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l872 Dunlap Street South Post Office Square to Clapporton JULYZWIAst Sundays visilors some yr gt with Mr and Mrs Gilchrist were Kr and Mrs John Caper gIapel Minute lill Capri Mr and Mrs Bill Capri the former Miss Barbara Lenr To ronto were married Toronto last Saturday and sure going to this family summer lodge at IRmagant for their honeymoon Anyone interestsd in having blankets made from old wool us phone 47 before July 31 xour wown woollens childrens all wool lersry dresses pulluvcrs ctr are now accepted Mr and Mrs Cough and chil dren Mr and Mrs Walker in Mr and Ir WEDNESDAY JULY 195 an must have hearing 20 minutes after sche duled closing time Mantel Inflation Spreads Sfies Brings Out Situation Many Cambium thought this boimruon hail passed the hump of lnflation with the cost of living index showing small but regu landecmscs since the first of the year That is lintll the intern report from the Bureau of Statistic for Mini brought out small rise which was attributed to the price of potatoes Owen Sound Mr and Mrs 80 Others wont be backward in confessingl they came for good time And they will in sist on having it But behind the fun the backslapplng among old friends and the tin in hotel lob bles there is the serious side Conventions and MRS Edna Rm 80mm WW put the stamp of approval on years hard gut me gxmchanpw Wm work by executive councils special commlt ding on June 2i tees and the rank and file generally Whether political humanitarian or business ends an served the deliberations have the nations welfare at heart Domlnlon Day Service SptLlill Dominion 1le servltv was held in the United Church last Sunday Rev Mr Shannon preach But now this country is again at grips with spreadln labor disputes which could very easily push many basic prices up again Ai ready some 60000 Canadian workers are on strike for higher wages and the great timber industry of British Columbia is paralyzed Not since I946 has the labor situation looked so disturbing as today Economically the hotels and stores are giv en more business and the local chamber of commeme has an opportunity to boast that the Loyal Qrder of the StepLadder chose the hometown for its infemotional convention leadingCanadian observer on the econ omlc front Bruce Hutchison stated the oth er day There is vital difference between i946 and 1952 In the immediate postwar years and until inflation began to ease some six months ago labor usually did not get all it asked but almost invariably secured high er wages in each succeeding contract In period of rising prices and sellers market throughout the world the booming industry of Canada felt able to raise its costs without damaglng Its profits For the first time since the war in the test case of the western timber industry management seems deter mined to hold the line for fear of pricing it self out of softer world market Hence the struggle now under way is regarded Ins far more important in its longrun effects on the Canadian economy than in its effects on the industries immediately involved Then again conventions help more Can adlans get acquainted with their country Men and women who otherwise wouldnt stray more than block from their 0Wn doorstep will travel hundreds of miles without qualm just to attend meeting of their pet organ lzutlons Why do so many Canadians flock to con ventions Perhaps mans lnnatehunger for confpanlonshlp has much to do with it Such gatherings seem to have tighter grip on city residents than on rural folk This may be because in rural areas community living and general nelghborllness still remain at high level But things are different in the cities Lifes swiftpace leaves city folk little time for neighborly pleasantries Thus they find themselves frequently travelling miles just to get on first name basis with their fol low humans Editorial Notes The Slmcoes were passed up in the realloc ation of seats in the House of Commons at Ottawa Thus the federal constitutencies re main as Simcoe North Slmcoe East and Duf ferinSlmcoe The Canadian Government watches this developing situation with anxiety At the first of the year Rt Hon Howe warned labor not to rock the boat And so the threat of lnflatl0n in Canada is still very real There are still strikes and threats of strikes despite falling retail prices falling In dustrial production and the highest lndus trial wages in our history The Steel Co of Canada have chosen this time through the weekly newspapers of Ont ario to publish as public service campaign ascriesof advertisements which are designed to give our