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the tribune- stouffville ont thursday june 22tti 1944 ioc claremont and district ttffl q by staff correspondent io a local agent mowder8 store ioc stoesosoboe ioooi parcels of cigarettes were sent last week by the forgetmenot club to the following soldiers over seas bruce hill stan hardy ralph norton jim norton bill collins victor plant thos lye leslie lye ken evans ted tomlinson mr and mrs duncan of newmar ket visited over the weekend at the sanderson home mrs neal of toronto has been visiting with her cousin and family mr and mrs leslie gauslin mr and mrs dobson and son of manchester called on saturday to visit at the home of her sister mrs norman linton the couple also took in the wellman barn raising mr and mrs carl dopking arriv ed in the village on saturday to be with mr dopkings father who is critically ill at his home cpr station mr gordon borland of toronto visited during the weekend at his home here mrs fred hedshaw visited last week with her daughter mrs ellicott of brougham miss libbie smith of uxbridge and formerly of claremont is not showing much improvement in health her friends will regret to learn mr and mrs hockley were visi tors in oshawa last week they were accompanied by mrs lonsdale while mrs mitchell niece of mrs lonsdale returned to claremont with them for the weekend mrs robbins of peterboro was a visitor at the thos gregg home for a couple of days recently- miss billie wagg of detroit was home during the weekend with her parents mr and mrs nelson wagg mr and mrs m j wilker of tor onto visited over the weekend at the gleeson home mr and mrs clarence pengelly of brooklin were visitors at the thos paterson home on sunday douglas dickinson a member of canadas navy is home from his nova scotia post visiting his father mr wm dickinson for a couple of weeks doug is one of the head chefs at the big base and he says its no mean job keeping over 1500 men fed with only four hands mr and mrs lome overland of toronto spent the weekend with mr and mrs c a overland here mrs walter hardy was the lucky winner of the forgetmenot draw for powder and hand lotion held at the home of mrs jack lehman the annual decoration service at claremont union cemetery will be held on sunday july 2nd fuller announcement later anniversary services mere anniversary services at the clare mont united church will be held next sunday june 23th at 1100 and 730 oclock the speaker in the morning will be rev wii bexton local baptist minister and in the evening rev w c smith of port perry the special music for the day will be supplied by the baptist male quartette and the united choir reeve wm reesor was in whitby on monday and learned that the disquieting reports about thos graham being dead are quite un true no one seems to know where the report about mr graham ori ginated but probably with this dis closure we will all know where it now ends new barn goes in record time up the big new lshaped barn on the farm of ralph wellman just east of here was raised by walter symes and company in record time on fri day afternoon walter ward and john scott headed the two teams and it was a race to the finish the main barn was 30x96 and the straw barn 31x65 stan thompson is do ling the cement work nearly four hundred men and women sat down to the evening meal which was served in sumptuous style by the ladies neighbours and claremont institute it required seventyfive pies and baskets of cookies to fill the hungry crowd many came from some distance as far away as man chester victoria square the car penters intend to complete the straw barn and roof at once in readiness to receive the big hay crop expected county forest in fine shave the committee on reforestation in a report submitted by the chair- man reeve ray ferguson of ux bridge to county council advised that they visited the county forest in uxbridge township in may and found it to be in good condition the committee expressed regret that a representative of the fores try dept who had promised to be present on the tour did not put in an appearance the committee recommended that owing to the increasing fire hazard a truck be purchased to haul the water tank and sprayer to the scene of any fife the report was adopted every friday everting claremont 7 community hami plan to attend june 2 barretts orchestra jehn jlfanlejv master of ceremonies round and square dancing auspices claremont park board rural school goes up in flames one of the most mysterious fires to occur in the claremont district for sometime destroyed the brick school house known as cedar creek school two miles east of claremont the building was com paratively new having been erect ed ten or twelve years ago the strange thing about the loss is that the fire occurred in the night and no one had been in the building after classes were dismiss ed at four oclock on the previous afternoon as no one saw the fire until the building was doomed there wasnt a scrap of anything saved the building was insured for s3500with an additional 600 on contents school desks are all classed as part of the building and are supposed to be covered by the insurance on building this is a point all trustees should make a mental note of the trustees at cedar creek school are wpugh wpegg mr snider wellknown village residence is sold originally known as the hamilton home and more lately occupied by the misses mcglashan is in the pro- ces s of being sold this week charles derusha was the buyer the misses mcglashan will shortly hold an auction sale of household effects and move to toronto the structure stands just south of the four corners on the brock rd back as early as is 10 john hamil ton whose wife was mary mcglash an of york mills moved to lots 19 and 20 in the 9th concession here he lived until his death in 1ss7 in his 99th year themcglashans have made many friends during their residence here and an invitation to these folks to visit the home beforethey leave is extended elsewhere in these col umns s uxbridge pays big sheep claims the- uxbridge township council met on saturday for general bus iness and at two oclock as a court of revision of the assessment