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ucyua uucuu U.I.~ ngucuuure. - In - support, of his amendment, Coun. Byrne called on Dr.` W. A. Lewis to address Council. Dr. Lewis urged the importance of having the exhibit th-is year, the -first year of the new provincial building. - `He express- ed 'the opinion thatpthere was plenty of time to prepare a good exhibit and stated that unless assured that the relief map would be prepared in time the money would not be spent. ' 7|... ...........1.'l...-..J. _---- 1' `I HALF 1:760 VJUUIIU-Ila - - Coun s. Byrneaand MoCuaig moved in, amendment that Council grant $1500 to the Boards of Trade of Bar- rie, Or,ill'ia, Midland, Collingwood and Penetang for the purpose of advertis-; 1 ing the county in connection with the ` Department of Agriculture. Til annnnvf A4? Ida .en~.-.-....l.......J. .-v ..._--..v.. vuv vvuna-lav va.uu.u-. The matter was discussed at length incommittee and on Friday the Fin- ance `Committee in its report, stated that they were in favor of the. ex- hibit, but owing to the short time _in- tervening they would recommend [that it be left for consideration by `the 1927 Council. l"......'.. D-_._~- __..l 11.11,, - Page were the spokesmen -and -each` `outlined the scheme and pointed out the advantages to the county of such an exhibit. The feature of the ex- ,?hibit as planned was to be`. a. relief- map of the county designed specially Ito at;tract. the tourist traffic. 'I'IL, -_,- ` Accotding to McIntosh, Scobbiel had objected to milking after 6 p.Am. and an argument `between the two lfollowed. A Short time later, while they were emptying their milk pails, he `told 'f.l'm I-mn-+_ ~.Qnnln}n`n .mm'lrmA .-.+ IIGUULCL Clll}llU:yC.\.l U3 LJJIIIUII LVLULIIDUSKI, I ia farmer residing near Angus, was] (ned $10 and costs for assaultinghis employer. A similar charge against McIntos`h was dismissed forlack of `evidence, but in discharging him Magistrate Jeffs gave him a severe lecture regarding the way he treatedj his `help; The assault occurred on ,Wednesday evening oflast week and followed. an altercation between the two while they were milking. In the fracas ~Scobbie struck McIntosh with! .n Lu...`-....!.. I_...:- --.`l_:-L 1.- _--.-__-__I . ,auaa wauuuuxc abrucn AVLULIIUUSII WILD` Ia hubntrfs W W e wings` his" et, an in ice 2} sma * lin his left arm. Scobbxe a_lleged that !McIntos*h- had sgt upon hlm and he idrew the knifejn self-defence. i ` Wm. !Scobbie, a young Scotch farm laborer employed by Simon McIntosh, In `Fovrnnv -rvno{rnrv nnnso A1~:tyI11< 'Objected to Milking after Six; ! Cut Angus Man injArm; ` Farmer Lectured. ' ` Iallllliu C. N. E. Exhibit Grant Refused On Thursday afternoon a large de- putation waited-on Council with re-1 gard to the .nro`posed county exhibit_ at the- C.N,E."__ Geo. Guy of Orillia and Agricultural.Repzfesentgtive S. L. l {FARM HAND FINEDI j 1 FOR AN ASSAULT ; I ON ms EMPLOYER) l The trophy, which was presented to The Examiner at the convention, was forwarded to Toronto and will be in `Barrie sh_ortly,_ when it will be placed on exhibition. A photogravure of the trophy `is being secured and will appear later, with a detailed description and other matter which will no doubt prove of interest to readers, of The Examiner; The papers entered in the competition were judged dur- ing the convention and scored on the several points specied by the donor. So keen was the contest that the three judges did not know_ -the winner until the totals had been counted, when The Examiner was found to "be auheadby 2 points. The points of competition upon which the papers were judged are set out in the rules as follows :- ` First, quality; second, quantity of local `news, corres- ` pondence, editorial comment, features, illustrations,` local