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pawn.- I work hard, sometimes from ve in the morning until ten at night. I study my customers wants. I try to give them what they ask for, and I have spent a lifetime in the butchering busi- ness and should be a good buyer, said Mr. Brennan. To these attri- butes of a successful -business men The Examiner, in Mr. 'Brennan s case; will add one word personal- ity.' It is a big thing in business today, and if we judge aright, it has _had a good deal to do with utt 1'ng Jack Brennan over the op. . ff... -u-`-ulna` A` `L . `lA`AL :3 Ann IV ! - The ubject of this uketch is one of those fellows who have made good: without an education. His children will never be so handicaps. pod, he said emphatically. But then if he had had more so-called] Pin light ! BRENNAN S The shop is always so clean and inviting, the choice is always so wide and varied, almost anything_ you want. The service is courteous and prompt. It is this `has made the store what it is today. We do our own buying and killing, have always done it,ebut- WE. ALSO SELL` Gunn'e "Maple Loaf" Hams. ` ' Bacon and Cooked Meats. `Canadian Packing Co. Rooe Brand" Cooked Moat: and Breakfast Bacon. ' Wm. Davioe Co. Perfection Brand Bacon and Cooked Moan. ` JERSEY FARM BPCIIIIII Dllino . Inuuluu r uuunl unc In. g':C:*`d Id 'c;;'|0d MOI- Crindlanch Cured and Cooked . Menu. T ' , Meats. ~ .E Brennan : Butcher? Shop BI.-'.._ EA Maciver Bros. Co. rrs ALWAYS Pl..E.ASANT- To -snop AT BEST WISHES F OR 100 YEARS HAMS 1- BACON . MORE PROSPERITY. Ph6n`sb` At the age of nine Jack Bren- nan started to deliver meat for his` father. the late Lawrence Bren- nan, after four. His father had a butcher business at |Allandale. which he conducted for L...-..L-. .......... -tn- ..s1..... .L....1..:11 ]Allandale. which he conducted for bwent years. `His father tookpill one ay and young Jack, aged Avnan 4-Inn nnlu Ann urkn lannur DWCHE years. I'll! Ibllr 12005.4 Jack, fteen, the only one who knew the route, tapped into the breach. euucuuun---ox use twnuumu; van- et ---he might not have -been such a ard worker and might not have baen where he is today. V `L LL- _.._ -3 ..3..- ll`f'....`.II D..--g Ho vvuvouu Well does Jack `Brennan remem- ber that day and those which fol- lowed. There "were no autos or telephones. He called for the or- ders with horse and rig and later delivered them. He remembers that round steak sold for 10 cents a pound. or 8 pounds for 25 cents, boiling beef was 5 cents a pound. roasts were 6 and 7 cents and 10 cents for roast pork. They did all their own killing. and still do most of it. Today those prices have more than trebled. nan: education- --of the academic vari- -J... L- uplmkb nan` `nnuvn -kna -nnln subsiantiql Business is ` Bui1f__up in_ Two Decades` nnuvov in nu vow:-rnvvu Mr. Brennan Sr., died in 1905 and Jack tried for a short time to carry on `but he was too young. At the age of sixteen he started to work for Frank Wiseman, with whom he remained until 1915 when he started! in opposition across -the street, where Jarvis store is now located. Gratify- ing success` met his efforts and the expanding business necessi- tated a move from cramped quar- |ters, so in March 1916 he purchas- ed the business of his former em- lployer, Mr. Wiseman and carried Harris-Aliattoir H. A." Smolb ed and Cooked Menu. T } Macivon-'0 "Jenny . Fa}-up" pro-E ducts. * Swiit nCnn:diag ":f|'O'lIIi-:lT: lino ` M. J. JACK 'BRENNAN SAUSAGE I `on for over a year, selling it back to join the Army Service. bein stationed at Niagara Falls an Toronto as an army service but- cher. The officers thought so much of him in this capacity that they o er.ed him $5.00 a day ex- tra to his government pay "to re- main durin demobilization. .- But Jae Brennan valued his services at, more than ve dollars a day. Two weeks after his dis- charge he started business in his present stand. `EH-anlzlu Mv Rrnnnhn nlwnvn present stanu. _ Frankly. Mr. Brennan always had itin his head to own a our- ihing` 'b_utcher business in Barrie. He carried this idea from boyhood. At the start of this article we ave a few of the qualities which ave worked towarci his success, includ- ing hard work and a pleasing per- sonality. To this we should have addedthrift in money matters. He always saved his money. -He never borowed a` cent to establish him- se . - UU U sell: 13 - B311: ` Four ears ago` Mr. Brennan married iss Laura Carle, a well- known Barrie girl. and t ey have one child, a girl. He is a member ofuthe Roman Catholic Church and the Knights of Columbus. m1._ I-A.