roll the minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed and a number of communications read amongst these were letters from the minister of highways and also from mr jf kelly and mr gh mitchell mlas for muskokaonl and north york all of whom ex pressed their desire to cooperate as far as possible in having-high- way no 47 completed to stouffville at two oclock the council re solved into a court of revision of the assessment roll as no appeals had been received the court after having a few changes in ownership recorded confirmed the roll and resumed the business of the council road accounts amounting to 514 34 were passed for payment- and general accounts including- bills for sheep killed by dogs of 22000 amounting to 56169 were also passed for payment the next regular meeting of the council wiu be held on july 10th at 730 oclock pm brougham mr wm bassett has sold his house and lots here to mr brennen of toronto who takes possession in a couple of weeks mr and mrs- e l crocker of tor- onto also mrs r w witter miss may stephenson of pickering and j c prucyk rcaf and mrs prucykof trenton were guests of mrs l matthews on sunday mr b carter and mrs e jack son of green river visited a j gray and family on sunday brougham units tencentaweek club sent 10 to north pickering branch of the red cross last week these donations are welcome from all interested people in the commun ity you dont have to join the club contributions may be hand ed to mrs r burrell mrs b har vey or mrs t robertson at any time and in any amount that is convenient mr and mrs english were at port carling on sunday visiting her mo ther who is very ill mrs wroe and family have mov ed to whitby mr and mrs ivan hicks also mr and mrs harold crawforth of whit by and mr and mrs fred madill were sunday guests at the a b matthews home mr gordon grey was at guelph on friday attending the bee-keep- at home the misses a j mcglashan will be at home to their friends on tuesday june 27th from 2 to 4 pm in the afternoon and from 8 to 10 pm in the evening before leaving claremont to take up resi dence in toronto ers convention held in the oac mrs r harden and little daugh ter arrived home from brierbush hospital last week mr and mrs hugh gannon of oshawa and miss gladys gannon rn of toronto visited their home here on sunday mrs d a beer has greatly im proved the appearance of her house by giving it a coat of paint rememberance service for our local cemetery was held on sunday afternoon owing to the unpleasant weather only a short service was held on the grounds this was fol lowed by service in the church rev i e kennedy in charge assis ted by a mixed quartette from pick ering mr murkar as leader the regular monthly meeting of the w i was held at the home of mrs ross raine on tuesday june 13th with a good attendance the president mrs hamilton was in charge of the meeting the minutes of previous meeting were read and approved an invitation was re ceived from claremont branch to visit them at their august meeting this was accepted mrs sheppard gave a report of the district annual which was held at brooklin con veners were appointed for the differ ent committes as follows agricul ture mrs wgray citizenship mrs burrell historical research mrs t norton home economics mrs m burk social welfare mrs glen publicity mrs matthews the meet ing closed with an old fashioned spelling match conducted by mrs norton with mrs paynter and mrs burrell as leaders hostesses mrs raine mrs wm gray and mrs coulombe served a dainty lunch wartime romance dear oh dear what some people will do to keep their old car run ning an advertisement under the wanted heading we read last week read thus bachelor with ford coach wants to correspond with a widow with two good tires applications were to be address- sink million tons cedar beach gardens north shore musselmans lake dancing every saturday evening max boag and his 10ptece orchestra old time and modern wednesday evenings harry miller and his orchestra dancing commences at 830 pm mines laid by raf and rca f planes have sunk more than 1000000 tons of- enemy shipping since the spring of 1910 the british air ministry announced the planes mine the thousands of square miles of water along the enemy coast from the bay of biscay to the gulf of danzig the offensive checks import of raw materials from norway sweden and spain and inter rupts the coal and iron ore tra- fic between germany and swe den to get the best hay cut it early says a bulletin from the dept of agriculture at ottawa ok mr gardiner but tell it to the weather man ed to a box number in care of the newspaper xoi ccf sweeps saskatchewan the outcome of the election in saskatchewan last week in which the ccf was swept into power was highly disappointing to both liberals and conservatives and will likely alter the date of any dominion election hadthe-liber- als made a better showing in last weeks contest there was a cer tainty that canada would go to the polls sometime in october but ot tawa will be inclined to view the western decision as not favorable to them and may postpone the elec tion until next year the conservatives never won a seat and the ccf swept the pro vince by taking all but eight seats which went to the liberals rrsj2sais evil c inflation past wars have always goods were scarce prices brought some degree and wages sky rockettcd to of inflation unnatural heights then one day the war stopped in due time goods be came plentiful again scarcity prices could no longer be demanded and fspiralling prices went pop and came down a bang with people stopped buying be- cause they thought prices- would go still lower merchandise dropped in value retailers went bankrupt factories closed and unemployment followed farms were foreclosed distress was general and deflation was in the saddle that is why in this war prices are con trolledso that they will not ruin buyers in a rise or sellers in a slump previwdplatmnis the best protection amos mn pricvceilingtwageantfsalary controlsration ing victory bonds increased taxation are all part of a grand strategy to head off inflation thus preventing deflation wht mnoat mow 7jo pjmc e fct 3 c vla 1 wyvjtti