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pr tar 'Sind Coat br cole Solors ps bh belt ehite, $6.00 holors and 6.50 50 pater, with S$ "A city, @ serious ity Spirit. ---- IE mn that of the » Mun- Barrie of the Inty of e, Bar. Decem in the rt all ind de~ Barrie. th day t of liv- t expen- ior able Service, "pull w uner- roblems, ure, Nor he best rter the willing | the In- re than gainer. from « of the * NANTYR On Wednesday evening, Nov, 12, 4 very + number of friends and neighborw ib & complete surprise purty at the hone of Mr. and Mra. W. C. W. Me. Cullough to bid them farewell before they dejurted for their new home in Lefroy. A feature of the evening was a presenta ! accompanied by the following address Mr. McCullough. Mrs. MeCullough ao Edith It becomes iny pleasant duty in teholf of your friends msembled here to remind you that we ure not wetful of be fact that you wre uboat jw depart frum our neighborhood For veate ot has been our privilege to kno your household in genial friendship. tn the varied walks of neighborly and. social iutercnurse you have contributed abund antly toward making bfe pleasant in the cir an which we have moved. We do nat turge' that when we sought pleasure your e added pleasure to the scene. und sorrow visited our hones your wordy olition and sympathy mide the sor. 1 Recollecting the pleasunt years able through your acquaintance, your friends herewith present to you, Mrs McCullough and Edith, this cabinet of ail re et ver, and to Mr McCullough this clock ;| and desire your veceptunce of the same Thon gifts aire presen high v-teom in whieh y your tiany inends. May they adorn your bome ry the future and hel» to keep ux alway irech on your memory. We will alwaye re nber you and ever pray for your bap- << m your new home of neuthbors and friends on Thos AL Sawyer, A, G. CHURCHILL 'Thomas has sojd bis furn to Mr Grose Fravk Wallace will saon be able to re turn fron: Toronto General Hospitl rose of Toronto Police Forew was ven al anid is getting slong niece. Mr TOR Rew Markham, who been visti hee mumy rebstives bere. Friday She was seeom e. Mis Annie Rene. | the Late John Wice was | vu Wednesday 'to the Sixth La tery His death w eck to the Hoorlwnd, he being il only a shart ! He Waves a wife, tui daughters ad three sone ty mourn his fost Bra fit Witnes BIG BAY POINT Miss MeDonsld of he TV Hospital spent [ast Thursday with Mrs, Alfred Webb PROPERTIES FOR SALE FARMS ' | Witt veres, brick house, large barn, clay lant ou Penetang Road" Price $8,500 50 were farm. Innisfil. frame house, good Hara. stable, pig pen. god implement Ff heavy clear Inam 13 ag i : clover Price $4,000 100 veres in Innisfil, good clear loan, roomed house, guud stable, 8 were fall wh 30 eres fall plowing, including stock. implements, ete, Price $8,500 res, clear and clear loam, 4 miles frame house, good barn in Innisfil, wire fence Price $5,000 arin in Tnmesfil: clear loam, fine nck house with 9 rooms, good hall, large: Orca: good onde atable garage und wood stable. Price $9,000 Anten Mills: heavy clear lo: m5) water. 3 acre of timber, frame house. Price $1,800 100 res clear loum and clay land, frame 8 roomed house. good cellar, in Vespra; lots of water. stone hen house, pig pen. Price $4,500. 100 acres in Oro, clear loum, 2 ac, bush.+ barn 50 ft. x 70 ft.; pig pen. frame! house. 7 roomed, lots of water, good cellar. 6 miles from Barrie. Price $5,500) 50 sere farm in Flos, loam and clay land 2 good barns, large frame house, good water; 10 acres to west. Price $4,000 18 scre farm 3 miles fren Barrie, sos onse, barn, all kinds of fruit trees rice beet HSS $2,590 TOWN PROPERTY For sule Brick house in Poyntz atreet, | lange hall, dining-room and parlor, 4) bedrooms and convenience; furnace and bardwood floom, Price .. $3,200. For sale: double brick house, Peel street. electric light, 8 rooms in each house, 80 ft. by 200 ft.. good stable and lot. Price oeciccteceeeee eeee eee) $4,000 Single, icaieaseerapenesze S220 For sule: brick house on Penetang atreet, 4 bedrooms, large dining-room and par-| lor. Price. ti $3,300 Cush, $1,800, For sale: Semi-detached brick house on Mulcuster street, roomy verandah. nice homelike property. Price ..... $2,500 For sale: 6 roomed roughesst houre' on Owen street. Price ......-... $900, Cash $500. Yor sale: A large' store. good cellur and seven rooms over tore Hale street var Market an station. rice "ewe $2,500 For' vale house on Collier, -etreet for boarding house. 