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m stowvim reran iwjv umi n nut n t ywwxtyjls special mostly one pair of a kind shoes as high as group 799 now selling 1199 be here early percent sweaters pullovers cardigans vests top tweeds and qabard1nes mens dress shirts whites plains stripes reg 595 sale price 2 for 500 mens tie fr sock set reg 398 now 199 k h iiswikgs8kbs8 i mens reg- to t50 sale price 1399 womens dress shoe mens all wool tweed sports jackets reg 2950 sale price 1999 boys coat sale suburban clicker coats reg 1595 sale price 88 medium high heels reg to 995 sale price 499 teens dress casual flats reg to 695 now 299 boys dress pants reg 695 mmm sale prici 3 pairs for s700 shoes and mens wear 172 w main st stouffville a visit to my boyhood farm of 50 years ago lot 33 con 3 pickering by geo cober gormley out i recently visited and had din ner with james mcgriskeii who bought the fatm from jesse co ber in 1910 my father john co ber reared a large family of 13 children the writer being the youngest i spent a pleasant day around the buildings and walking out the lane this brought many pleasant memor ies back to my mind of all who attended cherrywood school i will name those who are left win judd wm sinclar russell davidson joseph burkholder john petty sandy gourlie jos eph garland waller hollinger and edward lintner my first teachers were thomas hender son f a dales who later be came out family doctor in stou- ftvllle also a director of the be- thesda telephone company archie smith and james drum- mond their salary was approx imately 300 a year miss fergu son of sunderland and alexan der macintosh were among the first school teachers during my school days farm ers let their children go to school until they were is or 10 years of age in the winter they walked barefooted in he summer the first trustees were jarres mccrcght fred roach and george davidson sr later in my years at school john hen derson george davidson and noah burkholder were the trus tees everyone had to walk to school the first bell used to ring at a quarter to nine and then at nine which made sure we would not be late we boys used to have the privilege of ringing the hell at that time the dinner mis were all the go you would hear them from twenty after eleven until a quar ter to twelve the boys knew everyone even the horses knew our bell from the rest at pres ent this is a thing of the past the winters were very cold ind stormy a few farmers namely john r reesor and no ah burkholder used to hitch their horses to a bobsled and jive rides to the children often the box would be tilled and all would have a jolly time the big chool would b heated by a big box stove x the rear end of the school the front seats where the little children sat were very cold the boys that i sat with were joseph allison edward cober walter hender son willie green and joseph garland at that time we used to play a game called shinny we had no hockey sticks we used to get a branch off a tree with a crook in it we had no skating rink i learned to skate with wooden skates we also played football baseball and horse shoes every year pickering town ship had a union school picnic at rosebank at lake ontario the children would ride on wag ons drawn by fine horses with shining harness covered with ribbons the best entry received a prize mr and mrs james chap man were the school caretakers he cut some of the best hard wood with a bucksaw and piled it in the woodshed at that time cherrywood was a busy place mr charles petty owned a brick and tile yard as a boy i saw mr pettys first tile machine they turned it by hand some of the men he hired were george gates charles lintner william norris and george osland mr petty also owned a farm store and several houses he was a real businessman murray sum- merfelt was the first storekeeper that i recall others were alfred mcpherson john green and tom robins the store was handy to the school and many a cents worth of candy was pur chased over the counter cherry- wood also had some first class blacksmiths some were william irvin james clayton herb poynter and robt davidson nearby was a carpenter shop operated by nathaniel burk holder we all looked forward to threshing days one man would tend the engine two men would feed the machine one would cut bands four would work in the mow one or two would carry boxes one would wok behind the rackers and five or six in the straw mow it brought a lot of the neighbours together the women folk provided an excel lent meat the farmer woum hrch his team to the engine and take it to the next place the thresher would draw the ma chine with his team the young boys would get a real thrill when the engine driver would let them blow the whistle every one enjoyed hearing it blow at 12 and 6 oclock the first threshers i can re member were nathaniel burk holder peter cober daniel hoo ver and later walter hoover and william reesor they al ways threshed 10 hours a day and did a good job jesse reesor and his father samuel reesor were also among the early threshers another big day for us chil dren was the big butchering day when every farmer used to kill from four to eight pigs finished off with pea chop they would dress about 300 pounds this took a lot of extra help as the meat was cut up into hams and shoulders it all was salted and smoked with maple green chips and the fat went into lard and the rest into sausage and liver- worst this took all day the best of it was we had sausage for supper and all who had help ed got a taste of it also some liverworst this was the best food a man could eat as it gave him the strength he needed for hard work in the bush we also looked forward to the day when we extracted honey this was a busy day as we used to have about fifty swarms of bees ah the combs had to be uncapped before they were put in the extractor we children liked to turn it and sec the honey fly out of the comb of course at that time honey was plentiful and everyone ate to their hearts content we used to sell the honey for eight or ten cents a pound in the spring of the ear we used to tap around 150 trees and make maple syrup we would gather it together in pails with a yoke over our shoulder and then pour it into a big tub and boil it down in a big pan over a fireplace we usu ally started at daylight and would keep working until night then we would carry the syrup neirly a half mile to the cook father would boil it down into molasses