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Newmarket Era and Express, 8 Mar 1951, p. 5

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at a few JOHNS CHURCH r M- TOWN HALL NEWMARKET Mar 14 Euchre Starts At 8 pm Door Prize 10 to lb TENDER SWEET fc VALUABLE PRIZES FOR DRAW Not necessary to be present to participate in draw Come and have a good time GOD SAVE THE KING v r IF ft The Opening of TAXI RELIABLE PROMPT COURTEOUS t one Aurora jr I im -yA- that invested life f dollars writing you by helping to build urgently needed public works One of might a new wellequipped school encouraging your boy or a belter happier student Wn helping to relieve trarfic in your Ufa insurance dollar Invested for the Mure needs or make it possible to build many such roads throughout the nation Hew Wastry recently moved into your town creating jobs tnmhy people maybe for If so it may be one of the industries that a dollars have helped to build or Other life insurance dollars play a part in building power plants water systems and many useful projects by these Investments which help make It possible for million policyholders to enjoy secwrry income for re and protection of loved ones no Thus life insurance promotes and security throughout the nation in Canada News el ike WI lit North York tut mutt in office Monday Copy must written briefly possible And confined to and report Other than routine report and will be printed separately Union Street branch met at the home of Mrs David English on Thursday afternoon March with an attendance of Mrs Archie the president cupied the chair The election of officers was postponed as so few members were out because of the flu A nominating com mittee was appointed consisting of Mrs Thomas Swanson Mrs Walter Rose Mrs Edwin Mrs Irvine Rose Mrs Oliver A bus trip is being planned to Toronto on Tuesday March when several interesting places will be visited Members are asked to take a box lunch The annual banquet for mem bers and their families will be held at Sharon hall on Thursday evening March 22 at The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs Edwin on Tuesday April The Newmarket branch Will meet in the agricul tural board rooms on Thursday March lo at 230 pm The meeting is under the direction of Mrs R and her group with citizenship as its theme Guest speaker of the afternoon will be Mrs Nelson Ion womens editor of The Era and Express Are we good citizens will be the topic of her talk King branch meeting will be held at the home of Mrs Frank Armstrong on the evening of March for a musical program favorite composer vill an swer the rollcall The commit tee will be Mrs McDon ald Mrs J Mrs Jack Walker Mrs Bob Walker and Mrs Edwards At the branch meeting at 230 pm March Mrs Boys will be hostess A pion eer custom will be taken for the rollcall and the origin of St Patricks Day will be explained by Mrs Boys The topic will be in the charge of Mrs Norman Lunch conveners are Mrs Clyde Cairns and Mrs Pearson The Snowball branch met at the home of Mrs Morning on Wednesday- last week with IS members and seven guests pres ent The meeting was opened by the president Mrs Patrick with the opening ode followed by the reading of the minutes by Miss Marie Morning The roll- call was Tell an interesting fact about Denmark The rest of the business was tabled until after lunch and the guests Mrs Hansen and Mis who are natives of Denmark displayed and explain ed a number of beautiful articles brought from Denmark First was a large Russian linen table cloth with two panels of lace made by drawing the threads and working In a lace pattern then worked in the cross stitch in Copenhagen blue The China displayed was one of the oldest patterns in Den mark in blue with a soft white background One linen runner was beautiful It was worked in blue in the same pattern as the China Mrs Hansen had some lovely pottery and bronze ash trays Also on display was hand ham mered silver flatware and cos tume With the mod ern touch was a black oak hand mirror inlaid with small sterling silver hearts After everyone had admired the linens silver and looked at the books on Den mark Mrs Hansen brought out a menu from the restaurant owned by Oskar Davidsen The menu was over a yard long On one side it listed the sandwiches and there are kinds The other side showed pictures of the different kinds of sandwiches al so of the girls and men preparing the food We noticed that the the same design as Mrs Hansen china used in the restaurant was had with her Lunch was then served of sandwiches and Danish pastry and during tea we were enter tained with Danish music Mrs thanked the ladies for a delightful afternoon and Mrs Morning for the use of her home A euchre was planned for Thursday March The com mittee is Mrs Mrs Pat rick Mrs Smith and Mrs Williams The open meeting is to be