15 rooms, all') conveniences; # good stable, Price $3,700 | Yor sale, A géod 7 roomed house, frame; a good lot and garden, water in house, ou dubn street. Price sss. $1,600 Cash $800, For sale--Double house on Bradford street, 4 bedrooms. double parlor, dining-room. bath closet. Price ..........- $4,300 For sale: Cement house on Wellington | street, all conveniences, hardwood floors. Price cneees vecceveseeeeee $2,200 Frame House on 'rock street, good; & rooms. electric light and water, big lot. Price . * .» $1,800 cannot sec your way to buy Real Estate, I hope everyone will see their way clear to be a member of the BARRIE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION AND BOOST BARRIE M.D.CUBITT-NICHOLS; "THE REAL ESTATE MAN' Clarkson House, Barrie. ' LEFROY Milton Reid of Aurora called on his | sister mother this week and reported some ituprovement 1g Mt Taylor of the GT. R. hae taken a flat in the apartment house in Grange avenue, Burglars und thieves guined entrance to | &. Kirkpatrick's store on Monday night und helped themselves liberally to candies, chocolates, ete The UFO, banquet on Tuesday even: ing last an the basement of the Methoilist Church wax success in every respect William Allan in the eity, visiting ing hi sister, Mr Lucas |W. C. Wo MeCuliongh of Nantyr is | comfortably settled in his new home here C Allan's new residence is taking on 4 very fiuished appearance Benson Morris hus moved his barber shop to the south side of East Essa street Miss Marjory Jame has returned to town after a lengthy visit with friends in the city. Mr and Mrs Arthur Dillon of Toronto Jare visiting with Me and Mrs. John J Cronan \ Mre Corbett of Thornton th Mrs Sheldon, Centre nber from Lefroy attended anni ve verviees in Thornton on Sunday last and report a pleasant and profitable { time, GILFORD Roy Nesbitt has moved into the house Lately acated by W. Robinson, | Mis KE. Aldous of Barrie spent Tuesday: of lust week the guest of Mis Isabelle | Ney The regular monthly meet wos held Ist Thursd 'home of Mrs Gilson T ellingtan Nesbitt carries fis Mayes ty's munl now. having tiken over the of the at the Mr, Builger of Orillia Mr Blain his farm for a well-earned reat ring the public faithfully and well for forty five years, conung here as pure Lal in the seventies The sumiual fowl supper in connection with the Beef Ring Association ws held Thursday at the, hone of 1 Cletnent There was a large ttendance uf the members, their wives aul visitors, atl a very enjoyable even seg was qvent by all. Bradford: Witness and) Mes, Chass -Min Home after on M ooMr kin have returea some ume with frien land. Me and Mrs Chat Cn Campbell called on friends Bay lust week Mrs. W. Bloxham spent Suny wih, WW Barcwe ell and Mes at Shanty fe Cliford Lockhart and Howard Revi lis have gme * Toronto for the winter SHANTY BAY Mix Re nnf Bond Heal bas return. rd home after spending a fortaght with her cousin, Mrs. doin Luck To Drain the Marsh A desjuateh From Newmarket, states Nu Teas tullows, will ne of antegest tie Ex miner read EAL Jomes, B.A Se, hue the preliminary. contr: awarded rah on either the Holland hich ises between $0,000 and 90,000 ueres of marsh land warded Mr James is for will be drained luter. The Council for East Gwillimbury decided on thiv xtep toward the reclama: tion of the ground at its meeting 2 Queens Ville. Friday night 'The marsh land, which a suid to be the richest ap York Ce on is level with Lake Simcoe. Preeautions will br taken against it BBIg Nooded after it i drained, The contract Got' a Charge of 25,000 Volts Edwurd Thompaon. of Oil City, Ontario. met with fatal accident at the Hydro-El- eetrie's power plant at the Big Chute. Sev- ern River. on Sunday afternoon. Stand-| the structure of the coming year Such ing on a step ladder repairing an insulator on disconnecting switch he suddenly raised up from a stooping position and his face cane in contact with » bus wire, three of which ran along above his head. These wine enrried 25,000 volts, which shot through him, badly burning his face, arms and upper part of the body. He was about 33. yeurs of age and was married, his wife and one child surviving him.