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Inflation is worse in Australia reports Shriner from Cookstown By MARGORIE ELDRIDGE COOKSTOWN Inflation was higher in Australia than here in Canada according to Lennox Rowe after his return home from trip with group of Rameses Shriners Temple Mr Rowe left Toronto by Jet on the conducted tour in February 18 Going via Vancouver to Honolulu then on to Fiji Islands and arriving at Sydney Australia required in the neighborhood of 22 hours flying time Canberra the capital ci ty was reached by bus Lennox noted that inflation was higher in Australia than here New Zealand with its rich farm land abundance of water and good climate he descril ed as beautiful From Auckland New Zealand Lennoxs group went to Wellington by bus before tak ing the return flight reaching home on March most fascinating and enjoyable trip FROM SPAIN Mrs Stockdale of Nerja Malaga in Spain was weekend guest of Mr and Mrs William Hood During the Hoods vacation in Spain in the winter of 197475 they became acquainted with Mrs Stockdale and they welcomed their friends visit Ross Elliott and daughter Jean visited in Stayner on re cent weekend EXCHANGE VOWS Wedding bells rang merrily for two young couples on Satur day afternoon March 13 despite the blustery weather In St Johns Anglican Chur ch Frances Mar aret Ross daughter of Mr an Mrs Harry Ross wed George William Peacock of Oro Station At Cookstown United Church Edythe Louise Wright daughter of Mr and Mrs Ivan with the large group of Shriners On sale Murrh 351 In April 3rd While Quantities Lust MISSES PULL0N PANTS 100 Polyes ter Assorted Springshades Sizes 1020 MISSES PRINTED TSHIRTS 100 Cotton Jersey Pink Blue or Beige all dium Large Our Everyday Low Price 296 DREAMY DORM SETS Long sleeved Assorted screen prints and colours mart Price 467 DORM SETS 65 Polyester 35 Cotton Natural Peach Mint mart Price 499 FIGURE SWEATER KNIT Our Everyday Low Price Mint Sizes 1018 ALL SHEER PANTY HOSE Your fashion budget stretches pr further when you buy your panty hose at mart All sheer panty brief with silky sheer stocking and nude heel One size MENS PERMANENT PRESS WORK SHIRTS AND PANTS fit Spring shades SHIRTS PANTS 50 Polyester For 50 Polyester trel 50 Cotton Fortrel 50 Got blend torwrinklelree ton blend Zipper wear Regular mens Pockets shirt sizes Regd ens 3044 TM Regd TM mart Price mart Price mart Price 25 Rusk it XMB POLYESTER SPORTS SHIRTS mart Price corrou DENIM OVERALLS mart Price Hardwearing on the job overalls made oltou 10 oz Cotton Denim lue Mens 3646 With braid trim button placket and chest pocket Sporty colours Small Medium Large Extra Large Machine washable Poly ester knit Unfinished hems Assorted colour patterns Mens 3242 ma Gives Satisfaction Alwaysft 2PCE PANT SUITS knockout price for these travelWise packable Polyes ter sweater knit pant suits Completely machine Wright exchanged wedding vows with Frank William Veldpaus of Loretto Congratulations to both couples MOURNED Mrs Leadlay beloved wife of the late Dr Harry Leadlay passed away at the Villa Nurs ing Home Midland on Mon day March Most of her years were lived in our village and she will long be remembered for her quiet ladylike way She is survived by her son John of Toronto four grand children and two great grand washabledryablel Features long sleeve tops wrth co ordinating pullon style pants Navy Peach Red Powder Child Her daughter The Barrie Examiner Wednesday March 31 197617 COUNTY NEWS IVY Evelyn Mrs Trace of Elmvalc redeceased her Funera service was con ducted from the Hughes Fr eral Home on March 11 with interment at Alliston Union Cemeterv LOANS INCREASED WASHINGTON AP The Mortgage Bankers Association of America says singlefamily loans reached record volume of $15 billion in 1975 It says this was 16 per cent above the pre vious record of $133 billion set in 1972 JR BOYS GIRLS 46X PRINTED TSHIRTS Little tots love Ts Availableinavariety ol adOrable prints for both girls and boys 46X By MRS JENNETT Sharon Patton entertained the Ivy baseball girls and wed ding attendants to miscellaneous Shower at her home on Wednesday night for Bonnie Chipchase brideto be Mrs Blakely and Mrs Chipchase also attended Congratulations to Mr and MrsRick Rainey nee Cathy Carlson on the arrival of baby boy at Royal Victoria Hospital Barrie on Friday af temoon HOCKEY and BROOMBALL Our Ivy Rangers captured the EssaInnisfil trophy in hockey by defeating Cookstown in four straight games They also won the Simcoe broomball trophy against Barrie Jets They tied two games and won them both on penalty shots Mr and Mrs Brian Banting spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs Bev Gordon at their Cot tage in Bracebridge Mr and Mrs Larry Smith Kimberley and Kevin spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Morris in Owen Sound Helen Smith of Toronto spent Tuesday evening with her parents Mr and Mrs Ken Smith Mr and Mrs Cleve Patton Sharon and Susan Wiggins spent Wednesday night visiting Eddie Patton in Lindsay Mrs James McDermott and Mrs Irene Hirons spent Wed nesday visiting Grace Dunnill in Meaford Mr and Mrs Herman Medema of Haliburton visited this weekend