Morrison family had been in the house most of the day They had decided to go over to the new highway which is on the west side of the farm and get picture of the farm from that dir ection When they got out the door they saw fire burning briskly in the unplgment shed The entire north end was on fire call to the neighbors was made first but it was not possible to get at the fire without water pressure so the re truck was called The tire had eaten into the large sills and the boards on the end stiff wind was blowing from the north and it would only have re quired few more minutes for the whole building to have been engulfed The shed contained new com bine truck and other imple ments Usually the tractor is housed at the end where the re commencedhut late the nigutbe County Recreation Service Moves Across Street daemontent column orin rim toropening day ThursdayThis will tee nale otcannod peaches fair The displays of home cooking and crafts will beheld Backside DriveMiss Both in the incompleteld leunge and club rooms or the new Barrie The Shame County Recreation Board wishes to announce that it is moving its office to 64 Collier Sit on Sept 30 The new quarters for the board include two oicec and plentiful fore Mr Morrison had moved this to takethe seed drillinto thebarn and had left the tractor there As far as is known no one had been near the shed after that No reason for the re having got started could be offeredTliegage was performed by honorary damages may amount to in the neighborhood of $500 as heavy sill was badly burned Mr Morrison expressed his ap preciation of the quick and effi cient manner in which the volum tcer remen handled the fire The story as told by Treasurer Millican dates back to 1947 when over 90 per cent of Legion meet ing voted in favor of purchasing the present hall The branch was forced to turn to the ladies aux iliary for aid in the initial down payment campaign committee headed by Bibby secured the balance of the initial funds and the balance of ownership was com pleted by regular and extra mort gage payments during the succeed ing years Mr Millican related many incid cnts throughout those years of pay ment where help was received from the Ladies Auxiliary to the Can adian Legion the Barrie Town Council and the many generous merchants in the town The Barrie Branch received its charter in April 1929 The meetings were held first at Barrie Armoury but shortly after were moved to the corner of Owen and Dunlap Streets on the third floor over the present site of Caldwells drug store Since receiving their charter the Barrie Legion has carried on ex tensive welfare work and many pension claims have bee completed for needy veterans or ther families They have also been great asst to community work particularly in the field of children andjyoung peoples activities Following roast turkey banquet the ceremony of burning the mort president Burton first presid ent of the branch in 1929 and who has held that office six times since He was assisted by the treasurer Special guests at the banquet were Simcoe County Warden Wil bur Reed and Mrs Reed of OrilJ It is grand thing to know wcl lia Township Mayor James Hart lProvincial Command vicepresid bave this protection he stated storage Space They are located on the second oor otwbat was form my the Fisher residence me Owners of this building now are Mr and Mrs Earl Cox who have nadir late vet to ts or the Barrie Agricultural 805 year since 19oz thatthere has been womens section at the new 1532332 rem ed 7111c of Maui eand the North Sini coe branch of the Monsoon County Federation mentptAgeulturewillmupyofv at held for some years since acquiring their building at 26 Owen Street ByBurning Mortgage Ceremony ent Roy Mann and Mrs Mann Dis trict Commander Ernie Taylor and Mrs Taylor and Zone Cammander Wiles and Mrs Wiles Mr Mann the evenings main speaker emphasized the necessity for all Canadians to know the mean ing of freedom It is the product for which sol diers died in World War and World War If and in the Korean conflict and the product which thousands enjoy through freedom of speech freedom of the press and freedom to worhip in ownchosen manner Learn to understand what it really means he urged Following the banquet social evening of dancing andcards was enjoyed by the many who attended the celebration Wally Perkinsplay ed the piano for dancing Big Cattle skew Feature Beeton Fair Wednesday The annual fall fair sponsored by the Beaten Agricultural Soon ety will have its main day it Wednesday this week warden Wilbur Reed of Simch County will open proceedings at 130 11111 and directors forecast that this fall fair will be the best annual show yet in the South Simcoe centre big attraction will be the Simcoe County Holstein Black and White Show an event of special interest to breeders in ind beyond the county The cattle ex hibit last year was the largest in the history of the fail The boys and girls of South Simcoe clubs sponsored by the agricultural society will hold their Achievement Day in conjunction with the main day For the school children there will be parade led by band starting at 130 pm from Beeton Public School grounds 1w CLOSERANGE COMBAT During the US Civil War many soldiers carried four revolvers for closerange combat Bag Three Wolves in Vespra Township