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the tribune stouffville ont thursday august 28 1941 page seven glaremont by staff correspondent miss marion evans is visiting mrs vm arbucke is redecorating ith relatives in toronto iand making over her residence on miss jean mccartney of toronto is main street which will be turned in- isiting with miss g patteuden for to a duplex residence few days jilrs jess warden and children have mr and mrs frank cooper and been visiting with her mother and lene were visitors with mr and mrs father mr and mrs harry boose of cooper at waterford over the toronto eekeud the local ladies engaged in red mrs c gillies and daughter and cross work here are entered in r d sexsmith and his motherlmrs aitkens quilting contest at the 11 of pontypool were sunday guests c which will be held on aug f mr and mrs harry porter mr rg kennedy is ill at his home ere mr cliff pilkey and two sons were n clartmont one day this week mrs win bingham is visiting in toronto with her daughter mr jack brillinger is slowly im- roving since his accident but is still n the oshawa hospital mrs robert forsyth and daughter nna are taking a trip through the housand islands this week mrs j bushby has been visiting her son alvin and family at picker ing mrs charles gostick and family entertained her sister and two children from windsor last week mr bruce norton of toronto visit ed here with friends over the week end we understand mrs esther palm er is confined to her bed through ill health mr and mrs ivan benson of agincourt visited friends here last week imr and mrs m j wilker of tor onto visited relatives here on sun day mrs borland who has been con fined to her bed through illness is able to be up now for a while each day mr frank mantle who is a resi dent of london district is here visit ing his brother bert mantle and al so his sister mrs borland congratulations go from this dis trict to william pile of brooklin who celebrated his 99ts birthday on friday hugh g and mrs michell have returned home from royal cabin lodge rosedale on balsam lake hugh reports a fine time extra fine meals with pies that just hit the spot an oshawa military band was ex pected in the village on wednesday evening to provide some martial airs as part of the recruiting cam paign in this area continuation school graduates are invited to consider the courses and facilities offered by uxbridge high school complete upper school a special oneyear commercial course which gives a coniplclc commercial training in one school year this course is open to stu dents who have completed two years in any secondary school 29th mr and mrs jas coates motored to mona road on sunday where they visited with the formers cousin imr and mrs wm slack mrs hortop of port perry her daughter and husband mr and lyirs thcs blight of oshawa visited with mrs hortops sister mrs thos paterson last week the court action brought against mrveitch of reach township arising out of a motor accident has been dismissed the case arose over a collision between the cars driven by messrs veitch and ailbright the mission circle of the baptist church met on tuesday afternoon at the home of mrs richardson the i program was in charge of mrs jas coates group and roll call was an swered by what impressed me most at the association miss florence beelby was called home to stroud last week owing to to the serious illness of her mother mrs beelby who is also a sister of mrs ayres who resides south of the village mr jno neal uncle of miss beelby is visiting here during her absence mr harold hayes who has been teller in the local branch of the bank of commerce now for several years has been moved from this district and his place will be taken by a new comer miss mabel johnson daugh ter of mr and mrs henry johnson of the 9 til concession mr hayes home is in port perry excavation work has commenced on a new house being built by mr ernie hinan on the vacant lot just south of his present residence in the north end of town the new house will be the cottage style frame 20 by 22 and it is understood that mr hinans sister from gait who is the wife of an army man will occupy the place mr elmer sherk of clare- mont is the contractor exects to rebuild immediately through the kindness of friends mr valentine north of the village expects to rebuild his barn im mediately following a fire which completely demolished the place last week practically all the livestock j was removed to safety charred with vagrancy caught in the act of attempting to enter the residence of col phillips farm house north of the village on the 5th concession a toronto man was taken into custody one night last week and charged with vagrancy according to the police this foreign er was intoxicated at the time and was seized by the colonel who slip ped out when he heard the intruder tampering with the windows the late susan mowbray daughter of the late ralph mow bray and mrs mowbray susan mow bray a resident of brooklin passed away at her home on friday last and was hurled in the salem ceme tery on monday the late miss mow bray was in her 43rd year the mow brays are neighbours of the jones family where the late harry jones passed away last week also report several farms to lie vacated labor shortage is one of the chief problems confronting district farm ers today and is one of the chief reasons we understand which has brought several farmers in this area to the point where they are con sidering giving up their farms messrs bert mathews frank ham and duncan dolphin are all reported to be negotiating for changes in their property these farms are all adja cent to the 8th concession at quebec with the press by c h nolan this year when so many regular in the defeat of the french general tourist