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laremont and pickering township district lamvlfvlwi amw i four may seek mr and mr don hedges spent the weekend with mr and mrs tom lye in toronto fortyfive members of the 3951 senior wardens of the brougham masonic lodge ac companied by their wives at tended a dinner and dance at skyloft lodge on saturday night one of the largest crowds of the season attended the satur day night dance here the local cub pack held a pickering twp road employees request 15c an hour pay increase the local cub pack held a a special meeting night hike on wednesday thro- rundi on monday evening ugh the valley on mr roy brig nails property a number of skaters journey ed to chalk lake over the week end where the ice was report ed to be very good a euchre sponsored by the bowling club will be held on friday evening jan 17th in the masonic hall at 8 pm we regret to report that mr charles cooper has been con fined to bed for a few weeks rest two cars belonging to mr liloyd wilson of balsam and ted coates of kinsale were towed into ken wards garage following their collision east of the village on saturday even ing both vehicles were badly damaged wms meeting the regular wms meeting was held in the united ss room last thursday afternoon with the first yice president mrs jackson in the chair with secretary mrs lehman pres ent and mrs lackey at the pi ano members renewed their membership for 1958 by paying their annual fee of 50 cents the report of the december election of officers was read mrs lackey sang a solo mrs stickwood and mrs jackson read sections of the study book on japan followed by a dis cussion period rev mr lackey installed the officers for the new year closing the meeting with a prayer the united church annual meeting was held last monday evening january 13 in the ss room reports of the various organizations weretpresented by members and the annual elec tion of officers took place the regular meeting of the wi was held on wednesday afternoon jan 15th in the hall roll call new discoveries in medicine current events mrs j ward topic home eco nomics and health lunch co mmittee miss v forsyth mrs e evans mrs benns and mrs torrance the wa will be held on wed nesday evening jan 22 in the ss room commencingat 8 o clock the baptist church withdrew its last sunday evening service to enable members to attend the united christian church in stouftville where students from the bible college toronto were in charge mrs connor visited in osh awa last friday mrs petty of victoria square who has been ill at her parents home here has been able to re turn to her own home again mr keevil has been re-ap- polnted for anothpr three year term on pickering district high school board the three baskets of altar flowers placed in the united church last sunday were gifts of- miss doris daulphin in mem ory of her recently deceased mother eight members of pickering townships road department ap- of council on monday evening the employees requested a 15- cent per hour raise in salary the spokesman for the deputa tion was mr bud norton the present scale of road em ployees with the exception of the foreman is 130 per hour they are requesting sl45 per hour mr norton explained that pickerings salary scale was 55 hour work week mr ivan booth stated that a 50 hour work week with the same re quested takehome pay would be quite acceptable reeve wm lawson explained that the council were still in the process of organizing their 1958 programme he informed the delegation that the road budget for the new year hadnt been considered to date he noted that council would be fair when the final decision was made on the new salary scale lower i than scarboro he noted i the reeve instructed the clerk that the continual rise in the i to inquire into the salary sched- cost of living prompted their ule for the townships of whit- request he noted that they by markham nelson and vau- had expressed no complaint gna with regard to their present to erect new 45000 two room school on 5th line uxbridge ont county holstein club hold successful annual meeting duffy named mara reeve pat duffy a former warden of ontario county who served as deputyreeve of the munici pality during 1957 was elected reeve of mara township in the municipal elections on monday of last week mr duffy polled 568 votes while his opponent william jackson another former reeve polled 404 votes irwin cowie and james mur phy two members of the 1957 council contested the depuly- reeveshlp with mr cowie em erging the victor by 531 votes to 422 votes the township council chas healy ted tinsley and james barnes were elected by accla- mztion used car values 1954 chevrolet powerglide transmis sion 1952 austin convertible sports model 1951 studebaker automatic in good condition 1951 chevrolet drop in and look over these cars today at ken wards garage phone 7w claremont f n w a new s45000 tworoom pub- lie school will be erected on the fifth concession of uxbridge township work is expected to