ad- vertising, national advertising, classied advertising, typogra- phy, make-upi-and any other features which, when summarized, shall constitute, in the opinion of the judges, the most enter- prising newspaper before them, and such award, shall entitle the holder oflthe trophy to use the slogan for the succeeding year: The Most Enterprising Weekly Newspaper in Canada. In making this announcement, the publishers desire` to acknowledge the work of its faithful and loyal staff, both those in the office and" those who keep our correspondence columns so well supplied every week. To these in very large measure the credit is due. Thepublishers also wish to acknowledge the" support given by advertisers and subscribers, which has made possi-ble the publication of a paper that has been deemed worthy of such a prize. At the. afznual meeting` of the Canadian Weekly News- Jpapers Assoc-z.3:ion, held in Quebec `City last week, The Ex-_ aminer had the great honor` of winning the handsome trophy donated. by W. E. Mason of the Sudbury Star for compete ition-among the 486 newspapers that are members `of the Canadian` Weekly Newspapers Association.. ` J Barrie Examiner Wins 1 The MasonTrophy % | As'Mon'day night's meeting was . the last regular meeting before the 5,summer recess, the Town Council * spent much of their _ti-me cleaning up, i_ a number of odds and ends. The de- i gbentures for $48,241, to cover the l paving of Mulcaster, Owen, Clapper- * 4 ton and Bayeld 'Sts. `and the, Allan- idale station drive,,were sold to R. 'A. Daley & Co. for $99.79, the_best price submitted by fourteen bidders. All the members were present except Ald. Lower and Schreiber. i `,- Sale of Debentures Council went into committee of the whole to discuss the sale of the de- bentures and other matters arising from communications which could i got be allowed to stand over until _ eptember. The tenders received ; for the debentures were: R. A. Daley ~ & Co., 99.79; Matthews & -Co., 99.02; -[McNeil], Graham & Co., 99.14; Dy- - m`ent, Anderson & `Co., 98.91; C. H. Burgess & Co., 99.27; Stewart, Scul- ly & Co., 99.57; Wood, Gundy & Co., 99.30; Bell, Gouinlock & Co., 99.03; Royal Securities Corporation, Ltd., 99.177; Fry, Mills, Spence & Co., 99.17; Municipal Bankers Corpora- 1 tion, 99.702; McLeod, Young, Weir 1 & Co., 98.87; H. R. Bain & Co., 5 99.30. 9 _._L!1!, I >' - . ` " I !,After Cleaingxup Odds and Ends; Paying Debentures Sold at $99.79. ` ; [TOWN COUNCIL % J ;A ADJOURNS 1-`on A ~ sumyxm RECESS 1.0. 0.~F.{`oBSERVE DECORATION DAY Skelly obtained a small motor on "credit which he sold and left town without paying the original owner. The letter `from Cam bellford also stated that Skelly ha Jumped his board bill there. ; ` ' Has Platein Skull . . Skelly,` it is "said, is a fqriner sol- dier and suered severe wariwounds, wearinga plate in his skull. After and `mans? `in; the service of the Brit-. . ish" Governmentin Ireland. He claims? ,m..uu., aury .I., in cnurcn gove. sports in afternoon, with special prizes; strawberry supper; good entertain- ment. Tickets 40c and 25c. 25c Cash prizes, $6.00 soprano (lady), $6.00 reader (lady), `$6.00 comic song (gentleman). -$6.00 black face with banjo or guitar, $6.00 step danc- ing; no entrance fee; no profession- als allowed. Concert 8 to 10; dance 10 to 12, Cookstown, Friday evening, .to John. Gill'leeney,' Cookstown, for particulars. Dancing every Friday the war he served with the Bl-ackVfJuly 1'6. Admission 25. .. Write soon that his wife was shot by the Sinn evening; admission me; also July. 1. ` VV lllbll VVCID DU CAIJIUUC UIIC uyuauuhc. i1 The man who came with me, (1 said Skelly in his 'statement, said `I 37 will not be far away and if I do not 1; hear the explosion` you Will know '- what will happen to you . Skelly. I. claimed