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Barrie Examiner, 18 Feb 1926, p. 7

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__,:2 111$ 0,000,000 _ Reserve $19,500,000 Total Resources .$230.000.000 01' for emergency V HAT is yourllif'e s ambition? _ Whatever it is be sure of this ---that ready money in the form of a savings account in The Bank of Nova Scotia will make it more quickly and more surely realizable. , . Open your account to!-day and make ' regular deposits. Interest is added half-yearly. now `me TELEPHONE :3 BUILDING UP BUSINESS (from letters in am les) `."fhe wholesale our business is built on the constant use of Long`Distance. ' Each year we use Long` Distance more, and to a greater distance. V ' The raid shifts in prices can only be handled success- fully by Long Distance. ' ` We use Long Distance to give good service, and our customers thank us for calling them. vl` ` w. E. BREWSTER V Mahager- OF CANADA A Haz 0} vow: om ij ` ssnausnzn _ 1832 < r E3431 Em aRGE{ you Q off I IAII an ner % afternoon 9510. Sub- flnnn A D-IUD I of wu unu to leave B 8001 ). From the dock you step into modern- American thoroughfare. with open street cars and bustling auto traffic. Huge buildings of stone. whose lines . follow-the simplicity, and beauty or the Greeks, bespeake stability and faith in the future. Past handsome stores with window. dressings recalling Paris you come upon old palaces. now used by the government, then mile upon mile of handsome or less pretentious dwellings. All are set` about with trees and flowers whose very novelty de- lights northern eyes. I-Iere are the tall royal palm, the .lesser elgarpbe. cocoa- nuts. and golden shower. but the chief glory is in the long hedges of hibiscus. 9. ower which, like our sweet pea. has `; ppcvu. ' ' I on the beach is the Moana hotel. a palace of white and gold and owers. with wide verandah and baobab tree. beneath which the Royal Hawaiian band plays and sings native airs. sweet :1` cadence and plaintive appeal. There, when a colour-scattering moon rode high, we watched moving pictures of other beauties and wonders of the isles we had to leave sq soon. FPDYH H11: nnll unn ml-an Int- -~-2--- UL uus waves. 1: ll much more ,thr1ll!m: to ride oneself, but that takes practice. There is compensatory excitement in` the surf boat---a. long canoe with out-. rigged log---ln which rive or six may speed. _ (In the I-monk `cu cl... 11..-..- I.-4-- umw environment. - . V Waklkl Beach is Javed by water so worm that -there is no wonder that Hawaiians seem to live In It. _Its "silky" reel recalls, summer lakes In Northern Ontario. Here Diamond Head looks on long lines of surf and its rid- ers. .It is thrilling to see men and wo- men, brown and white. erect on heavy round-pointed boards, some nine feet long, charging shorewards on the crest of the waves. It is much thrllllm: to ride oneself. that takes nrm-um _ vurru upvo \IW\I5l ` Soon we were sp eding to an official reception by the G vernor at the Capi- tol. an old palace of Hawaiian kings. At the Aquarium one passes from won- ; der toiwonder at new combinations of glorious bandings and blendings of colour upon fish which have an-`air of-A uncanny intelligence. Here should come those .who seek new vividness and homes. Some fish recalled colour- ed rubber bathing caps pulsating with _ life. If the octopuses did not.` cause revulsion one might watch'their cham- eleon faculty of suiting their colour to their environment. ofrainbow hues to brighten our stores f Wnklki Rnnnin an .;......a' I--- ---~A- 1 uupwm neauty.` -_ ' V , ' It is the. eople who make the places.