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Perhaps you have thought this line of endeavor, but The return from an financ you can locate in one distr Much time traveling. The ete, terested beyond the da a real human fellow-- z be konest with himsel HOME You must have learned of the success attending the work of life insurance men. education and ability, why not let us form an, opinion Bs to your capacity for life insurance salesmanship? ict and thus avoid spending interesting work, valuable to the community. We will discuss a contract with any man of character 'and energy who is respected and widely acquainted. Re- plies will be treated in strict confidence. Tell us about your age, record, present connections, income expected, We Are Looking for a Man-- With real initiative and force; a man with the gift of continuance; a man rot too optimistic or too easily discouraged, not too overjoyed by success, or too down-heartéd by a lictle hard luck: a man who is in- s job and the week's payroll; terest other fellows equally huma and equally honest with others. To such a man we offér an opportunity to earn up to the full limit of bis capacity. | +~ Canada Life TORONTO Canada BOYHOOD DAYS IN BARRIE ABOUT FORTY YEARS AGO The Boys of Mary St. and Their Doings-- Some of Barrie's Old Bandsmen--Lumbering Activities. Famous Oarsmen on Barrie Bay--The Sea Serpent --An Old-Time Ice Boom. you were not qualified for if you are a man of some ial standpoint is excellent; business offers permanent, who can talk with and in- ;.@ man who would OFFICE Ss ---------- (By Fred W. Grant) As one of the "Old Boys" of Barrie, the writer of this sketch finds the reminiscences of your Western correspondent very inter- esting indeed, since they recall to memory | mames and happenings which for many yeam had been relegated to the forgotten past. In secepting the invitation of the editor of The Examiner (in whose office, by the way, I had my earliest experiences in learning the printing trade, 35 years ego) to dig up something along similar lines, your contributor attempts the jok with wiore or less serious misgivings, since. doubtless, unlike your Western correspond. ent, be bjs not been sble through frequent visits to the "old town' to refresh his memory of incidents of many years ago, and, ales, memory is fickle jade--ut Teast as regards bridging the thirty years which have alid sway since I bad the pleasure of parading Dunlop Street. 'The Boys of Mary Street and Some. of Their Doings Away back in 1876, Mary Street bad? eonsidersble psominence in the doings of the town, at least we youngsters thought so from the fact that there were yo many children in "our" street, from wee toddlers to the young fellows who were clerking in the stores. that any old kind of a team, either playing "shinny" or marbles, or fish- ing for "minnies' in Simpson's Creek, or picking wintergreens or thimbleberries out at Hubbard's bush or Perkins' harns or Sandy Hollow, could be 'picked' from Mary street that would wallop the day: lights out of any other single street's juvan- ile residents. Amd among this charmed circle at various tithes were found George, Urson and Ed. Sewrey, Fred, Frank Harry Macey (now the Grand Rapids, Mich., furniture firm), Billy and Herb Mann, John, Charlie and George Cameron, THERE'S TRUE ECONOMY IN BUYING MEAT AT BRENNAN'S For you get the best qual- ity there--the kind you enjoy until the last mor- sel is eaten, and our aim is fo give satisfactory ser- vice to every, customer. If you are not one of our customers, you are milss- ing something worth while. We close at noon 'Sandy and Pete McIntosh, George and Charlie Cooper (both of them prominent in Toronto musical circles in later years) Juck Lackie, Bill Hut'on, Milt, Fred and Harry Grant. Ed, and Tom Crew, Bill, Jack, Tom and Joe Moore, Marsh and Juck Butler, Will and Jack Bennett, John, Will and Luke Spearin, Frank Jobna, ""Buck"" Bone, Edgie und Ernie King, Charlie, Ted and Fred Clark, Jimmie and Jack Craig, Pearce Davidson, Frank and Jim Hetherington (one of these boys was the champion stone thrower of the whole bloomin' world, for he could bust two windows easily with one shot or plunk a bird on a limb of w tree clean around the corner of the next street ; if, in later life, he bad cared to play pro-; fessional baseball, he could--almost---stand on the home plate and throw w ball clean around and clip a fellow at euch base and the ball return to him without leav- ing the plate--he sure was some thrower), Frank and Jim McKernan, George Scrog. sie, Frank and Fred Ewan, Charlie Warn. er, Doug. Fanner (our southpaw pitcher), Charlie Wright, the three Ritchie boys-- Elmer, Jim" (""Irish), and -- Hugh ("Buck"), and who doesn't remember the three Ritchie boya?