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the tribune stouffville ont thursday june u 1946 seed corn top crop hybrid seed corn limited quantities of top crop 645 and 625 a fair stock of top crop 606 recommend for silage top crop 275 for grain and late seeding top crop 355 the standard variety for grain reliable brand open pollinated seed corn golden glow medium and late wisconsin xo 7 sweepstakes white cap mangel and turnip seed stivers golden gate post mangel gaint yellow leviathan bed leviathan giant white sugar mangel yellow ideal purple top turnips laorentian certified seed perfect model steele briggs perfection canadian gem bronze top turnips derby irish king forage seeds kale narrow stem sudan grass sowing rape sugar cane millet stiver bros stouffville phone 4501 local and personal happenings mrs elijah lager has been spending a couple of weeks in tor onto visiting her son herbert navy league tag day next sat urday june 15th- give liberally to this good cause i cemetery decoration day in completes akts cocbsk stouffville sunday june 23 mr and mrs richard wells cleveland ohio called on their grandfather mtleavens over the weekend e mr and mrs g t lee and mr and mrs f c madill toronto at tended the funeral of mrs elmer madill port credit on sunday mrs marshal connor loretta and donald of sth concession whit church also miss jessie sage of stouffville were guests at the hod- sonmoss wedding in oshuwa last week the madill picnic will be held this year in stouffville memorial park on wednesday june 20 this will be the first gathering since the war started mr and mrs audrey lapp of cedar grove and mr and mrs mar shal connor ringwood returned last week after spending a few days in detroit mich visiting relatives york county junior farmers picnic and dance cedar beach gardens musselmans lake friday june 14 max boags 10 piece orchestra admission 50 cents mason fletcher wooclbridge gordon mcnern sharon president secretary presentation to teacher on saturday afternoon june sth at the home of miss myrtle l wat son atcm main street there were twentylive present to enjoy the recital when her pupils played very creditably piano solos and duets selected from their terms work after the recital and before the social hour and to the surprise of their teacher miss june smith on behalf of the pupils oresented her with a lovely handbag and handkerchief with their kind thoughts miss watson wishes to express her sincere appreciation to her pupils and to the friends for their token of goodwill now and through the year attend the flower tuesday evening- show next mr w wright and wife of tor onto were guests last week with mrs t c gostick duchess street they were accompanied by mr wrights brotherinlaw wm rich mond and by james lawson who taught school at one time at lemon- ville the party had an interesting day here friends gathered at the home of rev and mrs d davis on saturday afternoon in honor of miss jeane westlake bridetobe and presented her with a lovely gift mrs kate aitken will speak on her post war trip to europe on mondav june 17th at melville united church at s oclock silver collection the kings birthday was observed in town on monday by the post office bank and schools remaining closed for the day otherwise there was no observance of the occasion since it was not a public holiday jack son of mr and mrs kr davis stouffville who was mar ried in toronto last saturday jack is a serviceman of this war and is continuing on the technical staff of the armv mr allen aleconnoclre recently on the local postal staff is now employed by stouffville groceteria horticultural exhibits and com petition tuesday evening next week united church basement mrs edna stewart toronto was in town over sunday visiting her mother mrs george watson obrien avenue her husband is still in germany on duty there mrs mae ferguson of cobden st sarnia passed away two weeks ago friends will be sorfy to letrn falling from a ladder in their home on second street miss flossie barkey sustained a fractured arm just above the wrist the unfor tunate accident happened on mon day the new waiting room for grey coach lines customers at stouff ville motors ratclitf pipher is certainly appreciated and will be even more so when disagreeable weather arrives centrally located at the point where buses start from it is a convenience long hoped for green strawberries are forming in local gardens which enables us to fairly estimate that berries will be enjoyed from local gardens with in a week like all other crops berries promise to be in abundance but they will not be too cheap in price it is estimated exwarden addresses the lions exwarden fred a lundy dr loekhart and councillor g byers all of newmarket paid a visit to stouffville lions club monday even ing mr lundy gave a short ad dress telling of the grand work be ing done for children in the neigh boring town he was introduced by dr bodendistel and was given a vote of thanks by the reeve mr lundy has promised to return and give a more