--News Letter. Gov't Will Support W. I. That the Goyernment will stand bebind the Women's Institutes of Ontario for all that is best in their work was the heart- bracing promise made by Premier Drury last |week, when "he and the Hon. Mr. Doberty called at the Technical School to say farewell to those convened in the final session of the eightheenth annual meeting of the Women®§Institutes of Ontario. Mr. Drury expressed his approval of women on echool hoards, and stood as an advocate for women having the greatest possible free- dom in the exercise of the duties of citi- zenship, Three Cases in Orillia News-Letter --Orillia has so far escaped any serious results of the threatened small- pox epidemic. Only three cases have as yet developed in the town and all are quar- fantined and are of a mild nature. No new cases have developed this week. Many people are being Vaccinated ass precau- tionary messure and the M.O.H. still ad- vises its continuance, The situation in O1 illis, however. does not appear to be at all alarming and in Toronto the number of cases is decreasing. ied in Toronto Influenza contracted more than a year ago followed by complications caused the death of Geo. Rinehart. 434 Main street. Toronto, on Monday of inst week. He was in his 32nd year, and previous to his [illness was # lineman for the Bell Telephone Co. He was born at 'Crown Hill, He is survived by hia wife and three children, Phone 62 ' all boys. store and bus: | t fur the draming | | THE BARRIE EXAMINER ROELGLE LOR RO RG RO LO ROKER WS FROM NEIGHBORING TOWNSHIPS f PRERPLELORLGE LG RO RO ow Ree Nala lat LE | = PERSONAL % % | ROR OR OR ROR 220K BORE 20K Mrs. Spry and Miss Spry are visiting in Winnipeg. | Mrs. Eben Todd is with her in-law, Mrs. J. T. Sproule. Miss Mary ne is spending ithe week-end with friends in Brantford Mr. Menbennett, who bas just returned fromEngland, is a guest at Judge Vance's, Mrs. Keyle, of Toronto. and Mes. Beeld, of Schreiber, are vis- #fing al A.B. Carley > Mrs. Geo: Crampton. 'Toronto, is visiting with Mr. and Mrs. 'T (HW. Myers. £58 Toronta st FP. B. Manuel, of Toronto, spent 'the week-end with his parents. oy Mr. and Mrs, 8. G. Manuel, North St Miss Niven and Miss MacNabb spent the week-end in Guelph. the guests of Deo and Mrs, Hum phrey Miss MeConnelt, who been here nursime her. sister, Mrs, proule, has returned lo hep) heme in Toronto: Mr, and Mrs. Wo HL Hind have returned ty Toronto after a two- | weeks' visit with the latter's | parents, Mro and Mrs, Ness A A Maleomson went te fOwen Som vestery fo attend ithe funeral of an aunt Christie, who died on Tuesday. | | Miss Pinte, of Whitby, new feaching in the Chatham Col legiale, has been © 1 to see eed Miss Harper. commercial! feacher, Who gues ta Stratford nest tern Miro and Mes. das. Hl Minest moun: jitent oof thee daghter. Anne Page Thirteem la Cutting the High Cost of Living Cutting down the High Cost of Living seems to be the great uni- versal topic of to-day and in spite of Commissions goods of all varieties seem to be on the upward move. We are endeavouring by this little Ad. to keep down to a normal level what we can Look over this list and see what you can do. GIRL'S WOOLEN CAPS i in an assortment of colors and com- binations; some were priced up to $1.00. On Sale this week ...69¢ Size 9, 914, 10 | Size 7,743, 20... Size 8, 8% ... ! ! | i] 8 | Sizes 12 and 14...... ES liza, te inh nat Essa, the mare tot { Ion the near titure | Alex Wartie of Hughenden. | Alta ailer at The Ew amine sthis week. With has heather Meeve Wate. of Vespra he entevedt the deer hunting = san alent the Severn Hiver | Phe menihers of Trinity Chareh 'ehoir met at the hame of M switke oon Thesday evening, EA the eee, being a shower in honar of Miss Ely Lang who was the reeiient useful gifts. inehiding a STAM) Preae the eben On PN pares seed er Mis ban Weld at the tae ei Powell Sophia st Hace quipet. Write Home Often myers «whew huire My t her sun. w busy tian in a distant town 'write bone often You du not reahee what your letters are te me. and how Jong. it seems between the No. he had het reahged at, and unhappily there are twany absent sons and daughters who need sunular renunder They would be indig: | nant at the suggestion of waning fil! devotion, but in the stress of bsi the society of new friends, in the happiness ther in the old home the loving | whoee heurtaches, as the passing | diy= fail to bring the longed-for letter is! one of the most pathetic -- tragedies | fof old age The decline of the letter fawriting habit of sn earlier generation bas often been deplored, but this fewture of the decline can neither he excused nor de fended. The post curd substitute for let | tere i litle lee than» mockery when the cards are sent to the mother who wants. and should have #0 much more than thut. As youth lives in and for the future, so dors old uge ulways look back over the | slope ae it nesre the summit. The parent is wrapped up im the son and daughter: hut as the son grows to manbood and the | daughter to womanhood, they are absorbed in the plans and the process of building is the law of life and the basis of all pro- grees, but it ia