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the tribune stouffville ontario thursday june 19th 1941 page nine glaremont by staff correspondent toronto bal and mrs fred ward was in one day last week mr and mrs bert jones of sam were- in town on friday called on mrs j bushby miss eflie graham and sister of oshawa was in town on friday even ing the rain which fell during the past week was certainly appreciated many local cisterns were just about down to their last drop mr and mrs jas evans of clare- mont were sunday visitors with mr and mrs t evans of glasgow mrs roy morgan and mary atten ded the elliott reunion mr and mrs oldfield of oshawa visited mr and mrs bob dawson last weekend mrs jas evans visited friends at pickering and oshawa during last week gordon morley son of mr and mrs fred morley has joined the canadian air force mr motleys father is a veteran of the last war mrs thos patterson and daughter mrs clarence pengalli of brooklin motored to sunderland one day dur ing the past week miss florence beelby has return ed from london where she has been with her mother who has been very ill for some time mrs walter daniels has returned from toronto whore she has been visiting with her son rev keith daniels mrs albert rawson of toronto has been visiting relatives here dur ing the past week the decoration service in the union cemetery here has been an nounced for sunday july gth the cgit group held a mother and daughter banquet in the united church on tuesday evening of last week mrs roy ward who has been in st michaels hospital since her re cent operation is steadily improving she is expected home this week mrs walter wards sister of aurora has been visiting here with relatives mr wm beaton of oshawa was in town on friday mr and mrs clarence pratt and daughter of fort william and mr percy pratt of collingwood visited with imr and mrs ed lewis recent ly a shower was held on friday even ing at the lewis home for the bride- tobe miss irene lewis miss lewis and the prospective groom gordon graham received many lovely gifts from a host of admiring friends be sure to attend the pie social and musical concert also quilt draw on tuesday evening june 24 at cedar creek schoolhouse ladies please provide pie proceeds for british war victims fund come one come all a former resident of claremout and late of trenton alan michel was laid to rest in mt pleasant cemetery toronto last week de ceased was in his 67th year and had attended the local public schcoi when in claremont the family occupied the wall ward house we understand the gordon house famous old pickering village hotel has been sold to a toronto party the new owner is expected to make extensive improvements the gi- dous conducted this hotel business for over fifty years the press has been asked by the local police to warn local motorists with regard to obeying the stop signs at the four corners main st the constable reports that many absolutely ignore the warning that they are coming into a main high way and swing around the inter section in a reckless fashion en dangering the lives of both them selves and others several narrow escapes from accidents have occurr ed and continued breaches of the traffic laws will certainly result in action beiug taken continuation school teachers hehired at increase principal prouse and miss faun of the continuation school staff have been rehired for another year and will receive 1300 and 950 re spectively by virtue of a 30 in crease granted as yet no decision lias been reached with regard to the public school teachers who have also asked for a raise of 100 each 48 for warsaving drive the centre pickering division or- anized for the war saving campaign realized 4s at a patriotic concert at greenwood park on friday evenin this group which is under the chairmanship of mr hugh pugh of whitevale cooperated with the school sections within the area and drills dances and singing made up the combined program finder and thumb saved according to the latest doctors report bob haslem will save a fin ger and thumb which were painfully mangled in a motorcycle accident a week ago bob who has been em ployed on the john scott farm for a numher of years was injured when his motorcycle plunged off the road way near the station and pinned his hand between the handle bars and a wire fence dancing every saturday evening cedar beae3i musselmans lake tuesday june 24th dancing every night commences with 0zzie williams orchestra big spouts day program ox july 1st iteeve reesor favors curtailment of road construction until present roads repaired facing extraordinary expenditures for road maintenance on account of damage done during the spring breakup ontario county may cur tail or eliminate for one year ex penditures on new construction reeve wm reesor of pickering favored protecting the roads we now have and keeping them up to stand ard before roceeding with any new construction the county road bud get has been set for this year at 100000 with the howlers mr gordon lemons rink of stouffville won first prize will birk- ketts claremont four won second and thos harris rink of port perry came third in the mixed doubles tournament here last friday night on wednesday of this week the first mens doubles tournament of theii provincial group is being held here at whitbys provincial group mens fours last week messrs evans beare baker and miller of claremont carried off top honors and were presented with handsome white windbreakers the local bowlers de feated rinks from whitby oshawa and uxbridge to capture first place pickoiinji roaches victory objective early pickering township was the first in ontario county to go over the top in its victory loan campaign during the middle of last week the township reached its allocation of 144500 and surpassed it the same day to touch 147000 with more coming in the commjttee of which mr ruddy is head includes reeve w reesor j banigan and w c mur- kar and the canvassers are j crop- ley f m chapman j banigan t gregg d beer and r s ruddy r s ruddy chairman of the township victory loan committee in releasing the figures paid tribute to the indefatigable efforts of the canvassers and expressed confidence that by the end of the campaign the total would reach a mark exceeding 200000 county turns down township appeal over assessment loss lueeve william reesor was re ported to have put up a strong fight at county council last week before the equalized assessment committee in an effort to have the assessment for the township reduced to corres pond with the loss of some 115000 assessment struck off our tax rolls by reason of the government war plant taking over the several farms in the southern area the township pointed out that there is a direct loss of 1000 in county taxes from those farms which the township will still have to hand over to the county this year although there is one school section wiped out which will partially offset