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2f 3s a llig ijci r x v- glareftioiit and district o to n i by staff correspondent iocs ioe local agent mourders store aoaonoi pete hardy of toronto spent sunday at his home in the village sunday sept 17th rev w h bexton will preach his farewell sermon in claremont baptist xhurchrev bexton who has only been the pastor in this church for a short time is going to the west where he will join the staff of the brandon college rev i e kennedy visited the niagara fruit belt last week and brought home a very nice sample of peaches we are told pte lawrence mcdowell visited at his home here during the week end mr and mrs luther beverly of uxbridge visited at the home of mr and mrs albert slack last week mr and mrs james shaw and children of ajax called on friends in the village one day last week mr and mrs fred redshaw and mrs mantle visited mrs mantles brother at mt albert on sunday mr david lawr mrs d h white of manitouliri is and her daughter and husband mr and mrs norman stephens of milton ont visited with mr and mrs cecil story on sunday mrs white will remain for a time to visit her niece mrs story miss margaret briscoe of tor onto visited over the weekend at her home here the choir of the united church met at the parsonage on thursday evening for their weekly practice v social hour the womens institute will hold their regular meeting on sept 20 at 230 pm at the home of mrs walter ward miss may brown district president will be the guest speaker mr fred redshaw has joined the morley symes workmen this week and gone to georgetown where mr symes is erecting a new barn geo middleton son of mrs vex middleton has been honorably dis charged from the army after some two years service we under stand a big work train is pulled up on the siding at claremont while a gang of chiefly french workers are laying new rails on this line mrs vernon ellicott visited her parents mr arid mrs f redshaw for a few days last week mrs hardy of uxbridge has been visiting here with her sister mrs chas hardy farmers in the mt zion district have been hit heavily by chicken josses due to foxes lately jos the following is a portion of a letter received by mr and mrs frank loyst of claremont from their son fit sergt rendell loyst with the rcaf in england the communication reads in part have just finished my tour of operations and will not fly on operations again for a year i did my last trip on the ruhr valley on the city of duisberg and my second to last on kiel both hot targets when i walked into the briefing room and saw that the tar get was the ruhr valley for my last trip it really shook me the flak was so thick that you could have gotten out and walked on it and there were also bags of fight ers but we managed to get there and back okay i did 42 trips over germany four on berlin and several on other german cities 1 flew my last four trips as a mid- under gunner and is that some place to ride its the worst in air craft im going on ten days leave to- morrow i dont know exactly what ill be doing now that im through with ops but i think ill get hook ed for instructing t some training children should keep to the sidewalks the powcrsthatbe in clare mont and local motorists are alarmed over the near acci dents which have occurred be tween school hours as the children are going to and from their homes parents should not delay in warning their children to make use of the sidewalks and not the road when leaving school it would be a tragedy if some local school child was unavoidably struck by a car when a little care would have prevented it brougham mr and mrs f dingham of whitby visited her brother fred and mrs madill onsunday mr and mrs gerald harbron and daughter bernice of myrtle also mr and mrs- wm harbron were guests of albert and mrs matthews on sunday complete the 25th millionth shell shellfillers and the entire com- munity of ajax marked completion i of the huge plants 25th millionth shell on saturday in a special cere mony culminating in presentation of the actual shell to the ontario tank regiment the ajax ceremony was held outside the gatehouse at 4 pm on saturday during shift change and lasted about half an hour a shined and engraved twentyfive pounder was presented to col r b smith officer commanding the regiment who was acompanied by a guard of honor the presentation was made by one of the ajax employees a 25pounder having been selected be cause tanks being used by the ont ario tank regiment in france and belgium today are mounted with 25pounder guns following saturday afternoons ceremony the special shell was tak en to the shellsforvictory exhi bition at the oshawa fair which opened on mondaj there it oc- copies a central position surround ed by other complete projectiles crosssections and components which are on display after the ex hibition the projectile will be turn ed over to the regiment and will be kept at the oshawa armouries fltlieut and bride fi steamer