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Page Fourteen WOULDN'T TAKE A FORTUNE FOR IT All Her Friends Come To See What Tanlac Did For Mrs. Lynch. wouldn't lake a fortune for {he geod Tantac has done fer. said Mrs. A. F. Lynch, of , Galesburg, IIL. from stomach trouble for about five years," sho continued, "and hadn't been able to eat a regular meal for several years and during this time 1 suffered awfutiy 'with cramps, pells and terrible throb- daches. [was often he troubled with gas on my stomach thal Moated me up so 1 could hardly breathe. I also suffered with my kidneys and was so con- stipated that my condition alarm ed me at times, for I just didn't seem to he able to get any re- lief from this trouble. [was never free from a dull, aching pain across the small of my back and got so weak and rungown that 1 was laid up for as much as a week at a time. 'Tanlac has done me a won- derful amount of good. I at three meals a day now and am never troubled with indigestion, bleating or headaches. My kid- neys don't worry me and I am not constipated now. My con- dition has improved so I can do all my housework. I am perfect- who have heard about my covery come to see if all the hear is true, and it don't tak Me long th convince them of the facts." Tanlac 1s sold In Barrie by Geo. Monkman, in Orillia hy M H. Cooke & Co., in Elmvale by W J. MeGuire, in Lefroy by G. R. Ardill, in Stayner hy N, B. West, in Cookstown hy W, G. Mackay, in Waubaushene by Georgian Bay Lumber Co, Ltd, in Port Me- Nicoll by P. H. Beatlie, in Allis- ton by E. B. Schell, in Lisle by Robt. E. Little, in Gilford by James A. Blain, in Tottenham bj Chas Weaver, in Penetang- uisheone hy Chas. A. Nettleton, in Hawkestone by Thos. A. Stone, in Hillsdale by Richard Rumble, in Coldwater by C. G. Millard, in Midland by Geo. Gerrie, in Brad- ford by W. 1.. Campbell, in Stroud by Chantler Bros., in Craighurst by T. Hill, in Collingwood by Jury & Gregory, in Belle Ewart by A Trombloy »., in Mt. 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Orchade St, Urbana, Ill, fer from nervousn: backache, headaches and 'the blues" should try this famosa root 'and herb remedy, 'ydia E, Pink- hham's Vegetable Compound. TORONTO MONTREAL DETROIT and CHICAGO Sleeping cars on night trains and Parlor Cars on principal dag trains. + Unexcelled dining car service , Full information from any Grand Trunk Ticket Agent or, C. E. Horning, District Passenger Agent, Toronto. _ J. E. BILLINGSLEY Depot Agent -; a Phone 6 condition. J felt at {to ex THE BARRIE EXAMINER HOW THE VETERANS |AT ATHABASCA ENDED A STRIKE U. Trouble Makers from Drumheller Mines. (By our Western correspondent) It remained for the G.W.V.A, in the ish Columbis strike on May 24, owing to seeds of dis: | 4 ite agents to foment trouble, It succeeded | |ndmirably, but only for a few short weeks. | the miners, particularly the foreigners, in mine is operated by Frank Moody. who | q jin large, siry and well lighted apartments. tk: best of food, reading and recreation rooms. | shower baths, ete, In addition they make | p big money in their hazardous occupation. | m rom the agitator, viz:--"More money, | Hess hours." soldier-miner was called a "'seab"" by the lin vith the foreigners awaited their time and early last' month district, held several meetings and endeay- |, oured to stir "mp more trouble, [agitators and routed them out of bed,' n the automobiles and-driven about cout on the prairie in different di- They were then shown a pail of |p, | placed tor and a «i The game worked, Without using any vi- 4) ce the Veterans liberated them andy proceeded on their way. 'te mining camps and meetings of the loc: unions took plice and resolunons were puseed denouncing the OBU. It was nec essary then for new unions to be formed ail apphewtion made for membershiyy in the United Mine W is iwing dos a result of their w fn papers, documents, ete.. of District 18 bu been handed over to them by the OBL Jbridge to Fernie have returned to work |. 'and the International men are now quite! lfinally jer the wing of the U.M.W. of A. and job plant, modern in every way, but |cy [had 'ita upe 'and downs under different |p, jmanagements, For three or four years the { knows bow to handle and care for his |fur m workmen, The men are splendidly housed /a few yeurs and by degrees the homestenders | [They were then told fo dress nnd were abfud of the ral of feathers and given to geres of rich ful IN BOOM DAYS Drastic Measures Drove O.B.