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the tribune stouffville ont thursday november 9 1930 claremont and pickering twp district mr and mrs e wood misses margaret and joyce wood of west hill were guests on sunday of mr and mrs k b wood mr and mrs kobt hockley and michael of toronto were visitors during the weekend at the nelson sanderson home mr and mrs albert boake and family of pine orchard miss pat lehman of sioutfville and mur ray memullen spent sunday with mr and mrs earl memullen mr and mrs c a brown from toronto were sunday visitors at the home of mr and mrs keith steckley the united church sunday school will hold their annual christmas concert on dee 10th in the community hall if this can be arranged dont forget the musical evening we have planned for your enjoy ment in the congregational christian church in stouffville on friday nov 10th at s pm the regular monthly meeting of the goodfellowship class will be held at the home of mr and mrs l pugh next tuesday evening rev h lackey and mrs w evans are in charge of the prog- gram we extend the sympathy of the community to mrs j badgerow her husband and young son in the death of her mother mrs wagg of goodwood the funeral was held on monday afternoon at good wood william ham former pickering township native now residing in toronto marked his 8tth birth day on sunday mr ham a brother of mr frank- ham and mrs duncan dolphin of clare- mont is enjoying very good health despite his great years chicken pox is catching up with those young folk who eluded him for several weeks we trust there will be no complications and that the disease will vanish before christmas activities begin the womens institute will be held on thursday afternoon nov 16th at the home of mrs wm glidden roll call the name and date of first ownership of your property topic historical research there will be an exhibit of old cups and saucers by the members visitors at the home of mrs jas rumney on sunday were mr frank rumney mr and mrs norman rumney mrs nellie miles mr and mrs art warner mrs joe free and her daughter mrs marjorie hoidge mr and mrs a crideil and miss r robin son the public are reminded of the baptist church bazaar to be held on saturday afternoon of this week this will be a good oppor tunity to purchase some of those christmas gifts afternoon tea will be servej this bazaar repre sents many months of hard labour on the part of lady members of the baptist circle they deserve your patronage rev mr young of pickering delivered two thought provoking sermons on sunday at the har vest home services in the united church in the morning he preached on bartimaeus and his faith in jesus power to heal while the general indifferent attitude of the church group to wards the outcasts was stressed in the evening his subject was how can i be sure the bible is true the final assurance to be in the possesion of each individual the home choir contributed two musical numbers during the morn ing service and baker hill octette of ladies sang three numbers dur ing the evening rev g davison of the baptist church assisted during the service and the bap tist congregation was in attend ance rev h lackey preached at pickering united church pickering high school will be imposing structure sir- vsr- flllihllfpllls s v f v a z i ni- o a i m the new 13room pickering district high school is expect ed to be completed for opening of the next fall term located on church street just north of the municipal park sufficient land has been acquired for a fine school site architects shore and moffat of toronto have designed a building with the most modern educational features designed for 400 pupils man- will be from rural areas for their convenience a large cafeteria is included in the structure claremont man bread salesman suddenly stricken making his usual city rounds on saturday clifford soden salesman for the browns bread co was suddenly seized with a heart attack and passed away several hours later he was in his s5th year the late clifford soden a son of the late mr and mrs frank soden of claremont had never known a sick day and was a man who looked the picture of health he was born on the stn concession of pickering worked for some time with his father on the home place later moving to the village for the last twenty years he has resid ed in toronto where he has been employed with browns bread co he is survived by ms wife the former edith bernard two brothers john and ross pre deceased him two uncles are frank ham of claremont and william ham of toronto and an aunt mrs duncan dolphin of claremont the funeral service was con ducted by rev geo davison from the claremont baptist church with interment in the claremont union cemeterv approves purchase of new firefighting equipment propose separate school district for pickering a proposal to create a separate school area in pickering township is now under way it was learned last week up to the present time there has not been any parochial school in pickering township but due to the increase in population many roman catholic parents now desire that this be accomp lished so far the township coun cil has not been officially approached on the matter there is a separate school in ajax and it has been intimated that catholic children now attend ing pickering public school may be leaving to attend there gets six months for stealing pigs earl leffler of brougham was sentenced to six months for steal ing a number of sows and pigs leffler testified he had been drinking before trading some animals and couldnt keep track of other stock while trucks were coming and going on the farm during a sile brougham mr and mrs w j brown and grandchildren of toronto visited his mother mrs t c brown on sunday mrs soden had a business trip to hamilton one day recently mr and mrs geo willson and dorothy visited with friends at alderwood on sunday afternoon mrs manson ellicott was at collingwood over the weekend attending the funeral of her aunt mrs kenneth balsdon and mrs plity of pickering visited mrs m hamilton on sunday the many friends of mrs a ramsay are glad to know she is now improving at her home after