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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 27th, 1944 Page Five THE COLBORNE EXPRBSS. issued every Thursday morning by H. S. Keyes. Subscription $2.00 per annum in advance; $2.50 to U.S.A. Transient advertisements 12 cents per line first insertion and 8 cents per line for each additional insertion. Business cards not exceeding one inch $7.00 per annum. Yearly contracts at uniform rates. LEGAL A. D. HALL, Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public, etc. Office and residence King Street, Colborne Ontario. AUCTIONEERS ARNOLD POOLE &UCTIONEER and REAL ESTATE BROKER. The under signed is an experienced auctioneer -- pays for the clerk, pays for the advertising, and guarantees a satisfactory sale or positively no pay. Sales conducted anywhere in the Province. Pure bred stock sales a specialty. Phone at my expense. ARNOLD Poole, Castleton, Ontario. Phone No. 10r23. S. E. ROBINSON Colborne - Ontario REAL ESTATE BROKER AND VALUATOR EXPERIENCED GENERAL AUCTIONEER Sales of Any Kind -- Large or Small Conducted Anywhere Lowest Rates for Guaranteed Service I Pay for Clerk and Advertising OSCAR C. MORGAN Auctioneer and Real Estate Brokei BRIGHTON Several good farms for sale; also some valuable town property P. O. Box 288. Phone 245 38-6i WATCHES -- CLOCKS JEWELLRY Cleaned and Repaired Prices Reasonable W. S. BELL Jeweller -- Colborne W. W. D. McGLENNON (Successor to G. E. R. Wilson) GENERAL INSURANCE REAL ESTATE CONVEYANCING ISSUER OF MARRIAGE LICENSES BRUNSWICK BLOCK Colborne PHONE 20 Ontario LIFE AND MORTGAGE INSURANCE THE DOMINION LIFE ALLAN J. TERRILL Representative COLBORNE - ONTARIO It* No PUSHOVER! There's tough fighting ahead .... twenty-four hours a day! Our men must have more fighting stuff . . . better stuff than they've got against them! It's our job to see that they get it--now . . . and that they keep on getting it until the fight's won. Let's put every dollar we can into Victory Bonds. Put Victory First BUY Victory Bonds SPONSORED BY Rowsome's Grocery FUNERAL DIRECTORS E. QUINN FUNERAL DIRECTOR Colborne - - - - Ontario Day or Night Calls Promptly Attended MOTOR HEARSE * ■ - - Colborne, Ontario McCRACKEN & McFADYEN Colborne J. M. BLACKLOCK Grafton MOTOR HEARSE IN CONNECTION Day or Night Calls Promptly Attended PHONE 38, GRAFTON BLACKSMITHING Clare Goodrich GENERAL BLACKSMITH AND HORSESHOING 2 Miles East of Castleton BUILDING MATERIAL Rough and Dressed Lumber, Flooring, Clapboards, eve. CUSTOM SAWING W. W. MUTTON BRUNSWICK HOTEL Colborne First-Class Meals and Accommodation Give us a call when in Colborne LT.-COL. J. F. WOLFRAIM, Prop. QUEENS HOTEL COLBORNE FIRST-CLASS ACCOMMODATION at Reasonable Rates GARAGE IN CONNECTION Local Agent for HILL, THE CLEANER, TRENTON FELIX J. MURPHY, Proprietor COST OF LIVING Since price control was adopted in Canada the cost of living has advanced little more than 3 per cent, as against 33 per cent during the corresponding period of the Great War. Business is sensitive. It comes where it is invited. It stays where it is well treated. A SOLDIER asks your help... Men on the fighting fronts are ready to give their lives that we at home may live in peace and freedom. AH they ask in return is a full support on the home front. Give it to them! Lend your dollars to buy their equipment, to help bring them home sooner, to bring them home to their familites. Put them and Victory First. Put Victory First Buy Victory Bonds SPONSORED BY McNally's Service Store Freedom is your dividend On the battle fronts of the world, thousands of Canadian men and women are gallantly fighting a war to insure freedom for everyone. They're ready to give their lives, all you're being asked to do is lend your dollars. You'll be anxious to share the freedoms . . . are you willing to share the cost? Put Victory First BUY Victory Bonds SPONSORED BY Cook's Meat Market Make Your Greatest War Effort Now! Our fighting forces now face the great sacrifices demanded by invasion. So we at home must pray, help in every way and practice self-denial as never before! Everyone must buy Victory Bonds who can--and each must buy all he can. Put Victory First BUY Victory Bonds SPONSORED BY Matthews Meat Market DUNDONALD April 25th, 1944 Service at Eden Church will be at 11.00 o'clock next Sunday morning. Miss Eunice Packard spent the weekend with her friend, Miss Eleanor Brock, Colborne. