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h 8 ihe stouffyluf tr18uni thonity septeaaer 5 1957 laremont and pickering township district the vms will meet at mrs will xeals home at 230 on thursday sept 12 mrs bielby in harge miss mary xeal will be the guest speaker mr ard mrs gordon eorl3nd of walfcerton visited uiib mrs mb borland during the holiday weekend sir ard mrs bob mcleod and mr and mrs roy mcleod spent the weekend at rice lake mr and mrs jack manse ard family spent a few days vacat ion at kuntsviue mr kenneth dean has return ed home alter spending the sum mer working with the forest miners near port arthur several neighbours have been working on the roy brignal farm during the past week com pleting the harvest mr brignal underwent surgery recently in a toronto hospital mr bob greer spent the week end at gravenhurst mr xoyes suffered a severe rash on his head last week when a timber fell and struck him he is working as a contractor in toronto mr and mrs tom davis and sandra spent the weekend in northern ontario on a camping trii- mr a robertsons new home is making steady progress it is located in the north section of the village mr and mas frank cooper claremonts wellknown couple celebrated their 83th birthdays last week on saturday they were entertained at the home of a daughter mrs frank barclay sixteen members of the immed iate family were present includ ing their two sons charles and dick cooper and three daugh- brougham the womens institute will hold tiieir next meeting on tues day afternoon september 10th hostesses will be mrs wm gray mrs m annis and mrs lem- mon the program on home ec- ominers and health will be tak en by mrs wannop motto for the month good health and good sense are two of lifes greatest blessings all ladies welcome miss b stevenson of brooklin called on some old friends a- round hre on sunday afternoon mrs rav witter and daugh ter gladys of toronto also mr dl witter of montreal called on mrs matthews on sunday af ternoon congratulations to brougham ball team who journeyed to ma- doc on saturday for a game with gilmore and which resulted in a score of 257 in favor of broug- ham mr and mrs c devitt and mrs aj gray were at whitby on sunday where they visited mr fred wright at fairview lodge mr and mrs alfred kayes and family also miss edna kay- es of pickering called on mrs win gray on sunday mrs plaxton of whitby spent several days last week with her sister mrs wm gray mr and mrs gordon camp- bell also miss ella campbell rx of toronto called on mrs matthews one evening last wccki mrs honey spent a few days last week with her daughter mrs mannis and family mr and mrs petch and family moved this weekend into the new house they recently built in longtime residents of claremont ters isobel mrs win benson rowena mrs frank barclay and the subdivision aileen there are four grand- mss pat coakwell of toronto children and one great grand child brenfiajane daughter of mr and mrs earl wilson two old friends of mr and mrs coop er mr and mrs ec colborne formerlv of brooklin dropped in to offer congratulatory wishes to l m visited with her cousin miss dorothy wilson who returned home with her for a visit mr and mrs kc paseoe and daughters donna and debbie at tended a family picnic at spring tills fine claremont couple the semifinals of the com munity league opened on fri day of last week mt zion edged altona 32 and peachs downed ringwood 83 thirtyfour bowlers attended a jitney at the local greens on thursday evening mr willis of uxbridge mr r fleury and mrs l hoover of stouffville were high with two wins mr elgin wagg and mrs harry rat- cliff also of stouffville were high for one win mr and mrs drake have mov ed into the brignall apartment the new family were former res idents of scarboro green riyek the many friends of mr e percy are very pleased to heat- that he is able to be home again following his recent accident which confined him to the scar boro hospital for some time pleased to hear that mr perry is able to be home again his friends hope his health will con tinue to improve also glad to hear that mr l tomlinson is able to be home again following his recent ac cident mr and mrs w duncan called on mr w milne in the doctors hospital and latest reports are that he is improving as well as can be expected miss hilda givcns of toronto spent the weekend with her sis ter mrs r schoobridge and family miss lenore postill of port perry is holidaying with her grandmother mrs v postill mrs l legg spent the week end at goderich visiting with relatives her two daughters linda and marie are returning home with her after spending the summer holidays with rela- 1 fives there mr k chafen and mr d ray- 1 mer arc spending the holiday at j their cottage at horseshoe lake mr and mrs percy blackmail i jnd mr and mrs norman black- man and son of toronto visited with mr and mrs w chafen on the weekend very sorry to hear that mrs shane is in the east general hospital and is undergoing an operation on wednesday of