Whitchurch-Stouffville Newspaper Index

Stouffville Tribune (Stouffville, ON), February 18, 1960, p. 15

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4s3333x333x mjualrrv service our o feeds poultry feeds egg0 chick starter mash 18 egg0 chick grower mash 17 egg0 laying mash 1s egg0 laying mash 20 egg0 complete laying mash 16 egg0 polxtry concentrate 34 pig feeds porko pig starter mash 18 pork0 hog grower mash 16 pork0 hog finisher mash 14 porko hog concentrate 35 cattle feeds milk0 dairy complete 16 milk0 dairy concentrate 24 milk0 dairy concentrate 32 milko calf startergrower 20 afllk0 dry freshening 14 stiver m stouffville phones 45wl 91508 altona the annual meeting of the altona wxls will be held next tuesday evening march 1st at 8 oclock the place will be an nounced on sunday there will be election of officers all ladies are welcome last week messrs clements and geggie of toronto teach ers college taught here under the supervision of miss vera mclaren a speedy recovery is wished mrs harry dulraage who is confined to the brierbush hos pital for a few days also to little arthur wideman who was taken to the sick childrens hospital on monday mr and mrs clarence bunk er and children of goodwood vis ited with his parents mr and mrs xorman bunker on sun day evening on thursday mrs dick jones spent the day at home with her parents also after a couple days of block ed roads quite a few people were out walking on sunday more than weve seen walking lor a number of years a number of ladies of our community attended the trous seau tea in honour of nelda dunkeld who was married sun day evening in stouftville it was unfortunate that the storm changed her wedding plans births brodie dr and mrs d w brodie wish to announce the birth of their daughter ma rion carol at scarboro gen eral hospital feb 17 19c0 a sister for jimmy and jane hodgsox mr and mrs rus- sel hodgson are happy to an nounce the arrjval of their son ronald clarence on wed nesday feb 10 1960 at ux- bridge cottage hospital moore mr and mrs eric moore markham happily an nounce the birth of a son v colin edward on february 21 1960 at brierbush hospital a brother for clayton mother and son doing fine morgasox mr and mrs lome morgason announce the birth of a baby girl on febru ary 17 1960 at brierbush hospital stiver howard and bette stiver unionville are happy to announce the birth of their daughter on february 21 1960 at brierbush hospital t1ndall lome and row- enna tindall goodwood wish to announce the birth of a son on february 23 1960 at the brierbush hospital the stourtyllle tosune tbuncjy february 25 1960 ttqt 3 local and personal happenings the veterans construction co of stouffville have started work on a s6000 addition to the melville united church cone 6 markham the project will in clude a modern kitchen and rest rooms stouffville council is asking the firm of engineers cryster davis and jorgenson to visit town to look over the drainage situation on fairvievv ave at home due to road conditions of last week the golden wedding anni versary for mr and mis albert draper of atha will be held on feb 28 at the home of mr and mrs fred draper in the after noon from two to five oclock mr arthur lamb of church i mr fred reynolds well- st one of our senior citizens celebrated his 84th birthday on saturday mr russell smith of ring- wood recentlv returned home from york county hospital in newmarket friends will be pleased to know miss jane birkitt return ed home from the cottage hos pital at uxbriuge on sunaay af ternoon ani is feeling much im proved in health known church street resident marked his ssth birthday on friday he lives alone and does his own household chores 5th line whitchurch the main and only topic of conversation this week is the big storm and surely no one will ever forget the day the in fant prince was born ken bacon was the pied piper of the 6th line as he and george yake led a group of the younger children down the concession to the safety and warmth of their homes the melville children who were stranded when their school bus couldnt get through took refuge in the homes of mrs neilson mrs foote mrs steck- ley and ivirs shaw our thanks to these ladies who opened their doors and larders appreciation too for the men at wintersteins who with their bulldozers and hough loader opened the 6th concession when the plow was unable to get through there are all sorts of stories of people battling their way home by devious routes and methods danny sandiford ar rived home on the snow plow allan and ev jones started 6ut friday night from toronto and were turned back by the police at no 7 highway they started again at 11 am on saturday and finally arrived here at 5 pm after having walked from ring- wood mrs tom v brown park road has been released from the east general hospital since breaking her hip and is at pres ent in a convalescent home at 45 wellcslev st e toronto at home mr and mrs ross thompson rr 2 uxbridge will be at home to relatives and friends on wednesday march 2 from 2 to 4 pm arid s to 10 pm on the occasion of their twenty- fifth wedding anniversary wms meeting the monthly meeting of the afternoon auxiliary of the wo mens missionary society of the united church will be held in the church parlours march 3 at 230 group conveners miss d v mullan and mrs a m wood have arranged a good pro gramme a sincere welcome to all ladies with a special invita tion to new residents prior to fridays big snow storm mrs jos betz 9th cone north reported that a number of daffodils had sprouted through the ground to a height of two inches ioof euchre l o o f euchre thursday march 1 masonic hall s30 pm prizes and lunch admission 50c proceeds to oi t fund potluck suppei dont forget the ioof pot luck supper monday feb 29th at the masonic hall 630 pm pictures program after all welcome afxxsssxxsssaoacsssxsssn theatre markham evenings doors oien 630 sat matinee 115 thurs fri february 25 sat 26 27 mr garfield kellinglon for merly of stouffville was a visi tor from newmarket at the reg ular meeting of the local lions club on monday night it was the occasion for the annual ora torical conteset and a number of parents as well as high school teachers and representa tives from the high school board attended another group of ladies have flown south miss vera tarr mrs walter gray of lemonville mrs percy tarr lloyd ave and mrs wm harper obrien ave left malton by plane on tuesday morning for ft pierce florida where they expect to spend a 2week holiday while at fort pierce mrs gray will be able to visit with her brother tom brown formerly of stouff ville mr roy wilson cone 7 pick ering told the tribune last week that the response from his clas sified advertisement inserted in the issue of feb is was so suc cessful that he was able to sell a number of border collie pups on