- "rhe Cham er of Commerce of Hono- lulu perpetuates the spirit 9!. the~ brown-skfnned Hawaiians `who`.`.sh)ce the far days of 1778, when our own.- Captain Cook-whose name, cleaves to". St. Lawrence and Nootka.` as, to Aug-I tralla agd Hawaii-_-was welcpmed and i worshipped In these "snnamm. 131...". jlvllllvll ton oh-In IVUIIUU I10`: L 016` aim .... .. uuuu us use rz1ulIl(:." Six and a hal! days_ from Vic.toria; found us slipping through a. sea that recalled the seemingly unrealrbluer ot certain billboards. Across the ecks 012. white foam rose land of evident [vol-i, canic origin. Had it proved asbare as. it looked the changing lights and col-A ; ours it; the bills would have lett a. last. . ing memory of delight. Closer acquain-1 1 tanee was to reveal verdure abundant ` to the ridges. 9. Paradise, of `semis tropical beauty. - It is thA.nnnnln m1.;.......'.u-.' ..--\ ,1- -. cacti. 191112 ' `.l'.I'I.C`l-in` ~ i- U 3 A Honolulu! The veryname -coyjurs. up visions of -sunshine and fl wersn voloanoes and long rollers bearing to. gaandy shores the `brown riders, `of s rt-1 boards. All this is true. but it is but: a fraction of `the delights of. this "Crossroads of the'Pacific. 1 Six and a hali"dnvn vs-nm 1r..a.....a.. is g oO`('lt'e:"T"EA %23`x3uxmm.W@m' $"a7 ,` _ 'muxsbAv, I-'1'g: nuAmr 1a.:1p92.',A ...... .... "ago, u.cwnusu_ unu 08179!- ored a. ne cotgtitry,-_ and to get g impses o th_8;sOlIth Seaxls-,` lands. ` , ,___.._ By. `I-Hugh `8a`ra`c; _Dunoih. B-5.` Being articles at v1nts;;estLaboin,t how New rzealandera and:Aus- tralians -have tackled` and devel- oped new couimou mm en ..- Our` Kinsfollc f Down Under? A lvanoo (1; man. "5' ruaisv ARTICLE THREE I`II' VIII.` ------- -- aft: 1.` I-dlieer W111 Lg; Wrlih far Draft} Mote E3` Item tree from lie '93 MM: Rnnln And Aduhm --- V V `an .115] 47-535`? Writ`: for Pratti.-Poultry; Book and Advice In; Sand lO for 160 pa 0 Bookdllustrlted . - PRATTJOOD CO..o C A .l.Immd. TORONTO nun: U1. nls Iarm nouse. - ` French. German and Spanish 1un- _ cheon `is served each weekin `Pasadena (Cal.)T Junior College for pupils study- Jng these languages. - I uuuuy at rumours. Fa. ` Jobiah Walker, of Woodwich. Me... removed 125 pounds of honey trom.the attic of his farm house. Wrnnnh .(1n|~vv-nun -n-ul G..n..l..I. 1--.. TWO sisters arid a brother. triplets.- celebrated their fiftieth birthday `re- cently at Pitt8bu`rg. Pa. Johiah Wnlknr nf Txrnm-znol.-.1. 11.1.. nu. Luv group. ' Occupying promlnent positions ml the life of Honolulu` are man, British: `subjects who have become merlcan' citizens. Among our courteous hostsj` was an Edinburgh man and his charm-] i`ng'Austmlianowife. Another lady was `a Boer by birth while her husband was` British. IVIV4. I... ....._..i____,-... ' Pu ul ca Dxolratu HA nun -I 'ayuI.. -xnougn urmsh rule was brief. the memory of Britain is cherished by the natives. Beretania street in Hono- iulu is the nearest they could get to Britannia. `A British admirers statue [is hard by. The Union Jack is incor- 'porated in the flag of the old mon- arr-h_v which is now the flag of the Ter- I ritnry of Hawaii. You may see it, with the Stars and Stripes, behind that , throne where a Speaker now sits. Like` our Canadian shipping flag it has the; Union Jack in the corner. while j,he' fly is of alternate bars of white. red. and\blue. symbolizing the eight islands of the group. r Oonunvim; nrvnrnlnnnt .m>..ua...... 1- 1; ..--.. .....uuun. an Luau` tnBn1BB.._ I. .One word brings back a.