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} : ; : CIRCULATION THIS WEEK - 37 57th Year FARMERS MAY GET THEIR OWN STORE One Will be Started in Barrie if the U.F.O- Clubs put up $8,000 Stock. United Farmers A meeting of held im tie Public Library Hall, fast Swturday attecnoon, declar- ed ifself in favor of starting a co-operative store in Barrie and the U.F.0. clubs im the surround- ig country will be asked lo pul up the S8000 stock necessary. to gpen the stare. There was only stim the project. Howard am acted as chairman and afler a few introductory remark' |<" the chairman and tthe spea of the afte TT. B. Lomaw, General Man- ' ae piainieed {]4 more prosperous season ( Pd igo and Mpoks We worl hurt the eountey Hein AVE, St SPOESTrown or the conntry merchant to ed any extent. Competition is the "The U.P.O. cosaperative stores | ite of trade. We will help to ine are wot intended to burt the local lereasp the town's volume of trade | merchants but to help them bold] aid pel the people uut af the fhe trade aml get the business anit) of buying in the depart that properly belongs to theit|pental stores, The other mere town," said Mrs Loblaw. "1 al- | chantis will benefit. We don't pre- Ways stand up for the getteral) tend {o carry all lines; we handle merchants." he said. "The coun-|oniy staples ang what we ean't (ry owes them a great debt Of| supply we hope our customers gratitude, but owing to the wuy will buy in some other store in they are handicapped through) town, And, further, if the other trade agreements between whol -{fellow can sell lower than our manufacturers, th p tbe mail order} salers and wre unable Lo ke departmental stores from cap-| turing a lol of the trade that properly belongs to the lvcal town, AS an example"of the way the wholesalers control things, he qjuoted the case of the Robin Hood Oats Co. which after s ang to supply [he co-operative) wholesale could gel no orders from the other wholesale houses. | He stated that the Eddy match people make it impossible for the dealer to handle any other mateh - es but theirs and so. practically shut out any new match company from getting a fwothold. If new match was put on the mar-| ket the Pridy company could slash prices and put them out of busi-| and then by raising the! 10 cents a case they could their year's loss. sustained while putting the competitor out of business, They give the wholesaler per cent. and if they took. a notion to raise the price 50 cents a case they could make things right) with the wholesaler by raising this profit td 15 per cent. And the consum. er pays. "Barefared robbery, said Mr. Loblaw," and it is this sort of thing the U.F.O. is out to beat." 'The speaker gave figures to show how {he co-operative busi- ness grown to eight millions in six years and this year was changed from a money-losing to a money-making concern. He said they had*no objection to letting their competitors know their pro- fils.and what ilcost them to do bustness. Figures covering diff- erent phases of the business were then quoted. The U.F.O. co-operative busi- 8 ig divided into three parts-- Live Stock, Cummission (where goods are handled in car lots) and the Trading Dept. which in- cludes stores and club trading. In thé stores the goods are sold at a reasonable profit and any surplus earned is sent back to the owners. People need not ex- pect to get goods at wholesale eost. In establishing stores they discouraged club trading which takes the money to the city as directly as the departmental stores, "When we get big enough and can buy as cheaply as the departmental stores we can sell their head off," declared the speaker. | t Mr. Loblaw spent considerable time describing the modus oper- andi in nnection with these local stores, The money is rais- ed by stock subscriptions to the Co-opetative Co. but the local stock subs¢ribed for this purpose is used to finance the store. An advisory Hoard is_appointed to sell the necessary stock and ad- vise in the local management. All the local expenses such a: rent, salaries, etc., as well as, proportfon) of the wholesale soya and the head office costs, are charged against the store. What- ever difference there is between. the expenses and the sales total: is returned to the purchasers on. a percentage basis. With every purchase goes a coupon and re- bates are) made upon presenta- tion of these at the end of the term; if the