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the tribune stouffville ont thursday july 10th 1941 page seven claremont by staff correspondent mr wm bame and wife of buff- i spent friday with relatives here miss clara neal of toronto visit- with relatives here on sunday mr jim coates and gordon over- id were home over the holiday mr jess warden is enjoying a eks holiday at his home here miss thelma sanderson is visiting the woodburn home in stouff- ue mr and mrs gordon graham of shawa visited at imrs grahams me here on sunday mrs- russ burkholder of mark- im visited in claremont on the ibbath miss johnson of markham is siting at the home of mr and mrs alph wellman mrs ambrose of toronto visited iends- here on saturday also mr nd mrs robbins of toronto mr duncan mcmillan visited ills ister mrs ed lewis one day recent- mr jean bame and lady friend of luffalo visited with his mother here n sunday miss charlotte johnson toronto isited friends here over the week- nd the funeral of the late wilfred ladler of kinsale who passed away uddenly last week took place on riday mr and mrs sam stephenson of ishawa also mr and mrs robert vorthy of brampton visited mrs valford over sunday mr albright of whitevale was a ecent visitor with his niece mrs lohn bushhy a coursin from cobalt was also at the bushhy home miss ida stanbury is reported in a critical condition over the weekend after undergoing an operation in the city hospital mr and mrs heber down and mr and mrs dave coates of brooklin were sunday visitors at the fred redshaw home messrs cecil and elmer mantle were also callers miss dougherty of peterboro and a former school teacher in clare mont over twenty years ago visited over the weekend with miss s e evans mr and mrs bud norton recent newlyweds here will take up their residence in part of the house now occupied by mr and mrs gordon benson mr fred ward who was removed to the western hospital toronto last week is resting comfortably following a critical operation on fri day the hig county grader was busy in the village on monday laying a aiew tarvia surface through the north portion of the main street here the roadway just south of the cpr tracks was badly broken up this spring a small cottage was recently er ected on th vacant lot just opposite g si forsyths farm and is being occupied by a mrs kirby toronto the lot was purchased from the estate of the late sherman rumohr the wms of the united church will entertain the memhers of the cglt and the mission band in an open meeting this thursday after noon the two junior organizations will provide the program guests at the home of w a and mrs lehman during the past few days were floyd hill and family from wyandotte mich and mr and mrs wesley hill of stouffville mr and mrs arthur vaughan church hill floyd has not been home now for some four years donald bacon and the hired man have been extra busy this last week they journeyed 40 miles across to schomberg to harvest the hay crop on his late fathers farm there and stacked away some 21 loads there is still more to be cut and taken in with the crop not too heavy one is fortunate to have a heavy crop in another part of the country fine weather graced the annual decoration day service at the union cemetery here on sunday which was largely attended from both clare mont and outlying districts rev walter daniels delivered the address of the afternoon and the claremont band assisted by the united church choir supplied the musical portion of the service alt mole who is leaving shortly to take over a new car sales estab lishment at brampton is offering his claremont business for sale as a full going concern a birthday party was held for mrs harmon yake on june 22nd at the home of her daughter mrs gordon riddle of claremont a dainty two story cake was made by mrs riddle and mrs yake cut the cake with the silver knife mrs yake received a number of presents about 20 sat down to dinner and supper among those present were mr and mrs w gladwell mr and mrs r feaster all of toronto mr and mrs loss hill mr and mrs wm hicks mr wilmot hill and lady friend of claremont mr and imrs harmon yake ray and wilmot girls meeting the regular meeting of the w i will be held at the home of mrs frank carson on wednesday july 16 at 230 girls of the community cordially invited to attend topic dancing every evening cellar beaeh musselmans lake community activities kvenipg service in the park beginning next sunday july 13th the evening church service in the village will be held in the park grounds here during the month of july the morning service will be held in baptist church with the openair service in the evening the claremont band will be in atten dance to lead the music breaks arm in fall the little daughter of mr and mrs mac middleton sustained a broken left arm on monday when she took a bad tumble while riding a pony owned by jos fair she was brought to stouffville for medical attention and xrays revealed the in jured member was broken in two places wheat and barley cut one of the very first if not the first field of grain to be cut in this district is a 5acre piece of barley on the farm of david nighswander this grain was shocked up last thursday high school teacher resigns the local school trustees have re ceived