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rs f t v the tribune stouffville ont thursday sept 7th 1944 8s will you have coal in your bin next winter if we ah act now if we all cooperate with our govern ment in fairly distributing the limited supplie that will be available we can all get enough coal for adequate warmth next winter to make sure of your fair share do these three things 1 place your entire fuel order at once 2 accept your fuel when ever we are able to de- liver it in accordance with government regu lations 3 permit us to deliver whatever class of suit able fuel we may be able to supply stiver bros stouffville ontario mm si local and personal happenings i wo alfred thpmas rcaf was a visitor at his home here dur ing the holiday weekend alfred who returned from overseas re cently is now stationed in toronto forsyth residence sold the forsyth house on main street east opposite baker avenue was sold last week to mr harold dickson of scarboro who with mrs dickson and their young daughter jean will move to town right away the attractive red brick house is particularly well built and is locat ed on a splendid lot making it a very desirable place the property was sold by the executors of the forsyth estate cive- human suffering is greater thahever nmet tour donation would help the next red cross blood sopors clinic will be at mark- ham on thursday sept 15th from 845 to noon if you have not donated be fore call m e watts stouff ville or dr innis macdonald markham mr and mrs c c reid of lea- side were weekend visitors with mr and mrs a v nolan n e a grubin r o optometrist will be at his office in stouffville on monday sept 11th the servicemens wives and mothers club will meet in the municipal hall on monday sept 11th at 8 pm all ladies interested are invited to attend sparky vail familiar figure with newmarket ball clubs who played in the loop with stouffville a few years back is still playing baseball and having one of his best seasons as a member of the mcln- tyre club m the timmms and dis trict league the mclntyre team is right in the thick of things with vail and a soldier by the name of mcshane who pitched for the army daggers last year smaladv sells farm mr george maye of goodwood is high in his praises for the re sults obtained from tribune small adlets and well he may be in our last issue he advertised his 100 acre farm near goodwood for sale and obtained a buyer in mr clar ence bunker 10th concession of markham the sale price was 88000 mr bunker takes possession april 1st and in the meantime will have his fall plowing done by tractor the maye farm isone of the very desirable homes in the goodwood section the farm has been tenanted by mr bert staley for 18 years he is retiring in goodwood schools opened this week in town and in most sections adjacent to stouffville although the various trustees and boards were empower ed to delay the opening if labor conditions warranted it thus with the opening of the schools thou sands of youngsters start to struggle for the first time with the written word what is the sense of it all many of them may reason ably ask well the trouble began 5000 years ago in mesopotamia and in egypt with the invention of writing whether you are glad or sorry that mankind hit upon this means of storing up knowledge it is here to stay and it would be too bad for the boy or girl who ignores it n home boys meet in france weve really got the germans on the run writes bob mc- connochie to his mother mrs dave mcconnochie here in stouffville bob is with the canadians in france and recently had the plea sure of meeting one of the boys from home wally nicholson incidentally wally was the first chap from stouffville bob had seen since going over he writes that his outfit are pressing so hard on the heels of the retreating ger mans that they get little time to shave or spruce up so it happen ed that he was approached one day recently by a canadian from another unit could you tell me where i might find a fellow by the name of wally nicholson sure thats me was the cheery reply rnm h l men and women now are urgently needed fo save essential food crops now ready for harvesting tomato pickers peach pickers apple pickers grape pickers aug 15 to oct 1 aug 15 to sept 23 sept 15 to oct 20 sept 15 to oct 31 oneway transportation paid those who will work a minimum of one month return transportation paid to those who remain until the end of picking season pleasant outdoor work with good wages and an opportunity to serve on the food front are avail able to hundreds of men and women of ontario now apply at once in person or mail this coupon next blood donor clinic sept 14 the date for the next red cross blood donor clinic has been set for thursday sept 14th at markham at the last clinic eighty donat ions were received and of these eighteen made their sixth donat ion they were carl boadway r g boyd leonard burkholder har vey coathup j a crichton hilda epworth ben gaymanj- gough wilbur gower alfred hill fred mcnair mrs james mcquay mrs sid schmidt reg stouffer herb stover charles whittaker george williamson and william young fifteen were making their third donation and they are mrs f w baker mrs russel boyington mrs n burton j w clements ross creighton mrs walter ferguson mrs alfred hill frank nighs- wander mrs john plaxton miss a reesor mrs frank riches earl sellers miss marion warne mrs clarke young call cards are in the mail for those who usually give and new doners who are not on the list and who plan on coming should eat a breakfast which contains no fat do not eat bacon butter whole milk cream eggs cod liver oil but you may eat skim milk cereal coffee tea fruit fruit juices tomato juice bread toast jam wren kathleen turner was home from her quebec station on a short visit to her parents mr and mrs lloyd turner brides sisters am assist at wedding mrs howard ratcliff former gladys stover daughter of mr and mrs ambrose stover and her three attendants after the wedding in the mennonite brethren in christ- church were caught by cameraman w r sanders they are from left to right mrs jack spang matron of honor then the bnde and to her left are miss norma stover bridesmaid ana miss marguerite stover sol- miss grace feir second dauglw ter of mr and mrs athol feir stouffville was bridesmaid on mon day for the wedding of miss grace bennett in uxbridge miss ruth curtis was the guest of mr and mrs fred winn and other friends here for a few days mrs john urquhart of ayr and daughter betty mrs arnold numa and baby john of gait have been in town for several days mrs urquhart is arranging her home on main street west for another tenant since she does not expect to occupy it for a year at least this is the residence recently vacated by dr barker when he moved to the place he purchased from the beebe estate miss sadie stewart and mr and mrs w a stewart of toronto spent sunday with mr and mrs e w evans at claremont sergt