- u1*-......M 1: ____ -.. 1.-.! onanga do an -up vvn won-cw v-~- The late Larry Brennan had two horses and rigs in his "butcher business at Allandale. His son. `!Jack now has a staff of eight, four-`trucks and a horsedelivery. REST ROOM FINANCES ARE 1151 3n1f'r:1g.sHA_1fn `SEASON NOT OP EN ' P015355-KNO S The annual meeting of the Wo- men's Rest Room was held on Sat- urday atternoon. In. the absence of the -president, Mrs. Mitchel. Mrs. Sutherlamd was voted to the chair. The treas~urer s report showed tin- ances in as. satisfactory condition. there being a. eu-bstantia-1 -balance lm! I unnvu IIIUICE !*"f!:,. INTI! year. The election or officers resulted as follows: Pres.. M-is: Irene Jones. Oro "Station: '1`reas., Mrs. Suther- land, Stvoud; ec y., Miss E. A. Rlx, Crown I-I1'11'.. "1he Executive Committee for the next year 1': Mrs`. Jameson` 0'! hornton. Mrs. J. Cook o(t!Pa1nsvy1c with the omcera elect- Q _ I UL: ed. E0. V ` `The financial report W11-1 be 31-ven next week. ` There is one fellow in Bar- rie who now knows that the shing season has not yet pnened, but itecost him $27.50 to have the.tact emphasized. His name is Tommy Foster and he apgeared before Mag- istrate ` efts Wednesday. April $5. pleading guilty to V fishing without a license. .on-..___-- 1.-.: - 1:... arm 5.... snuooooag vvovaovu-Iv u-cv---w Tommy had awnne 500'teet ' long with over 200 hooks bait- ed with minnows in the wa- ter: of Kempenteldt Bay when Game noveraeer McGregor happened along on>Apv1l 24. The license for. this sort. of contrivance costs $50.- GUNNS LIMITED HUM` I The Examiner put this question to him the other day. We knew citizens were wont to say. There is a hard-working fellow who will get along in this world, But there `are plenty of hard working fellows who never seem to get plong." MY ....u.1- Laud 11l\I~|A"`VV|Al `vnvv-A AND MAKERS or EASIFIRST SHORTENING - CURERS OF THE FAMOUS MAPLFELEAF BRAND HAMS AND BACON W3 DUNNE'l'l' J NOW on PENSION .A\/eteran C. N. R. Conductor! Retires ;-}-40 Years ` T of Service, I James Dunnett, second only to Johnny Lee in seniority among the conductors on this division of the C. N. R.',vmade his nal run last Saturday when he completed for- ty years of service and retired to -` enjoy a well-earned pension. vs--- 1'\--_..-a..|. 3.. an an n5=vvn A` IIJVJ n W van Jim Dunnett is a native of Thornhill. Ontario, having first seen the `light of day in that vill- age 67 years ago. When he was. a small `boy s parents moved to Collingwood. His rst job was in the N. & N. W. elevator in that town where he worked for four years. 'In 1888 he secured employ- ment as a brakeman with the old Northern & North-Western Rail- way `and made his rst run from Collingwood to Beeton. Those were the days of the old. wood- burning locomotives and between loadin up cordwood, piled at sev- eral paces along the track, and working the old hand brakes. the brakeman had a strenuous time as compared with the duties of the present-dag trainman. On his first trip e had the late James Fryas conductor with Jas. Wag- ner and `Chas. Beatty as mates. Brakeman Beatty was killed in Gravenhurst yards about 1894. Arthur McLeod,- now retired. was the engineer. In 1898 he was pro- moted to be conductor and in the last thirty years has` been in charge of all classes of trains, his run latterly being on the way freight between Allandale and Meaford. For '32 years he has resided in Al- landale. He served under four superintendents, viz., Jas. Web- ster. W R. Tiffin. P. J. Lynch and W. E. Weegar. Mr. Dunnett has come through his four decades _of active service without personal in- jury or serious accident. and has enjoyed a merited opularity am- ong his fellows. r. and Mrs. Dunnett had four. sons and four daughters of whom the following are living: Robert. in Allandale; Mrs. Ed. Moore, Mrs. J. McCabe and Cecil in Toronto; Mrs. W. J. Gracey in Orillia Township and William in Atlanta, Ga. ` A Presentation . While in Collingwood last