|Miles of Lots Sold in 99 Sub- ivisions -- Less Than 300 Residents Now. (By our Western Correspondent) The town of Athabasca, formerly known Drumheller district to put an end to the|as Athabasca Landing, is an incorporated coal miners' strike in District 18, which }town, beautifully situated on the most jincludes Alberta and part of Enstern Brit- {southerly point of the big bend of the Aths- The miners went out on|basca river a mighty stream navigable for 000 miles. It is within twenty-five miles sension sown by One Big Union agitators. |of the exact centre of the province of Alber. The One Big Union was born in Culgury in 'ta and one hundred and five miles by trail February last and started at once through |north of Edmonton, The location of the town is significant, nd it was on secount of the unrivalled The finish of the Winnipeg strike and the wuter facilities that Athabasca was selected prosecution of the strike leaders brought |in 1884 by the Hudson's Bay Company most of the thinkers in the local Isbor|ss their northern distnbuting point. From |world to~thejr senses and little by little |Athabasca they could ship supplies by water {the labor unidns broke away from the O./to the Arctic ocean, two thousand miles to U. 7 ~S --|the north, while to the west they could Still a few agitators were left who regu-|supply their numerous trading poste in the larly visited the nuning camps and kept |Peuee River country. ( Athabasca Lunding soon beeame the gut- state of unrest, Throughout the district | fitting point for the hunters and trappers of the mine operators steadily refused to en-|the great North country They came from |ter into any agreement with the officers |all directions to get their supplies and each ef the OB.U. In the Drumheller district |spring disposed of the winter's catch of is the Rosedale mine, which gradually be- /furs. Other firms opened up in opposition | came operstive with returned men. Thit|to the Hudson's Bay Co., and the town juickly developed into a most important ket, Business went on merrily for ept pouring in and setthng on small farnis jhave an excellent dining-room, with the |which they gradually improved, Before the advent of the railroad all sup lies were freighted over the trail from Ed- nonton and it was @ common sight through |The majority of the foreign miners do not |the winter to see from fifty to one hundred appreciate these conditions, but would live |gleighs loaded with freight arrive in one jin miserable shacks and under the most un-|day, which taxed the two hotels, rooming sanitary conditions if allowed to do so. The |houses und livery barns to their utmost | ly well in every way and people ees one idea of work is derived |to provide uecommodation. When the rush to the Pesce River coun. try began, Athabasca Landing sprang into |. When the Rosedale mines reopened the prominence as the gateway to that vast nlund empire Passenger steamers curried \foreigners, who stuck to the O.B.U. The |the incoming settlers in hundreds to the |G.W.V.A. held several conferences and de-|heart of the Peace River country. These icided to take the bull by the horns, #0 to |were atern wheeled, flat-bottomed bouts of [speak, and deal with the agitators and not considerable size und druwing less than Accordingly they | four feet of water, The only link required to couple the | P.M. Christophers, president of the O.B.U., outside world with the vast country open and three other official appeared in the |ing up to the north was a railway to the anding and this came in the fall of 1912, Arountl when the Canadian Northern Railway oper midnight the, veterans gathered in force | ite the first pussenger train from Ednon- with several automobiles, called upon the {ton ° jut the boosters and hoomene were in ey boosted the own to the mit as the point of entry the distributing centre for the vast eace River country with ite millions of ning Iunda, great mineral Junderstand that should they again visit /denosits, rivers teeming with fish and. in | Drumheller. they would depart clad in a exhuuetible forest. weelth : suit which would take time to wear out,| "While drilling for vil in 1894, representa. ves of the Dominion Government tayperl heavy flow of gas at a depth of 240 ret, but it was not unul 1912 that any This action had its effect on the other |Gefinite stens were taken to matersalise asset, when the Athabasca Co. was juable y to furnish gus for domestic vie of Athabacu are found ame great devosite of asphalt and. tar three to five hundred being a floating popu sunds, and at has been' estimated that lation. To-day it would keep one busy. ta there are 62, cubic miles of asphalt hedy count 300 souls within the town, including along the Athabosca river. In fact in Aug ust of this year A, F, A. Coyne, 9 former officers, : Edmonton real estate mun. who succeeded Western towns the boosters kept on lnost. | Eighty per cent. Abthe miners from Leth jn. interesting English capitalists, outfitted ing Athabmee, | One map now working on the 'of 1914 shows 99 eubdivinuns, extending has made Athubasca his head: both sides of the river for miles through crew of oil drille ver and confident that the-district will settle down | quarters In 1909 real estate men began to arrive Disteict 18 had & labor paper of its own. |and a few months later the hoom wan om publithed at Fernie, B.C.. and called the Tittle by little the quarter sections adja-| very ewift, Ledger, It was a well selected newspaper jcent to the village were purchased by land serous, ompanies and subdivided into town lots ut not all iver fucing the town lives a man who did plant lay idle and publication was again /not sell his quarter section, One hundzed jresumed in the summer of 1918. The ed-|thouxand dollars cash was offered him. 