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the tribune stouffville ont thursday may 18 1950 claremont and district by staff correspondent local dealers madills store and overlands store mr and mrs reuben tindall of cherrywood visited with mr and mrs j coates on sunday mr and mrs prouse entertained the following members of their family on sunday mr and mrs t hammond and boys mr and mrs belt of uxbridge mr and mrs russel prouse of brampton miss isobel prouse and friend of toronto we regret hearing of the resign ation of mr catherwood who has been principal of the public school for the past six years we under stand he has accepted a position at whitby the cgit group will meet on saturday afternoon at the home of the leader mr and mrs joe ward and two children of oshawa spent sunday with mr and mrs w ward and attended family united church service mrs s cooke oi lansing visited over sunday with mr and mrs earle cooke mr and mrs plante and children visited on sunday with mrs w neale mr and mrs r hockley and baby of toronto visited over sun day with mr and mrs n sar son and family the pickering township sunday school executive which have been conducting a fine evening trainlnj course at greenwood church will close on friday evening with a banquet mr and mrs gordon graham and children of oshawa visited on saturdav and sunday with mr and mrs s taylor and mr and mrs e lewis the baptist church held special mother and family day services on sunday mrs binstead contri buted solos mr and mrs morgan pugh of uxbridge attended the evening service mrs f benns and boys enter tained the following members of the family on sunday mr and mrs robertson and family of tor onto mr and mrs reid oshawa mr and mrs philip benns of uxbridge mrs watson uxbridge harry of pickering she received telephone calls from absent mem bers and numerous gifts from the family the baptist circle will be held on may 23rd commencing at 8 oclock in the evening at the home of mr and mrs wearn this will be an open meeting with the men having charge of the program the pastor rev g davison will be the speaker and there will be special musical numbers mr an mrs mcdonald gloria gerald and lady friend of wing- ham mr and mrs r foote of stouffville mr and mrs ross dowson of port perry and miss shirley boe of toronto visited with mr and mrs earle beare and megan on sunday a family day service was held in the united church on sunday the supt led in a responsive sunday school service and sang a solo my mothers prayer rev h lackey the pastor conducted a baptismal service when nine infants and small children received baptism as follows michael robert hockley karen elizabeth hall margaret rose jane fligge sharen elizabeth fligge william joseph plant rosemary joyce plant reginald duncan morgan joseph eric taylor alvin john lehman the ladies auxiliary to the claremont branch of the canadian legion held their regular monthly meeting at the home of mrs d norton on wednesday evening may 10th with 23 members pre sent mrs e taylor presided there was a lengthy business dis cussion during which plans were made for several small projects to be carried out shortly and an invitation was accepted by the ladies to spend a social evening with the oshawa auxiliary on tuesday evening may 30th the wms met last thursday afternoon at the home of mrs lackey with an attendance of 41 and some children mrs johnson was in charge of the opening exer cises and business mrs lackey and mrs carson were jointly in charge of the excellent program the theme being the mothers and the home miss shaver contri buted a piano solo and mrs jack son a vocal solo mrs rawson the absent leader of the group sent a letter which was read during the meeting a convalescent card con taining the names of all ladies present has been sent to mrs raw- son in norland where she is ill with her daughter and soninlaw mr and mrs shaver the hostess served tea and dainty cookies assisted by four cgit girls mrs tomiinson moved a vote of apprec iation to mrs lackey and group for the fine inspirational program and social time the goodfellowship class was hejd lat tuesday evening at the home of mr anil mrs melvin john son with mrs r jackson and mrs h johnson in charge of the pro gram which consisted of a number of short poems by several mem bers on springs and the farm animals a paper on a pre and post war woman in public life by mrs h johnson a piano solo by mrs hugh gregg and a paper on the place for jesus of xazareth in our lives today by mrs jack son prayer was given by mrs lackey and responsive bible 1 reading of a psaim mrs lloyd pugh the newly elected president called upon the secretary for her report it was decided at the april meeting to have a membership fee of 23 cents and a roll call at each meeting mr boniface the retiring president was sincerely thanked for his three years of excellent service the june meeting will be held at the home of mr and mrs j peddie a couple of interesting contests were held followed by lunch brougham mothers day services were held in st johns united church on sunday afternoon with a good attendance the sunday school and the regular service were com bined and met at 2 pm with the sunday school superintendant in charge assisted by rev h lackey and mr allan ehicott mrs xott spent the weekend with friends at port perry mr and mrs e l