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stouffville ontario thursday july 28th 1938 nnimimiuminmimmiimn town topics i phone ix youk personaiis 15301 amimmmm civic holiday next monday send or telephone your per sonal and social notes for this column and do it early in the week mrs verner kathleen freel and two children are here from new york spending their annual holiday with her parents dr ira and mrs freel two car loads of western cattle arrived last week at the local depot shipped from sask atchewan consigned to a farm er in whitchurch mrs melville moore mary sanders and little daughter charlotte who are toronto resi dents have gone to california to visit with the formers mother mrs w b sanders at holly wood miss kay houston and miss marion were guests of miss gertrude todd last week the young ladies will leave shortly for their home in dauphin man where kathleen will spend the month of august before re suming her teaching duties in ontario again in september mrs macrostie and miss norma macrostie of ottawa mr stan sharpe and miss marion were recent guests with mr and mrs f l button the baker hill young peoples union are scheduled to hold a meeting on friday even ing of this week in the church all members and friends of the church are cordially invited miss gladys brooks in com pany with her sister miss florence who is also a school teacher are in western canada on a vacation they will visit relatives in calgary after a trip to banff and other points of interest the local hardball team took on the oshawa oba juniors in memorial park here on wed nesday afternoon and a return game is expected in oshawa on saturday oshawa recently finished first in their lakeshore group mr and mrs theodore ward er of kitchener were sunday guests of mr and mrs harry stover mr and mrs arthur harris and miss betty jose toronto also miss helen moyer of omemee were guests of mr and mrs g r w thomas for a day or two mr and mrs t a mann of detroit are holidaying in town the home of mr and mrs ross davis mrs mann and mrs davis are sisters mr mann is an employee of the city tax dept in the big michigan centre a car belonging to howard macklem was stolen in broad daylight on sunday afternoon from the ebenezer church markham and scarboro town line as yet the machine has not been recovered the new concrete bridge on the 9th of markham opposite lot 27 was completed last week work will commence immediate ly on the repairs to the bridge at box grove according to the i foreman wm maxwell the first railway the old narrow gauge went through stouffville in 1871 last weeks water melon excursion article rather revived the memories of some of the boys of those early days e j davey for instance tells us how well he remembers the narrow gauge and how proud the inhabitants of the day were to have a railway in the neighborhood it was a great benefit to the district and played an important part in opening up the country whatever we feel about the railways in this day rev s s dunk with his wife and daughter were in town for a short time last week calling on mr hugh bannerman church street the visitors were en- route from their home in flint mich to bancroft in the hali- burton district where they in tend to spend a holiday rev mr dunk who is pastor of a baptist congregation reports the auto industry as very de pressing at this time in his city where the industry is by far the most important proclamation in accordance with the policy in previous years i proclaim monday august 1st to be the civic holiday for the village of stouffville for 1938 a e weldon reeve misses edna and violet hoov er miss a murison miss luella holden and mrs charles ward returned sunday from a weeks motor trip while away the party visited ottawa montreal st anne de beaupre returning by way of north bay the editor is indebted to mr w c pollard of uxbridge for a copy of his latest book of poems the sentiment expressed in many of his selections indicate the deep interest and love the author has for the prairie lands of western canada where he spent so many years mrs mary woolfolk and mrs g w messick of kansas city are in town this week visiting with their cousin miss sadie stewart the visitors are accus tomed to very hot summer weather but like the rest of us some like it 90 in the shade while others become almost prostrate mr major murray of man chester england who has spent a few weeks with mr and mrs k g tarr and other relatives here left on monday for ottawa to spend a day or so when he will sail for home on the antonia from montreal completing what he terms a delightful six weeks in ontario i found toronto very similar to our own large towns only it provides more open spaces said mr murray when asked for some compari son or things about this country which impressed him perhaps one of the most amusing things to him which he learned when he came here was the open road practise of thumbing for a ride i must tell my friends at home about that said mr murray who carries away many fine thoughts about the hospit able people he met here seventeen delegates from stouffvile attended the masonic grand lodge session in toronto gn wednesday last week mr samuel alexander member of acacia lodge was elected as dis trict deputy grand master for the local district which includes stouffville markham and clare- mont in the rural section sunderland oba intermedi ates of the lakeshore league won the rotheaton trophy contended for in that town last wednesday afternoon stouff ville were ousted in the first game with seagrave 40 dinty hodgins and tip anderson of oshawa doing the pitching in the second round sutton was de cisively defeated by sunderlapd who went on to wini over sea grave and capture the cup after tilling the soil for more than fifty years mr a s collins rode out to the brodie farm on a recent evening to wit ness a hundred men laying bait for the army worm which pest this veteran of the soil says he saw for the first time in his life its quite true we learn and see new things from the cradle to the grave there are scores and scores of farmers being intro duced to the worm for the first time this season although it has been in the country for 25 years natural enemies hereto fore have kept the worm back i fshelm clean rest rooms we welcome the lake campers at our station and- assure them of generous careful and courte ous service boadways service station phone 265 stouffville fiftynine scholars in the dickson hill school give a teacher no chance