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the tribune stouffville ont thursday august 2 1951 claremont and pickering twp district brougham mrs will palmer was rushed to i oshawa hospital last friday suff ering from an acute attack of pneumonia she was immediately mr and mrs l w sheppard eut into an oxygen tent where she spent a few days last week with as been lying since unconscious friends in toronto her condition is very critical mrs kavanough of toronto mrs j rumney has closed her j visited with her sister mrs d north end home for the present seebeck during the weekend and has taken a position in tor- miss atkinson of toronto is visiting this week with her friend onto mrs clark has not been enjoy ing good health during the past week mr and mrs keg tansley have been entertaining relatives during the past couple of weeks on tuesday afternoon july 24 at the home of mrs chas gostick the claremont baptist mission circle held a very interesting meeting the president mrs evans ward opened the meeting rev davison gave the devotional basing his remarks on st luke 103s52 tne topic yellowknife was given by the guest speaker miss pepper of agincourt two duets by mrs bone and mrs byer were appreciated marian gostick gave a piano solo mrs gordon ratcliff gave a paper why i go to church refreshments were served followed by a pleasant social hour the best wishes of the com munity have been demonstrated during the past week to mr and mrs douglas dickinson who were recently married in uxbridge and have taken up residence in clare mont in the house occupied by the groom and his late father william dickinson for a number of years last tuesday evening the baptist congregation presented the couple with a floor lamp cups and saucers and a rondiment set on wednes day evening a miscellaneous show er was held at the home of the brides brother and sisterinlaw mr and mrs alvin redshaw on friday evening the immediate neighbours gathered at their home and presented them with a beauti ful silver cake plate mr and mrs cliff pilkey and daughter of toronto called upon miss s e evans and other rela tives in the community last sat urday mrs douglas bryant who has been at home with her mother for the past few weeks returned to whitby with her twin babies last monday evening to her home on the farm the united sunday school intends holding the annual picnic on saturday august 11th at lyn- hrook park fuller particulars will be made known next week the wa is holding a home made baking sale on thursday philip mrs harvey sr mrs h keyes and family of oshawa spent a few days last week with her parents mr and mrs c plaxton mr and mrs e jones returned after a pleasant two weeks holi day on a motor trip master billie hardy of toronto spent a few days last week with his aunt mrs k pascoe and other relatives mr and mrs robt miller and family have moved to their new- home recently occupied by his mother the late mrs john miller mr and mrs roy carter of green river accompanied by mr ross carter of edmonton alberta called on mr and mrs a j gray one day last week master john harvey is spending a months holiday at sherwood forest boys camp haliburton mr and mrs e hilts and ronnie of ajax and mr and mrs a bell and mary of uxbridge visited with mr and mrs jos hilts on sunday mr jas farley called on mr wm ellicott on monday last mrs t rickard of goodwood visited with her grandmother mrs seebeck during the weekend the next regular meeting of the womans institute will be held in the form of a picnic at greenwood park on tuesday august 7th one week earlier than the usual meet ing mr and mrs al harvey are enjoying a motor trip through the usa and other points the wms auxiliary of st johns church held their july meeting at the home of mrs wm ellicott with a good attendance tlie president mrs h barclay presided for the opening worship with mrs mitchell as pianist the program was in charge of mrs geo duncan and her group the subject for study was getting acquainted with work and work ers of trinidad plans were made for the august meeting to be held at the home of mrs keeler in the form of a picnic the wms will be responsible as hostess for the baby band the hostesses were mrs wm ellicott mrs w a knox mrs lemmon and mrs fire destroys old brougham home on historic location brougham correspondent fire of unknown origin com pletely destroyed the frame dwell ing belonging to mrs john soden a half mile east of brougham on wednesday evening mrs soden had been away and discovered the fire shortly after returning home brougham and claremont bri gades were spmmoned and man aged to protect the other farm buildings the home was of frame construction reputed to be more than one hundred years old and went up like a tinder box together with all the contents the loss included a piano an organ and several purses containing money the loss is partly covered by insur ance this home is located on what was formerly known as the howell property here many years ago the first