crocker also mrs r w witter of toronto called on mrs l matthews one day last week mr and mrs a j gray and family also mr and mrs wm gray were at green river on sat urday evening when their mother mrs gray sr celebrated her illst birthday mr wm palmer and mr frank ham of claremont called on mr and mrs m hamilton one clay recently mr and mrs ross willson and daughter ruth of toronto visited his parents mr and mrs w e willson on sunday mr and mrs frank stephenson and miss mae stephenson and friend all of toronto called on their uncle mr bert beer and other friends on sunday afternoon mr thomas gammage who has been a patient at brierbush hospi tal for several months returned home yesterday mr and mrs wm knox visited with their son john and family on sunday and attended the service in eldad church when their grandson brian douglas knox was baptised mr and mrs al harvey and son john mrs harvey sr were with friends at peterboro a special oddfellows service will be held in st johns church here on sunday afternoon may 28th mr and mrs ross knox and bettyjean visited with mr and mrs b mcguckin of stouffville on sunday mr and mrs kenneth pascoe visited with mr and mrs hardy of toronto on sunday congratulations to mr and mrs harry spang on the arrival of a little daughter on mothers day the womens institute held their meeting on tuesday may sth the president mrs l john ston was in the chair and the minutes of the annual meeting were read and approved the sum of 25 was voted to be donated to the red cross conveners of stand ing committees were selected for the year a report was given of the conveners rally at guelph roll call was current events the hostesses were mrs al harvey mrs b harvey mrs c b shep- pard and mrs l sheppard tea was served at the close of the meeting some goo ontario womens institute members gathered may 10th to pay tribute to the associa tions founder at a ceremony in ottawa together with representa tives from the associated county women of the world which grew out of the affiliated institute move- unique baptismal service at brougham during the mothers day ser vice in the united church on sun day joanne clare anderson infant daughter of mr and mrs thomas anderson of toronto was baptised present for the christening were four generations the baby and her mother mrs anderson the grandfather mr howard malcolm and the greatgrandmother mrs a malcolm of green river who is 02 also present were three great uncles and a greatgreat uncle a brother of mrs a malcolm a cousin of the babys mother miss doris malcolm sang the solo bless this house rev ii lackey officiated there were also two other grandchildren of mr and mrs howard malcolm christened on sunday but unfortunately the grandparents could not be at the services they were brian douglas son of mr and mrs john knox of hampton and the baby daughter of mr and mrs glover of oshawa add to floodlight fund with friday night entertainment mrs gordon hamlin of green river was the lucky lady to win the radio phonograph combination given away at the euchre and dance sponsored by the business mens association in support of the floodlight fund for the park levi fretz of stouffville won second prize- an electric teakettle the turnout was not as large as expected and it was believed that many from the country arrived late due to the fast time change euchre prizes were won by the ladies mrs loss hill and mrs stanley cook and the men stan slack and vic symes approximately s150 is expected to be realized from the affair whitevale mothers day was observed in the baptist sunday school and church last sunday morning the primary class sang mothers of salem and presented each mother and grandmother with a dainty basket of flowers sylvia michell and margaret gayes sang a duet these threeyearolds did excep tionally well the pastor rev h b hardy gave an appropriate mothers day message at the church service following sunday school greenwood mrs w gee of toronto visited for a few days last week with mrs fred gibson mr a morden has purchased a mill at orton and expects to move there in the near future congratulations to the ypu on winning the cup for the second meat and now has a membership of 0000000 in 25 countries around the world the occasion was the unveiling of a portrait of the late adelaide hoodless founder of the institute at stoney creek ontario in 1s97 the picture will hang in the dominion archives there will be a womens insti tute representative at the royal winter fair this year a concert will be held in the church on tuesday evening may 23rd at s30 under auspices of wa the program will consist of pictures from the national film board and musical numbers everyone welcome claremont loses veteran citizen claremont district lost one of its eldest residents on monday may 8 1950 when joseph henry mitchell of the 7th concession of pickering township passed away suddenly in the private patients pavilion of the toronto general hospital the late mr mitchell had fallen on sunday morning from the top of an outdoor stairway which led to a workshop he had gone up to get some repairs for some harness his family believe he must have taken a weak spell as he had not been in the best of health but was still quite active up until the accident he was removed to brierbush hospital in stouffville for xray where it was found he suffered from a