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Dear OM Mrs. Base om and her Peaches THE BARRIE EXAMINER Grand Opera House One Night Only Wednesday, May 21 Barrie is one of the selected cities to see the most brilliant Comedy Success on its trip from the Pacific Coast to N.Y. WINCHELL SMITH AND J. L. GOLDEN'S SUPREME COMEDY SUCCESS 'Turn to the Right' Exactly as presented at $1.50 prices at the Princess Theatre, Toronio, and His Majesty's, Montreal. A play of Sunshine, Sentiment and Surprise FILLED WITH GOLDEN LAUGHTER ALL-STAR CAST, MASSIVE SCENIC PRODUCTION PRICES : Seat Sale at Malcomson's Thi $1.00, 75¢ 50°. Insurance Offic the same company which played a special performance before the Duke of Devonshire in Ottawa. GALLERY 25¢ Sat. May 17 [ B.C.L. AN OLD ESTABLISHED SCHOOL -_ a The history of secondury education in Barrie \dates back over seventy-five years, aud during this time the school bas occupied a leading place in the 'province. In the Life of Sir dames Gowan, by H. H. Ardagh, are given some interesting facts regarding the early days of the school, from which the following is taken. In T3434 Grammar School, with State endowment, wus' estublished in the Town of Barrie, und a Chairman and Trustees were appointed by the Government, with | power to select masters and superintend the general management. Judge Gowan was appointed a Trustee the same year, and afterwards, on the death of the first Chair- map, the Rev. 5. B. Ardagh, M.A, he was appointed, in his stead, Chairman of the Barrie Collegiate Institute, to which rank the school had in the meantime attained. This position he held until 1892, when he resigned, after almost fifty yedrs' service in connection with the institution. It is remarkable fact that in forty-nine years this Bourd had only two Chairmen, the Rey. 8. B. Ardagh and Judge Gowan, The sppointment of Trustee was at first, and for some years, made by the Crown, but afterwards this' power wus transferred to the County Councils; the tenure Hing three years, Judge Gowan's appointment was invanably renewed st the expiration of every term, until his resignation, On the retirement of Judge Gowan, his succes- sor in office wax John A. Ardagh, the senior judge of the county and the son of the first chairman. "The Exwminer™ of the 3rd July, 1873, gives an account of one of the 'annual meetings of the Barrie High School, which will serve to illustrate some of the du- ties of the Trustees; "The Annual Meeting for the distribution of prizes in connection with this school was held on Monday last in the new public school building. His Hon. Judge Gowan, chairman of the High School Board presided, and on the plat- form we noticed also the Rev. Messrs. Fra. ver and McDowell, His Worship Mayor Boys, and W. D. Ardagh, Esq, MPP. The Chairman in the course of an excellent address, referred to the prosperous condi- tion of the school, and its high standing ax reported by the official Inspectors. In speaking of the exuminstions just closed, he explained that almost the whole of the work of the senior form had been exam- ined by gentlemen of well known ability, unconnected with the school, thus insuring. impartial results. In presenting the prizex to the successful competitors, His Honour addressed kindly remarks to each, en- couraging them to persevere in the course upon which they" had entered, The head boy's prize, the gift of His Honour himself, was a hutdsome edition of Froude's "His. tory of England in twelve volumes, and was well worthy of the competition it ex- cited. The prizes having been distributed, short addresses were given by the Rev. gentlemen present and by the Mayor, who spoke of his long connection with the pub- lic schools, und the satisfaction it gave him to find pupils who had distinguished themselves in the public schools, now ap- pearing ss recipients of honours in the High School also. The boys gave three cheere for the Queen and the school, snd dis- pened for the bolidays."" In the "Examiner" of the 24th April, 1879, there is an interesting account of the formal opening f the new building of the! Barrie High School and a resume of an ad- dress by Judge Gowan in which he gives | a short history of the school. The follow- ing extracts are from the article mentioned 'SATURDAY | CHOCOLATE-POPS | SUNDAE AT THE ROOM OF PALMS " Elizabeth St. The First Grammar Schoo! The Government granted nine lots in Blake street for school bouse and master's residence. This building wus opened in 1849. "On the afternoon of Monday last a large| number of the elite of the town, of both | sexes, paid 4 visit to the High School buil- ding, which was then to be formally open ed, His Honour Judge Gown, Chairman of | the High School Board, presided, and dis- tributed prizes to the successful pupils. On the platform were, Chas, Cameron, Esq, Warden of the County; Wm. D. Ardagh, Exq., Mayor of the Town; Chas. Reeve; M. H. Harrison, Esq, First Deputy: Reeve; ex-Mayor Robt. Simpson; Sheriff McConkey; Wm. Boys, Eaq., Secy. of the Board, and the Rev, Canon Morgan, Dean O'Connor, Reva. F. G. Griffin, T. MeCor- mack and J, Leiper, and the Head Master H. B. Spotton, M.A." After the distribution of the priges suitable addresses were deliver: ed by the reverend gentlemen and others when the proceedings terminated. In the evening public meeting wax beld in the Town Hall and wan one of the largest gutb: erings ever assembled in that spacious buil- ding. Judge Gowan officiated as Chairman. Hix Honour, in