coupons' are | | J. A. MacLAREN, Editor W. G WALLS, Manager Vielor £ ¢ will be no rebate as the store keeps no record of the in- dividbal buyers. Stores are laid out on the self-serve lines with no deliveries, reducing the oper- ating costs. A godd salary will be paid {to ensure competeut mandgement, The store must be the in the business centre of the town, Not less than &8000 will be required to start the store, Only members of the T 2. can hold stock and no one more than 81000, Others may share in the profils upon buying a 810 lificate, Any person may buy in the store. Vowards the of his re- marks Me. Loblaw repeated: his slalement that they wanted to do business fairly and with no de- sire Uy hurt the general merebant. As a. proof of this he instancec afdriiwhere their first sto {and yet this PO. majority hants of Seaforth never prices we don't want our people to boy from us." Al the close of his talk, Mr. Loblaw asked the opinion of the meeting as to starting the store, A majoritypeld up their hands fo express "Nheir approval and was no dissenting voice. It eed fo ask the Clubs. in adjacent to Barrie "the necessary stuck and a committee representing the subscribers will meet in two weeks, "Texas" Made Great Showing Toronto Canoe Club team turned the tables on Stratford, | 'Tuesday night, and smothered them by a score of 10 to 2, thus} winning the junior championship. | "Pinty" Moore, son of J.J. Moore | and * White are members of the winning team. All the To-} ronto papers give White greal praisd. Here is what the Mail mpire says:--"The outstand- ing feature of the game was the spectacular work of Texas White. As long as Kelterbourne was op- posed to While on the wing, the blondé-haired Midget was abso- lutely,) incapable of breaking away.| In the first period White robbed him of pass after pass, and hy so doing demoralized the combination of the visiting for- ward line, Had they succeeded in working an effective team play in the opening minutes of the game the Midgets would certain- ly haye retained a great deal of their confidence, and would have made|a braver fight than they did. (While Texas had Kelter- | bournp checked into the ground) he himself had no difficulty at any time in breaking away on his rushek. He started off like @ whirlwind and he kept 'up the speed all the time he was on the ice. He outskaled every man on eithe: four He scored no less than four goals during the even- ing and had there been a man with him to take his passes he would) have been cifjited for assisting in a lot more, for he broke} through on a number of occasions and passed out to the opposite wing only to have the effort) wasted. He got a lot of hard bumps, but he took every one of them without a murmur, and he deserves all the credit that can be given him for playing the game jall the time." New High Records Made by the | Sun Life A yaad high record in applica- tions [for assurance policies was attained by the Sun Life Asspr- ance Company of Canada during the past year, according to the 49th annual report of the Com- pany jjust issued, which shows that gne hundred million dollars worth|of assurances were written during the past twelve months, Tis figure marks an epoch in he insurance: business of Can- ada as no other Canadian com- pany | Nas ever*previously ap- proached this enormous total. jew record was also made in the new business actually is- jseil in which there is lime |We OF NEW ZEALAND Interestingly Described by Miss Emma King--Beauti- ful Stalactites. Mrs, H. 0. Partridge, Collier SL. recently received from her sister, Miss Emma King, a most interesting letler descriptive of the wonderful caves and the scenic beauties of the North 1s- land of N Zealand, and has kindly permitted The Examiner to pass it on to the readers of thix paper. 'The letter, dated at Pipiriki, Jan. 17, was in part as follows: "We left Auckland at 2.00 and Iwas never before on a train that went so fast. It whizzed by the stations so fast (hat [could hard- ly see their names. and stopped only once before we got out at iki «Hangy Tieky) at 5 We had a very pictur- y bus af 6 Wailomo Caves Hostel, went up and up on roads cul in the hillsides. The scenery would have been quite Alpine if there had been snow-capped peaks. Af- tera very niew meal we were sup- plied with suits in which to ex- plore the Wailomo Caves. These suits consisted of baggy trousers and pelted coats of galatea. We removed our dresses and put on the suits in our room, then went to an out-house for heavy boots and lanterns. There were about 16 tourists to each guide. Tho guide carried a lantern with a re- flector, ours were ordinary ones We entered a door in the hill- side and for nearly 2 hours walk- ed through -passages, high, low, narrow and wide to the most wen. decful caves. 