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tt thi stourtolf tbb0w thny fci 1 r96t uxbridge claremont rev m buttaxs of the pick ering united church was the guest pastor at the claremont united on sunday on the occa- sion of their anniversary serv ices rev cresswell exchanged pulpits for the day the businessmens associa tion met monday evening and the 150th anniversary of pick ering township was foremost on the agenda a banquet may be arranged but nothing definite has been settled the village hopes to place a float in the parade two carloads of stouffville bowlers attended a jitney at the local greens on may 22nd mr and mrs arthur bates of woodbridge were visitors with mr and mrs don hedges and family mr len lye is spending a lew days at the home of his on tom in toronto mr wm voss entertained mr and mrs bud norton mr and mrs harold redshaw and mr and mrs bob redshaw and family at his home on sunday miss erma redshaw a po tent lnfielder with the stouff ville girls softball team suf fered a badly bruised right eye last week at barrie in the first game of the season a wild pitch hit her on the head and she was dazed by the blow to date the local secondsacker has suffered more injuries than any other member of the club including a broken finger betty and rae ward will be the hosts at a young peoples party of the baptist church on friday evening of this week the wa of the united church met last thursday evening in the sunday school room the president mrs wallace opened the meeting a total of 52 peo ple enjoyed the chesebrough- punds tour the program com mittee for june is mrs mccon- nell and mrs f evans mrs richard ward opened the de votional period mrs k drake and mr e ward accompanied by mrs w evans at the piano favoured with a duet mrs w evans read the scripture and mrs j ward read a poem mrs cresswell introduced miss lois cullls of oshawa who took us on a trip via pictures and com mentary to england scotland france belgium germany hol land italy and switzerland mrs roy ward past president voiced a word of appreciation to miss cullis for such an en tertaining evening rev cress well closed the meeting with prayer claremont recreation com mittee met at the home of mrs f hollingshead on thursday plans for the red cross swim ming and safety program were made which will take place around the first two weeks in july at bakers pool the in structress will be mrs helen vizely children able to take advantage of this will be from grade 5 up classes of begin ners juniors intermediates and seniors will complete the pro gram registration will be done through the school the recrea tion committee hopes to also sponsor pee wee and bantam softball teams this year de pending on the help of men for coaching the entries anyone in terested should contact mrs i ronnie on friday evening the pat boone fan club held a very successful dance in the com munity hall with over fifty young people in attendance a fourpiece orchestra provided most of the music spot dances and elimination dances complete with prizes valerie rennie gave a word of welcome on behalf of the club and lynn gliddon thanked everyone and the orch estra for the great response to their first dance mr and mrs a rudolph and family were sunday guests at the home of mr and mrs a samarillo sorry to report mrs a ros- zelle has been admitted to the hospital in alliston after a bad attack of asthma mr and mrs gord taylor and some friends spent last week end at their cottage on hawk lake dr and mrs w f tomllnson spent last weekend in hamilton visiting their son allan mr blake briscoe of toronto was a weekend visitor at the home of his parents mr and mrs james briscoe in clare mont beginning june 2 students in grade 13 at pickering high school will be exempt from at tending classes this is in order that they may study at home for their final examinations to commence june 12 the senior citizens will leave by bus on tuesday may 30 for niagara falls where they will view the flowers and many scenic places in that area a local auction sale will take place next saturday at the home of the late john beolby there are many interesting items for sale including some antiques it is understood that the home has been sold great plans have gone ahead in preparation for the first park on june 17 this will in terest people over a wide area of this district as there is a large family connection many from distant points in ontario and the united states mr and mrs david ferguson sons david and george of glas gow scotland spent the holi day weekend with mr and mrs robert barton mr david fer guson caught his first canadian trout and was indeed very ex cited the wee fergusons would like very much to stay in clare mont pickering tp news audley advance orders coming