--Bert, Harry and Arthur King, Billy and Fred Plewes, Charlie and Jim Mitebell, Frank and Ralph Wilson. Then by hitching just a little and allowing hole in their own back-yurd fence to-give entrance to this Mary street gang were also included Will and War Johnson, George, Fred and Will Wilkinson, Charlie, Bob and Chris Spencer, "Doc" McCarthy, Frank Belding, Alf. 'Macklin, Jack McPhee, Fred Stevenson (another left-handed wizard at bowling on our cric- ket team), Frank, Stan, and Cleatus id) Hinds, Charlie, Will and Frank Spry, Art Robinson, Will Shortreed, Walter Laid- law, and others whose names have becn forgotten. Of course there were many girls on the treet, too, as most of us were blessed with sisters, but after 40 years it would be neither gallant nor diplomatic to mention their names, except to tate they were the best sisters any fellows ever had and usually supplied the mid-meal lunches to us hungry boys after our strenuous games, A 'There were no supervised playgrounds in those days, and to one of the old brand of boys the idea of paying good money to some big, husky man to teach kids how to play seemed just as foolish as spending money for a cut glass decanter or a silver plated corkscrew in these Inter yeara of prohibition, But if there had been such 'an institution and such a main guy, why Soules' Lot" was the place, and' there 'would have been a rough-and-tumble scrap every day for the office, for every kid's am- bition wes to be "captain' and who of the oRi boys doesn't remember "Soules' Lot" (where Mr. George Reedy later on built a residence)? There surely were some spirited games pulled off there, of standard varieties and other varieties nev- er before or since discovered, and many a boy who in after years took an' honored place in the athletic world as well as in intellectual circles learned the rules of life's games in 'Soules' Lot"! And the old Mary Street Boys' Band! on Wednesdays." MJ, Brennan The Quality Butcher PHONE 51. <3 Just glance back over the above list and you'll recognize several names that havo doomed I in musical circles since those days, 80 it's no problem to figure out what they could, and did, do along that Tine as kids. True, some of us didn't know any- thing sbout music, at least the writer did- n't, and he was the mpecialist op the cym. bals and a sort of understudy for the enare- drummer, but such knowledge wam't really' essentiel in this band. It's hardly likely that-even the most enthusiastic artist of that bunch in these Inter years of mature judgment would claim say excellence of | quality of music in that band;'but 'as to quantity, even our worst enemies (it's doubtful if the band had any friends) ad- only were bass and kettle drums, cymbals, fifes, and tin whistles, and several of these lat- ter were nbout as large as a stovepipe, s size or 90 smaller than the smokestack in the old Emily May, or Lady of the Lake, and were made from private specifications by George Cooper, a tinsmith who had a shop where Johnson's ice cream auloon rt stood and who was the illustrious parent of two of our most brilliant music- iuns, It was a purely non-sectarian affair --none of us were bigots--and the pro- grammes included both 'Protestant Boys" and "Wearing of the Green," executed with equal finesse. While the music ren- dered was neither classical nor chaste, the band itself often was chased by some irascible old crab, who didn't sppreciate "THE BARRIE EXAMINER our offerings. But the exercixe thus gained only added to childhood's pussing exper- iences, In those daya there were not even wooden | sidewalks on Mary street, simply a hard- packed six-foot gravel strip raixed a foot or 80 ubove the level of the roadway, and this proved' 3 most favorable place for marble games of all kinds--long taw, big ring, little ring, shooting at a strip of board with openings which returned one to five "mibs" if you shot through the hole--and "holes" 'The latter wie a sort of half- baked golf game (indeed it's just possible that's where the present popular pastime originated). It began cach spring by lay- hole the size of an egg-cup, but it was not long before these grew, ffom-constant we, to the size of 8 washtub and s foot o1 '40 deep, for this particular place was s sort of juvenile