start in the spring if is hoped the building will be completed in september the secretary of the board mr geo coppins told the tri bune that the present school is overcrowded there are 4t stu dents on the roll the other board members are messrs len pllkey and arthur parrott the teacher is mrs mary sheehy the new brick schoolhouse will be erected on the former geo mathews property the old structure will be sold 600dw00d mrs r may our thoughts are with the walter bryan family at this time on saturday little betty ten year old daughter of mr and mrs walter bryan was to boggan riding with neighbour children when they scooted out onto the road and into the path of a car betty was rushed to sick childrens hospital by mr willis taylor who is to be con gratulated on his time saving trip the little girls condition was reported serious another accident which we know we are late reporting was a limb of a tree falling on mr randy forsythe causing a bro ken collarbone we also wel come the forsythe family to our community having built the beautiful new brick home in the tindal subdivision next to the highway mr and mrs bert maye and family had supper on friday with mr and mrs murray slack and joan in toronto mr and mrs alger maye en tertained the several families of theyake clan on new years miss evelyn yake spent some holidays with her grandparents mr and mrs sam mckeown of markham mr and mrs lance couling and mr and mrs reu ben may and family had new years dinner with mr and mrs baldwin rev and mrs benson jones arrived home from a trip to the west on tuesday new years eve mrs jones entertained benny and gladys and baby and mr and mrs wagg on new years the baptist prayer meeting will be at mr and mrs fred baldwins on thursday evening the bypu skating party held at the bert may home was enjoyed by all even though it was a bitter cold night the fire on the ice helped a lot mr and mrs r may and girls had supper with his sister mr and mrs dean percy of mark ham on friday mi and mrs russel feasby mrs norman feasby laura and stan were with mr and mrs gordon wilson and family for new years mr and mrs harold lilly and family have been visiting with his sister mr and mrs gar field bennett mr and mrs charles engle- ton and kenneth with the ben netts for new years mr tom dibbs spent new years with alf and bill yakcley at island lake mr norman yakeley was home with mr and mrs chris yakcley for new years mr and mrs harry wood land and girls and mrs wood land with the alex schneider family of claremont sorry mrs woodland has not been well because of a cold motorcyclist jailed for two months a 21yearold pickering twp man who police said drove his motorcycle 70 mph without lights was last week jailed for two months on a criminal neg ligence conviction james hee- nan of the brock road was sentenced by magistrate f s ebbs in whitby police court pickering twp police officers told the court that heenan had passed the cruiser about 4 am and they had clocked him at speeds up to 70 the officers said that the bike had neither lights nor speedometer heenan did not have a licence to drive either and was fined 10 or 10 days on this count the sentence to run concurrently brougham price of forest fires the canadian public by care lessness with fire while travel ling in the woods burns down each year enough timber to build 85000 fiveroom bungal ows the regular euchre was held last tuesday evening when the following were winners mrs t ogden mrs w carlton and mrs g hodgson mr w har dy mr nesbit and mr j biel- by come out and have a pleas ant evening mrs robt clark of flesher- ton beth hockins is around renewing old acquaintances keep in mind the wms meeting to be held on thursday afternoon january 23 one week later than usual at the home of mrs g hodgson sorry to hear that mr john harvey who has been working at london is at his home here suffering an attack of flu congratulations to mr and mrs newsom janet neal on the arrival of a young son john william at kingston hospital mr and mrs d kewin and mrs k kewin of oshawa were guests of mr and mrs d a beer on sunday afternoon mr and mrs gerald harbron and daughters bernice and ina- jean of myrtle visited with their aunt mrs matthews on saturday evening congratulations to mr and mrs emms reaman on the arrival of a little daughter marilla mrs carswell of oshawa called on her brother john and mrs hamilton on sunday af ternoon mrs w hamilton is spending a few days with friends in oshawa the january meeting of the womans association was held on wednesday evening at the home of mrs lloyd johnston the president mrs h miller opened the meeting with hymn 358 followed by prayer the minutes of previous meeting were road and approved the secretary also gave her yearly report as did the treasurer both being very satisfactory the card convener also gave her report the quilt convener hand ed in thirty dollars received from quilts recently sold sev eral items of business were dis cussed mrs cassie then con ducted the service to install the