AURORA NEWS FRONT PAGE SECTION Number of Copies Printed This Week NEWMARKET AURORA AND THE RURAL OP NORTH YORK NO I if NEWMAR ONTARIO THURSDAY AUGUST SINGLE COPIES S CENTS EACH Howe For OW i FAIRY LAKE AS IT WAS AND AS IT IS A new home for the will be on Eagle St west of In Newmarket it was announced last night by County Commis sioner Reeve Olivet of The commodate are the plan new home wi the site where ell had earlier a low division A few addition to the present home the corner of and Eagle Sis was discussed and drawn but this proposal was carded because of the lay of the land rr A special committee headed by Reeve Henry Stouff- will report to County Council in on Workmen may begin budding the home in May When it opens possibly the primer the home will be filled to capacity Mr Croekford county retain the home which accommodates men and women to any overflow 0- The present fc Wlc Municipalities have to WrdJOT elderly persons in private we said Mrs This Is costing too money It will be similar County home lit a cost of ohsaWM North its Sports Day on tOrdKWJi a pageant and parade wilVstr the festivities at to followed by a program for children a Wurns horseshoo pitching test and tug war h There will he prizes for those entering the parade with the best decorated float car bicycle tricycle doll carriage and pet Later on there will be a lucky draw of a variety of electric ap pliances In the evening there bingo and games with dancing to Boh McCaws orchestra I The sports day will he held on the grounds behind Call For Ballot On Sept On Rebuilding Of Main St To Fill Deputy Reeves Chair CANDIDATES A post card view taken of Fairy Lake in is reproduced above while below is a picture taken from approximately the same spot this week The two pictures show the deterioration of the lake from war when it was a beauty spot and used for boating and swimming to its present muddy and useless condition The pictures were taken from the southeast bank toward the lawn of the home now owned by Ross The little log cabin on the lawn is easily recognized Newmarket ratepayers will go to the polls on Mon day Sept They will have two ballots to mark their choice of candidates for the deputy reeves office left vacant by the death of J L and their answer to the question of rebuilding Main St THREE on only mm Three reported along a torso on Saturday reported The homos into of smart stolen from which was stolen on hot at Hi of the toss r In every cash was stolen thief thieves and objects was by forcing serpens n ground floor there eon nd thefts shoriv a earlier retried the Fairy Lake could be restored again to the beauty and utility it In if there were the will ami the energy in to undertake the task All that is the leadership either through council or through service club even a repre sentative committee It would not be an easy undertaking nor could it be in a short time But once the start we are certain that progress would be smooth and relatively swift The result would lie a of public pride a spot and even the answer to the oftdebated of a swimming The Upper Holland Conservation Authority has begun the immense job of policing the banks of tho river it will take time tefore the efforts of the auth ority show fruit but in time the flow of water will be improved and its purity assured With this initial step taken it remains only for Newmarket to plan the protection of the banks and take steps to put the pond to use about it bo we leave the to its present staU one which is neither credit nor value to the town or do we restore to beauty a natural resource from Which we can all benefit Surely the answer is yan decision to take the vote was made at a special council meeting on Monday morning when council voted in favor of a vote on the question of Main St A vote to till the deputy reeves chair is mandatory and it was decided to hold both bal lots on the same day The decision to have a vote oh Main St follows a summerlong debate In council The decision to act was brought to a head by a request from the Toronto arid York Road Commission which shores the cost for an Immediate indication of whether Newmar ket would accept the proposal for the Main St work Another factor in the decision of council was Toronto Mayor Lamports weekend denunciation of the commission Toronto shares with York County the cost of maintaining certain roads in county including Main St Mayor Lamport urged an end to this expenditure by the city- County Money Available The question of rebuilding Main St arose when this year the Toronto and York Road Commission to budget for Its share of the Main St work preparatory to handing over the maintenance of the road to the municipality Under the present arrangement the commission is responsible for the upkeep of the centre arid Newmarket for the roadsides and gutters The proposal was that the commission rebuild its part of the road and then turn it over to Newmarket Total cost of the ON HONEYMOON BRIDE IN HOSPITAL AFTER OCCIDENT Mr and Mrs George Mont- III I I lad planned to on their honeymoon at this tune weekend with gun fire thefts but Mrs Montgomery is still in breakins an early morning York County hospital where by the police The upshot was rushed following an