brougham postoftice was established on the spring creek howells hollow was at one time quite a busy centre having a distillery trading store and saw mill afternoon commencing at 230 oclock in the united sunday school room come and buy your favorite cake pie tarts cookies buns etc mr and mrs geo lee of stouff ville and mr and mrs fred red shaw attended the massey- fairbank wedding at oshawa on saturday afternoon mr and mrs fred redshaw visited on sunday with mr and mrs f hardy uxbridge mr and mrs robert beelby and girls and mrs gordon riddle and irene spent a week in niagara falls and the us mr and mrs harvey maclean and children who have been visit ing with her parents mr and mrs fred motley for a few months have returned to their home in prince edward island mr and mrs harry ken accom panied by mr and mrs jack mc- cullough and daughter ruth and mr and mrs bill mcneil were holidaying at killernev bay car carried one miiik down cnr track by flyer from the rosebank cnr cross ing a speeding passenger train saturday night carried a motor car east down the tracks for the dis tance of one mile fortunately driver john brown of pickering was not in it he had gone up the track the other direction about onehalf mile in an effort to flag down the train the engineer fail ed to see his signal brown told pickering township police that his vehicle lodged on the tracks but he had plenty of time to escape the train was visible approaching two miles away this is the second such accident at the rosebank crossing this year the car was a total wreck o v hllktte wood wa it on saturday july 28th in pil grim holiness manse evelyn grace woodward daughter of mr and mrs ernest woodward of brougham was united in marriage with robert ouellette of cochrane ontario rev clyde winger was the officiating clergyman the bride wore a floorlength gown of eggshell satin with lace inserts and carried sweet peas and carna police radio will be help in pickering radio transmitting and receiv ing equipment supplied by pye canada of ajax has now been installed for use of the pickering township police department and will be in operation soon with a wide territory to cover chief of police lockhart trinnell has long felt that it is essential to have means of keeping in touch with the cars from the office when they are at distant points the system has been assigned a fre quency and has been tested an official opening of some kind is planned for the near future pickering is one of the few rural townships with a progressive setup of this kind balsam and mt zion mr and mrs cecil jones visited last thursday with mrs harper beaver at shelbourne mr victor jamieson and mr and mrs b jamieson and family attended the funeral of the late ernest jamieson in toronto on friday the deceased is a brother of mr victor jamieson mr lome carson left saturday for a two weeks motor trip to the west mr and mrs percy jones and family spent the weekend in the muskoka district mr and mrs elmer wilson and family spent a few days with her sister and husband mr and mrs jack willison at athens mr and mrs reg hoskins and family spent the weekend with mr and mrs d v hoskins at their cottage in muskoka miss evelyn disney left sunday for a two weeks holiday with miss helen hoyman at pembroke sunday visitors at the lome jones home were mrs m stewart of toronto mr and mrs v baker and daughter of woodville mr and mrs carl dopking and daugh ters of dundas mr and mrs morgan evans mr and mrs will evans mr and mrs edgar evans and miss jean madill all of clare mont in the absence of rev monk- man the church services will be taken for the month of august by rev donald morgan of saskatch ewan who is on holidays and will be living in the parsonage stanley theatre stouffville ont theatre policy showing each evening 730 and 930 pm saturdays evening starts 7 pm matinee 2 pm friday saturday august 3 4 gateway to cold greed and glory randolph scott nat mott moouoott geoige unr hayes wmsi in iiufiii i auimiiu nun monday tuesday august 6 7 the pirate seas seethe with laughs when that timid 2nd louie from francis becomes a captain of cutthroats haslam nee kathleen beelby at claremont on tuesday night the regular monthly meeting of the evening auxiliary of the wms was held at the home of the president mrs e pegg on wednesday evening july 25th miss mildred corbett led the wor ship service on the theme tell me about god the program entitled meet the people of trini dad was presented by misses m and g corbett mrs monkman and mrs c mctaggart the roll call was answered with the name of a missionary or item of interest of trinidad final plans were made for the picnic to be held jointly with the evening wa on tues- tions she was attended by her da v aug 11th at cedar glen park sister mrs jack stewart of oshi awa who wore a floorlength gown of blue talfeta and carried a bouquet of sweet peas and corn flowers the best man was henry ouellette of oshawa a brother of the groom after a honeymoon in northern ontario mr and