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Thefe h ld lie no waste in _war-time. Canada could pay the ual interest on her war expenditure out of what w waste on our farms, in our factories, in av:-A `Frnrn I: ch: in as lVl'\I\A .. .. ..........1 -4: : _____ ___1 at e. ry indiviaual to save. F;a{1;:e is strong :me and women of Great Britain are not !) 1m1x11'als letter in alphabet, I m-.~..+l. In; THE DEPARTMENT or FINANCE Barrie i CRAIGHURST. onrr. ( [LICENSED AUCTIBNEER I:'r\D Tu: nrsunu-u-u -_`_.-_ __v - an nrl`lnIilI\ roia 1'7:-iggguwrv oF`s_.u:Mco:. Most reasonable terms g_1ven on al Stock Sales [JO}_iN JENNEF1` ` _-______._-- I BIA VTUFACTURER 01" I. Buggies, Carriages, Wagons I Sleighs and Cutters. 9r . P - - ' m`:`m., %.`-"`*`;` ;`;*:,T. Horsveshoemx gnu. 55 BAYFIELD ST. OPPOSITE R055 51 ' JOHN BARRS OLD STAND IW-..Q:A_ndrew 1. -_.__ . `Mr. F. `V. Reynolds, m:_111ag`er of the Bank of Toronto, Pe11eta11}_-', has resigned. His successor will be" J. B. Connell, of Freelton. ` `Y 1: A number of good Farms and Town PI- 1 petites tar sale on easy terms. 1 Bank of Toronto Buildings, Barri [Fire Life Insurance Real Estate Agency Money to Loan VJAS. ARNOLD .uouus,n, xuunuunu urine va.un:S and Oak ghells. Night and Day calls Phone 431 W. D. MINNIKIN, Proprietor W.R. N BILLY, Funeral` Director ouuojvuill All latest tiesigns in Caskets kept in stock, including Grave Vaults and Q0]: Qlxnlln BARBIE UNDERTAKING . PARLORS; Transmt a Genefal Banking Business. . . . . Notes Discawzted at reasoiloxigle rates. .L. . Collec- tion Q/' Notes and Accounts given special attention. T.Beecmft Pat1'iotib Associationi Will ask -the township council to 0011- . `tribute $500.00 per month for the - last six months of this year. ' T`D_-L__, `n, 1- ma . (Successor to the late R. L. Barvcl: D Issued payable any/where. Chequcson outside banks caahal at lowest rates of eacc/ulznge. . . . . Sale Notes Cashefd or Collected on mostfavoraola emu. T. BVEEC R 0 FT, Manager ---.-.u, on. V`... Aunvuwnnwag All as a pound of increased 6-nu any-A t'4`.._._-- -_ _A..A-._ ._ THURSDAY, MAY 4t}3, i916. BANKERS Olce Hours--10 to 4 and Embalmetf PHONE 346 6:. CO. THE Becton Bowlin: Club has "been re-` organized for the season. G.` E. Reynolds was re-elected "presidentTi and._`D. A. _Marshall, Tsec.- t1'oas. 1}`; . D011 out 10 1.1` (` })\' z ' ("II C1'w]1iI(. `-1 1(- 1 Vh("a\ (-11. (H41 1101 :'iH'-('I_\'. 110w. 1 EH Two old residents of Midland "died . last week. Mrs. Rachel `Mundy,' aged 84 years and Mr. J as. Luffman, } aged 71. - ' 1-\........ _ stun: him. HM-V Woman Mgr: `ii E. irsax 0|3_$l%| Columbus. 6%, up. Ihad. ~ g___j_._..__ , . 118 and would gut Ifell over. I lwm-'1 Pinkham s Veg ct;w ten days later I cow-'5 hurt my stomach. 1 medicine ever sinu- new woman. 1 mm: so you can see What - already. My hus}-:17 your medicine has .< Mrs. J. S. BARLOW, I Cqtlumbus, Ohio. I` ,'!l':-5 713-1-1 ' vvluauuuu, UIHU. Lydia E. Pinkhnm' pound contaips just t`. and herbs neded to strength to the Weake body. Thu/t is why chronic invnlid, recov e If noun `l\- --..__ -_ . \.:u.vuu:|uVIllu,l'COV It pays for women: fqmnle ailments to i: Lydia E. Pinkhun'| nomad- `THURSDAY. .\1.\.\ 145.`! M km 7 Mr: " A. C. Osborne is president and Mr. J. A. Wright, sec.