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the tribune stouffville ont thursday june 22 1950 flcaimr sebvice local and personal happenings mr and mrs geo gunn church look at the label on your tri st are enjoying a weeks vacation bune that is the date on which it at lakeview house jacksons expires renew promptly and dont point miss a copy members of the aurora ioof visited the stouffville lodge on monday evening when the 2nd degree was conferred sergt joe palmer member of the provincial police detachment at aurora was installed last week as president of the kunnymede lions club garden protection with king bug killer cil garden dust atox derris dust king 3 ddt dust cil 3 ddt dust 3 ddt and 7 copper dust garden seeds for late planting golden bantam evergreen bantam hybrid sweet corn little marvel dwarf telephone lincoln peas chinese cabbage winter radish green and yellow pod beans sugared schumacher feed the best buy for all livestock today stiver bros steaffville ont office ph 45 rev and mrs wm paget and daughter joy missionaries on furlough from india are spending several days with rev and mrs gibon brown mr kdw lloyd who has been in very poor health for a long period made his first visit in two years to the new subdivision lloyd ave which he opened up south from fair st e a grubin ro optomct st will be at the bind and grubin office in stouffville on monday june 26th plan to attend the street dance and fair to be held in claremont friday june 23rd sponsored by the canadian legion claremont the fritz vv glitsch sons inc of dallas texas manufacturers of equipment and parts for oil refineries will establish a plant in uxbridge it was announced last week members of the art branch of the local booby classes enjoyed a picnic at the siloam home of mrs spensely on wednesday mr a hodgkins art teacher conducted an outdoor class during the after noon and evening mr and mrs r j neilly of vivian were in toronto recently attending the graduation exercises at the university of toronto where homer b neilly received his degree in political science and economics monday june 19th marked the 82nd milestone in the life of our townsman jos mertens duchess ave mr mertens who would pass for a man many years his junior retired to stouffville three years ago and has spent almost his entire lifetime in the stouffville district mr and mrs william birkett are spending a few days at their cottage in haliburton mr walter pipher past noble grand of stouffville oddfellows lodge spent two days last week attending the grand lodge sessions which were held in the hoyal york hotel a group of friends from stouff ville jnotored to couchiching park on wednesday afternoon june 21st to meet the bakers who moved to orillia this spring to conduct a dairy business in the neighborhood of 30 couples made the trip and after sharing a picnic supper mr and mrs clayton baker mr noah baker and david were presented with a lamp kindly take notice that the office of w c mcdonald optometrist will be closed on saturday june 2tth and also for the july 1st holiday who wouldnt like to spend the summer on manitoulin island donna stouffer daughter of mr and mrs lambert stouffer expects to do just that after finishing her upper school exams three others from the stouffville district will accompany her phyllis pugh marion barkey and elizabeth wideman where they will join the staff at camp many of the mem bers of which are university students the camp is conducted for adult guests by mrs cork of toronto mr and mrs edward williams and mr and mrs gerald acton were in woodbridge on saturday afternoon attending the wedding of miss meryl campbell and mr robert yule in the presbyterian church the bride is the daughter of mr and mrs colin campbell and a niece of mrs williams the womens institute is chartering a bus to guelph agri cultural college july 11th all those interested please contact mrs burgin phone 350j stouffville not later than june 30th this coming sunday june 25th will be the occasion of the annual decoration service at the stouff ville cemetery all the members of the odd fellows lodge are requested to attend the next meeting to be held june 20 1550 at 9 pm as some urgent business must be attended to mr j h madill of harrow and daughter mrs dingwall of toronto spent tuesday visiting the formers sister mrs geo lee mr and mrs allan manderson of balsam were also visitors at the lee home be sure and see laurel hardy in chump at oxford at the stanley theatre this friday and saturday june 23rd and 24th tins sidesplitting laugh feature is part of a double bill at the stanley along with bells of coronado in canada last year 351135 babies were born ringwood miss ada barkey who has been under the doctors care for some time is now staying in toronto at the home of her cousin leo e jaynes mrs hamburgh of hamilton has been spending a few weeks with her sister mrs james kennedy mr and mrs robert devitt returned from sudbury to their home here last weekend mrs ralph bruels of toronto is visiting at the home of he son-in- law mr and mrs fred steckley many from ringwood attended the marriage in vivian churci last saturday afternoon of a popular young ringwood couple harold steckley and irene boden mr fred cummings has started his new home on the eighth line north corner of ed logans farm mines are operated in every province of canada except prince edward island mr and mrs william malloy and family moved into their new home on market st last week the former malloy home is being occupied by mr and mrs walter smith and family who have been living in an apartment over the mayfair restaurant william j bockmaster of east toronto has been engaged by the stouffville public school board to teach in the seventh grade here next term the addition of mr bockmaster to the staff brings the total number of teachers in the local public school to seven mr bockmaster is a single man with two years teaching experience a number of members from richardson masonic lodge stouff ville motored to caledon east on friday evening to be present dur ing degree work for william still son of the late elmer still form erly of stouffville messrs a e weldon and k r davis assisted with the work mr and airs ira rusnell baker ave were receiving the congratu lations of their friends last week on the occasion of their 3sth wedd ing anniversary our genial con stable and his bride were wed in a double ceremony in 1912 with mr and mrs jake reesor rev chas petch and rev m bricker tying the nuptial knot dancing every saturday stouffville fire brigade was called out on thursday evening during the supper hour for a run to musselmans lake to squelch an overheated chimney on the residence of robt windsor while some damage resulted the local firefighters had the blaze under control before it could envelop the house more than two hundred picnic kers from temple baptist church in toronto enjoyed their annual outing to stouffville memorial park on saturday afternoon the group first came to the local park last year and were