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the tribune stouffville ontario thursday july 24 1941 page seven glaremont by staff correspondent the county weed sprayer was busy in the brock road area this week mrs albert taylor and mr and mrs hruce taylor of goodwood call ed on friends here on saturday there was a fairly good turnout at the union sunday school picnic- held to lynhurst park on friday miss johnson of markham is visit ing at the home of mr and mrs kalph wellman mrs lonsdale spent friday last in toronto mr kay rumolir of hamilton has been spending his vacation here with his mother mrs s rumour miss mary wagg who is a trained nurse has been holidaying with her parents mr and mrs nelson wagg mr and mrs wm waddell of stouffville visited in the village on thursday mrs wm thomson is visiting friends in norland ontario mrs caskey wife of a former continuation school teacher here lias been renewing old acquaintances and while here visited at the home of mr and mrs b kilnatrick miss mildred llntonrindaughter of mr and mrs norman linton is nursing in the hospital at new market she was with her parents over the weekend mrs george todd from michigan returned home last weekend after spending some time visiting her brother and family mr and mrs nelson wagg mrs ralph wellman and son paul also miss emma brown attended the free methodist camp meetings at holland landing on sunday bishop fairburn from the states was the special speaker claremont readers should be sure and refer to the overseas mail column on the editorial page where an interesting letter received from england by a resident of this place is published mr and mrs jack norton and mr and mrs ernie hinan were sunday- visitors at trenton where they spent some time watching manoeuvers at the big airport there frank hutchings of the brock road is probalbly the first in this district to have employed a thresh ing outfit this year dean mails out fit from brougham put through several acres of alsike there last week jack mairs who was one of the biggest boosters in the recent con cert at brougham proceeds for war ylctims is visiting with his grand parents mr and mrs dave dawson jack sold over fifty tickets for the benefit concert in his home village the sunday morning service of the two local churches will be held in the united church during the month of august and in the com munity park in the evening over three hundred were in the park last sunday evening for this openair service which is proving quite popu lar claremont band is always in attendance to supply the music for the hymns and also render a short period of music at the close of the service were injured provincial officer sutherland has laid a charge of un lawfully driving in a careless man ner against a chap named kalph veitch of reach township the case will be heard in magistrates court at ubridge on july 31st former lmal contractor dead word was received here last week of the passing of john howe which occurred at havelock out the late mr howe was a bridge con tractor for the cpr and was for mer resident of claremont he built the residence now occupied by mrs wm hill he leaves to mourn his loss a widow and two daughters stores to close on holiday a number of merchants in the village have approached this paper with the suggestion that all placer of business be asked to cooperate in carrying out closing on civic holi day which falls on monday august 4th a monday holiday is always satisfactory to both employee and employers who wish to enjoy the long weekend merchants are asked to settle this point this week so that an announcement can be made in these columns next week shower soldiers bride although mr and mrs eldon stale were married some months ago their friends in the community gave them a big shower one evening last week just the same the groom who is a goodwood boy is ptestaley and this was his first leave since the wedding mrs staley was the form- er kathleen snodden daughter of mr and airs snodden of claremont many were the lovely gifts showered upon the couple on this pleasant occasion reeve and clerk attend presentation ceremony reeve william reesor and clerk donald beaton of pickering twp were present on sunday at camp yungvelt which is in the township when the royal canadian dental corps was presented with a mobile dental clinic by members of the workmens circle branches through out canada the presentation was attended by more than 800 persons and featured a picnic the clinic is one of the first of its kind to be pre sented to canadas fighting forces now teacher hired miss l mcdonald who has been teaching in the orey county area has been hired to fill the vacancy on the continuation school staff caused by the resignation of miss faun miss mcdonald will receive a salary of 950 to appear in cxbridgc court in connection with the accident just north of the village here on the brock road when several people violent stonn does little damage despite the ferocity of the hail and electrical storm which raged over this part of the countryside last wednesday afternoon little damage of a serious nature was re ported in this area mr fred mow- ders house east of here was struck with lightning and some damage in curred mr nathan cox reported several fields of grain layed flat with the hail while mr john scott had a bone to pick with the down pour as it was too much for the soft water tank in his house and as a re sult a little redecorating may be necessary to cover up some blemish es caused by the overflow which came down through the ceiling local county crops below normal crops in this county of ontario are definitely below average due to the spell of dry weather experienced a couple of weeks ago spring grains suffered the most but recent rains have greatly helped the pasture potatoes and root crops and if more rain falls conditions will be still brighter the latest bulletin gives the conditions of field crops as at july 1st expressed as a per cent of normal as follows fall wheat 90 spring wheat 7g 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 1g9 stouffville oats 81 barley s3 fall rye 92 flax si mixed grains 82 peas 83 beans 80 soy beans 79 buck wheat so potatoes si roots 81 fodder corn 76 corn for husking 80 alfalfa so hay and clover 70 and pastures 74 for ontario as a whole the con dition of spring grains at july 1st was estimated to be 20 per cent be low normal while hay