on rtfcks ers flightlieut and mrs norman charles lindsay the bride is the former norene elizabeth ellen croxall daughter of mr and mrs stanley w croxell of uxbridge the groom is the son of mr and mrs charjes lindsay of lindsay the mar riage took place august 23rd in trinity united church ux bridge auction sale household furniture the undersigned has received in struction to sell by public auction at claremont ox friday sept is the following articles belonging to rev t hbextox dining room table and chairs solid walnut buffet and china cabinet- breakfast room suite consisting of buffet dropleaf table and 8 chairs studio couch upholstered chairs and footstool bed mattress sewing machine raymond childs gocart and bath curt ains number of dishes waterless cooker number of sealers combinette silver cake basket garden tools miscellaneous articles too num erous to mention sale at 2 pm terms cash as farmer auctioneer gormlcy phone stouffville 7312 green river mrs a timmins and daughter station here we are supposed to imargaret of osliawa spent a few get a months leave in canada after days recently with mrs wood instructing for six months so i fexpect ill be home sometime next empringham who keeps around winter nave togo t0 lon 300 fowl was a loser while a num- where th g us wiu a mtlo ber were also snatched from the wilson farm mr and mrs morley of bramp- ton were recent visitors with his brother mr fred morley in clare- mount friends will also be in terested to learn that gladys and jean daughters of mr and mrs fred morley and both wrens in the canadian naval service have been posted in quebec friends will be pleased to learn that miss shirley kilpatrick daughter of mr and mrs ben kilpatrick former residents here is making satisfactory recovery from an emergency operation which she underwent during the holidays at the toronto east gen eral hospital school attendance high this term total school attendance for both the public and continuation schools in claremont is slightly overthe hundred mark this term with sixtyfive in the public and around thirtyfive in the continuat ion there were 0 beginners who took the big step on opening day although several of the wee tots are only of kindergarten age and are coming in on a trial basis the newcomers are shirley suther- land helen sutherland murray carson sheila beaton glenn brooks jas mccullough denise rhodes bruce redshaw and john farr this is an average number to start in midsummer gold wing which we wear on the j left pocket for completing a tour of operations out of 428 of us only five got through i guess we were the lucky ones ward the regular sunday evening ser vices will be resumed again in- the town hall o sept 17th at 830 plm these services have been withdrawn for a time owing to rev ii ilobbs being away on holi days mrs m philip returned home arthur loyst a brother with the a spe a few jwitn newcomers arrive mr and mrs elmer cox are get ting settled in their new home at the- cpr station mrs dopklng having vacated the premises to live in toronto mr cox was the cpr agent in teeswater for over eight years before making the move the couple have been active in the bowling circles of tees- water mr cox being the president of the club there this year they will be welcome additions to the community life of the village furniture sales this week twbjjpf the opening fall auctions of interest here are being held this week i0h friday sept 15th rev w hbexton will dispose of many of his household effects- before leaving for his riew post in the west the sale will be held on the parsonage r premises and a s farmer will be the auctioneer the following day sept igth mrs l matthcwswill hold a sale of furni ture at thehotel- corner in broug- hanvijwhlch is being takonover bypickerlng for municipal offices theroare four stoves in the sale and considerable bedroom furni- ture ordnance corps in france is also pictured here both boys were employed with their father in his eanning business at claremont prior to enlisting a third brother harold is in the medical corps and is expected to go overseas shortly he was em ployed at the dil before joining up pie social apie social will be held in the basement of the claremont united church on friday sept 22nd at 8 pm the pro ceeds raised therefrom are to be used to provide christmas parcels for the boys overseas from claremont there will be a program followed by an auc tion sale of pies everybody come and contribute to a worthy cause spoke from normandy john brown grandson of mrs t c brown of brougham spoke over the cbc from normandy where he is with an rcaf bomber group his- familiar voice came over the airwaves quite clearly and it was a thrill for the village folks who happened to be tuned in as they listened to him describe his experiences on the western front greenwood too late for last week the icecream social friday night was a real success everyone doing her and his part well mis edna green and mrs f w gibson have been