-treas., of `the Alliston Bowling Club. ! `Copyright. BY Georg UI'u'IQ`u n\\.lll with th`elElectri CHEVROLET merits. I\\':\z.I . _\'0U must '14! ' ` Y\lVl1 A nun I'r~\ Phone 29! Let me havcal . I )0`; _v uu must (`win DL'I'lAl`}l LIT` `TL: _ -`Air; atterpt will be m_adeT to re- organize the Tottenham Board of Trade. ' quiu `A Rem "'i`l"1;3` Herald says there are three.` eleotrioranges used in Penetang houses. ` ` -The new lessee of the ;Queen s lHotel, Tottenham, is Mr. Wm. El- iott. T A new market hall was opened at Newton` Robinson last week, S54 sm EDMUND WA JOHN AIRD. General Manager , APlTA|.. $15,000,000 saws rum. $13,500,000 FARMERS USINESS CANADIAN BANK OF VHIGHEST CASH PRICE PAID 01: secs AND . `SWEAT CREAM. @ T. A. STEVENS 1 % : They Barrie Creamer R9sid"e 678-% ` ' Ice Cream manufactured by the wholesakks soon as,ma- ` ch'inery can be placed. vWe are now arranging our collect n `routes, and fafmers having cream for sale should commt icate with `us as soon T ' V as possible. T ' ` BUTT]/SRMILK FOR SA` BARRlE.B_RANCi Allistonv Herald--Harr_\' An'derson,l .(leserter, horse thief,` f01'}_:`C1`, jaill libreaker. and a few _other traits of _`of. ri_<.:'l1t bad character, is a_g'ain in! ,_the toils of the law. After f_','Ottll1g' ;awa_y,fro1n here some weeks a he [was tracked to the north country ' and there lost. The military and flcivil authorities were told to be on the lookout forihim and` on` Satur- lday `night Mayor Mitchell received I a phone n1essa;re.{'Trom Col. Grant ;.in Huntsville telling` the Mayorethe `Colonel had his man. `Anderson had `enlisted at South `River . and_ was ,there known as Pte. Ryan. Colonel :c,Grant had" him transported to _ "I Ill11l3SV'lll(3 and there kept lnm under guard till` Tuesday morning: when Constable Rogers was ready to take! him away. Anderson had boasted . that he would grct away from here a '.second time so _Constable Rogers ` ,brought him -hand-cuffed and shack- "led. He was _eriven a preliminary hearing this morn`ing and committed for trial before a liiglier court. Orillia I\l'e_ws-Letter -- The` suit .againstlChief Reid by Joe -Gage, an Austrian, for false arrest and im- prisonment,- was tried at Belleville Qllast week before a jury, with Judge [,Middleton on the bench; As has 'Ibeen the custom among the police Qjthe chief. arrested Gage on request contained in a telegram. from `In.- spector Stokes, of Tweed. It ap- pears, that `altl1011_,"ll the custom of -`the A police, it is contrary `-to law to a rre'st on a teleegi-ain, a - warrant in the municipality i11 which `ithe arrest is made being necessary. IA suit for $10,000 damages was in_- :- stituted b_\'Ga9:e aa_2.rainst`Chief Reid .1`--. 12-1-- _,.,, _ A m luau Luau \,Uu11\4J.Ll.U.I. vvaluu uuuw. ~ I While assisting at the sawing bee, rat Beeton, last week, 0. . ,T1'acy, of I .'Beton junction, received a bad- ~g'ash in the leg", owing to an axe in! `the hands of a near-by chopper! tslippino`. . D. S. Millsap, Stayner, met with a serious accident on VVednesda_v of last [Week while taking` two head of ;'.catt1e_ in his wa to Collixlgrwood. HA3 hc`w-as d1'ivinQ' along the second {line towards the lake, the wheels. on one sidoi df r11o_wau'0n dropped 7 I I , into a hole in the road, and. upset_ ,' him and his live stock. In the mix- }up.l\I1'. Millsaphad one of his logs , broken at thc-i thigh and a munbor 'iof ribs f.'ra(=tu1'od. w > .v.o.. u..n.. jn.c.L.. President ' H. V. F. JONES. Asa : General Manager '1.I'13`."'6n'o's's.. Manager. |.IA\. IIIJLLKJL Ltd 15 UUILDLGLJ -to `the A - by `Gage eagrainst Chief for false ar1'es.t. After `hearing the 1 evidence the j111'y'b1`ouj:l1t i11 a ver- dict of lthree dollars damages Witli Division Court costs against the lCl1ief, this is offset, "however, by Supreme Court costs against Gage. ' Midland Public School Board was appealed to by the teachers to close the schools for the Easter holidays at noon Thursd-ay. The Board re- fused the appeal. Two of the -sta _disobeyed the ruling of the Board '_and dismissed their class at three` _o clock. The School Board has'dis- `missed the --offenders. ` Di. J.` M.` Mitchell` and J. `A. Pat- terson, "representing Collingwood Whist players, won the Canadian whist tr`opl1y,;the Goodall cup, last` Week. The games were played in Toronto, assisting Collingwood play- ers was Mr. JQ L. Garvin, P.S.I., Barrie. V'am`x%k::6$?-'"Ji Luv uuou _ UL aux L|I.ILl\4l.`Y - The Woodpecker and the chicikade are only two of the many birds which. are of great -service both in [the city'an_d country, and it is sure-l ly not too much to ask that people give them -the necessary protection to allowvthem to continue their in- valuable work. " II ||IIu.|A_y IIINLIIILIA} Qllubluao ." The ehickadee is" another of our most active insect destroyers. Iti is especially aeti_ve in the vicinity of any timber or` wood choppin_9:.' The birds `will become very famil- iar, and `Will? readily make friends. Not .being: eqiiipped, as the wood-l pecker is, with a long: bill,` they take advantage of the cutting" of `cord-I wood, etc. , to secure the g:1't1bs found under the bark or exposed in the- cutting. As a rule, however, thevi feed upon the insects of the orcha1'd,l the bushor shrubbery. A ` 1:1 1'-I 1 :SThe gifv'ii1g~of in a contst,| `for the purpose of boosting- trade \_ ' ` to `be unlawful; according to .__e _ yowing taken_f}from ` a reent :ssue%-a;;the*.12rywJGoid.s Review-= 4 - A ` school house till the new building is , T iafeedu School, Board will likely! `make use of the town hall as a Vereejsed- Tenders have been calledl for tearing down the standing walls` and cleaning the bl`l(3k. I ("I I . I | 7 j . 1 Canada s bird visitors are rapidly returning for the warmer season, and we may again look forward to their assistance in the des-truction of cat- erpillars and insects, so destructive toour trees.` A One of the most` important of these birds is the Woodpecker. It feeds on larvae and small i_nsect's, which" ar_e found in crevices of the `bark. seeIur1n_;: them with its pro-i trusible, tongue. `This tongue is sharp, hard at the end, has ba'bs directed backward, and" `can be x- tended? several inches. The r d;< headed Woodpecker, besides digqi-11_q insects out of bark, seizes them on the Wing.` In the examination of over 700 `stomachs of woodpeckers, :_1nim,al;food, mostly insects, was found to constitute 76 per cent- of the diet, and vegetable matter 24 per cent. The animal foodeeonsistsl lar, of caterpillars,_and includes,` many harniful species. l 7!... ..Li..'l-.-..'J.... ' -12` :~ A:-\ ..L`l`..