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k the tribune stouffville ont thursday may 27th 1943 progress op the war i listened on the radio to churchills last oration before the us congress where he got a great ovation he started off deliberately he chose his words with care but what he said sure must have got in adolph hitlers hair he said we won in africa with men and ammunition but we were greatly aided by adolphs intuition for by sending lots of tanks and guns he hoped to keep us there a scrapping with von arnim while he licked the russian bear but when his plans and strategy had toppled overboard the tanks and guns fell in our laps which he could ill afford when arnim saw his only chance of getting into britain was as a prisoner of war the whole gang started 1iittin the whops were sympathetic as we paoked them up in crates cause the yanks were bound for italy while they go to the states but the yanks may not go near the place to make the place their own just throw a wire across the strait and take the place by phone if our air force keeps ahittlng like that last aquatic slam the old irihur valley wont worth a continental dam claremont be axothhr fish story there was quite an argument go ing on in the village on monday be tween some of the fishermen it seems that fred evans caught a mon ster fish down at the tront some where and labelled it a lovely lake salmon once the other fellows got their eyes on it they declared it was a lousy carp one of those scaven gers of the sea and to label it a salmon was an insult to the finny tribe claremont and district by staff correspondent local agent mowders store mrs michell and son of oshawa i thos pilkey is reported to have visited on sunday at the home of her aunt and cousin mrs lonsdale and mrs conner mr and mrs carl smith visited friends in peterboro on sunday last messrs jas coates and edgar ward have been appointed as dele- purchased the rough cast bouse near the cpr station the property of the forsyth estate mr pilkey has occupied the place for some time where he is quite handy to his work on the section the claremont park board are holding another of their popular gates to the xl loomty hsitmi friday evening youm enjoy it so come along mrs f manions father and sister from douyn east visited at the man- ion home during the past week f manion who is with the can army overseas has been promoted to the rank of corporal we understand three brothers are also connected with the army purchase carpenter lousiness thos hammond has purchased j the carpenter shop and equipment toronto formerly belonging to thos paterson dance in the community hall claremont on friday may 28 9 km to 1 am auspices of the claremont park board tion of baptist churches to be held in college st baptist church early in june it is expected that this will be the final convention for the duration of the war mrs nathan linton and daughter of uxbridge visited the formers mother mrs lynn on sunday miss mildred loyst and mr gor don taylor of oshawa visited at the frank loyst home here on sunday mrs levi gibson of toronto visit ed over the weekend with mrs jno gauslin and mrs e gibson mrs bruce harton of visited with her mother mrs cook j mm 7eopenthe place immedi during the weekend atey mr hammond while being the wms of the united church employed at the sarco plant hero will hold their regular meeting on expects to be able to devote much of thuisday afternoon of this week his time to the carpenter work a may 27th mrs norman lintons group will be in charge of the pro gramme mr and mrs sprunt of toronto visited on friday at the home of mrs lonsdale miss feggy overland of toronto visited over the weekend with her aunt and uncle mr and mrs c a overland a d peters of port perry was a saturday visitor with mr and mrs geo beverly mrs saundeis has returned to her home here after spending some time at the home of her son at richmdnd hill mrs john morgan and daughter gertrude of toionto visited over the weekend at the home of her niece miss s e evans mr harold bickerstaff national war service will be the speaker in the baptist chuich next sunday may 30 th miss jennie and nellie michell of toronto visited over the weekend at the g m forsyth home here edmund warden son of mr and mrs jess warden of toronto visited friends here in the village during the weekend anangements are being made to hold the annual decoration service at the union cemetery here on july 4th a more detailed announcement w ill appear later mrs ted tomlinson of toronto has gone to the west to visit her husband who is in training there with the rcaf her two small daughters are visiting with their grandparents dr and mrs n f tomlinson mrs geo mcclean of torontoand a native of claremont was a recent visitor in the village before leaving for detroit accompanied by her dau ghter where they will join mr mc clean who is returning from over seas having been wounded mcclean while residing on the american side crossed the border and enlisted with the rcaf in the spring of 1941 later transferring to his own aaf when the states entered the war- urgent will anyone having stouffville creamery cans or more cans than they absolutely require for delivery purposes at the present time kindly return such cans at once as new ones are not obtainable stouffville creamery co open saturday evenings stouffville ont phone 18601 gormley feed store for the benefit of our customers we have on hand a full line of master feeds mixed chop wheal oats and barley mixed which was salvaged from the fire at reduced price this is a good pig feed we can also supply you with oil cake gluten bran shorlsmaster mixed chop oyster shell grit oats barley and wheat we expect to receive a car of barley in a few days you should order your supply at once frank harvey prop gormley ont phone 7307 trade at which he is quite proficient mr faterson placed his business up for sale some months ago when his health prevented him from continu ing western storekeeper passes away at home of brotherinlaw w r porter operator of a store in a small alberta town passed away suddenly on monday morning may 24th at the home of his brother-in- law mr mundell claremont he was in his 76th year the late mr forter has been in claremont now since loht nov but has spent much of his life in the avest and was for merly at snelgrove he was the son of the late robert porter mp and former school teacher at ashburn and rachel story wellknown in claremont there survives one sis- ter mis w hunter of elmvale and 1 two nieces in claremont mis migh- ton and mrs kilpatrick interment was made in elmvale cemetery on wednesday of this iveek constable norton testifies on gaming case constable jack norton of clare mont was a witness in whitby po lice court on friday when valentine f rucigay and may rucigay pick ering were charged with keeping a common gambling house case was adjourned one week may 28th p c john irvine of the pickering township police stated that he and po