that he was provided with a revolver and bought cartridges at the same store where he got the dyna- mite. He red the revolver after he . left the church. This latter state- ment bears out that of some people living in the vicinity of the church who claimed that they heard-a pistol shot after the explosion. Says Klan Behind It Skelly told, provincial police auth- orities that he was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and that he had been A instructed by that body to destroy 4 the church. He stated that he was . enrolled as a Klansman beneath a % ery cross at the Klan demonstration here on May 23. Following that, he. , attended a number of meetings, with _ the result, he told the police, that he ' purchased three sticks `of dynamite, ` fuse, detonators and revolver bullets- in Barrie and plans for the destruc- tion of the church were completed. With the utmost frankness,` he told -the police that he had been set apart by the Klan to do the work. Skelly from Ireland ` Skelly is an Irishman about thirty years of age and has been in `Canada about a year_._ Before coming to Bar- rie he had lived at Campbellford and Prescott for a short time and more recently had been employed by a far- mer at -Belle Ewart- He came to Barrie about the rst. of May and had been employed by A. J-. Tuck and made this home here. ' He is a shoe- maker by` trade and had conducted a shoe repair shop in -Campbellford. . Advice from the Chief of Police there has been received to the effect that - small motor on credit he sold and The letter `from bellford also stated ha jumped boardbill- there.; ` A \~ Has 3` I is'sai_d, former i; and-suffered _seve`1-ve a we _ar1ng',a"plate in the,war Black ant. `ns , ":iI.In an-Iv}-.. -8 LL- `l:I...'a. VI; EL ! Local Men Arrested I As a result of statements alleged llto have been- made by Skelly`, Inspec- tor Jordan; Inspector Miller and Chief of Police Stewart went to the h n shoe factory about ten o clock on Tuesday morning and placed Butler and Lee under arrest. They were taken to the office of the provincial police and after an interrogation last- ing about two hours, in the course of which each of them made statements, they were taken before Magistrate Jeffs 'and, without plea or election, remanded to June` 28. The question of bail was not raised. The charge against Butler and Lee is the" same ;as that against Skelly, viz.v, causing an explosion likely to endanger life or cause serious damage to property. While the penalty attached to this section is life imprisonment, there is `another section under which the charge might be laid wherein the penalty is fourteen years. Charges Three Others Skelly, in his statement sworn be- fore, James Hales, K.-C., chairman of 1 the Ontario License Board, at pro- ,~ vincial police headquarters in Toron- . to, implicated three other persons in 1 the outrage. He charged that he had , been made, drunk with dandelion wine and alcohol and taken to the church by one man, who showed how to gain entrance and light the fuse which was to explode the dynamite. 1 `Urban nnnvs nvlbun nnnnn 11v:'l-In nan ,7 VVIICLC lb LGDCL cayluueu. Skelly was brought to Barrie onl Monday evening, arriving about six p.m. He was immediately arraigned before Police Magistrate Jeffs, charg- ed under Section 111 of the Code, a21r81d remanded in custody until June 7 1 It `_-. _- --...... ---v:nuu.y. . Nolittle sensation was created 10- 'cally -by Skelly s -statement to the po- lice that the outrage was the work of the Ku Klux Klan, of which he was . a member, and that he had been set apart for the job. It resulted in considerable police activity, culmin- ating in the arrest of Butler and Lee, who are alleged to be prominent members of the local organization. Skelly Admits Job - Skelly