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stouffville august 16th 1928 quality service the home town store you pay less for more at the home town store shelled walnuts per lb 35c special sockeye salmon tins 20c quick quaker rolled oats with china 35c blue berries 11 qt basket 150 fresh fish every wednesday special price on new choice honey in 5 lb pails warning every year we have disappointed customers who are too late for yellow st john peaches these are the richest peach of the entire crop also the first to ripen let us have your order at once and we will fill when at their best ratcliff co town deliver phone 7112 district and general the lower part of the masonic hall claremont is being fitted for a moving picture theatre walter s major a liteions resi dent of whitevaleis dead he is survived by a wife and two children adam spears has rented his farm at claremont to joseph taylor for a term of years mrand mrsspears will reside in whitevale in future the tegular monthly milk tests made by the oept of health in the town of whitby will be pub lished in their local paper the pub lishing of these reports will be done in the interests of public health oak ridges lost one of its lite long citizens in the sudden death of mr samuel hughey about noon on august 2nd mr hughey had gone to the barn on his farm to do some repairing but before finishing he suddenly expired he was well known in the vicinity having been born and raised on the farm on which the died the funeral took place to the aurora cemetery style service quality serviceable and dependable goods are found at our store in all line of footwear try our mens working shirts none better at only 5150 mens slickers water proof colors light and dark at 600 regular price 5650 repairing done as usual a g lehman the peoples shoe store stouffville ford masseyharris we are now able to give delivery in a few days on ford phaeton roadster business coupe and tudors give us a call if you would like to have a demonstration we also have a number of good used cars for sale come in and inspect them we will give you a good buy now is the time to buy a new masseyharris number 5 b binder before the old one breaks down in the field and you have to waite for a new one we have a large stock of ford fordson and masseyharris parts on hand goodyear and selberling tires and tubesi d holden stouffville phone 184 i ford and masseyharris agent use our fertilizer drill for the benefit of the farmers we have purchased a new fertilizer drill which can be rented at a nominal figure now is the time to place your order fertilizer phone us your requirements and we will be ready for you when the time comes to fertilize agent for milton brick for this territory s w hastings coal and coke always on hand phone 169 stouffville stouffville creamery company have you tried our creamery butter if not ask your grocer for it or come to the creamery or farmers may get it from our creamery trucks farmers and townspeople alike will enjoy its j flavor always good always the same stouffville creamer j co stouitville ontario we are open tuesday thursday and satur day evenings its in days of yore tribune files of aug so years ago 1880 the newmarket hotel company limited who have owned and oper ated the king george hotel in that town successfully for over eighteen years have just completed the sale and transfer pf tlie ihotel and its furnishing to cecil grant of kes wick who took possession on the 1st of august the house has al- always been and continues to be a paying proposition snake island to be sold snake island lying at the south end of lake slmcoe and one of the landmarks of indian days is to be sold the government is taking over he island from th3 rnnant of the ojibway tribe and the money realiz ed which is expected to be about 200000 will be turned over to the credit of the indian department the island is a most picturesque piece of property consisting of near ly four hundred acres beautifully wooded and fertile the iudians have no use for it and it will pro- balbly become a favorite summer re sort tis a famous island this here sat the council rink when the braves of the ojibway and iroquois tribes waged ferocious warfare on the green banks of lake simcoe many of the famous ojibway chiefs first saw the light of day on snake island with the sale of this island one more landmark is passing from the hands of the redskins one more old stamping- ground has disappeared the indians are gradually becoming canadini e1 the young braves are not now con tented to live as their forbears did but now desire to live as their white cousins sentinel changes hands the grand orange lodge of bri tish america has purchasedthe sen tinel while it has been the official organ of the orange order in can ada for many years the sentinel has heretofore been privately owned and controlled with the purchase of the paper by grand lodge that body assumes direct control of the publication it is understood that the grand lodges offer of 20000 for the paper has been accepted by the sentinel publishing company and tfhat possession will be taken in the near future h c hockenmp who has guided the destinies of the sentinel for the last 23 years will remain at his present post as editor no change in the style or policy of the paper is planned in the immedi ate future facts about thunder storms the county tax demand in whit church 207 jess davis has bought out charlie mordeaa draylng bus mr d stoutfer left on friday far a holiday trip to chicago bert sangster dentist has return ed from a six weeks holiday charlie mccallum of detroit ar rived in town friday evening on a visit home andrew yeakely a former real- dent of rlngwood was burled at dicksons hh1 farm hands are very scarce an fancy prices are paid for all sorts and conditions of men rural public schools all reopen on monday august 19th for fall term and the village school two weeks later for the benefit of those who cant get in spoffords store on thursdays