citizens better understanding of the economlc forces which determine the democratic way of life They have nothing to dowlth the steel industry but they do bring out clearly whatls happening in current ec onomic problems Borne TrblHUrf Diverling South Traffic Why is it necessary for provincial traffic authorities to deny motorists access to Barrie coming south on Highway 11 That is until they reach the Bayfield St Cloverleaf True encugh those who know about it can cut off the ByPass at Highway 93 by theCrown Hill bridge and proceed down to Highway 11 But the aVerage traveller moving south is dir ected off Highway 11 onto th ByPassand assumes that entry to Barrie is restricted to farther on It Is tough enough on some the merchants now without adding to their 1088 We can see the traffic hazards involved in till new regulation The authorities are think ing of those coming north on the ByPass haying toface motorists who would be cut ting in front of them to continue on Highway 11 South The same thing has existed for years down by Hoggs Hollow Motorists who Wish to goutirectly south onto Yonge St in Toronto ar facedwith northbound motorists comln frmnAvehue Road Embatny the Crown Hill situation will be corrected when the Cloverleaf is completed sud motorists can get back onto Highway glintpoint Prime Minister St Laurents statement in the House of Commons recently concerning the grave international situation where it is possible that momentous decisions may have to be taken at an early date has been interpreted in some political circles as mean ing there will he no federal election before the fall of 1953 Ougcongratulatlons to James Find lay who recently completed 25 years of ser vice with The Pembroke StandardObserver It was from the position of reporter with The Barrie Examiner that Jim wentto Pem broke as news editorand later he became editor of the enterprising biweekly newspap er by the Ottawa River OPINIONS OF OTHERS Dick Alkey Purchases Eastern Ontario Newspaper Almonte Gazette Sale of The Amprlor Chronicleto Atkey of Clinton was announced in last weeks issue by the for mer publisher McFarlane The latter had car ried on the newspaper for 22 years purchasing it from the late Jeffrey During this long period be improved the publication in many ways and turns it over to his successor as one of the most creditable newspapers in Eastm Ontario Mr McFarlane came originally from Lanark hav ing published The Era there for many years He is an exeellent printer and mechanic as well as sound editor He got along well with his contemporaries in wine Ottawa Valley and like most of them was always ready to lend ahelping hand in lime tiptrouble We are sorry to see Mr McFarlane retire from ac tive newspapenwork although he states in his vale dictory that he will remain10r time in super visory capacity We do agree though that he deserves rest Running weekly newspaper is nerve rack ing business and there is the necessity of keeping going all the time which sometimes gets fellow down merchant can close his store for day and all he will lose is that days business But newspaper Conventionnls is sort of institution It must come out every week Qunvenuo time 13 here again Men sport 323133 soonias ofne iasueiis thepress the printers prepar as or enex one astound mtg are There or many vexations It isbard to please the pofdmngmmf dgt In public especially on controversial issues One school ree of opinion feels it is right and the other wrong If ummhantswith ayburst of unexpected bug the newspaper asserts itself in favor of either It makes deadlyenemy of the One that has not been favored Most people however are fairly reasonable For We perhaps week detesates and there aaenl 1L few igngraxtnuses wllgo rwpuld carry avert enough sop apes ing WWW publisher Molarlane fortunately for himself m1 mum Vspeakers one had good way of getting on with the public Which the of the day followed by rich is credit to his sense of diplomacy His successor canesfromlluron County in West grn Ontario veryrfine part of the country We dmtes wilting an amp adher with him tube and hope that hagwlll not find gt the ammhm to metlre alias Vtzlf exert131 ptlace anidtwltb Sigh ya ouna ma as so enpaneon tf with Petresolulmflt other side of Toronto THIS IS Qw gm business firms reversed of course Fred Grunt Romlnllcn BARRIES THREE BIG FIRES NAMES OF BUSINESS MEN AND THEIR VARIOUS LOSSES Continued frOm Monday As most of the buildings then were of frame construction once fire started it gained very rapidly and the task of the firemen was hopeless except to the extent of preventing the