'Jeys, When leaving the ed more the half breeds and Indians Even after the boom hue swamp, muskeg and forest. The Athabasca river is wide at the bend, deep this is supported by. the On the north side of 'he | steel cuble 1100 feet long ix etretehed ucress the river and the "scow' by itor was more radical in his views than |ihioh he refused. Thinking he could make gv ture the hawt ieee his predecessors and before running twelve |more hy subdividing and elling hia own forge of which cares the forte ent, te months had w libel suit hanging over his tots he held on, and when the boom was winter erocines are made cor chee |head, Although the plant was owned by over he had sold just six lots in Ontario. | the UQLW. of A. the newspaper was used | ja paper called the "Soviet was printed |2y |there and distributed in Edmonton by the nd he was not alone, Fabulous sums | uund the principles of the O.B.U. and |ivere offered by the real estate sharks for | lose-in property. some of which they se- cured, Others who refused their offers |Bolshefiks. The plaintiff in the libel cuit |have naturally since regretted it was awarded damages and a portion of the }to satisfy the award ing touches to the Ledger and publ n ceased with the last issue, Aug. 8. Death of Andrew Carnegie Monday, Aug. 11, aged 83 years. $25,000,000 a year; his frugal manner of | fri living, his broad religious and political views | le! 'and vast benefactions have kept him before | w: century. Steel Corporation, Carnegie received $500,- was never very definitely known. Ac ing young men on how to attain financial success. Carnegie said, "Start poor; lean on nobody, assume responsib- Hig 'and 'be ambitious." in charities have been broad ever since he amassed a fortune which he knew, far overreached his personal needs. He did not confine his gifts or philanthropic works to the: country of his adoption. While it may be ssid that his libraries are his "hobby," he subscribed. largely to cbur- ches, parks, organizations) and institutions where the benefit hax been far reaching. The citivens of Barrie have t@thank him for our beautiful Public Library, be having furnished the money to build it. Collier St. Methodiste also hava special reason to remember Mr. Carnegie because of the generous assistance given by him towards their organ improvements a few years ago, ; oD MliaicdsS The writer was informed by several old plant was seized and sold by the sheriff|timers that, in all, there were 127 quarter | This put the fin-leections of land subdivided around Atha- for, [et "Oe et basea, which if built upon, would house | '8 population greater than that of the pro ince of Alberta. In one instance, one of |Cxter the Peace River eeuntry these pioneers was engaged to drive an Eng- Andrew Carnegie, the great financier and lishman representing a Winnipeg real. estate philanthropist, died at Lennox, Mass,, on firm, three miles from town to look at a quarter ection which be at once bought. His phenomenal rise from a salary of|*'What are you going to do with property | twenty cents a day to an income of |so far out?" enquired the pioneer. My | iend," he replied, 'we have hundreds of | tera weekly from people in England |e) was torn down in.the eummer of 1918 anting Athabasca lots and we must get | the public for more than a quarter of a [something for them." Evidently Athabas: | ca was as well When he sold out to the United States|was in Ont: advertised in England ax it In 1911 the town's population was 450. 