the ibargatns are continued tuesday and saturday w b sanders and a s leaney areactlng as the executors of the will of the late jonas lewis who died aug 7th 1ss9 m g w paterson sold his trotter and invested in a hurdle horse it cost 140 to pasture the new horse just one night in kennedys lot ac cording to the pound keepers books harry clark tout for wm reesor on the 10th com of markham 15 acres of heavy tangced wheat in 8b hours with a brantford binder on a bet clark declares ihe could do the work in less time john latcham glasgow and dan burkholdor mongolia were each injured the past week john suffer ed a leg fracture while fixing a water pipe and dain met with a similar misfortune george flint jr contributes a coir umn article in this issue on a trip he had to ravennia a village near collingwood where his brother paul is the methodist minister george graphically describes the scenery as viewed from the train especially about allandaie and byrrle and from a buggy ride over collingwood mountain george was accompanied on this tour by charlie the village council met in daleys hall on monday night george flint introduced a bysaw fixing the rate for taxation as follows county rate 1 mill village rate 5 mills school tax 4 mills total rate 10 mlos canadas municipal year book the publishers have just sent a copy of the canadian municipal dir ectory for the cuurent year and on reviewing it find it of the greatest value as a work of reference the publishers are to be congratulated for the successful effort in establish ing such a much needed work of re ference the contents of the book have been standardized throughout and the alphabetical arrangemeit makes the information loontained therein easily accessible in the introduction the point is made that there are 4300 selfgoverning communities in can ada with 50000 officials engaged in conducting the affairs of these many cities towns and villages it comes as a surprise that there axe so many individual urban and rural com munities and there is undoubtedly great credit due to the editor mr h wisely bragg for the excellent masnerln which this vast amount of material has been collected toge ther and so carefully classified the icontents of the book are so arranged as to give municipal men the most comparative information and cannot fail to be of the greatest possible assistance to elected and ap pointed officials enabling them to compare our community with others of a similar size and population it l- further a book of considerable im portance in every municipal office for no other work of this kind is pub lished in the dominion and no man interested in municipal progress can afford to be without it the publish ers are the wisely bragg publish ing co montreal and the book 13 250 dates of fal fairs toronto cne aug 24 sept 8 ottawa central can aug 2025 agincourt scarboro sept 2122 barrie sept 2426 beaverton sept 2627 blackstock sept 26 lindsay sept 1923 midland sept 1315 mount forest sept 1920 orillta sept 2022 osbawa sept 1113 peteriboro sept 1315 port perry sept 2021 sunderland brock sept 2526 udora scot oct 2 markham oct 46 august 23rd is the date of the flower and vegetable show in stouffville arena new electric value ref acing machine let the auditorium garage do a valve grinding and ref acing job for you on the new crowe valve machine and it will give your auto truck or tractor the mileage power and pep it should have here is our proposition a perfect valve job absolutely guaranteed or your money refunded call and inspect this new electric valve machine auditorium garage roy strong phone 170 successor to ernie stouffer 3s52w20sd2sjs02b2w2e wvmmffihkmra save at our store hosiery specials hosiery for ladies ladies pure thread silk hose assorted shades sizes 86 to 10 reg 100 special 79c ladies lisle hose black grey and sand reg 50 and 60c value special 39er ladies fibre silk hose assorted colors sizes 8 to 10 special 29c a writer in a metropolitan paper gives some interesting facts with re gard to lightning and ohe manner of avoiding the dangers thereof the flash of lightning ihe says is a huge electric spark travelling it has been calculated at nearly 29000 miles in a second although goodness knows jiow the calculation was made of che various forms of lightning sheet lightning is quite harmless as it is merely the reflection of a flash so far away that the accompanying thunder cannot be heard when the storm comes we see the lightning itself usually in a zigzag of forked form the nearer tihe storm the less the interval between the flash and the thunder when it is over head these are simultaneous and this is of coarse the most danger ous time a phenomenon called lightning is of rare occurrence and not yet been satisfactorily explained births stephenson on august 11th 192s to mr and mrs fred stephenson 9th con markham a daughter makrtagks gilbert hoover in newmarket august 4th 192s by elder d pressor at his residence prospect avenue swntfoy g gilbert to miss lorna hoover both of the town ship of whitchurch fockler preston in newmarket august 4th hi2s by elder d prosser at his residence prospect avenue joseph a fockler to miss luli preston both of ring- wood strrxthohci and nxmu wa ihih alwtvs kr sau in tfle best stores in canada half hose for men mens plain and fancy silk and lisle hose special 29c mens fancy lisle and mixture sox sizes 9 to 11 special 39c pr ladies pure thread silk hose assorted sizes full fashioned pjtid circular knit reg 149 and 198 values special 119 hosiery for children childrens 11 rib cotton hose in bkek brown sand and grey sizes 5 to 10 special 15c childrens 11 rib hose in black and fawn sizes 5 to 10 special 25 cents childrens lisle sox assorted colors special 19c childrens fancy sox in fancy lisle silk and wool and art silk and lisle as- sorted sizes reg 50 to 85c g special 39c open tuesday thursday and saturday evenings close wednesday at noon save at our store phone 9512 stouffville ont ol nu jjtu iuju rsrsrytsrntkkmisg