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stouffville october 7th 1926 local happenings plain sewing done at reasonable rates mrs v grove church street south one of the hottest days this sum mer was last monday the big thermometer at v b sanders re sidence stood at 75 in the shade the many friends of louis barth olomew of toronto an old stouff ville boy will be sorry to hear he has suffered a heavy stroke and is in a very seriou3 condition watch our window and estimate the length of time the clock will run read our display adv for de tails wa stonehouse in jjraes old stand geo cook has rented the vacant store in the west end adjacentto yakes jewelry store and will con duct a battery repair business he is installing all necessary electrical current to handle any business that may come his way their are some men who do not owe their success to their wives they are bachelors stonehouse invites you to become a shareholder in his business its easy read his display adv private grubin garage to let alex auditorium theatre stouffville two car loads of turnips were shipped from stouffville by the co operative system lastn week which were expected to realize the grow ers 34c bushel the fine sunshiny weather of last week enabled the farmers to make great headway towards completing the harvest and cutting of buck wheat it was also a great boon to the newmarket and markham fall fairs mr arthur lehman has rented the bassingthwaite property on blake street immediately to the tear of mr thos williamsons resi dence and will make his initial start as a householder there this property was formerly used as the presbyterian manse by rev robt toung we understand that the annual lialfholiday observed in stouffville throughout the summer months will continue until the last wednesday in october there are those em ployed behind the counters in stouffville who would not be ad verse to making the halfholiday a continuous thing throughout the year however unless it became totally unanimous any attempt to close in the winter season might lead to breaking the whole agree ment there is not much of a holi day to be had in the middle of win ter when the snow is piled high and the weather too cold for motoring most men would sooner be in their places of business than to remain idle at home by special invitation from mr3 w j bennett of the 5th concession of markham the ladies of christ church w a held their first meet ing at her home preparatory to the commencement of their work for the coming season ernest njharvey has sold his 100 acre farm lust north of gormley to james hifnt of thesame section the saleprice isrported as 7000 mr harveywrfll hold n auction sale on october 15th of his- entire farm stock and implements as a result of one of his dairy cows being struck by an automobile last week mr r s hope who lives at garibaldi northeast of stouffville had to kill one of his finest milkers the dairy herd were being returned to the pasture field in charge of a couple of drivers when a ford car happened along reported to be owned by john miller of the 5th concession of uxbrtdge evidently the driver failed to reduce his speed sufficient to control the car in the event of the animals bolting across the pathway as they so often do and he ran into what was perhaps the queen maiden of the herd breaking her leg so that the animal had to be despatched the safe way to pass a herd of catt when driving an automobile is to anticipate one or more of the animals doing the very thing they ought not to do and you will often avoid an accident only cattk become a shareholder f in our general store commencing november 1st each customer at this store will be entitled to share in its profits on the 5th of each month 2 of the value of your pur chases for the previous month will be paid back this includes anything we sell dry goods wall paper mens supplies groceries our prices will beno higher on this account and each thursday will have some article on sale that will be a very special price for the day only to introduce the new system we are putting on a prize contest on november 1st 1st prize eight day clock 2nd prize 25 lbs sugar and lb of our famouscoffee 3rd prize 24 lb bag flour and lb of our best tea next ten lb of best tea or lb of our famous coffee the clock will be on display and started running nov 1st it is an 8day clock how long will it run you may send in your estimate anytime before nov 4th nearest estim ate gets first prize 2nd second prize and so on where 2 estimates are the same the first one put in gets the prize for further particulars ask at the store w a stonehouse prompt delivery phone 1602 muston son wholesale florists are adding two more glass houses to their big plant here indoor garden party on wednes day night this week in the united church lost last friday on 9th con between stouffville and markham a front curtain with rod for chev special reward phone tribune not many winter apples will be wasted this yearl many people will get only a limited supply owing to the scarcity especially of the deli cious northern spy lost large patent leather purse between markham and goodwood containing money and dark rimmed glasses finder