WHEN March 1, 1826, Col. Ben Barney with two or three companions coming up Spring Valley arrived at an Indian Camp where the Barry depot now stands? The old chief and several squaws were gathering sap from sugar trees that had been tapped and were boiling it down in an open kittle over the fire. The old chief, desiring to show courtesy to the white callers, tore off a piece of an old shirt he had and strained some of the partly boiled sweetness through it and offered it to the newcomers, but they declined to partake. WHEN the Hannibal and Naples railroad was built into Barry in 1869 the first depot was built of rough barn siding lumber with a roof of the same kind. Thos. L. Gray was the first agent and he was succeeded by Eli Wolfsberg. Since then the railroad has passed to the Wabash system and several different agents have represented the company. Two depots were destroyed by fire. WHEN the first Barry Wabash station was completed in 1869? WHEN in 1872 Prof. John P. Chowning of the Barry Public schools was tried for whipping Theodore Callaway? A jury composed of Schuyler Gray, J. L. Terry, O. H. Perry, J. P. Crook, Geo Green and Peterson Jennings said he was not guilty, as he was charged. [Barry Adage, Wed, 17 Apr 1929] WHEN the Barry Public Library was chartered in 1876? WHEN the Barry High school gave their first commencement at the M. E. church? The graduates were Francis McTucker, Jennie Mitchell, Lizzie Furniss.