extended address to the club in the fall next monday even ing the lions and the ladies will visit shadow lake camp as guests of the eaton people congratulations are due one of our stouffville high school gradu ates j arnold schell who has been successful in passing his final year in the arts course at toronto uni versity arnold who is a sen of mr and mrs wesley schell intends to take up medicine or forestry next term at the universitv two hundred and thirteen million of money has been paid out in the first eleven months for the baby bonus cost of administering the act foi this period is three quarters of a million and there are 4ss tempor ary employees and 36 permanent employees on the pay roll in stouff ville baby bonus cheques reach quite a sum yet all who are eligible to claim it do not do so pikes peak tent meetings june 2nd to 16th noted authority speaks considering the busy season of the year the attendance at fhe hort icultural society meeting in the united church to hear an address by mr john clark was highly gratifying this outstanding horti culturist took his audience on a sightseeing tour over ontario visit ing many of the beauty spots mr clarks familiarity with the scenes that he shows is remarkable and adds to the interest and instruction one gains from his address presi dent e r good reports that the membership of the stouffville hort icultural society has now reached 221 retiring from active work we learn that a native son of stouffville district henry l madill brother of cm madill alfna merc hant has disposed of his butcher ing business in toronto and is retiring to his- farm near orange- ville which is to be worked by his soninlaw lloyd tate son of mr and mrs earl tate who recently moved from baker hill to new market henry madill successfully conducted his city butcher shop for 17 years and now intends to take matters a little easier back in rural life which he always enjoyed better than the city mr and mrs madills new address will be amaranth station the willoughby real estate agency through their agent harvey mover reports the sale of the wm ball property one door east of the presbyterian church to air fred alsop formerly of claremont vine baker farmer east of town has just disposed of ore of his horses thus breaking the fancy team he has been showing at dis trict fairs with considerable success the purchaser is an us buyer price is not disclosed friends will regret to learn that mr walter dickson patient in the brierbush for some weeks and who returned to his home recently had to be admitted to the hospital again after only a week since his condi tion became worse again the increasing number of oil burning furnaces in town is stepp ing up the demand for garbage col lection peter bramwell who takes care of this work under h private arrangement with each house holder served now has eighteen regular customers he lifts the gar bage twice a week hydro interruptions exnerienced in various parts of town on friday last were not of a local origin the main lines coming into town were shut off for some reason over on yonge st where some- emergency work was done on the high tension brought pictures from germany squadron leader rev decourcy h rayner and mrs rayner mon- treal visited his father rev t decourcy rayner and his sister mrs karl a cowie marknam tp on tuesday of last week sqdn ldr rayner has just returned to canada from duty with the rcaf in eur ope shortly before leaving eng land he flew back to germany go ing to nurmberg to attend a session of the trial of the nazi leaders he brought back some snapshot pic tures of nurmberg taken by him self showing some of the ruins of bombed sections in that city the squadron leader is attending the sessions of the general assembly of the presbyterian church in can ada at knox church toronto hav ing been sent from montreal to re port the assembly sessions for the canadian press several more ojl burners were installed in town last week thus changing still more homes over from the time honored custom of heating with coal to the automatic oil burners special features oldfashioned singing praying gospel services every night at 8 oclock except saturday youth rally friday evening this service is held for youtn sunday june lgth 3 great services 3 1030 am 3 pm 730 pm your last chance during these services to hear rev and mrs chas mckinney of the hills of v va singers musicans preacher chalkartist ah pictures lighted bv a new unique lighting system wanted 300 boys girls young men young women mother and fathers to attend sunday school at pikes peak sundav afternoon at 2 oclock the hall question expressions are commonly heard that stouftville should not allow the hall question to fall by the wayside the matter of a memorial to the soldiers and the need for a hall in this town are paramount issues and it is hoped that the business mens committee who were offered a freewill gift of over s5000 if the total of such free gifts reached s10000 should give the next step to be taken serious considerttion