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the tribune stouffville ont thursday october 20 1949 the tribune stouffville ont thursday october 20 1949 glaremont and district by staff correspondent local dealers madius store and overlands store mrs levi gibson of toronto was a weekend guest with mrs ed gibson and mabel mr and mrs percy hardy and boys called on mr and mrs ernie pilkey on sunday last mr and mrs stewart mcleod of moncton nb and mr and mrs fred draper of whitby were with mrs ed gibson and mabel recently mrs ross watson of claremont spent the weekend visiting relatives in toronto mr and mrs welsh and three children of toronto have moved into their new home in the village purchased from mr olmstead of the former creamery we extend a welcome to them and trust they shall find good friends and a place in one of the churches of the community mr john phillips who has been staying with his daughter for the summer months has gone to greenbank mr jas wilton who has not been in good health for a time is improving and able to be out around home we are glad to say mr jas mccullough is in much the same condition of health and although unable to be out is some improved overlands grocery will present some lucky person with a free 100lb bag of sugar on saturday oct 29th you can have one chance on this lucky draw for each 100 purchase of merchandise at the overland store mr and mrs ross hawke orillia spent the weekend with mr and mrs keith steckley mr and mrs ernest pilkey john and judy had tea one sun day evening recently with mr and mrs george foote and family of stouffville mr d catherwood principal of claremont public school and president of the ontario county teachers association was in bowmanville recently attending the annual association gettogether season tickets and regular tickets will be on sale shortly for both junior and senior oha hockey in the stouffville arena harry porter will be your local ticket agent in claremont the switching back and forth of daylight time in one area and not another has certainly bawled matters up all over the country and we have a good instance of the way it works out right here in claremont while the township officially announced the return to standard time for a week ago the village is still travelling daylight time including the bus the school and the churches residents show up at various times for ail three and in general no one really knows what time it is just another evidence to back up this news papers contention that the govern ment should either make the time change universal or leave it alone on the evening of october 12th the women and friends of the wa and wms of the united church gathered in the sunday school room in honor of three active members of many years standing who are severing their ties with claremont namely mrs t stan- bury mrs f loyst and mrs s cooke during the first part of the evening the singing of a number of- old popular songs and well loved hymns were enjoyed this was followed by a few explanatory remarks by the chairman in regard to the purpose of the gathering and the three ladies were invited to take a place at the front of the room where an address of appreciation and regret with a presentation of a beautiful handbag artistically wrapped and an autographed album to each lady was made suitable responses by the recipients were given a social half hour with the serving of refreshments brought the mem orable evening to a close the baptist circle will meet on tuesday oct 25th at 230 oclock at the home of mrs jas coates for their regular monthly meeting the uxbridge circle members will be guests and all ladies of the local church are cordially invited a number of farmers and their wives attended the international plowing match at brantford last week the interest is intensified for this community when we learn that mr joe tran won two seconds and one third and mr m dunkeld two seconds in certain classes wliile mr w wallace won first and the silver trophy for making the shoes and shoeing the horse in 55 minutes we learned that mr wallace grew up with the horse shoeing business in scotland where his father of 70 years daily practises the art four brothers also are engaged in the business congratulations messrs wallace tran and dunkeld for the distinc tive honor you bring our commun ity- on friday evening october 21st at eight oclock the induction service of the new pastor rev mr lacey will take place in the united church to which all mem bers and adherents of claremont and brougham are expected to attend the combined boards of elders and stewards are asked to assemble in the basement prior to the time of the church meeting rev mr fisher of brooklin will have charge of the service which will be followed by lunch to which all are invited and asked to please contribute honored on his eightieth birthday we extend birthday greetings to our veteran citizen mr geo hammond who became an octogen arian on october 8th he celebrat ed this happy event with his son everett whose birthday was sun day october 9th at the family home where all the family gathered in honor of the occasion mr hammond is in good health and with mrs hammond enjoyed a trip to toronto last wednesday mr hammond came to canada thirtyeight years ago from the old country and after a few years in the peterborough district he settled with his family in clare- mont here he worked for some time with harry found in the masonry business before beginning his retired life there are two sons thomas and everett and three grandchildren round sirloin porterhouse steaks 65 