a serious operation mrs brown visited in green- bank recently and called on mrs mcmaster and mr j phillips mr and mrs bob harvey of tall pines haliburton visited with his mother and brother al and family during the weekend mr and mrs dean mails had sunday tea with mr and mrs fred hamilton at markham the womans association met on wednesday evening nov 1st at the homo of mrs t philip with 19 members and three visitors present the worship period was taken by mrs ross madill and the program was in charge of mrs dean mails final preparations were made for the church bazaar to be held on saturday nov 25th in the township hall commencing at pm there will be booths for aprons home baking candy plants and bulbs and miscellane ous articles the young people of stjohns church will hold their next meet ing on thursday evening nov at the home of miss ruth gillman all young people welcome the november meeting of the wms of st johns church will meet at the home of mrs manson ellicott oh thursday nov 16 at 230 pm mrs geo duncan con vener and group a in charge roll call to be answered by a verse from the book of galatians hostesses are mrs m ellicott mrs r ellicott and mrs w a knox mr fred hamilton son of mr m hamilton was rushed to tor onto east general hospital for an emergency operation last week while in a critical condition at the time his condition during the weekend was reported as much improved mr summers was present at the regular november meeting of the pickering township council on wednesday nov 1st to give information regarding the pur chase of an additional fire truck which could be used for grass or other small fires to save taking out the large truck on this truck called a second unit primarily used for a fire truck equipped with booster pump tank and accommodation for smaller fitt ings a grant of 25 would be realized the truck would cost 1075 equipped with a 500 imp gal tank the pump would be run from power takeoff on truck on motion of councillors zinkie and burk purchase of this fire unit recommended by the fire com mute was authorized subject to ipproval of the municipal hoard problems relative to living in cellars trailers and unsuitable quarters were discussed councils attitude was stated as being opposed to furnishing hydro unless a house was being built the building inspector was present to discuss problems related to his department council instructed the clerk to write the medical officer of health asking what action had been taken on their instructions given a month ago there were no sheep or dog claims for the month of october a communication from f l button re roy brignall of clare mont was discussed asking coun cil to replace mr brignalls fence roy ward supt of roads said his men had cleaned up the old fencerow at considerable expense council agreed no fence replace ment was promised nor fence bonus the deal was brignall removed his fence and council cut the brush and burned it brig nall took the fence down himself and got the fence township men cut the wood up for him road expenditure for the month amounted to 807075 subsidy as of aug 31st 1950 for the town ship of pickering was in the amount of 1868853 as road equipment including wrenches and batteries had been stolen deputyreeve todds motion to replace these was carried fines and fees for the month of september amounted to s1s873 hospitalization and t13 after care for the month totalled 57697 jack martin of rosebank sub division asked about the dog- catcher and was informed mr schwalm commenced duties as of nov 1st mr martin suggested council make a move to do some thing about bringing water to the southern part of pickering on motion of councillor balsdon council will procure an estimate of the cost of bringing water to the proposed water area a bylaw was brought forward fixing the salary of the road superintendent at 3000 per annum with mileage at 6 cents a bylaw to fix nov 21th as the date of nominations was also introduced another byiaw up for consider ation would regulate tourist camps the fee for each cabin be ing 10 from october to may the rate would be placed at 15 as complaints regarding the operation of a welding plant in woodlands by albert sanders of toronto had been received a communication from the clerk was on file requesting him to meet council on nov 1st a letter was on file from s t jordan of north fairport road approving roadwork done and suggesting further improvements a delegation from pickering village consisting of cyril morley and jack balsdon brought their problems to council one problem was that of a grass street on which a house is to be built which would need to be graded and gravelled before materials could be hauled to the location inquiry is to be made regarding xorah street mr morley wanted to know about the water supply and what had been done he felt there must be some reason it was being held up a motion previously passed was read to mr morley sponsored by councillors balsdon and zinkie in which council will agree to pay 10 of road expenditure on the three main approaches to ajax which motion is being sent to mr grant councils solicitor in order that he may take it to the municipal board requests for gravel were made from port union district and range line pickering beach and specific drainage problems were cited green river halloween went over very quietly everyone had their usual callers with a variety of funny faces and costumes on friday evening nov 10th there will be a erokinole party in the uss ladies provide every one welcome last sunday was our quarterly temperance day the picture pro vided by temperance federation was displayed with the added talk by mrs g gray mr geo bruce gave a very fine story while the girls quartette favoured us with two numbers the annual business meeting of uss will be held at the home of mr w duncan on monday nov 13th the gray family had dinner on sunday with mr and mrs law rence gray of the 7th lint the occasion being brendas 3rd birth day mr bruce buckles and bill mc kay had a rip to montreal over the weekend the school teachers miss p hardy and mr b buckles had a halloween party for the children ioo bulk