john norton had entered the store at 10 pm april 7 and that after having a tiottle of pop they played the slotmachine foe playing it fifteen times and norton five times during the time that norton was playing a number 2 appeared and the lady in the shop identified in court by constable irvine as hav ing been the accused may rucigay gave norton two fivecent pieces which were put into an envelope and entered as exhibit one in the crossexamination the wit ness stated that tlhere were no pro visions on the machine for payment of winnings you gave evidence in a similar case two weeks ago and if i remem ber correctly your memory was not very good you positively identify mrs rucigay as the lady who gave norton this money and you identify this machine as the machine that you played on that night asked de fence counsel mangan yes this lady is uhe one who paid norton the money and i am positive this is the machine played on that night it had a serial number on it 322 constable norton gave the same evidence except that he could not identify mrs rucigay as having been the lady who had paid him the ten cents on the night of april 7 at times he wasnt so sure that it was the same machine played that night may rucigay was the next witness and during her testimony magistrate ebbs stopped the proceedings twice and the crown attorney once to warn her husband to stop signalling answers to the witness the witness stated that she had never seen con stables irvine and norton before and that she hadnt paid out two nickels to norton she stated that she had never paid out money on the machine for winnings as there was an auto matic attachment on the machine which allowed the player to have his free games without putting in any money she however positively identified the machine in question as being the one that had been in her store for at least two months preceding its seizure by the police on may 10th brougham mr and mrs russell philip of buffalo spent a few days with his parents mr and mrs thos philip senior sir and mrschas carter of green river visited with albert and mrs gray on sunday mrs gordon of toronto spent sunday with her sister mrs win ellicott- george burton of gormley called on his brothers also his sister mrs hamilton on sunday mr roy miller and friend of re- 1 with his brother vm spent boyhood in uxbridg pic there passed away at the herbert parkin home on thursday morning may 13 one of kinsales oldest and most respected citizens mr george g harbron deceased was born in uxbridge township on may 17 1s67 he was in his 77th year he spent bis boyhood days in and around ux bridge and attended school at the mount zion school he spent the greater part of his life in pickering township farming on the harbron homestead with his brother at the farm now owned by cecil disney in 1904 he and his brother frederick moved to the sixth concession the farm now occupied by the lennon family he lived here until nine years ago his brother frederick preceded him some years before since then he has lived in and i around kusale and for seven years harbron of search udspent he weekend withjmt zion he spent his last remain his father jl d miller the wms held their regular meeting on thursday afternoon last at the home of mrs geo duncan mr and mrs d lennox of picker ing called on old friends and also attended church here on sunday afternoon mrs lemon visited her brother at little briton on sunday miss doia matthews of toronto spent the weekend at the home of her parents albert and mrs mat thews miss may stephenson and friend of pickering called on mr and mrs l matthews on sunday mr and mrs fred madill and son ross visited with mr and mrs f diugman at whitby on sunday sorry to hear miss doris dolphin of toronto is laid up with an attack of measles mr wm palmer of claremont called on his friend a b matthews one day lecently mr and mrs dean mairs and fam ily also mr and mrs albert mat thews called on the frank ham family of claremont on sunday even ing i gnr fred hicks rca was home for several days from his camp at sussm nb visiting his mother at whitby and brother at claremont mr and mrs frank carter were called to lindsay on saturday even ing owing to the condition of her brother mr c thompson a driver for the smuh transport who met with a serious accident near lindsay on saturday the injured man is in the hospital there at present suffer ing from crushed chest and possible internal injuries ing days at the home of his nephew herbert parkin the funeral ser vices jtsere held from the brooklin funeral parloison saturday he leaves to mourn his loss one brother wm harbron of mt zion etta mrs floyd reesor oshawa and edith mrs ralph white of bray chick does thetrick stiver bros stouffville phono 4501 hamilton living around kinsale and district all his life mr harbron was well known notice from rowbothams repair shop we are discontinuing the repair ing of all furniture owing to the shortage of help w leslie rowbotham stouffville ontario i fshell clean rest rooms you can be sure of unexcelled gas oil plus highgrade service at boadways service station phone 265 stouffville special desire to hear the rev dr charles h schutt the superintend ent of the baptist home mission board will be able to have that pleasure next sunday v rev schutt will be very welcome vlan to come the morning service and at the green river church at the 730 ser vice we dont have the pleasure or honor very often of hearing this fine and talented gentleman and we welcome him most heartily you will be very welcoe plan to come isseoff leola food shop think before you travel will you be occupying seats that are needed or those on leave or those who must travel on war work phone 167 gray co ac h li nes 1 k the bome- beutstobea- yott also p that it green river among those who were recent sunday and holiday visitors were mr and mrs wm woods mrs n woods and blllie of maple mr and mrs w dean and misses dean and george williams of thornhlll miss e williams of hamilton and misses lois turner dorothy coakey and marlon riddell of toronto george windsor who has been working on the alcan highway re turned home last week mrs k winn of toronto was the holiday guest with the charfcs white family barbara white was also home for the weekend rev n burke will be guest spea ker at the anniversary services at the goodwood church next sunday choir practise will be on thurs day evening at mrs williams imr joseph doten has been critic ally ill his daughter and son-in- law walter and mrs booth and mr and mrs manlcy of toronto were with him on sunday the many people who have had a i ou prayer took- already as they race tbc f vnth the this dtof war so that auofus da our iav o over ratify army o1 driven by an serving two way railway speeding wheels can as carry 15 h front major fronts t anc wheels carry much ore its more s tbey carry food for yo furnace ters y they t whether watchword uoops oc fuel tanks o or iust y boy food letter to yor roll over- avoot ass m