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the tribune stouttriufc ont thursday march 23 1950 claremont and district by staff correspondent sxwoooooooo local dealers madius store and overlands store mr and mrs jack morgan enter tained the goodfellowship class on tuesday evening miss frances mccullough visited at the home of june morgan on sunday miss mary morgan of toronto spent the weekend at the home of her parents mr and mrs roy morgan the baptist mission circle will meet at trie home mrs g m forsyth on march 28th at 230 pm mrs chas gostlck s group will give the program all ladies welcome the wa will hold its regular monthly meeting on thursday march 30 at 230 oclock in the ss room the group in charge hope to present an easter program and are expecting a large attend ance there will not be a supper this month mrs kennedy of agincourt and mrs archie fleming of unionville visited last thursday with mrs roy morgan and attended the wi meeting mr and mrs j pickins of toron to spent sunday of last week with mrs j mccullough and later motored to whitby to the home of mr and mrs mccarl where mrs mccullough remained for a couple of days with tier daughter at whose home mr j mccullough lies in a very critical condition miss margaret graham who had the misfortune to fall and break her hip last december is still con fined to bed at the home of her sister mrs w cowle while recovering very nicely miss graham will be obliged to remain in bed for a couple of more weeks at least before using her injured limb mrs victor symes taught school for several days last week during the illness of mrs h porter the goodfellowship class met at the home of mr and mrs j morgan last tuesday evening mrs carson and mrs evans were in charge of the program it was decided the class would enjoy a motor trip next month on the occasion of the 10th anniversary mrs kennedy member of the federated board of the womens institute addressed the march meeting of the local wi last thursday afternoon at the home of the president mrs badgerow the present slate of officers were re appointed with the exception of treasurer community welfare and sick committee convener who resigned their office the secretary reported the sum of 50 had been realized at the games and sale of hobby basket party of the previous evening held in the masonic hall and around 100 from the sale of hobby basket during the year the president displayed a quilt top made from donations of patches at a roll call which with lining and batting will be quilted and sold at a later date a lunch of sandwiches and cookies was served at the close about 30 ladies were present there were 62 members on the roll during the year on wednesday last week march 15 one of our esteemed couples mr and mrs james coates reach ed their 39th wedding day and the occasion was marked by the couple being dinner guests with mr and mrs stanley reesor everybody joins the tribune in congratulat ing this family on this special occasion and to let them know how much we all think of them incidentally it is interesting to report that mr coates has just sold his 200 acre farm at lot 22 rear of 9th concession to roy tindall of stouffville it was on this well- known acreage that jim took his bride thirtynine years ago and there they remained until 1940 when they retired in claremont after many years of successful farming we understand mr tin dall will have a tenant on the farm and will also find it valuable for his trucking business in live stock it is a great grazing property local brother and sister both 50 years married something unique in double wedding anniversaries is being marked in claremont this week and last when mr and mrs dun can dolphin celebrate fifty years of married life also mr and mrs frank ham mrs dolphin and mr ham are brother and sister both couples spent most of their married life together on farms not very far apart and now are retired to the village living only a few doors apart mr dolphin was born only a mile and a quarter south of clare mont and his wife the former mary ham was also born in the same neighborhood the couple were married fifty years ago by rev clare then methodist min ister at brougham mr dolphin recalled to the tribune that it was real winter weather on that memorable occasion roads were snowbound and there were no plows at that time the couple farmed for some years on the 5th concession spent some time in brougham and retired to claremont seven years ago mr and mrs dolphin have one daughter doris dolphin employed in toronto mr dolphin has a sister mrs e risebrough in the west and his wife has two brothers messrs frank ham will ham and a sister mrs h cowan the couple are in comparatively pickering twp council votes for dismissal of police chief irvine special investigating com mittee brings in report of complaints against police chief irvine and recommends new chief be engaged a special committee headed by newlyelected councillor fred i i ii zinkie brought in a report on good health