The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

TO RAI CHICKS lllld. Ull LII! A l2n'_'.:0 nu tend the 0l':| lingwoml on Thu I-'un H II I I|uu_\ w Miss .\'<-xx ..I..L :.. \...l \}lll(' Mrs. ...A,\. IuAAuu_\ nus. M(`M:1nn I .-. -.n...~l.s R IN A Happy Boyhood lnspigetion which Mea:ii{sddensAActiohe on the Part of the Rest of`Tl1at Oldi Mary Street Gang:_in_ Those` Joyous Days in Barrie Forty-Five Years Agb;-_And the S`trings.ln'c1uded_`Almost Every Sort` of Fi sh_,g from Minnies, s Perch , Sunsh,` Chub, Tro`ut,p Herring,,' Su_ckers; Pike, Pickerel and Frogs Right `up to Sea Serpents sand. Lal1ypaloosers. T ' - RV Ffd W- Grant. RC. 7 r sug GENEVIEVE JAMIESON (Pupil of Owen A. Smily) ISI i ITIR`Il Q1 (Continhed from 98.81} 1) ,,_2I_ ___L:-`L .......- '.--cv J3 {TUBBY 1 Jo ` _ By Fred W. Grant, .~Victo}'ia, B.C. DUI} 'l.1.VB IIBVUP UEUEIIL LIIU J0] That `w_as.'mine when as a boy- Fishlng in the humbler terms . Meant a pole and "hoo k.and worms; I have tried it year by year, ~ Tried` to se_e__ above my head , Skies as blue and bright andclear, And the robi-n's breast as red ' As they were. but all in vain-- lg; `Boyhood never comes again. " When a day was filled with. dreams, Now I dumbly wade the streams. Takeva boy and let him lie Underneatha willow tree,- And above him in the sky Countless pictures he .Will see. `Youth will sing its song to him, By the `river's silver brim, But an old man, fishing there, - Struggles to forget his care. ' The fishing cannot be as good around Barrie. nowadays as it was when we were kids; if you can believe one recent fisherman .who says, If the fish always go in schools, they generally eem to be playing hockey or having a holiday or are on ahunger strike when I go after them." It was quite different in. those old days, for sometimes the fish were. so numerous and over anxious that every time we put bait ona hook we hadto hide be- bind a stump or even climb a tree, or those. rapacious fish would scramble right up on the bank and.grab it out - of our hands. There sure used .to be some good fishing in Barrie -in those `days, that is, if childhood memory can be depended upon for details. 'l`.lH-In `l".nlu: used to he nfnm:.ttv ennd UL_Uuz'/uuyuuuu wuu as puxe ` ! To our favorite- fishing hole. ' I have fished with fancy` bait, ` . Fished with rods of finest steel,, I have heard with son) elate That sweet music of the reel. - But {we never caught the joy 'I`knf'1x1na'In*Inn when an n hnv F1shing s tine most any time, But I've never found itquite So complete with -jingllng rhyme, 7 Rest and comfort and'.deltght, As it was those lazy g1ays_ `ll-nan we hvn tho duntv wnvn inexpensive "eqlll 1118110, vauyu _I ` returns than in the case of many -of more plea'surean 7*-gave ~-far- better the modern shing layouts. _ And `it was quite a trick to successfully; `handle the big trout--when you did pole and a thirty-foot line among the tangled branches along the banks of the creeks. You wasted no time. in playing that sh after you had yank- ed him out from a pool beside some big stump or frombetween a couple of half-submerged logs, but a healthy jerk landed sh and tackle-in atangle among the `branches of some over- hanging cedar, with the trout, often. times, landing. a dozen yards away among the grass or brush,lwhere you eventually retrieved it from the, noise "it made thrashing around in its un- .-get one--with a twenty-foot bambool familiar environment. 