in for historical book jas farley was lifelong resident of brougham mr james a farley a life long resident of the brougham community passed away at the toronto hospital at weston on friday may 26 in his 71st year he was well known here having attended brock rd school in his early days he leaves his wife the former mabel white also two daughters helen mrs geo holtby of brougham and phyllis mrs ross madill of rr 1 whitby also 3 grand- children james and patsy gray and dean holtby also one great- granddaughter cindy gray and one sister mrs annie rodd of port bolster the funeral was conducted from mceaehnies funeral home to brougham cemetery on monday may 29 the sympathy of the commun ity is extended to the bereaved family brougham the womans association of st johns church will hold their next meeting on wednesday evening june 7 at the home of mrs h miller assisted by mrs robert miller and mrs lemon the devotional to be taken by mrs c burrows rev a e cresswell will be guest speaker all ladies welcome the friendly bible class will meet at the home of mr and mrs manson ellicott on mon day evening june 5 mr and mrs j bradshaw and family of brock rd visited mr and mrs k c pascoe on sun day mr s stephenson of toronto visited his sister mrs randal ellicott during the weekend sorry to hear mr dean mairs is now in the oshawa hospital where he was forced to go for treatment brougham choir were guests at whitby united church on sunday morning the d i l association will hold their third annual reunlon in the form of a picnic at lake- view park oshawa on june 25 commencing at 11 am for fur ther particulars apply to mr gordon day brougham all those who are interested in taking swimming lessons at brock road pool for the month of july monday to friday please contact mrs d gibson at wh 25817 children must be 6 or in grade 1 transportation will be provided for a small fee and children will be expected to pay for their lessons space is limited so first to enroll are the lucky ones the following were lucky win ners at the tuesday evening euchre mrs thompson mrs m pilkey mrs malcolm mr h susan mr b lotton and mr w trolley mr and mrs thos english spent the weekend with friends at bracebridge mrs vanluvan miss davis and mr davis all of oshawa called on mrs geo perry one day last week mrs e l crocker of toronto is spending a few days witli her brother wc and mrs will- son the cgit closed the spring activities with a family potluck supper at the church when about seventy adults and child ren attended the president anne guthrie was chairman for the short program mrs ron johnson ajax led the worship service and gave a talk on the home mr and mrs e pegg kathy and hal entertained with several musical numbers in cluding a song and dance num ber by kathy and two numbers by edgie on a saw mr r nich olson whitby played for com munity singing the girls sang a few songs learned during the year the sunday school anniver sary service was held on sun day afternoon with the rev a e cresswell as guest speaker the children sang two num bers eileen guthrie was org anist for the service bob rich ards and stanley wonnacott re ceived the offering the sacrament of the lords supper will be observed at the church service next sunday at 230 pm on june 11 and dur ing the summer church will be at 945 followed by sunday school at 1045 am the rev m buttars and charlie clemence are attending bay of quinte united church conference at queens univer sity kingston this week club meets this saturday eve ning at the home of bert and mrs guthrie when mr ivan law whitby will show colour ed pictures the ladies of the wa are busy preparing for their bazaar afternoon tea and bake sale to be held on saturday june 10 from 3 to 5 pm some of the ladies attended a bazaar and tea at greenwood on saturday miss joan esdale spent the weekend at the home of dick and mrs winter the community welcomes mr and mrs rolf steger and three preschool children from tor onto who have bought the for mer tallon home ratepayer charges inefficiencies in twp police department a total of 78 advance orders have been received for the pickering story an historical book to be published in connec tion with the townships 150th anniversary on july 1 2 and 3 two thousand copies will be printed the orders are being received by mrs elsa storry of broug ham if the copy and pictures are filed on time the printer has guaranteed the books comple tion in time for sale during the anniversary occasion atha mr and mrs ed macaloney and brian were dinner guests on sunday with mr and mrs tom clark in ballantrae dougie dunkeld is sick with the measles get well soon dou gie mr and mrs e carruthers ruth ann mrs a carruthers attended the 45th wedding an niversary of mr and mrs fos ter wagg on