following officers for the year 1958 retiring president mrs h miller president mrs thos philip vice pres mrs george willson secretary mrs robert malcolm treasurer mrs h barclay card convener mrs wm gray quilt convener mrs cwannop centaday convener mrs geo willson the meeting was then turned over to mrs robt miller pro gram convener who gave a very interesting reading meet ing closed with the wa theme hymn and prayer followed by a very delicious lunch served by the hostesses mrs johnston land mrs wannop the annual meeting of the ontario county holstein club was held in the township hall manchester on thursday jan 9 1958 with around 100 hol stein breeders in attendance president fred leask open ed the meeting at 1045 am in his opening address mr leask gave a splendid summary of the projects carried out by the club during 1957 dr h l patterson farm economics branch toronto provided the highlight of the meeting with a splendid address on the economics of milk pro duction he stated that last year we consumed more dairy products in canada than we pro duced with the result that the present surplus of dairy prod ucts is being reduced he em phasized the importance of hav ing a high producing dairy herd he also stated that whole milk production per cow has been im proving steadily each year in dairy herd improvement asso ciations as the production of the herd increases general costs decrease with the result that net income is higher mr harold werry thanked dr patterson on behalf of the meeting for his very splendid and timely address the various projects carried out during the year were dis cussed and it was decided to sponsor the following projects for 1958 two bus trips twi light meeting banquet black and white show county tour of holstein herds mr chas hadden was appointed to repre sent ontario county on the pe terborough championship show and extension committee mr gerry nelson fieldman for the holsteinfriesian asso ciation gave a splendid report on his work he congratulated the exhibitors from ontario county for their splendid suc cess in the show ring at the championship show peterbor ough and at the royal winter fair he presented long time production certificates to blue seal harold werry hor ace webster burnsell webster orvan chambers red seal geo mclaughlin ken holliday murray holtby roy ormiston hugh ormiston harold honey youths plead guilty to dynamite blast ed ovler smith bros ontario hospital geo mclaughlin national director gave an interesting report on the work of the na tional association he reported that the annual holstein meet ing will be held in the royal york hotel toronto on wed nesday february 5th he also spoke on the regulations in con nection with the establishment of a brucellosis control area for ontario county he pointed out that if we hope to continue our exports of dairy cattle to the usa- we will have to raise the health status of our herds the brucellosis control area is under the control of the federal department of ag riculture before a control area is designated it will be neces sary for farmers in ontario county to circulate petitions sixtysix and twothirds percent of the cattle owners in the county must sign in favour be fore the federal minister will designate a county as a bru cellosis control area the meet ing went on record as being in favour of having ontario coun ty a brucellosis control area and it was recommended that petitions be circulated as soon as possible jas t brown newcastle and roy barker woodbridge na tional directors spoke briefly the election of directors for 1958 resulted as follows harold werry oshawa rr 1 cecil dis ney brooklin rr 1 ken holli day brooklin rr 1 fred chris tie port perry rr 2 bob flett oshawa rr 2 les smith port perry rr 2 ross evans uxbridge rr 4 orvan cham bers wilfred william stone blackwater rr 2 chas stone blackwater rr 1 two pickering twp- high school students pleaded guilty in oshawa court on friday to a charge of failing to use care in handling dynamite resulting in a halloween explosion which i wrecked a fourroom construc tion hut and a 2cton weigh scale in pickering township peter woodruff and richard lapointe both 16 were remand ed in custody until monday for sentence by magistrate james rennick joseph pridmore also 16 pleaded not guilty and was remanded until jan 17 the same charge against william lishman 16 was withdrawr lapointe told of a homemade auto crash hospitalizes vkivek i havesueeested that reeves cy mn hfwau morlfrof pickering village was admitted to the oshawa m of thorah four may seek wardenship four names have been sug gested as possible candidates in the race for the wardens chair for ontario county council in 195s councillors meet on jan 21 to elect a new warden all four were in the running last year when morley bain was elected county councillors general hospital on saturday- night following a headon col lision with a car owned by mr ted coates of kinsale mr wil son the mott seriously injured suffered four broken ribs and severe