1 think you have seen pictures of roofs of eaves hung with stalactites. They are formed by walter seeping through and they dang like icicles of snow! from the eerling Then any denps thal fall ow the floor form stalagmites which add to their height and offen meet and join the stalactite above. Two which just missed connection are eall- ed "Phe Disappointed lovers." visited cave after cave full of these wonderful formations, and the guide kept lighting flares which made the formations look like alabaster, One fine cave was the "Cathedral," where there was actually a formation like a pipe organ. The "Peace Chamber" had two pillars at the entrance topped with doves. "The Crystal Palace" had a statue like Queen Victoria. In different caves we saw formations like an octopus, Madonna and child, a maori wo- man with her pick-a-ninny, and many others. All is the work of nature except the paths. Finally we came to an underground stream where we got into a boat and had.a silent ride in semi- darkness, as we had stacked our lanterns farther back. Looking up I thought the roof was fine fretwork through which the stars shone, but the "stars" were glow worms. I shall never forget the sight. They were as thick as the milky way and gave a soft light. Our guide slowed us one of the worms on his finger, Next morning (yesterday) af- ter breakfast, we again donned our suits and three bus loads drove three miles to the Ruakiri (Rooakery) and Aranue Caves. The first are rugged and grey with many steps up and down, the only exquisite bit being the "Bridal Chamber" with the wed- ding cake outside. But the Aranue (Arran-you-ee) were ex- quisite. A long narrow one call- ed the Fairies' Walk beggars de- scription. At 2.30 we drove back to the R.R. station (Hangitiki) and went. planned this trip for us and wir- @d uhoad for, accommodation at the different stopping places. We spend to-morrow (Sun.) here. ; 1 will write of the rest of our.trip from Lime to time, A gentleman has just interrupted me to ask how 1 enjoyed the river He then asked an Australian lady if they had anything like it in her coun- She said "Indeed, no! {t exquisite. I hear there is nothing like it in the world." Certainly there are no caves in the world like those we have ve (he river ran like this irregular line, It ix hard to imagine such sharp turns. And the sides towered hundreds of feet over our heads. Ohakune, Tues.--- 1 wrote the above at Pipiriki on Saturday night. The Pipiriki House is a very nice place, ideally situated on the Wanganui river among hills. We climbed many steps frum the river to the hotel. It has wide verandas, niece grounds, and a winter garden with large tree ferns-under cover. Tt is lit hy electricity all over, "Where we are now there are candles for the bedrooms, On Sunday morning. finding there was no service within $7 miles, we went for a walk with Mrs. Murray, a nice little Auck- land lady whom we became friendly with on the river. we had rested after dinner, a Murray, two Miss Meyers, of the S. island, and J went a long wind- ing walk among hills in another direction Yesterday (Mon.) morning most of the guests at the hotel went by boat to the mouth of the river. Mrs. Murray and her son had the same route planned for them as we have up to tomorrow, when they return to Auckland. We four came by bus to Raetiki about 17 miles. The first half of the drive was through scenery as Jovy as that of the river. The latler part was still through hilly country but full of dead or fallen trees, where fire had gone through, We saw many sheep on It is called "the. king and is Zealand's From Ractiki we had ride of half an hour and reached here at 7 o'clock The hotel is on an eminence looking across at a snow-capped mountain, the only one in the north island, Young Murray got an Auckland paper yesterday, in which we saw that the Makurn is not to go to Sydney, but will return to Van- couver about Thursday, 'This is a lovely day and we have been a long walk. We take a.train at 4 this affernoon and a