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the tribune stouffville ont thursday july 25th 1940 page seven claremont by staff correspondent it is reported that whitby red cross have completed 32- 000 articles which does not in clude 2000 pairs of socks mark linton spent the week end with friends in claremont harold little of toronto who has been visiting at the over land home returned to the city this week mrs lyman pilkey is spend ing a week at bobcaygeon claremont will play the re turn exhibition game with tor onto cormacks at goodwood on civic holiday mrs glover hastings form erly of claremont has been visiting recently with dr and mrs n f tomlinson mrs a d peters of port perry are at present visiting with their daughter and family mr and mrs george beverly mrs robert worthy of brampton is visiting her sister mrs walford mr and mrs little of montreal were here recently visiting with his sister and hus band mr and mrs c a over land miss enid cook was home for the weekend bruce harton was in town on saturday calling on friends mr and mrs george scott and miss mary mcnabb also mr andrew miller and sister motored to bond lake recently to visit relatives mr and mrs hudson enter tained mr hudsons brother and wife from toronto last weekend jack mairs brougham and billy boynton blackwater are visiting at the dave dawson home this week the annual union sunday school picnic is being held this thursday afternoon to wood land park cars will leave the united church at 1200 noon st sports will commence at 4 pm come and bring your basket stood to have cracked several ribs during the exhibition game with toronto ulsters on july 1st is still out of the game but hopes to be back by civic holi day the womens institute held their july meeting down in the park it was the girls meeting and took the form of a picnic with lunch and a good time for all some twenty members of the local bowling club visited the oshawa club on thursday night and mrs i dopking mrs chandler and jos farr manag ed to bring home some of the prizes during the evening mr and mrs stanley miller fnd family of sunderland also mrs jas horthope of port perry were sunday visitors with mr and mrs thomas paterson work is nearing completion on the sidewalk improvement from the post office corner west to the first block another strip of concrete will be raised on the opposite side of main st running from the four corners north of the east side gordon gregg who recently returned to his home here after a number of years in eldorado mines along with his mother and father mr and mrs dave gregg motored to ottawa on sunday and while there will vis it their two daughters isobel and jean the village trustees are not the only ones doing a little side walk renovating for this week mr bill birkett removed a strip of wooden walk from in front of his property which has seen service there for nearly fifty years the boards had rotted badly and our congenial citizen was afraid that someone might meet with a mishap especially in wet times when the wood was slippery according to mr bir kett the walk was laid nearly fifty years ago when the place there will be a mixed trebles was known as the mcnabb bowling tournament on the local home claremont pioneers a greens this friday night at 6 1 picket fence erected at the same pm the postponed prov game timestill stands to the west of scheduled to be played last week i the house was rained out again and future date has been set mr and mrs r wilson mrs hutchison miss noreen wilson and mr cooper of mt zion were sunday visitors at the will birkett home mr fred mowder has been supplying claremont folk with fresh cabbage for nearly two weeks now and monday we weighed a head which tipped the scales at just under seven pounds not bad for this time of year mrs a law of pickering mr and mrs earl carson and family of salem were visitors at the roy brignall home last weekend miss emma brown has on dis play in the flower box on her verandah a giant petunia bloom measuring over 5 inches in diamater and of a delicate mot tled pink color edgar evans who is under- stores close civic holiday a quick checkup on the local merchants monday showed that practically all are planning to close the business places next monday august 5th the majority welcome this hot weather respite and a chance to enjoy the long weekend pro vided by the monday holiday can you beat this duncan dolphin of the 8th concession has a stock of alfalfa hay which measures exactly 6 feet in length we dont know if this is any kind of a record but if anyone has any longer samp this year in the young canada review beine staged there these two local children are under fifteen years of age and were picked by a local judge as typical examples of young canada in claremont school make it two straight claremont football club made it ten straight games without a loss when on saturday night they defeated the oshawa hun garians by the score of 20 ross redshaw george derusha and ken reesor were three of the biggest guns of the game al though the entire team turned in a flawless performance joe ward who is also one of the local stars was forced to retire from play after the first quarter furniture sale draws big crowd the furniture sale last week of the estate belonging to the late mrs readman drew a record crowd