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stouffville ontario august 19th 1937 town topics e a grubin ro optometrist and optician will be at liis olliec in stouffville on monday august 2trl robert hare has leased the 150 acre farm at ltelhaven neat keswick from george middlelou we under stand this is one of the best farms in north gwillimsbury goodwood womans association intend to hold an ice cream social on the united church lawn there on the evening of august 21 they in vite all old friends to attend dr sangster is being accompan ied in his trip to michigan by his sisterinlaw mrs frank sinister a fact we neglected to mention last week during the aben3 of the doctor the duties of medical officer of health are being cared for by dr s s ball ho will attend to any emergent business which might arise dsm no pedestal less overhead weight steaming time 3v to g minutes complete freedom at all times beautiful selfsetting curls that require little or no attention fat months prices 250 295 350 500 750 and 1000 this shop is equipped with the latest customer control drier east end beauty shop marie brown corner main montreal sts phono 176 mr boss turner winnipeg has been visiting at the home of his uncle john in town ross is a sou of frank turner johns youngest brother and he is a native of pick ering twp the many friends of miss eliza beth mcguckin in tills community will regret to learn that she is seriously ill at the home of her sister mrs d j aiteheson 211 ltoehamptou ave toronto this is the week of stouilvilles flower show no citizen who can possibly attend thursday oi friday evening should fail to do so you will appreciate the show and at the same time do the society a good turn rev robt guthrie of london ontario will preach in the stouff ville baptist church next sunday morning and evening no doubt there will bo many out to hear him morning and evening services are being carried on as usual dur ing the slimmer months roy grove ringwood merchant tells us that he has never travelled to those warm climates where lemons and fig trees thrive yet lie seems to he able to make these foreign citrous and other fruits come to maturity here at home many people have gazed with amazement at the lemon tree in the grove store with the big lemons of superior size to what we are able do buy in the store now he has brought a fig tree into production and it has real figs on it too you may not care a fig about figs but if you wish to see a fig tree with fruit on all you have to do is to call at groves store three nights only coming august 262728 0tf lovelyfu the fla torn spain dromo fleeing from strite specocerthns drilling by the most n soth screen if mi thurs frl sat august 19 20 21 double bill breezing home t wendie barrie william gargon smoke tree range j buck jones mon tues wei august 232125 hearts in bondage stanley theatre we are in receipt of an interest ing letter from morgan baker mla for publication in our next issue oboyles meat shop is offering fresh juicy threshing roasts at at tractive prices phone g715 ernest crossen of hamilton is visiting his parents mr and mrs william crossen when things do not happen just as you wish in life and you wish you were more favorably situated just compare ypur position with the thousands of unfortunates in spain and china and altogether likely von will feel better miss imurie pike of badjeros is spending her holidays with her grandmother mrs j f pipher at ivarkham she also spent a week with her aunt mrs edgar lageer church st miss helen kinnear kc the only lady kings counsel in ontario accompanied by miss jennie kin- near both of port colhourne were guests of rev robert and mrs young on saturday the local population is consider ably enhanced these days as the cnr work gang are located here while placing ballast under he tracks there are eighty men em ployed and many ot them are boarding in the cars while quite a number have found accommodation over the town all available local men have been engaged and some have found employment as far away as claremont the gang will be hero for probably ten days a young heifer strayed from the premises of mrs james arsenault at bethesda the loss was advertis ed in the tribune and the animal was located on the farm of j a clark on the 6th concession of the same township this is just another evidence of the value of the tribune small advertisments on the back page of every issue farmers should make more use of the service the cost is very moderate and so many come back to tell us of wonderful results i dr neil smith and reg button are home from their trip to new york returning on the duchess of atholl to montreal they had the unique experience of crashing a big ocean freighter a danish boat load ed with cement from which 23 officers and men were taken aboard the steamer in a dense fog the freighter lost in the fog was cross ing the path of the big boat winch rammed a hole in the freighter 40 feet long the 900 cruise passengers on the duchess felt the shock visi bly and were provided with a good deal of excitement especially before the extent of their own damage was ascertained sunderland plays a league game in stouffville next monday at 3 pm master gerald laidlaw of toron to is visiting with john lageer and other friends henry mcmiilleu one of our life long citizens in the east end is laid up with severe injuries to his back as a result of a fall from a cherry tree grain harvesting is going on full pace this week