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the tribune stouffville ont thursday june 1 1950 spurts news and views by mcmullen the intermediates play wednes day night at sutton it is rumored that bill harper ports left hander is pitching sen ior ball in oshawa well old ball players never die they just fade away eh hill whats next in baseball a fan down in the sally league became a bit hostile toward a base ump the fan pulled a gun and proceed ed to make like hoy rogers his gun misfired but the ump pulled his trusty fortyfour and shot the fan dead there have been repairs going on at the arena the past two weeks the roof is being patched with tar and aluminum so that we wont be bothered with leaks next winter the newmarket arena is laying a composition floor at the present time the floor is reported to cost in the neighborhood of 7000 this seems like a lot of money for some thing to wear out your shoes on the clipper hockey club are running a motor and boat raffle this summer the boat complete with lights trailer running gear etc is to be given away the night of august 2nd the clippers are holding a big do this night as well the youth for christ league is operating again not hockey but now softball the league is packed to capacity with nine teams stouff- ville ringwood vivian bethesda jth line peaches bloomington dicksons hill and lemonville all the games are played on monday nights stouffville play theirs at the school grounds the lake simcoe softball league is rolling this year with eight teams in the loop mount albert pine orchard queensville kes wick willow beach zephyr van- dorf and hope are running this year for the championship mt albert for the past two years have capped all the honours but pine orchard have been in the pitching as runnerups the stouffville lions club has granted the stouffville ac 150 for the promotion of sport and to get the financially defunct ac rolling this money is being used to sponsor a boys midget team and a boys juvenile team bob hassard and doug davis are coach and manager respectively of the juveniles while george smith gat- lehman and don lewis are handl ing the midgets incidentally there is a midget practice called for this wednesday night at the park all boys under 17 by 1st of may are eligible an engineer from a large con struction firm which specializes in asphalt work was up to town the other day his purpose was to look over the tennis courts and decide whether they could be topped as was planned his reply was in the negative because he said the courts were too low and therefore too wet he also said if topped as they are the asphalt would heave in the spring when the frost came out it seems too bad that something cant be done to improve the courts this year as quite a few people in this town play tennis if they cant be topped with asphalt why cant we top it with clay or some other suitable material next meeting athletic club is june 8th in birketts office please turn out tennis club meeting this thurs day evening at 713 at the tennis courts all members past and prospective please be there bob hassard played in a benefit game for the tireravaged people of rimouski and cabano last week end the game was played in de- lorimise park montreal with the hockey leafs and canadiens partici pating bobby one of the big guns for the leafs knocked a three- bagger with the bases full but all to no avail as the leafs lost 1312 norm dessault of i labs won a gold watch for fast running horseshoes are clanging again the local boys have spent a lot of hard work and time down at their new site the old arena the boys have got one court underway and hope to get the other fixed as soon as possible if any of you are itching to get in the game the boys are down there practically every night rending the air with ringer revised schedule made ix south ontario softball league at a meeting held in the town hall whitby of the southern ontario softball league broug ham intermediates were accepted into the league and the schedule which had been drawn tip for the first three weeks of the season was revised the revised schedule is five games of this schedule have already been played thursday tunc i ajax vs brooklin friday june 2 pickering vs whitby westmount vs brougliam monday june 5 brooklin vs westmount pickering vs ajax wednesday june 7 westmount vs pickering pickering vs brougham thursday june 8 whitby vs brooklin friday june brougham vs whitby monday lime 12 brooklin vs pickering whitby vs brougham hitteiutk dream of mexico migration dimmed by visit prospects of a mass migration to mexico by some of albertas farming hutterites have dimmed in the eyes of some of the schemes promoters following a trip to the promised land a delegation went south to clear the way for the move after the pacifist religious sect became rest less in alberta where expansion of colonies has been curbed twen tyone returned quickly and if is reported that all but two cliehards were disgusted with the land and conditions in chihuahua province where they had planned to