held March with a television show and music A lunch will be serv ed The committee is Miss Webb Mrs Mrs Cain and Mrs amusement committee Mrs Davidson Mrs Copson Miss Harding A quilt was planned for the district annual The committee Mrs Mrs Patrick Mrs Copson and Mrs Williams The Pine Orchard branch of the WI will meet at the home of Mrs Jack Sytema on Wednes day March at 230 Roll- call is a suggestion for our com munity improvement Heading Institute Collect Mrs Ed wards Paper Public Relations Newmarket Social News Mrs Barber spent Wednesday in Toronto Mr and Mrs Chas Near spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Cecil Davidson Georgetown Rev Lome Casement Holt and Rev and Mrs Norman Hart Toronto attended the funeral services at the Newmarket Free Methodist church on Friday of Glenn yearold son of Mr and Mrs George Keay Hal- Mrs Charles and son New arc spending a few with Mrs parents Mr and Mrs Mr Alex Mr and Mrs J Adams and children of Port Credit visited Mr and Mrs Arthur Sheridan and sons on Sunday Mrs Isabelle ac companied by her daughter Jane left on Monday for a months trip to California They will travel by plane to Denver Colorado where they will visit friends and relatives From there they will motor through Arizona and New Mexico to Los Angeles and Redwood City where they will spend the re mainder of their holiday Mr and Mrs Win Young and Melfort McCaffrey spent Sunday at Gait the gliosis of Mr and Mrs A and son Bill Mary Anne is spend ing a couple of weeks with her grandparents Mr and Mrs Geo Guests at the homo of Mr and Mrs Gibbons on Fri day included Rev and Mrs Wil fred Lyons Mrs Ger ald Dyer Wye vale Mrs Carl Green Mrs Ruth Misses Marjorlc Bailie and Marlon Gibson Newmarket Mr and Mrs Geo Keay Rev and Mrs Chase Mr Willowby Barrio and Mr and Mrs Donald rani ford Mrs Be vans Jones York County hospital spent the weekend In Toronto Mrs John accompan ied by her two children Susan and Michael will leave on Wed nesday by ear for New York where they will board the liner for Great Britain Mrs plans to spend the next six months in Yorkshire with her par ents Mr and Mrs Clifford Law rence Mr Geo Wilson and Mrs Chas Near returned last week from a three weeks holiday trip to St Petersburg Florida Rev and Mrs Chase attended the funeral ser vice of their nephew Glenn on Friday at the Newmar ket Free Methodist church Miss Marlenc Martin spent Sunday with Miss Ruth Graves Mrs Freeman Lloyd attend ed the funeral of her brother Mr W J Me Bride Toronto on Saturday Mr and Mrs Archie Brampton spent the weekend with their cousins Mis ses and Eva McCleave Ni agara St Mrs Toronto grandson Mr and Miss Hetty spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs George Smith Dr E VandcrVoort left on Sunday by plane for two weeks vacation in Bermuda Mr Edgar Pope Windsor is in town this week and attended the funeral of Mr Aubrey Davis Business And Professional Club Celebrates International Night International night was cele brated by the Newmarket Busi ness and Professional Womens club on Monday Feb with the holding of a dinner meeting at the King George hotel There was a large attendance with many guests present A red white and blue color scheme was used for the decora tions The floral centrepiece of red carnations white mums and bluedyed mums was very at tractively arranged by Mitchell and received much praise The place cards had red white and blue tailored bows Miss Marion McLean Toronto XAna B and P club introduced the guest speaker of the evening Dr Marguerite Bailie Dr Bailie is past president of North Toron to Business and Professional Womens club She spoke on the International Congress which was held in Britain last summer The Congress began in July in London and had as its theme The trained woman Miss Margaret delegate from the United States dealt with the international situation Miss Barbara Ward formerly of the discussed the contribution of the trained woman to every day life Lady Pepler spoke on the housing situation The main banquet of the con vention was held in the Guild hall and marked the first time in history that women had been given this privilege As a result of the congress the various fed erations were urged to aim for employment of women over to stress the political education of women to provide vocational guidance for adults To the question Is there anything a man cant do better than a woman Lady Astor re plied with her usual ready wit Yes have a baby After giving the members and their guests the highlights of the international conference Dr Bailie look them on a word tour with her through England Scotland France Switzerland and Italy Mrs Myrtle Purcetl thanked Dr Bailie on behalf of the club The Newmarket Era and Express Thursday March Page AV N U CLEANERS and DYERS PHONE NEWMARKET We have held off as long as we could but rising