-u. A... m Now, as true Canadians our- selves we owe it to those other true - Canadians, the very first Canadians, our native birds, to do all we e_an to cheek this dirty, noisy, quarrelson1e traitor whom we have brou_9,'ht to our shores; Of course, we Old Mother N aturers believe in mere_v, _9;entleness, and justice. Bully" is not to blame for being here, but we should see to it that`he is not al- lowed to inerease his race. Where ournative birds are . content tel -raise one or two broods in a `year Bully raises four or five broods of _voun2'. If conditions`-`are bad `for our native birds now what will they be in a few years? The thin: to do is to (liseo111'-ace Bully as much as lxve can. Destroy `his nest Whenever andwvherevei` you find it. Do all 1_vou?ean to get other birds to nest; about _vo11rl1o1ne,but drive Bull_v| away. Do not let him build. If \o1 vvuxau nuul. Ul. a_ua1ou1'. - . ' I find his nestfxvitli eg`2's.in it do not allow `the was to hateh. If every one would do this perhaps in time we` might fforee Bully to become a good "citizen. Then he would be anything` bu.t `the xvorst kind of `a bad citizen. Do not feel badly over des-troyins: his nest and driving` him away. Remember that he is `doing: that very same thine: to the beauti- ful, useful little feathered friends to whom Old Mother Nature rst `gave this land. ` The Woodpeeker and Chickadee ere 4 Especially Active in Trees and Foliage CANADA'S INSECT Thornton VV. Burgess Writes 0 boys and gfirls in the Toronto Star \Veekly, giving reasons why the English sparrow should not be en- couraf_red in Canada, He is out of place in this country. It was a man who b1'ot1g.rl1t_ him to America and in so doing upset old Mother Nature s plans. Bully the English `sparrow isnot _a loyal citizen. -Bully is not, be. He is doing all he can to drive a true Canadian and he never will` out the_ Canadians, Welcome. Robin, '\Vinsome Bluebird, Jenny VVren,[` Skimmer the Swallow, and all the` other feathered people of the Old, Orchard. And he is driving them! . out and doing` it` very fast. They are true Canadians, `Old Mother Nature placed them here for a pur- pose and they are faithful to that purpose. -She placedathem here to work, to keep our trees and shrubs and gardens `free of insects. Bull u ,.drives them out, .but he does not take up their work. T Instead of helping man, he gets his living: from man. He lives almost Wholly on what-man raises and not only does nothing to help but actually does all he can to drive away those who do help. He is a traitor, the very worst kind of a_traitor. l\1'-__- _- L7,. " XIIJJ Lu. J.V.l.(l_Y 0 Joshua McMahon `diedT at his home, 104-` Cumberland street, To- ronto, on Saturday.of'last week, at the age of fty-three. Mr. McMa- hon was born in Cookstown, and had lived there until going` to Toronto twentyrve years ago. T ENGLISH SPARfR.OW I ' ` - - Cookstown merchants will close their places. of business on \Vednes- day afternoon during the sumnleg-. months, beginning the rst-Wednes- day in May. ' Tn;-Ln.` l.I'n`A.f..`l..... 12...`! -1. 1.1.. COUPON "SALES. ILLEGAL? --_--. __~-.____~C --~- --v By a vote of two to one the sup- porters of the Elmvale public school carried a resolution _adv-ising the trustees to (lisco11ti11ue the Continu- _ation School and" to put all public, [school classes into`tl1e'public school 7 buildipg. . . - ' IS. A BAD CITIZEN ' EJESTROYERS ! um Nola-r>n1:n.N4'-AnvANcr: VVherever merchants have these! contests under way the_v should im-| mecliately terminate them, saidi Mr. Trowern. If they continue them they hold themselves just as liable as the promoters. It is the purpose of our association to see! that steps are taken to bring an action wherever the contests are! still continued. "Customers who V-ac-l eept the tickets, merchants who give them out, and the promoting com-S pany are equally, guilty before thei law in having anything to `do with! these coupons. I ttjr I . 