had been under suspicion for some days` and he was also wanted on two charges of fraud. When it be- came known that he had gone to To- ronto, he was arrested in that city and taken before Assistant Commis- sioner Alfred Cuddy of.the Provin- cial Pblice, where he admitted having broken into St. Mary's `church and placed the dynamite in the basement, where it later exploded. .Ql(n1l11 tune ls-nnnul-M 4-A Dnn~nn:o. .... - ' With the arrest on Monday after-1 noon in Toronto of William Skelly, alias Smiley, and the subsequent ar- `rest here on Tuesday morning of William Butler and Clare Lee, local and provincial police believe that the responsibility for the dynamite out-l rage at ?St. Mary s church on the night. of June 10 has been placed. The three men are in jail charged with attempting to destroyvSt. Mary s church and their hearing will take place next Monday. RT- `I:J.A.I_ ....V -- :_Young lrishman, Member of Ku Klux Klan, Arrested in Toronto, Makes Confession, Implicating Three Others; `Says He'Was Drunk with Dandelion Wine; Claims Plot " Was Hatched at Klan Meeting; `Clare Lee and W. Butler of Barrie K.K.K. Also in Custody; Klan Officials Deny. Hy DILCIL UVVII DUVVJI uu.u.1cua. Coun. Byrne asked if t'he.commit- tee was satised that a similar mis- take had not been made by officials of other towns. and` Coun. Denney` replied that they, had investigated Barrie s case and found no mistake there; Coun. Scott remarked that he had been `struck by the same thought as Coun. Byrne, for he noticed that after the reduction. is made Orillia will be lower than Barrie, whereas for years it has been higher. He pointed out, however, thatiif such a . mistake is discovered in the future the remedy can be applied at any time. ' - I` \Y `I3 'I__`LLA. fI_--_.L 'l'I-.___-_1 \Jcuval' -LIGUJCS 110 Invite 'UI'ang`e- men and fnends to dmner and sup- per in schoolroom, Elizabeth St., on July 12. Make this headquarters for storing `band instruments. 25-_-27c Remember Midhurst United Church picnic, July 1, in church gove. Sports in afternoon. cnnn:n1 v-n-3nnr-- ' , - _.-_- -v\r vUAV\vl-lI\I\I.Il. auu evening. 25c The Ivy Anglican young people will present the play, Eyes of Love, Tuesday, June. 29, 8- p.in., at St. Paul's Anglican `Church, Innisl. Tickets 35c and 20c. 25c Central -Ladies Aid invite Orange- frind t ('I.I'I?`|A`I0 nil!` 11'l\4 ucu paruy. V 25-270 The re-union of the Paddison fam- ily will take place June 30 at St. Vin- cent s Park. ~0ld friends or neigh- bors invited. . 24-25c Play, Eyes of Love, by Ivy An- glican young people, Orange Hall, " Thornton, Monday, June 28, auspices Junior Institute. Admission 35c and 20c. . 25c Strawberry festival at Ed. Lessor s `grove, Anten Mills, Tuesday, June 29. Good programme. Admission, 40c and 25c. Come and enjoy your- self. ` 25c `St. Andrew s Ladies Aid Society will hold a garden party at the home of Mr. andMrs. Simon, Berczy St., on Friday, June 25, afternoon and evening-. ' - _ _ _ _ .._--.. -V 'A"A"A"A"A"E'I` . I Keep-"July 7 foie annual garden party, United Churdh, Shanty Bay. Keep July 2 fbr annual garden party at St.. Geore Church, Allan- dale. ~ 24-25c _ Keep Wednesday, Jnly 21, for St. Andrew's Church, Oro Station, gar- den party. 25-27 c Thu rn_1in;n A3 4-}... 1)....l.l:..-_ 1-... -Men s straw and Panama hats, newest -braids and styles, lowest prices.--!Simmons & Co. 25c `J ___ rvd -vvnon analllglllcllo It was impossible, Chief Stewart stated, for Skelly to have got away, because the police had a complete description of him. I ve never had a more complete description of any- one, he said, and it is ridiculous to think that he could have gone any distance without being arrested. It`.-...a.:...-...: -_ __Ar- - wwwwmm mu! PL0101010I"BF3 COMING`. EVENTS E 3c_ er word; minimum 50c. E m$&%$m&m&mmw 1 I gm&$mm$&mamm&&w _._, _-..............