sunday a number of ladies from here attended the district annual meeting of the womens insti tute held at myrtle last week mr and mrs john robb from markham spent monday even ing with the carruthers fam ily altona english junior farmer delegate coming here miss beryl cookson an eng lish junior farmer from tim- berth farm montgomery eng land will be visiting in ontario county from friday june 2nd until wednesday june 14th miss cookson is one of four english junior farmers now visiting in the province on an exchange visit of junior far mer delegates between ontario and great britain each year a delegation of four junior farm ers from the province of on tario visits great britain and northern ireland and in return a delegation of english scotch and irish junior farmers visit in ontario this exchange of junior far mer delegates is sponsored jointly by the junior farmers association of ontario the de partment of agriculture and the great britain and northern ireland departments of agri culture during her stay in ontario county miss cookson will visit at the homes of miss helen good used tractors in a1 condition at prices that cant be beat anywhere snow and ice didnt stop six of our local fishermen from camping out in algonquin park last week rev d sargent bob lewis ab foster fred mcnair ellis melton and don boake braved the elements and came home with a nice catch of trout the w m s meeting has been postponed until monday june 19th at which time miss finney of bolivia will speak and show pictures of her work there the meeting will be held at the home of mrs c hodg son miss wendy lee and mr and mrs john thompson were sun day visitors at the stan thomp son home mr and mrs ted jones and family were supper guests of mr and mrs george harvie on sunday mr and mrs hubert mcgar- vey of wasaga beach visited his father mr robt mcgarvey and sister mrs al jakeman and family on saturday mr and mrs j e walker of agincourt were sunday guests of mr and mrs norman bun ker mrs walker lived in this community a number of years ago mr and mrs don goudie and children visited in brantford on sunday with her grandmother mrs c swimm and an uncle and aunt mr and mrs cecil smith green river a written complaint sub mitted through councillor clif ford laycox to pickering town ship council concerning in efficiencies in the pickering police department will be pass ed on to the police commission for further study this action was taken on monday night after a west rouge ratepayer andy dande criticized the oper ation of the force when they were summoned to his golf course premises on several oc casions the most recent incident ac cording to mr dandes letter involved a lady stricken with a heart attack he claimed that four officers in two cruisers ar rived on the scene without a doctor ambulance or oxygen and stood around while she died he charged that with lis- mediate medical attention her life might possibly have been spared he charged further that in sending two cars and four men the remaining portion of the municipality was left un protected in addition he said that an investigation had been carried out on his property with out a search warrant and in an other instance he had been im properly charged and the offi cer in question had perjured himself on the stand in court he claims he cannot get any cooperation from the police and as one of the townships largest taxpayers he should de serve some service said coun cillor laycox whether hes the largest or the smallest taxpayer in the municipality is not important said reeve sherman scott the police should be interested in protecting everyone the reeve said that he had asked mr dande to address his re marks in writing to the police commission but he had refused if he will not file his com plaints to the commission i will not bring them up he said hes worn a path to my door commented councillor laycox he noted that it was not un common for children to play ball on his golf greens and use the flag for home plate mr laycox said that according to mr dande the police had been called but they did not arrive reeve scott noted that in ref erence to the suggested perjury charge mr dande had been given the opportunity to lay charges against the officer but he declined to take this action councillor milton mowbray suggested that two letters sub mitted by mr dande through councillor laycox should be placed before a meeting of the police commission this action was approved would operate smelting plant on concession 3 a toronto man has asked pickering township councils approval of a smelting plant at lot 22 cone 3 mr allerton a real estate agent introduced mr golden to council at a meet ing on monday night the oper ation would take place in an abandoned gravel pit and would hand