avenues have been cut off and the death of bofh generals and special offering for the hand sunday next august 31st will be the final union church services here in the united church in the morn- ing and in the park in the evening a special offering will be taken at i this final park service which will go to the claremont band which has so ably and faithfully given of time and talent to these outdoor services township truck collides with cow the pickering township gravel truck driven by albert lee came to grips with a cow on the 5th con cession one day recently and despite the fact that the milker was dump ed clear over the roadside guard rail and into a rubbish heap she never the less gave a good account of her self as the appearance of the truck testified the cow which had broken out of a field nearby was the pro perty of mr imajor constable norton was called but the responsibility was fully realized by the farmer and the bill of damages settled local rink wins own fowl in the mixed doubles tournament held on the local greens last friday night fred ward and earl beare were the winners of the first prize mrs goodman and mrs lindsay of oshawa took second fred cowie and will burkett of claremont third and m e watts and fred carruthers stouffville 4th all priz es were awarded in fowl ten rinks participated a mixed doubles tourn ament will be held here on monday afternoon and evening supper will be provided owing to the war eastern canada and particularly the city of quebec is proving an attraction for thous ands of holiday travellers both american and canadian and so to the battle between levis and murray in 1760 from the peak on which the cit adel is built one can stroll down onto dufferiu terrace just outside this oldest of canadian cities with its ihe chateau frontenac and which storied houses and winding streets h m famous possibly than even its many monuments and unique the atlantic city board walk it go 5050 with our fighting forces v0 car in condition givo yoursolf and your sorvico station man rem ember a break lot him chock up your car and the alotccr you put it in shapo to save gasoline it gives dritv the more him noodod work and holps you koop your you save 5050 plodgo every gallon counts soo that not a drop is wasted our fighting forces nood all tho gasolino they can got gasote joi victory to open 8th this fall an appeal has been received by pickering council from several farm ers living on the 8th concession east of the brock road to have this road opened through to the eastern boundary of the township about a mile of the sth has never been very passable and since several of the farms adjacent to the road have been purchased recently by toronto par ties the renewed effort to have the concession opened right through was expected following the appeal coun cil decided to complete the unfinish ed portion this fall salvage sale sept 27th a salvage sale will be held in the community park here on saturday sept 27th under the auspices of the claremont n pickering br of the red cross everyone in the com munity and surrounding district is asked to contribute as liberally as possible to this event and collectors have been appointed to call on each and every householder for the contribution of some article to be put up for auction next month attics and barns stables and woodsheds are expected to be ransacked in an effort to have as largo and varied o number of the articles as possible for the auction fruit vegetables stoves chairs tables and even money will be acceptable posters will be issued before the sale with a list of the items to be offered first burial in new cemetery ground suffering a stroke some two weeks ago harry jones of late years a resident of brooklin passed away quietly at his home there last wed nesday the lato mr jones was a son of the late mr and mrs john jones of mt zion and deceased farmed in the mt zion district for years he is survived by his wife and one son allen several from this village attended the funeral on fri day which took place at tho salem cemetery the late mr jones was the first to be buried in tho new cemetery grounds which have re cently been purchased on the oppos ite side of the road from the origin al site this is one of the oldest cemeteries in pickering township situated just off tho 6th concession middle school results margaret briscoe ec2 el2 a mh3 gc phc ch3 fa3 fc3 nellie gostick ec1 eli a mill gl phi ch2 lai lci fa1 fc1 hazel hinan a mh2 alg2 ch3 reginald kennedy a mill aig ch3 jean linton algc gl phi mildred linton a mhc lac icc fac fcc frances mcdowell ec1 a mh1 algc g2 ch2 la2 chi eli lc2 atmosphere nearly 300 representa tives of the canadian weekly news paper association including one of the publishers of these columns travelled for their annual threeday convention i will not dwell on the trip to and from quebec since in this particular case as in most others railway views of the country are not as a rule very flattering if travelling by rail one enters the city at the palais station which is in lower town or that part of quebec which is built on the river bank and houses all the main industrial plants railway and shipping facilities quebec is a city of 159000 people ninetysix per cent french and is the only walled city in the dominion while these bleak once stern and forbidding ramparts assured quebeckers of safety from attack in those early days they now look down upon a prosperous city spread ont on all sides and one might almost imagine that the walls themselves appeared complacent in the knowledge that their duty is finished and their job well done along with other members of the party your writer was whisked away from the city depot and driven at a hairraising pace up the steep wind ing cobblestoned streets which al