1 H, 3.1, L_____L AS It WES [[1038 lazy ,!.lH.y8_ 7 When we trod the dusty ways ` Ot_our/boyhood with a pole To our favorite shinz _ne uepenuea upon wr ueuuus. Little Lake used to be atpretty good " place for `pike and pickerel: only it never was very popular for the smaller -boys. as old` Doc". Lawrence, who thought he had a proprietary interest in the place, had a way of his own of_ scaring us off. It will be remembered "that he always had boats for `hire and bait for sale for the fisherman, and] as nei_ther of these found a market among the boys, `fDoc" insisted on holding the preserves for the sole use of his paying: customers. And what fisherman needs to be told that prob- ably the most popular bait ever used was that. kind you got `out of a bottle with `a corkscrew? And general report used to credit .Doc" Lawrence with having the goods" too. A fnhvlv o-nnd flnhincr hnln fnvv nnnnlz- A fairly good fishing hole for speck- `led trout was the pond which supplied Daymen s Flour Mill on Elizabeth St. with water power. It was situated away back in the Boys Block district. was a quarter-mile across and ten or twelve feet deep and connected with the mill by a flume. half amile or more long; One of the Hebner boys ~was' "IIILVIIIE LHU EUUUS LUUu ' drowned there in 1875 while `paddling; a raft `made of logs, and that accident was used.by our parents to keep at least The Mary Street Gang from `fishing there, probably with the idea that the: place was so isolated that there would not `be anyone on hand to effect a rescue in case-any of the juveniles got into deep water. `Rn? nnnnhfnlv the moat nnnunn- JUVUIIIIBH SUI. IHLU `U669 water. But undoubtedly the most conven- ient and popular place to go shing was Kidd's" Creek, up or down from where it crossed the road at the north- west corner of the Queen's Park. The greatest drawback to fishing at the culvert there was just -as you `had coaxed one of the big ones `out from his seclusion under the bridge. some farmer would .drive his team through the creek to give his horses 8. drink .or tighten up his wagon wheel tires, and the fish. would be all` scared back out of sight. And if any of those whop- pers that got away from us juvenile fishermen 45 years ago are:_ still alive, and in the intervening" years have grown'at the same rate that they did from the time we, (almost) caught them'1mtii we hni 2-nt hnmn fn fall- LFUIH LIIU UIHIUI W_U I KNJIHUSLI UU'H[ them',until we had got home to tell- our fond mothers about them. there surely must be many there.the size of whales` cruising up hand down that well - remembered turbulent fishing stream. Every time they draw in 3 `good long breath ,or give a. healthy swish to their fins it should force the `waters to . overflow their confining banks. . . lvnvsunvn (`manly nvna Clan 9-snub macs Ulllc Simpson's Creek was the most pop. - ular place for minnies. It will be rem- embered that there,were two bridges there, one for the railway tracks and the other for the teams hauling lumber from the sawmills. with a pool between and it was the railing of the latter onejwe fished from..And`many a time has a rattling trains crossing that bridge scared out some big trout from his hiding place into view of that wide- eyed. open-mouthed youthful fishing mob, with a sudden return to shelter. And then look what happened-. The pool was also a popular gswlmming place, and` some impatient youth be- coming tired, of waiting for the disin- clined fish to bite, would chuck in a rock to stir.'em: up or to see if they Flsl-l`l'NG.! _ puere l'l.l'_Ua Vvxvwuupay And, speaking 0: swimming, every : that-'old"`swim x_n ing hole there. ' . it, for it was not exactly limpid, Illllll LIIU 5 one of that `old `surely rem- '.lV`he-_ho`t, "midsummer days" bring the; pictulek back with-. all its delightful color gs.'It was up.the.creek a piece, 4:`-y-we called it "crick" then-and there were low-hanging, red -harked`willows, swamp` beech and cedars spreading their` branches over the banks and un-I der which `a 2-boy. could almost hide `zwhen occasion made itexpedient. Most of that water was hardly waist deep, though in one part it was almost five! feet, and unless you were a very big boy the water was over your head. You I .could take as many as half a dozen` strokes without being able to touch: bottom once. That water would hardly; tempt you now, and anyway. the sani-I but,[ IT l tary officer would be likely to condemn oh, how inviting it was. . 