victims of the summer flu mrs crummer of pickering is visiting with her sister mrs s corbetl misses marion mcvey and ilean sadler take up their new posts this week as teachers marion to toron to and ilean to raglan congratulations to percy and mrs jones nee dorothy clark on the arrival of a baby girl mr and mrs c trimble have been- visiting at the home of ernie trimble and wesley sadler mr l kellar of the eastern prol vince is visiting with the percy clarke family i we extend our sympathy to the wifepafents brothers and sisters of scrgt walter knox who was killed in action in france lorne and mrs ham of oshawa called on stanley byers here robert mcvey of the navy spent the weekend at his home here friends in toronto miss ruby warren of oshawa was a recent guest of her friend miss mildred woodward mr d a beer has sold his taxi business in pickering and intends moving his office back to his home here where he will carry on in surance business as usual mr and mrs e e annis return ed home on saturday after spend ing two weeks with friends around brockville mrs l upton visited with mr and mrst d gannon over the week end mr j albright was a recent guest of mr and mrs m patterson mrs l matthews is holding a sale of household goods on satur day afternoon- sept 16 see bills mr and mrs allan strong of toronto visited at the home of their niece mrs woodward one evening last week mr and mrs m hamilton mr and mrs fred hamilton and mr george burton visited with friends at gormley on sunday mr and mrs e l crocker also mr and mrs er crocker of tor onto were guests of mrs l matt hews on sunday bruce easton is preparing to re sume his bus service to whitby for the high- school students he expects to be transporting some fifteen this year miss d lakey who taught at brougham school for the final six weeks of last term has taken a position on the staff of the united church college at winnipeg she will teach english and latin mrs w king and margaret visit- nadidii jmk vuai mr and mrs ge0 duncan and children made a trip to toronto island recently mrs olive mckay is very sick j at the home of her parents mr c reeve william ressor and mrs baxendales reesor were aboard the steamer i kingston when it struck a reef n sun monl beng just below the city of kingston as service mr heal is ex it was proceeding out of the bayjp t0 be p carrying a boatload of passengers mr and mrs w gray of broug- bound for the saguenay there ham visited with his mother on was little confusion mr reesor sunday said the reesors were having at the time of writing mr alf breakfast there was a high wind hoover is in a very weakened con- and the boat was carried off itsldition course when suddenly a grinding mr and mrsfrankbooth called ripping noise brought them to a on john nighswander on sunday stop none of the passengers seemj f d po m t h ud ed to realize what was happening h relatives in barrie since re as the big boat took on a tilt that- m he has been t the awkward there no home of her son clifford postill pa was half a day ere they were i w cray has been with her off and placed aboard anoth- daughter mrs symington of tor- er steamer to continue tlieir noli- 1 onto the mr and mrs kendree were visi tors with mr and mrs t forsyth day trip to saguenay quebec and auction sale household furniture the undersigned has received instructions to sell by public auction at brohgham saturday sept 16 the following goods belonging to mrs mary matthews 2 iron beds springs and mat tresses 2 dressers with mirrors 2 wash stands 2 toilet sets glass kitchen cupboard kitchen table drop leaf small kitchen table kitchen chairs round table ex tensiondining room table 6 din ing room chairs 4 dining room chairs 2 large rocking chairs small rocking chair leather arm chair leather rocking chair leather arm chair 2 arm chairs couch flower stand cook stove peninsular- quebec heater coal heater small coal stove ice re frigerator 100 lbs flour chest lawn swing gasoline lamp no of oil lamps 2 oil lanterns wash stand marble top with water tank barber chair large mirror quantity fruit jars and dishes quantity carpenter tools no large pictures sale at 130 tcims cash a s farmer auctioneer 11 i ol dancing commencing 9 pm at claremont sat sept 16 barretts orchestra round anil square dancing admission 23c auspices claremont community park board give your electrical appliances good care and save repairs the supply of new electric appli ances is very limited they cannot be built in quantities until their manufacturers now engaged in making weapons of war turn from the battlefront to the homeront do your part dont overload your washer or operate it longer than necessary be sure to oil the motor pont let leaky or dripping taps make your hot water heater work overtime t keep your washer- yojuriron and other electric appliances in good working condition by giving them the extra care that keeps them fit for duty for appliance repairs tee your local electrical dealer vthfevj ofontario rl