though they form hazardous travell ing for the innumerable cabs and busses for the tourists they bear memories of fierce fighting in the successful attempts to wrest canada from a wilderness and transform it into a prosperous area our destina tion was the chateau frontenac one of the most famous hostelries on the continent the canadian weeklies conven tion which is always educational was rendered even more so this year first because of the great historic interest in the most ancient city in canada and secondly because tho committee of arrangements had left more time for sightseeing travelling by bus we were taken on a complete tour of the city it is quite apparent that no architect planned the city of quebec and no attention was paid when its streets were allowed to run hither and yon twisting and turningaccommodating not the pedestrians but the buildings which were already erected the rue de cap narrowest street on this continent is only seventeen feet across but is built solidly with dwellings on each side r this city is the provincial capital and is divided into two distinct parts lower town spread out on the st lawrence shores surrounding cape diamond and up the valley of the st charles river and upper town built entirely on the cliff and quick ly reminds the tourist of the famous rock of gibralter as we drove through the twisting thoroughfares of lower town i looked up at the city above a pic ture of beauty tiny gunslits look down from the picturesque citadel and in places the gaping mouths of once spitting cannons survey the approaches this view of the city from below has inspired painters and writers who return year after year to feast again on this inspiration which they cannot find elsewhere here right in the shadow ot these ancient fortifications the first 1940 german war prisoners were housed when they landed in canada al though they have since been re moved the camp with its tarpaper shacks and barbed wire barricades is still standing tho fortifications of quebec comprise the citadel sit uated on a peak some 250 feet above tho river and built in 1832 at a cost of 535000000 the enclosing walls of a total length of two miles en circle the city proper and have three gates the st louis the kent and the st john the ramparts over looking the harbour are still lined with now rusted cannons outside the walls of this ancient fortress wo strolled over the national battle fields park wellknown among the famous military encounters here were the battle of the plains of ab raham in 1759 between the armies of wolfo and montcalm which ended fa1 fc1 roy mclcod ec2 el2 a mhc alg3 gl phi che la3 lc3 fa3 fc3 betty manion ec1 eli a mill gl ch2 la2 lc2 fa1 fc1 margaret manion a imhl aig 1 chi douglas reynolds alg3 chi evelyn sanderson ec1 ell a mh1 gc phi chi lac lcc fas fc3 margaret wallace cb3 covers an area of 150000 square feet other points of historical interest which our group of editors was privileged to see were laval un iversity the first french univer sity in america the ursuline con vent with its museum containing many historical relics including the skull of moncalm and a lamp which has burned incessantly since 1717 the legislative buildings the city hall kent house the oldest in que bec built in 1650 the montcalm residence built in 1737 and the garrison club while quebec is a city of 159000 people over 90 per cent are roman catholic and the churches are per haps more beautiful than any other city in america the more famous at which we made a point of call were basilica of notre dame built in the 1600s the cathedral of the holy trinity and old st mathews there are only two united churches one presbyterian one anglican and one synagogue the chief industry of the metrop olis is shoemaking although the north shore pulp and paper mills have probably the largest single es tablishment the city is particular ly famed for its harbour which can accommodate over 20 ocean going vessels at the same time and has conveniences to unload or load ships in a comparatively short space of time in regard to these transport ation facilities i was interested to learn while in conversation with our guide that von ribbentrop hitlers righthand man was a draftsman on the quebec bridge a marvel of engineering construction three fifths ot a mile long which spans the st lawrence about five miles west of the city incidently this bridge collapsed twice during its early years of construction and nearly one hundred men were killed in the two mishaps unfortunately our friend from germany was not employed on the span till the final raising which took place in 1920 the structure weighs 66000 tons and cost 20000000 several other sidetrips were also enjoyed by the delegates which in cluded a streetcar ride to ste anne de beaupre and also to kent house and montmorency falls the continued on page s ays mothers attention your children can be outfitted for school at our store for girls we have a large assort ment of school dresses jumpers sweaters stock ings shoes rubbers and boots for boys suits school pants wind- breakers shirts golf socks sweaters hats and caps shoes rubbers and boots ladies coats and suits we have our full line of ladies winter coats our advice is to buy early and save as manu facturers do not guarantee prices from time to time there are 12 only ladies tailored and dressmak er suits from 950 up and oung iviens we have a large stock in this line come in and look our stock over you are under no obligation to buy harry golden phone 273 stouffville revival meetings gormley mennonite church september 1st to 14th evangelists rev and mrs j g grout of tonasket washington they will sing and preach each week night except saturdays at 745 and sundays 1030 am and 3 and 730 pm everyone cordially invited