mainly discarded c f- 100 aircraft obtained through the government mr golden ad mitted that there would be some smoke and odour two furnaces would be installed at a cost of 15000 each one advantage it has over a wrecking yard is that the sciap pile would go down ra ther than up commented dep utyreeve edgar james reeve sherman scott suggest ed that the council should in spect the proposed site mass choir to lead great openair devotional for 150th anniversary ashburn morrison beavcrton rr 2 and ward reunion which will be miss evelyn dunkeld clare- fceld in darcraont community mont rr z 1956 vac case with hydraulics model d case md international diesel minneapolis tractor with new motor and tires ken ward phone claremont 7w mr w snow who is scout master for a group of local boys took them on a very pleas ant camping trip recently to the conservation park south of greenwood master peter calladine and glen oldfield attended camp aratabon at bolton this past weekend this is an english church camp and needless to say the boys enjoyed their out ing very much mrs m draper and mrs w mcleod visited with their sis ter and family mr and mrs t barefoot of welland junction this past week very hearty congratulations and best wishes should bo ex- tended to david perry son of mr and mrs alfred perry who graduated with honors from the university of toronto recently the subject in which he ma jored was in political science david is respected by all who know him and we feel it only fitting to wish him the very best in the days that are ahead perhaps it would be fitting to extend congratulations also to ted cook son of mr and mrs j cook who were onetime resi dents of our community ted attended public school here and graduated in an honor course in modern languages and liter ature the happy hour held its final meeting of the current season on saturday afternoon when mrs o beggott was the guest speaker sorry to have omitted the meeting of the ladies aid in last weeks news it was held at the home of mrs r cardy on may 17th the guest speaker was miss bunt of the toronto city mission and her talk and pictures proved most interest ing to all at the conclusion of the meeting lunch was served by the hostesses mrs allan michell and mrs w chafen mr and mrs w chafen at tended a celebration at the home of mrs w sowerby in honor of their mothers birthday mrs cornutt of the brock road mrs henry doble spent the weekend at the home of mr and mrs earl martyn prince al bert miss joy bradley nurse-in- training at the oshawa general hospital is spending her holi days with her parents mr and mrs luther bradley mr russell batten attended the postmasters convention in peterboro last week mr and mrs russell walker of calgary alberta visited at the home of mr and mrs a holman mrs russell richardson spent last weekend with mr and mrs clyde playfair in toronto mr and mrs james handley of toronto mrs a peddle and son arthur of claremont visit ed mrs wm hopkins during the week mr and mrs russell batten ross and judith spent the holi day weekend in ottawa mr and mrs wm sparks and family of camp borden visited mrs m sparks on sun day mrs donald purdy of tor onto spent a couple of days witli mr and mrs h ashton mrs vernon hamilton of belleville and mrs n mowat of toronto were weekend visi tors with mr and mrs grant parrott the sympathy of the com munity is extended to mr alf red parrott and family in the death of the late mrs a par rott at the open gate nursing home on wednesday may 21 the funeral service was held from the robinson funeral home brooklin on friday may 2gth at 230 pm with burial at groveside cemetery the sacrament of the tords supper will be observed on sunday june 11th at burns church at 1130 am with pre paratory service on friday eve ning june 9th at 8 oclock the young peoples society meeting was held in the base ment of the church on sunday evening may 28th when the film teen age crusade was shown the ladies guild held their monthly meeting in the church basement on wednesday may 24th at 813 pm after the wor ship and business period the cherrywood the ladies of the cherrywood womans association entertain ed guests from unionville stouffville cedar grove locust hill markham whitevale bro- ugham centennial and dunbar- ton at their meeting on wed nesday afternoon the guest speaker for the day was mrs k jull associate members sec retary of the dominion board of the wms she led a very informative discussion on the new organization mrs rose and mrs rae of markham had charge of the devotional period giving some very inspirational thoughts on the resurrection mrs h hagerman of locust hill rendered the familiar sac red solo beside the still wat ers her accompanist was mrs c whittaker of cedar grove aftet the benediction