` whole `I country. ,H`ayvaii's. word is Aloha." Wordnot greeting. or `love. .0! `friend- ship, but never so vibrant with mean- 1 ins as w ben used-as word of farewell. ' The great ship moves. Many voices -[join the Royal Hawaiian band in 'IAloha Oe." From the boat deck. six- ? ty- feet above the sea. brown bodies 5 dart like arrows or curve in, glorious 5; dlvin . _~Like modern Doges, we cast | overboard our rings or blqom--for 't I is will-luck to keep them.` Thus we ll might our troth to Hawaii. Nineteen vanrn non n on .a........... o..x was nuuuu. A [memorial marks the spot. Though British rule the-memorv of Rvlfnin 1. ..1......1.....u x... . . . . . . u uuuuuu auunus U; U18 IJPBBB. 'ljhe,clt3; is on the island of Oahu. It. was on the-southernmost and lam- `est tslafnd, that of Hawaii. that_ Cook was killed. A memorial `marks? the ,HDOt. Though British ruin urn: halal! `dust. proclaimed hlecohnectlon with the qtokehold, blinked as he trudged along a. dusty road from the docks to the centre of a email} town. Honolulu cit is now a modern of 100.000 popu- le. ion. The coal trimmer was among her honoured guests or the press. TBA lllfu In nu {Inn l..I.....1 -1 I\AI--- o Two sister's arid brother. alahmtnd their flfflni-Is .m..n. K uuu narnour. `- ` Under 5. ver;anda.h~ roof which bios- ` somed `wi h vines. we ate native dishes. Fifteen kinds.of rang printed in two `languages _on one tea.-. leaf" describes `the menu card. The "tee" leaf was isome sixteen inches long. Ma.jor\Astor .and Lord Burnhain chose British` con- gnection with Hawaii and friendship ;with America as their themes.._ I nfl Iln\-ml I....l.. _._ I- 1 -`- _ , -.-----._-, vv vnnv gvuuauu ran, ('1. PFC- clpltous escarpment over which a. con`-. qluex-lng chief drove his enemies to _ death. From it one gains` a. View of the eastern side of the island. it the `strong trade wind will allow /you to `stand. The torce or this wind is ner- haps best seen in ws..tera.lls` blown ;back .`up the cliffs through which we `swung down to the Country Club, set _amid golf links and looking over city land harbour. ~ TTI'I(`nv n nun-o._A-L ---l` -f-"I-03% D5,` VOIIUHUH lllgn. " ` Out in the country the hibiscus hedg- _ es_pezrs_ist amid tields of bananas and pineapple, of, rice and sugar cane. -1 Little t:'.ucks"ot cane are unloaded emachinery, the iuice is extracted `in , the mill,"-boiled,` -and `the sugar refined. At Pearl. Harbour, after calling on Ada- tniral-_McDonal`d, we stood by a huge Hdrydock and I ked down on six sub`- _.marin,es. Anot er slid past. Overhead ,_swooped three aeroplanes. About us . was all the machinery ti war,- for here I . -I, is Uncle Sam-`s strongest, naval base. , while'in the hills is a huge militarye Over forty per ,cent. of the group's ' 307.000 populationais Japanese, about . ' twelve per cent. American, British, : t and `German. The rest are Hawaiians. f` Chinese, Filipinos, and Portugese. We 1 .l threaded the Japanese quarter to peep 1 "at a plant which daily turns out tinsli I of pineapple by the hundred thousand. Then. from war and trade, `-we climbed` 1 1 to romance, to the Nuuanu Pall, a pre-} 1 con-. 4 1 it 1 g allow 5 stand. 9: is _Der-[ hh hunt nnnn ---4---'~ v - Abieein c.l'_ce:s`e(1A`ai1d3Vi'ecros se'! hntil `now *I;he~tale_ of varieties has reached tour yhcugand. These cnlour combinations vie with those hot the -fish/es and the hillsides. By day the red `glory. of poin- settla: then. the won one loveliness of `the `night-bloom ng cereus, one flower tiwhic we._werel1_1ck,v enough to` $6,. It wa .,a great creamy chalice. some `six incheq high. ' tjllf `ll filo nn-u-c__. LL- i_:Ln - - (T6 b e' continued ). T triplets. Iuu uua_ . uruuuu is 11 nulsuzue Uld `BOY. - The hand of death again visited this .villa._ge and took for its victim Mrs. Geo. .