kindly communicate with geo dowswell at the morning service in the stouffville united church last sun day seventeen teen aged girls and boys were received into membership prior to the reception service mil dred and edra burkott were bap tized by the pastor rev h s warren the north york plowing match will be held on ross ratcliffs farm west of stouffville on tuesday oct 26th ave understand that the womens institute will furnish lunch on the grounds and also the banquet in the evening to be held in rat- cliffs hall wm ratcliff has just purchased one hundred acres of land at lot 20 concession g whitchurch about a mile ana a half east of ballantrae frommiss stafri on the property there isfdrty acres of good bush andfrt ratcliff intends to reforest the remaining portion or most of it at least the farm buildings will be removed rev w m mcguire and his wife and family moved to stouffville on tuesday from toronto two years ago mr mcguire was pastor of the mennonite church here but has now been appointed to special evangelistic work which enables him to make his headquarters aftong us once more he is occupying his own house in the ea3t end on baker avenue friday and saturday october 8th and 9th combat starring house peters a melodrama of the big north woods 5 quality service comedy scandal hunters featuring al alt admissiox adults 25c children 15c 8 o schmidt prop that disappearing u s evangelist is seriously ill she has made many of her readers ditto dr me ctennehan district officer of health was in town last week in the interests of the local board of health we specialize in newspaper and subscription business book your fall orders for daily papers with the tribune and take advantage of our clubbing offer the noble grand is urging every oddfellow to be present in their rooms next monday evening oct 11th at 8 pm to deal with a very important item of business the lodge contemplates the raising of certain fees s the kind of mother who used to say that her twelveyearold daugh ter was six so that she could travel on halffare now say she is eighteen so that she may drive a car how- times dochange s w hastings has installed a mechanical device for unloading car loads of stone or coal and the work was done by the mejupp construc tion co who ar building the new road from slouffvjlle to ringwood teams or triclcs are now able to drive under the car and receive their load from the binshaped cars which open at the bottom thus saving nrueh valuable time and labor can 100 head of wellbred cattle be sold by public auction in two or three hours come to the stock yards tomorrow friday and see the local dean of the auction block knock them off in record time at the auditorium theatre fri day and saturday 8th and 9th- a thrilling melodrama of the great north woods rising to a terrific climax in the biggest forest fire ever filmed it i the horticultural society expect a shipment of bulbs to arrive this week suitable for indoor and out door planting leave orders with the secretary miss m mertens phone 7905 during the heavy rain storm at midnight on friday last jnany of the east end people who enjoy a tele phone in their homes had all the joy taken out- of slaep by the con stant ringing and io buzzing which could be heardall over the house nelson byer the newly appointed iiydro knight ana the jennings boys who have oliarge of the local telephone system were soon called from the land or dreamsand located the trouble on stouffer street where a wire had fallen acress the hydro wire which was promptly removed and all householders were again allowed to resume their peaceful rest due credit is due the respec tive linemen for their prompt action irrespective of the heavy rain which they had to contend with the mission band will meet on monday evening oct 11th at 730 in the united church basement a special program has been prepared and mrs e g sanders of grenfell sask will address the meeting a cordial invitation is extended to all potatoes droppedjto 1 ner bag at goodwood this week so far the winter crop is not being dug and in some cases the tops ae only beginn ing to wilt buyers were paying 25c cash for turiyps at this same station and 70cyfor carrots it is expected that tife late potatoes will be a good crop cold weather is close at hand so are these wonderful circular heaters we have a big fresh stock just to hand last winter we sold a large lot of these uptodate heaters and every user was more than pleased with the heating results these heaters take the cold air from the floor and pass it up over the hot sur faces of the stove thus extract ing all the heat from the fuel and making all parts of the room about the same temperature this means healthy economical heating see these at our store more light better light a coleman gasoline lamp or lan tern will do the trick you can find all the kinds in our big store silvester bros an innovation among the farmers or some of them at least was noticed the past week or more when search lights or head lamps have been placed on tractors enabling the farmers to plow to as late an hour in the night as he so desired ow ing to the shortness of the season and the lack of proper farm help this method of