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the tribune stouffville ont thursday may 1 1947 1sboc i0e30i aoi i0e3ob locaoi i glaremont and district by staff correspondent i oi aoaoc local dealers madihs store and overlands btore ac oc mr and sirs frcd pugh were pickering township council will visitors in toronto one day last hold their monthly meeting for week lsiay on monday next blake briscoe also ken petty of this wednesday the consultative committee on larger school areas for ontario county is holding a meeting in the municipal building vow train limes for g1mj fur summer months patrons of the cpr will be i interested to learn of the new train mr and mrs norman king spent sunday at the home of mr and mrs jack morgan claremoit the regular monthly meeting of the wms of the united church will be held at the home of mrs t condy on thursday may sin a 230 pm the program will be in charge of mrs itawsons group all ladies are cordially invited to atteid toronto visited at their respective homes here during the weekend friends regret to learn that will thompson is still in poor health mr and mrs hani- porter and dr and mrs tomlinson were in hastings recently for the dedication there of a new organ in the united s eszil schedule now in effect in claremont i mr glover was pastoi of the local jnce return of davligh iavingf church at one t of 1 ondon has time au time mentioned in this the friendly bible class will r s schedule are standard time i hold their been vis ting with her steter ai id morning train to to evening lmily mr and mr noiman lin l ciuilv excepl feaves ana mr although we have had anything j v torf aiodaifv bu jsm have scepfsatufday and sundajv leaves week a few residents have ome brougham next meeting on monday may a at the home of mr george willson mothers day service will be held in st johns united church on sunday may 11 there will be a claremont at 032 j rams arriving j baptismal service also f i from toronto dailv except saturdav n r ntin i geo scott waited c mr laell of brockviiie visited building neu church at whitevale garden planted mr and mrs on sunday at the home of their son and family in oshawa miss giliman who works in the bank of commerce branch here has been home through illness mrs uobt beelby is slowly ki ii tit i improving in health after having the nasty experience of running a nail into her foot jas coates of toronto visited over the weekend with his mother and sister someone had a laugh out of a sun up call sent in to the claremont fire brigade on monday morning an east village farmer woke up with alarm to look out and see wiiat he judged to be his barn on fire a hurried call to claremont sent geo constable scurrying around to rustle up the boys of the brigade but just as the outfit was about to pull out a second call came in say ing to hold everything it was just the reflection of the sun coming up which had caused the alarm interment was made in the clare mont union cemetery on tuesday of the late mrs chas proctor of toronto the proctor family resided east of the village some years ago on the farm recently disposed of by thos stanbury will brown soninlaw of mr will thompson is liome from his work in toronto due to an infection which he has suffered in his hands the trouble is said to have origin ated from working with a type of glue used in the candy factory where he is employed friends and members of the womens institute and the womans association of the united church gathered for a surprise party for mrs s bacon last week and presented this lady with a tri- light lamp as a token of their esteem and regret at having her leave the community to live in stouffville notices have been sent out by the secretary of the pickering town ship softball league to all teams to have their organization meetings that a schedule might be drawn up to get things rolling in may last season saw a great deal of improve ment in fan reaction and it is hoped by the various teams that people will respond as well this year at the moment it looks as though all games will be played on two dia mondspickering and claremont it is expected that claremont brougham and greenwood will play at claremont and that pickering dunbarton and cherrywood will play at pickering mr and mrs norman linton cele brated their thirtieth wedding anni versary friday april 25th the familv gathered at the home of mr and mrs raymond stickwood for a surprise dinner the table was decorated with a bouquet of sweet peas and ferns gifts were present ed to the couple and sunday are at 1020 in the morning and 032 in the evening on saturday there is a train leaving toronto at 1230 noon and arrivin in claremont at 122 while on the morning train arri am and the eveniir- train uoes to the city at 030 pm village gains new family mr and mrs s chambers who recently sold their farm just north of stouffville have moved to clare mont to occupy the place vacanted by mr and mrs frame cooper who are moving over the store of chas cooper hardware we welcome the chambers people to our midst mr chambers is a blacksmith of other days and was well known around the race tracks where he was skilled in setting shoes for those running and trotting horses he is a bit of a horse fancier and a splendid conversationalist so we look forward to sams to his friends sojourn among us wife of former baker passes matilda jane harsell wife of william harsell passed away at her residence 30 everett cres toronto on april 21st mr harsell was a one time baker in claremont operating a business in the house now occu pied by john beelby deceased was in her 09th year and was an aunt of robt beelby she leaves to mourn her loss a daughter june mrs mclntyre