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the tribune stouffville ontario thursday june 19th 1941 page three plan to celebrate dominion day tuesday july 1st stouffville sponsored by the lions club drum majorette and local junior band to head parade military display by queens york rangers full afternoon of entertainment for children local general news navy league tag day saturday dave jacks who is serving with the- canadians navy was in town last week on leave along with his recent bride the former miss allin of unionville june is the month for brides and roses strawberries and green peas but the census taker will not by any means be so welcome e a grubin ro optometrist and optician will be at his office in stouffville on monday june 23rd lloyd wideman clerk at the dominion stores in town has gone to dunville as relieving manager for two or three weeks whats wrong with friday the thirteenth sure it brought to stouff ville and district the first spring shower this season and was worth a million dollars to the farmers in the neighborhood last week grand program in the arena in the evening lucky draws watch these columns for full program announcement i miss bessie currie primary teach er in the public school at port elgin for thirtyfive years has resigned thats a long record for a teacher in one school especially the people of stouffville and dis trict are invited to a tea saturday june 21 1941 on the lawn of mrs stevens obrien avenue the tea is being given by the residents of obrien avenue in aid of the tele grams war victims fund guests will be served from 330 until 630 pm high school entrance examina tions will be written on june 2j and 27 thursday and friday of next week the numher of entrance pupils writing will not be great since the greater number of them pass on their term work mr and mrs dave bradshaw and daughter from california called on miss gertrude todd one day last week the bradshaws were former natives of uxbridge and mr brad shaw was located in niagara falls as a druggist fortyfive years ago rev c e macleod was in lon don last week attending the ontario and quebec baptist conven tion while there he met two former pastors who sarved in stouffville in years gone by namely rev alfred burgess and irev a p wilson now of paisley rev mr burgess de livered one of the convention ad dresses ho is pastor of the first baptist church buffalo ny the united church womans association will meet in the church on wednesday evening june 25 at 8 pm note change of date the maple leaf dairy building across from the stouffville bakery is having its face lifted a number of other business places are being treated in a similar manner all of which is keeping the painters very busy there should be no shabby fronts along main street in so im portant a business section rainfall in may would have been about nil had it not beon for the last weeks showers which came in time to relieve a drought condition that was becoming serious total rainfall for the month amounted to 143 inches there wero 1g days of total sunshine with the high temp erature of the month recovded at s2 degrees and the lowest at 29 degrees paris auto supply auto wreckers complete stock of new and used parts accessories and tires for all makes of cars and trucks reconditioned cars and trucks jos parisi richmond hill ontario phone 86 the warning notice recently issued to water customers to obey the bylaw permitting use of lawn hose only between the hours of g and s pm is being very well obeyed this season we ate informed and few infractions have been reported by the constablenaturally cooperation in this matter is greatly appreciated hours for use of lawn hose are re stricted in the city of toronto where they have all lake ontario to draw from in the list of patriotic citizens who subscribed for a page in this paper last week to extend a welcome to american visitors this summer the signature of mr walter dick son read dickinson for which this paper offers its sincere regrets walter dickson is a member of one of our pioneer families and many people now resident in the usa recall the dickson blacksmith shop in the east end and the familiar old homestead and farm still being carried on by walter the smithy shop is long since only a memory however mrs b doten has rented the old nendick homestead on obrien ave to mr r l barker who is moving to town from bolton to take a posi tion on our school staff a married man with a 7yearold son mr bar ker intends to move here in a couple of weeks and will be a welcome addition to the family circles in the community w ds victoryloan 1941 stiver bros dr william baker of peterborol the census taker is on his rounds motored down to visit his brother persons who are going away for a seneca at baker hill on sunday george saunders caretaker of the post office who joined the army as a veteran of the last war and has been stationed up in new ontario was home over last week george has been advanced to the rank of a cor poral and was wearing the two strips signifying his rank on his visitcorp saunders states that the german prisoners over whom he stands guard do not believe that hess is in britain and just cannot conceive that hit lers first lieutenant would leave the fatherland their blind loyalty is remarkable even among educated men who can speak the english language perfectly rev d macgregor has been secured to deliver the address at the stouffville memorial and decoration day on sunday june 22nd at the cemetery the grounds are in very fine trim and visitors are going to be more than pleased with the gener al appearance of this sacred spot when they visit town on sunday next its rather unfortunate that the main street entrance is not in keep ing with the well kept grounds but the approach from the 10th con cession is greatly improved since hundreds of loads of earth and dili gent work on the part of the care taker has converted a low unkept front to a most presentable entrance never has so much entertainment been enjoyed by so many people for so