'DI1r I-I-In nnnr n-nfnvvfnnnfn hnu nvhn UH, llUW.lllVlI.lll ll. wan. " Pity the poor,` unfortunate boy whol had always to wear shoes and. stock- ings` in those `days. How he did envy theboys whose toilet consisted in get- ting` in or; out or onlyea couple ofgar-1 ments-shirt and "overalls, held in. place with; generally , only*one strand of, father's braces-and topped with a dilapidated -cowf_eed" straw hat. "1 ...l.... J vr,__ _____.-I_~-|__I -1. 4.1.- .1.`_.._L.l_ There may still v.be,good trout `streams in `the older settled parts of Ontario, but the. continued draining of swamp lands to turn them into` agricultural tracts has doubtless greatly diminished. their number. And to gain that same happy exper- ience of landing a real lively ten-. inch speckled trout that the `boy of rforty-ve years ago had on very fre- quen-t occasions, within a very short` walking distance from the very cen- tre of Barrie, .the;,sherman of ;the. `present day will, no doubt, have to make a long pilgrimage into the vir- gin country of New Ontario or some other distant part wheresettlement has not crowded the gamey speckled trout out of existence, ` '"3{.';;;2mui;.LZ:'Ene1{s:c'&n 6: two fingers-extnded upright and hur- ried to the pool. There was a mad rush `On an?` nuf nf vnnr nlnfhnn an}! an nu; ' rleu LU [HG IJUUI. .I.lIUl'U Wli 1!. H111. l'UB{l "to get` out of your clothes and an un- willingness toovcome out of the water` even it it was long after supper time. Often enough` you were halt-dressed when some more boys arrjved, whet-_e-. upon you stripped again and went_in with them. -- . rm..--.......u....|.... .1...-.. A..".... -M-.. I........ 'Wl(.Il (118111. - `_ , - .'.l`he ' sweltering dog days `may have held terrors-for our Ielders,` but` they never worried us youngsters as we paddledaround in that old swimming hole. Ordinarily that creek was only deep enough to float a raft made of railroad ties joined with a nailed-on plank or two but at that particular bend the stream had scooped out at hollowdeep enough for some of the most accomplished to dive and bring up bottom in one hand, and thatrpa.r- ticular boy held as honored a place as did some otherkid who could dive from. the bank without making a; bel- ly Whopper," and every boy.Will rem-1 ember just what. a jolt one of those; W315. . ,While it was generally a safe re-' treat for the small boy to disport in Nature's; garb; Still there '35 3 5 of unwritten law that in case of the - sudden, unexpected` passing of any! .mter1oper, modesty demanded that you. were to. dive if you chanced to be On the bank, or if when you came UP 1 any unsuspecting flower-hunting fe-, male approached.` you were to remain -immersed until the unwelcome tres-| d`f tn` view. As has ggtigsfrieliad rftescie pregiiously in _ these ` sketches, t-heboys of those days -were, a, `much better-behaved, gentiemanlyu flock of little innocents than are the- juvenile rollicking. . roysterins rowdies of the present hecti`c age. Oh, my. Yes! That's-the reason for my often won-, dering now Why m0.St 01 115 130% used to get walloped half-a-dozen or so times every school da-y- for nothin . 