addressing the audience, dealt with the rise, progress and present position of the Barrie High School. His ~ Honour stated that the first High, or as it was then called, Grammar Schoo! Board, appointed by the then Governor-General in Council, of which the late Rev. 8,B, Ardagh, M.A, was chairman, held its' first megting in Aug. 1843. The first teacher wie F. Gore, T.C.D,, who was selected from number of eundidates and who to his other qualifications, was unspuring in his appli- cation of the birch, as was the fashion in those days (laughter! . held for years in » room in the Court House, A grant of the present site was obtained from the Government in 1846 and was then in u state of nature. It was} cleared and fenced some two years after- wards, In 1847 it was determined by the Bourd to erect o wooden structure; but the year following, the trustees having opened a subscription list among themselves and other friends, determined to put up a brick school house, the cost being borne largely by private subscriptions from residents of Barrie, This building was finished and occupiéd in 1849. After the lapse of some few years, an addition wis found necessary, and to| this the County Council contributed some five or six hundred dollars, The; attenddnce from 1843 to 1849 probably averaged about forty-five pupils. In 1854 a change took place in the constitution of the Board. The Rev. 8. B. Arup, George) Lount, Esq., and the speaker, be- jing selected by the Board to remain 'trus- tees, three others were appointed by the/ 7, 'County, Council. Mr. Gore resigned his po- sition in 1856, when the Rev, W. F. Check- ley, M.A, T.OD, was appointed Head tional reputation, having students from the United States and other foreign coun- tries, Mr. Irwin was afterwards for some short) time Master and filled the position most agceptably. It may therefore be said, jthat three Head Masters have covered near- Ip the whole period of the High School has established, The present Head) Master, H. B, Spotton, Eeq., was sppointed in 1868 and had given every sntisfaction to the Board since his appointment as had indeed each thirty-six years meer, and 8.3 Lane; D. Ardagh 'and H ID, McCarthy, Wm, Toast, Goo Lount, 8, Loust (Co. Registrar) and HLH. Strathy | Dr. Greator (ate County, Attor ney) | D. Creasor, and 3. This school was: Lune, of Owen Sound; besides several Engineers of eminence, prominent amongst whom was Mr, Murdoch ; then there wus Mr J, A. Strathy, manager of one of our local Banks; all of whom had been auecessiul pupils of our Grammar School, Mr. S. J. Lane, MP, for North Grey, stands the first on our first list of prizes given in 1844", His Honour referred with pleas- [ure to the fact, that though the Board had been, and was, composed of Roman Catho- lics 'und Protestants of several denomins- appearance at the School Board; but all hhad worked harmoniously together for the good of the school." Judge Ardagh's Recollections Some further particulury about the school are given in "Some Reminiscences" written in 1892.by the late Judge Ardagh for the Barrie Historkeal Society and published in its Pioneer Papers. Judge Ardagh's ref erences to Barrie's secondary scbool are as follows:-- "Being ap old Barrie Grammar School boy, it is only fitting that I should say few words about it. It was estublished in 1843 (when District School wus its title!, and by that Act setting apart the District Jan annual grant of £100 was made towards its support. Frederick Gore was its. fire Head Master, under whose care I wan placed in the following year. The school was then held in the most easterly room of "be Court House on the ground floor--that now cecupied by Colonel Bunting, the County Clerk. Mr. Gore lived at that time in Jong, low white house somewhere between Major Rogers' residence, (Bradford atrest), and Mary street, The cellar of the house next the Simcoe brewery, now owned by Mr. Geo, Cooke, was being then dug by John Pearson, s --carpenter, who built the house' by degrees--and into yhis boarders, This was the second brick house in the town at that time, the other being part of the house now owned and occupied by Mr. Harper (at the corner of Sampson and Dunlop streets.) These two houses, with a small shanty in which a family named Perry lived, (between them and the town) and another further north in the, then, bush occupied by Timothy Hoagart, were the only houses between that where Mr. Johnson, the coal merchant, liv- es, and the township of Innisfil, with the exception of one or three "block" or "'pep- per box" ones standing where Allandale now is but unoccupied ss early as 1844. In the year 1849qthe new Grammar School (as its title then "was) on Blake street, in the rear of the present Collegiate {Institute, was completed, and into it the 'school moved after the midsummer vaca- tion, while Mr. Gore, with his boarders, g Mary street, took up their quar- jters im the new house he had built close by--that now occupied by the widow of the lute Sheriff Smith. The second masters of the school, while 1 was there, were, in succession, Robert F. Hutchins, P, A. Smith, John Bowker, and Robert C, Stuart. Among the pupils in my time were Geo. Moberly (now of Collingwood, Barrister) ; Walter, his brother, now a civil engineer in Manitoba; Harry, another brother, a factor in the Hudson's Bay Co.; Samuel Lane, late Judge of Grey; John Greasor, his tue: Feessor in that position; Mr. Justice Osler, B,B. Oaler, Q.C. ; Judge Dean, of Lindsay, and WH. Carney, now sheriff of Algoma, whose father then kept the "Plough Inn", on Dunlop street. 