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the tnoune stouffville ont thursday- march 27 lm7 seldom seen mrs jos received a parcel in the mail the other day we were puzzled when it turned out to be a phonograph record and at once thought someone was playing a joke a note along with the disc however told the story it was a recording from a girl friend of many years ago who is now living in the us we got the old phonograph go and they always planned a big reunion which never came off and the years are slipping around right in our living room we heard that womans voice it was a thrill a living letter from me to you or soj dr blunts afternoon otfice hours it seemed the disc has been p to 4 to most country people so many times now that its getting that is mere another item in the pretty scratchy but you can still weekly paper at 515 the old doctor identifv wh3t she is saying paused at the open door as he that record set me thinking and i watched the last patient going down as often happens in such a case lithe walk at the side the snow ing and mrs jos heard the voice ran on to something else which tied honey combed by march winds and of her girlhood friend just as in quite closely with it in an sun looked rather like ragged and though she were standing in the american magazine there was an dirty lace on the pavement room this particular friend had ad for a new device for recording patches of grey made islands in been one of the closet friends while j you slip a paper thin disc on a uneven black pools as he turned the pair attended the rural school machine turn it on record your to go in a bright gleam from a grey own voice and then fold the record- maple down the street caught his ing up and mail it off the party to eyes sure as you live the lad next whom its sent opens the letter and door had it tapped and a shining j unfolds the disc and then plays it tin pail hung on it on their own machine habit of many years took his what a boon that would to a steps past the now empty wailing lot of people lovers separated by room and into the office where he miles can now pour out their wea sat down behind his oak desk but words without the dampening effect the blotter appointment pad desk of having to write it down each calendar a neat pile of type written jword can convey the subtle mean- j letters he didnt see at all nor ally ing so easy to put into it with the thing else around him in a voice wives can now send a scorch- j moment he was back in the old ing missive off to husbands who are sugar bush on the farm helping his m away and possibly keep them on the straight and narrow path oi duty voting parents can also record brothers with the lapping tasting the first fresh sweet sap of the season changing scenes came be fore his mind the little chickadee the first words of their children he hail coaxed to eat crumbs from and send the magical recording off his hand how its little beak to doting relatives i suppose a j touched his palm so quickly and court of law might even have toj lightly then of lying on a heap of admit a recording if it contained hay beside the old mare after he the last will and testament of a and his brothers had eaten all they person given with the human i could of the lunch his mother had voice sent what a good cook his mother a machine turned on in the heat was nobody nowadays could pre- of an argument might have both a pare food like that oh well per- good and bad efiect can you haps that wasnt it just then his imagine anything more embarrass- wifes voice recalled him to the ing then having to listen to your present and he thought gratefully own voice in an argument but set of the cup of tea she would have off a worse one about the whys and j ready and then the possibility of whynots of destroying the dam- a few minutes rest on the chester- aging evidence i field we may even be entering the no not this time canned voice era hos just caliecl anci they want you right away he reached for his hat and coat danforth automotive supply tom dobson 705 danforth ave toronto phone ha 0931 parts accessories machine shop service cream cream cream for best results ship your cream to stouffville creamery we pay two cents more per pound butterfat for cream delivered to the creamery cold storage lockers fast freezing facilities stouffville to have our truck call creamery co phone 1sc01 bush which in spring emits clouds of vapour as well as smoke and sparks and whose black length stretches fifteen feet sam looked down at the darker blue of that part of his overalls above the heavy bushmans socks and extending half way to his thighs men work in bush in the coldest winter weather without discomfort if they are dressed for it but when the strength of the sun begins to soften the snow and while it is still quite deep then until trails are made anyone who walks in i gets wet im not so young anymore said sam and i was just thinkin as i was tugging them old trees up with the team what fools you and me are to be working here for jones he earns his money a lot easier riding around in that truck why the other day he went to a sale and bought a lot of stuff took some to the stockyards next day mind you bet he got a big thing out of it maybe he did said bob guess he needed to that was one of those stormy days broke an axle and reloaded to another truck that right said sam in a much more cheerful voice giddup maud n prince that dead birch on the side hill thats down otta burn about g oclock jones truck came along past the bush on its return from the city the young fellow was driving and fred jones sitting beside him was planning how to catch up on todays work along with tomorrows funny thing how some days everything seems to go wrong just get my truck out of the garage for a full day decide what load cant wait and what i can get near with these roads nearly every place they have to haul the stuff to meet me truck refuses to start hitch the team and draw lose about an hour call garage- man start but everybody along the line waiting or else gone back in again detour for closed roads we miss our dinner but grateful to mrs b for giving us sandwiches cheer up a bit discover one pig is missing back to the corner well now where the driver began to laugh say samiwxs ovkijtikx ix xaxkixt storm more than 130 persons were drowned at nanking china when about 20 sampans similar to those seen above were