was pro nounced the guests were en tertained in the church hall with a dainty lunch mothers day was fittingly observed in the united church here when the congregation and sunday school had a combined service rev c p shapter gave the address the senior ss conducted the scripture read ing and sang an anthem the primary department contrib uted a chorus mrs b heaslip of dunnvllle was a weekend guest with mr and mrs leonard gates recent ly- mrs f cockburn and family spent saturday at the home of her father mr l gates recent ly the report from the picker ing township 150th anniver sary committee states there will be an evening devotional service commencing at 7 pm on sunday july 2 at the clare mont conservation area it wil be in a setting of rolling hills to form a natural amphitheatre the anniversary choir will consist of ten representatives from each church in pickering township and the village with mr allan clark as director of music also young voices from the pickering high school choh will render two selections that have been giving pleasure to people for generations at the beginning of the service the choir will sing favourite gospel hymns followed by a speaker the committee is trying to obtain an old organ which has to be cranked it would serve as a very useful antique and also hydro lines would not have to be installed to operate an elec tric instrument it is hoped that copies of the service will be circulated well in advance of the date and also some special invitations in a future issue we will pub lish a more detailed report on this and other segments of the celebration will not alter stand on salvage yard pickering township council has refused to alter its stand on a proposed salvage yard to be operated by mr charles wil cox on the station road south of hwy no 2 the council were in receipt of a cheque for 52500 on monday night to cover the license fee reeve sherman scott inform ed the members that mr wil cox application in the fall had been withdrawn and a new ap plication had been submitted this year which was rejected i dont think we can take any action since we have al ready passed a motion to re fuse it said deputyreeve ed gar james councillor milton mowbray suggested that such an opera tion was prohibitive since two readings had already been given to the zoning bylaw glen major mr and mrs jim jones fran and john visited saturday eve ning with mr and mrs walter biggs and family oshawa mr and mrs albert lee is lington visited en sunday with mr and mrs j a hingston weekend guests with mrs clinton neville were mr and mrs jeffery carter and mr and mrs hugh macdonald to ronto peter and caroline buzek entertained a number of their friends to a birthday party on saturday miss r matthews spent th weekend with mr and mrs mac allbright mr and mrs allan holman brooklin and mr and mrs joe johnson whitby visited on sunday with mr and mrs ed gar johnson mrs george pickett spent one day last week in toronto mr and mrs jim mcdonald toronto spent monday last with mr and mrs joe forsythe mrs charles fiss mr and mrs jim jones frank and john visited miss shirley jones to ronto on sunday nearly 50 at yp banquet goodwood this is your invitation to at tend a miscellaneous shower at the goodwood united church on monday june 5 at 830 for miss laura feasby and mr frank hendy the 70th annual sunday school convention of uxbridge and scott sunday school asso ciation will be held in chalmers presbyterian church uxbridge on saturday june 3 at 130 pm mr harold uowell and boys spent the weekend at halls lake miss lorraine jones had sev eral friends in on saturday to help celebrate her 8th birthday mr fred baston and mr gor don blight are progressing sat isfactorily after their operations in toronto hospitals the womans association will meet in the united church on thursday june 1st at 2 pm mr w hewlett had the mis fortune of breaking several bones in his foot while at work last week mr and mrs lcs mayers at tended a three day conference on communication at the ag ricultural college guelph last week mr and mrs allan taylor and family and mr and mrs stewart mcguckin and family of brougham motored to quec- nstc and niagara falls on sun day reporting the blossoms were beautiful mrs r may sympathy of the community is extended to mrs distin mc donald and mr a mcdonald mr mcdonald passed away on sunday morning after an ill ness of only a few weeks mr lapp and mr jim wilson showed a very instructive tem perance sound film at the bap tist sunday school this film is sponsored by the uxbridge- scott sunday school conven tion do not let it bypass your school mr and mrs john flippance had sunday dinner with mrs baldwin and called on her uncle mr baldwin in stouffville nurs ing home pditie sue and donna may are