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sports 2 news district news classifiedsection f iiearly 1000 ctogs markham the markham arena went to the dogs last weekend when almost 1000 canines from all over ontario and new york showed up for the annual markham kennel club dog show every breed from tiny toy yorkies weighing a few ounces- to irish wolfhounds weighing in at 170 pounds came to be judged however even more interesting than the dogs parading around the ring were the pooches getting ready for the judging owners primped and combed and curled their pets to perfection on special grooming tables to the vast delight of every little girl in the audience the best in show award for both days went to mrs joey purdy of cheltenham near london for hersix yearold doberman pinscher michelle ouellette was named as best junior handler she put her small west highland terrier through his golden retriever- named show award went to a paces robbie owned by joy boxer called golden the best puppy in campbell of london nugget owned by horst show on saturday was a the sunday best in winter of thorald chris alden of unionville also won a number of firsts with her young beagle pup helen hamilton of pomroth kennels is putting the finishing touches on veronica a standard bred black poodle about to be shown at the markham kennel club dog show f i the kid in the cage is eighteenmonthold matthew reid of orillia who is camping at the markham arena with his parents while the dog show is on he doesnt really mind being penned up in the large dog cage although he prefers one of the family newfoundlands to share it with him jamie oleske three years old is cuddling up to morgan an enormous irish wolfhound far from being intimidated by the 170 pound beast his mother said that jamie cut his teeth on him annegret lammeft ried out by retired farmers by john montgomery quaker hill it was back tothe age of steam this past weekend at the old quaker hill school just outside of uxbridge i- the uxbridge scott historical societys threshing and antique show was heldthere saturday arid sunday the stars of the show had to be the old wood i bodied thresher powered by a 1923 george white steam engine both owned by bill wood of uxbridge mr wood also owns an immaculate 1933 pferce- arrow 1 the engine and with a hay fork mrclark fed the thresher and he worked at a consistent never varying pace that would have left many a younger man panting when he paused for a break he wasnt even breathing hard and wasnt noticeably per- spiring although it was a very muggy afternoon his father he said was a custom thresher who had moved to mount albert toget away from the cold prairie winters mr clark explained that custom threshing became obsolete in the 40swhen farmers started buying their own tractors the thresher ac thresher were manned by cording to mr clark is a team of cool very old as it is made with professionals fred wooden sides while the clark a 70-year-old- more modern or less retired farmer displayed ancient threshers were considerable prowess ail metal ivf r he was asked if the thresher was older than the type he had been used to working with not really but he allowed he hadnt worked on one since he was a boy mr clark it seems didnt really go to the show with the intention of being part of the en- tertainmentr he said he brought his wife out because she had volun teered to work in a booth but it turned out he couldnt refuse an in- vitation from mr wood and so ended up on the working end of a pitch- 1 fork- i it proved an in terestingevent with a host of antique cars model steam engines on an amazing variety of scales an axe handle maker and various old- time contests earl dunn right of cameron fires upy a vnginestheir father had been athresher and this one quarter scale model caseengine with jhey both had worked with the fullsize the help of his grandson gregory wrightof j engineswhen loaded with water the engines oshawji mr dunn and his brother who was weighed half a ton each they took about two also at the steam show built identical arid a half years to construct its pretty safe to assume young donald noble of uxbridge isnt on the lookout for indians but in a pioneer wagon like this it would be natural enough to let ones thoughts go back to the days of the settlers the wagon is on display at the uxbridgescbtt historical society fred clark uxbridge fed this thresher belonging to bill wood also of uxbridge vi never worried enough i guess b how mr clark ex plained hb continuing vigor at the age of 70 a considerable number of the r v items on display antique vehicles steam engine and old farm machinery were there coartesy of mr wood various friends and family had helped him bring them over and acted as engineers drivers or operators jack fraservof marmora east of r peterborough demonstrated how to rough out axe handles mr fraser specializes in this all but forgotten skill he said if he really goes at it he can turn out two handlesan hour but he stresses that that b without any coffee 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