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J. F.. an n-..n_u an vi-.I-..|_'-_ -- no; _- - -- a--- --u- (Cut- :19 Bayii St. miphone M; nsnm FLOUR MILLS, LIMITED HATCH YOUR cmcxs wrrn ELECTRICITY Wanted---Spring Wheat, Marquis` or Wild Goose We have for sale Electric Hatchet: and _Brooders, 50-egg size _ Namore bother with the setting hen. Call in and see them. All kinds of poultry feeds and supplies. Brown & Co. 75% of the peoplein town today are using "it. Why not the rest`? Ask your grocer to supply you with Fish-.. er's Flour. If he has none in stock, phone our retail department ' and it will be promptly delivered. . Phone No. 155 VAT w A century ago the northern part of the county of rsgmcoe in Canada West was pierced by a road running north by east |from the Village. of Kempenfeldt. Three ` miles north of the village the road dropped into a dense cedar swamp, but after nearly .. ....il.. .3 nneaI`IIDt\t7 Q nfnpn Ht . into dense ceoar swamp, um. um name a mile of corduroy climbed a steep hill at the top of which it verged somewhat to the west. At this turn, on the Vespra side of the road, presently a log school with` a cottage roof appeared,.erected by voluntary labour of the pioneers and maintained by their voluntary contributions, and just be- yond the school a quaint little Anglican church was placed in a capacious burial ground. _ mm. Ilffln nnrnnr name in he -known as grounu. . This little corner came to be known as : Crown Hill. The origin of the name, now j familiar to every irreverent cartoonist in the land, is uncertain. One recalls an ex- planation given at a tea-meeting some. thir- ty-five years ago `by the Honourable Charles Drury, then Minister of Agriculture in the Mowat Government. It was at the tea- meeting made famous by the dramatic rendering of the `Tay Bridge by in Barrie elocutionist, and the sauciness of a pretty girl .of the community ;who sang `Comin' through the Rye and set tongues wagging for more than a day. -Mr. Drury told of a tradition that a visitor to the settlement was inspired by the sight of the little church to misquote Goldsmith. and the name Crown Hlll`.8TOS8 -from `the decent church that topped `the neighbouring hill . `l')..L :1. 2.. _..L ...ILL 61:... trunnion` Rial:-uvu AF vllclv vuppvu vuu nu-bu:-uuu....a -.... . But it is not with the general history of Crown Hill, interesting as are the early struggles of a splendid band of pioneers,` that we wish to deal. - It is rather with that little square log school and its successor across the road in Oro, standing midway between a tavern and a temperance hall, and the way in which, when this building was destroyed by fire, three little scattered schools took its place; for in the story of this one school it may be possible to read. the story of rural education in Ontario. and to measure its strength and its weakness. 1 nu t\ . , . , _A,,___._ ____ __N__,_:___ g,__ uv unvnguuunu The Departmental records are wanting -vu -.n.\...a-.. -.... --- .-..-._-..__. T0!` the earliest school history of Crown Hill. ` From the lips of a pioneer we once learned that it was a square log building with a cottage roof. The seats were made out of planks with legs atthe ends and in the middle. The only desks were slanting shelv- es` supported by brackets around the wall. The seats were arranged at these shelves and also "in the centre facing the teachcr s desk. A great box-stove stoodin the cen- tre in front of the door. The ruler of t`.\7:s little world was Edward Luck, a self-taught man and, like the masterin the `Deserted Village , strong in mathematics. `Being the father of a family" of "sixteen children he contributed to the attendance as well as" the conduct of the school. Each year the trustees contracted to pay- him a certain amount. and each year these contracts are w_ritten down in due legal form in the ac- lcount book of the school and signed by the three trustees. and the teacher. The simia- tories for 1847 are; Jonathan Sissons, Rich- ard Drury, and Charles I-Iickling, Triwtees. and Edward Luck, Teacher. Mr. Luck can- ducted the school from a time beyondall _records until the year 1863. His salary was increased from 40 pounds in 1847 to 70 pounds. and with the change of the cur- rency became $280 in 1862. The value of the pound in dollars appears to have var- ied considerably; in 1867 Wm. Bartlett re- ceived in salary `ninety pounds ($300`i . as the contract reads. After his retirement Mr. Luck spent a peaceful evening of many lung. ' When official records of attendance begin in 1871 his place was held by George Lark- in. who received as an annual salary $300 without board, and had 97 pupils registered in theschool. During this decade the sail ary increased till in 1879 it was $525. The I teacher was then Mr. C. W. Chadwick. who Hater became prominent in business life in Toronto. He was now assisted by a young woman who received 3120 for her services, If a salary of $120 shocksemerubers of the Teachers Federation of to-day, it may be |rec:Jlled- that as late as 1897 one could se- cure board and lodging for $80 a year and save $160 out of a salary of $300 and that the earliest women assistants were often pupil-teachers who lived at their own homes. `I IV` 7 J 5,1- __,.,, - _.,,._ _ _L1l1A__ ..