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the stouffville tribune thursday july 20th 1939 page three town topics p mrs s s ball and family have gone to their summer camp in northern haliburton for a holiday the best downpour of rain since early spring fell on the stouffville locality last thurs day evening the ground re ceived a real soaker and every thing benefitted as the dry spell was lifted montmorency cherries our shipment of this best of can ning cherries is expected from the bronte orchards on mon day or tuesday of next week leave us your order and we will notify you on arrival of this fully matured fruit ratcliff company mr and mrs james watson and daughter of monkland in the cornwall district visited with the watson and dowswell families in stouffville for a few days james watsons father was also named james he died in beaverton but was buried in goodwood cemetery in 1919 he was a brother of the late mrs george dowswell of stouffville and of david and william watson iinymnnnmmim the stover bakery one of the best equipped shops to be found has just installed a slic ing machine so you may now have your favorite loaf ready sliced this is a great con venience for picnics and other outings for banquets and in fact for the home the even maimer in which the slicing 13 done makes a saving over the ordinary way of cutting bread in the wax wrapper the sliced loaf retains all its freshness as would the unsliced bread storeys digestive tonic invigorates the digestive organs improves the appetite a very effective treatment for indigestion dyspepsia biliousness stomach disorders flatulence j ml storey druggist mrs bessie lett of toronto visited her parents mr and mrs george watson over sunday girl wanted for general work in dining room apply at mansion house stouffville mrs herbert freel mar garet betty jean and lloyd have returned home after spen ding two weeks at the belmont lake joseph our local pharmacist wes boadway is taking a week off and has gone to new york state to visit the scenes of his birthplace mr and mrs 0 macavoy of trenton and mr and mrs r w montgomery of hastings have been holidaying in town with mr and mrs robert johnston at the cnr the east york cement shingle works are contem plating a new location for their business and may locate in richmond hill says the liberal of that village an expansion program requiring some financ ing is being considered and if a number of the citizens of the neighboring town become inter ested the industry may be moved to their town a sale of hats and dresses for thursday friday and satur day this week mrs m e watts stouffville baseball team which has advanced to second place in the league by winning their last three games will meet toronto hillcrests here on saturday afternoon see that you come out and cheer the team on to another win they merit your support uxbridge and goodwood lol combined to put on a real demonstration at the walk in uxbridge on the 12th and were again successful in win ning a prize for best turnout of rural lodges they were headed in the parade by claremont band which they had engaged for the occasion this is the second year in succession that this combination has carried off a similar prize the uxbridge ministerial association is rolling up its sleeves in preparation to fight the coming liquor battle in che northern town contrary to re cent newspaper announcement that members of the association signed for the vote they are out to fight it not a single protestant minister in the town signed the petition and they are not neutral but out to fight against the return of the open bar was a state ment issued by the members last week i t til new way of mixing cold antmoistg fv keeps food better and liupp f i sk 3 vita mm nqmpfpb 1 la jv if it is a norge the answer is i yes the double cooling system in the new norge life time series is a new revolution ary principle thus the coldest refrigerator in the world actual ly keeps food juicy fresh al most twice as long norge alt- porcelain both outside and in side is the only lifetime finish norge 10year warranty on the rollator is double protec tion investigate norge let us show you the new models o rt l see the other greatnorge feafurei 14 other feature includine odorproof sealed ice compartment handelroiter coldpack mobile shelves hydro- voir iceobor special bottle storage see norge before you buy l e oneill remember next weeks issue july 27th is the musselmans lake edition and if you wish to bring your store or its stock to the attention of the lake popu lation now is the best and cheapest time to do so come in today or phone 15302 and re serve your space for this special issue why cant we be friendly when we are in the best of health and strength was a pertinent question asked in a friendship sermon preached by rev george murray of sand- fordzephyr circuit in the united church of stouffville last sunday as a human race we are for the most part weak on this point and the old say ing flowers for the dead but none for the living is too prone to be the fact so many people need your friendship pointed out the speaker as he challenged his congregation to make friendship a study of life by developing it mrs eli wilson feels that a missapprehension might be aboard after the writeup last week concerning the timbers family reunion mrs wilson who was the eldest member at the gathering 76 was the first of the timbers family to come from england she was a young wife then by her first marriage to the late h m har- mer and they landed in canada with their 14 months old baby who is now mrs j mckay of agincourt mrs wilsons broth er matthew timbers came later to this country and then follow ed other brothers including rev j timbers now of washington mr martin reesor has an un signed document in his poss ession which for age just about has anything beaten we have seen in a long time it is a note written in long hand providing for the payment to one david lightfoot of a sum of ten pounds and ten shillings of law ful pennsylvania money for just and full claim it reads for some unknown reason the note thus drawn was not signed or made use of but it was drawn up in the year 1777 and is well preserved on a piece of very ordinary paper that might have been made a few months ago it is preserved in mr reesors bibie which he receiv ed from his mother misses mary and jessie lemon have returned from a delightful holiday spent with mrs e a button at the latters cottage in haliburton mr and mrs william middle- ton and son herb of