broken hip later he was removed to toronto but passed away on monday noon as a result of shock the late mr mitchell was 3 on the 20th of january he was born in devonshire england and came to canada as a youth with his parents the late sir and mrs john mitchell they settled near bow- manville later coming to pickering township following his marriage to annie lewis who predeceased him ten years ago they settled on the farm on the 7th concession where he resided until his death funeral services were held from the family residence on thursday the 11th to erskine cemetery he leaves an only son jack who is married and lives on the farm pallbearers were nephews of the deceased arthur and harold mitchell lloyd and walter white and allan and norman neal year at the drama festival which was held at oshawa recently the infant babies of mr and mrs alan short mr and mrs doug morden and mr and mrs vernon short were baptized at the morning service last sunday the ypu will meet at the home of mr ken brooks this thursday night for the final meeting until fall we were pleased to see master john griffin out last sunday after his long illness the evening wa met at the home of mrs f webb on wednes day evening mrs r hill and mrs a short conducted the worship service an invitation to present the drama here comes the prince at enniskillen on may 21 was accepted plans were made to hold a strawberry social and pro gram during the strawberry sea son the next meeting is to be held at the home of miss e ormerod green river family day service was well attended in uss yp class were in charge with miss e malcolm acting as supt and miss i nighs- wander pianist the service open ed with prelude of home sweet home hazel carter read a poem somebodys mother reg nigbs- wander took the story of timothy and the author john howard payne of home sweet home miss gail dafoe sang a solo birds are singing after the lesson period mr bruce annis and edith malcolm sang my mothers bible mrs wm gray was presented with a beautiful plant from the ss on the occasion of her 91st birthday mr and mrs grant malcolm of gait visited with relatives here on sunday miss barbara white and friend of toronto were home for mothers day on saturday evening mrs w gray and family celebrated her birthday among many cards and other gifts she received a beauti ful frigidaire on sunday many friends called to wish her health and happiness mr and mrs o m patterson of windsor visited last week with mr and mrs w duncan i 5 r means will maintain health growth and production and at the same time be available at prices justifying its use profitable egg production is possible onlv through proper feeding start using coop lay mash today a completely balanced feed phone claremonf- 38 for western oats barlev coop feeds master feeds farm supplies warwick hybrid seed corn mm m mmb mmmmmh master balanced feeds ft ku cuutt r rouitir ruhuyictocx rut iftiim u1suu bof immmmmi immmmmi dl w blue coal stove and nut size claremont coop claremont we deliver x e w poiilcv daylight saving 2 shows nightly 730 doors open 700 pm continuous sat 700 pm to midnight matinee sat 200 pm markham last three days y friday saturday may is 19 20 greatest since snow white the world berttored kory tuned to laughter romance- and sonc a picture your heart will long remember m mltmneys mon tues may 22 23 humphrey bogarfr elinore parker in chain lightning wed thurs may 24 25 what every woman should know dorothy mcguire wm lundigan in mother didnt tell me starting monday may 29th cheaper by the dozen in technicolor a scrap wanted highest prices paid for all grades of iron metals see axlers first m axler co limited 200 eastern ave toronto el 2219 nephew over the weekend entertained a number of their mr and mrs walter hollinger family on sunday feeders who keep records eventuauybuy master cherrywood mr and mrs wm judd mr and mrs wm hollinger and mr and mrs leslie hollinger and bruce had dinner on sunday with mr and mrs geo todd mr tindall and son of goodwood had tea one evening last week with mr and mrs r tindall a large number attended the mothers day service on sunday allan robert infant son of mr and mrs wm smith and dorothy marie infant daughter of mr and mrs murray hollinger were christened mrs fenney entertained a num ber of her family on sunday mr xewton laiighlin and mr herb bennett attended the ioof church parade and service at brooklin on sunday sympathy of the community is extended to the relatives of the late joe mitchell of brougham mr and mrs smith of markham had dinner on sunday with mr and mrs wm smith and family mr and mrs wilmol gates and miss phyllis gates visited at blue- vale over the weekend miss phyllis gates left for a motor trip to british columbia and while in vancouver will attend a wedding mr and mrs e armstrong entertained the biters niece and i fcvt 4 precisionbuilt garden tractor plows cultivates cuts grass cuts weeds plows snow yes at latt n effi cient easily handled garden tractor is available at another feature of the choremaster garden tractor you can quickly and easily convert your own hand mower into an efficient power mower a shown above amazing low cost now you can do plowing cultivating grass and weed cutting snow plowing and other garden chores with this allpurpose allseason garden tractor 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