__I `vulva vvwvlnvnu u uu .--yu -. van`. .. ..y....-.. Mr. Chadwick-was a man of ahiiity and. energy. This may be inferred from the fact that in 1878 out of an enrolment of 111`. no less than 23 were young men and wo- men botween the ages of 16 and 21 who em- braced the opportunity of improving their education by winter study. His successor uvnn Mr Tnkn Wouunk n.)\.u1 nr Wnnloh UKIUUHLIUII Uy WIHLCIV bvuuy. 1115 BLlUUI5B`.1'.Vl was Mr. John Waugh, now Dr. Waugh, Chief Inspector of Schools for the Province. Being a very young man and unmarried Mr. W augh s salary was only 3400. Indeed with one -exception for thirty years Mr. Chad- wlck s salary was not exceeded in the Crown Hill School. In 1884 Mr, Andrew Kerr- also a remarkable teacher--received $550 a year, the highest salary paid in the town- ship attthat time and for many a year. In fact the pride of Crown Hill in its school and its teachers was unbounded. In these years there was no need of a com- pulsory attendance law, such was the gen- eral respect" for education. Tlsn Info ninlnfinn on?` flanlanrlll ninntlns (BT81 TUSPUUII IUY euucuu.-run. The late eighties and theearly nineties ` were dark days on Ontario farms. Yet the school was maintained with two teach- ers and the number of pupils on the regs-T ' ter ranged between 82 and 127. The aver- age daily attendance was of course much less than this, and to arrive at the real aggregate a. deduction should be made to allow for the" number of pupils leaving school at midsummer to be replaced by be ginners. Salaries receded sornewhat._ The V average salary paid men teachers in rural schools in 1887 was $398 while ten years. later it was` 8347. The average salary paid women teachers in rural schools in the same period dropped from $271 to "3254; Crown Hill was no exception to therule. The lowest salary was reached in 1900 when the principal received 5310 and his assistant $230. The attendance also de- clined rapidly during these years. In 1900 it was 86. By 1905 it had dmppedto 45. The teachers were being changed almost every year, and it is gt\i`te possible that the 4-n.-NI-{nn of Olga I-snrhnnzl `men want. noun 1 v"ry"ZE,"nd'i"is 117?; gisile thnt tradition of the Aneig borhood [was not being maintained and all the available pupils were not being enrolled.- D_LL_.. 42...-.. -_.I AI... -I....3.... Al ..1I Ins Exclus-iV;e Real Estate Agents ulnua vvulu uuv Lluanle \a|nA\.I||\.\AO Better times and the closing of all but a few of the Model Schools in 1907. soon affe-ted thesalaries. In 1910 the salary at Crown Hill was @500. It was $600 in stun. Q-inn :.. uni-7. Qann :... 1n1n. 01mm '30 UIVWLI run. was xyuvu. 11/ W3 vvvu Au 913; $700 in 1917; $800 in 1919;-$1009 in 1920; `$1100 in 1921; and $1200 in; 1922.` `The fact that prospective teachers were now compelled to spend a year in training seriously reduced the supply of men: teachers. "The type of man who was -_willin`g` to spend his life conducting a rural school - teacher. practically disappeared in Ontario at an early date. Our earliest teachers were of that sort," and good men they were forthe ost part, although often only accidentally trained for their work. Their place was taken `by another type, that of the young . man of slender means and high ambitions ` who was willing` to_ teach a country school `` for several years as` a means `of securing ` enough money to .pay his way through arts ` or law or medicine or theology, Suchymen ` were often excellent teachers and brought 3 to their task both energy and ability. ' So long as attendance at training school was not required or was confined to four months in the fall term, `they came freely into the schools, but they were deterred by the ex- pense of a year of training,uand their place was taken by women. As early as 1864 Crown Hill experimented with a woman This may have been due to the effect of the American Civil War on the supply of men.