greenwood gerald phillips of buffalo and miss grove of dickson hill spent sunday afternoon with mr and mrs k g tarr local gardeners report the early potato crop they are now harvesting as being on the light side not very many in a hill and inclined to be small of course with another week or ten days to grow this condition of smallness may be remedied before the farmers early crop starts for the market the gasoline pumps at jack raes garage in goodwood were crashed on sunday morning about 9 oclock when a car driv en by laura campbell of lin- colnville left the road and collid ed fortunately the 15yearold girl escaped unharmed and the pumps were still able to operate at 50 per cent of capacity the car was considerably damaged the new president of the london conference of the unit ed chuich of canada is a native of stouffville being rev gor don c raymer ma bd and a nephew of our eli raymer in the westend rev mr raymer was educated in toronto he graduated from victoria college and was ordained by the hamil ton conference in 1913 since entering the london confer ence in 1929 he has held pastor ates at sarnia and st thomas where he is now a very fine picture of the president appear ed in the last issue of the church paper the new imperial gasoline station at the corner of main and ninth concession gave all the patrons a leather key hold er on the official opening days last friday and saturday there was also a chance to guess the number of gallons of gasoline sold in the two days with the five nearest guesses receiving a prize the winners and the num ber of gallons they estimated would be sold hit close to the mark of the correct number 519 they were clarence brown agincourt 513 allen gray stouffville 527 stan hastings 510 charles h stouffer 530 melvyn h barkey 532 lewis bros state that they are de lighted with the generous pat ronage accorded their new ser vice station and garage save up to 13 o 12 on feeding your new pullets put real flesh and finish on feeders it takes a good feed to grow good market beef or swine to carry yours forward to market size and finish at an early age feed sug- ared schumacher feed sugared schumacher feed builds large strong well boned well grown well fleshed healthy vigorous animals quaker sugared schumacher feed is a choice car bohydrate feed economical and easy to use it puts on the qual ity flesh and fin ish that pleases the feeder and brings top prices raise them the ul0pep way with fulopep developer a low protein high fibre mash for range rearing get big husky birds at less cost by following the fulopep plan stiver bros attendance would be down after the matter was settled considerable argument ensued when dr thos mitchell called on the ratepayers to abandon further discussion which was viewed as useless v jack davis is holidaying this snaipiy week burk ritchie at ac burkholders cottage port car- ordination service announced mr d mcgregor who was called to the pastorate of the stouffville baptist church a year or more ago will be ordained into the ministryon the evening of august 2 on that date the ordination council will assemble here for the very interesting ceremony when the full powers of an ordained minister will be conferred on mr mcgregor who is doing a good work in stouffville furniture dealer stouffville ont mr pete clendening was down from sudbury for a few days visiting his father mr harvey clendening at the old home west of town mr clen dening is engaged at the creighton mine 12 miles from the city doing underground work the creighton is one of the best equipped mines in the north country belonging to the international nickel co the amount of underground work carried on would be astonish ing to the uninitiated for in stance when pete arrives at the mine for work he travels one mile down underground to reach the actual place where his employment is carried on of operating an electric train will divide section with weaker schools dickson hill ratepayers de cided against building a new school at a final meeting called last thursday night there was lively interest worked up simeon hoover acted as chair man when a resolution was ad opted calling on the trustees to provide for pupils in the nor thern and southern end of the section to be transferred to ringwood and mount joy where ample accommodation is avail able it was said that if the pupils of the dickson hill section now nearer ringwood school were transferred it would reduce at the hill by about 15 and there would be no further con gestion a canvas of the poss ible number of youngsters to attend dickson hill over the next few years indicated the silverthorns garage has completed the installation of modern plumbing in the gar age with ladies and mens wash rooms modernly equipped boadways shell station is similarly outfitted all of which contributes to a good deal of convenience for their patrons and the travelling public and should be appreciated in addi tion to this the town maintains public wash rooms in the muni cipal block so that the require ments in this line are very well cared for now quite an im provement over ten years ago when the question was a live issue but went unsolved at that time stouffville is keeping well to the front of ontario towns and villages in almost every re spect judged by the standards of modern villages engagement mr and mrs daniel norton of uxbridge announce the en gagement of their youngest daughter ella laurencent to mr murray g holden second son of mr and mrs delbert holden of stouffville ontario the marriage to take place the first week in august holiday season is just ahead you no doubt will be planing many miles of driving is the car in shape to give trouble free ser vice how about brakes steer ing tires battery lubrication or does the motor nood over hauling or perhaps just a tuno up you may use our convenient timepayment plan pay as you ride raes garage goodwood phone 2002 service that satisfies ling of thrills and fun in montreal in washington 1000 1150 in boston 1175 prices include i hotel room meal entertainment in atlantic city 3 days 7 days 850 2305 including hotel room and meals attractive round trip fares montreal x1355 washington 2120 boston 2155 atlantic city 2120 x5 day excursion gray coach lines free free a handy measuring glass graduated for spoonfuls pints cups etc with easy visible red markings that wont come off every woman will want one for her pantry easily worth 25c at any store gasoline 16c gallon plus tax chas cooper c try our unolene oil none better plenty not as good