NT 3 Mrs John Bate The death occurred at Rest Home on March of Katharine beloved wife of John Bate Holland Land ing She had been in failing health for several years but had main tained her interest in the life of her church community and home even when prevented by physical weakness from taking part in their activities Born at Windsor Mills Que on Aug 22 Mrs Bate was the elder daughter of Joseph Alba and Phoebe Deborah Rankin Her early years were spent at Windsor Mills where she receiv ed her education and musical training In with her wid owed mother she moved to Sid ney Man where she organized and for years taught a music class In she married John Bate Que at which place they operated a poultry es tablishment for years before moving to Holland Landing Mrs Bate was a life member of the Womens Missionary Society and an earnest worker in the Sunday school as pupil teacher or superintendent and was al ways interested in the musical activities of the church Hex strong Christian faith her deep love for her church and her de voted efforts for the communi ties in which she has lived will be remembered by those who were privileged to know her Mrs Bate is survived by her husband a daughter Mrs Hawkins Montreal a son Har old at home one sister Mrs Calvert Castle Point Manitoba and one brother Har old A Rankin Winnipeg Man The funeral was held on March at the chapel of and Rose Newmarket and con ducted by Rev Bradford Pallbearers were Gil- a Gray James D Page Percy Thompson Thompson and Tate in terment was in Newmarket cem etery man at the Era and Express He is survived by his widow Alice two brothers Ernest Toronto and Charles Little Current and two sisters airs Tom CartraelJ Tor onto and Mrs Howard Eddie Maryland The funeral service was held at the Funeral Home on Thursday April Rev Warren Queens ville conducted the service Pallbearers were Floyd Cunning ham George By Isabel Ingtu Colville SYMPHONY CONCERT will give the greatest pleasure to listener or onlooker When the Coronation Ml and an STSJtJTZ and Lawrence Racine and J EL Struthers of the Era and Express Interment was at Park Lawn cemetery Toronto Mrs Marguerite The sudden passing of Mrs Marguerite at her home in King City on Wednes day afternoon April caused widespread sympathy for her only child Beth aged and her sister Miss Irene Mrs Gellatly was principal of school for the past eight years and had not returned It Is very difficult when one is Bagdad and Song of Thanks- part of any organized form of giving with Syncopated Clock entertainment to assess what and On the Trail for lighter touch This is a review from the listeners side and it gives one an insight into the variety of tastes one has to satisfy to give a worth while performance The four gave a pleasant break twice during the pro gram with their barbershop ren dition of old songs and spirituals And here at the conclusion of v k tM WGi school I presume that each member had his or her own idea of which numbers they best en joyed playing If a vote could have been taken who can tell A J IP what the result would have been our fir year as an orchestra the brass might have liked one Id like to say a grateful thank number the woodwind another while the strings might have dis agreed with both to name an entirely different choice and pianist and audience might dis agree with all these and have decided ideas of their own I said before that it is difficult for a member of in this case an or chestra to tell what will most please an audience so thought I to duty after Easter vacation listen and learn from what I Her health had been impaired for several months but she had car ried on as energetically as usual The teaching profession was enriched by her contribution to high professional ethics and by her successful career Her hus band Walter died in 1944 five years after their mar riage She was left with a small baby to raise She returned to teaching taking school Marguerite was raised on the fifth concession of King and obtained her elementary ed ucation under the guidance of the late Walter Rolling principal of Kinghorn school She atten ded Aurora high school walking hear and such a decision was well worth while People who came up and spoke to us after the concert told us somethings and people who call us up the next day told us more while with two of these callers Mrs Blosdale and Mrs Lou Ste phens I went over the program number by number and the amazing thing was that they picked out as their choice pre cisely what Hilda Rita Archie and I had chos en as we drove home after the concert I am going to give the names of those numbers here and won der if they will strike a respon sive chord in other memories of that evening