'th t imming hole sani- ta$r,`dsc?rvr?esoneaasls{`sv? Lord. no! But its was great fun. You may go swimming` atany up-to-date pavillion and in tliie! most elaborately_trimmed bathing su . from now until doomsday, with the frequent visits. to the hot- dog 0!` 308 cream cone stand for refreshments, but for real- pleasure YOU 03 nl?V]`' equal that muddy old swimming 0 e. a.- la dishabille, .with those frequent lunches of hot potatoes or cars of can` roasted in a bonfire of. a dried-outlog. 1 unvcavnl :nv.l.Llll5 a. uI._y, uuu KS tnese so then at about two dozen for a quarter. it can be seen that even in those low- a cost of living days the returns never, placed any of those fishermen in the millionaire class. One of the most s'uc- 3. cessful of those old-time herring fish-i ermen has, according to news items It have on different" occasions seen in? The Examiner, now joined th exalt-.' ed and `popular Ontario Royal Order`of. Bootleggers, and no doubt nowadays cleans up more real money in half a. day's operations in his line of" wet goods thanhe used to in three months or more hauling up herring through i a hole in the ice on a wet fishing line. And many a time indeed, have those fishing huts," no matter how small or uncomfortable, housed more than the fisherman and his stove, for some of! us kids then, upon, occasion, feeling more like holding up our end of.the line among a school of fish than a school of fellow-students, helped to swell our particular fisherman friends ; skimpy earnings and Jncidentally add-I ed another item to our general store! of worldly wisdom, as well as another day's enjoyment to the none too ex- tended amusement program of those days for the real outdoor boy, outside of what he himself provided and per- game of playing hook-ey derived its name. ' nvnn no 4.`... ._--n -4-.,-- I - -- I03 1 haps that's where that very popular i Ialllvn vvvsg uvravvn uuug n v . n Av nnnn In And was that swimming tary, someone asks? was pavillion and the! elaborately _ trimmed `bathing suit cream refreshments, youcan never hole, I potatoes own.- dried-out 1og,! or- a. pitchy old pine stump.` But then. `alas, you can never be a boy again- i except in retrospective imagination. When We Were. Kids When we were kids together, and we didn't have 8. care, In the lazy days of summer, when our feet, were always bare, ` . When a. hat wasn't necessary. and a ' ` necktie in the way, And there wasn't a-blessed thing to _ do_ but scamper off and play. Then -the sun meant something to us, and the blue skies overhead Sort of stooped down in the meadow - where we children were, and said: n'1`rout`are biting-in the millstream, hurry up and getyour pole, Now s the time you should be hiking to yourfavorite fishing hole." i 1 _When we were kids together, and there wasn't a thing to fret, Save coming home to Mother; with ,- hair suspiciously wet, M ` Then the sunbeams and the songbirds _ used to `come to us and say: They are swimming in the creek, bet- ter get theretright away. As we passed them we could hear them ` "laughing, splashing down below" Then we hurried to the creek just . as fast as we could go. For there w_a.sn t a. thing to keep us, like there is now we are men, And the sunbeams and the songbirds and theskies meant something then. Now the; same sunbeamscome calling, and the same songbirds come near, `And the same blue `skies bend o'er me. and their-messages I~hear; AEvery darrcing sunbeam tells me that ' ,down yonder in the stream The hungry fish are biting, but I only sit and dream, . , For I've journeyed` past my boyhood. I'm" a. slave foreverinore, - `And I,may not heed their whispers, as I used -to door yore. . There are -bills to meet, and duties that `I must not,',dare not, shit-k-- Mr.