the womens institute and other organ izations badly need hall facilities which this town is so sadly lacking it is suggested that the whole issue be submitted to a vote of the elec tors and if it is we believe the ratepayers would pass such a by law a town can hardly progress without hall facilities and every loyal citizen would like to see it go ahead the very few who think only of themselves and their pocket books are not in sufficient numbers to retard any advancement of this kind mr thos b rae was in london last week attending a convention of western ontario telephone com panies during the proceedings held in the london hotel mr rae presented one of the reports in con nection with the independent com panies the clothing drive in stouffville will be made on monday june 24 chairman hugh bannerman an nounces it will be carried out by the lions club and town churches will be asked to cooperate by doing the packing as was the case last year the institute will also be asked to handle the deoot at the municipal hall davis chadwick on saturday june sth at two oclock in the salvation army church toronto miss thelma chad- wick daughter of mr arnold chad- wick and the late mrs- chadwick toronto was united in marriage with john ross davis son of mr and mrs k r davis stouffville rev sloan officiated the bride given in marriage by her father wore a pale blue dressmaker suit with white accessories and a cor sage of carnations and sweet peas mrs b hoskin was matron of honor and wore a teel blue suit with white accessories and wore a corsage of pink carnations and sweet peas mr robert sanderson stouffville was best man mr g chadwick brother of the bride pecompanied the soloist at the piano a reception was held at the home of mr and mrs ireland toronto the couple left for short honey moon to london the womens institute nex meeting will bo held at the home of airs las ridout on thurs day june 20th at 230 oclock the motto given by airs lickorish and roll call will be answered by nam ing your favorite flower beginning with your initials the district an nual report will be given by mrs lee and airs davey and a report on afternoon session by airs kell ington reading by aliss brodie airs aloyer and airs j spence members are asked to not forget this is a picnic lunch stouffville horticultural society prize list open to all members spring flower show tuesday june 18 1940 potted plants 1 house plant in bloom one 2 five house plants in bloom 3 house plant for foliage 4 five house plants for foliage cut flowers 5 iris spike 6 iris 6 spikes yi 7 iris basket 8 iris collection 9 peonies white 3 10 peonies pink 3 11 peonies red 3 12 peonies any other variety 3 13 peonies basket 14 bouquet of roses 15 basket of alixed flowers 16 basket of any one variety 17 basket of flowering shrubs is bouquet of pansies 19 diningroom table bouquet 20 living room bouquet exhibits to be placed from 25 pm june 18 194g prizes in tulip bulbs for fall united church basement stouffville ontario doors open 730 pm varied program at 830 pm many souls knelt at an altar of praver last sundav plan to come pray for oldfashioned revival pijease editor get me a sklwk tiie nest of skunks located under the chicken house on main street by harry sawyer as reported in this paper was a story quickly scented by andy clark on his popu lar sunday morning broadcast now a toronto lady implores this paper on andys reeommendationuo get her a baby skunk the lady once owned a woodchuck and they be came such pals that its memory is still cherished by her she would like to try a skunk this time which should le capable of leaving some thing she will not soon ferget too the editor has been appealed to to carry out many strange missions in his experience but this is the first order ever received for a skunk well we will see what can be done even at the risk rf a scent i or two first in 28 years visiting at the airs s m warri- nor home on church street are dr and airs f g warriner of winni peg mr and airs r j fleury of welwyn sask airs totten of richmond hill additions sundav visitors were air and airs harold warriner of town dr nd airs harold totten and children of hamilton and air wilmot warriner of alarkham the pleasint feature of this gettogether is that it is the first time in 28 years the family have been home at the one time hot dogs opening night saturday june 15 soft drinks ice creaaf and tobaccos east end store a mcquarrif the feature its alloyed is the secret ba peerless motor oil timetested super ority its the process that transforms topquality oil into the finest lubrican obtainable ba peerless motor oil is first refined far beyond ordinary standards then its alloyed an exclusive ba process that ves this treat oil its ability o stand up tcr in service to withstand conditions would cause ordinary oils to quickly break down into sludge and varnish it will pay you to insist on ba peerless motor oil because it makes any car or truck last longer run 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