railway go a short distance to Weimarino and stage in the morning to L. cross i ,and stay al celebrated gey- sers. From there we go on to Roturna where we hope to find letters from home. Rev. G. M. Sharpe to Conduct Evangellstio Campaign Six of the 'congregations of Barrie are praying and planning for a powerful revival of God's work in the town through the deepened spiritual life of those already Christians, and the accep- tance by. faith of Jesus Christ as Saviour on the part of lost men and women. The use of the armouries has been secured for this purpose, and preparations are now being made to heat and seat the build- ing, also to erect a large choir platform which will accommodate two hundred singers. The meetings are to commence on March 24st an€ 1e commit- fee have secured the services of Rev. G. M. Sharpe, of Galt, and} party to lead in the services. Mr. Sharpe has recently held cam- paigns in Woodstock, Tottenham, Flesherton, Hamilton and Owen on to Taumeranue (Taw-mer-a- noo-ee). The scenery all the way was lovely, quite like mild B.C. scenery. The train ran along a hillside looking down into a deep valley, or close t@ a pretty stream. We reached Taumeranue at 7 m the evening. This am. we breakfasted at 6.45 and at 7 set out down the Wanganui River. This is rightly called the Rhine 6f N.Z. 'It is a rather narrow tortuous river with rapids in every quarter of a mile, The river flows through gorges. Sometimes both sides, and always one is a sheer precipice topped with trees and generally the faco is covered with ferns and ¢reep- Sound, and in each campaign the presence and power of God has been greatly manifested. "During the present campaign in Owen Spund four hundred persons have professed conver- sion, and the church membership has been stirred to renewed con- secration. Tho. evangelist's preaching is forceful and convincing, and his messages filled with the Spirit and teaching of Jesus Christ. --The choir of Collier St. Meth- odist Church under the leadership of Mrs. M. V. Rice, are now work- ing on Stainer's "Crucifixion," which will be given in the church on Good' Friday evening. This is a very beautiful Cantata, and will be a treat to lovers of good music. Pictures framed by Dobaal "t forget to read the advts.jhere at § o'clock. "Qook's"| Bros, . -| suggested that a phonograph be IN THE P. S. STAFF Miss Verna Wice Appointed to Fill Place of Miss Billings- ley Resigned. Business before the Board of Education, on Monday night, was mostly of a routine nature and the session lasted little over an hour, All the members were pre- sent except Trustee MacLaren who was out of town. The Seeretary-Treasurer of Collingwood Board of Education wrote asking information regard- ing the teaching of music as they are considering introducing the teaching of vocal music into iheir schools. Miss Olive M, Burns applied for leave of absence until after Easter as she has not regained suMicient strength after her re- cent illness, In granting tho re- quest {he Board expressed the hope that she might have a com- plete recovery. Miss Findlay, teacher of the South Ward Kindergarten, asked that a piano be furnished for her work. 'The piano which she has been using belongs to the school and the funds for it were raised by the pupils and staff, It was supplied, but Miss Findlay says that would not at all meet the requirements. She also asked that the kindergarten floor be cleaned at least every three |' weeks. Miss Nora DeHart, Miss Elean- or Channen and Miss Rhoda Mizen ed to be placed on 'the wailing list for public school teaching vacancies. Miss May Billingsley of the West Ward staff tendered her resignation to take effect at ster. This was accepted, the Board at the same time express- ation "for her splen-- Yas teacher" and also best wishes for her future wel- fare. Miss Verna J, Wice, Allandale, was appointed, to succeed Miss Billingsley, Miss Margaret EF. Morrison, of the West Ward staff, asked that her leave of absence be continu- ed until mid-summer, having not regained her health since her nervous break-down last summer. Her request will be granted pro- vided that she supply medical certificate at the end of June thal she will be fit to resume her work. Miss Humphr will con- tinue to supply till mid-summer. The Coal Supply The Property & Supply com- mittee was authorized to pur- chase the soft coal supply for next winter (350 tons # lump) from Mickle, Dyment & Son at 310.00 per ton. West Ward Building Chairman Milne presented sev- eral accounts, including $153.27 fo J. G. Seott for coal. Merrill & Hubbard's tender for hardware ($1213.09) was approved; also that of the Ball Planing Mill Co. for new floor in parts of the old building ($417.60). For Supply Teaching In the Finance Committee's to- tal of $817.24 was included $338.