settle- two delegates remained in mex ico to negotiate for land in another area those who returned said farm ing methods weve 100 years behind the times it was common to see pigs and chickens in the dwellings sanitation in many houses and business places was termed terri ble russia doesnt like betty hutton its probably envious of her atomic energy this spring sow coop wisconsin hybrid varieties all sizes 225 275 279 355 531 606 625 645 excelsior hybrid variety open pollinated strains dent varieties golden glow early bailey sweep stakes wisconsin no 7 white cap yellow dent bloody butcher flint varieties longfellow comptons early at stouffville coop association two phone for yonr contenlence 29 and 122 sutton subdued again in opening league game stouffville 11 sutton 2 with the aid of fireball pitching on the part of tom miller and spotty hitting the intermediates took the first game of the year miller went the route for stouff ville allowing only three hits and ten strikeouts butch schell bopped a terrific triple to centre field in the sixth to score two runs and the only other extrabase hit for stouffviile was a double for miller in the fourth sutton col lected only one extra base hit in the game the sutton pitcher showed lack of control and experi ence but still struck out five of the opposition stouffville made- two errors while sutton played nearly flawless ball the best play of the game was probably bradburys running catch of shan nons texas leaguer cherrywood mr and mrs leonard hollinger were in toronto on saturday even ing attending a birthday party at the home of mr and mrs alvin pilkey mr and mrs bert petty of mark- ham had dinner on tuesday with mr and mrs wesley petty mr and mrs newton laughlin and emma mr herb bennett and mr stanley powell attended the loof church parade and service at brougham on sunday wedding bells are ringing mr and mrs win tweddle en tertained a number of neighbors on fridav evening mr and mrs tom mcgill and son of sarnia spent a few days with mr and mrs john petty mr george todd was in toronto on friday attending a meeting at the king edward hotel mr martin is getting along well with the construction of his new home mr and mrs geo todd attended the funeral of mr todds cousin at stouffville one day recently greenwood congratulations to mr and mrs col well nee doris hodgson who were married last saturday after noon the ypu held their banquet last saturday evening in the church basement when twentyfive sat down to supper afterwards attend ing the show at the drive in theatre oshawa mr las raine still remains in the stouffville hospital we understand that mr and mrs m minaker have purchased the store business we wish them suc cess the communion service will be observed this sunday at 1115 sunday school at 1015 mr m peggs entertained friends from the city last sunday there will be no meeting of the wa next week owing to the presbyterian picnic refused to fight fire fixed 25 a young haliburton man who re fused to help fight a bush fire in that area has been convicted under the forest fire prevention act clifford vickery 21yearold la borer who was among 100 halibur ton men asked by constable wm lovell to fight a 350 acre bush fire near oblong lake may 20th and was fined 25 and 250 costs in police court at lindsay several other charges laid by provincial police at minden are pending it may be bad etiquette to walk between your wife and the store windows but its smart strategy lehmans shoe store 8touffvillk ontario buy thrilling new kroehler furniture cushionized comfort heres thrilling- new kroehler furniture youve waited for excitingly new luxuriously buoyant restf ully different now kroehler gives you more springs and more comfort than ever before you will experience a new buoyancy in this chesterfield suite and floating comfort never before possible enjey cushionized comfort just once and you wont want to own anything but kroehler furniture sturdy well engineered foundations on this chesterfield double deck back springs in these chairs this suite may be yours at the special price of 22500 le oneill furniture stouffville balsam and mount zion miss my ma jones spent the weekend with miss lois kaye at haliburton quite a number from here at tended the oddfellows parade at brougham on sunday congratulations to mr and mrs 13 jamieson who celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary on sun day may 28th mr and mrs ken thompson of leaside visited sunday with mr and mrs cecil jones for the summer months sunday school will he held at 1030 am and church at 730 pm mr and mrs hugh pugh and glenn of dublin spent the week end with mr wm pugh township of whitchurch tenders for garbage sealed tenders properly marked will be received by the undersigned up to 1200 oclock noon friday june 9th 1950 for the collection and disposal of gar bage and other refuse musselmans lake twice each week from june 9th to september 30th 1950 wilcox lake twice each week from june 9th 1950 to may 31st 1951 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