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Samis, Clayton and Donald, and Mr. Willis Samis, Colborne, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mutton on Monday, April 17th. The occasion was in honor of the latter's wedding anniversary. Pte. Leslie Dunbar, R.C.A.S.C., of Orillia, spent the weekend at the home of Mrs. Roy Packard. " Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Mutton, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Irwin and Douglas were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Delbert McLaughlin, Colborne. Miss Agnes Campbell Colborne, a student of Peterboro Normal School, spent last week teaching at Dundon-ald School. Mr. Austin Eddy spent a day last week with Mr. Harvey Eddy, Rose-neath. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Dudley, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Irwin and Douglas attended the funeral on Monday, April 24th, of the late Mrs. J. G. Miller, Oshawa. The service was held at St. George's Church, Oshawa. Dundonald Busy Pals The Dundonald Busy Pals met al the home" of Hazel Chapman, or Saturday, April 22, with eleven present. The meeting was conducted by the Vice-President, Marion Wright. The program consisted of readings by Marion Wright and Isobel Dunk, solo by Mrs. Adele Peters and a duet by Alma Mutton and Eileen Irwin. Lunch was served. The next meeting will be held at the home of Muriel Mutton on Saturday May 6th. BROWN'S CORNERS April 25th, 1944 Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Jackson entertained Mrs. Williams and Mr. Bert Reid, Toronto, and Mrs. Reid, Belleville, over the weekend. Mr. Reid of Toronto has purchased the farm of the late Wm. Craig, north of Colborne. Mr. and Mrs. Truman Miller and baby, of Castleton, spent Sunday with Mrs. Claude Goodrich. Mrs. J. W. Evely entertained a number of Lakeview W. I. ladies on Thursday afternoon at a special meeting for making out the year's program. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Rose received word of the arrival of a fine baby girl, born to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Kirkby, Toronto, (nee Elsie Rose). Both doing well. Quite a number of this district are suffering from bad colds. We wish them all a speedy recovery. Lakeview W. I. will meet at the home of Mrs. E. Mutton on Thursday, May 4th, 1944, at 2.30 p.m. Roll Callv A Verse on Mother, or Exchange of Slips or Seeds. Subject, Planning the Garden. Everybody welcome. Lunch •ommittee, Mrs. Mutton and Mrs. G. Honey. EDVILLE April 25th, 1944 Mr. and Mrs. Clarke Harren spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Norman Harren, Morganston. Mrs. Fred Hoare and daughter, Miss Marjorie, of Meyersberg, visited Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Pedlesden over the weekend. Friends of Mrs. Marcus McCullough will be glad to know she underwent her recent critical operation successfully, although she will have to ream in Toronto General Hospital in plaster cast for several months-Mr. Ross Walker has returned to Toronto, after spending the weekend with his wife and family. Miss Dorothy McDonald, Belleville, isited her parents, Mr. and Mjrs. orne McDonald, over the weekend. QUILT TOPS AND QUILTS ORDERS taken for Quilt Tops or Fnish'ed Quilts. Provide your own colour scheme. Prices reasonable. Apply MRS. J. W. EVELY. Phone 54r23, Colborne, R.R. 2. a20-27 FOR SALE BOYS' BICYCLE--Apply afWHITE S MEAT MARKET, King Street, Colborne. a27x BIRCH WOOD--12 inch lengths--1 cord $4.25, 2 cords $8.25, 4 cords $16.00. HAYNES' WOOD YARD, Colborne. Phone 144w. m23-a!3x REAL ESTATE FOR SALE HOUSE, 8 rooms, bath, double garage, about 1 acre oi land with small fruits and apples. Apply to HARRY CARTER, P. O. Box 293 Colborne. a27-m!8x VACUUMS FOR SALE VACUUMS REPAIRED 'GOOD. VACUUMS FOR GOOD Housekeeipng." Also guaranteed expert repairs, lubrication, replace, ments, etc. C.U.C. Sales and Service. Branch at Cane's Radio and Singer Service. Telephone Cobourg 119. 9tf PoultryWanted Highest Prices Paid If you have any for sale Phone 52 - Colborne • "The going's getting tougher. It's raining again: The mud is like gumbo. Over on the other side of the hill, the enemy is shelling us; In a few hours we attack. I've got to go on, now. My job's up ahead.'