the day the paper was pub lished he noted further that after inserting an adv in an ear lier issue he obtained results even before he had received his own paper in the mail they sure do bring results he said the public is invited to attend the annual film night in the stouffville dist high school on friday evening at eight oclock the programme is sponsored by the boys athletic association the film entitled julius caesar will star marlon brando james mason and debra kerr the main feature will be preceded by a short film tickets may be purchased from any boy at the school the admission is 50c for adults and 25c for children all proceeds will be used to promote the athletic programme in the school jack webb 30 with jack webb david nelson the oregon trail with fred macmurray color cinemascope no favourites fridays blinding snow storm played no favorites both cars and trucks became stranded in waisthigh drifts at the height of the blizzard police estimated that more than 100 vehicles were marooned on no 48 highway between ringwood and markham top an mg sports car was vacated near dicksons hill and was almost complete ly covered with snow lower feasbys transport truck of stouffville was left on the edge of the pavement two miles north of markham village its owner took refuge in the dickson hill school staff photos mon tues wed feb 29 mar 1 2 the best of everything stephen boyd hope lange cinemascope admittance the womens institute held their monthly meeting in christ church hall on main street on thursday feb 18th with mrs w smith presiding a nice turn out of members and one visitor heard the business and a new project is coming up for the ladies that will be most inter esting after the business a program including singing from the wi song book miss winn gave us ten commandments of how to get along with peo ple mrs r fleury read an article called the history of the garden and told the origin of many of our everyday vege tables such as the home of potatoes was chile peas came from afghanistan spinach and lettuce belonged to iran rhu barb originated in asia minor and many more a nice lunch followed hostesses were mrs j hoover mrs atkinson and mrs w smith midwinter music results five pupils of miss anne leh man atcm pased royal con servatory examinations mary foote grade vii piano john nolan grade vi piano lois stouffer grade iii harmony 1st class honors lois stouffer gr hi history honors frances fair grade i theory first class honors and mary anderson gr i theory first class honors a triple duet of pupils all boys from orchard park pub lic school came off with a sec ond prize at the kiwanis festi val the six boys were ronnie galamore and teddy topping from grade 5 blair wagg ran dy mole billy mercer and tom my brillinger from grade 6 the group received 80 poins they were directed by miss mo na armstrong local school mu sic director main st tenders- word has been received from the dept of highways that the tender for widening and repay ing highway 47 from church st in town to ringwood will be let in august the plans call for the new street to be forty feet wide all the way through the business section with the exception of the portion neart obrien ave is presently forty ft with the westend residential only 28 ft ltort society meeting the local horticultural so ciety held their regular monthly meeting on monday night in the basement of the united church there was a good attendance in spite of the condition of the roads mr joe tiffin of scar borough showed pictures of a recent trip they had been on down to bar harbour maine and from there to nova scotia where they had taken many pictures showing peggys cove and percd rock two solos by miss lynda no lan accompanied by her mother were exceptionally well done a humorous reading tv station bunk was given by miss jean hosle mr bruce smith son of mr and mrs everton smith mill st has secured a good job with a company in calgary alberta he is working for the electro technical lamps co who make all kinds of test equipment for amplifiers and geophones and he is enjoying the work mrs blake sanders of second st spent the weekend with her niece in toronto mrs charlie gostick park rd north spent a few days this past week in pickering with her sister miss edna kaves triple trio from the summit view public school came second on friday at the musical festi val in eaton auditorium the triple trio consisted of 6 girls and 3 boys from grades 7 and s second street couple married for fifty years mr and mrs elmer ferguson second st celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on tues day feb 16 a reception was held in the basement of the presbyterian church in the af ternoon when around 60 guests called to pay their respects to this wellknown couple the willing helpers of the church catered for the lunch mrs ste vens mrs battesby and mrs thompson poured tea there are three girls in the ferguson family gwen mrs gordon cober and ruth mrs dunn both of toronto and marian mrs baldwin good wood there are 14 grandchild ren and 4 greatgrandchildren many gifts were received those from the family were a tele vision set and a tv lamp and clock in the form of an old covered wagon drawn by four horses mrs ferguson was the former mabel brown of sehomberg and the groom of fifty years ago resided just west of king the couple drove from the brides home after the wedding by horse and cutter to aurora where they went by train to midland for a honeymoon the couple lived near schom berg until 1922 when they mov ed nearer stouffville to farm on the 10th concession of m-tk- ham the former watson fair mr and mrs ferguson also resided on the boyer place just south of the village and spent thirteen years on a farm north of ringwood they have lived retired in town for the past 13 years mr and mrs earner ferguson winter blackout onehalf of the home owned by mr mnd mrs russell hol der 371 elm road stourrville u almost completely hidden by one huge snow drift thc5 houses in the northwest cor ner of tewn were hardest hit by fridays blizzard the ent- ranca to almost every resi dence was walled in by large banks staff photo mrs wilson heads park board mrs hilda wilson is the 1960 chairman of the stouffville com munity centre board mrs betty hanson is the secretary and ted cadieux is chairman of the grounds committee the board has held the first meeting of the new year and plans an ag gressive program of mainten ance for the park grounds the reestablishment of flower beds and cleaning of ihe creek are two of the major items on the agenda edgevale school of dance principal m l mumford classes in ballet tap keep fit classes have commenced for information phone 335w3 stonftville 82 ninth line feed them l5ioivfb chigk starter stouffville coop tdcpjion 122 or 269

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