- 50 for extra teaching owing to illness on the staff last month. The supply teachers were: Mrs. Stinson, 844; Mrs. Longman, $60; Miss Gauley, $52.50; Mrs. E. M. Smith, $14; Miss KE. Wallace, $76; Miss A. Sinclair, 880; Mrs. E. 12 PAGES - SECTION 1 PAGES 1 TO 4 Orilila Keeps Cup The second round of the Bar- rie-Orillia Cup competition. was Played on Monday, resulting in decisive win for Orillia. The Barrie curlers received very short notice ang had a hard time gathering enough players for the afternoon games at Orillia, while as much trouble was occasioned getting four rinks for the even- ing games here, owing to meet-- ings of the Council, Board of Ed- ucation and colebration ecommit- tee, The rinks and scores were as follows; At Orillia Orillia Geo. Downey Alex. Harvie A. J. Sarjeant Dr. Harvie Capt. McNaughton Alex. Jamieson--17 H. M. Lay--o R. T. Taylor Thos. Tooke J. A. Sinelair F. Carpenter . Kirkpatrick G.O. Cameron G. T. Madden 11 A, Brownlee 15 Jos, Hinds W. J. McCutcheon Dr. Brown F. Loth Dr. Carson C, H. Beelby Dr. McLean 18 A. E. Stapleton {+ Frank Hinds T, Villiers Lionel Hinds A. ¥, Donaldson Rarrie W. C. Walls Dr. Hinds Db. W. Lennox Ed. Hinds 27 O. G. Hart it ° 73 ag At Barrie Barrie Orillia A. Meredith J. A. Fowlie R. Malcomson, C. E. McConkey 8. Meredith , L. Wainman A.D. Simon 64 F. Toogocd 12 G. Scott "Dr. C. A. Harvie G. Habbick B. W. Hatley J. Paterson L. J. Kearns H. Hook 16 J. K. G. Curran 17 R. P. Merrick Fred Alport G. 8, Webb B. Barker D.C. Murchison. B, Farwell R. F, Garrett 4 . Goorge 2% H. Litster T. Thompson V. S, Hambly orton W. Sarjeant .F. Stewart W. N. Duff 23 4. B. Thompson 13 57 63 Big Game Friday Night Andrew's defaulted to there was only one match in the S. S. Hockey League Friday night. Baracas, without Fred Sarjeant, put it over St. Mary's by 5 to 1, The final will take place to- morrow (Friday) night, when the Y.M.C.A. and' Baracas come to- gether. Y.M.C.A. have lost only one match and Baracas are yet unbeaten, so there is bound to be a hot¥eontest from start to fin- ish the public are sure to get m s match is called for 7.30 and will be followed by skating from 8.30 to 10. Admission 25 cents, The League standing is as fol~ lows: Team Won Lost Baracas. 5 0 Y.M.C.A, 4 1 St, Mary's . 1 4 St. Andrew' 0 6 Carson, $12. Two new typewriters will be bought for the B.C.I. The outbuildings, storm sash and bell at West Ward School will be sold to the highest bid- der. February Attendance East Ward--J. E. Carson, 28. Central--Mr. Marlin 33, Mr. Torrie 29, Miss Booth 24, Miss Marshall 31, Miss Longman 28, Miss Tripp 22, Miss Livingstone 34, Miss Clutton 30, Miss Sproule 23, Miss Nixon 20, Miss McRobie 15, Miss Marr 19. West Ward--Mr. Morrison 26, Mins Henry 22, Miss Dougall 24, Miss Guest 28, Miss Humphrey 28, Miss Billingsley 28, Miss Reid 21; Miss Sarjeant 29, South Ward--Mr. Shear 27, Miss Watson 31, Miss Mingay 6, Miss Kennedy 31. Miss Jus+ ice 31, Miss Meston 25, Miss Collins 28, Miss Findlay 15. Barrie's Oldest Business Man The sale of the business of Bingham & Sons to J. H. Read- man removes from active bus ness circles Barrie's oldest busi- ness man, John Bingham. Now in his 73rd year, Mr. Bingham has been carrying on a butcher business in this town from early manhood, succeeding his father, Hy Bingham. The latter came to Rarrie when there were not more than half a dozen houses and started a butcher shop near where the Clarkson House now stands. His brother John, who came from England with jim, built the or- iginal Queen's Hotel and conduct- ed it for many years. On the death of Henry Bingham, the butcher business was continued by his three sons, John, Robert and Fred. For over thirty years Miss Lower reported 1597 reg-,they had. a butcher stall inthe ular inspections during the|market building. Some years ago month 4nd the defects disclosed.|Mr. Bingham moved to the Bliza- 'The most common is.. carioug|beth St. shop. There were 48 home vis-jlast surviving member a death. its . Mr, Bingham is the his family.