getting extra plow ing done i3 a splendid idea it shatters many hopes for an eight hour day the year round on the farm farmers in whitchurch have been noticed plowing aa late as 11 oclock at night which accounts for some farmers being so well up with their work despite the unusually wot season by royal proclamation october 3rd to 9th is designated as fire prevention week in canada fire waste is one of the most serious economic problems confronting can ada at the present time seeing that about 75 of the fires which create a loss of millions every month of the year is caused by carelessness we may all do something towards stamping out this appaling situa tion a very pretty autumn wedding took place at the home of mr and mrs daniel ramer cedar grove on sept 25th when their second daugh ter mabel beatrice principal last year of stouffville public school- became the bride of mr arthur ray mond sherk son of mr and mrs alfrod sherk rev w blackham of whitevale officiated the bride who was given in marriage by her father was smartly gowned in a dress of powder blue crepe romaine and blonde shoes and stockings she carried sunset roses and lily of the valley the brides sister at the piano played the wedding march from lohengrin after the ceremony luncheon was served and the happy couple left amid showers of con gratulations for torontobuffalo and new york the bride travelling in a blue and sand printed crepe dress large black velvet and satin hat and steel blue coat trimmed with- opos sum fur the stouffville girls baseball team won the tournament held at sunderland fair on wednesday of last week four teams entered the contest but it was easy going for the stouffville aggregation they defeated a team from x cameron by 44 to 4 and in the finals defeated beavorton who came second place by 20 to 1 the prize awarded to the girls for their days effort was 30 on saturday the girls also won the tournament at imarkham making a fine weeks cleanup for tbem congratulations we did not anticipate arousing the resentment of anyone last week when wo commented on the small percentage of pupils from the stouff- yiljo school entering the contest in writing at the rural school fair thereby allowing the bulk of the prizes to go to the ungraded schools however there is a just reason for the situation which was pointed out 1 these columns owing to a mis understanding wo are informed tbo entry tags were not forthcoming at the proper time and thus the pupils or some of them woro deprived from writing on this account while other teachers did not urge their scholars to enter the writing con tests because of the unsatisfactory manner in which the judging had been carried on at provious fairs this influenced the teachers to hold aloof but wo hope that in future tho management will endeavour to get tins important class n such a shape as to mako it fair and equit able to all schools delays are costly you can save money by stocking your coal now we have that homestead fly salt in stock fulopep feeds v schumacher feeds bran shorts and quaker flour stiver bros flour feed and seed merchants phone 4601 before at and after every meal whether its breakfast dinner supper a luncheon or the childrens afterschool snack your nearest dominion store has the most complete supply of quality foods found anywhere and they are always low priced- crispo fig bars 2- 29c new pack campbells soups 2 ah irinriq all kinds new mincemeat 2 29c sked white beans 5 25c handpicked i new scanned pumpkin 15c tin pg white naptha soap 4 cake 21c griddle cakes and syrup aunt jemima i buckwheat flour i pancake i7 flour 1c 23c 5lb pail corn syrup 35c teas exceptional value richmello ceylon 70- assam i vc lb domino 73c lb dsl bulk 63c lb domino brand fancy whole grain rice or rapid cooking tapioca pkts c le these prices in affect for on week from date of this paper 146c paul boadway manager weldons for fall footwear our boot and shoe dept is going ahead with leaps and bounds s fine and heavy footwear for all the family children footewear special lines for school wear and the prices are so reasonable theywill surprise you n mens winter socks fall and winter gloves ties smocks overcoats ready to wear warm overcoats mens work shirts we invite the ladies to see the smart set table cover ings serviceable but stylish enough for any home a e weldon coal oil the west end shoe store gasoline masseyharris and ford agency now is the time to see us about a fordson tractor and all kinds of tractor machines if you are intending buying a quebec sulky plow order now as we expect to run short on these plows and only those who order early will be able to get one we have a number of second hand machines and cars on hand which ws will sell very reasonable to make a clean up before the end ojf the season we have 6 ford touring cars pi 1924 model coupe 3 ton trucks 1 1926 ford roadster only run 6 weeks sell at a bargain if you live in the claremont district see mr thos- scott he is re presenting us there d holden agent phone 184ox stouffville a now gold mine is repoted to have been discovered in manitoba it is doubtful if it will return any better dividends than no 1 hard drug storb boadway 8 stouffville