` Sunbeam. quit your` coaxing,` it`_s I `no use, I've got to work. 7. The wrlter h;(7i `no special luck in ever landing a real big one, for most of that king! "he caught always got ?TT-*~-** :- Wm : a M Good Sp ort at Tliat. V KKJUXILIIIUUII _ll'Ulu `M7 at V over trails which were `very dierent from the paved roads of nowadays. But even those creeks right in town provided good strings of trout to the earlier comers each season. ~ A" .I_I.L_.__ 2-1.3-nan @955`: `$5 . . . ~ . . v . awn)` uuu ouuu uccu UUSIFBU. II A really good fisherman could malte. ya. daily~haul of probably six or eight; ' dozen herring a day, and as these sold . ' ' that never placed the` Imilllonaire class. Orin nf Han rn.-ma n`... 1 .y;.uvu15 4 au'uu5er_ puuer (118.11 we were.i ; had had the. life half scared out of him] "by tales of the big sea _ser,pent` .being' l"A`s every `kid in Barrie in those days ,. seen at various times in the bay,` and _the - rumor. was `worked to the ilixni i too by our parents to keep us away; from the*danger of playing along the :` I breakwater, we surely thought we had? that monster on, the end of" that line, and `consequently dropped everything; and hiked up the street toward home-,. I but shouting over our shoulders as; `we passed some` railwaymen shunting, cars there that we had caught the sea; serpent; When one of them was brave 1 ! enough to take up the fishing pole ly-1 iing where we dropped it, it inspired` us with sufficient confidence to at? l least slacken speed to note the`. result, `He finally hauled in a great big,, lazy; lcruising sucker, which had taken our: I )ait,_and we returned to our chub fish- 1 ng. l - . ' Winhina d>`hu-nun-L. .. I...I- 2.. LL, ,,, ,4] rug. ~ Fishing through a hole, in the ice of! the Bay does not seem to have the' same popularity as in the old days, [judging from the `few isolated '-huts to: be seen there one day last winter by` the writer. Forty-five years ago there `usually were hundreds of them there. spread over the icy surface from the.- old sawmill booms atythe head of the Bay for a couple of miles andithose. shanties formed a variegated conglom- ; eration, for they consisted of "almost; I everything in the shape ota shelter ; from an empty barrel` thrned upside down or a piano ease, up to the more; pretentious affairs half the size of a~ boxcar, each enclosing besides the sherman a small stove of more-util- itarian than ornamental qual-ities; any- I thing served the purpose, from` a tin oilcan with one end knocked."out and turned lengthwise to a real honest-to.-E goodness stove picked up from some- one s_ scrap heap. Ventilation was a` purely incidental matter and didn't` seem to worry the occupant very much, i as natural laws seemed to arrange things quite satisfactorily for _all con- cerned-,. though generally it would-` not`! have required.much added equipment` to turn out smoked fish as well as fresh ones, had such been desired. I A .......n.. .....-.a ::-u--__.,, ] llalll Us 1 One of the `well-remembered incid- ents connected with those boyhood fishing excursions was when you re-' turned home a long time after the us- ual meal-hour, and found your father cutting the limbs from some` tree and were in a fever of excitement until- `you were certain that he was merely raw materials at hand ready for trim- ming you for your delay. I trimming the tree and not getting the! Probablv thr had ovnr I-[nan "Il\II" . Watson Jones would haveswon by sev- uuug you I0!