the resignation of miss faun of the continuation school staff who has taught here for one year miss faun was recently given a 50 raise in salary after a request for 100 had been asked for by all members of both continuation and public staffs bumper crowd for auction the crowd was large and prices were good at the thomson estate sale held here on saturday the sale totalled 300 the property which was also offered and consists of the frame dwelling and a corner lot on the 9th concession was not disposed of although it was bid up to 1200 on the whole prices rang ed quite high a kitchen range bring ing 40 and kitchen chairs going for 225 woodcluick shoot in not popular in pickering a meeting of the pickering town ship game committee was held on monday evening and the matter of granting licenses to shoot wood- chucks in the municipality was discussed but was held unfavorable by the majority of those present it was generally felt that such shoot ing would provide too great a hazard with so much grazing in the fields the financial report was given by the treasurer of this meeting 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 robert arthur burreu passes at maple hall the death of robert arthur bir- rell at lot 10 concession 7 picker ing last friday removes a member of a pioneer family in that district son of the late david birrell the family have long- occupied their fine premises at maple hall deceased was in his 66th year and is survived by his wife whose maiden name was mildred beverley robson the funeral took place on monday afternoon to claremont union cem etery attended by old friends of the- family pickering appeals equalized j assessment the decision of the county equal zation committee not to reduce the amount of equalized assessment against the township of pickering by reason of the municipality losing some 225000 in assessment yrfces the dominion government took over a number of farms for pickering war plant has been appealed by the twp government property is not assessable and as the township loses taxes on the farms taken over they want the county to reduce county taxation accordingly this has been refused until next year at least the case will be heard by the county judge but probably not un til september turner reunion pyramid poultry farm rr2 claremont the home of john h and hugh g miehell was the scene of attraction on saturday july 5th when over 100 relatives gathered to pay tribute to the one hundredth anniversary of the settlement of william turner in pickering twp the day was ideal for young and old the older folk enjoyed their family chats while the younger clan indulg ed in sports with two very close softball games mrs david turner whitevale ontario aged 85 was the eldest person present while her grandson david was home for the occasion fr6m manitoba where he is stationed with the rcaf mr stanley turner streetsvllle was chosen president nnd miss ada turner milton ontario secretary- treasurer jewish campfire to cost pickering tp over tj0o firefighting expenses of over ji00 were revealed as a result of the recent fire which originated in the jewish camp on the 4th con cession and which spread to several farms destroying fences and crops the wilson white and fitzpatrick farms were all damaged to some ex tent brigades of claremoiuljrough- am and pickering all answered the call while a number of truckers also gave their assistance in drawins water the regular charge for these outfits attending outside fires is 30 accounts received from the truck drivers were held over for further consideration by the pickering council in session on monday an agreement has been reached with the allied war construction co whereby the roads taken over in the new pickering munitions plant will be maintained by this company tor the duration of the plants opera tion and will then be transferred hack to the municipality one new portion of roadway which is to be built by the munition people will also be deeded to the township on the conclusion of operations when the war is over a suggestion that the township share in the cost of a new 15000 overhead bridge for an approach to the plant was turn ed down by reeve reesor and his council the township already has several easily accessible means of crossing the tracks and it was felt that any new construction of this kind should be financed solely by the parties interested numerous complaints have been heard regarding the dangerous corn er at the junction at the 3rd con cession and the scarboro townline and councillor george todd was de legated along with the road superin tendent to interview mr burkhold er owner of the property lot 35 adjacent to the spot in question with a view to purchasing sufficient land to alleviate this hazard the question of weed spraying in the township came in for lengthy discussion at the regular meeting of council monday deputyreeve heber down was of the opinion that the cost which last year amounted to some 400 was out of proportion to the results realized councillor wh westney suggested that the matter be tried on the same basis as the dust layer that is on a fiftyfifty basis with the farmers no immedi ate action was taken a communication was received from scarboro to the effect that the buildings and lot of union