The minuet by you to Mr Sisman and Mr Smith who with a great amount of time and thought and energy brought into being this organiz ation which is giving untold pleasure to its members and we hope to its hearers And thanks too goes to Mrs Peever Mr Sis- man and Mr Hathaway who have always seen to it that Hil da Austin Mr Archie and I got to practice Mr Sisman is our president Mr Smith our conductor Mrs Johnson of Richmond Hill our treasurer and Mrs of Wilcox Lake concert mas ter We resume rehearsal in September fc a fc mi- I U51FUL j T- now unit I W T- T i fc Jf J ft daily from Kinghorn to King sta- Handel which to me is a thing After a course at Toronto 0 sheer beauty and which seem- Data Beted tort Darius Richard passed away at Sutton West after a short illness on Tuesday April 21 He was born in the son of the late Mr and Mrs John York He married Elizabeth Long and after her death mar ried Battle Pollock In Mr York was a member of the United church He was a farm- and his chief interest was in farming Surviving are one daughter Mrs Ivan Mann Leo Sutton West and one son Vein on the home farm He was predeceased by his wife and four sons Mal colm Percy and Glad stone The funeral service was con ducted at the Funeral Home Queensville on Friday April 21 by Rev and Rev Mathers Pallbearers were Percy Roy Pollock Carson Pollock Lloyd Stiles Bert Stevens and Peters Interment was cemetery Normal School she was teacher of New Scotland school later going to Emery school near and to the school SS For a short time she taught at Jamie- son school SS King before taking her last position She was a member of King Township Teachers Association and a former member of the ex ecutive She was a member of King United church and was Sunday school at the time of her death She was under Mr Smiths baton to bring the orchestra into an har monious whole we felt the need to listen to each other to blend and so achieve the paramount goal of an orchestra Then for brilliancy and tech nique we chose The Calif of Bagdad by Boieldieu This pre sents two short but hazardous passages for the second violins but these were successfully bridged by Miss Hardy and Mr Radcliffe The cadenza was taken by John Sisman An Gold cannot buy a spruce tree standing tall and green Its spire up pointing to the vast unseen Nor what from near my window I can see A chickadee that swings and sings to me Gold cannot buy the friendly glow of light That streams from nearby homes into the night The purring cat curled up so snug and round Young David Eisenhower 2nd grandson of President and Mrs Eisenhower submits but under duress to the ministra tions of his sister Barbara Ann before they posed for photograph ers in their Easter finery on the south grounds of the White House in Washington The children of Major John Eisenhower who is stationed with US army in Korea are staying with their grand parents and their mother at the executive mansion US It At A TOOI i J aid Allaa Davis Dr Phone Newmarket Albert Christian Seilz Albert Christian died suddenly his year while at work at the office of the Era and Express Limited Newmarket on Mon day April He was born in Woodstock the son of the late Charles John and Mary Schmidt He lived the greater part of his life in Toronto where he attended Brock Avenue school He was a pressman in the printing trade and was a foreman at one time at the Methodist church publish- house Toronto For the past years he has been overture of this sort gives every a local association member of orchcstra the Kang Brownie Pack to which her daughter belongs The funeral service was held on Saturday afternoon from the residence conducted by Rev M Jenkinson He paid tribute to the works and Christian ex ample of Mrs Acting as pallbearers were Fred Hare Jennings Jack John Dew Scott and John Parsons Interment was in the family plot in King City cem etery Also mourning her loss is Miss Jessie the sisterinlaw and others of the same family Mrs Clara Smith Roger Ernest Allan and Dr Harvey Gellatly ONE WHEEL Mith SkUlt Models I 2 and make light work of gardening and Perfectly suited for your This rugged mull pu can for cultivat ing and grass cut ting hauling spraying and dozen of other last if RICHMOND HILL tt I SERVICE J lb a I Our New Location ON YONGE STREET MILES IORTH OF RICHMOND HILL View Drivein QUEENSVILLE Mr Jesse Smith Sudbury Mr and Mrs Roy Gibson Newmar ket and Mrs Thos Pellison Richmond Hill visited Mr and Mrs Archie Smith and Mr and Mrs Angus Smith one evening last week- Mr and Mrs Chas The Pass Manitoba and Mr and Mrs O Toronto vis ited Mr and Mrs Archie Smith on Sunday afternoon Mrs Oscar Morris is spending three weeks with her twin sister Mrs John Mr Geo Pearson is