small an admission charge as that offered annually at cedar grove garden party plan now to attend this year on saturday night july the 5th a big barn dance net proceeds to go to the tely war victims fund is being staged under auspices of the unionville junior farmers in arthur lapps new barn cedar grove this friday evening russ creighton will supply the music in the mixed doubles tournament held at the local greens last thurs day james ratcliffs rink carried off first cowie of claremont was second and blake sanders was third all prizes were paid in war- saving stamps fancy wages paid hy the government at the newmarket training camp during the period of construction was no doubt largely responsible for defrauding the j government out of some 3000 three men in command were charg ed with employing men as laborers whose names had gone through to get carpenter pay of 95c per hour they took the 50c rate paid labor ers and the bosses took the differ ence it is alleged had these fancy prices never been offered thero would have been no inducement or chance to defraud many carpenters were heard to say they would have jumped at the job for a sum con siderably less than 95c per hour the sum of 2100 was added to the soldiers comfort fund here on saturday evening when the local veterans continued their mile of coppers this brings the grand total of coppers collected up to near ly 70 a further date for this penny collection will be announced later week or two at this time should communicate with mr maclean phone 30s at once jas thomas rcaf who is now stationed at eglinton club toronto was home on leave over the week end he was accompanied by a young american mr watson wadsworth who crossed the line from masse- chusetts to join the canadian air service mrs jack oneill nelda lehman was in town for a few days last week with her baby daughter they motor ed home to madoc on sunday with mr and mrs mervyn lehman the oneills intend to move from madoc to stirling shortly we understand a refreshing pause for icecold cocacola lightens any task with icecold bottles of cocacola in your refrigerator you have delicious refreshment within easy reach when you are hot tired or thirsty so when you pause throughout the day make it the pause that refreshes with icecold cocacola authorized bonier of cocacola port perry bottling works port lvrry phone 17 the hydro was temporarily cut off from obrien avenue east on thursday when the large soft maple just opposite the baptist church on the avenue came crashing down in the high wind that swept this area about noon hour the tree which is upwards of fifty years old split in two parts far up the trunk and carried down the electric wires tear ing several bricks loose on the church no ono happened to be underneath when the crash came although clayt tarr had just clear ed the spot with his car this land mark is one of several planted by r j daley who built the large resi dence now occupied by dr s s ball a new combination haybaler was in operation on the deacon farm 6th con of markham on saturday the new machine gathers up the crop immediately after the mower has gone through and bales it up green it is placed in the barn in this green state and when the bales are opened the hay can be fed in the shape of bats falling out like the slices in a loaf of bread this is a new process and was in demonstra tion on the deacon place from where it will move on to the experi mental farm at guelph j while the necessary warnings have been issued against any wanton destruction of the local park prop- perty someone apparently didnt take the hint and consequently one of the fine new tennis nets placed on the courts there has been deliberately slashed nearly half way across apparently with a knife these nets have been recently replaced at con siderable outlay to the club and any parties tampering with such equip ment in future will certainly be checked by the authorities instalments you can buy your victory bonds by instalments ton percent down the rest on easy tonus over six months pledge your credit and buy all the victory bonds you can on the instalment plan when you have paid for them your dollars will be earning a good interest return your canvasser bank trust company or victory loan headquarters will ex plain and take your order help finish the job buif victojuf oldu lodif l2d r4i 413 that heavy downpour on sunday afternoon was worth 5000 to the people of stouffvjlle alone in actual dollars to their gardens why so emphatic in the amount you say well its this way sundays rain was the first real honest soaker to fall over this village since the gardens wore put in oh yes thero was a couplo or three light showers before but they only served to sustain tho vegetables struggling to live sun day it was different it rained hard not too hard and it rained long enough to sink deep into the ground mind you we are only talking about this rain that fell in the village for other rains fell to the north to the south the east and west at various intervals but they all avoid the village proper now to got back to hard boiled figures arent there 200 gardens be ing tilled exclusive of market gardens and didnt that rain add 25 to the value of the crop in every one of them if it didnt then your not a good gardener and do not get from your lot what intensive cultivation can give you hellmans homestyled salad dressing 8 oz jar 17c aylmer pork and beans 15 oz tin 2 for 15c early morning coffee freshly ground lb 37c libbys spaghetti in tomato sauce with creese tin 10c marmalade orange lemon grapefruit 2 lb jar 25c sweet mixed pickles picnic brand 23c prunes large sweet 4050s 2 lbs 25c soda biscuits mannings oven fresh 2 lbs 25c wheatletts finest quality 5 lbs 25c ontaiio white beans 5 lbs 25c excelsior choice pastry flour 24 lb bag 69c clover leaf salmon a la king lb tin 25c aylmer bartlett pears heavy syrup tin 15c york brand headcheese lb 21c devon weiners skinless lb 23c perfection bread money back guarantee 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