a pitiful thing when the son and daughter fail to keep in mind their obligations to the loyalty and love of their | parents. Blesed are the absent onex who write long and frequent letters to the old home, Soon. they cannot know how soon. the precious privilege will no longer be | theine Next Year Is Leap Year 1920 will be ushered 1 few weeks, the first day of the yest coming on 3 'Thureday. Tent will come in fairly early in 1920 for the xocial sewion will close with the com: ing of Ash Wednesday on February 18. February will produce another day of in terest to the 'public, and that will be Sun- day, February 20. "For 1920 will be Leap Year, though unfortunately the twenty- ninth does not happen to fall on a week day this time. s0 some of the ususl merry- muking will be omitted. Easter will come early--on April 4. which will make, the dates of the two ac- companying holidays. Good Friday and Easter Monday. fall on April 2 and 5. Fishermen will be delighted to hear that May 24, 1920. will come on Monday. so a week-end in the country is assured to those who want it. . The King's Birthday, June 3, a school and bank holiday. will be « Thursday, and July 1, Dominion Day. will fall on the same day of the week. School children will be interested in the fact that Labor | Day. the first Monday in September, will come on September 6, for the public schools in the town ordinarily re-open on the day following Labar Day, Burglar at Alliston On Tuesday night. Nov. 11, a burglar, by using un_axe, broke a door into the store of W. F. Knight, Alliston, and stole $70 in cash. an unregistered Victory Bond for $1,000 and various other secur- ities, including several registered bones. The creamery office also was robbed for . small amount, and san unsuccessful at- empt was made to enter the store of Mar- tindale & Co. Mostly Sunshine More and there a tear drop. Here und thete « song Here cud there a hand reached Aust helping you slong. Shadows deep xftituin' Right before your way comes, « sinetbing Here aud there a desert, Here and there s flower, Here and there the «unlight Breaking through the shower, Summer skies of azure, Winter skies of grey, But slways comes & something, Keeps you middlin' gay. Here und there the cruel, Here and there the kind, Here and there s bird's' song, Flowing down the wind, Very strange the mixture Life gives every duy. But always comes 9 something, Keeps you middlin' gay. Camels Love Tobacco Desert drivers carry a trisngular piece of wood, pierced at one point like a cigar | holder, This ix inserted in the benst'e mouth. ctgarlike roll of tobacco being then lit and pressed into the Bole. The cumel immediately closes ita eyes and pufts away through its mouth and nostrils till the tobacco is entirely consumed. The Bicotine appears to exerci stimulating nd refreshing effect. upon the animal, «0 that though --_ ready, to all appearances. to drop from fatigue before ita smoke, it will plod on for many more miles after it hee bad "amoke."" Gold in Sea Water Billions of tons of gold are in the sew; no, not at the bottom, but in sea water. Every ton of sea water contains sbout one grain of gold, Every cubic mile of the Scean contait | 4.205.650.000 tons and the oceans are estimated to hold at least 302.- 000,000 cubic miles of water. 'There are. | therefore. 1.270,106,300.000,000,000. tons | of salt water, and it is a simple arithmetical calculation to determine that this contains something like 90,000,000.000 tons of gold A little fortune for the man who can get it! New Way to Load Hay A blast of air ix used to loud bay in freight ears in Oregon. The hay is drawn up to.» deck or float beside the car to be louded. a crane then lifts the hay to this platform, and « blower, driven by gas- oline engine, burls the hay forcibly into the ear. packing it better than can be done with the old-fashioned hand fork. The Way of Hash A soldier from the front applied to the hotel for a job ns cook "What can you cook?" asked the ho- acre hi i the ply. "Anything. air." was the reply, 'Well, how do you hash?" BOYS' WORSTED STOCKINGS GIRLS' DRESSES made in good style and of good warm cloth, sizes 6, 10. EXTRA SPECIAL ASSORTMENT OF HIGH-CLASS made with our usual es Some of these hats were priced up to $8.50 and $9.50 et rere ee eenerenencen nen renomscs COATS AT 25 PER CENT. OFF This season's models in Silvertones, Velours and Whitneys, made in Brown, Grey, Blue, Plum, Henna. GREAT ASSORTMENT OF COATS AT... 