this week the ladies aid will meet at i the home of mrs wm turner markham on wed sept 11th at s pm word for roll call is fellowship all ladies are ex- tended a most cordial invitation to be present at this meeting cottage prayer meeting will be held at the home of mr and mrs melville draper on tues sept 10th at s pm everyone welcome the members and friends wel comed rev and mrs fleischer i back to church on sunday even- 1 ing after a well earned vacation we would also like to thank mr j mcmurray for the splendid way in which he conducted the church services during our past ors vacation mr and mrs w simpson and family of aglneourt iiad supper friday night with mr and mrs all michel the men folk then attended the wtestling match at the stouffville arena mrs wright of georgetown and mr bert beer had tea with mr and mrs da beer on sun day mr and mrs wm duncan of green river were guests of mrs cassie on sunday mr and mrs ken bent and family of oshawa called on her mother mrs hamilton during the weekend mr and mrs wm knox visit ed their son john and mrs knox of hampton and helped them cel ebrate their 17th wedding anni versary miss herbert of toronto visit ed with her sister mrs minaker over the weekend miss lembert spent the week end at the milton pegg home dr and mrs moore and child ren of deep river visited over tiie holiday with his parents rev and mrs moore mr les devitt of toronto was a caller on relatives one day last week we understand that the farm belonging to the pegg estate has been sold to a city man mr lew sanderson of toronto i mr and mrs frank cooper a wellknown and highly respected claremont couple marked their 85th birthdays last week mar ried in 1902 they will celebrate their 55th wedding anniversary in the fall mr coopers entire life has centered around the village of claremont he is the son of the late mr and mrs geo cooper his father farmed the property now owned by mr wm benson he also operated a butcher shop for a short time at the four cor ners mrs cooper is the daugh ter of the late richard ward and elizabeth evans of balsam mr cooper has always been a lover of horses at the early age of nine years he handled a team on a single plow on his fathers farm he later learned the blacksmiths trade and ap prenticed for three years at ash- burn manchester and sonya like the majority of boys back in the late 1800s he obtained very little schooling he attend ed only in the winter time and gained a basic knowledge of reading writing and arithmetic such an education was all right in those days but wouldnt do today he admits mr cooper can vividly describe the road and weather conditions that pre vailed during his boyhood days we didnt have any buses to take us to school then he said with a shake of his head i can them he continued with a smile since the only means of trans portation in those days was in j spent the holiday with n and mrs wilson remember there were pitch holes anumberof folk took advan- the loati so large you could tage of the bus load going to the almost bury a team of horses in exhibition last thursday mr and mrs james brooks visited at preston for a few days last week the bake sale held last friday afternoon was quite a success taking in 2800 remember the bazaar date is september 21st the afternoon wa will meet next thursday the 12th the place of meeting to be announc ed on sunday miss edna green spent the weekend in the city miss beatrice mclean was guest speaker at the wms meeting at mrs g wilsons mt zion last thursday afternoon a minshall electric organ was a buggy or sleigh community house parties were very popu lar mr cooper recalls how the young people would gather at their sunday school parties and fill the hall to capacity young people today arent satisfied with this type of enter tainment he said theyre al ways looking for something new and different but cant find it mr cooper agrees that the auto mobile and summer cottage have been mainly responsible for much of the change i can re member when the methodist church would be filled to the doors every sunday evening he related now its hard to get more than two dozen people out in recalling many of the changes around the district mr cooper noted the terrific in crease in the value of property my father purchased his farm west of the village for only 4500 he said its worth a good deal more now mr cooper was 24 years old when he entered the black smiths trade i always liked horses he admitted he recall ed how he would purchase a large number of horses and re sell them to local and longdis tance buyers he said that a good horse would sell as high as 250 or 300 he noted rather re luctantly that there was little demand lor good work horses now some farmers dont keep any he said shoeing a horse was an art for mr cooper for stallions mr cooper would make his own horseshoes in his main street shop a stallion completely shod would cost 200 he said that i with two helpers he could shoe four stallions a day there were three other blacksmith shops in