--,, wage \Jlllt:.L Asked if the police had received assistance from Klansmen localbz, Chief of Police Stewart replied, Ab- solutely not. Before Skelly left town, he stated, the police had ques- tioned local members of the Klan, in- cludingthe two now under arrest, and none of them furnished any in- formation or showed any inclination to help the police. He said that`Ma- jor Proctor, the organizer from Tor- onto who visits Barrie periodically, assured the police that he would do all, he could and use his inuence in trying to run down the perpetrator of the outrage, but that no help was` given by local Klansmen. ' ...an= uccu signeu Dy bxeuy, in which he .admits the outrage and states that he acted on his own initiative. They also state that the Klan co-operated with . the - provincial police throughout and that it was through their instru- . mentality that !Skelly s arrest was` effected. They suggest that had `it not been for them he might not have been apprehended. .They also deny that Skelly was an accepted member of the Klan in the true sense of the word. -gr A o . -- Inaue In LIIU l U|aU1'1lo.' ' - Coun. Scott, who was chairman of] the special committee which brought; in the equalization last summer,` stated that a year ago the `0riTlia_ newspapers had charged that the, `town had been unfairly` dealt with -by the committee. There had been no- thing to show that the committee had "treated one municipality -differently from another, and he thought the _-pae pers which had made charges against the committee should now acknow- ledge that an error had been made by their own town officials. ` (`Ann 1111-wnn guitar` 1.` II-vka nn`rv\v\n~'|+_ \JGUllUllU- Butler and Lee, the two local men who are under arrest, are both fairly well known in `Barrie, where they have lived practically all their lives, and those who know them were as- tonished to learn that they were ac- cused of being implicated in the out- rage. They are both young men, Lee beingxtwenty-four and Butler twen- ty-seven, and both are married. Dean Loath to Believe Klan Did It Very Reverend H. J. Sweeney, Dean of St. Mary's, had little to say regarding recent developments. No one was more reluctant to associate the Klan with the outrage than he and he could scarcely -believe that it was the work of local men. There has always "been the most excellent feeling between Protestants and Catholics here, he said, and added that there has. never been a word in his sermons or those of Father Bren- nan which the Ku Klux Klan or any- one else could consider provocative. Denied by Klan Officials Klan officials in Toronto deny Skelly s allegation that the attempted destruction of the church was the work of the Klan and they have pro- duced a statement, purporting to have been signed by Skelly, in which lhe .8.dIn'll'.S fhn n11+~rna-n and no-.~.+n.. 4.`l.....A. IFeiners.in a Belfast riot and as a con- sequence he cherishes resentment and bitterness against all Roman Catholics. - 'I).-L1__. _,, 1 1' .u . - - No Assistance, Says Chief .'lp...J :1.` 4.1.- N I` ---_- _.v Ivvnnns (Continued on page CV51`! 1.` nuay "i!(s)c;`hl_so Jul`. 1. 9)` .43 V _'rF'1~?. .~' ,.` OPOOL,UUl lCD lalldll LJGLLIC 30 Conn. Gooden, chairman of. the Equalization Committee, `stated that the error was no fafilt of the com- mittee, but was entirelv due to offic- ials of the, town of Orillia. The-com- mittee had had the assessor appear bei'ore`thern with the roll and they went into it thoroughly and he was convinced that -a mistake had Been made in the return. n-.-.. C|....LL ...`l...'. ....-.,. ..1.......~........