'You don't make it, sir." ssid the' sol- dier, "It just accumulates."" Examiner Adlets are news mes- gages. Read them on page 12. ll our Commerce Boards and in some lines of Dry Goods. en eg MEN'S WOOL UNDERWEAR Shirts only, in good weight, regular Price up to $1.75 for ..., 98c each MEN'S WOOL SHIRTS AND DRAWERS ! This is old stock and good value at ! i $1.25. On sale for ... - 89c MEN'S BLUE AND WHITE STRIPED OVERALLS Also black and white stripe, with and without bibs, while they last $1.98 pair . + $3.75 .... $3.90 i SILK VELVET HATS actness of finish at . $4.95 Have a Milk Brick Would You Believe Itz Frozen milk in bricks is used in Siberis.| The blind man picked up a banmier-- 8s is also soup frozen into balls. 'These are| and saw. 'The dumb man picked up a taken on long sledge journeys. wheel--and spoke. C.P.R.'S NEW RECORD The re-employment of returned soldiers has b een carried out by the CPR so whole-heartedly that according to the official records up to the sng of August. actually more returned soldiers have been given employ ment than Ieft the Company for Rene than Tete pany service overseas. The exact figures Total reported as joining the Army + 10,538 Dead ... 8 is 1,000 Wounded , 1,952 Re-employed in the service + 6,024 Other soldiers given employmen + 6.543 Total soldiers given employment to dave + 10,567 t by experience that in most cases it is advisable to reinstate them In the js not encouraged .o change hir vocation unless he can prove that he learned something about waiting, for instance, at an Officers' mess dur. ing bis military life. His military exprrisnce has probably made' him a better man than before for handling freight but bas not qualifed him for the skilled trade of a dining car walter, Baggage men who have served in the Army come back as a rule all the better for thelr ox- Derionce but the Army training hax not qualified them to be sleeping car conductors or ticket clerks, and if they Prove to be misfits at a new job the only result is friction and discontent. The general experience, however. is that the aormal returned man who goes back to his old or = similar job is all right, indeed is often improved by the discipline and teamwork which he bas learnt in the Army The policy of the C.P.R. has been to find a position at least as good as the position given up, and this policy has been carried out in the higher ranks of the service as well as tn the lower ranks Thus: Mr. T. S. Acheson who was employed as General Agricultural Agent ut Winnipeg, enlisted in October 1915, was re-employed in the same capacity on January Ist, 1919 Mr. G. W. Curtis. who was employed as Industrial Arcnt at Mont- real. enlisted in November 1916. was re-employed January Ist, 1919 in the same capacity. Mr. M. L. Duffy. who'was Chief Clerk. Freight Department. at Lon- don. England. enlisted October 1914, was re-employed March Ist, 1919 as Agent at Glasgow Mr. F. A. L, Gascoigne, who was Superintendent Car Service, Mont- real, enlisted July 1915. resumed duty as Secretary Treasurer of the Canadian Pacific Ocean Services Ltd., Montreal, in October 1918. Mr Gerald Hiam. who was District Freight Agent at Fort William, enlisted in June 1915, and returned to duty on March 15th, 1919, as District Freich: Agent. at Cleveland: Mr. W. M. Kirkpatrick. who was Assistant Freight Traffic Manager, at Montreal. and enlisted in September 1915. resumed duty on February 1st 1919, as Assistant Freight Traffic Manager at Winni- peg. Mr. T. M. Leask, who was Chief Surgeon at Moose Jaw enlisted in February 1916. and resumed duty as Chief Medical Officer at Moose Jaw on June ist. 1919. Mr. B, H, Muckleston. who was Division Engineer in the Natural Resources Department at Calgary, enlisted in April 1915. and resumed duty as Division Engineer on March 17th 1919. Mr. G. G. Ommanney, who was Special Assistant Lnsineer at Montreal enlisted in August 1915, and resumed duty in July 1919, as fssistant Engineer in the Chief Engineer's Departmint at Mont- real, Mr. L. C, Ord, who was Assistant Works Manager #) Anzus Shops, Montreal, enlisted in September 1915, and resumed duty in the same capacity in May 1919. Mr. C. W. P. Ramsey, who was Engineer of Construction Mont- real, and who took commandof the Canadian Overs:cs Ratlvsy Construction Corps in February 1915. resunyed duty ax 'ug Superintendent on Eastern Lines {n March 191) Mr, M. J. Robertson, who was Assistant to the Manacer of tha C.P.R. Real Estate Department. Montreal. enlisted in June 1916, and returned to duty in his former position in March 1919, Mr. H. B. Yewdall, who was Purchasing Agent In the C.P.R. Right , of Way Department at Winnipeg, enlisted in November 1914, and sesumed his former position in June 1919, . S