of sarnia also three sisters mrs mcdowell mrs geo pickett and mrs anderson of uxbridge interment was made in pine hill cemetery educated here dies in oshawa the death occurred in oshawa last week of hallice hulbert belov ed husband of molly spence in his 12nd year deceased was born at balsam a son of mr and mrs cal vin hulbert he received his edu cation in claremont schools the late mr hulbert was an interior decorator by trade and worked for general motors during the war sur viving are four sisters mrs gladys clark mrs mona morrison and mrs jeftery mcgrath of oshawa also airs doris harvey detroit and a brother lonson also of detroit in terment was made in oshawa union cemetery ontarios british flood relief campaign his father and sister mrs eeanni one day last week mr and mrs dean mairs anil suiv family visited with his aunt at kes- s at wick on sunday last mr wm dunn of belhaven spent the weekend with his son bert and family mr frank hamilton has returned to his home at columbus after visiting with his brother mr and mrs m hamilton mrs albert gray visited her father mr b carter of green river on sunday mrs ramsay and daughter norma were in oshawa on satur day attending the wedding of her niece- mrs ellicott returned home on saturday after spending a few day with her sister in toronto mr and mrs w bate of toronto visited his aunt miss i bate one day last week miss glen hoskins spent the weekend with mr and mrs m ellicott miss barbara knox spent the weekend with friends at tweed congratulations to mr and mrs ross knox on the arrival of a little daughter a number of new books have been added to the library which is now open to subscribers mr john white has a quantity of material on hand ready to build another new house the concert on monday night sponsored by the firemen proved a great treat the hall was filled to capacity al harvey was master of ceremonies entertaining all with his witty sayings the singing by the west hill lions club was en joyed by all marlyn bludd and dianne hillick two tap dancers of georgetown accompanied by miss gertrude cane displaved wonder ful talent dorothy merril delighted all with her accordian and jack mcleans impersonations of radio fans was enjoyed by all the did i say that broadcast with harvey dobbs and don wright brought several of our local talent to the front all those who were not privileged to be present may hear this broadcast repeated by listen ing in on their radio on may 23 the firemen are to be congratulated on their effort and we will look for ward to more such entertainment in the future the wms of st johns church held their thankoftering service in the church on sunday evening with a good attendance mrs h malcolm lead the meeting assisted by mrs m ellicott who gave the scripture reading also miss norma ramsay and mr robt miller who each rendered a solo the canadian girls in training locust hill under leadership of airs cook gave a very pleasing and entertaining sketch which was brought to a close by a solo by edith malcolm mr harry porter barber will be in his accustomed stand at broug ham next wednesday may 7th interior of the new church will be finished by september 1 members hiltz left to right are seen insulating the ceiling hope frank herbert and w a camnbell anthony a member of the new in his spare time baptist congregation works on the new first baptist church rev john heal collection for township of pickering will be at the public schools and mr m s chapmans store pickering mrs e prettys postoffice claremont up to may 12th 1947 all clothing should he of good quality in a good state of repair and clean drop your name and address with thread and needles in the pocket good shoes of all kinds are urgently needed canned foods are much desired this is not appreciation friends charily but for services a small token of rendered by british lloyd johnston clerk clerk- s ballots used for first time in school vote ballots were used for the firs time under the amended public schools act of ontario in a rural school election when ratepayers of dunbarton public school voted to elect walter lynde local store keeper as trustee to fill the vacancy on the board caused by the resigna tion of norman littletord it was the largest school meeting ever held in dunbarton mr lynde defeated two other candidates frank perks painter and decorator and stanley robinson mechanic the vote was lynde 10 perks 33 and robinson 11 up until last nights election all voting had to be either a standing or verbal vote horace brown presi dent of the south pickering rate payers assocation pointed out that it was only right that dunbarton should use this vote as conditions of voting had first been brought to the attention of the legislature by the spra through the royal com mission on education and the amendment to the rural act thus made possible it was protested by several rate payers that the act had not been sufficiently amended and that the standing vote still required should be eliminated mr brown concurr ed in this the standing vote is not demo cratic said j westerman i feel faith aided by the strong arms of a willing congregation is build ing a new church in whitevale pickering township on the long slope which forms the eastern boundary of this little valley hamlet about seven miles south and a little west of stouff ville a new baptist church is tak ing shape slowly but steadily as funds and materials are donated and as the congregation mostly made up of farmers find time apart from plowing and seeding to work on the new house of worship there will be no mortgage on the first baptist church as it is called in fact no debt of any kind the whole structure a cement