Sat- . urday the `C. N. R. staff there pre- I sented him with a handsome pipe ` address. read \uUu.nav\a 0nen.in2/ with IUVIIFI ERG uuruuuve ayyua an Barnes shop ins district which. of late years, as attracted the ad- miration of thousands of visitors by reason of its modern and pro- gressive touch. Jack Brennan has not yet turned forty, and while he is far from being in the million- aire class. or out of the woods. . as the sayin? goes, he has built up a substantia usiness and that in itself is a source of pride to him and his friends, much more so than any monetary achievement. Out of necessity he has no idea of retiring and would not if he could. He is much too young a man for that. ._ -1- -_ `ll- l'D...:....nn :- accompanied by an auuress. rcau by R. W. `Thom. Openingz Dear Fellow Employee it reads: Time, one of the most mysterious elements in creation. upon whose tide all esh and blood move ir- resistibly onward`, has brought you, after more than two score years of faithful railroad service, to the end of the rails. How t- THI IARRII IXAIIIIII ting it is that after all these years you should spend your closing days in the service in the locality, where, as a young man. you rst entered upon a railroad career. While no note of pessimism should be struck at such times `for where you have arrived allaare sooner or later due, we wish to say in simple language, yet sincerely, that we shall miss you as we` feel you shall miss us. You have had a long, varied and successful railroad ex- perience. Looking back you will nd that very few indeed of those whom you knew well when you started are here now. They have fallen around you from superin- tendents to call-boys. You have come "through still sound in spirit and limb and we offer you our con- gratulations upon this achieve- ment. You know life too well to wish for a lot of fulsome praise. We feel that you would rather have expressed to you the kindly I lVlI\rnna--u- vv - ----.___ I [For many years engineer on the; Northern Division of the G.T.R.,' who died in Toronto last week | \ . This picture shows the Brennan Store in its Christmas dress, taken during the last Yuletide season at night from outside the store with the aid of electric lights only. Veteran Railroader Dies MIC!-!AEl:T.wFENNELL have long been identied with Mr. M. J. Brennan's Quality Store. `HIM Inasmuch as Mr. Brennan is| about to observe the advent of his I tenth year in the butcher business, the natural question is How is it done? v.n,___-__-_. -_- ....J. 1.1.}. ........l.l..-.- BRENNAN S for THE BEST FRESH, GOVERNMENT INSPECTEDEBEEF SPECIALLY sELEcrED1>oRK AND PORK CUTS DAVIES PURE LARD PEERLESS SHORTENING PERFECTION AND SUNSET SMOKED AND COOKED J MEATS; BOLOGNA, msu SAUSAGE, ETC. The Quality Lines of the Vm. Davies Company Ltd. 3v`iEmM DAVIES TORONTO : MONTREAL sentiments and well wishes we do now entertain. and will continue to `entertain for you as a fellow worker. We trust that the years which are before you will bring to you and yours a sufficient measure of the good things of life. That you will be blessed with health and strength. Always ready as you have been in the past to accept things as they are and be ready for greater things to come, still pressing on in hope towards that terminal in the sunset land where the heaviest ladened traveler n- @NAmAN Started to Deiiver at Age of Nine--Left School Early. Always Available at BRENNAN S P_I_\LC|2M|_v$`lDl` @ M PA NY ally drops the load and takes his an;-+ GILJ \(; rest. `II __ FUEL. Mr. Dunnett also was remem- bered by the agent at. Thornbury with a very acceptable gift while" the sta` at Thornbury sent a beauv tiful bouquet of roses to Mrs. Dunnett. accompanied by best wishes for many` more years of happiness. `IT `D QnnH- c111-pantie W71` I')1m. nappmess. W. D. Scott succeeds Mr. Dung n`ett as conductor on the` ;\.'g;afo1'd- way freight. COMPANY LIMITED Thrsday, May 3, 1928 Jack Brennan Can Lay Modest Claim to A Success, Buy Advertise! Things There are few business men in Barrie who have made so out- standing a success of their. busi- ness in so short a spacefof time as has M. .J. Jack" Brennan, whose butcher shop in the Moore B-lock, Dunlap Street, is one of the most invitjng and attractive spots in shopping district yvhic}_:.