` your delay. I Probably if there had ever been held,` a contest. among. the small boys of, Barrie of the old days as to who was! the most popular real he-man in town,i eral thousand majority, for he knew` evervthing and could do anything bet- ter than anyone else, from telling us where was the best place `to dig fish- hworms right on up to whittling out a! sa.ilboat with a jack-knife from a big! stick of timber. As a fisherman on his! own account also Wats" swung no; mean hook, and was the champion. fishing `go-getter of the district. It was! claimed that one time the_,1Zish he! caught in Kempenfeldt, Bay was so- large that when he pulled it out the.` level of the water fell so low that some! of.the, boys swimming at the, foot of! Mary Street waded clear across to` Allandale Station, and those who didn t_ noticed that the ., Lady of the` Lake"i at her anchorage in front of the rail-` `way station sank , so low her keel` touched bottom and she listed over and, rested against the breakwater. The; writer cannot vough for either of these claims, however, _s he WAS atschool that day. Anyway, no fish ever got away from Watson when he was on the job, from minnows right up to lal- lypaloosersl" And any time he donned his fishing tog's,_' which were.the same ones he alwavn wm-4: fnr gnu an.` an uxa uauung' wgs,_ wmcn were.the always wore .for any and all other occasions, the fish always ran` away and hid. Wats" `was some guy all right to the small boys of Barrie. of those days when they needed help in almost any endeavor._ | In Tnrnnfn Incl` Inhnfnu 4-1.. -----!A--- m uunust any endeavor.` - L | In Toronto last winter the. writer had the pleasure of witnessing the, total eclipse of the sun, whenthe sky .. became as dark, for a minute or so, at 9 a.m. as it usually is atlmidnight.` And ,. memori s were immediately revived of an. ernoon spent fishing at Simp- son's, Creek back in July, 1880.. when the sky. suddenly became as dark as V midnight, and every mother's son of{ that fishing gang hustled for home, `as "A `we were sure the end of the world: had come,' in accordance wlth prophec-`i ies which had been made. Eventually: E is was discovered that the dense smoke And Whip and whip and from the bush fires, which were of; very frequent occurrence around .Bar- ; } rie in_.those lumbering days, had-gained l {extraordinary volume that particular. day from some nearby bush and al-; most totally obscured vision. It was` only after` several minutesydarkness that sunlight againmanifested itself. and boys -all over town-and probably; -many of dur, elders a_.lso-ca`me forth; from their hiding places away from the impending danger, though -the writer] cannot now decide why he was confi-s dent of personal safety simply because he had crawled under a bedvin the: spare "bedroom at home. But there is not a single member of that old Mary Istreet Gang, at any rate, .who will ; have forgotten the scare they received and the sudden break in their fishing and swimming program down at Simp- son's Creek Amusement Centre, when the sky suddenly became dark as night 1 that July afternoon in 1880, away back i forty-five years ago. at night, `Paths now are `not so cqaxing to my feet. I Why I can, take the costliest rod and ` flies, . whip a wood- land stream For hours and hours, and never get a r se, And never see a speckled beauty gleam In the brown depths: when in the old- en days " A wiggling worm hung on a bent pin hook, Tied to a cotton string. would catch the gaze `And lure the finest beauties from the brook. The years have given me some things that most men . Have gathered from the years that pass them by, But no man can step back to youth again, Springs colors cannot always tint the S 3 ? Say!" it I could go barefoot just once more _Adown a dusty road in the sweet I I L `To 10.1,: :3; i1o;s'io,,5{{"{y the; strings, ' x To wind my stqckings into ghem and on I ' Those were the days! Rare days, sweet M days, and good; . : ;The creeks sang