-Thompson, on Friday. Feb. .6. Mrs. Thompson had been ailing since flast summer and had been `in Toronto over two months taking medical treat- ments. She returned two weeks ago to her home where death relieved her of her suffering. She leaves her husband. two` daughters and three` sons. Mrs. Geo. Mind and Mrs. F.Devitt. b th of Medonte, Per,cy of Craighurst, ordon of Elmynle and Earl in Buffalo, who was unable to get home for the_fun- eral. Two brothers, Frank and John Ward. and two sisters. Mrs. /Morrow -and Mrs. J. Calhoun, Toronto, attended the funeral wh1ch,was held on Mon- ; day afternoon and `was largely attend- zed. Service was held in the Unite "Church by Rev. Mr. Morris. The pail-f mmuuuxm. unurcn sunaay Evening. 'J.`_hip village was shocked this morn- ring to hear of the terrible fire in Elm- `vale. also re death of the McWa.tt- on family who lost their lives-in the ` ames. In and `In ... 1.`... yr: .. , - aura. JD. ,5. DUO 12`. . - [The gift social in the basement of the Presbyterian church last Wednes- day evening was very` well attended. After a couple of contests a short pro- gram was ? given after which, lunch was served by: the members. of the prayer" circle. The collection amounted tolabout forty dollars which will be sent to -M. Ganton, Brazil. who is on the mission field in, that place. "Mr. Ganton is a Hlllsdale Old Boy. -' Th hand nf nnflvu on-nhn -.:...lL...1 4.1.:._ uumes. Mr. and Mrs. John Wa1kerand' daughter Grace, of `North Battleford. Sask., are visiting Mrs. Walker's niece. Mrs. E. R. Sco t. "FHA till !/nan n1 1... 4.1.- -1_-__;,,, A - name In Toronto this week; Rev. Mr. Luck. Saskatchewan. who is visiting his parents in the village, took charge of the service in the Free Methodist Church Sunday Evening. This village was shocked this rnnv~n_ \ (Too i-Latie for Last 'Week) Feb, 10-Miss Marian Rumble -or `Baxrie is visiting,_pnder the parental .roo . k A - Rev. J. Gibson is visiting at his home in Toronto this . I RAV Mr 'I'.nnlz nal-.4-..I......-.... ---L - +8005 uu._y, run. LU. A number of the school children. who ` had -been detained from school. have :returned to .their usual studies. _ ` -_-- ._--..y `lo vy 5154515, Vvctll-Ill); UH K131` S011 : Frank, who is very poorly. ' I : Robt. Allen has gone to Torbnto re- lgarding his health.` A. Allen umlerwent 'a serious opera: tion in a Toionto hospital on, Wednes- ,da.{, Feb. 10. ' nnvnhnn no cl... ....I..._1 _u_u -. , - 9 Lune. Mrs. Henry Desjardine; Sanford St.. Barrie; is holidaying `With her` father. B. Foisle. ` Mrs. E. Comartin is in Toronto at , the time of wxvlting, waiting on her son : I Rnht Allan Inna tulnunrx A.-- fl!-~-' ~4 , mass Ada rmsne or Toronto spent Sundayuwith her father and broth _er Gilbert. * `* t / _Weddlng bells are ringing loudly. Hauling wood is the order of the day. W. Goddard of Toronto spent Sunday with old`-time friends here. , .Master Arthur Desjardine is improv- ing "nicely after his recent illness. xi Jolly sleigh-load of hearty young folks drove to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rollands on Wednesday night. After games, dancing and refresh- ments all returned home in `the early . hiours of the morning, reporting` a good , t me. . ' _-..._..v . vgv `Ivar (Too late for last week.) Feb. 10.-Mr. and Mrs. O'Malley and children from Toronto are visitimz at Chas. M`cCart)1y s. ~ . Miss Eliza. McKinnon of New'York City spent a. week with her sister._Mrs. C. McCarthy. Miss A. Desjardine of Detroit. Mich., isihoiidaying with her brother, John Desjardine. ~ . "Miss Reta Hogan is visiting friends i in Peterborough. Miss Margaret Allen has returned to . Toronto after spending some time with her parents here. 