head concussion the driver of the other auto was not badly hurt the wilson car was eastbound lapointe told of a homemade zi gun powder bomb 11 sticks of k the 9 co the coates auto was travelling i south on the 6th concession the accident occurred near the explosives and a threefoot long fuse being placed between two concrete block bricks in front of the building about 200 yards from a hoise he said the blast occurred 13 seconds after he set off the fuse damage was estimated 52500 annual meeting ont county jr farmers assoc the annual meeting of the iontario county junior farmer association will be held in the port- perry high school on sat urday january 18th 1958 be ginning at 130 pm the afternoon programme will include the election of the county officers group discus sion on rural and urban re lations a singsong and other recreation the highlight of the day will be the banquet in the manchester united church at 630 pm miss joan wiggles- worth georgetown one of the four junior farmers from the province of ontario to journey to great britain during 1957 will be the guest speaker the presentation of trophies won in various junior farmer projects cedar creek public school mr wilson with his three sons donald kenneth and carl were returning home from the stou- ffville sales arena the coates car was thrown off the road into a nearby swamp a number of trees had to be cut down before the ve hicle could be freed there were no witnesses to the accident the wilson boys were treated for face cuts bruises and shock and allowed to return home it is expected that mr wilson will be retained in hospital for two weeks dr n f tomlinson of claremont attended the injured in 1957 will also be made at the conclusion of the ban quet the group will return to the port perry high school for a play party all junior farm ers are invited to attend russell morrison of thorah walter beath of east whitby and wilfred hart of rama will be vieing for votes of their fel low councillors if cyril morley is elected ha will become the first warden from pickering village which was incorporated as such three years ago if wilfred hart is elected he will be the first warden from rama twp the countys most northerly township in mora than 100 years green river mr and mrs w duncan en tertained mr and mrs j buc kles to tea on sunday evening last mr and mrs coward enter tained relatives from strathroy this past week mrs d shank isited with mr and mrs f hutchings of claremont on friday of last week mr and mrs w binsted spent last friday evening at the hut chings home pleased to hear that littla billy michell had his tonsil op eration and is convalescing at his home and doing as well as can be expected the many friends of mrs d mcphaden are sorry to hear that she has been confined to the hospital with pneumonia and at the time of writing is at her home and feeling some bet ter the young peoples class will meet at the church on friday evening at 745 a most cordial invitation is extended to all young people to come and meet with our young peoples group then mrs a hoover has returned home after spending the holi days with her sister in toronto greenwood the mission band will hold their regular meeting in the church basement on this satur day afternoon the sigmac boys met in the church on tuesday night the ypu held their meeting in the church last sunday night the rev h moore took for his text last sunday use your imagination with so much sickness there was just a fair sized congregation mr and mrs percy middle- ton returned home last saturday afternoon accompanied by geo and mrs middleton of stouff- ville miss sheila pegg of toronto spent the weekend at her home the funeral of the late mr wm middleton was conducted by his pastor rev h moore from the greenwood united church last friday afternoon he was a member and on the church board for many years and was the last one of a com mittee of three who were instru mental in the building of this church mr f l green and mr p wilson having passed away some yearsago mr middleton was born 92 years ago on the farm where john middleton now lives mov ing from there fortyeight years ago to the farm where he died his wife predeceased him 12 years ago and he leaves to mourn his loss two sons and two daughters they are percy of buffalo mrs philip edna of california herb at home airs elson elva of green wood three children predeceas ed at an early age our sym pathy is extended to this fam ily the pallbearers were how ard ormerod ross disney fred byers charles mctaggart ed ward pascoe and geo squires good days start with a good 2msmt 59c c- bacon x b m 3ft roasts 49c boneless shoulder 6 oz pvcg- 1 ft 19- 29c 59c out of 6000 eggs deposited by an atlantic salmon in a freshwater stream fewer than ten adult fish are likely to re turn from the sea pickering township village branch canadian red cross society annual meeting red cross centre brock rd thursday jan 23 s pm everybody welcome minced ham tab 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