costs force us to increase our price five cents per garment effective Monday March 1951 Aurora Miss Charles spent the weekend with Mrs Charles Wells St Mr and Mrs Murray Wells St moved to Newmarket this week Mr and Mrs A Green and son spent the weekend with Mrs Wm Bull Ave Mr Gordon Lee Toronto spent the weekend with his par ents Mr and Mrs L Lee m The flu curtailed the attend ance of the regular meeting of the of the Church of the Held at the home of Mrs John Shier on Wednesday Feb the group con ducted its prayer meeting Mrs Wcddel presided OPERATION Beverley Ruddock who under went a serious operation at St Michaels hospital recently is progressing nicely King City And District CEMENT PRODUCTS BLOCKS BRICKS WELL TILE FOUNDATION BASES CHURCHILL BROS KESWICK Phone Roches Point The condition of Ruth Wilson who suffered a fractured skull when she recently fell from a moving car on an Aurora street continues to improve She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Wilson King She is a student of Aurora high school Mr and Mrs Irving L Scott are enjoying a vacation in Flor ida They left King for Port Huron where they joined their cousins Mr and Mrs Glenn Vining Mr and Mrs Edwin Robinson and other members of their family visited their son George living on Ave Tor onto Last Sunday they found him improving from burns of the face and hands which he receiv ed while at work with the CGE A flash fire caused the injuries Apartment Fire With the exception of their budgie bird a few watersoaked clothes and household lines and some silver flatware Mr and Mrs Sam lost all their possessions in the recent Vaughan Gardens apartment fire at Tor onto Mrs is the daugh ter of Mr and Mrs Arthur Ma- gee 5th line King Friends of Miss Regan a nurseintraining at St Michaels hospital Toronto are glad to know she is improving after a serious operation there which has kept her in hospital for more than nine weeks She is now able to move about her hospital room for a short time and has written her first correspondence within the past week is part way through her training course She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs J Regan con King Five children of Mr and Mrs James c V Community Settlement have been ill with measles and flu The baby has virus pneumonia King community continues to fight against the flu epidemic which lias captured most house holds at one time or another Miss Carol was able to leave the Hospital for Sick Chil dren a couple of weeks ago and return to school after five weeks absence She had been in hospi tal for observation Mr Fred Harris Hereford England arrived in Canada last week spending a few days with Mr and Mrs George Hatcly Also spending the weekend with George Jr was Ross Jamieson Toronto Late in February Mr E Ross was awarded the sum of in a court hearing held in Toronto for injuries received in a car accident in October Mr Ross received painful injuries at the time and was re moved to Newmarket hospital The accident involved a collision with a southbound car on the concession at the intersection of King when the car driv en by Mr Ross was forced into a deep ditch The death of Mr Aubrey Da vis Newmarket last Monday has sadness to King com munity and the entire township of King A native of where the Davis tannery was op erated for many years Mr Dav is never relinquished a friendship or an old acquaintance during his lifetime He purchased the old homestead at Kinghorn a few years ago on the banks of the River and reclaimed the natural beauty of the estate which he named Memory Acres Wherever sickness bereavement or rejoicing was found in com munity homes Mr Davis was al ways there to share his kindness of heart Many from King visit ed his Millard Ave home this week and attended the funeral held on Wednesday afternoon JUST ARRIVED v HAVE YOU SEEN IT The New N0RGE Capacity Holds lbs Foods Large Bottle Space Unit The latest thing In lira 314 Spillettes Appliances Telephone 139 36 Main St Newmarket fcr something well what do you think will find it V w te CHRISTIAN BAPTIST The Junior Ladles Aid of the Christian Baptist church will hold a monthly meeting on Tues day March at pm at the home of Mrs Donald Raglan St Newmarket A full attendance is requested IS NEEDED TO MEET TOMORROWS NEEDS Aft Hoods res hope went down And hen your Red Cross was on the job As thousands of floodstricken Canadians thankfully received emergency food and shelter their gratitude went out to yon who through your Red Crow contributions helped make possible this merciful relief has the peace time demand on Red Cross Services and funds been great as in recent times And never more than today has your Red Cross so needed your help to prepare for the tasks tomorrow Give generously m the work 1 wv t W irr CANADIA CROSS

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