community aGair for the neigh- borhood, and the mystery now is how people succeeded in not brecking their lege in passing along that sidewulk, But the boys didn't play marbles all the time. There were other ecrious meetings, and one of these was the swimming gang. § sort of present-day nature club, and the sandy beuch st the bead of the bay, a few hundred yards distance from our oth time ground, was the most popular * min' hole." @™At thst age dressing rooms were not especially necessary, and the lim: ber piles at Durham's and Ardagh's milla, just seross the railway track, proved a rafe retrest for the unduly modest. According to Mack Sennett and hia bathing lewch beauties, us hown each week on the mov ie screen, the proper way to apend the time between dipe is to toe a foottall around or squat under 9 hig stripe! brella, but the Mary street bunew filled in {spare moments in o far more ingenious |wsy. Each boy brought his own-- well, perhaps not bis own, but he brought it from sxomewhere---supply af green corn on the cob and raw 'potatoes (they wermn't $8 a sack then', and after « bonfire had heen built ino sumn'or log drifted up on the brach ond dried. 2 banquet of ronsted corn and boiled potatoes waa enjoved. It would be superfluous to mention the good swimmers of those meets, for what boy of {those times couldn't swim and dive like 4 fish? But certainly the credit in here given. if never before, to Fred Lount and Charlie Mackenzie for' being the champion chefs at these outdoor banquets; they sure- jly knew just the exact minute when to re. | move the makings from the hot ashes, |and the memory und perhaps even the jtuxte of those feeds atill lingers after there | many puasing years, Tt wax indeed » glad day for us kide when it wax snnounced that a skating rink wax to be built on Mary Street. True. it displaced 4 fine playground, owned by Terry McBride, and eompored of three connected log houses which hed always [been empty. with doorlesx doors and win dowless windows, and standing in the cen- tre of the field. It was possible, of course, to walk through any of these openings when you wished to go from front to back, but from the boy's standpoint a far better way was to climb up the roof to the ridge- pole and slide down the other side with the six or eight foot leap at the bottom. Surely the old Mary Street Skating Rink is worthy a special article, eo reference will be made here only to some of the uses it was put to as a side issue, Just a Minute ! The Biggest and Best Ever PENETANG RACES $2000.00 in Prizes Dominion Day Thursday, July 1, 1920 In J; T. Payette's New Driving Park BEST HALF-MILE TRACK IN CANADA Horse Races Athletic Sports Motor Cycle Races HORSE RACES Free For All. 2.18 Claas, Trot or Pace .. 2.80 Claas, Trot or Pace .. Purse $300.00 named later) ...... Slow Named Race, Trot or Pace (horses named later)... + Purse $150.00 All mile heate. Best three in five. 5% to enter,and 5% additional from all money winners. 'ive to enter and four to start. Money divided 50, 25, 15, 10 per oent. Usual weather clauses to 'govern. Man- agement reserve the right to alter pro- gramme any way they may seo fit to do no, Free Hay, Straw, Stabling and Cartage. Side Car Race ............ Purse $30.00 Best two opt of three HEAVY DRAFT DRAWING CONTEST To sleigh loaded with pig iron, purse $50. jame 1st prise $36. Races will start sharp at 1.30 p.m. Standard Time ATHLETIC SPORTS Watch hand bille later for prines BRASS BAND IN ATTENDANCE Starting Judge: Mr. Chas, Snow, Toronto, Judges: Mem, Ghar Wright, D. Brod. rick, Manley Chew, W. 1 Hewson and J. L, 'Simpson Admission: Adults 50c, Children 25c, plus war tax. Grand Stand 25¢. J.T. Payette, Manager and Owner, Ontario, GOD SAVE THE KING ing out the standard four-hole course, each |* is factor is really the frying fat you use. You see, EASIFIRST will stand a high temperature--you can make it roo de- grees hotter than lard and 200 degrees hotter than butter before it smokes or This means that when the | doughnut is dropped into the hot EASIFIRST a protecting crust is in- stantly formed around it--no grease soaks in to make the doughnut heavy Fast Named Race, Trot or Pace (horses | « Purse $250.00 and the recipe both burns. or soggy. Billy Hazlett, the Barrie toe-und-heet walker, who was champion of Canada, ns well as hix brother, Tom, who was a dis- tance runner of no mean merit, st times used it a their training quarters, and many of us youngsters acted ax paceniak em in these endurance trials; though, to