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the tribune stouffville ont thursday june 27th 1940 page three town topics buy war stamps with every spare quarter the stouffville junior band will play at musselmans lake swimming events on july 1st mr peter lehman was taken the toronto general hospital on saturday but favorable hop es are held for his early return mr charles stouffer of ring- wood has secured a position in the office specialty at new market and is now located in the yonge street centre norm baker son of mr and airs frank baker of stouffville who moved from the bank of commerce here to brechin has received a further move this week to st thomas pete clendenning who has ieen employed at creighton mines sudbury for several years has been down from the north recently visiting at his home on the townline so severe was the drop in temperature one night last week that a surprise frost nipped an entire bean patch belonging to mr percy brillinger in the east end of town light frost is reported by some people around stouffville while last sunday it was so chilly numerous people started their furnaces and the coal leater or kitchen range was a popular thing to stick round the congratulations of his many friends were pouring in on our townsman mr isaac boadway june 15 the occasion of his 82nd birthday hes a smart man for his number of years and while he is a little too old for the army he can do a good days work with anyone many years his junior stanley theatre phone 100 showing each night at s15 st saturday and holidays 700 and 900 thursday friday and saturday june 272829 dustbemydestinr john garfield priscilla lane monday tuesday wednesday july 123 the amazing dr williams melvin douglas joan blondell selected short subjects june 272829 young as you feel the jones family also a gene autry western mr t b rae of stouffville is the new district deputy grand master of the ioof for the local district and was placed in office at the annual sessions of grand lodge held in the city of guelph last week this is the second appointment of the kind to come to stouffville within a short time mr w e morden having served in the same cap acity a few years ago how many motor drivers know that it is unlawful for them to run their engine while the service station man is put ting gasoline in the fuel tank of the car and it is also unlawful for service station attendants to so service any car with gasoline while the engine is in motion its just a little thing not commonly known and too often neglected by those concerned f h roberts markham township trucker had a narrow escape last friday when his 10- ton truck loaded with four yards of gravel got out of con trol on a downgrade on the whitchurch and markham townline the steering gear locked and the heavily loaded truck capsized in the ditch he received scalp wounds mr and mrs jack oneill who were married early this year and took up residence at belleville have moved to madoc where mr oneill will conduct the undertaking establishment for his belleville employer mrs oneill was the former nelda lehman while her husband is the brother of our local under taker thirty members of clovelly chapter weston were the guests of jubilee chapter oes stouffville at their clos ing meeting for the season on tuesday night among the guests were mrs bertha scrace ddgmeiect mrs susan shankel convener of war work for jubilee chapter announced the shipping of a bale to the oes patriotic association plans were made for a summer picnic to be held at the summer home of mrs elmer still at caledon lake in july new potatoes larger than hens eggs have been grown in less than four weeks under chemical process at the continu ation school and samples were shown to the tribune last week in the same container was snapdragon which had bloomed albwinter strong and healthy it is being demonstrated in numerous experimental farms and research laboratories in canada and the united states that whole crops of grain or vegetables may be grown with out earth at all the idea is that the same chemicals that go to make up the earth are placed in water which will give the same response to seed as if that seed were placed in the ground 0 mrs martin wideman aged 86 years passed away on monday at this historic homestead built by henry wideman father of the late martin wideman who died 1933 this fine stone structure at lot 28 con 8 mark ham was built in 1856 mr martin reesor suffered a slight stroke a few days ago but has rallied considerably since friends will be glad to learn the war veterans will hold old father time is finding a business meeting this friday an unusual man in our mr evening at 8 pm in the fire nathan forsyth church street hall important five years or more ago he was insulted wher some of his churchmen thought he was of too great an age to undertake an extension to the buildingbut now all these years later and bordering on his 88th birthday we find that he has been in tor onto the last week building a sun room which he completed we wonder if this is not a re cord in this province for the number of men who could do a job of this kind or any other kind for that matter at 88 are few indeed miss ruth nendick who is with the consolidated advertis ing co at their north bay branch was home last week for the funeral of her grandmother the late mrs f w silversides teddy williams who makes his home in stouffville with rev and mrs c e mcleod was successful last week in passing his grade 7 piano work with honours ted is a pupil of mrs h barnes jim smith son of mr and mrs bert smith of stouffville was in town on saturday in the uniform of the irish regiment jim joined his majesties forces two weeks ago miss ruth miller of the high school staff was compelled to enter the hospital in toronto this week suffering from appendicitis there is every ex pectation that miss miller will make a quick and complete re covery miss miller will welcome the long holiday season more than ever this year midnite frolic sunday june 30th at 1205 midnight hoh day