and al though several bids are report ed on the property which is sit uated just back of the commun ity hall there has been no sale as yet there is a 6roorn rough cast house a small barn and an acre of land among the articles disposed of at the saturday sale was a spinning wheel dating back nearly a century and a gold watch over the hundred year mark and which went for less lhan 5 a remarkable thing about this antique watch was that it was running and seemed in perfect condition an organ of ancient vintage also came un der the hammer claremont ladies continue re markable work for red cross sixtysix quilts in six weeks is the notable achievement of the ladies of claremont and dis trict in their drive for red cross work the bowling club house where the work is done is open at all times and the ladies have availed themselves unstintingly with the result that they have been responsible for more aid than probably any other rural branch in the county besides the sixtysix quilts they have also shipped eight bales and have more ready when the call comes two of the iadies have not missed a single day except sundays in the entire six weeks donations continue to come in and all are most gratefully re ceived just now the work ers are concentrating on fancy quilts which are sold locally and the funds turned back to buy further supplies for the making up of childrens- clothing tomatoes in two weeks a report from the tomato growers in the claremont dis trict indicate that the local factories will be swinging into canned tomato production inside of two weeks time sleeping coach becomes hospital car canadian national railwavs verted into a hospital car with dispensary kitchenette room cots replacing lower berths for surgical dressings a room for remain to be used for less seri- the doctor in charge and the ous cases as wounded soldiers usual drawing room is left for are conveyed inland from atlan- accommodation of three nurs- tic ports the car contains a es authorities have made prepara tions for canadian soldier casu alties returning from overseas this sleeping car has been con- ties spread over the earth like a floral patchwork quilt splashed with deep reds and delicate pinks against the pure white of alabaster mr green is 76 years old by the calendar 60 by all other signs he is the last miller of greenwood and the last of five generations of millers in an un broken line since 1935 when fire destroyed his flour mill he has devoted almost all his at tention to flowers the green estate today covers 280 aoes the buff brick man sion is like a manor house shel tered and canopied by trees surrounded by 100 acres of spacious beautiful lawns terrac es pools rockeries and gardens the peony field is three acres of magnificent blooms 15000 perhaps 20000 of them once the miller had more than 450 varieties now he has only 250 but they include some of the rarest and most beautiful peon ies on earth some of them his own creation born in the millers garden was the bliss carman a peony which came into being only after years of patient experi mentation to be named after the famed canadian poet whom the miller once met and admired to grow a peony a full doubleblossomed mature peony from seed requires six years mr green says out of 1000 such plants one would be lucky to get more than 10 or 15 perfect specimens buried at green river funeral services were held on thursday for mrs w shep- herdson who died tuesday at her home on con 6 pickering township mrs shepherdson the former mary janes hood was in her 76th year services were registrars appointed schools to be used announcement was made from ottawa last week of the appointment of capt frank mesley of king twp as regis trar for the riding of north york for the national registra tion which will be taken next month j bruce mckinnon of roches point was named as deputyregistrar and these two officials are now busy pre paring for the registration capt mesley has established hi office at king city two deputy registrars will be named in each polling subdiv ision and they will require the assistance of several clerks it is hoped as far as possible to enlist volunteer labor in carry- ing out the registration in east york j d mills is registrar and ea stewart de puty their riding extends from lake ontario to stouffville the department of educa tion has sent out a circular letter to all school boards trus tees and sections requesting that the school houses be offer ed free for the purpose of the registrar in stouffville this will readily be granted although the school is anything but centrally located however when the lime comes people will be given several days to make then- call to register their answer to the numerous questions all persons male and female over 18 years of age will be requit ed to register however the output may not conducted from her late resi be as heavy this year owing tojdence with interment at green the shortage of an export mar ket caused by the war frank loyst one of the two les we would like to hear about local factory owners will do it represents claremont at cne harold brooks son of mr and mrs a brooks and gladys morley daughter of mr and mrs fred morley will repre sent claremont school at the canadian national exhibition two creamery services you can send your cream by our truck which calls