serving on jury this week Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Bill Knight- who were mar ried in Memorial church Toronto on Saturday The entrance to the Baptist church has been improved by the erection of new cement steps The Young Peoples Union will be holding a special Mothers Day service in the United church on Sunday May at pm Rev Gordon Hunter will be the guest speaker Miss Margaret Campbell Tor onto spent the weekend with Miss Mary Congratulations to Mr Frank Johnston who has been promoted to General Manager for the Ca nadian Hoffman Machinery Co Ltd Mrs J Smith and Mrs Wil- Dew motored to Kingston on Friday Mr Douglas Smith who has completed Ms first year at Queens University returned home on Saturday What a treat on Sunday to see the sun come shining through after so many days of rain April Items Little Donna Greenwood en tertained her little friends on Saturday afternoon in honor of her fifth birthday Mr I and his daughter Marian and his niece Patsy were guests of Mrs S on Sunday Miss Mary Arkinstall is home after completing her second year at Queens University Kingston Baby Jeffrey Salmon has been a patient in the Hospital for Sick Children Toronto Mrs Smith and boys work to do and the members of every section rose to the occa sion The Syncopated Clock and On the Trail gave a lighter touch and those were our favor ites Tales from the Vienna Woods by Strauss was men tioned by Mrs McClure as having a special appeal for her while the Gold and Silver Waltzes by has a particu lar appeal for the Frank Wil liams and Harry Wests Miss Jean Hunter and Mrs Black- well Mrs also men tioned the Pizzicato Polka with special reference to the clarinet cadenza played by Austin mer Mrs Beers preference lay with the Petite Suite and The Hymn of Thanksgiving while Mis Goldsmith said that among the numbers she liked the excerpt from the Fifth Sym phony which especially intrigu ed her Mr and Mrs Elgin Evans said that of all the numbers Handels Minuet came first while Mrs Miss Lulu Reynolds and Mrs Green felt that the Hymn of Thanksgiv ing gave us our greatest oppor tunity for expression Now to sum up there were three numbers to which every one of the people quoted here agreed gave them particular pleasure Minuet Calif of Accompanying the cheerful sound kettles Gold cannot buy the sum of these its home More poignant sweet than chimes from storied dome More fair than lilies of the Shali- mar These bits of Canada from near and far NEWMARKET VETERANS Friday May Is our social evening specially arranged for all members On May there will be another bingo which may be our last one this spring If another one is contemplated it will be mentioned in this col umn On May will be our next general meeting which is our last regular monthly meet ing In June we start with our par ticipation in the Coronation fes tivity on June 2 All members are requested to attend Again on June 6 we contemplate at tending the Coronation Pilgrim age parade at Niagara Falls If you are interested please con tact the secretary Anyone not necessarily a Newmarket Vet eran may attend On June 20 is our tag day an annual day set aside for the purpose of raising funds to assist veterans and their dependants a worth while effort which should be supported by all in this community The story of how this day originated will be told in a later issue USE AND EXPRESS ft- Another outstanding event is our Memorial Day parade on June 21 This is an annual event supported by a large group of veterans in Ontario and USA Era and Express Results BACK HOE Ponds Cellars Trenching BULLDOZING Back Filling Driveways Grading TRUCKING Gravel Fin Top Soil I BY HOUR OR CONTRACT Phone or write Armtoge Or m spent Saturday with Mrs Ralph Robertson Stroud Mr and Mrs Tennyson To ronto spent a day with Mr and Mrs Fred Mrs mis sionary on furlough from Ni geria Africa spent the week end with Mr and Mrs Miss Heather enter tained her friends at her birth day party on Sunday afternoon Mr and Mrs and Leonard Mrs and Ha all of Toronto were Sunday guests of Mr and Mrs Sr Mr and Mrs Bill To ronto spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs Norm Mr and Mrs Arthur left on Monday for their home in Ayr after spending the win ter with Mrs Bert Dike Mr and Mrs have moved into the home of Mr for the spring and summer months Friends are sorry to learn that Mrs Robt Johnson is not so well Mr and Mrs Roy Meads had supper on Sunday with Mr and Mrs Andrews Mr and Mrs Angus Smith spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs Harold Smith Mary Weddel who is on the staff of the hospital at Ter race Bay spent Sunday with her mother Mrs 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