and clover and pastures were extremely poor placed at 66 to 67 per cent of nor mal respectively farmers are mak ing strenuous efforts to keep up the milk flow but with the present con dition of pastures it is expected that a considerable drop will occur fall wheat did not suffer as much as spring grains and was estimated at sg per cent of the longtime average while the later crops com roots potatoes and beans range from so to 90 per cent of average rescued spitfires brougham mr and mrs f madill visited theii son at roches point on sunday mr and mrs e r crocker also mr and mrs watson and son billy of toronto called on l and mrs matthews one evening last week a number from here attended decoration services at whitevale on sunday miss wanda varneum of toronto spent the weekend with her sister mrs d a beer miss mary malcolm of toronto spent the past week at her home here mr bruce easton was at wind sor on friday to see his father who is seriously ill at the home of his other son mr l matthews had a business trip to toronto one day last week whitchurch farmer buys combine for harvest after 50 years operating a binder elmer starr bogarttown farmer has purchased a combine mr starr was inspired to buy the outfit by his son francis who is taking an inter est in farming mr starr bought the combine principally for his own work but also intends to do custom work for some of his neighbors back in canada after more than two years in the iraf flying offic er itf bob leavitt dfc of itegina is in montreal visiting rela tives before going home one of his experiences during the days follow ing the fall of france was returning to that country with other squadron members in tiger moths which they destroyed and flew back to their base in spilfires and fairey battles mr charles aldridge and mr ross madill and lady friends visited at huntsville and other points during the weekend mr and mrs l ham and family of oshawa visited with d l and mrs mairs on sunday master jack and miss barbara mairs have been holidaying with their grandparents mr and mrs d dawson of claremont the old timers concert sponsored by the w i and firemen was de cided success the hall was full a draw held for a cedar chest which was won by mrs lemon an electric toaster went to mr cox of oshawa and a bag of flour to a party in tor- 1 onto proceeds of draw amounting to s200 went to the telegram brit ish war victims fund community evangelistic service arrangements are made for great united services at queensv1lle skating rink from july 23 to august 10 services each week night except saturday at 715 pm st on sunday night at 8 pm st these meetings are sponsored by the following denominations associated gospel churches united churches mennonite church free methodist brethren in christ bap tist nazarene special speakers special music everyone cordially invited send the tribune to absent friends banking for the farm savings and checking accounts loans to finance purchases of livestock for feeding dairy activities and other seasonal re quirements of farm operation safety deposit boxes cashing of cheques produce tickets etc money orders and drafts for remittances our managers are in touch tcith conditions and ivill gladly cooperate in any possible direction the bank of nova scotia estdi 1832 over a century of banking experience calling all cars fa a national emergency canada is right up against an acute shortage of gasoline and fuel ou tankers that normally supply our country have been commandeered for vitally important overseas service the commonwealth air training plan the rapid development of canadas mechanized army units and the great work carried on by our corvettes make the demand for fuel urgent our crude oil intake is limited there is just one thing to do if our fighting forces are to carry on with a full tank every canadian motorist is asked to cut his daily gas consumption in half there are many ways by which this 50 saving can be made ways and means to give you more mileage per gallon you can drive slower so that you will use less gasoline you can go fiftyfifty with your neighbours inviting each other to share cars for business and for pleasure people can readily go to and from work together using one car instead of four using one gallon of gasoline instead of several women as well as men can make these savings the amount of gasoline used in canada for business social and nonessential activities is amazingly high in proportion to that used by our fighting forces one look at the figures would convince you that this situation must be reversed izeasy ways towards a 0 gasoline saying approved by automobile experts hoduco driving spood from 60 to 40 on the open road avoid jackrabbit starts avoid uscloss or nonossontial driving turn motor off when not in uso do not loavo idling dont raco your engine lot it warm up slowly dont strain your engine change goara koop caiburolor cleaned and properly adjustod tuno up motor timing otc keep spark plugs and valves dean chock cooling system overheating wastes gasoline maintain tiros at right pressure lubricate ofhdontly worn engines waste gasoline drive in groups to and from work using cars alternate days for goli picnics and other outings uso one car instead of four take thoso short shopping trips on foot and carry parcols homo walk to and from the movies boat owners loo can help by reducing spood your regular service station man will gladly explain these and other tvays o saving gasoline consult him go 50ffo withvourfighting forces canada does not ask or request you to put your car up she merely asks for your help asks that you walk sometimes when the distance isnt too great that you take a shorter drive on sunday afternoon that you look after your car and keep it in good condition that you say to your neigh bour lets use my car today jim well use yours tomorrow every day in greater and greater quantity we must release gasoline and oil by the thousands of gallons to our throbbing munitions plants to our tanks and armoured cars to our fighting planes and bombers to our corvettes and merchant ships that ply the vital sealanes so that the day of victory may sooner be at hand will you help it is also vitally important that you reduce the use of domestic and commercial fuel oiu the government of the dominion of canada actinc through the honourable c d howe minuter oj munitions and supply g r cottrelle oh controller for canada