--available, but from 1866 tin v 1907. the principal teacher was always a man. Since 1907. the school has had only two men teachers, one for two years in 1910 and 1911, and the present teacher. a married man, the first in forty years, who lives in the old Drury cottage and has re- vived some of the traditions forgotten for half a century. nun Alanna `auburn A; {Jan Liatnmu nf tln:_. u ucubury. One other -feature of the history of the school must be noted. About the year 1910 the old two-room place was burned down. Much discussion took place as to` where the new school should be built. There were a number of children living two or xnorc miles south of `the old site and another group livingto the north and west. These groups of parents clamoured for a ll1UX`(` convenient location. In spite of the opposi- tion of_ some residents who foresaw what would result, it was decided to break up the old school, to build one new school a few hundred yards to the north of the old site. _ another two miles south, and a third three and a half miles north and west. 7I"L_-_ ____ --L-,I .,-_L:-.._ ___L -..l__ _I..__,_ These new school sections not only drew pupils from the Crown Hill School, but also affected the attendance at two other schools. the Midhurst School some six miles distant in the township of Vespra and the Dalston School three and a half miles north on the Penetang road. Midhurst, a picturesque? hamlet and the township seat of Vespra had boasted, in the middle of the century, a town hall, a public library, and a re- auu K1 llllll (JUICE HUII./ll l1lll| V\'CBL- `niarkable teacher, George Sneath. Like Crown_Hill_. Midhurst can c.ain1 to have produceda Premier, the Hon. Charles Stew- art. formerly premiere of Alberta, now Min- ister of the Interior. Dalston, too, main- tained a good school and even into the late nineties had as principal a married man who carried nupils through to the second class teachers certicate. `I'__ 1001 L._LL ll!_lL..__;. .__J '\,`_L_,, DICIED I/Ununclo VGA uuuaui. In 1881 both Midhurst and Dalston werel two-roomed schools. But in 1912 the en- rolment at Midhuist had declined to 56. and one of the two roonis` was closed. By 1915 Dalston too had -become a one-room school with 54 pupils on the roll. In 1921 , the number of pupils on the register of these five `schools was: Crown'Hill 29, Midhurst 49. Dalston _33. No. 17 Vespra 35, No. 19 Oro 34, an aggregate of 180 for the five school. Twenty-ve years earlier the three schools serving the same area had a total enrolment of 364. ' ' T.`._L- L,,I L-,,, , ' ' ' . I "Fate had been conspiring against rural education = in this little triangle. Economic laws were robbing the country homes. The population of the township of Oro declined from-4566 in L881 to 3098 in 1921. that of 'espra from 2879 in 1881 to 2281 in 1921.l At 9. time when the cities, the Canadian West.`the United States, and a less prolific cradle` were reducing the school population, a method of teacher selection was intro- duced which served to deprive the countryl boy of his birthright, namely a man teach- er knowing something of country life. able to lead in sport. fit" to discipline his mind and morals and to-instil a love of the soil. In this inst-mice, to make matters worse. three two-room schools gavefplace to ve single-room schools. ' To vvnuiv Ln ....... 1...... ...;...... L..L'...... LL- DlIl5IC_'lU\IllI .`,U|Il}UlBu It may he _niazly long years before the rural districts of Cntario see an appreciable increase in population. The census re- turns as yet show no hope. But it is imperative, if we are to build a structure worthy of the foundations laid by -heroic pioneers, that we should not continue. to consign our children to weak schools direct- ed by transient women teachers. The ex- travagance of the present method is not its worst feature, though it is a disturbing fact that while in 1881 in Crown Hill 35 was the amount required of each pupil enrolled for the payment of the teachers, in 1921 this amount had increased to $38. But when Edward Luck received 70 pounds in 1860 and C. W. Chadwick $525 in 1879. these sums, large as they were in com- parison with the slender earning of the farmers, caused no regret. The school Was. an object of pride in the community, it commanded the respect and touched the lives of young and old alike. And this the rural.,school of the future must seek to do. To achieve this a change in organiza- tion must be effected. Consolidation cannot long be delayed. In some places thediirger graded school in the centre` of the town- ship` may be the solution. In others, and especially where a cbmmunity life is stili maintained about a church at four corners. the two-room school prevalent a generation ago may be revived. It has certain ad- vantages in any case over the nicely graded larger -school, and especially where long distance must be travelled night and morn- ing in our northern climateif children are to attend four or six-room schools. What-' ever the lot!!! of organization, the rural `school must become the centre. of culture and` inuence in the community which it once was and be regarded as offering a man's job to the teacher. ' i V I`. D QYGQDMQ COLL|NGWO0D S sou-' cl.