at your place twice a week in the summer and every week in the winter your cream is picked up in any quantity for which you get cash and your butter if desired at a special price to our shippers you can make your own deliveries to the creamery for which you get a higher price and also butter at special prices stouffville creamery co open tuesday thursday and saturday evening coal feed cement order your next winters coal before prices advance further we deliver anywhere salt for curring and feeding land tile 3 4 and 6 inch sizes cement at warehouse or delivered poultry feeds and concentrates s w hastings phone 169 stouffville very little tomato canning this year because of the adverse selling conditions and will con centrate his plant on the can ning of chicken mr loysts chief supply is vince baker on the townline mr baker re ports several acres nearing the ripening stage sam fretz formerly one of claremonts largest growers has practically gone out of the business this year and reports only enough for home consumption walt symes the other can nery will depend this year for his tomatoes on heber down and e powell two pickering councilmen who have large acreages in the south of the township mr symes plant is being put into running order this week ready to receive the first batch of fruit none of the growers report any blight which is understood to have crippled a large part of the crop in south western ontario also in the marketing line is mr lenson who has the large celery pits just north of the railway tracks and operates f wholesale market in toronto this local celery king has been experiencing some trouble late ly with blight on his crop pickering flower lover is peony king every year frederick l green of greenwood grows thousands upon thousands of peonies not for sale but for pleasure grows then in a lux uriant mass of some 250 varie- river cemetery crop demonstration a demonstration for the spraying of weeds with chemi cals is being held this wednes day in the township hall at brougham these demonstra tions have been arranged throughout ontario county and are addressed by a number of prominent men including j d macleod provincial weed in spector a leslie mcmullen warden ont county and e a innes agricultural rep for the county at uxbridge conditions of field crops in ontario county as at july 1 1940 expressed as a per cent of normal is revealed in a bulletin from the ontario department of agriculture the figures are interesting inasmuch as they reveal that despite exceptionally wet weather crops for the most part ae in excellent shape here are the figures fall wheat 100 spring wheat 96 oats 97 barley 95 rye 98 flax 97 mixed grains 98 peas 93 beans 96 soy beans 92 buckwheat 95 potatoes 96 roots 97 fodder corn 86 sugar beets 93 alfalfa 104 hay and clover 103 pasture 105 brougham mr and mrs w j brown of toronto spent the weekend with his parents thos jr who has spent the past week here returned home with them jean and eleanor anthony of whitevale spent last week with their cousin ethel seebeck master jack mairs is holiday ing with his grandparents mr and mrs dave dawson of claremont miss wanda varniem of tor onto visited her sister mrs ai d beer and family over the weekend mr and mrs robert arm strong and family of scarboro bluffs mrs john kavanough and daughter mabel of toronto visited with their sister mrs d seebeck mr gordon gray has so far received from his recent acci dent that he has been able to return home mrs everest and son of tor onto called on her brother mr thos gammage recently mrs maskell and jean were toronto visitors over the week end mr frank stephenson georgetown is visiting mother mrs d stephenson mr and mrs e hogle columbus visited mr and mrs m hamilton on sunday a number from here attended decoration services at white- vale on sunday afternoon last mr and mrs bert hamm called on old friends recently mr and mrs d l witter and daughter of montreal visit ed his uncle l matthews last week a severe hail storm passed over here last week doing con siderable damage to grain and gardens in the section of his of internees should earn their bread believing enemy aliens should be forced to work hard for their living york county council re quested the federal government to convert internment camps in to labor camps for road con struction and the development of natural resources and na tional projects council also urged the govern ment to compel all naturalized italians and germans to regis ter with municipal authorities and to report at least once a month all guns and revolvers found in the homes of these italians and germans should be immediately confiscated in the opinion of councillors send the tribune to absent friends save potato crop from the army of hungry bugs that may attack your crop any day we carry the most reliable bug killers for potato bugs and other pests brath waite hardware stoupfvnie ontario round trip bargain fares from stouffville august 1 to cnr stations in the maritime provinces provinces of quebec new brunswick prince edward island nova scotia august 23 to montreal 750 trois rivieres 970 quebec city 1150 ste anne de beaupre 1210 tickets fares transit limits and information from agents farts ticketl rtturn limits and train information from astnts ask for hanothi canadian national adv not216b