mrs ouellette will live in oshawa a reception will be given them on their return cherrywood mrs stephenson of toronto is holidaying with mr and mrs w holmes mr and mrs wm hollinger and mr and mrs geo todd visit ed at bolton on sunday mr and mrs royce alves and family of parry sound spent the weekend with mr and mrs alves mr and mrs walter hollinger had tea on sunday with mr and mrs fred puckrin and family of audley miss p riches is holidaying with her grandparents mr and mrs riches of toronto mrs roy morrish spent a few days with mr and mrs robert morrish of ottawa mr and mrs callister spent the weekend with mr and mrs leonard hollinger mi and mrs wm gray of brougham visited with mr and mrs wm judd on sunday donald helena oconnor carter will beer john emery hope emerson greenwood rev donald morgan of saskatch ewan will be the minister in charge of the church services for the month of august while rev and mrs monkman are on vaca tion in the west mr and mrs i maclean are accompaning them on their trip mrs hare of toronto is spend ing a couple of weeks with mr arid mrs f byers the fall wheat harvest has com menced and the other grain is ripening fast it is hoped that we have drier weather than we had for haying mr and mrs john brooks and family have returned home after several days in the north country the wa will meet next thurs- dav aug 9th at the home of mrs p wilson mr and mrs j middleton and mr and mrs k beelby attended a reception for mr and mrs bob lack of water could endanger school opening ah that is required to cool the tempers of residents in pickering village is water talk is circulating about the municipal water system planned for nearly three years but not yet a reality the three village commission has been negotiating with ajax for a water agreement no success has been reported and residents are bitter about the progress of meet ings between the two communities in september the 10room high school costing 500000 will be completed it will need 8000 gal lons of water daily w l irwin chairman of the high school board said some tem porary arrangements will be work ed out to supply water to the school from a private well residents obtain their water from private wells at present harry arnold proprietor of pick ering farms doubts that the school will be able to open they have built the school but there is no water for it claimed mr arnold demands of ajax offi cials for a restricted water area around pickering have placed the village representatives in a ditlicult position he said the commission thought the water issue was solved two weeks ago when a well was discovered on municipal property west of dullins creek tests indicated the well could produce 2000 gallons of water an hour the water was 12 feet below a sixfoot bed of gravel but a report from gore and storrie consulting engineers re vealed that the well was in a flood area and was in continual danger of pollution this meant the com mission must continue discussioas with ajax the commission is composed of chairman donald balsdon w g messer and cyril morley ajax obtains its water supply by pipeline from ijke ontario through a pumping station oper ated by central mortgage and housing corporation then resells water to surrounding areas barnraising bee climaxed by dinner dance wednesday thursday august 8 9 the picture you have been waiting for bonnie prince charlie starring david niven altona the august meeting of the altona wi will be held at the home of mrs david crosier on wednesday aug 8 motto if you want to be happy begin where you are the roll call will be answered by canning hints miss g lehman will give the cur rent events a skit and exhibit will be given by the club girls there will be a demonstration on cookies the program is in charge of mrs d crosier convener of home economics hostofthehigtiwaus a total of 2t pics were consumed ly hungry workers barnraising job on the farm of b j mcalpine of iorneville ont brought 300 farmers out to help with erec tion of 20000 structure the barn which replaces one burned last september is believed to be one of the biggest in the province with floor measurement of 141 feet by 50 feet while men were working in tne yard a few of their wives were busy in the kitchen preparing dinner which consisted of 23 pies 95 loaves of sandwiches 70 cakes 75 gallons of tea and several pails of potato salad in the evening undaunted by the days labors a barn dance was held to round out the day this superb tea guarantees the flavour of every cup fob tm corner store claremont complete line of fresh fruits fresh meats vegetables groceries dry goods shoes clothing etc open daily 8 am til 10 pm w j lewis sons delivery service phone clare 1401 seoopoopo vinryinnriivtrir coop news we can handle your winter wheat for vou ask for prices urgently in need of bags good bags stamped coop 20c others 15c use coop concentrates with grain for higher production claremont coop phone 38 claremont oopoqooccooqyooccqpeeooqpepooooeeooooooooboocood