of pickering assessment appeals only minor although there were thirtyfive appeals registered against the assessment roll of the township of pickering the largest percentage of them were only of a minor nature seven of the appellants appeared before the court held at brougham on thursday morning a total of 7100 was the reduction on the entire appeal slate the largest deduction was on the joe makouchik place in the 3rd con cession mr makouchiks assess ment was 9575 on a very large dwelling the court felt that the owner was being penalized for having this very large home which he could not make use of and reduced his assessment under the overbuilt clause two of the assess ments appealed were believed by the court to be too low and were consequently raised chas connacher wellknown sports figure appealed his assess ment on his lakeshore home for the second time but the case was dis missed the assessment was s8625 following are the names of the appellants their reason for appeal and the disposition of the case h s mcintosh stouffville rr3 overassessed reduced 700 wm e smith 261a croxwell ave toronto no building on property reduced 175 miss s e newton 2035 -dan- forth ave toronto one barn removed reduced 550 wm heaton pickering rr2 overcharged sustained f h westney pickering rri exempt woodlot reduced 100 mrs mary hutchings pick ering buildings assessed too high sustained donald a wilson pickering rr2 buildings assessed too high increased 150 mrs margaret philip brougham overassessed house old sus tained mrs w willson brougham error in land assessment reduced 50 thos vose pickering rr2 buildings overassessed reduced and all report a very fins time mercury is the smallest planet n the solar system gather for memorial day seryice taking as his theme epitaphs rev w sturgess assistant pastor of walmer road baptist church toronto addressed the gathering at the memorial day service held in the claremont baptist churm on sunday by the local branch of the canadian legion rev geo davison padre of the local legion conducted the service and the music was led by the whitby band a number of wreaths were presented in honor of our war dead wreath for the silver cross mothers was presented by mrs wes lehman canadian legion wreath bob mcleod ladies auxiliary mis gordon benson baptist church james coates united church don hedges business mens association len lye and claremont schools joan todd inhabitnats of the isle of man are called manxmen mm m mmm iff mm iv jvi m m mm m m m master dry fitting feed master dry fittinr feed is a carefully halanccd feed specifically manufactured for the dry period and for a month or so following calving master dry fitting feed contains the proper amounts of minerals and an abundance of pure cane molasses thor oughly mixed in the fid i t i feeders who keep fcfctords eventually buy master immmmm mmmmmj master balanced feeds for iu cusscs of rouitir run lot stock run iitiiiic mitu a o0ss i m m m w m immm m m feed master dry fitting feed up to calving lime and for one month following calving claremont cooperative phone 38 claremont decomposed body of man found by girl hunter the decomposed body of a man was discovered in a swamp on the j east side of pickering township by a 19yearold girl during a township wide pheasant shoot walking through heavy under brush with three other tranters sylvia hawke of toronto saw a felt hat lying on the ground closer examination revealed the body police said the body was that of a middleaged man it is be lieved the man had been dead for about three years no evidence of foul play was discovered found near the battered hat was a plastic pocket comb the man had been wearing winter clothes a dark blue overcoat and brown woollen mittens a childs pair of leather cowboy typo gaunt lets were in the overcoat possibility the man froze to death while on a hike through the isolated swamp was advanced by chief const lockhart trinnell of pickering township the body was found over a mile from a private lane on the property of w p moore while miss hawke and another hunter william reid of howey ave toronto remained on the scene russel brown and harold beid went for police xew zealand this autumn will lie the first commonwealth coun try to use wee prince charles picture on a postage stamp mrs ethel gow 317 leslie st toronto 8 buildings overassessed sustained joe makouchik whitby rri building overassessed reduced 2575 douglas m hughes 32 mac naughton rd leaside buildings overassessed sustained mrs h jatiuk pickering rr2 buildings overassessed reduced 225 n littleforo pickering rr3 buildings overassessed sustained thos goddard highland creek rri buildings overassessed sus tained fred l lloyd whitby rrl buildings and land overassessed reduced 225 robert barwiek 17 pine st ajax acreage incorrect include lot 17 sustained mrs grace e crawley pickering rr2 overassessed reduced 575 rouge hills ltd 2217 kingston rd toronto 13 overassessed sus tained rouge hills ltd 2217 kingston rd overassessed do not own all reduced 200 rouge hills ltd 2217 kingston rd toronto 13 overassessed reduced 200 edward lewis 26 mallon ave toronto overassessed reduced s100 mrs cassie bassett pickering rr2 overassessed reduced 125 raymond traynor pickering rr3 overassessed increased 500 mrs veronica morton 5 west ave toronto overassessed re duced 25 mrs mary e leeds co mrs e butler main st x weston rr2 overassessed sustained mrs lulu jackson co airs obrien pickering rr2 bad road sustained c w conacher 13 scott street room 11 toronto overassessed sustained rudolph sauriol 305 erskine ave toronto overassessed re duced 150 arthur r akers pickering rrl error in acreage sustained wm ii long pickering rr3 overassessed adjustment to be made desmond ewins pickering rr2 overassessed reduced 150 j brough 14 rougemont dr pickering rr2 overassessed sustained g white co 2217 kingston rd lots doubieassessed reduced 50 james murray 851 logan ave toronto lots doubleassessed re duced 100 r e lee fairport po boat- house removed reduced 100 w hollinger pickering rr2 hydro purchased fi23 acres re duced 250 jas g wors 110 crescent ltd toronto barn torn down reduced 300