claremont ever since his youth mr coo per has known hard work he recalled how he would walk more than two miles a day to the bush and cut wood for 25c per day he noted that s1s00 per month was considered top wages but the average man would earn around 1300 on saturday evening mr and mrs cooper were the honoured guests at the home of their daughter rowena mrs frank barclay all members of the immediate family were present including their two sons char les and dick three daughters isobel mrs wm benson row ena mrs frank barclay eil een four grandchildren and one great grandchild we have a wonderful family theres none better they both agreed mr and mrs cooper were presented with a new vacuum cleaner mr cooper has three sisters mrs rawson and mrs cook both in toronto and mrs walter ward of claremont mrs cooper has six brothers messrs roy fred evans walt and judd ward of claremont and will in oshawa she has one sister mrs wm birkett of stouffville both mr and mrs cooper are quite active mr cooper enjoys working in his garden while mrs cooper takes care of her flowers the tribune joins with their many friends in wishing them many more years of health and happiness together local men top in land judging competition ontario county held its first land judging competition on thursday august 29 in the brougham area under the super vision of the ontario depart ment of agriculture and the metropolitan toronto and reg- on display last sunday in the j ion conservation authority church and will be there yet this to acquaint the contestants sunday with the soil competition and school comemnced on tuesday with the soils of the area mr with mrs g eastwood and miss douglas logsdail assisted by authority tiie first prize for both seniors and juniors being a 2000 scholarship for a wint er short course oac guelph mr art latornel presented soil testing tubes to each com petitor on behalf of the author ity from the enthusiasm that was displayed in this competition it would appear that this competit ion will he one of lie big yearly audrey hopkinson at the helm i bill campbell soils department i events for both seniors and jun ior farmers in ontario county j winners in the competition j were i seniors bert pearson alan ball jack pearson cloyre stear- man all of uxbridge and bob mrs fred byers and mrs p j oac gave instructions during i wilson were visitors in oshawa j the morning on the various soil last tuesday with mrs d lock- horizons pointing out the vari- 1 wood and myrtle wilson ous textures and structures of mrs john brooks and pat the top and subsoil how to es- were exhibition visitors last fri- timate the amount of organic day matter of slope and of erosion holliday of columbu the mission band will start hazard as well as to evaluate juniors elmer maye good- their meetings at the home of the type of drainage run off and wood lloyd wilson uxbridge mr c mctaggart on friday af- percolation and after studying craig peters claremont frank ter 1 oclock all children are in- these points how to classify the barkey claremont murray car- vited to attend land son claremont murray jackson mrs les wilson and janice t i brooklin aubrey carson clare- were callers on oshawa friends last tuesday bloomington sept ion four pits had been dug pre viously in different fields to ex pose the soil jthe competitors mr and mrs russel jordan j were required to score the land of springfield 111 were calling on the various points discussed on relatives here last week i in the morning and then place mr d stony miss helen the lands according to its suita- storry of calendar mrsi carol bility for various crops and give mather of powassan mrs kce icasons for their placing miss betty ann and john of mr hl fair agricultural orangeville were sunday visi- representative was in charge of tors at o h tranmers the competition and was assist- in the afternoon the group i gathered at the farm of w hi m0ilt i tabor brooklin westney son pickering to 1 cetii xoblc oxbridge and jan compete in the actual competit- 1 bucking claremont mt zion has 8 runs per game av in a total of 19 games played by mi zion in the claremont community league this season the defending champions scored a total of 157 runs an average all that a wallflower needs to blossom out at a dance is some son of s per game one contest was mr and mrs r mccormackj ed by art latornel field officer i rained out the clubs defensive and son robert of sudbury were of the metropolitan toronto and record is equally impressive at mr and mrs w a focklers region conservation authority during ke saon ogportio i for a few days robert gave a the prizes u re presented by teams were able to score only 53 cornet solo at the morning i mr wh westney vice chairjrun against the p erma church service arid mr herbert i man of the agriculture and re- 1 ners j was in charge forestation committee of the mt zions record this year is film council ready for fall sessions j with the opening of school the ontario york counties film council is getting ready to