flames from spread ing Then too the almost solid string of wooden verandos in front of the stores which extended from one end of Dun10p Street to the other greatly aided in communb eating the flames and added to the fire hazard There have been great variations in the estimated amounts of losses sustained in those two or three big fires in Barrie but the prob able loss was something between $200000 and $250000 Even in these dayswhen generally speak ing dollar has about onethird the value it had fifty now 80 years agoany town of size Barrie was then which sustained $250000 or over fire loss to its businesssection within two years would have most serious handicap to overcome But no further comment need be made upon the faith and en ergy displayed by those who suf fered those losses than to note the improved Barrie which rose Phoenixlike from those heaps of ashes almost before they were cold following each recurring con flagration There was no waterworks sys tem in Barrie then and only small steam fire engine The water BETHESDA JULY 7The sympathy of the community is extended to Mrs Aaron Gilroy and Ralph in the death of Mr Gilroy on Sunday Mr and Mrs Raymond McMas ter and children visited Mr and Mrs Harvey Dunn Tralfalgar on Sunday Recent visitors with Mr and Mrs David Pearson were Mr and Mrs Lawrence Pearson and=Janle Miss Verna Pearson and Bill Camp bell Toronto and Miss Evelyn Wilkinson Alliston Sunday visitors with Mrs Wil liam Copeland included Mr and Mrs Carl Copeland antlboys Lake view Mr and Mrs Art Barrett and Colin Toronto Sarahand Dalton Slight Cobkstown Mr and Mrs Henderson and family Toronto visited on Sunday with Mr and Mrs Walter Abrams Mrmrs8quibbs visited couple of days last week with Mrs roP mettaum cs supply was secured from several large water tanks sunk in the middle of the street intersections with heavy fourinch hose plank coverings which could be quickly removed and which were always kept full with water pumped from the bay The fire engine in use in those days was one of the old man power affairs with long run ning pole on each side and it re quired twentyfour ablebodied hus kies to operate it and was appro priately called The Man Killer For the ordinary fire it answered the purpose fairly well But it did not meet the requirements of the big fire and to help give an added pressure at that fire it was libfirst located at the tank on tho Market Square as it was thought the water running down hill would give additional force When that supply was exhausted theengine was moved to the water front in front of the railway sta tion and the hose laid under the railroad tracks for connection with the Bay But the equipment was no match for that big conflagra tion which practically burned itself out Toronto steam fire engine had been sent up by train on re quest of the Barrie people for as sistance but by the time it arrived all danger of further fire was past for everything within range had been burned HOLLY JULY 7Mrs Eva Grover Chi ago is spending some holidays with hbr mother Mrs Kell Mr and Mrs John Jago Mulmur visited with Mrs Kell last week Paris Slessor Barrie has been holidaying with hisuncle Glen Slessor We are pleased to have Mr and Mrs Joseph Cochrane home again after two months tour of the West and BC Donna Jermey Mitchell Square visited last week with Betty Sies sor Our sympathy is extended to the family of Mrs George Elliott in the loss of dear mother Rev Mui ve clfgeof the serviceat Holly United ChurchSunday morning at 10 oclock Everyone welcome Squibbs mother Fenelon Falls Mrs Bennett mu YOURSELF In mm Vt THE SAME BLOCK as printed below but viewed from the opposite direction with order of names of the ed stirring sermon on the thought that Dominon Day calls for re consecration of ourselves Miss Marion Grays solo Land of Glad Tomorrows was most appropriate Mr and Mrs Gilchrist Bar barn and Isabelle Were guests at thi Hardmonawford Miss Pa tricia Crawford ro Station wed ding in Orlllia Presbyterian Church last Saturday Mr and Mrs Doug las Gilchrist and Anita Windsor also guests at the wedding visited Gilchrists chr the Weekend Holiday visitors were Miss McGee and Miss Marion Gray To ronlo with Mrs Gray Miss llileen Murdock Auburn at Murdochs before going on to sum mer school in Toronto jockrabbit can run faster than racchorse being clocked at 45 mph Dunlop Street South Side About 1876 This view includes most of the block from The Five Points to the railway station gore the firms missing being Kelman and Oliver later George Tolans drugstore on the corner Christopher Harrisons drygoods the barber shops