allen mcconnochie cpc mountain view who is home on furlough with his wife and two children spent the holiday week end at loon lake haliburton mr and mrs henry odgen have moved to town and taken up resi dence on church street in their residence purchased from mr and mrs bert wilkinson who moved to toronto we welcome mr and mrs odgen and their young daughter and son to the town mr odgen was formerly a building contractor at ingersol and may carry on the business on a much smaller scalejiere stouffville lions club last week decided to sponsor the drive for funds on behalf of the salvation army home front appeal shortly to be made across ontario at pre sent it looks as though the mem bers of the club will undertake a house to house canvas themselves on behalf of this worthy cause everybody admires the work of the army and the lions are to be commended for taking up their cause in this community oddments in the rural news baptists enjoy woodland park i children of the stouffville bap tist sunday school and quite a number who havent ranked them- selves in the juvenile class for quite some time along with other friends thoroughly enjoyed the pic- nic held under the sunday school and congregational auspices lasti week at woodland park down on the scarboro townhne here the kiddies paddled in the refreshing waters on the sight that a century ago was the reesor sawmill and where much of the virgin forest of markham as well as scarboro was sawed into lumber and fashioned to shingles by hand an exhausted group gathered at the tables physi cally fit to make a big impression on all the good things the elder people had provided there may be rationing but it didnt prevent an assortment of pie cake and all the other good things that go to make up a picnic table for the young sters t leaving aurora for london well known at claremont good wood and in the local district louis fingold of aurora is leaving the yonge street town after 13 years a resident there he moved there from claremont where he was in the grocery business and is now moving to london to enter the theatre business his family were educated in aurora a son sam now operates several theatres in ontario towns rose is in mid land phil has a theatre in meaford harvey is attending university at toronto and shirley will enter western university this fall mr fingold has purchased the elwood theatre at london in which town he has purchased a residence as well the fingolds came from thanksgiving day the ninth of october 1944 has been appointed thanksgiving day by proclamation in the canada gazette in quaint words the pro clamation reads we therefore considering that these blessings vouchsafed to the people of our dominion of canada do call for a solemn and public acknowledg ment have thought fit by and with the advice of our privy r council for canada to appoint and we do appoint monday the ninth dayof october next as a day of general thanksgiving to almighty god for the blessings with which the people of our dominion of canada have been favoured during this year and we do hereby invite all our people of canada to observe the said day as day of general thanksgiving granted his wings russia in 1905 i ronald gibbons who came back from overseas some months ago to take a special course last week graduated as an air gunner and was granted his wings at three rivers quebec he expects to return overseas shortly and has re cently been home visiting his parents mr and mrs john gibbons 7th concession whit church t ontorio form service force parliament building toronto am a volunteer for the food front nome tefepaone aa from dotof avaifobh to i w5s8 introducing a new fire engine to the villagers of exeter the other week the mayor or reeve said he hoped the new machine would be like the old maids of the village always ready but never called on e a tomato plant in the garden of councillor lome jackson at walk- erton had 175 normal tomatoes we cant just believe it but the walkerton herold times must be right renfrew mercury a toronto man has brought a newspaper to task for presuming he was dead which recalls the ex perience of a citizen who revisited his native town after an absence of five years the first three men he met didnt recognize him and the next five didnt know he had been away as her wartime effort mrs l gould holds down a mans black smith job in the canadian nation al railway motive power shop in stratford she is reported to be the only woman blacksmith in canada descendants of the late mr and mrs william heron of ashburn ontario held a family reunion on august 30 when 67of their descen dants were present at lynbrook park north of whitby members were present from ash burn myrtle brooklin greenbank blackwater scarboro thornhill malton and milliken eight of the absentees are in the armed forces 5 of them private wm heron of brooklin neil heron greenbank both in france jack and neil hun ter bill heron scarboro in erfg- landl ac bob heron mountain view ont donald heron defoe manitoba and glen heron cowan cornwallis ns the watford guideatjvocate tells us that a tragedy swift and relent less struck a young warwick town ship couple living about 28 miles from sarnia on monday evening when mr and mrsclayton minielly lost their home and 8weeks old son larry in a fire caused by a coal oil stove the mother was on the porch just a few feet from her child lying inside the kitchen door when the interior suddenly- burst into flames and quickly spread through the entire house the hus band rushed from the barn and the couple made frantic but futile efforts to get in the house a two- storey brick building in addition to their baby and all their belong ings a large sum of money went up in the flames which had been col lected from threshings in the dis trict by the illfated husband vc7wi fp yqufyfgi s capt j l warriner of winni peg dental officer at an ad vanced canadian airfield in normandy is shown with bri tains famous entertainer george formby and mrs formby -during- the come dians recent visit- to the troops in france r brother of mrs dan hall dead following only a few days illness george walker harrison brother of mrs d hall cf stouffville died from a heart attack at his home in mount albert mr harrison was born in mus- koka a son of the late elizabeth walker and joe harrison mount albert his wife elizabeth ann beach died some years ago mr harrison was a school trus tee for a number of years he was a member of the united church surviving are three sons john toronto ross and thomas mount albert three daughters sirs geo wilson verna toronto mrs roy watts edith queensvllle and mrs oscar dike myrtle mount albert two brothers jos and robt harrison mount albert and- three sisters mrs w swain and mrs d hall stouffville and mrs earle cook kettleby j rev wh burgess conducted thefuneral service at the united churchon wednesday afternoon interment mount cemetery v vi 1 3 y r 8 ajtftistelf tv48slmsij- ssjkvv iiisd