and mr dolphin can ice t before a ciosed be seen regularly on mam street meeting of council week an1 despite the rigors of the weather he dearly enjoys a game of checkers and takes a keen interest in sport due to the precaiious state of health of mrs frank ham only the immediate families and two couples mr and mrs dingman and mr and mrs d dolphin who were present at the ceremony fifty years ago visited the ham home on tuesday mr and mrs ham were married in 1900 by rev p c cameron of stouifville mr ham was a son of the late mr and mrs john ham who came out from england tak ing six weeks to make the trip the bride was the former hattie j madill daughter of the late mr and mrs james maddill the couple farmed for fortytwo years on what was known as the miller place in pickering and eight years ago retired to the village mr and mrs- ham have five children one son lorneof oshawa mrs geo middleton hilda of stouffville mrs walter baker myrtle mrs don mccullough mary and miss nora there are 12 grandchildren and three great grandchildren a grandson john ham baker in barrie presented the couple with a golden wedding cake on this special occasion mrs m valentino gave a sur prise dinner party in honor of her daughter angelinas lgth birthday recommended that council adver tise for a new chief of police to replace chief jack irvine the recommendation carried with only reeve westney being opposed up to tuesday this week present chief irvine had not handed in his resignation the special police committee and its report are the culmination of dissatisfaction which has been expressed concerning chief irvine both around the council table at nomination meetings and among pickering township residents members of the investigating com mittee are councillor fred zinkie chairman reeve westney inspec tor albert johns retired police official major e m smith and w c murkar justice of the peace their report made minor charges of inefficiency and neglect of duty constable fred white also came in for certain criticism reeve westney said that chief irvine was given an opportunity to address council in reply to the charges usual procedure when such charges are made is the immediate suspension of the officer until the matter is settled other recommendations of the special committee of council in cluded establishment of a police committee to deal with all police affairs fuller cooperation and more exhaustive reports uponi police work car mileage etc conj sideration of revision of police taxi ing costs because for over a year the portion of the township north j of the third concession is under provincial iwlice jurisdiction but the residents have continued to pay for township policing on their general tax rate chief allegations made by the special committee is that the two- man police force has refused from time to time to investigate calls which they believed were of a minor nature most of all the police work in the township comes from the southwest area which is heavily populated in the rouge river area as is usual in police work a great many calls come in from persons worried by stray dogs cats annoyed by neighbors and so forth chief irvines resid ence is on the brock road north of xo 2 highway chief irvine has been in charge of pickering township policing for about 10 years for some time he was looking after the entire town ship singlehanded and on 24hour duty until it became imperative for the council to give him a con stable about one year ago the ontario provincial police took over duties north of the third conces sion but this still left the township force with heavy duties most of the present council agree that the force is understaffed last year the proposition of having provincial police assume the entire township was thorough ly discussed by township council but this was ruled out chiefly be cause council felt the cost would be prohibitive brougham of mrs m harlock the president mrs f cassie was in the chair a farm show sponsored by the several letters of thanks were firestone co and put on by mr read south ontario womens d l mans their representative institutes are to celebrate their in this district will be held in the fiftieth anniversary this summer township hall on thursday even- a suggestion from each institute ing march 23 there will bel for entertainment for the celebra- sound movies in colour admission- tipn is to be taken to the district annual meeting by each director mrs m ellicott i free everybody welcome keep tuesday evening march 28 open for another womans institute claremont mr and mrs s taylor enter tained a number of guests on sun day afternoon and evening miss mcdonald of toronto spent the weeked with mr and mrs lewis brougham institute balsam am mount zion mrs geo wilson gordon and representing hclen messrs ralph and percy mrs l johiv f attended a birthday party last euchre party to be held that night stort would like to have all blue wednesday night in honour of workman loses eye in accident near claremont news