of Cubes Brothers MacDonell and Prof Moore Beynon and William Jones three colored men the Blue Ribbon Temperance Lodge upstairsarid contrarlly Reg Mac Donalds liquor store on the street level and Martin and Pete Moores harness shop Those showing in the picture are Hickeys Store of All Nations Ewans drap ery and haberdashery Dalton Mc Carthy and Peplers law offices Tom Kennedys architect and Mchtties civil engineering Alex McNabbs Sam Gordons and Alex McRaes tailor shops Perkins groceryJ Strong and Hiram Lounts dry goods Bethels cigar store Sam Carsons barber shop Plaxtons tinsmithing shop Hunter and Horrells Canton Shop Edmansons bakery Levi Warners saddlery James Wards shoe store Watsonsdrugs Ellis Singer Sewing Machines John Rogersons pinsuranbe Amos Raymers harness shop Tom and Harry Sanders and Humphrey Bennetts tailor shops andJi Edwards and Lairds book store on theporneru Other firms who had Stahds in that block at other times were Meadows andJack Nelauds tinsmithing George Mayg Whittaker Edwin Tyrer Alex Milne tailors James and Hughes Brpthers feed stores Valleaus Dominion Express and Telegraph Office Dr Bosanko dentist GeorgevSimmons fur store Frank Dowell and Sep Nash jew ellers and McKeggie Co private bankers Fletcher in surapce George Burns shoemaker The Gazette Office Finley Craw ford auction rooms GranthHan met and Bob Rice Cigar stores Those fir supply tanks were sit uated at the junction of Mary and Elizabeth Streets Elizabeth and Bradford Bayfield and Ross So phia and Owen Mulcasler and Penelang and Collier and Dunlop East and it is possible the re mains of some of them are still in evidence Some of the Chiefs in Barrles Fire Brigade in the earlier days were Aaron Burnett John Mc Watt Henry Sewrey Thomas Somerlet Wm Boothe Caldwell Thomas Sewrey George Plaxton Nap St Onge andG Smith while among the Volunteer Fire men were found SolvSewrey Dan SweeneyWmAnnand Wm Sib bald Tom Caldwell Will Hubbard Willams wm Crossand Sr George Ball Charlie Henry Tomi Pearcey Tom BidWell Charlie CameronMark and Meaford Webb Jack McPhee Will and John son James Smith Wm McKenzie Wilse Rhinehart Harry Hudson James MickHSam Caldwell John Rutkins Watson Jones Jack Jones Jack Nally Billy Waterson James ScottuSandy McIntosh Tom Blain Frank McKernan Alex McPhes Charles Pentgn Dave Thompson Donald McMillan and James Keen an It need hardly be mentioneg herjlllalth ordinary small boy occasion modlouswater kinks were always hail the hose on harmJo sinus of thbsllong past years was not the sophisticated young fellow of nowadays and it did not take asgmuchto amus us So it can be easiily understood that those banning up thosecom neighborhood Tilers are som interesting to the boys 30 the occasions when Fireman Rutkins one of those and tho old Barrieitsf who will remember orierof theso ahead of schedule the squirming hose throwing him into the partly filled 30foot tank and the four inch stream of water continued pouring upon him until Chief Smith and Engineer Keenan could be signalled to shut off the pressure He was finally rescued from his enforced bath by the employees of the tank who had responded to the cries for help and arrived in time With the aid of ropes inda long ladder let down into the tank Included in the pictures of sev eral thousand or so of the old time residents and scenes Sof Bar rie which the writer has already within the covers of his ever growing Barrie Family Album are large photographs of several business blocks of Barrie before and after those big fires destroy ed them and he has supplemepted them with the names of the firms who occupied the premises altthat time and later as far asmemory can recall and they find an hon ored place in the collectionofbib tures and historical matter he is compiling of Barrie list of those names of would time business firms is herewith nuled with the hOpe it willrprove interestingto the present readers as it should to those who years hence have taken the places in Barries business enterprise that these above named occupied in those former times And in this conriction the writer Will be pleased to receive any corrections or additions to the list just for the sake of accuracy as mere memory cannot alwaysbe depended upon Continued on Friday M008EVSMOTOBCAB msMINs Ont Ray mom Feldman was slightly his car suffered damhgesof Other passengers iii no slurred3 eronssmir Exillhfr of Khowlton one of Can tslamling forestry engineers Montreal vvbO dieain hospital at Inhls81$t year he was actively zed aaiigeshcy consultant fevaeeks ago but KNOWLTONgQue CB Final tribute was paid here tOEIIWOQd 01