000,000 in 5 cent bonds. His wealth |This was increased a year later to 1100 : ya and in 1913 it was upwards of 2,000, from TEMPLETON'S RHEUMATIC CAPSULES FOR RHEUMAT eno ridaryerTid june naees URALGIA,GOUT ETC ee Sane nee te |8¢ prices asked in 1914 and earlier in Lin- it for Barrie, A William Crossland, Druggist and. -Kodaks, One of the baits used to eatch the unwury for a lot, was the building over the river which did and which will hardly be years at all events. Schedule H. Re, for the year 1918. A ferry carvies passengers when the river is free from ice; short cuble at euch end and two pul- Actual Experience The Ontario Temperance Act is Emptying Ontario's Jails Jail Commitments Before and After Passage of the Act. ALL CRIMES DRUNKENNESS 1915--20,337 1915--6,235 £ 1918--13,242 1918--2,595 i From Annual Reports of Inspectors of Prisons 1915 and 1918, and NTARIO'S experience with prohibition under the Ontario Tem-- Perance Act since September 16, 1916, has been all the argument any fair- should neither 4 broken in other printed in June about 900 feet and the current Government, A attached to it shore the ferry. the current, the of a steel bridge hot rvaterinlize built for a few port of the Board of License Commissioners for Ontario minded man or woman wants, to prove that the Act be repealed nor weakened by Amendments. Jail Commitments for crimes and offences of all kinds have decreas- 'than one-third since 1915, Jail Commitments for drunkenness alone decreased from 6,235 in: 1915, the year preceding the Act, to 2,595 in 1918. Jail Commitments for drunkenness decreased despite the fact that the Act makes drunkenness in public places a "prima facie" offence, punish- able by fine or imprisonment, whether accompanied by "disorderli- ? ness" or not. A drunken man on the street has become a rare sight, r The number of commitments for drunkenness in Ontario in 1918 was Mi the lowest in seventeen years, although the population of the Province 3 increased by over 500,000. ' be oo . a q Some jails received no drunk::rds in 1918 at all. Others show well F 2 nigh unbelievable decreases, notably in the cities and larger towns, Do you want to see the taste for alcoholic beverages revived, and the population of Ontario's prisons, jails and lock-ups restored > If you are convinced that drunkenness is undesirable in this Province mark X in the "No" column after each question. . "No!"--Four Times--"'No!" | o! our Times--"'No! Each and every one of the four questions on the ballot paper in this Referendum must be answered or your ballot is "spoiled," And unless you mark X after each question in the "No" column, the Ontario Tem- a Perance Act will be spoiled, and years of Temperance progress lost. : . to Ontario Referendum'Committee <r JOHN MACDONALD "D. A. DUNLAP ANDREW S. GRANT m Chairman Treasurer Vice Chairman and Secretary ol (1001 Excelsior Life Bldg, Toronto) a . i ' of to To VANCOUVER Via the Scenic Route Leave TORONTO (Union Station) 9.15 p.m. Monday--Wednesday--Friday Compartment-Observation, Standard ad Tourist Sleeping and Diriing Cars. Comfortable Coaches. SIX DAYS A WEEK SERVICE TO WINNIPEG AND EDMONTON MON., WED., FRI.--Via Can. National Rys. All the Way. TUE., THU., SAT.--Via G.T., T. &N.O, and Can. National Rye. For Tickets and Information, enquire nearest CN: Rys. Agent; or write General Passenger Department, Toron. rei e |Balmoral Place, Broadview, River View t- |Park, Glenora, in connection with subdi- Athabasca is as far north as the Cana. dian Northern or the National Railway goes, On one side of the town is the Al. Waterways -- Railway !and on the other the Edmonton, Dunvegan & British Columbia Railway. both of which The town has a waterworks eystem but not sewers. The gas wells produce only enough gas to supply the hotel for heut- ing purposes and the gas lamps on. the streets remain unlighted. Two large hotels were built in the boom days, only one of which remains. The and the material shipped to Edmoaton. is was also the fate of the picture thea: tre and several other buildings; Fire laid waste numbers of others and the ruins, like the Queen's hotel, ie, are.the points of interest for sightseers. Two newspapers were used to boost Ath- abasca and its proposed industries, 'fhey were located on the heights at the rear of the town, surrounded by sturdy poplar trees and pointed the way to the site of the proposed new post office and Govern- ment buildings & half mile further through the forest. Situated similarly in Barrie the newspapers would be located about Fecles and Elizabeth streets and the Post Office beyond Donald Campbell's trout' pond. Both are now silent as the gra) Lots are still selling in Athabasca but not coln k, $275 to $475. Some Examiner may recall the names Alta Delta, Heights, Athabasca View, High Level Park, Parkview Heights, Buena Vista, Riverdale visions. They are on both sides of the river and from one to two miles from the business centre, but if sold were no doubt psoraes ited as being within the half-mile eircle. Yes, lots are still selling in Athabasca, but not bush lots. The only saleable lot is one with a building on it and in. more than one instance these have been sold for five dollars, the purchaser agreeing to pay | the Back taxes amounting to $250. The | purchaser in every instan though, re-/ quired the lumber and this is-the cheapest ' Way to getitin Athabasca, = « "REQ U.S... For Constip ation