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the tribune stouffrille ont thursday september 29 x949 spud crop down 11000000 bushels canadas potato crop this year is expected to be about 11000000 bushels lower than last year the potato committee of the canadian horticultural council said on mon day in a statement the committee said production is expected to total 81000000 bushels roughly an aver ageyear crop last year canada produced about 92000000 bushels and there was considerable difficulty disposing of the surplus over and above domes tic demand of go000000 bushels some of the surplus was shipped to the us before that country stopped imports on the grounds us producers were having diffi culty disposing of their own crops her money problems if any are oyer standing feed brings high price at auction the auction sale of standing feed held recently by mr frank mason scarboro realized a lot of money there were twelve acres of stand ing crop consisting of sorghum corn and sudan grass offered and it brought an average of 75 per acre the top price for one lot was 120 per acre it was a fine crop was the comment of auctioneer gordon sellers and the buyers were mostly local centuryold bell calling pupils again winterbourne sept 1g the old school bell in the belfry of thei winterbourne public school ini waterloo county is ringing again after several seasons silence the bell called pupils to the school for 100 years during the past few years its use was dis continued and a small recess bell used however the trustees decided this year to put the bell in oper ation and again it calls the children as it did a century ago i400m i le v h eelba r row junket ends sometime last week the long ivheelbarrowing journey of mrs julia st clair miss hungary of 1918 came to an end the husky 18yearold woman started her wheelbarrow trip june 21st from jacksonville florida and hoovers at 81 and 85 are muchtravelled couple little june armer five right foreground of hamilton out lias good reason to smile she and a friend miss isabelle stew art are sole beneficiaries of an estate which totals 1761522 f g mcgregor retired detroit contractor who died last april left his estate to his two neigh bors as they kept the elderly man company after his wife died happy over their sisters good fortune are other armer girls patricia and diahne reached her goal of detroit last week the whole purpose of the 14- hundred mile junket was to let her sevenyearold son dolphie visit his grandmother an 82yearold resident of lupton michigan mrs st clair says shes worn out 50 pairs of socks on her trip north and that more than two thousand rides as easy visit clair persons have offered her for dolphie well hes had it he rode all the way after a with her family mrs st says shell write a book about her experience itll be called the wheelbarrowers a despatch from halifax arrest ed the attention of the tribune editor this week because the name of hoover or hover is concerned which leads to the belief that robert hoover or hover may be distantly connected with the stouffvillemarkham elan says the despatch from halifax when most people reach the age of so they are content to take life easy but there was no sitting- at home on back porches and reminiscing for mr and mrs robert a hover natives of ohio when they reached ages of 81 and 72 hover says his name should be spelled hover since hoover is a change from the original the hovers this week were in the midst of a fivecountry motor tour expected to last two years andi cover 50000 miles j starting their tour of canada from the east coast capital the hovers recalled the 12 years they had been on the move it was 42 years ago that robert hover had i a health break down j then before the days of good roads and filling stations frequent ly spaced along the highways the hovers set out on a crosscountry trek that made newspaper head lines flood forest fires mucmy wagon trails and frenzied horses scared by the automobile impeded their progress but in the end their courage and twocylinder maxwell won out and the couple became the first man and wife team to cross from one coast to the other in the united states by automobile they carried 300 feet of rope double block and tackle a shovel a crowbar an axe a saw a com pass ten tires 30 inner tubes 20 extra spark plugs canvas and an emergency supply of gasoline on their current tour of canada their emergency equipment con sisted of one jack in the 1948 sedan in case of a flat tire yes hover said we had a lot of trouble and a lot of fun on that trip but it was also a life saver for me i didnt need any more doctors when our journey ended and the hovers have been tour ing ever since the hovers travel leisurely they arrived in canada several weeks ago and since then visited halifax and moncton currently they were touring the gaspe penin sula they planned to head west drive down the pacific coast to mexico then through central and south america and then put their car on board the steamer for the west indies friends of the hovers asked them what they found in so much travel didnt they become bored ill never be too old to get out and meet people and see the com munities in which they live said hover with a smile he and his wife mata agreed their friends did not know how mucluthey were missing hover claimed a long colorful background he was present when oklahoma was first opened to settlers in 1ss9 he took the first steamer from the united states to alaska after the discovery of gold there in 9s he attended the first flight of the wright brothers aero plane in europe in 190g hover took part in the first rescue at sea in which radio was used in 1909 he drilled the first producing oil wells ever sunk in montana by an independent oil man and built montanas first oil refinery in 1920 he bossed his own drilling crew for his father at the age of 13 in their travels they left new york irs january 1909 for europe on the steamer republic about 150 miles from new york the ship was split in two by the italian immi grant ship florida after 24 hours in lifeboats the hovers were rescued by the baltic ten days later they sailed again for europe and toured the con tinent and africa by automobile for four years they covered 50000 miles in that tour the only railway serving all ten provinces i y y i blip ih iiip sm ir ii i i lllwll mm mm i l p5y 41 1 11111111 ill i 1 fawr would abolish county council a long branch councillor has asked that the york county coun cil be abolished councillor patrick conaghan said last night that the provincial government should take over the administration of old peoples homes roads and police he called the county council a glorified body and said it should be rooted out of office after seeing what goes on there he also objected to paying 14 thousand dollars a year for county services conaghan termed this payment unreasonable and said if the government took over old peoples homes roads and police the village of long branch will not need county council comfort is the word for canadian national travel whether you ride in coach or parlor car you enjoy roomy armchair ease as the miles speed smoothly by stretch your legs when so minded by a stroll to the smoking compartment or dining car the hours pass swiftly and pleasantly you arrive refreshed when you go canadian national meahimos are a delight in canadian nationals inviting dining cars your favourite dishes temptingly prepared are deftly served in a cheerful friendly atmosphere for quality your coop labelled products youll sleep soundly in the soothing quiet of canadian national nighttrove accommodations berths or rooms airconditioned for your comfort travel by train for dependable allweather service cbsmm fence gates twelve fourteen and sixteen foot size fence hog poultry cattle 7 8 and 9 line even and graduated fence roofing rolled and mineral surfaced roofing rolbrick siding 3inl shingles many colors cedar shingles in 3 grades step ladders extension ladders twentyfour and thirtytwo foot space heaters palm and fawcett in 10 oil burners dairy supplies universal milking machines filter discs milk pails cleaning solutions paints household interior or exterior barn and implement tires all sizes at reduced prices stouffville coop association phone stouffrille 269 or 122 the finest silverplatf trademarks or oncjda urn we have it youll lovt itl a beautiful new floral design to hove and to hold for keepsi pro tected against wear by solid silver overlay services start at 4475 in handsome antitarnish chests waggs jewellery store stouffville ontario charge exiuckster after death probe charges have been laid by at torneygenerals department a- gainst tony demers 3 2 former national hockey league player in connection with deatli of mrs anita robert 31 of coaticook que judged criminally respon sible for the womans deatli by a sixman coroners jury demers will appear in court at sher- brooke que shortly after she was brought there by demers battered and bleeding she ap peared to have received a severe beating a vva iii x fia lilows wins appkaij condemned to the gallows in a previous trial at sudbury ont albert quesnel 39 was acquit ted of murder early this week by five judges of the court of appeal the court ruled tha his trial had been unfair quesnel whose home is at espanola ont was convicted of strangling a 72yearold woman of the samo village