standing rib roast lb 55 prime rib roast rolled lb 65 round bone shoulder roast lb 45 stewing beef bless lb 45 brisket or plate bone in lb 25 stewing lamb bone in lb 25 shoulder lamb lb 35 lamb chops lb- 55 leg of lamb lb 55 pure pork sausage lb 40 ox tongues fresh or pickled lb 30 side bacon lb 60 smoked back bacon lb s5 peameal back bacon lb 85 birdseye frosted foods raspberries 39c peas and carrots 31c oboyles meat market telephone 35 brougham anniversary services will be held in st johns united church on sunday nov 30 whitevale choir will be in charge of the music at the afternoon service which will be held at 230 dst the home choir will render the evening music at 730 rev h ii lackie the new minister in charge will be the speaker at both services a number from here are plann ing to attend the special services at claremont on friday evening october 21 when the induction service will be held for rev h h lackie are you in need of tires see the big savings offered by jack brig- nail in this weeks issue of the tribune keep in mind the halloween party in the hall on friday even ing october 28 sponsored by the friendly bible class a quiet wedding took place at the whitevale manse on saturday afternoon when mildred m gill- man eldest daughter of mr and mrs jno gillman became the bride of mr harry m spang of stouffville best wishes to the happy couple mr and mrs allan crocker and daughters gwen lynda and janet of toronto had sunday din ner with their aunt mrs l matthews miss margaret duncan of tor onto visited her friend mrs philip over the weekend mr s s madill of toronto is visiting with ross and mrs madill mrs carswell and lynn of oshawa visited her mother and brother here on sunday mr and mrs wa knox visited mr and mrs john robinson and family at bradford on sunday mr and mrs a j gray and mr gordon gray visited with mr and mrs russell hodgson on sunday mr and mrs kenneth pascoe were at whitby on sunday visiting mr and mrs ron pascoe while driving his tractor on no 7 highway near locust hill mr robert wright of green river brother of mrs c devitt of brougham was hit by a ear which overturned the tractor a doctor was called and he was taken to his home suffering from shock and bruises at time of writing it is not expected any bones are broken mr kenneth madill met with a painful accident one day last week while at work his hand came too close to a saw which severed the end of his right thumb he was rushed to east general hospital toronto for treatment mr d a beer was in toronto for a couple of days last week attending an insurance conven tion mr and mrs fred madill and mr and mrs ross madill spent sunday with jessie and mrs had- dow in peterboro miss scanlon of toronto former teacher here called on mrs l w sheppard one day recently mrs geo philip spent a few days last week with friends in toronto mr and mrs robt liscombe of danforth bus lines east pm sun hoi 945 1010 1020 1035 1038 1010 1050 1100 1105 1110 1120 toronto bound read down brougham claremont west bound pm daily ex sun hoi 545 610 620 635 638 640 650 700 705 710 750 pm sat only 200 225 235 250 253 255 305 315 320 325 335 am sun hoi 1000 1025 1035 1050 1053 1055 1105 1115 1150 1125 1135 am daily ex sun hoi 915 940 950 1005 1008 1010 1020 1030 1035 1040 1050 am am pm daily daily ex sun ex sun sun toronto hoi hoi hoi bay and dundas 840 9 35 150 danforth and luttrell 8 10 910 125 scarboro jet 800 900 115 malvern 745 845 100 browns cor 742 842 1257 town line 740 840 1255 markham 730 830 1245 locust hill 720 820 1235 green river 715 815 1230 brougham 710 810 1225 claremont 700 800 1215 read up pm pm sun sat only hoi 520 935 455 910 445 900 430 845 427 842 425 840 415 830 405 820 400 815 355 810 345 800 parcel express ox1383 daily redaction in pares effective sept 20th from toronto single fare return fare to locust hill to brougham to claremont 60 70 75 110 130 140 thieves try to enter depot at uxbridge thieves made an unsuccessful attempt to break into the cnr station at uxbridge one night last week they were scared off by police shortly before midnight bruce blakey no fixed abode was arrest ed on a vagrancy charge he plead ed guilty to the charge in magis trates court in whitby within 4s hours of committing the offence and was remanded in custody one week for sentence blakey had a pair of pliers and snips in his possession when arrested provincial constable john john ston and village constable james swinson were patrolling when they noticed the rear door of the station had been pried open two inches with a crowbar police be lieve three men fled on hearing them approaching constable johnston searched the west end of the town while con stable swinson scoured the east end of town later swinson spotted three men walking north on main street he stopped his cruiser two of the men fled blakey was taken into custody constable johnston testified to day blakey had told him he didnt know who the other two men were he said blakey had also told him he had thumbed his way to uxbridge from orillia and was job hunting balsam and mount zion mr and mrs ken graham who were just recently married called at the jones bros home last week mrs winton white spent the weekend with her daughter mrs frank grey of agincourt quite a number from here attended the ploughing match at burford last week mrs howard harper of good wood visited sunday with mr and mrs cecil jones mr and mrs lome jones and family and mr and mrs edgar evans and donald visited on sun day with mr and mrs neil mc lean at woodville mr and mrs burnett jamieson and family mrs lewis jones and mrs