songs, and _thei1- each \ song W_asv new; .Birds sang new songs in every shady urnnd _ wavuu vuv VA. wan:-I-ruonvv In a general way the shing used `to be extremelygood over the entire ' head of the bay and around its shore, from Graham s tannery wharf atthe .foot of Berczy St., where bass, sun-` `sh an_d- perch were very plentiful, clear around to Minet s Point, Lov- ers Creek and Willow Point, where trout and chub were easily caught. That goodly supply of shin those waters was doubtless the result of the plentiful food store found there at all times from the grubs dropping from `the big booms of sawlogs always be- ing towed and anchored along the shares for the use of the `sawmills there operated by Messrs. Meldrum. Durham, Ardagh and Vansickle. And who of that old gang hasn't lled many a bait can with white grubs from those logs when starting out on ;a shing trip to some of those out-of- `town creeks? ' - a_._..:_.__ ._...I._.... _L ....!..1_L 1.2..-- _-_- |Dow=r,1 duty roads I` knew in bygone. I sprfngs, [To kick up dust and get a stone- bruised toe, ` `i To loiter on. the bridge across the run 3 And'dang1e my feet` there `till day grew i dim ` ` [ nuu (lillllc lily l.CI'.'L' LHCKC Llll. uuy 5l.'C\V j M dim. , f And to `drop pebbles ge_ntl`y one by one, 3 And watch the timid minnows dart I thin)` nuuyCrn u.DH'US 511.115 IICW SUIIEB Ill CVUF) suuuy wood, - jAnd never since have skies been such ' ~a blue: , And never since have clouds been such a white: . V " 2 And never sincehas life seemed half an niuvnnt u l`1ll Ll llcjtl. lllUC'4ld. IILC I=CIllCU uau. so sweet;. v ' Stat-s,do not shine as stars then shone . " 7.,"-' "7 v ` game ` Rasgo;:N'r1A3..~cHooL I-`oh cuu.s :1t-.mo Scholarship 'M'a~triculgtion, solo Singing, Music. Art. Conversational ' - T-`s-nnnL'n'rnnhna3qntl nlafdnnr Games and SUOI'tS. Scnolarsnlp Matnculgtlon, _50l0 Dlglllg, .LV_l.ubu:, :11. b, uvlxvcx . J Frenchfemphasxzed. Outdoor Games and_S1_Jorts. Health record excellent: v 9 _ Lxmxted n U \V RLUII LI and` swim. TO BE A BOY AGAIN! `The advertisements Barrie Examiner perform a eva1uab1e;se"rvic.e.' They are of ser- vice to . you. because fthey inform you where to buy .deperidab1e' merchandise. _ They are l of service "to theadvertiser because they carry his message to you.` V % You xvavillond irt"help`V1"u}_`?`t`,o make use of this service. _ Buyof retail n1erchan't`s_ in townwho adVer_tiSe'-i!;e?'4l.-'l_jc:.`Exgliner. Notice the an- . c. vnouncementsoof manufacturers whose pro- ducts can be obtained at your local stores. Jr`! W ll UIIUUILBI Spearing suckers at night time was far greater sport than shing for them in the daylight. Any old punt would do for the purpose, so long as it provided a place in the elevated how where you could have a bonre of pitch knots to attract the sh and give light for the boatrnen. Suckers were always plentiful most any place along the shores, but we generally used to go spearing them at the mouth of Lovers Creek and Willow Creek. And many a time when you would over-reach or over-balance in making a stab at some slow-moving fsh the force would throw you from your balance into the water, and then A you were the sucker, hauled out of the water by the rest of the crew, instead of the o`ther one. - ' Thosewho advertise in The Eizamiher will appreciate your patronage, They will be glad to have you tell them that you responded to their advertising. ` ' ' V V Before making a purehase, why not make -it a practice to first look over the advertise- ments i'n'The. Examiner? If your merchants are not g1ving_ you _the store news you want in their advertisements, why not tell them about it? J . lL:\5enben Eollegg . D`l.'i- l\l"hl'l`lAI - cnunnl lrnb nun c `ll-I I7l\\-Cltlwllug r Fgr Proupeus apply to Pri.nciP8'3- BTWNNER `Ill LIIU IJIVUWII LlCpLll, WHCXI Ill LIIU unu- :Tied a i the gaze ! some ` Spring s sky: Say!