block twostorey building which is be coming an impressive new land mark in whitevale is being built on a payasyougo basis manna falls everything has seemed to come just when we needed it we have never been held up for lack of funds or materials when no one else could buy bricks last year bricks j for our church came without trouble just as we needed them said w a hilts a member who spends nearly all 1iis evenings and saturdays working on the new church on april s a thankoffering moot ing an annual event in many bap tist churches was held by the con gregation and without any high pressure appeal none was neces sary the sum of 1533 was sub scribed for the building the sixtyodd members of the first baptist church who now meet in the iof hall would rather forget the events a year ago which led to their formation as a congre gation and to their decision to build a new church whitevale was divided original whitevale baptist church still is the church home of a num ber of local baptists congregation arose last year over a number of matters among them the question of whether the old church should be rebuilt the congregation finally decided to divide so white vale now lias two baptist churches a portion of the congregation elected to stay at the old church some go others moved out and formed the first baptist church the minister of the old church rev john heal a veteran of four years rcaf service went with the i new group and is now their minis- ter the old church has a lay preacher who comes from toronto every sunday story of the building of the new church is one of cooperative labor by the members bees were held in flic early stages of the construction to dig out the cellar raise the wooden framework lay the blocks and bricks builder helps few of the members knew much about bricklaying but jack buckles a builder supplied the technical knowledge and also the forms necessary to make the cement blocks dean percy of markham a friend of the church who is an electrician by trade is putting in all the wir- lasting free of charge other members spring by one of the most disturb- too numerous to mention have ing events which can befall a rural given other items or assumed the community a church split for certain operations the land more than 50 years baptists in for the building was donated by h whitevale had worshipped together e pointer as the whitevale baptist church when finished the church 50 feet congregation in a historic old by 24 feet will seat 100 a beauti- building built by early settlers in the village chureli splits differences of opinions among the fill carved pulpit will be the gift of arol griffin a navy veteran who is taking a dva cabinet makers course at hamilton and is making the pulpit as his graduation project draw his candidature after thei god is certainly supporting us standing vote had been taken and mr heal the minister said one chairman jack phillips ruled that his name had to stand mr phillips is entirely in error horace brown told the meeting he is confusing a printed ballot with a verbal nomination this poll vote is an entirely separate vote and inclined to reserve my vote every mr robinson is entitled to with- time a standing vote is called it draw if he wishes should be done away with mr brown also protested what he a heated discussion arose when claimed wholesale distribution of stanley robinson wanted to with- ballots by secretary john forgie night the men held a prayer meet ing to ask for some needed funds and ended up by giving an extra 100 t hemelves to show they werent asking providence to do it all nonchurch goers of course see adenoids in the two churehe a rivalry that well outdoes other motives for worship mrs geo puckrin entertained her in two churches where one should sister dorothy and her family from do toronto on sunday last audley fred puckrin was about the first to start seeding last week he has a warm soil and a good grain farm fall wheat and seeds have come through the winter in firstclass shape although the cold nights and delayed warm weather may check the present outlook messrs winters bros have been working at the samac boys scout camp at oshawa for several days frank wonnacott is bothered seri ously with attacks of asthma he was laid off a few days this week there was a film show at the baggotsville school last friday even ing and a talk on the federation of agriculture by heber down brook- lin at which many were present harry bedal with his daughter and her husband mr and mrs thompson of brighton were callers on sunday with f ai and airs chapman several from here attended the masonic ladies night at the chis- holm avenue temple toronto on wednesday evening this is a red- letter evening for most masons and their wives and sweethearts ai s and airs chapman wilh armand and airs chapman of pick ering wero visitors at grasmere on sunday last ross and airs bisney of green wood were callers in the vicinity last week ross is convalescing from a recent foot infection henry westney has the materials about ready for the erection of his new house on land that he has pur chased from his uncle frank we believe that he is building a one- storey bungalo urban blake has purchased a new team of western horses to help him with his spring work horses are more of a novelty now than are tractors the next meeting of the oshawa presbytery of the united church is being held in the church at green wood on may 8th when the elec tions for the officers for the ensuing year will be held also all regret the illness of rev mr lull brook- lin who has been secretary for many years and who has resigned master keith puckrin had an operation for tonsil removal and last week and is doing