the latest victims of mea sles miss laura feasby and mr frank hendy were recipients of many useful and lovely gifts gathered for a community show er miss helen symes read the presentation address miss grace gall and dean wilson presented a basket of beautiful gifts the bride and groom to be each gave a very hearty thank- you to all mr and mrs ron james and family attended anniversary at the baptist church and had tea with her parents mr and mrs d wagg mr and mrs dean percy had sunday supper with her parents mr and mrs wm may and at tended anniversary service mr and mrs thompson and mrs bennett of toronto attend ed the anniversary service mr and mrs lome white of welland visited with miss ethel and bob white on the week end mr lance couling visited his sister mrs baldwin on wednes day and thursday mrs bald win returned to his home in georgetown until saturday many attended the farm auc tion of mr ralph faulkner this is one of the few farms to change hands on fourth line fortyseven persons attended the annual young peoples ban quet of mt zion united church on friday evening may 19th members of the sunday school executive church elders stew arts and trustees were present as guests the president mr grant jones was master of cer emonies the president summed up the work of the young peoples so ciety during the past year and commended the members for their faithful attendance he credited this in part to the arrangement of good sunday evening programmes by the group leaders rev t fleetham praised the organization for its efforts and wished them continued success in the year ahead mr murray jones superintendent of the sunday school spoke briefly he expressed the hope that the young peoples society attend ance would be even larger next year the guest speaker for the occasion was mrs karel buzek of chalk lake she was in troduced by miss mary jean jamieson mrs buzek showed some very interesting and educational pic tures on russia which she and her husband had taken a few years ago she was thanked by mr fred fiss a further word of appreciation was added by mr grant jones the evening closed with a hymn and bene diction by rev t fleetham south in some years junior bypu is at seven- thirty on friday mr reuben pcarce called on his cousin mr john may in goodwood recently the bible society meeting for goodwood and district will be held in the united church on wednesday june 7 miss lorna maye of oshawa hospital is spending a long weekend with her parents mr and mrs bert maye mrs wm redman of agin court is spending a few days at her home hero colourful parade is planned for big day entries are being filed in pic kering townships 150th an niversary celebration parade which will take place on satur day afternoon july 1st the committee is anxious to expand the procession proposed ent ries should contract mr clare balsdon at whitehall 2g051 or jack mitchell at claremont 1c3- jl the parade will commence at the brock road and no 2 high way at 1 pm from this point it will travel to the four corn ers of pickering village then north to the high school north entrance making a circuit into the memorial park where it will disperse the entries so far in the par ade are 1 rouge hill united church high c group 2 ady park 3 allen betts plumb ing 4 the pickering horticul tural society 5 the canadian legion dunbarton branch fi pickering youth band 7 law motor sales 8 west rouge kiwanis club it is re ported that the committee chairman expects a float from claremont and one from white- vale to add to the eight already entered as floats or any type of entry is made it will be pub licized in subsequent reports there is an impressive list of prizes for entries and it is evening was spent in sewing i at h home on saturday night i felt that the category of horse for the wms bale when neighbours and friends i drawn vehicles should be one v of the outstanding sections of the parade prize list 1 decorated bicycles 1st 5 2nd si 3rd 3 4th 2 5th 1 2 decorated cars 1st 10 2nd 5 3rd s3 3 pony drawn vehicle 1st 10 2nd 3rd 3 1 horse drawn vehicle 1st 23 2nd 15 3rd 10 5 rider horse 1st 10 2nd 5 3rd s3 g rider pony 1st 10 2nd 5 3rd 55 7 clown 1st 10 2nd 5 3rd 3 8 drum majorette 1st 10 2nd 3 3rd s3 9 historical float 1st 15 2nd 10 3rd 5 10 other floats 1st 15 2nd 10 3rd 5 after reading the 10 categor ies that will be in the parade it is hoped that you will pick ono you want to win and enter there is plenty of room left for many hoy scout troops and cadet corps to march on part of the same route that was tak en to and from fort york dur ing the war with the states 119 years ago this is an opportunity for more entries and the committee chairman will be happy to re ceive your call at wh 26054 clare balsdon or jack mitchell claremont 1g3jl