-`us INCORPORATED AT s4o,ooo . rm... n..;....:.. t'1......u.. ...n...:... .4}... ..`..o:... .-.t lI`YVrII'UI`_U'II E? "II 2 The Ontario Gazette carries the notice of the incorporation of the Collingwood Golf and Country/Club. Limited, The company is capitalized at forty" thousand dollars divided into sixteen `hundred shares at twenty-ve doll rs each. `The provisional directors are D E. L. Connolly. Dr. A. M; McFaul, W. T. -Allan. J. F. Zimmerman. R. W',\Thorm, H. G.` Wynes and D. ..l.- Darroch. ' vm__ _L:__. -2 u_, :_____.__4:-_ _: .|..`\' ifK_muI_)G_E_& GlL_ROY LIUUFDCII . The object of the incorporation of tho; company is to establish a country club for the encouragement of golf, tennis. bowling and other sports and for the maintenance of a country place for social meetings `and purposes of `amusement; and to produce electricity or hydraulic power for -the use of the Company only, on or near the club THE BARRIE EXAMINER ' c. B. s1ssoNs.E L . D. BEATTY S com-:c'TIou | .`East Greenwich, 11.1., Feb. 13, 1923. Editor of Barrie Examiner l r\_..._ o:._~ 11.. .14 :..:.....1 It- I n 12..-; l: U1 Ll-Kc IJGIIJC IJAGLIIIIIUI `Dear Sir\+My old friend. Mr. L. D, Beat- ity, of your city, has written to me regard- ing his collection of stuffed birds, fishes, and animals. He finds it desirzible to sell this collection on account of the fact that he is going to move to Grafton. Ontario, where his family is now living, and his new house or `bungalow is not large enough to furnish space for this collection. "l`|\:. :9 nu- nf Fl-an `nrnn.nl"onrl I-nncf var- HOMES or QIHIALITYA HONEST mess LE'l"I'ERS TO THE EDITOR IullIIlI apnuc IUI UIIID UUllU\ll1l\JlIc This is one_ of the largestfand most var- ied private collections of stuffed American and Foreign birds in existence. It is larger and more varied than those of the Royal Ontario Museum. The collecting of these specimens cover a period of . forty years. No time, trouble. or expense were spared in the gathering and preparation of this collection. There are ninety-one cases with from two to fifty specimens of each variey of bird or animal. with` a painted l birds. In one case is a black and white squirrel, the only specimen of the kind in the world; also oyster catcher. very rare; wood chuck, very rare; 1 pair passenger ` pigeonsgextinct; 2 young black bears, one day old. "This rare collection ought to be ' worth--and doubtless is--$20",0O0, but Mr. 1 Beatt-y will let it go, if taken atgonce, for $10,000. The city of Barrie can ill afford L to let this collection leave the place, as _ it is the nucleus of a great museum of natural history very interesting and ex- : ceedingly educative in character. As Bar- rie is my birthplace I am anxious that this collection shall remain in my own home town, our Beautiful Barrie," so I am sending my check to the Bank of Toronto. Barrie. to be used in securing this priceless background of the natural habitat of the collection for our dear /city. I..o- I\(\I\ ............t I... .6` tin oxnrnnnc IIV:" UKJIIUUDIUII IUI |Iul LICHI TL . , - Let me suggest the if fifty persons will give $100 each; fifty more will give 850 rach. and one hundred 325 each the sum can be easily raised. and future generations will rise up to pronounce blessings on those who had the love of their `own city. and the interwts of those who shall follow them so much at heart. Letithe school children organize and appoint a committee of Highi School -boys and girls who will canvass the city and adjoining towns thoroughly. t ,.......m. it ur\r\\l) pink vn-mu nr unnnnonu UI.l4_V nnu GUJULLIIIIS IJIVVHJ UIKUIUIISIIIJO Of course if some rich man or woman shall desire to puvchase this as a memorial for himself or herself or for some member inf the family this might_ be done. but let us: get together in some way and secure; this valuable treasure for our beloved city.` Very sincerely. n. w 17 n....m... The following` It article is `taken from the Evening Telegram of Toronto :- Valuable Stuffed Birds One of the largest and most varied pri- vate collections of stuffed American and Canadian birds in Canada, larger and more \'aluuble than that in the Royal Ontario Museum. is that of L. D. Beatty. of Barrie. Ont.. who has spent the greater part of his life in collecting and stuffing North; |American and foreign specimens, of birds land anixnals. some of which are now extinct. The birds are artistically arr_ange'd in` glass-front cases `withbackgmunds of theix natural habitat. Among the natural his- i tory specimens are: '1`...-n;-~ nnhlnn n\`n1-nvv kn.-n..A an-1.1. nl ' I/\)l`y n7l|CD||llCII\` axc. Terns; golden plover, horned grebe. al-i` ligators. iyellow legs. young black bears.i passenger pigeon, wonga wonga, Australia;l herring gull. penguin. 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