'As to the Head Masters of the echool, I think that Mr. Gore was succeeded by the wv. W. F, Checkley, and he by the Rev. Mr. Johnson. Mr. Spotton then took charge, an during his long incumbency the school attained a very high degree of ef- ficiency and was raised to the rank of 1 Collegiate Institute, Upon Mr, Spotton's promotion (I may call it) to «similar position in Toronto, the present principal, Mr. J. M. Hunter, took charge, snd under his management everything in connection with the Institute continues to advance and prosper." Some Notes In the hands of the Secretary of the Board of Education is a complete record of the minutes of the High School Board from 1843 to 1893, From these interesting pages a few facta are gleaned. Mr. Hay was appointed to the staff on March -12, 1881. Dr. Thos O'Hagan taught for six months in 1884, Lyman P. Duff, now the Chief Justice ;jof Canada, spent from Jan, 9, 1885 to 'The fivt Beard appointed wan Rev. 8. B. rig Amelius Irvine, Jas. Dalles and Pass. The first secretary's name to appear on [the book is that of the late Judge Boys, when completed, Mr. Gore moved with | tions, these differences bad never made their on the 8th sas! Jos. Rogers and Mujor J. F, Smith. GREETINGS FROM ' DR. H. B. SPOTTON At the B.C.L. opening the following mes: | suge from Dr. H. B. Spotton wus read by | Mr. Hay -- ! "IL regret_very much that circumstances will prevent me from uccepting the kind invitation of your Bourd to take part in the proceedings connected with the opening | of the new Collegiate Institute building was munifested by teuchers and pupils ng ts that they are deserving quarters it is possible to. pro vide for them. I ws very sorry indeed not to be able to share with them and the friends of the school the pleusure of uttendauce at the opening ceremonies, I shall continue as long a* I live to look.back upon the years I spent in Burrie uw umong the plessantest and most profitable of my life; Barrie is the native town of all my children and I know that they all share with me chis feeling of sutisfaction. I heurtily congratulate the Board and the citizens on the completion of the new building and I hope that the development of the school will hence forward proceed without any of the unpleusant interrup- tions from which it has suffered in the past." It is now more thun fifty years since my appointment to the Principulship of the Barrie Grammar School, as sucoessor to the Rev. William Checkley, under whom in eurlier years the echool, then chiefly resi dentiul in character, enjoyed u wide and well deserved reputation as un efficient | training school, In those days muny of the University Honors ut Mutriculution fell to two schools of which Barrie was one and Dr, Tassies' school at Galt was the other. I held the Principalshp at Barrie from October, 1868, to December, 1891, period of more than twenty-three years, when T igned to accep Principalship of the Te near te Erasing! he modern ideas and the general advance 1n Tewiie 1 matters relating to Education, was During my tenure of office in Barrie rhe [found to be quite inadequate for the old one-torey building, which had served |tucem Carrying on of the activities of so long ax the home of the school, was |*@ #chool. abandoned as a school-house und s» new| During the able administration of the building was erected between it and the |Jate Principal Redditt plans were prepared street. This building, which was consider jd & very fine modern structure was ed at the time ax rather a trinmph of [erected on the old site. The unfortunate school architecture, in turn outlived it+ destruction of this building by fire ufter usefulness, and with the development of jDrief occupation hus been followed by the erection of the building which will be open- = ed during the coming week. It was my Caml ape sepa te = Dun) [duty 8s inspector of High Schools to visit eee 8G. Henn aenceninued until Barrie on 'three ocewions while the In- ee, | io" y Major te wus in temporary quarters. On the first s2rcasion the clases were being, held in the Central School Building. These The Last Three Principals quarters were of course reasonably comfort. 'et was uppoint-| able and satisfactory for temporary occu. ed Principal in June, 1915 and resigned u|pation. On the other two occasions the year later to go to Owen Sound. He wax 'situation was by no means as satisfactory, succeeded by S.H. Henry of the Collingwood the work being carried on in two separate C.L, who held the position two yeam and buildings and st much inconvenience. 1 then went to Toronto to take # place on 'wish to say that I considered it in the high- the staff of the School of Commerce. He jest degree creditable to all concerned that in turn was succeeded by A, H. D. Ross under these trying circumstances the school from Bowmanville High School. ¢ held together so well and so fine a spirit " CUDMORE'S si. LATEST STYLES IN LADIES' AND MEN'S SHOES We guarantee the highest quality of all well-known makes, at much lower prices than elsewhere. | Advertising pays--both the advertiser and 'the purchaser. | 25¢ Huvs a Thrift Stamp. GURNEY-OXFORD STOVES AND RANGES Call and get our prices before buying your new range. We do all kinds of Plumb- ing, Heating and' Tinsmith- ing work. Sole agents for Pease Ec- onan Furnaces. epair work promptl attented to. entent J. J. 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