auto- 1 of it ail was the arrest of two mobile accident oil St young men Robert Just alter the happy couple had Frank on charges of off on their honeymoon lawful custody breaking trip- and entering theft of ear and Mrs Montgomery the former theft of a truck The two had escaped from the -H- Newm Memories To Visit jmion of foreman in yea in a hoy but the memory years happy one and when ho the to Newmarket up plant of a hard ware firm happy memory is that of boys and young men swim ming in Fairy Lake used to swim in front of the Wallace is now recalls where he Is retirement He is fascinated too by was in Newmarket The biggest bee in Newmarket tjSJjf sveip so much mora sub- than they cW my day he ay by the growth of the lowpi as he remembers it homes In days had neither the appearance nor solidity thai they to today Mx Mr who is to eighties worked for John the butcher from the time he enrs until ho left at the age of From New- market he went to for three years and then to To ronto for years He fcrent from there to Winnipeg where yes to he held the tame the in manner in which business carried on along Main to the way it is was more per sonal attention In those days he recalls f a customer want he tapped his foot and called and the clerk running Nowadays its all self- You make your own choice of what you want carry your goods to the cashier stand in line to pay and then carry what you bought to your home lie concedes it may be more efficient but he misses the friendly service of other years Mr Wallace was In Newmar ket for the one day only Tues day He and Mr Bolton looked up old friends and talked over the old days And then Mr Wallace went off to AIONKKY8 Mm John Grant manager of the Theatre is turning his theatre lobby into miniature with a pair of monkeys ami now a pair of linn cubs in cages the theatre lis part of his advertising for The Show On which opens there next Monday Edith of Second St Newmarket suffered cuts about face Her husband received minor injuries young couples car liber ally painted with wedding slo gans had been hit headon by another- car on No Highway a few miles south of the New market turnoff Provincial Constable- Bob Clark said the driver of the other ear Charles Barker of Ave Toronto has been charged with careless and dan- driving The couple were married Sat urday afternoon at Newmarket United church later attending a reception at the borne of the brides parents tare They loft shortly after pm for on overnight slop in Toronto before proceed oh a Northern On honeymoon they planned to live with Montgom ery rents on Whit Icy Ave project is an estimated 235000 of which Newmarkets share would be the road commissions share arid the provinces share The has argued the question Of whether to under take the project for some weeks Biggest objection was the high cost and the need for other heavy expenditures Including the cast of a new sewage disposal plant The attitude In council generally has been if Main St re built the sewage disposal plant would have to be postponed On the other hand the town is under heavy pressure from the prov ince to undertake the sewage dis posal plant as soon as possible Agree Job Must Be Done There was general recognition in council that both projects would have to be undertaken sooner or later but a general reluctance to accept the heavy cost of either or both brothers together separation Of AS YEARS Brothers who had not seen each other for years were re united recently when James Benton of Essex England was met by David Benton of Queens ville when the formers ship docked at Montreal recently Benton came to Canada In June of at the age of His brotlier They had not not seen each other since Davids departure for Canada and Mrs Benton motored to Montreal with friends Mr ami Mrs H to greet the visitor arid since then they have shown him many Canadian sights Of them all he was most Impressed by Niagara Fails Mr Benton was enthusiastic about Canada He wishes that many more young Britishers come to this country I think things in Canada are very colorful compared to the drab suriottndings in England He was also Impressed by the supply of food here with meager ration system In England Monday morning Ar thur Evans placed before council a motion urging that the Main St work be undertaken It was ruled that the implied immediate action without consul ting the ratepayers An was proposed which asked that the question be put tori public vote Tlie amendment carried with Councillors Jos Dales Charles Boyd Mrs and favoring it Arthur ami councillors Charles and Lome opposed it Mayor Vale althoughhe did not cast a vote has made no secret of his approval of a public vote to Voted question to be put to the ratepayers on Sept is Pro- vdel the Toronto and York Roads Commission York Court- 1 paves the centre 22 are you in favor of the council the rebuilding of the balanced of Main St at an estimated cost j to the town of Newmarket of and the issuing of 1 therefor- It was out that If public vote down the project no work will be done on Main Although the roads commission Is prepared to do its the centre the work must be done at same time as the work done on the towns share road and if the town docs not do its share the roads