over turned by the collapse of two floating pontoons and the bridge spanning them only 20 persons were rescued out of more than 150 who fell into the water the pontoons were said to have collapsed following a sudden storm mt albert horses show better prices the farm auction for evans bros at mount albert was a great success says auctioneer farmer horses he states indicated a come back to what he considered nearer their real value the black team 2 and 3 years old sold for s300 gray percheron 5 years 167 and a yearl ing cold s70 while one rising 2 fetched 100 young heifers ran from 50 to s55 and the farm trac tor brought ss00 from a northern buyer grain prices indicated the fear that feed is going higher mixed grain went for 205 a cwt buckwheat 217 cwt and oats sue a bushel rumacaps bringquitk relief rorn storeys drug store stouffville ontario he said we were lucky that fellow j ran up the road to tell us where the pig was did you know its the 17th she was headed for ireland both laughed and then they were home and went into supper later in the evening fred jones said with a twinkle in his eye its easier to rejoice in tribulations youre not i the thick of but our tribulations are after all anna maria brown when them small pa i xt will do that man makes some mighty heavy demands at times on some of the products he has learned to take for granted for instance he puts a coat of paint a few thousandths of an inch thick on his house he anticipates that for the next three or four years that thin sheathing will cling to the surface on which it was phiced with enough elastic ity to expand and contract with the material on which it was placed yet with sufficient toughness to protect the surface against blazing sun driving rain wind sleet and and the funny part of it is that few thousanths of an inch of paint does just what he expects of it if it is good paint which is rather hard to get old horses si 5 we will pay you 1500 for your old horse at your farm phone agincoiirl 18t12 collect chas cambell agincourt rb2 jl e a v e stouffville standard time to toronto touxbridge a 715 am a 350 pm b 925 am b s20 pr a daily excent sun hoi b 1225 pm c 210 pm c sat only 705 pm b 1140 pm b sun hoi only bus connections at toronto for buffalo detroit chicago north bay new york montreal fares are low toronto s 180 blffalo 760 montreal s17j0 round trip tax included detroit j1215 new york ss085 chicago sss tickets and information at ratcliff ppher stouffville motors storffvuxe phonte 170 molly simpson you know you operated on this morning the doctor picked up his worn satchel hemorrhaging said his wife as she opened the door that led to the garage t em im leaving he said i did she said as he got into his car mrs blums face showed her concern as she went into the living room the china teapot with its bright knitted cosy the doctors big blue cup and saucer her own small one the fat pink cream and sugar set flanked by a small plate of raisin bread freshly buttered and another of the doctors favorite oatmeal cookies ay waited on the antique brass tray might as well take it back to the kitchen she thought it must have been that indefin able something that comes when it will on a march or april day her j mind flew back to the spring time of so many years ago when she lived in that rosy cloud which sur rounds happy brides how unreal it seemed now her visions of her own future as a doctors wife her childhood and girlhood amongst her lively sisters and brothers and sn friends had been so unlike the first few months of life in this strange town- lonely and homesick shed hadnt thought her husband would be away so much her secret tears had overflowed because when he did come home he was so often grave and pre0ccupied or fatigued and she had never thought how exacting the calls of telephone or door bell how many meals her in experience had laboured over that she had cleared away after trying vainly to keep them appetizing till the doctor came home why what trifles i used to fret about i she thought and her usual sunny smile broke through i had forgotten i ever had such quaint ideas about life 1 love this dear j old town when- i have known so much kindness and friendship how glad 1 am for the rich opportunities i that are mine in sharing the joys and sorrows of this community her heart lifted and she com- i milled her burdens to one who alone has power over life and death then she sat down and j poured one cup of tea i a few miles away a grey team and sleigh loaded not too heavily with hardwood drew up at the back of the evaporator house a snowcapped pile of fourfoot wood nearby testified to last falls preparation from inside the build ing the sound of whistling and rattling of hardware might be interpreted to moan that joneses were intending to tap and young bob blake who w home now was helping them more over if you lived around there you would identify the grey team as belong ing to a neighboring farmer whose work on his fiftyacrefarm was always well under control enabling him to do a bit of work in the bush if he felt like it usually he did hard working slow speaking meticulously honest sams philoso phy is simple and his disposition cheerful as a rule today he too was affected by the spring weather the two men unloaded the long wood to be cut in four or five foot lengths and thrown into the fiery belly of that monster of the maple hear leonard w br0ckingt0n on coastto coast radio address mr brockington will speck over the dominion network of the cbc from the banquet hall of the royal york hotel toronto on the occosion of the 1 00th anniversary of the massey- harris company limited march 28th cjbc 830 massey harris we have our quota of machinery for this year come in and see us now about your requirements for this summer and also have a look at our new show room and parts department henry ogden son stouffville ont phone 25402 taintcrs know that it pays to use a quality paint one that will stand up stoutly to wear and werlher thats why so many painters use so many leading dcalcis sell cil paints it lakes no more lime to apply a good dependable painf than it docs to use an inferior product and time not the paint itself is the chief cost item in a painting job so when you paint whether a chair a room or a house choose a paint which will give you lasting beauty and protection see your cil paint dealer w f riches lm tcil paints