school section no 4 had been sold to the department of highways for the sum of 6000 this property will be taken in with the further construc tion of the new queen elizabeth highway pickering and scarboro will share about equal in the pur chase price wages for farmers who will cut weeds for the township will be 35c an hour and for a team and a mow er 75c an hour this new scale was agreed upon on monday when the question of weed cutting came up for discussion road supt ward stated that labor was extremely scarce and urged council to raise the hourly rate in order to get the job done road accounts passed totalled 202000 irelief was the lowest this year totalling only 72 8s with nine recipients on the foil road supt ward revealed that some 50 tons of calcium had been placed on the town ship roads 8000 yards in month three thousand yards of gravel crushed and loaded from pickering township pit was the record for the month of june of four men under supt roy ward we certainly couldnt have got along without our new mechanical loader mr ward told the tribune hand labor for such an amount would have cost us nearly 3300 a day he said markham township pr is sold the sale was announced this week of one of the outstanding properties in markham township to a toronto purchaser it is lot 14 concession close to no 7 highway consisting of 12s acres once owned by william rennie of the rennie- seed co the property was recognized as one of the show places of the district having been awarded the silver medal on numer ous occasions in 1ss7 it was pur chased by the william jacques es tate in 1s97 it was acquired by jas comisky walter h comisk carried on dairy farming until 191s when the property was purchased by grant h peplar for 30000 george forrester purchased the property in 1922 and sold it to the present vendor in 1929 the farm is hedged around by one of the fin est rows of males in the country planted 30 years ago bring your printing job to the tribune satisfaction guaranteed new chief justice named obk awas this picture of harlan f stone was made in the new york city law office of his sou dauson after presi dent roosevelt nominated him to be chief justice of the us supreme court succeeding charles evans hughes senator james f byrnes became a justice and attorneygen eral robert jackson an associate justice at the same time stouffvliilie s s forgoes annual pioxio the baptist sunday sdhool has can celled its annual picnic for this summer and will donate the money usually spent on this highly popular event to the british war victims fund thats a fine attitude to take for it means something to the youn ger generation to forgo these picnic occasions that remain so fresh and so long in ones memory in after years who of the older generation cannot recall a sunday school pic nic foods for the picnic its the golden season for outings so take full advantage of them while the weather is fine picnics always mean good appetites and we suggest you fill the lunch box with sandwiches made of stovers wholesome and appetizing bread youll find a fine selection of breads and many other picnic pastries on display at our bakeshop the stouffville bakery bakers for two generations tribune advertising try it gets results brougham mr and mrs p forsythe of mark- ham called on friends here recently several from here attended the carter hood reunion at scugog on july 1st george harry and barbara knox of st george visited with their brothers o sunday mr d imalrs had a business trip to peterboro recently mrs mairs jack and bjtrbara accompanied him mr and mrs j nighswander and family of green river visited a j and mrs gray on sunday mr and mrs irussell philip of buffalo were guests of their parents over the weekend mr and mrs william burton and family also miss m burton of de troit viisted mr and mrs m hamil ton during the weekend on july 1st over one hundred relatives and friends gathered at the home of mr walter bales it was the parkim reunion several from brougham attended the balsdonplitz wedding at picker ing on saturday afternoon the groom is a grandson of mr and mrs m hamilton here the yp union had charge of the services which were held on sunday evening instead of the afternoon dr hoskin was special speaker and illustrated his talk with moving pictures gravel pit employee killed t pickering neil de geer aged 24 a mechanic employed at the conlln gravel pit near brougham in pickering twp was killed last wednesday afternoon when he fell into a bin used for cleaning gravel he had been miss ing only a short time when his body was discovered by edward coates the plant foreman de geer lived all his life on the 7th con of pickering married he is survived by his wife and one child and by his parents six brothers and three sisters we save you monw get this good the tube is the heart of your tire to get top service out of your new tires equip k them with new low- cost goodyear tubesi a mile eating long- wearing extra value tire the choice of motorists who know youll get a real thrill as you ride on this big goodyear g3 because it gives you more of every thing you want in a tire at a saving in price that will amaze you theres a good reason why its one of the most popular tires 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