alter a long delay ail last week owing to wet weather over ibis section of york and ontario dr thos mitchell popular and well known orator will occupy the pulpit in stouffville united church the next two suuday morings last sunday tev herbert lee was the speaker muriel tidy had a visit with lois kester doris with grace kaiser and kenneth with kenneth jennings this week grace and lois are having a return visit with the girls in toronto although the lower halt of his body is still paralyzed mr edwin forsyth is showing some improve ment in his condition and it is be lieved that they will be able to movo him from the hospital in toronto to his home east of town in about two weeks considering the seriousness ot his condition from the time of his accident his physicians are more than satisfied with the progress he has made about 720 on monday morning a special train passed through stouffville over the cnr enroute from toronto to peterhoro the whole sixteen cars carried conklins circus with a full circus of lions elephants giraffes and monkeysetc the trailof of their car piled well with provisions and tenting equip- meit rev 1 brubashe with his wile and son elgin stirted put last week for kingston where they in- tinrd to spend a few days at the fic miiouist camp in progress there eiio later their destination wit- cvorne whero the mbc church recently opened a promising field for their church a summer series of camp meetings had been arranged and mr brubacher intend ed to assist in conducting them while lightning played some peculiar pranks down on the 8th of markham as reported in this paper last week it also did some funny and hairraising stunts up in the town ship of scott mr ant mrs wash paisleys son herbert who bought the fred silversides farm west of leaskdale had an experience that he will long rememher during an afternoon thunderstorm he was working about the gargage when lightning tore the boot from his foot and did it without any serious harm to mr paisley other than scorching his toes and numbing his legs his escape from instant death was miraculous the lightning tore a couple of boards off the garage and a wheiffletree nearby was rid dled into match wooj when the lightning struck mrpaisley was knocked flat on his back and was assisted to the house by his hired man the little boy had been sent to the house only a few moments be fore the storm broke otherwise he might have been injured or killed uxbrige 40 years ago a week ly feature in the timesjournal of the northern town last week re ported a lacrosse match which is still fresh in the minds of some stouffville people the item reads friday august 13th 1897 was evi dently a sorry day for mlarkham iacrosse team as that was the liy stouffville defeated them in a play off at toronto island stouffville won 3 2 after 29 minutes overtime the famous mlckio oconnor generally admitted as being the greatest lacrosse player in canada was a member of the stouffville team on that day here is the lineup ot both teams stouffville frank beattie goal bill sanders point mickie oconnor cover point bob minns 1st defence jeff churchill 2nd defence tom graham 3rd defence ad burkhold- er centre jack mcdonald 3rd home grant cooper 2nd home ed pennock 1st home dan tud- hope outside homo frank glen- dennlng inside home joe calworth spare markham wilson goal d h nialls point pat glover cover point bill hamburg 1st defence r pringle 2nd defence art snell 3rd defence forrest snell centre chas querrle 3rd home tom wilkinson 2nd home george arm strong 1st home tapple teft out side home george wilson inside home we read in an exchange paper coming to the office of the tribune a complaint about lack of road signs which the ontario motor league furnish gratis if the local com munity undertakes to put them up several important corners need signs now pointing to stouffville with a wide awake board of trade such things as this would be looked after but without such an organi zation it is hard to tag the job on anyone how often the services of a business organization is needed hove and found lacking it is not fair to expect our municipal au thorities to assume the duties which rightfully belong to the merchants although the reeve and councillors have filled the roll on more than one occasion creemore students scored sixty- six per cent passes in the middle school departmental examinations last june it was revealed when the results were announced on wednes day evening according to the cree more star out of 99 papers tried at the creemore centre 66 passes wore registered which figured out at a percentage of 666 for the class principal murphy scored the highest ratio of passes with an average of ss6 per cent of the papers written by students he taught granted standing the chemistry class scor ed a bulls eye with 15 passes out of 15 papers written mr murphy s the new principal of stouffville continuation school and his success at creemore will he noted locally with satisfaction weddings imiss elizabeth miller of little ton and daniel pritchard spell of raleigh were united in marriage thursday morning july fifteenth at eleven- oclock in the pastorium ot the baptist church ot raleigh north carolina the ceremony was performed by the rev s b donaldson pastor of the church the bride wore a dress of wallis blue chiffon with dubonette acces sories her flowers were a shoulder corsage of gardenias mrs spell is the daughter of mrs katherine miller and the late rev harry read miller