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By BIMPKIN Simeoe Countys grand old man is well and hearty with wonderful memory that mak es visiting him pleasure We had the privilege or an hour of his time recently when we found him visiting In Barrie and enjoying city life Drury Is one oi only itvlramreinlerulDelano alive at present the other one being the Hon Harry Nixon which over after the first war They did not remain in power only from ms to 1923 but they leit record of legislature which has lungsloeebeen accepted as flood FORESIGHT AND Wisnoiu iheEeiorFstatinE Act in Fae Passed during this period and HON DRURY whomweekitSpflngwaterPHWWWWM at Midhurst we have to thank the fines wisdomflofr Mr Drury and his gnvennment for starting the service that not only has provided millions of trees through this and other counties but has also changed the sand hills into parks like that it Mllfliurst Mumer for double reason First because all summer long we had hoped to to have an opportunity to talk him He is so easyanr verse withI and it is no time until the conversation has gone int ann thaLone does not We also wanted to know about his home surroundings the countryside where he and his parents and grandparents were raised Crown Hill It is lust name on the church by the wayside but it has become around But his famous for having been the home of one of Canadas pro vincial premiere NEXT JANUARY He does not look his age al though since slight stroke he has little difficulty in getting features are as he says himself young Ask ed how he was getting along the to work interfered with with hie story of the memories of hie life he said they were progressing wen dont seem to get too much on them but write all in longhand Tried dictating machine but found it my train of thought and if wanted to change anything it was too much trouble have so many memories and they come to me so vividly that they take lot of doing he commented This will be his third book and we can only hope he re cords many memories for read are to get to know him he really is TALKS POLITICS lie likes to talk politics and with his morning paper beside him when we called he began to discuss world affairs and the critical events that ere Ip permcet at present cant see how we can go to war for the Germans They have plunged us into two were now Why should we allow the world to annihilate themsele for the sake of keeping two of their own people apart he re marked when the $7ij aiisrn as it 13 to as Ibfeel Brit Liber egan as sea lnlt Idbaralism is to deal just eve mercy and walk humbly he defined the politv oi the original Liher TAUGETADEATE am deeply afraid of the United States their mentality Is akin to that of Gem be fore the two wars Thoigngenp is are brainwashed and taught to hate Commies as the Ger mans were taught to hate the Jews Kate is an evil thing am very afraidthey will hang mummy is us into was It would be silly thing to go to warlover erinans Germans claim Unit ed States money has rebuilt Germany and there are still many Nazis in that country The insanity of sooalled Free Berlin surrounded by Sov let territory resulted from the Potsdam Conference which was dominated by the us in any re Berlin is before Mr Dnirys time but he rernernberselewof the names were Carthew Allingham Ad ams Budga and Oliver None of them received grants on the road he said NEGRO SETTLEMENT We asked Mr Drury about the settlement set aside for the freed slaves from the United States who came there to set tle The old Colored Church in Oro is the last relic oi these people who he said at one time had been expected to set tie the whale of ore Township However many of them found Ilia too strenuous to continue to live there and most at them went to other places inthe Omilownliallisa picture of the old church and with it poem Written by the honorable gentleman its words afrehexpressiiie chil theD true story esepeope nirysays he knows of only one Negro who came to the settlement alone John Darkman wh so will was the first to be probat ed lathe new County of Sim coe in 1848 He left his farm to his wife and two sons if they appeared within five years fail in which it was to go to one WE GOOFED was esepeopls av hack the border along the Niagara trontier hr Mollie would do anything for months or an LIFE The new book has not yet been given title His second bookhcalledAllioraBeav been er Hatranddeak with the earl ier history of this art Speaking oi Mr Drurys re markable memory he tells of 993133le and his fathcr wet ed looking across the orchard from theirhomeIHfiiterdi scribed this as he remembered It to the Observatory at Aurora and from this vivid description at the then ouryeanoid boy it we ed as the great comet of last That was the 19511 asthe dark day when the sun was completely blocked out at noon and every one thought the end of the world had come though it was later learned to have been cau sed by fires in the State of Michigan RECAlu BUSH FIRES Mr Drury remember some hush tires in the area not far am his home Mr Robert Russell from Midhurat had land in the Big Swamp just north of Wonder Valley which he was clearing One Sunday afternoon fire burned over nearly 200 acres of the Big Swamp which was then covered with thick stand of spruce Ind cedar An ounther fire startgld onda since waifneing acre an ac fire to barn owned by Mr Peacock it was Sunday afternoon in late April 1835 and the stock were still stahlod All the fam ily were at church except the father thenquitemiold man was so badly burned try Ing to rescue the stock that he died that evening We had only short visit with Mr Drury Cant Identity Body On Beach not th of Henry Sharpe 10 Pet lanolin whodledlut JI in crash oils small Police at first thought the body was that of hlr Sharpe check oi medical records showed this was not the case gthologist established the luldentiiied man died hydrown ing ind the body could have months to ye missing from Lelia points this year NI PICKUP mama TEACHER UNI Austria AlliPolice said today Karl Nagenkoegl l7 Llcingfeliure In shorthand that would have thrown him back into the same class for anothe year gun on his teacher and said know thing But if you want to go on living better sign this He presented the teacher with certificate that Nagen koegiand his entire class of lshad passed The teacher signed Nagenkoeglrscaped ario mm 28 Candles Rd East Barrie iliiiiilllililillil iiiiiiili ii In the wateeirom four The Shell Oil Company oi Canada has applied to the federal and British Columbia governments for permission to search for oil oil the coast of BC The company seeks exploration rights on limo 000 acres of submerged land aded mar Vancouver island northward inthaQueen Charlotte ls lands Applicationwas made to both governments because of dispute between federal and provincial authorities over ownership of offshore petrol cum and mineral rights GP Newmapt PAM Midland Penotang Elmvele Phone Zenith iuso No ibll Charge WE OVERBOUGHT FOR PRESALES TAX SELLING 23 EDGEMQNT New Visia Console Mada Na moi Tramnrmerspowered Highlain ture Power Keyed AGC New Vista Ni Hill Picture Ema Chasels 20000 Volt of lllncl ERIE Sealed Circuits Threewnesker Balanced Fidelity FM Smriid melons CielIncl and mos should read verse orbs it is better to lag dog than and CROWN m1 CHURCKYARD The story of Crown Hill is that of the pioneers who rest the cemetery of the Anglican Church at the crossroads Mr hi Prov be liv eDnuyssoggestedrthat nnnhould take walk through it and see the names on the stones of thosrwho helped make the history of the district His grandfather Richard came to the area in 1820 and settled the land that the family still occupies Many pioneer families names have extinct for many years those who did not have sons faded out except forthe record in the cemetery Mr Drury named many of the pin neer families who came and took the land along the Pene ene Road iiithe order they received their grants Ask ed il the settlement had been occupied by army officersrhe stated that those man called 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