commission I cannot do Its 22 I COUNCILLOR JOS BALKS CUBS RESUME A Cub pack In at Brampton and the will hold its first meeting of charges and earlier excitement the season on Tuesday arose out of their efforts to Aug 26 Boys wishing to Join cape the pack must be eight years old Last Friday night Constable and may start at this Initial Art Moody said was stolen meeting are regular- from the till in Ken May nurds held the first Tuesday of each service station on Highway month in the Scout Hall south of Entry was made by breaking a window An Two Councillors Enter Race At least two members of New- approaching a period of market council Have cast their with its increasing taxrate Re hats into the ring in the forth- be sought not only on the municipal level out coming election of a deputy- wf4 reeve Councillors Lornc There is a need for eloquent find Joseph Dales have both leadership in municipal affairs stated they wlIL run There are in Newmarket he said and he rumors of other candidates out- believed that such leadership side so far the could be best on both rumors have not been con- county and municipal levels firmed Mr Daks said he foresaw the Councillor Charles is possibility of partition of the strongly rumored as a third con- county and he believed that a tender for the deputyreeveship strong effort must be made to but he could not be reached for maintain Newmarkets present comment both economically and The election brought up the politically- question of whether a member Mr said that he was of council had to resign from seeking the office because if he council before he entered his were to it he would be for deputyreeve in a better position to institute The department of mumcipal the reforms he believed were fairs ruled that he did but required in town objection from the town so- Stiver DAY AT the question and then Free tickets to the ruled he didnt on Day Sat Mr Dales in a statement last day Aug are still available night said that he was seeking to all veterans and their the deputyreeveship because he lies These may be hud from believed Newmarket needed a Mr president continuing strong voice in the of Newmarket Veterans Assoc county council Newmarket is St TICKETS veterans wanting tickets for Warriors Day at the National Exhibition are asked to call for them at all those who had par- Beauty Salon or in- what he called Canadian club rooms I complete succcasV North York AT PAIR The Newmarket Trade Fair well over specta tors during J is fourday run hi the Newmarket arena are very pleased with the support there was for the fair said Morrison chairman of fair committee- We are mast appreciative of the manner in which the fair went off Ho I URSDA Bingo in the Aurora Legion hail in old of Hie Ladles Auxiliary games games Time clwl AWL Sports Centre at Keswick Pa parade tun Ball tour nament races lilngo dnnchu draw adults children Worth Mem- y r MONDAY SEPT Television in Town Hall Official log of Television hi Tor- onto Door prizes No charge Children must be accompanied by adults EVERY THURSDAY euchre every Time pm In North bury Memorial Arena unsuccessful attempt was made to siphon gas from a Maynard truck into a stolen The abandoned car was covered Saturday morning school was broken Into through a window and it is J the thieves slept there Saturday night By forcing a door Ken Leon- farm house was broken a into and two suits of his clothes and two pairs of hoots stolen while the family was away Two suits of prison garb were later found in torn field of the Leonard house by provincial police About Sunday morning two young men escaped gun fire when Cecil Storms owner of a motor sales agency surprised them they to break into his office Storms fired three shots at the fleeing- men but they escaped by running Into a heavy fence row thicket and across the field Po lice said the hud also at tempted to gain entrance by ah unfinished window fitted with plywood Awakened by his wife who heard the pair attempting to pry open the office door after they had stepped on an outside alarm bell Storms lopt out of bed grubbed his calibre and shot through upstairs apartment win dow while his wife telephoned Constable Art Moody at Storms said he tried to lift the window but It stuck men must have seen Storms because they kept oh running he sold Constable Moody Newmarket Brad ford provincial gave chose for foil hours Several hours later pair were apprehended near Brant FIREMEN IN NEW HOME of the Newmarket fife brigade put their trucks into the new fireball at the corner Of Main and Millard Ave on Friday night at second flcor of the building is not yet finished but the firemen are satisfied that the ground floor is ready and hurried their two trucks Into- -building- without waiting for the formal opening which will he held at a later date From left to right are Councillor Lome Paynter chairman of the fire committee end the building com mittee Art Ainsley Seneca Cook John Gibson Chief Jimmy Coltham Councillors Charles Boyd and Jos Daks members of the building committee On the truck are Frank and Joe Scott Tho firemen bad their first call from their new quarters on Saturday morning to Davis Dr but It was a small fire and out by the time they Photo by Struthers mi f V