john briggs spent sunday with mr and mrs roy parrott of georgetown the active service class will meet on tuesday night oct 25 at the home of mrs lome jones this will take the form of a halloween party the gentlemen are invited mrs mortkman and mrs lewis jones are in charge of the program next sunday will be rally day with a joint service of the church and sunday school at 2 pm standard time come and make this a real rally tvk1tx5vviatxm6xx33 we work on small margin atlas lug grip tires for mud snow 60016 for 1385 all guaranteed esso rod 440 per gal imperial 3 star antifreeze alcohol 170 per gal j e brignall phone 2 claremont e open 24 hours a day adjourn hearing on ajax setup fourth hearing before the ontario municipal board to have ajax incorporated into a town was held monday at brougham the hearing was adjourned until nov 8 to present further information to the board meanwhile the central mortgage and housing corp will negotiate with picker ing township to have the 3000- acre governmentowned ajax lands transferred to the township a request by cmhc to have the boundaries of ajax extended to include s00 acres for an improve ment area was made e f bastedo representing 25 farmers in the area said the extension of the limits of ajax was protested 100 per cent george findley and angus mc- clesky appearing for cmhc said no farm would be included in the sooacre improvement area they said it would be a green belt established to control the indus trial growth of the community it is commonly believed that a crosseyed person always sees double this is not true such a person usually uses only one eye born in pickering twp eighty years ago mrs m r summerfeldt suffer a heart attack at her home in ca nington on saturday evening ail passed away suddenly mrs sul merfeldt who was formeil jeanette wood was born in picl ering twp 80 years ago and wel as a bride 59 years ago to moul albert where mr summerfell carried on a hardware business what is now the telephone bull ing some years ago they sold o and later moved to canningtcl she is survived by her husbaf who has just passed his 90th birtl day one daughter mrs mckillcl midland and one son john ci nington the funeral was held tuesday from her home and intl ment was in mount albert cen tery our greatest glory is not never falling but in rising eve time we fall even if you are on the rig track you will be run over if sit there toronto were weekend visitors with his father who does not improve in health as fast as his friends would wish mi and mrs c devitt called on mrs fred hamilton on saturday mr d dawson of toronto also mrs dawson sr of claremont were sunday guests at the d l mairs home mrs d seebeck and daughter ethel were holiday visitors at the anthony home at whitevale mr and mrs ross knox and bettyjean visited with mr and mrs mcguckin on sunday district slip cover training school held their summary day in brougham hall two ladies from each womens institute attended the five day training school the institutes represented were ajax altona claremont honeydale brougham brooklin and kinsale miss k m taggart from the womens institute branch gave the instructions the leaders from each institute brought their chairs together and learned all the intricate details of preparing muslin pattern and making a slip cover then the two leaders will return and teach the women of their own institute how to make slip covers there were some extremely smart looking tailored chair covers shown at the sum mary day miss mckercher super visor of home economics wi branch attended the closing event a delightful tea was served by the hostesses there was a large attendance at the regular meeting of the womens institute held in the township hall on tuesday oct 11 the president mrs f cassie assisted by the secretary mrs n burton were in charge an invita tion was read from pickering to attend a health meeting there on oct 25th miss edna moore will the speaker several delegates were appointed to attend arrange ments were made to attend the annual convention of the womens institute of ontario o be held in the royal york on nov 9th 10th 11th mrs b harvey was appoint ed official delegate and mrs l t johnston alternate it was decided to send for tickets to attend a womens temperance meeting in lassey hall on nov 3rd this was the grandmothers meeting three great grandmothers were present and they with the other grand mothers recounted some of their experiences roll call grand mothers birthplace hostesses were mrs w filieott mrs j gillman miss gillman mrs h malcolm mrs lemon v iwietuae ham we have installed a hoist and high pressure greasing i system and are prepared to winterize your car 1 we have antifreeze prestone and alcohol we stock naptha gasoline stove oil and coal oil firestone tires they compare in price with any on the market electric refrigerators r s mcleod phone 3404 claremont coop lay mash a balanced ration for efficient feeding efficient feeding means supplying feed which will maintain health growth and production and at the same time be available at prices justifying their use profitable egg production is possible only through proper feeding start using coop lay mash today a completely balanced feed coop 15 hog grower a complete feed for growing pigs coop hog grower is a complete feed for growing pigs from 12 weeks of age to 150 lbs coop hog grower is fortified with vitamin d to ensure strongboned pigs it also contains a balance of essential minerals proteins and vitamins so necessary to produce rapid and economical gains claremont coop association at the cpr phone 38w