whatever for personal attenton to the in dividual child declares dr t mitchell who himself attended that school when a boy dr mitchell is quite right in his observaton but the remedy would seem to be to transfer part of the class to the next section at ringwood where only fourteen pupils attended last term something should be done by the trustees that would bring about a more even state of affairs between these two sec tions we realize of course that the problem might be difficult when it reached the point of transferring school tax es from one section to another nevertheless the best interest of the children should get first consideration pentecostal holiness camp meeting dicksons hill m oyers bush july 27th aug 7th speaker rev thomas aaron franklin springs georgia rev a noseworthy ottawa superintendent of conference in charge of camp three services daily meals and tents available at reasonable rates for information and reservations phone or write t w book hugh a boyd 35 playter cres toronto unionville rr no 1 many of the local war veter ans are planning to attend the big reunion in toronto beginning on saturday of this week in fact the local men hope to make a real showing and every veter an who attends is asked to assemble at the fountain exhi bition grounds at 11 stanlard on saturday the reunion promises to be one of the biggest affairs ever held in the queen city opening with a grand rally in the specially constructed little french village the men will assemble in the afternoon for a march past in front of the grand stand there is a big din ner in the evening and on sun day a dram head service at riverdale park and a memorial service at prospect cemetery with a soldier concert in the coliseum in the evening monday will be sports day with foot ball and other events that no veteran will care to miss then aside from the program the battalion men want to have an other gettogether as a remind er of their service day overseas mrs d thompson and mrs day of brooklin were visitors with miss nettie rae and mrs turner this week bob weatherill has recently returned from cannington where he has been enjoying a holiday with his grandfather mr chas urquhart motored down from jacksons point last week to take in the bowling tournament and visit with his sister miss may urquhart mr percy brillinger we are informed has purchased the frame house on albert street be longing to the jacob fockler estate mr brillinger intends to put on a few touches that will bring the residence thoroughly uptodate mr reg button and miss gertrude todd motored to mid land on monday with mr and mrs f l button the latter two going aboard the s s american for a cruise of the great lakes they will visit cleveland and chicago during the holiday rev robert barbour and mrs barbour of toronto dropped in for a visit with mr and mrs james mowat and mrs robin son last week mr barbour was pastor of the presbyterian church here twentysix years ago he left stouffville to take a charge at meaford mrs s w hastings attended a garden tea on monday after noon at the beautiful home of mrs rg dingman york mills the occasion was a farewell to mrs hugh g taylor who leaves this week in company with dr and mrs arnott on a tour of the foreign mission field and atten dance at the madras conference held this year in india binder twine blue circle 650 ft gilt edge 650 ft red circle 600 ft j gold leaf 600 ft do not forget that we keep binder twine for you the year round dr hess fly spray kills flies in the stable protects cows in the pasture king bug killer dry powder for dusting on all plants it is a conditioner thus increases the yield pulopep developer for pullets grow a flock that can really make money for you this year stiver bros stouffville phone 4501 ontario most interesting visitors in town last week were mr and mrs victor agar who were guests of mr and mrs william waddell the agars are resi dents of petermeritsburg africa and mr agar taught high school at leamington all last term on the exchange of teachers plan they will shortly return to their home taking with them a vast amount of in formation about canada for this is his first visit here mr agars father is a britisher but the teacher was born in africa one of the impressions mr agar will carry home is the rather crude system of organized or un organized motor trucking he sees in this country in this re gard africa is far superior all heavy trucking is done by the great railways consequently there are not so many large transports on the roads this ex plains the reason why the afri can railways are the only systems of the kind in the whole world that are paying dividends right along a ladies mixed tournament is billed for the local greens on civic holiday one lady sustained a broken arm and several other passen gers were given a severe shak ing up when their light sedan turned completely over on the 8th concession of markham opposite anthony hoovers on sunday night the car load of toronto people were returning from musselmans lake when a blowout caused the driver to lose control of the machine threshing roasts we are prepared to serve you with choice prime beef roasts for the big threshing occasion they range from 12 to 15c per pound oboyies meats stouffville telephone 3501 we deliver 9e30i 30e30i aotaoe xoe30i 30qoe aaoi aocxoi stanley stouffville showing each evening at 815 st saturdays 7 9 oclock o d o mon tues wed august 12 3 theres always a woman o joan blondel u melvyn douglas andy clyde comedy community sing thurs fri sat august 4 5 6 wells fargo joel mccrea francesdee popeye comedy thurs fri sat august 181920 revival county chairman will rogers adventures of a cameraman d o o 0 o o 0 o mon tues wed august 22 23 24 double of nothing bing crosby andy devine martha raye popular science betty boop o d o o 0 o wednesday thursday friday saturday august 10 11 12 13 two shows each evening matinee wed and sat 230 snow white and the seven dwarfs walt disne ys masterpiece march of time o d o mon tues august 8 9 two nights only wide open faces joe e brown screen snapshots mon tues wed august 15 16 17 perfect specimen thurs fri sat august 25 26 27 booth tarkingtons penrod and his twin brothers march twins spring byington o a real boys story coloured cartoon pictorial d o mon tues wjd august 293031 0 errol flynn everett horton f joan blondell may a swell comedy coloured cartoon nonstop new york francis sullivan comedies xoe30i soe30i 30e301 ioexoe anna lee pictorial o d xobosaoe30c jocai