dance monday july 1st jack evans and his famous swing band featuring rex doyle dancing every evening the first fifteen ladies at the ticket office on monday tuesday and thursday will be admitted free cedar beach gardens north shore musselmans lake william rennie was talking on the street the other day and we were impressed with one bit of information that this 10th concession farmer disclosed which indicated that he must keep books as every farmer should mr rennie said that he had been on the farm these 23 years had 36 colts born on the place of which he raised 33 thats a rather remarkable re cord and one worth keeping track of the abundance of rain has not done nearly so much harm to the farm crops throughout the county of york as the drought which threatened the county early in the spring when the ground was parched was the answer given us by w m cockburn district representa tive of agriculture at new market when he made a brief call at the tribune office on monday mr cockburn says that an abundant crop is in the offing and that dry weather and warmer atmosphere is needed to finish it off hurrah for midhurst members and friends of the stouffville horticultural society are reminded that the annual summer outing of district no5 will be held this year in spring- water park an entransing area of woodland in the midst of the vast reforestation plantations at midhurst springwater park with its labyrinth of windin paths cool ing trout streams and pools ornate bridges and rockeries wild life havens zoo and ex cellent play grounds offers an ideal site for a picnic of the magnitude of that planned by the committee stouffville should prepare now for an even larger repre sentation than that which journeyed to guelph last year hunt up your largest picnic basket and make it both dinner and supper at the park there is ample pavilion space up there and dozens of tables await us beneath the trees the date is wednesday july 10 registra tion is at llam dst sports at 2 pm if you or your friends are thanks- well pass up the medals what might have proved a very serious accident is report ed this week from the farm of aaron burkholder 7th con of markham it is understood that mr burkholders hired man a mr mcdowell was operating the tractor with the cultivator when he toppled backward off the seat while leaning over to avoid being struck by the branches of a tree lie was dragged over fifty feet bv the teeth of the cultivator which then passed over his body severely injuring hjs head how ever the injured man was able to get to his feet and shut off the tractor which had travelled on without a driver we under- 1 stand the young man was later moved to markham where a doctors examination revealled a j jht concussion jno we dont deserve any medals just because we take more than a casual interest in your car we figure if you find our service is quick careful thorough youll come back thats why we make a habit of checking your radi ator tires and oil we really polish your windshield we keep an eagle eye on your battery too and fill it with distilled water whenever it needs it add to this the fact that weve got shell products and youve got the makings of satisfaction with a capital s try us quality service king bug killer the most convenient and effective way of killing potato and all leaf eating bugs seeds for late planting sowing rape empire millet hungarian millet sudan grass fall turnips aberdeen greystone feeds feeds feeds good milling fall wheat at feed prices heavy feed barley western feed oats bran mixed chop shorts schumacher feed a feed for all farm stock dr hess fly spray protects cow in the field kills flies in the stable buy war saving certificates stiver bros phone 4501 stouffville interested in arrangements for the big outing it is not too early now to call t b rae or miss margery mertens for further particulars youth jailed for making idle re it is things iike this that are undermining the spirit of this country when it is so sorely needed magistrate f s ebbs declared in district court in ux- bridge town last thursday when he sentenced oliver yakely jr 19 to one month in the county jail on a charge under the de fense of canada regulations yakely is a resident of stouff ville district on the 10th con cession of whitchurch at island lake he was born there it seems too bad that a boy of this age should be in court under these circumstances but he is 19 and there are a good many boys of that age and younger in the army today magistrate ebhs pointed out out it is very unfortunate that we have this kind of people but we will have to deal with them accordingly the time has come when these things have got to and will be stamped out by the courts of this country pierre evans uxbridge town ship farmer told the court that yakely had brought some gram to his chopping mill on may 30 last he had asked the boy when he was going to join up and yakeley had replied whats the use of signing up that countiy is licked already why dont they lay down their arms yakeley then said this country isnt worth fighting for anyway evans stated evans evidence was cor roborated by jack murphy and the incident was reported to provincial police yakeley in giving evidence on his own behalf claimed he had not made the remarks at tributed to him but had said he was not signing up right away because they were riot taking recruits he had also said that if britain and france were de feated there would be no use of canada continuing the fight continued on page 4 special values and reminders at minimum prices you save money while buying fresh quality merchandise with a personal service odex soap 7c princess pat hair nets 3 for 25c coronet hair nets 6 for 25c tooth brushes 2 for 33c nursing latex nipples 3 for 10c noxema cream with soap 54c neverdri fly coils 3 for 10c cerlo 8 oz 25c red jar rings 12s 6c hygeol 35c 60c bayer aspirin 22c 39c 98c modess sanitary towels 12s 23c 30s 49c health salts english style lb 39c chases nerve food 49c 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