with Mr and Mrs Garry Kloosterman Rev Jack Ritsema of Barrie had dinner with Rev and Mrs Bruce McCallum on Tuesday night Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Rawn on the arrival of baby girl in Royal Victoria Hospital Barrie on Wednesday Sandra Evans of Nova Scotia is visiting her grandmother Mrs Money Debby McLean has accepted position as receptionist at Barrie Central Collegiate MAPLE SYRUP Several people have tapped trees and report good run of sap Mr and Mrs Harry Cooper of Weston are spending this week at their Cottage here and are busy making Maple Syrup They built the Syrup Shanty last fall and put equipment in from Quebec for the boiling process Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Bill Patton of New Lowell Ivy Leafs leftfielder on the arrival of baby boy in Collingwood hospital on Friday afternoon Patricia Hammond spent the holiday week with friends in Newmarket WOMENS INSTITUTE The monthly meeting of the Womens Institute was held at the home of Mrs Lorne Carruthers Mrs Jack Cochrane gave report of the district meeting she had attended and outlined with plans for the district an nual meeting to be held in Ivy Orange hall on May llat9am House logs were all collected Mrs Ken Wright convener of family and consumers affairs had very interesting program on our mounds of garbage and pollution caused by this waste The annual meeting will be held at the home of Mrs Ken Wright on April 21 All con veners are requested to have reports ready to present that evening Mr and Mrs Arlitt visited Wednesday with Mr and Mrs John Hammond CRAIGHURST By HANDY number of people from here attended the Best School games night Mrs Ralph Hodgson took Mrs Wilson and Mrs Craig and Mr and Mrs Handy to St Pauls Church in Orillia on Sunday evening to hear Roy Bonnistell speak Some of the folks are tapping trees Spring is here Mrs Shanahan and Fraser Carr are patients in Royal Vie featuring Adults $2° BARRIE FIGURE SKATING CLUB ANNUAL ICE REVUE Saturday April 3rd 1976 200 730 pm Dunlop Street Arena Canadian Junior Dance Champions 1976 Deborreh Gregory Young toria Hospital Barrie We hope they will be home soon Bill Arnem has returned home from the Royal Victoria Hospital Susan Carr spent the school vacation in France Sheila Craig spent vacation in Florida MINESING STATION By MARY McLEAN Mr and Mrs Smith spent Sunday in Shelburne visiting their son who was improving after an appendix operation Sorry to hear of the fire to the Palmer residence The lubug is quite prevalent in the district Glad to see the Vanderweilen family feeling better Mr and Mrs McLean daughter Linda and sister Mary visited Orillia on March 11 at their brother Stanleys 84th birthday The district Womens In stitute held its fun day in the Minesing Community centre About 100 ladies were present representing about 13 stitutes They were on hand to enjoy bountiful pot luck dinner After dinner was cleared away the district president Mrs Tuck of Elmvale took the chair with Mrs King as secretary She called on different ladies representing different districts for few words Our own Lady of the year Mrs Maguire president of the area brought greetings Grades and of Minesing Central School assisted by Mrs Ferguson as leader and Mrs Bulby and Mr Knight at the piano sang four numbers and it was just beautiful They are going to be taking part in musical festival at Orillia Mrs Ferguson thanked the ladies for inviting them as she said it helped to give them more confidence The Wyevale ladies put on skit or dialogue depicting door salesmen and how to get rid of them when they are bother some The Edenvale ladies also had dialogue and they said the pattern for living was like cut ting dress Many lucky draws were held We all felt it was worthwhile afternoon of fun and good fellowship and closed with the national anthem The Hobby club was held at Mrs Norths home with 19 ladies present Business of the evening was the decision to buy chairs for the hall We decided to pur chase 40 and make plans for the future events which will be ad vertised later The rest of the evening was spent on articles already star ted and the making of things for the sale table We had the pleasure of trying out the Nor ths beautiful new organ Mr and Mrs Musselwhite of Toronto spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Murray Mr and Mrs Doug Judd and daughter Lois spent the weekend in London with Maurice Jones and daughter Eleanor Lois remaining with them for the weeks vacation Mrs Harold Bowen has retur ned from vacation with her daughter in London Mrs Glen Bowen and children are spending this week in London Mrs McEvoy of Toronto spent Saturday with her mother and father Mr and Mrs McLean Congratulations and best wishes to Irene Davis and Nor val Waples on their marriage March Mr and Mrs Booth of Lon don spent the weekend with her sister and husband Mr and Mrs ll Davis OPENS FESTIVAL NEW YORK AP Metro GoldwynMayer says Thats Entertainment Part has been named to open the 30th an nual Cannes International Film Festival in May MGM said the film an encore of Thats Enter tainment spotlighted top MGM movies of the past Children $100 l3 and under