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the tribune stouffville ont thursday march 14 1940 page nine claremont by staff correspondent mr dave pugh was on a business trip to kinmouht last friday mrs frank cooper spent most of last week in oshawa visiting with her sister mrs w l brown mr and mrs russell pilkey entertained a number of friends at their home recently mr and mrs john fleming entertained friends one evening last week miss stella rowland held a quilting last thursday after noon miss florence lee of toronto was visiting her mother here over the weekend mrs j mundell and son billie visited friends here re cently mr and mrs robert mcleod entertained friends at their home here during the past week mr and mrs cecil storry have both been on the sick list now for nearly a month mr and mrs robert carter of toronto visited at the home of mr and mrs g hammond recently mr hammond is on the sick list at present the bypu- of the baptist church met the whitevale young peoples on monday evening to continue their quizz baseball series on the gospel miss viola forsyth is pro- gressing favorably following an operation which she underwent in st michaels hospital last weekend mr william hill was remov ed to a toronto hospital last weekend for an xray mr hill has been in rather poor health for some time this wednesday afternoon there will be a canvas made by the salvation army for their war work campaign a com mittee was in the village recent ly and arranged with local citij zens to carry out the canvas miss vivian sadler of black- stock has been visiting her grandmother mrs w jones and her aunt mrs esther palmer we understand miss sadler is organizing a music class in piano we understand the junior bible class organized a short time ago in the united church is making steady progress the class was formed especially for newly married couples and is proving a success mr and mrs dick cooper were home over the weekend marking their first wedding anniversary a number of guests were entertained on saturday evening- by mrs coopers moth er mrs- n f tomlinson the claremont checker club held a tournament in the com munity hall a week ago a num ber of neighboring players were invited but owing to the bad weather few attended the ladies aid provided lunch on monday wednesday and friday evenings preceding easter there will be meetings held in the two churches the first two nights the gathering will be in the baptist church while on wednesday the con gregations are asked to assem ble in the united auditorium the missionary society of the united church will hold their meeting in the ss room on thursday afternoon of march 14th- mrs luther pilkeys group will be in chaige of the devotional part of the program all ladies of the congregation are asked to attend the brooklin young people visited the young people of the united church on tuesday evening misses joyce mccul- lough and kay cameron had charge of the program airs goddard was the guest speaker- a treat was missed we understand by those who fail ed to attend the lecture in the baptist church by mr ingrig missionary from india- those who did enjoy the evening tell us that the pictures gave a great insight of the progress the gospel is making in the fai away land residents get bad breaks mrs morphy mother of mrs augustine who has been staying at the home of her daughter here had the mis fortune to fall last week and break a bone in her wrist shirley manion is also laid up with a broken ankle bone which she sustained in a fall w i function clears 30 group 5 of the womens insti tute realized some 30 through a supper and the sale of candy and icebox flowers held at the home of mrs will birkett on saturday thanks is exoressed to all those who attended and in this way furtllered the work of the institute and their war work projects red cross meeting a red cross meeting was held on tuesday evening at the g m forsyth home for the purpose of selecting a new treasurer and voting on the dis posal of the money still re maining in the branch treasury miss mary forsyth has resign ed the position of treasurer some 300 have already been spent by the war branch for supplies which went to make up five bails which have been for warded- a report of the recent convention in toronto was also given by the local delegate mrs fred mcnair stage surprise party some twentyfive neighbours of mr and mrs james coates from along the townline gath erer at the home of this couple who are ahout to leave the farm and tendered them a real surprise party on tuesday even ing mr and mrs coates were each presented with a hand some gift and an address of farewell was read on behalf of those present the coates who will hold an auction sale on their premises next tuesday will be greatly missed along this north claremont line and also in the village life where they had such a part for so many years phantom orchestra at dance bruce gould of uxbridge and his socalled phantom orches tra were on hand to supply the music for the badminton club dance held here last friday evening the music is supplied by a limited number of musi cians while the real sounds come from a gramophone and amplifier system which the musicians on the stand keep in time with the stunt was pull ed off at a number of dances around the country before those present got on to the de ception however it is still working and to good advantage a tidy sum was realized which will swell the club chest enough to carry on in the hall for a few months yet mark 32nd anniversary on monday of this week mr and mrs arthur prouse who farm the waddell place just a couple of miles east of here on the 9th concession celebrated their thirtysecond wedding anniversary mr prouse who was a son of the late william prouse of brougham has work ed this present acreage for 21 years his wife was the former electors of north york vote for his record of service merits your support published by north york liberal association mary jim cut out wastei a nation at war need qotz at a aat0 government national government authorixed by notional government headquarters 140 wellington street ottawa sarah anne rutley also a nat ive of the brougham district there are eleven children in the family six daughters mrs- thos hammond of claremont and doris hilda verna gladys isobel at home and five boys lome edgar victor milton and russel all at home- the day was spent quietly with con gratulations being received from the family and recogni tion also being made over the radio oldest resident borne to grave claremont turned out in large numbers on sunday also many lifelong friends itp pay their last respects to the late tobias caster who as announc ed last week died in his 94th year on march 6th following a private service at the home of his only daughter mrs r forsyth the baptist church was filled to capacity when rev p augustine con ducted the public service which was followed by the funeral rites of the masonic order de ceased being the eldest member of brougham union lodge- mr m burke wm assisted by district deputy grand master murphy of unionville led this part of the service the church pastor drew comforting parables from one of lifes greatest dramas as re lated in st johns epistle of the story of mary and marthas ac tions on the occasion of the death of their brother lazarus and the part jesus played in calling him back to life a male quartette composed of evans ward morgan pugh jas coates and e ward sang in that beautiful land while hymns- loved by the late mr caster were used floral tributes were beauti- full and many in numbers pall bearers were dr- tomlinson f evans t gregg d gregg thos patterson i dopking mr caster was born at good wood in 1846 but for the last 74 years he has been a resident of claremont son of the late jacob caster he was of a fam ily of ten children his father was the third settler to locate in goodwood and the family is remarkable for its longevity every member but one reaching the seventy mark however the deceased was the last sur vivor born on the 4th concession he attended the old log school in goodwood and learned the sawmilling as a young man later he became known as an expert judge of horse flesh but his activities were many he built the claremont elevators which sold more than thirty years ago since the death of his wife six years ago mr caster has made his home with his only daughter mrs robert forsyth an only son j k caster resides in tor onto there are three grand children reap biqqet betm crops use ood seed is the first requirement for bigger better j yields that is why it pays to use registered seed registered seed is pure as to variety and ensures crops of greater yield higher quality and better grade registered seed is sold only in sealed containers governmenttagged and governmentinspected it requires no cleaning it pays to use registered seed for information regarding sources of supply of approved varieties write to the district supervisor plant products division of the dominion department of agriculture for your district the nearest dominion experimental farm the provincial department of agriculture or the nearest agricultural college food supplies are important in wartime tills year plant and raise only the hestl agricultural supplies board dominion department of agriculture ottawa honourable james g gardiner minister