- A. In the closing sessions of the Coun- ty `Council, which completed its busi- ness about midnight on Friday, 2'1 number of important matters were disposed of; As intimated in last: week's issue of The Examiner, an adjustment was made "in the equaliz- ed assessment of the town of Orillia` amounting to $869,350. -The prog osal to have a `County of Simcoe ex; 3 ibit at the 'C.N.E., for which the County Council was asked to contrib- ute a grant of $1500, was turned down, with a_recommendation that the `Council of 1927 go -`into the mat- ter fully at the January session. The county rate was reduced to 5,6-10 mills for the year. . Q 0rillia s__Equalization Reduced t On investigation into 0rillia s air ; peal against the equalization, the < committee found -that the `return made by the Treasurer of Orillia to the County Council included proper- L -ties that are exempt from" taxation - amounting to $869,350. The com- ` mittee, therefore, -recommended that ` when the levies have been received ` from the various municipalities. the ` Treasurer refund to the town of Or- ` illialan amount equal to the levy paid ` on the exempt property. It was too 1 late in the year to make a change in ' the equalization, but this will be done `next year. This will make 0rillia s < equalization $5,760.217. which is \ $331,607 lessdthan Barrie s. e (`An in nbuodwvnnn iv` {aka f ecreased. Rate Due . to Raised Equalized Assessment; 0rilIia s Equalization Reduced $869,350, the Amount of P `Exempted -Properties; $1 005922 for Roads, -$252,980 _/for,Other Purposes; `Barrie Pays $9747 and $24,400; . Grant Refused for Proposed County Exhibit at 1C.N.E. It v - - v - - - v --v.1` vv\`Iv-Au IIVII I-I9 DIIVIIIN ` tel The amendment was opposed by '5 Couns. Begg and Tom of `Coiling- is wood, who thought the cost of the exhibit was toogreat compared with .e the .-benet of it, and .on a vote it was it lost and the report carried. ~ . ' 1 1- ' 1926 Levies on Municipalities` i :' While the mill rate\ for the year is lower than last year, due to the in- creased equalization, the arpountrof the levy iis $7.00 higher than in 1925. This year the county will raise $100,- 922 for roads and $252,980 for other f` purposes. The levy on the various t ,municipalities,for roads_ is: Adjala! _ `$3100, Essa $4489`, Flos $4003, In- nisfil $6470, Medonte $2994, Matche- R-dash $305; Nottawasaga $5924, Oroq ? $4466, Orillia 'Tp. $1752, Sunnidale] * $3601, `Tecumseth__`$6911,`Tay $2908.. Tiny $3,039, Tossbrontio "$2083, Ves- pra $'3535, West Gwillimbury $4181, 7' Bradford `$844, Barrie $9747,vBee- Efton $476, 'ICol1ing'wood $5576, Cree- ` more $595, Coldwater $570, Midland _' -$75215, grillia $$11%,6)7,TPene`t}ang ` 22 ,` Itayner 5 , otten _am $488, Victoria Harbor $384`, , Port McNicold$550;$for._oth%' cougty pur- poses: jaa 7775, ssa 11,250, Flos $10,025, Innisl $1.6,200, Match- [1 -edas'h $77-5, Medonte `$7500, Notta-Ii asa$g'4a4$14,S850, (gr? $$11,200,TOrillia p. 00, unni,ae 000, ecum- seth $14,300, Tiny $7,600, Tay $7300, !1 Tossorontio $5225, Ve_spra $8875, W. ` Gwillimbury $10,475, Alliston $3750, Bradford $2125, ~Barrie -$24,400, Beeton $1200, 'Collingwood $13,950, Creemore .$'1500,. Coldwater $1450, Midland $18,850, `Orillia $26,550, -Penetang $5640, Stayner $2675, Tottenham $1240, Victoria Harbor $100, Port -McNicoll $1400-...; '6 - Burglary Loss Not Made Good 1 Tled Finaice Ccmmittee recogn- men e , wit regar to a motion y 'Couns. Scott and `frempleman, that John Mackay and Robert Craig be re- h imbursed for: their loss. last February when the viaultdin$ Cioulr`-F Hloiuse I? was en ere an o r. ac- 1 s ani $5}? of -C11')aig s wais E sto en, t at `e q_ues- ion e consi ,- ered by the Council asa whole. Mr. h Mackay was-called to describe the 5`, circumstancesf-.'of the robbery and af- E ter some discusion a -motion by Couns. I. K. Bro .n and D.` A. Wray that they she reimbursed was lost. IBL _ 1'.l - 0: t: n