is just to hand about of an accident which occurred on the eighth concession of pickering about two miles southwest of claremont at a farm owned by mr cecil story but occupied at the present time by mr raymond drake from information received it appears that mr drake was using a blow torch for some purpose on a car owned by andrew story when for some reason an explo sion occurred causing a piece of machinery to fly off with the result that mr drake was quite badly cut about the eye the injured man was quickly taken to the office of dr x f tomlinson of claremont who after giving first aid took him to st michaels hospital toronto on arrival there it was found that the eye itself was injured to such an extent that it was found necessary to remove the injured member in the township hall ladies please provide mr and mrs e ward and mrs wearn of claremont called on mr and mrs ross middleton one day recently the many friends of mr j lis- combe are sorry to hear of the serious accident which befell him on saturday evening while walk ing on no 2 highway west of brock road he was struck by a large truck he was rushed to oshawa where he is suffering a broken shoulder several crushed ribs and other multiple injuries mr roy miller returned home last week after spending a few weeks at marathon in northern ontario mr and mrs robt liscombe of toronto visited with his father mr h liscombe on sunday mrs milne of toronto visited with her brother mr g e holtby one day last week mr and mrs j puckrin of pefferlaw visited with mr and mrs k pascoe mr and mrs don ritchie of tor onto visited with his parents mr and mrs bruce ritchie on sunday afternoon miss barbara mairs and miss evelyn woodward had tea on sun day with miss ann barclay mr and mrs s bennett and mr and mrs wilber bennett of tor onto were recent guests of mr and mrs ross middleton the womens institute held a euchre party last tuesday even ing with a good attendance a very pleasant eyening was spent prize winners were mrs r baker mrs farley mr jarvis mr williams mrs robinson and mr c burrows were consolation winners the wms auxiliary of st johns church met at the home of mrs geo duncan on thursday afternoon march 1g with a good attendance the president mrs m ellicott in charge of the opening devotions assisted by mrs r elli cott who read the scripture lesson and mrs c barclay at the piano with hymns 33s and 30 the com mittee who were appointed to arrange for the easter thank- offering have been successful in securing a speaker the date of the meeting will be announced later mrs knox gave a splendid report of the oshawa presbyterial meeting held in the trinity church bowmanviue mrs t norton received congratulations from the members on being chosen president of the presbyterial letters of thanks were read from mrs bayles and mrs devitt for remembrance cards mrs john white with group b took charge of the program which was ques tions and answers from the month ly what can i do for my church a delicious tea was served by the hostesses mrs geo duncan mrs helen gray and mrs robinson the womens institute held their monthly meeting on tuesday afternoon march 14th at the home cross insurance dues paid by the end of april the program agri culture and canadian industries was under the convenership of mrs wm gray a paper read by mrs harvey on a country womans day on the farm by edith m chapman was very interesting another paper in which donald mccullough speaks broadly as to how the farmer is ridiculed both in tourists camps in conversation and by radio j commentators the farmer is conj sidered the backbone of country life and should not be so ridiculed mrs a gray read a good poem on a farmers hay day mrs bur rows read an article on the non rising prices of butter eggs and milk mrs matthews read an interesting poem a retired farmer mrs w gray read lovj ing uncle mrs w gray also had ready a good quiz on vegetables a vote was taken to take advant age of the departments short course of canning ontario foods pictures of this are to be shown in color date it to be decided later the department is asking for a history of each institute to be compiled and sent in a committee of three mrs m burk mrs t norton and mrs burton will act for brougham institute the new cupboards not yet finished was under discussion and when com pleted will be quite an asset to the ladies of the community who will plan the serving of our future bazaars teas and banquets the president of the red cross for the district mrs harvey tells us to be prepared to receive the can vassers for the red cross as soon as the weather makes it possible to get around may 6th is the date keg cow tops sale at turners auction a fairly stiff price was paid for the best cow offered in frank turners farm auction in pickering township last week conducted by a s farmer a registered hol- stein cow sold for 300 and a bull for 370 grade cattle at the turner sale averaged well going up to 200 for pickering township farmers organize a township organization