be exact, we were usually following instead of leading. For a couple of summery it was used as roller skating rink, » man named Seeley having come over from Boston with 500 pairs of skates, and having the interior bourded up und floored, but the innovation lost popular interest after a couple of sea- sons, The first, "banquet of the Salvation Army was held there about 1880 when it arrived in Barrie, und wus attended by prominent 'Army' people from all over the Province. We kids earned our "eats" by carrying lumber und wood and water for the affair. Cuptains Stacey, Madden, Addie end Bertha Smith were some of the first officers, and your Western correspond- ent hus already given some interesting particulars regarding local people who be- came attached to it and helped to "carry on." He also mentioned the fact that mischievous boys were the source of much bother to the Army in ita early days in Barrie, Well, the writer of this sketch isn't admitting anything further than tbat he was usually there or thereabout when most of those little tribulations were ocour- ies of real boys, always finds a' responsive memory of 4 real fellow even in these later years, who well remembers: '*Yoo-hoo, © Skin-nay, e'mon over, lotsa fun!" and some of the escapades resulting from these invitations. On the ground, judging from recent items in The Examiner, where the Bell boarding house now stands, there used to [be a big planing mill with' a long aquare stick of timber lying slong the street line. The latter proved an attractive stamping ground for games, including "King of the Custle,"' and many a kid got {his bumpe from off that log in disputing some other kid's assumed kingship. The name of the owner of the mill baa entirely slipped from memory, but the fireman of the plant was a little fellow named Harry Butler, who chewed tobacco by the bushel, but he was a popular guy with us boys, | for didn't be let us help him fire up his boiler with the sawdust and shavi ie were always pouring down fr up above on to the floor near the furnace door? It has always remained a debatable question whether, messure for measure, Harry or his furnece consumed the greater quantity of supplies during an ordinary workday. And the garden parties on Sewrey's lawn --the scene of many a summer night's frolic! There were doubtlces other social details connected with these affairs which were given on frequent occasions by var- ious organizations of the town, but to the normal boy the one big idea to be appreo- inted to the full was the long tables spread under the trees and loaded with heape of sandwiches, cakes and pies and ice reams and lemonade, tes and coffee; and ii 'at it from these less hospitable and H.C.L. days, it gives s fellow a jar thinking what 2 pile of real, honest-to-goodness, solid re- freshments which ured to be dished up at tHose old tea-meetings for two bite--that's the price of the coffee alone these days. At most of these affairs boys were admit- ted at the gate free, but if not, they were admitted free the «ame, by simply walking around the corner to the other What is the secret? Well, the cook oughnuts gt melt in your mouth | The EASIFIRST way A DOUGHNUT RECIPE that means Success 1 heaping teaspoonfal EASTPIRST 2 eggs. count, but the big 'The EASIPIRST that's left over may be nsed again without carry ing apy favors, Be sure you get EASIFIRST--your dealer will supply you. In cartons and tins. Costs less and goes farther than butter or lard, _GUNNS LIMITED West Toronto Write to-day for Guans Booklet of EASIFIRST side of the grounds and climbing over the |held, was proprietor of Sewrey's 'Foune fence and dropping down to the lawn, four|dry' on Bayfield and Ross streets, for or five feet below the street level. The| many years Barrie's outstanding indus beat swing in Barrie was located here, und trial enterprine, and probably many of the the boy who bsd the physical endurance | old employees are now living in retirement jeould swing himself # mile or so high up |in Barrie. He was also one of the fore. into the neighboring pine tree tops in this|most leaders in municipal life and was creaking oid contrivance. mayor of Barrie about as long as he cared Mr. Henry --Sewrey, on whose | to be--half a dozen terms or 60, 1882-1888, spacious grounds these affairs were (Continued on' Page 11) meal, you'll avoid that stuffy feeling If you chew a stick of WRIGLEYS 'Other benefits: to teeth, breath, appetite, nerves, That's a good deal to get for 5 cents! Seated Tisht--Kept Right