! Your job lies ahead too, just as clearly defined as this Canadian soldier's at the battlefront. Are you backing him . . . to the limit? You're not giving up anything when you buy Victory Bonds. AH you are asked to do is /end, not give; invest not donate/ Surely the buying of extra Bonds is no hardship compared to the sacrifice of the lad who is "moving up front" today. PUT VICTORY FIRST VICTORY BONDS THE HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER COMMISSION OF ONTARIO LEN D- TILL THE END PUT^ M ICT0RY FIRST buy more VICTORY BONDS SPONSORED BY REYNOLDS & KEATING HARDWARE VERNONVILLE April 25th, 1944 Pte. Russell Warner, V.T.S., Kingston, spent the weekend with his wife and family. Mr. and Mrs M. Calnan have returned home after spending the wilier at Toronto. Mrs. M. L. Murphy, Kingston, has •eturned home, after spending the )ast week with her daughter, Mrs. j 3at Calnan and Mrs. Calnan. Mrs. Ernest Harnden received a cable saying her son Donald arrived \ ;afely somewhere in England. Mrs. Jack Harnden received wore! that her husband, Pte. Jack Harnden j arrived safely in England. Mr. James Kerr spent the weekend with friends at Cobourg. j Mrs. Russell Fitchett received word i that her brother, Percy, is stationed j Nova Scotia. Mr. and Mrs. C. Waite and son j Floyd, Wicklow, were visiting in the j ilage on Thursday. Neighbours are pleased to see Mrs. j N. Drumm home again after her long j illness. A large number attended the dance at the schoolhouse on Friday night. Inglis and Day Brothers supplied the music. Mrs. N. Turk won the wool blankets. Proceeds were $52.00 for the Red Cross. Miss Jean Gillespie of Eddystone spent Friday evening with Miss Marjorie Warner. Mrs. M. McGregor of Castleton is visiting with her daughter, Mrs. R. Fitchett and Mr. Fitchett. Pte. D. Gillespie of Camp Borden spent two weeks furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Gillespie. There was quite an exciting time foE awhile here on Thursday after-j LAKEPORT April 25th, 1944 The sympathy of the community is extended to Mr. B. Ferguson and family in the death of wife and mother, Mrs. B. Ferguson, which occurred at the home of her daughter, Mrs. G. Quinn, Cobourg, on Sunday, April 23rd, 1944. Funeral from the home of her daughter, Mrs. Arthur Mc-Cracken, Cobourg, on Wednesday. Interment at McPhail's Cemetery, Wooler. Mr. Wm. Kells, of Cobourg, spent Tuesday at his home here. Mr. and Mrs. J. Moore, Hamilton, spent the weekend at the home of his j parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. Moore. | regret Mr. Moore is still ill at time j of writing. Sorry to report Mr. Harold Calbery is on the sick list. Glad to report Miss Madeline Kernaghan fully recovered from her recent illness. noon, when some neighbours were buring brush in Mrs. J. Deviney's orchard. The wind came up spreading the fire to Mr. J. Kerr's field where it scorched the fence rails. The women phoned an alarm and soon more neighbours gathered and the fire was brought under control. Mr. Martin Kanary, son of Mrs. M. Kanary, met with a serious accident on Friday. While he one his brother were moving a mower over the hen house, the floor gave away, he falling through with the mower, had a lung pierced by one of the mower guards, j His brother rushed him to a doctor,! who immediately took him to hospital. J He is doing as well as can be expect- j ed at time of writing. MORGANSTON April 25th, 1944 Pte. George Partridge, of Nova Scotia, is home on sick leave, having been ill of scarlet fever. Mrs. H. Vansicklin, of Norham, has been staying with her daughter, Mrs. Arthur Jones and Mr. Jones, who have a baby girl. Mrs. Ethel Carr and Joan spent Easter week with Mr. and Mrs. A. Taylor of the 3rd concession. The Red Cross met at the home of Mrs. G. Clarke on Wednesday. Mrs. Lome Darling has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Massey at Brantford. Mrs. Jas. Beggs spent last week with her daughter, Mrs. Ekel Grills and Mr. Grills, Centreton, who have s young daughter. The funeral of the three-month old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Anderson was held at their home on Thursday. Mr. Wallace Turney is ill this week of the flu. Miss Violet Head of PJcton visited Miss Jessie Hazelwood Easter week. The W. A. met at the church basement on Thursday. At the completion of the several business items the program was in charge of Mrs. L. Darling. Messrs. Phil O'Grady and L. Darling visited Mr. D. Bongard in Toronto Hospital on Thursday. SHIPWRECKED BY DEFAULT Civilization has nearly in these days suffered shipwreck, not because of the power of its enemies, but because of the slackness of its defenders. -- Clement R. Attlee, British Statesman.