of the federation of agriculture was launched at a meeting held at brougham on tuesday march 14th in a thought provoking address mr cecipbelyea assistant to mr v s milburn ontario secre tary reminded his listeners of sir josiah stamps claim that agricul ture has been running at a loss for 100 years a loss evidenced by destroyed top soil and human lives he stressed the fact that the fed eration is a union of all the various agricultural organizations and is essential if a united front is to be presented by farming commun ities the township organization brings the federation closer to its members in a few brief remarks mr roy lick emphasized the need for subsidies in this transitional period and said that farmers would have to take a greater part in the marketing of their products in the future a provisional board of directors was elected mr f von pilis chair man messrs f m chapman mil ton pegg doug coates c s bry ant sid dunning art connor will collins vince teefey alan irish man r dowling and mrs i mc lean and miss mary boyes the meeting concluded with the adoption of a resolution calling on the federal minister of agricul ture to accept british offers of sterling and barter payments for our agricultural surpluses on a canadians 3gcent package of cigarettes 15 cents go to the retailer wholesaler manufacturer and others who bring the product to market federal taxes account for the remaining 21 cents 120 a cannington buyer took home the top priced cow mixed grain realized 310 a cwt an aged mare sold for 50 a culti vator for 100 and a double disc some and yearlings selling at 140 mrs a rogers at brooklin in the chapel of st pauls church toronto on saturday march 18 the wedding was solem nized of doreen only daughter of mrs hart and the late afred hart of toronto to earl disney younger son of mrs disney and the late frank disney miss myrna jones while recup erating from the mumps has taken the measles nothing like getting everything over at once the greenwood drama entitled here comes the prince will be presented in the mt zion church on wednesday april 12 miss betty appleby spent the weekend with mr and mrs d appleby at sjt catharines mr and mrs percy jones attend ed the ice follies in toronto last week birthday greetings to mrs win- ton white who celebrated her birthday saturday march 18 with green river mrs roy carter and miss ida graycalled last week on mrs g fiddes her mother mrs carsca- den of franksville also mrs w ireson and mrs h ego mr and mrs j nighswander entertained a few friends on sat urday evening to a euchre party first prize to mrs r dafoe and i ft carter consolation to j cook and i gray choir practise will be held at the home of mr e bruce on thursday evening missionary day will be observed on april 2nd mr d treleaven supt will be in charge sympathy is extended to mr and ft master chick starter krums which is a new bitesize form of master chick starter mash follow the master feeding program for the best results claremont coop phone 38 3 feeders who keep records eventually buy master mrs g fiddes in the sudden pass- set for the womens institute of ing 0 his father at niagara rev brougham bazaar to be held in theirihrfos conducted his usual service township halla vote of thanks was given mrs harlock for very graciously offering her home for the meeting a delicious tea was served by the hostesses mrs har lock mrs mairs mrs m ellicott mrs glenn friday march 24th this is the date of the varied entertainment being put on in brougham town ship hall by the womans associa tion of the united church a quilt ing party in theafternoon pot luck supper at g30 and showing in the evening of pictures by mr c shank of the h c downham nursery co ltd bowmanviue comprise the program come one come all from far and near to brougham town hall well welcome you here come to the quilting the supper the show to meet your neighbors and friends you know eat and be merry youll have a fine time admission for adults two bits and a dime for children its twenty no much youll agree to have a good supper and on sunday but suffered a heart attack and died within an hour burial was at kingston mrs l lavett also mr and mrs glen lavett have moved into an apartment with mrs a hoover mr and mrs owen turner moved into their home vacated by mrs lavett mr and mrs roy carter visited with mr and mrs l barrett of pickering the teen agers are invited to the home of mr and mrs j mclach- ian next sunday evening after church garbage colikction i am instituting a garbage collection in claremont and am prepared to call at your home or place of business each saturday george hamlin ph mark 20r4 claremont or call overlands 2501 492 pictures to see so put on your hat get into the car were waiting to greet you the door is ajar announcing the appointment of wards garage claremont as sales agency for austin motor cars come in and see these sleek new 1950 models that give yotr everything in economy comfort and dependability ken ward prop ph claremont 700