again swing into action with new films reconditioned equip ment and renewed vigor we are sorry to repot that mr stan woolon national film board tepresentative for this teij ritory has resigned to go back to university where he will study for the ministry in this place will be mr bert anderson from ottawa who will cover the pe terborough area included in which is port perry markhara and claremont districts since the spring of the year i the film council has resolved it- self into three independent oper ating units and equipment and finances have been broken down three ways so that each library operates on their own mr fred wicks will supervise the markham film library mrs clare keevil looks after the claremont branch and mr f bill i baker oversees the port perry library interested persons or groups are invited to make application to join the film library by pay ing a small annual membership fee for the use of films and pro jectors the low fees do not be gin to pay the operation of the film libraries which is only pos sible by tiie fine cooperation of the librarians who donate their time to promote this work in their communities fees are as follows 1500 per year for a oneroom school ad ditional rooms 500 each org anizations churches or business firms may join for 1500 per year this small fee gives you the opportunity of viewing some 5 or g films each month during the circuit period and includes the use of a sound projector and screen without additional charge in addition the film lib rarian will train an operator without additional cost where else could you get such a bar gain as this this works out to only about 50c per film even families or individuals can be come members at this low rate if you are interested in get ting on the film circuit contact one of the abovementioned film librarians without delay in the protection of migratory birds in canada mr harkness said in a statement the preserve is being named after dewey soper a former bi ologist with the canadian wild life service who discovered the nesting grounds of the blue goose mr soper now lives in retirement in edmonton within the new sanctuary hunting of birds will be pro hibited but exploration and de velopment of mineral resources may be allowed under permit 5 car tax on 10w insured a s5 tax on motorists with less than s100000s20ovk per sonal liability insurance and s5000 property damage insur ance will begin january 1 ont motor vehicles registrar a g macxab said thursday the revenue collected from the tax will be credited to the unsatisfied judgment fund highways officials estimate that 20 percent of the provinces drivers do not have enough in surance to escape the tax the government reported that on july 31 there were 197476s licensed drivers in ontario and i 1699s60 motor vehicles i uxbridge students win bursaries students of the uxbridge high school have been awarded no less than seven dominion pro vincial student aid bursaries according to word received from the department of education the bursaries will go to stu dents in grades xii and xiii ot last year what is even more remarkable three of these bursaries given continued on page 12 whitby dunlop booster club monster cas bingo 5000 in prizes monday sept 9th 1957 9 pm 0 mlll 1 new 1957 car 16 50 games 2i150 special games 1 allexpense trip to oslo norway for world hockey championship or 500 cash 10 door prizes automatic electric gold- plated coffeemaker admission 100 benefits for whitby dunlop booster club baffin bird sanctuary established canada has established its first bird sanctuary in the far north resources minister harkness has announced the 3150 squaremile preserve is located on the southyest side of baffin island in an area rated as the most important summer goose colony in the world it is the heart of the breeding grounds of the blue goose and snow goose and the american brant and hutchins goose also breed in the same area the sanctuary between bow man bay and the kouldjak river j includes the 300 square mile bowman bay game preserve it is about s00 miles northeast of churchill man its northern fringe just pushing past the arej tic circle establishment of the sanctu ary is an important development i i almost on a par with their show ing in 56 last summer in 17 games they chalked up a total j of 152 i uns only 50 were scored against them although during the regular schedule mt zion were able to register one shutout perform- anoe their runsagainst average stands at less than 3 runs per game in the runsscored department mt zion leads the field with 1571 altona rates second with 121 peachs 03 ringwood 5i clare- mont 55 and greenwood 13 in the runs against department peachs lead the league with or 13 in is gemes they chalk ed up shutouts in five of thes games once again altona holds down the second place position with 52 mt zion 55 greenwood fs ringwood 135 ard clare mont 140 mt zion played 13 games while peachs ci iremoni altona and rinciuood played 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