the loss in assessment notwithstanding all that could be said the county re fused to reduce pickerings county tax for 1041 while admitting that the reduction would come in an automatic way next year when the equalized assessment of the county is revised the committee claimed that it had no power to make any alteration at this time in favor of pickering praises training plax experts believe that britains progress in finding out how to com bat night bombers has been rapid and satisfactory major charles g pearcy director of armament in the united states air corps technical command said in toronto major pearcey flew to canada to study methods of training in air schools of the rcaf the canadian mushrooms is what we call your schools in the states he remarked we are very impressed by the speed with which they have popped up all over and also by the efficiency of your training methods claremont farm sold to city man for country estate w mcculloiikli farm suited for country estate golf course for best results ship your cream to us the best way to keep your meat is in cold storage rent a locker 600 per year from the time you rent same stouffville creamery co phone 18601 open tuesday thursday and saturday evenings coal and feed cement tile and salt s w hastings phone 169 stouffville field day celebration goes over the top over 100 was realized by the claremont park board on the fine field day and concert on saturday nearly one thousand people crowded jthe park for the evenings perform ance which was headed by those two jovial gentlemen al and bob har vey in the afternoon claremont school took first place in the baseball tournament with uxbridge second and 1th line uxbridge third the feature sprint of the afternoon was a pony race contested by three of our young horse fanciers lawrenco norton was the winner while noreen carruthers and jean fan- split the second place prize as their mounts proved rather unruly and took to go ing anywhere but around the track los wilson of stouffville was the lucky winner of the radio giver away while alf pretty of claremont went home with the cedar chest there were nearly four hundred tickets in the draw the thanks and appreciation is expressed by the park board to all who assisted in making the day such a success to those who gave of their time in helping in the booth and especially to j sterritt of pickering for the donation of the cedar chest oil in ilckiing likely a report carried by this paper a couple of weeks ago to the effect that representatives of some com pany had been looking over certain areas in pickering township with a view to drilling for oil have brought forth several stories which lend weight to the belief that some of the flowing gold is located in this vicinity w h westney township councillor reported that his pro perty was within the area specified and that although he was quite fav orable to such surveying ho had been unable to gain the name of the inter- 1 ested parties it has been suspected an important sale of country property was made this week when tracy lloyd secretarytreasurer of hinde and dauche paper co limited and privately associated with many other large toronto enterprises bought the old f w mccullough farm this farm consists of 205 acres and is beautifully located about a mile east of claremont the front 75 acres is clay loam and the northwesterly part of a lighter loam thus the farm is adapt able for growing various kinds of crops mr mccullough sold the farm about two years ago and bought an other north of claremont but he carried on this farm until last spring as a dairy farm shipping milk to toronto the property lends itself beauti fully for country estate or golf course development as it is less than naif a mile off the pavement the buildings are in splendid condition a solid brick house containing seven rooms and cellar a large hip roof bank barn has stabling for 20 head of cattle and six horses a large l to the barn is used as a hog pen in addition there is a hen house and drive shed the workable land is sloping jus enough for good drainage and the for some time that there was oil of some sort in the region of the north townline on which the john pallister farm is located mr pallister tells the tribune that for some years a low boggy place on his farm where he was accustomed to water his cattle has been so saturated with oil it has been made unusable the pallisters report that some years ago a surveyor passing over their land told them that there were definite signs of oil and natural gas in that region balance of the farm is rolling with several high promontories from which lake ontario can be seen the northerly part is picturesque with the green river through for about threequarters of a mile with many along its course red cross notes it is hoped that every woman flowing will realize how necessary it is to redouble our efforts and do twice as pretty waterfalls much work this summer and that it will be a disastrous thing if holidays the river banks are wooded with cause a drop in the quantity of red maple beech hemlock and several cross supplies was the warning cedar groves leaving places where issued to women by mrs wallace r small lakes or trout ponds could be campbell national chairman of developed there are hills suitable womens war work committee for skiing and other winter sports jagainsc any slackening of war work the lloyds are fond of outdoor during the summer sports and the daughter miss mary lloyd now ladies champion of the lambton golf course finished in third position in the toronto city district ladies gold championship last week canadas domestic exports in cluding gold in march 1941 to talled 101919000 as compared with 82719000 in march 1910 donations gratefully acknow- ledged include mrs h w sanders 500 miss 250 bertha j smith 200 mrs roy grove attend the garden tea on satur day afternoon june 21 on the lawn of mrs stevens obrien ave seven breads to choose from each one of them a perfect bread to serve on your table each is so fresh and flavoury so even in texture and golden brown on the outside theyre all baked to perfection stovers breads are the result of two generations of skilled labor in perfecting the finest most wholesome loaves at prices all can afford potato cracked wheat brown buttermilk scone milk loaf double loaf all 9c delicious raisin loaf 13c the stouffville bakery bakers for two generations if you want a low cost tire heres your best buy well put these great goodyear pathfinders on yourcar today protect them with new lowcost goodyear tubes all at a price that means money saved to you then youll be equipped for long safe happy mileage drive in for service today xsmffi fcssg2lzi2i titiiiiwa we mount 0ur new tires while you wait save you time muss am mom goodyear pathfinder d f holden sons stouffville ontario the least we all should do is do our utmost buy victory bonds montueaij dominion textile company limited tokoxto