'M ln'n AA; 'm..|..a.. ..a rn_..-Ai-- -' F l W U355. ' 1' Miss Bessie Lauder at her'home here - on Thtirsday evening when she receiv- -. ed many, and beautiful gifts. Although ll quite taken by surprise Miss Lauder I fittingly thanked each and all for their 2 goodwill. A very pleasant evening was v spent by those present. . A - ' A February `Wedding - l _ A pretty houses weddings took place ' at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James` A Laudereon Feb. 6_ when their daughter. Margaret Elizabeth (Bessie) was wed- ded to Mr. Frank Ewart Burroughes of Toronto. son of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Burroughes of London, England. Rev. J. W. Paley tied the nuptial knot, the ceremony being _witnessed only by im- mediate relatives and some , intimate friends of the contracting parties. The wedding marches were played by Mrs. Paley`. e The bride wore a. very attractive gown. of powder blue flat crepe. After the wedding repast, the newly-wedded couple left `for Toronto, accompanied by the best wishes of a large numberl of friends. * it...miscellaneous shower was given . uy EH8 D857 friends. ujcaluuenls were served. ' " Geo. Patterson is slowly recoverig from a aever attack of sciatica hav- ing been confined to his room for four weeks. ~ ' ' - ` shower -wan aimm Luci`. n. 11.5. auesser, who isill. ' ` Miss Meredith of Weyburn. -Sask.. is visiting her cousins.` the Misses Mc- Lean, here. 5 ` ' x The Young People's Club met at the home of Mr. and Mrs.` Whittaker. Wed- nes ay evenings Miss Smith gave a sple did sketch ,of,the life of Pauline Johnson. V; R. Slesser' occupied the chair and also favored with `songs. Contest and games filledxout the ev- ening's entertainmentafter which re- freshments were serve . v can *p,_,.,_,,.,,", 1,, ...1.....1-. ._---_--wr' (Too Late' to; iaat ' Week) Feb. 9-Mrs. Orqefr of Mldhurat is spending a` few ' weeks` with her_ bro- ther. R. E. Slesser, who is ill. Miss Mere difh nf ur..I....... an--- .-4 parcu L5 Here. Has Ada. Folsie of Toronto tdaY,Wlth her father and hvvnfhfnu The) *B_oa`rder.\ 1'1-:1,-:.%n;,ATi;n11: EXAlqlNf L... bearers were Geo. C. Rumhln ur... h. i A Bu&s%_`:7$7'Mmi THE BANKOFA uovA,sconA Capital $ 10,000,000 0 $ 19,500,000 ... ".}'\f'Al Dnntannao 'C n-- -4-` A ` Rga%Mmw .e I T A I d f pin 43 aeccf::1s9aih 35 g2r4 houerysryfrom September 1 to November 30, is the record of Cariada s terminal . elevators at the head of the Great . -Lake&-the greatest in theworld. --one reason why the number of Bell Telephones in Ontario and Quebec has multiplied over 14 times since 1900. ` ,_`_.__--- From the 5: little our millon the continent, at Annapolis R0 in 1606, the industry has grown . 000 barrels of our` a year. ,---___*7--- "Our wheat is bought by teleizhone-our is sold by telephone--cars in transit are traced by_;teIepI_zone--tI2z s is largely it telephone business. _ m mmm ;`Tn'uTu`\ Build up YOUR business ` A by telephone ' From rst the continent, Royal ln idllffli has :v-:n--- ANADA is no? second among nations in our exports. _ Dusky natives in trop- ical jungles, eating the white man's food, look for the name. CANADA on our bags. None apreciate more than the mil-lets" the tremendous speeding up of `industry which Long Distance has made possible. Your faith in YOUR business-plus the telev phone;--should be an unbeatable combination. BELLV"TEi.EPI-IODHIEA COMIPANY

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