so taken with the pleasant surrounding that they returned again many residents in town possibly do not realize what a valuable asset they have in their fine park grounds and it is not without some pride that we frequently hear it praised by visitors fo town cedar beach park north shore musselmans lake van walker and his music featuring wally scott vocalist now accepting reservations for group picnics and cabin and cottage accommodation lome mcmullen member of the ratcliff co staff has recently been attending classes sponsored by the canadian fruit and veget able merchandising institute in conjunction with the department of agriculture being posted on the latest methods of keeping fruits and vegetables fresh reducing waste and providing customers with a continuous variety of appetizing and nutritious merchan dise building supplies anyone requiring steel for roofing purposes call the stouff ville coop we have a plentiful supply on hand of 6 7 8 9 10 lengths ridgecap and spiral lead head nails by the pound or by the keg if you are building a new home we carry full lines of as phalt and cedar shingles in three grades rolbric siding and insul brick from our paint department we have a complete line of interior and exterior paints and enamels we now have the agency for uxbridge concrete products and can fill your order for silo blocks cement blocks for houses and well tile inquire at office for prices for you farmers who are completing fences there is brace wire electric fence wire barbed wire t and 8 steel posts line fence in 30 rd and 40 rd rolls poultry fence and hog fence in 10 and 20 rd rolls remember when you buy from the coop you buy from yourself stouffville coop association phones 269 and 122 that hand bomb discovered last week near ringwood proved to be a dud l buckland president of the local legion displayed the harmless bomb to your writer the other evening it was a hand gre nade engraved 48th high landers but it had been made into a table cigarette lighter however when lying on the ground on its side it had a very live look did you know that a little over 30 years ago during world war i a passenger could ride the trains an average of 110 million miles without fatal accident during world war ii his chances of fatal accidents were reduced to one in 175 million miles while in the first naif of 1019 only one in about 1300 million miles these statistics as compiled by the national safety council show that the ratio of injuries per 100 million passenger miles is 013 for railroad and 21 for passenger automobiles this means that rail travel is 1g times safter than automobile travel model train fan special passes through town a cnr special drawing 204 model train fans made up of four model railroad and one railroad historical society from toronto another from buffalo along with railroad sharks from akron ohio cleveland and new york city passed through stouffville on sat urday enroute to couueonk the special had a buffer bagg age the power was the 5500class with 31000 pounds tractive effort and special permission to go to coboconk at all the conversation aboard ran something like his majesty the king owns this whole road as trustee for the people of canada ah thats for me that caboose over there theres a vanishing twokar loreil tfliats quite an interlocker need a k4 through here lot of difference in the prr youre talking about the road i love midafternoon at lindsay many of the group visited and photo graphed locomotives and round house equipment the cnr special thundered on to peterboro then port hope where it ran over roadbed once three feet sixinch gage the first narrow gage railway in north america then it headed for home it arr toronto ontime with so many engineers on board it had to mr and mrs dave stouffer and mrs geo baker and son howard visited recently with mr and mrs andrew stouffer newmarket on the occasion of their golden wedd ing anniversary mr andrew stouffer is a brother of our towns man dave the couple have resided in newmarket for the last half century both are enjoying com paratively good health mr stouffer continuing in his work as a piano tuner lions club install new officers monday evening was the occasion for the installation of the new officers of the stouffville lions club for 195051 district- deputy fred campbell conducted the ceremony and the officers are as follows past pres l c murphy pres harold spofford 1st vice ted edwards 2nd vice dr neil smith 3rd vice fred campbell secy walter pipher treas v h atkinson tail twister geo allison lion tamer ken wagg directors harry ratcliff bill ford ed neville keith middlemiss home from ithaca for visit miss betty sanderson reg n is spending a brief vacation with her parents on obrien ave since her graduation from womens college hospital in toronto betty took a oneyear course in public health nursing at the university of toronto and spent 4 years with the victoria order of nurses in toronto for a time she was supervisor of the scarboro branch last fall miss sanderson went to ithaca ny where she holds a position in the infirmary at cor nell university following her weeks stay here she will take a six weeks course in strachan memorial hospital in rochester to enable her to obtain a new york license and in the fall she will return to work in the cornell infirmary miss helen abell has also been spending a few days with her parents on harold ave then she will take a special summer course in ithaca resuming her regular studies at cornell university in the autumn annu a l strawberry festival under auspices of united church sunday school will be held at goodwood wednesday june 28th program consists of a play entitled aunt cindy cleans up presented by goodwood merry mixers admission 75c 35c supper served from 530 pm youth for christ stouffville 745 sharp two hemispheres an agricultural film of interest to all 815 song service time for all to join in singing his praises special numbers by mary hutchinson and ellen steckley piano solo by donna stouffer 930 return to faith the story of a man who was running away from life because he had lost faith in god and himself he was con vinced there was no god until a little boy came into his life a little child shall lead them n rowan director 9 tzm stanley theatre stouffville ontario continuing through daylight saving time doors open 700 pm first show starts at 730 pm during the week saturdays holidays open 630 starts at 7 pm friday saturday june 23 24 things get hot when roy goes after atomic ore smugglers bells of coronado in trucolor starring roy rogers if you avent been to oxford eres your chance to see whats appening there laurel hardy chump at oxford monday tuesday june 26 27 in this picture your see more of grable than ever before and we doooo mean more wabash avenue in technicolor starring betty grable victor mature phil harris wednesday thursday june 28 29 tops in midweek entertainment buccaneers girl in technicolor with yvonne de carlo r douglas elsa lancaster plus twarch of time cartoon themale look