1 u '1 -mi . . _ - v- ~-~-._.----. Merchants who have. purchased! prizes for these contests, or -whol have part payments made on them, should take what measures they deem best to protect their interest` in the prizes, said Mr. Trowern. Provinee and in other parts ofithe Dominion will be inte1'es_ted to know that. sentence has been_ini1>ose1 on the-nmnaLi:'e1' of Blisiness B_00ste1's,- Limited, by the court. to the extent of $200 ne or three months in jail. The business which they time been ea1'1'_\'inu' on is deelareil in" eontra- |vention to the Tradin}_~; Stan1peAct lot` Canada. ' A ' M 11 1r "1 - /`I -< ll Wally Inerehants throu the I I VI. \/uIllL\Iuu I E._M. Trowom, soon`:-ta1'_\' of the! Dominion Board of the` Retail Mei`-E chants Association of.`-Canada. in! an i11t`0.1'\'io\\_' with the Dry Goodsl Roview, stated that the case as dis-i posed of by the courts makes these} contests illosral vvhorovor carried on _i~11fthe Dominion. ', Order. GEO. W. ' can be played by han feet. It brings a wor your home and provid source of enjoyment husband and wife. sister or lriends. who lnsert the perforated to can play the Plaola-Pi your fee! as well as any can play it by hand. . is no higher than for I piano which only lhos cated in music can" pla ,it._ includes freight. bench I2 rolls of music. 1'1! AI'\I A I-unn-/\ Q aunnnv or with the of music to a common for ibolh lher and rop in. nd you 0 wilh usician _ price plain edu- The. 1 .mi1Pi:n l\VI1V'.iI)".mllVilliax11s of the Celling- Wood Bulletin, past president of the ,`Ontario Library Association, has' `been elected a member of the exec-T utive committee. `D_i`strict Agent} Barrie 3` V TH mcgynna` LA I A " IAN O GUARAN ED TEN YEARS THE GOVERNMENT or CAN] THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE DEF. Spend Your Money Wisely 5 a1 ma; i>"il/s.<')'L"A"~.:`I'=1ANo Company ,Limited OSHA/A - ONTARIO 4 , The family all play n the, . _, V Produce More and Save M % the home by eliminating luxur- llars here weakens our strength |i1: f`ti3"$a?rf g 2 i; at the Front. Yo nance the war. Save your money for the next Dominion War issue. There can be no better investment. ' savings will help Canada to- -- 4 0: W118]: _w waste Iarms, in fact our homes. Every pound of foodsaved from te is as good as it production. The way for a nation to save is for individual save. France i to-day because of thrift in time of peace- The me nniv H.-xina " 1\I1I- av-A Inna-c-u:ou: I-A 5` A- -.:L`__--L av mu; uvuuucv us \.uA11|. us uuuc UL }JCd|.'C.v Lc H1 only doing but are learning. to do without. Collingwood; Patriotic Fund will`, ask the council of that town to raise $10,000, by dcbentres, for patrioi-: ic purposes. . A -n- ..1 . ... . _- W . 