and sell a lot of it in whitcvale for 125 per gallon the children always enjoyed the taffy and maple sugar when it was made these are some of the mem ories we dont forget when we get old very little money was received for the hard work in volved but everyone was happy and enjoyed life better than to day where everything is mod ern now coining back to my fa thers place he came from vau- ghan township around 1856 and had a large stone house built as he had a very stony farm a mason by the name of john pcarse sr built ihe house as he did a number of others this house is just as good as ever the first jointing mortar i still there father built the house in 1858 his brother- jacob did the carpenter work my father told me they took a ladder up and put a plank on the ladder and then put the stone in the wheel barrow mr pearse tied a plow line on the wheelbarrow and pulled and my father shoved on the handle this was the way they got the stones onto ihe scaffold which was very hard work mr pearse worked iong hours for very little money as money was scarce in those days my father and mother be longed to the tunker church mjr grandfather was elder for over 40 years aid my father held meetings every sixteen weeks in his home for over 40 years this was discontinued in j904 when he left and moved to gormley he died in 1918 in his 88tfc year and mother in 1921 in her 83rd year the ministers that used to preach were john byer of north markham elder samuel baker of gormley elder henry r jieise of victoria square peter baker of gormley fred elliott of richmond hill abra ham vinger maple and peter stickley of bethesda the dea cons were christopher heise danfcl steckley sr david leh man john doner reuben heise and john w heise this official start were all firt class farmers and men took his turn every 16 house where we had an old- weeks and preached the gospel fashioned fireplace acd here of jeeuc christ free of charge they spent much of their time visiting their flock and as many others as possible these meet ings made a lot of extra work for the women as they did the baking in an outside bake oven and they always cooked a large ham often some of the people came saturday afternoon and stayed all night they had a prayer meeting at night and the gospel was preached at 10 o clock the next morning every one was invited to stay for din ner and they had a social lime together father had a love feast in his barn in 1875 they had no churches then and as mention ed services were held in 16 dif ferent homes until the church was built in 1877 of course in those days boys were boys and at a time like this they would cut up and disturb the meeting but fathers neighbour james mccreight who was justice of the peace stood up and said gentlemen i want you to know this is a place of worship and i want all of ou to behave your selves that slopped il and there was good order all thro ugh ihe services i dont want to forget hie methodist church which i at tended for a number of years i went to sunday school at 10 oclock and to church in the evening the ss superintend ents were fred roach james todd james laughlin and wm j taylor christian stover em ma taylor and later win j taylor were my teachers we had a very fine sunday school some of the ministers were rev vickery toye casscadden shipman lunau moore reyn old james taylor and james laughlin were the deacons these are some of the fami lies- which attended charlie pet ty sr fred roach james gil christ francis judd john hen derson george hedges james mainland charlie smith john curtain wm money jas todd john timbers george david son nathaniel burkholder wm burkholder jesse burkholder chris stover ben stover har vey burkholder james fergu son george gates wm nor ris george osland ben carter wm carter joseph collins wm pilkey and wm spencer i always thought they had a very fine congregation in those days a lot of the people walked but there was nothing better than a good horse and top bug gy for the summer and a cutter with a good string of bells for the winter we used to receive our maili every other day i can rememj ber when the first daily paper started the toronto news and the toronto world which sold for 100 a year tom hague was one of the mail carriers who went through all kinds of bad roads and weather in those days there were two or three tramps who walked the roads the children were afraid of them they got their meals and night lodging from the far mers this of course is not seen today let us not forget the old landmarks and those who work ed so hard for what we are en joying today we are now liv ing in an altogether different world than in the days of our fathers especially during the last fifty years george cober gormley ont bloomington tiie january wa meeting was held at the home of mr and mrs p brown thursday afternoon this was the annual election for 1960 after the var ious reports were tabled and ap proved the nominating commit tee of mrs j winterstcin mrs c tindall and mrs harding pre sented the slate of officers as follows pres mrs wm dougherty vice pres mrs o t harding secty mrs c lemon assl mrs e baker treas mrs mur ray barnes missionary treas mrs it tomlinson pianist mrs w a fockler assist mrs o baker flower committee mrs e lemon mrs percy brown mrs dawson burnett box and visit ing comm mrs v wagg mrs c tindall mrs simmons social comm mrs v wagg mrs c tindall mrs wallace vaughan mrs c lemon sew ing comm mrs e nesbitl mrs o harding mrs e lemon mrs ii burnett missionary comm mrs elmer burnett mrs e baker mis o tranmer mrs m barnes lookout com mittee mrs jos winterstcin mrs d burnett mrs a w stony mr simmons conducted a sjiort dedication service install ing the officers it was decided to donate the money remaining in the treasury to the canadinii mission hostesses were mrs c lemon and mrs m barnes the united states is the larg est producer of peaches with about twothirds of the total and also produces about one fifth of the worlds cherry crop and the same proportion of the world crop of plums and prunes during he middle ages aurl until the industrial revolution in england work from sunrise to sunset was eustomary wanted more cream shippers vor best results ship your cream lo stouflvhio creamery wc pay two cents more per pound butterfat for cream delivered to the creamery to have our truck call phone 186w stoufiville creamery co cold storage lockers for rent a i ifckkickicirkirickkkkkirkickicickk mdrwirmrmf