` gloam, And if I could call back those days I of yore `The hills should echo back my Home, 1- Sweet Home! `l2\13`l'."I"| TIT IVTD A 1\`!"'l` The Dunlop Trail" for 1925 (issued by the Dunlop Tire & Rubber Goods Co.) has for its object the providing of an accurate guide for motoring any- W_here in Ontario. This it succeeded in doing with its 16 excellent sectional maps and varied information as to routes, mileage, etc. Price, 50 cents. Father-Um. In that case I suppose he won't be calling for a couple of nights." ' . ---v..--. v_ -.-u vv--v- v-. The real sportsman nowadays pre- fers his game hi2'h. but we didn t when we went shing--we wanted ours fresh. So we always kept it in `a Colman's mustard or Vienna baking powder tin can lled with water. and dropped each minnie into it` as fast as caught. There's a limit to every- thing, some fellow has said, except the num'ber of young people who can get into a Ford car upon occasion. Also the number. of minnies we could get into one of those cans. It "was not until many years afterwards that we learned they really were minnows,. not minnies. TI` JJEJJ VV . \1I'\ut11V J. , 1016 Princess Avenue , Victoria, B. C., `June 22, 1925. Father -- What is the matter, Alice? 'AIice-Freddie and I have parted for 'ever. ' ..-- o .. . - Salt snr~i.nkI_ed on pantry shelves will exterminate ants. ' TH E bUiI:3:=?Auu -FRED W. GRANT, .1ronnn' `7{nfnI-in 12 I` Lil L)yUL U3: Limited nmbers. LIVICIIUD IICI C. Mr. and Mrs. and Earl Reid 1 on Sunday to `Percy, who is t Sanitarium. no ing. 11v and NT:-c July 6-Miss rle spent :1 fem friends here. 1\K.. and Ring .1115. Mr. and Mrs. *wa called on 1': g,-----. ---..-___ But that" _old:{iiiie shing, witlgditsl i'.*s22:3z2..;.:2:`1%:'::'4,":,`;`t:2 Mrs. Dolph .\.I spent a Couplv ' week. A ..lnnAl.- WCCK. A friendly played lust l`h ton and Ivy. I` favor of the \' \.l n.-win I n . u.VUKV UL Lllt` Mervin Lonn few days at hi The band sp Rev. '1`. J. I away for their Mrs. James newing old :1('( E. Ovorend : rare holidzxyin-.: __ K- -- "his XVII-I. V in F103. \/I'.. .. All PIUH. Mr. and .\1 Ivlaud Kenwn_ nox and Miss ed to TOI`()lllt a day with frie RI: IxV\r` '\lu.- U(l._V H |l.|l II A: Mr. and .\h~s day with Iiurr ,-_.:, A meeting >1 S. was held in afternoon. l`hu; of memIw1'.~* :1 Mrs. John um splendid I`!-put in 'T`m'rmtI. } (:hur<-h \\'o-l`(- sv` grmd \\'m'l<. .-\ diffi('1l1U<`.\'. '1` work for .<>m~ `they will win. fur the \\`m~l-E \I...-.... \IS.... :1 lIlll|||v"| P1'eshytm'i:: n OIIU)-II)"& ]':n1idu_\'.~`. \ nu... ELOCUTIONIST Summer Class Now Starting. Pupils -'-- Engagements ' Studio: The Spruces,f' Tho:-nt_op._.` `V1153 .\"7h` Inlet. is hm 11:`. and .\Ir.~ Thu I \I'v| III JVII. nun: .u..~. - The ()1':|H*_;-I the An.:`H<':1n The c-hum-h brethren nnnw their he-:1uti1'u heading: thv n. p1`e:1<-hm} 1| 1st (`0rinIhi;ux brethren U) li\ people \\'nnM . man, for 1 `warned them : intempm':m-- mar their or VV01`l(1. HP (Hit the old Hum be (`h:1n;:c-I. 1 and :-:90 that land of ours. the servic-o 1.; July T-.\Ii vvho has In and her .\`i.\'I home on 8:: \,`[..n T|..;l.l ulna. .,.n...., ester. .\'.Y.. I home on 5:11 daughter, M1111 her here. re-t 1.1.. nun] \1v ll!!! MCI L`, I VL Mr. and M 1' recently Visit here. \A'.. `\I,.6`6`..r 1'6. Ml`. 1\Ir)ff:Ir Alted friends : C`n1r1\u~r; I f'\-; . ` BRO? Jtcu Ll Atfllun I Several frn Champlain m illia on the 1 A 1.....rn nu Illl[4\vU\IH `In The rain \ do imnumsv Examiner and they VVOI a. week. lIl'llCl' cuxucza wavu E95-wvun that" fold-`time `with -.51 -----......... ' .4nIn:vil|iA+ nwnvi pd]