of littleton and formerly of stouffville ontario she is a direct descendent of william of orange and jay gould she is a graduate of littleton high school and for the past year has held a re sponsible position in the littleton post office mr spell is the son of mrs stiann cooper spell of autryville nc his great great grandfather fleet cooper was one of the signers of the declaration of independence he graduated with honors from the north carolina baptist institute and is now connected with the resettlement administration of raleigh immediately after the ceremony the couple left for a short wedding trip to carolina beach school keopens sept 1 complete stock of all your school supplies get them now at bo ad ways drug store quality service west end service station it shell if your ar has ever felt slugg ish just when you wanted to step on it youll appreciate the value ot shell gas try a tank from our service station we strive to give superb ser vice to every car that drives up and if you require oil or spark plugsyoull find us the right peopl to deal with body and car repairing boadways service station opposite mansion house phone 265 markham amateur show on friday august 20th a mon ster amateur show will be held in markham arena under auspices of the hockey club 3500 in prizes added attractions bert harvey comic entertainers canada pack ers choir 50 voices dance after show lucky tickets admission 25c and 15c mrs green ot bradford was in town visiting at the home of mr f e rae other bradford friends wee mr fred cook and his mother air so mr bayles who visited with mrs levi hoover several days last week were pretty severe ones for our oldest male citizen mlr dan miller whose condition for a short time was serious since then however he has showed improvement dan is un able to leave his bed and his eye sight has failed him to audi an ex tent he does not recognize anyone stepping into his room despite this he is quite cheerful and is really proud of the fact that he is a monogenarian preparations are under way for the construction of a few hundred feet of cement walks to replace some of those poorly built in past years it seems a pity that year after year new walks have to be built to replaoe a piece ot work improperly done in the past these walks should last indefinitely if only properly constructed most of the walks that will be replaced are not worn out they are just broken to pieces with the weather and the situation should be studied in an effort to build a street that will give long service it is less than two weeks until schools reopen for the fall term the opening date being wednesday september 1st in the case of stouff ville continuation school students are urged to enroll the opening day even if they have to he absent for a few days later especially is this important in second third and fourth forms principal murphy in forms the tribune that it is his hope to establish a curriculum with the subjects so rotating that in five years any student may complete their h s course without attending an outside school he is anxiousto arrange the subjects without delay and therefore must have the enrol ment promptly the personnel of the staff is of a high order and the school boards announcement else where in this issue will be of inter est to all parents with scholars for the local school street dance the war veterans will sponsor a street dance to be held in stouffville on the evening of friday aug 7 1937 grain market pall wheat- the market is some stronger from last week we are making firm bids barley very poor quality send samples for bids oats we want old or new oats at once strong bids rye not so strong as last week but bids are the same if you have grain for sale get in touch with us your market is as close as your telephone call 4501 schumacher feed oilcake meal bran shorts fulopep growing mash fulopep egg mash dr hess flr spray kills and repels flies gallon 90c stiver bros phone 4501 stouffville ontario oboe o icnoi iobxoe ioexoi 1 o 5 8 if road trouble comes call our rescue crew t we shine in emergencies body and fender repairing y expertly executed at ou garage firstclass paint jobs at reason able cost silverthorns garage o d o oboe i0e30e telephone 170 ioc3q1 3qe3qi i ioexo see our complete line of dominion romrii tires a wk extra safety dominion royal tires hato every featnr to i against blowouts and dangerous skidding extra mibeage our customers tell us they gat marlngly high inflict- from these longerwearing royal tilts coot w s widdifield oexoe xoexoe ioexoe 3000c 301 its too hot to bake let us do it for yoil we have a o d o d o pies cherry blueberr y apple 25c doughnuts 20 and 25c 5 raisin squares 25c j b pecan rolls 20c g layer cakes 20c and 25c tarts dozen 25c all products fresh daily ask our wagon to call the stouffville bakery phone 189 3qe30ess ssjoeio i aoeiox music by russ creighton and his canadian mountaineers with jackie perkins and shirley smith as special artists grand pavement dancing 830 admission 25c western canada jbecimbmaafn from all stations in eastern canada going daily sept 18 oct 2 inclusive return limit 45 days tickets good in coaches at faroa approximately le per milo tourist sleeping cars at farca approximately lhc per mile standard sleeping cars atfarca approximately lmc per mil cost of accommodation in sleeping cars additional tjtt baggage checked stopovers atport arthur aroutrond chicago and wee tidsktpiwcattuattoiiswauinjmitrmanyeasr forbaadbill