0 i A I ar-time do not waste time and `energy on unim- Make Your Labour Elllclelll I po nt and -unprotable work. Economize labour. Pu o' unproductive work till after the war, and, if possible, help in producing something 1-. ded now. Let us not waste labour. Canada needs it all. 7If possible help to feed the A `es. Make your backyard a productive garden. Cultivateit withpa will. Make your labo ount for as much as possible. The Empire needs food. If you are not in the ght- ing line -you may be in the producingline. Labour is limited--all the more reason to do more than ever before. Grow food for the men w are ghting for you. The Allies need all the food that you can produce. Every little h s. You are responsible for your own work. If you cannot produce as much as you uld like, produce all you can. Work with the right spirit. .Put ghting energy into y effort and produce new when it counts. The more you produce the moreyou can save. Producing and saving are war-service. LIVINGSTZOEV JLAWCG `I-A; 5380`. Not Waste Materials _ c NADA S CALL FOR RVICE AT Home _ Included With recntly invented sun__ ggggles is a shade/co protect a wearer As;n;qsV_:from sungbmfn. . A .Now, before` these place the number of each ;Kaisor as it stands in the beginning` with K, the elov tor. //nu. -- --- - Mr. Chas. Porter,` Bradford, has`! `received a letter from 3. Sergt. at. the front, telling of the death in action of Mr. 'Porter s son, Arthur. F Mr. _G. W. Westcott, Co1ling'wood,' has resigned the position of vsecre-e} wary of the Collingwood fair, also} the sec1'etaryship of the local `Pat-V riotic Fund; ' . -666 Thus, addec} Mr. Burnham,= we have Bible authority for pre-' [dieting that the Kaiser s great `war will end after`a.period of 666 days. ,, __,___\.__.- ---.\- \!A4\U`V uA.\. Co11tim1ing,. Hr. Bu1'n nam said: Tliere are six letters in H1'c,name K-a~i-s-c-.1`. To make sure, count Ithem and repeat t11c g`111'0s 1_n 3. single column, thus: 1: ` T ,4, vxixac 4o, uL` 1`|.'d.(l _\'CSt01'(la._\': .``Here is wisdom. He that hathl 1111do1'sta~11_di11_2j, let him count the number of thevBeast; for it is the number of a man; and -his number A .- -- iis six .hundred and sixty-si._\'. [ - - | Mr. Charles Btirxlham, theatrical` manager, for `years at the head of VVallack s Theatre, and now on the Gaiety, hasvjoined the p1'0g_:'nostica- {tors and produces Scriptural author-_ ity for declaring` to a day just when, the great War will end, says 21 N owl York despatch. - I Turninggto, Revelatibn, chapter ,13, verse 18, he, read _\'oster(la_v: I HA1-n ':r- uv:n.J.-y.-. TT- A 1 n 1 - 1 Makes Yi>u:*Skin Like Vlvet Has a max-ve1lours'eFte43t on rough skin.` One or two applications will remove the roughness, and by its ccasional use the skin acquzires he `smoothness and softness of -a ba;by s.` G`1_yced0m=a is not stzicky, and gloves` im-ay be worn a few moments after [using it. Price 15c and 250. Do-..! glighxtful after shaving`. . . E tn-14` pannocwn--_- ' o1ikman 5 % 921/c>edonz'a' I Y I | 111%! E9 M NEXT DOORTO THE TANNEFi'Y| up-:1 Druggidt. Mr.James Jardine, ex-reevc of` Nattawasaga [township was elected `by acclamatio_n as a membelvof th township council -in succession to the late coulicillor Walter Sgott. 7 I `IIT'L!'l.. ........I..J.Z..._ -L LL, L1` The result .will.be as follows :` K-11-6- ' A-.-1-6. I4-9-6. S- 9-6.. 7`! 3;_:si'6. WAR S LENGTH 666 DAYS Boislbfs. En `nee and` a_]l kinds of farm and sta nary machanery made and repaired on ahmtest notice and moderate prices. AI ___I. ,1___ I... __,_, . _..,_... _-... ,.--vv-y A1 work done by expert machin- ist and guaranteed first class. Is 0 en for all orders in CASTINGS, MI L REPAIRS, sac. . cg-,5;` Ii.6KMAN.%` V -Expert Machinist . guuuua lll uu: mpuuuct, the eleventh let- Orillia"electors will vote on- May 22nd` on the question of the'Onta1'i0, Hydro Electric taking over the, town s plant. A [ I `I r T?! TYV 1\ 1 1 n