i ssmmb rfcw 9tfigffimsc novsrt l f 6laf emont am district by staff corriepondenl local ngentmowters store mft and mr mitchell tf oshawii v m v svlslted mi coittter and mw lous- d dale oft sunday v mr mark linton tf toronto was a visitor in the village one day last week mr and mrs san taylor were visitors in oshawa one day last week don mlddleton ucar return ed to brantford on monday after etvjovlng a leave with his parents attend the auction sale at clare mont tomorrow friday ted jack son will wteld the hammer jack ward of the rcaf re turned to his post at camp borden on monday following a leave with his parents mr and mrs roy ward numerous concession lines sur rounding the village have begun their spring breakup in earnest and travelling u uncertain particu latly on the oth concession west the markhainplckerhig townllne and the urock ltd north the lack of miow this whiter has left the roads bare to bear the brunt of travel and they are now showing the effects disposes of business after 23 years brougham the happy circle mission band held their easter thankoffering ser vice in the church on sunday even ing the guest speaker was mrs c g allen who spenta number of years in china she gave a very interesting address and also showed a number of interesting slides show ing conditions in china mr carl devitt intends holding an auction sale of farm stock and implements at his home one mile east of here on friday april 14th mr and mrs m hamilton were nounced here this week with the sale of the kilpatrick butcher bust ness shop and house mr kilpat rick is about to commence his 23rd mrs a b cotrelle and miss a year in the present stand which he another real estate deal was an- in toronto on friday evening at kilpatrick both of toronto were visitors with mr and mrs ben kilpatrick on sunday the public should take notice that there will be no rural mail de livery on good friday this week and the local post office will be open for one hour only 11 am to 12 noon the forgetmenot club has sent cigarettes to the following boys in their most recent shipment major neil smith vic robinson stan linton fred hicks harold hop kins harvey derusha bob hol- man harold hardy fonzie mamon floyd hicks harold loyst d gour- lie gord benson bill hicks everett hammond mr and mrs harry sandiford moved last week to their new home on the farm of the late john davis near dicksons hill the farm be low the village being vacated by the sandifords is owned byr g roy a sellout crowd was on hand for the dance in the hall here friday night sponsored by the park board foisyth shorthorn sale tomorrow one of the big features in the claremont district this week will be the public auction on the farm of mr malcolm forsyth the entire herd of registered cattle will be sold together with the entire farm stock and implements since mr forsyth has decided to retire from farming woodholme has been in the family for over a century but it is now onthe market and a love ly place it is one of the finest took over from the late sherman rumohr he learned his trade in brampton his home town the new owner is a j sutherland of whitby the kilpatrick family expect to move to toronto shortly park board hold annual meeting the claremont park board held their annual meeting last week and the following members will com prise the new board for 1944 dr tomlinson j w farr a lhooey geo constable donald hedges alf pretty with wm reesor and blake annis as the representatives from the township council it was re vealed that the 1800 mortgage held against the community hall and park had been pealed down to a point where there was every pro spect of it being r wiped i out this year the weekly dances are mak ing a nice profit to this end harry newman the sale is announced this week on carl deyitts farm no 7 high way just east of brougham to mr harry newman the property contains one hundred acres and has been m the devitt family for oyer one hundred years mathew devitt and his wife jane strong came to this country from ireland in 1827 and took up land in pickering farms in the country with grand i township purchasing the present buildings and modern home the homestead lot 15 con 6 a few sale of the forsyth cattle will be years later the present member attended by important stock men of the family carl devitt who will on good friday the herd shows shortly r hold an auction sale has veleven distinct pedigrees m the been employed at ajax lately shorthorn breed while 19 animals j mr newman the new owner is will be sold if you r to see a now possessor of four farms in the spirited sale be m claremont on township with a total area of over good friday 500 acres tending ladies night sponsored by doric lodge af am miss lila english returned to toronto after spending a few days at her home here mrs maskell and jean spent the weekend with friends in toronto mr harold cassie of oshawa spent the weekend at his home here the friendly bible class are sponsoring a concert in the local hall on april 12th and among other talents will be a drama by clare mont and one by greenwood young people on sunday april 16th the new honor roll on which are inscribed all the names of the local boys ser ving with the active armed forces will be unveiled at a special service in the church in the afternoon the institute are the sponsors of the move there are forty boys in the service gravely pit worker seriously injured mel glidden whose home is in goderich and who has been em ployed for some time at the conlin gravel pit 4th concessionof picker ing was seriously injured last week while attempting to release a belt line caught by frozen gravel and ice mr glidden thrust a stick at the ob struction but his arm was caught by the belt and torn from the shoulder txrthe wrist by a deep gash the arm was also bioken the injured man was rushed to oshawa hospital where he was re ported as progressing favorably mr ghddens father is very low in the goderich hospitaland it was unfortunate that the accident oc curred just at the time when mem bers of the family were being sum moned to his bedside uxbridge sawdust for the um some unscrupulous persons are selling lawn fertilizer to the peo ple of toronto weich has proven to be nothing more than common saw dust with a bit of coloring in it and since there is carload after carload of sawdust leaving the camp of the north shore realty- co where huge timber cutting is going on in uxbridge township north of claremont someone may surmise that the material which is being faked on the toronto people comes from that source we hasten to declare thatthe uxbridge sawdust is being shipped to the usa and not as lawn fer tilizer you may be sure the big sawmill on the 5th con cession has taken out over 500000 feet of lumber this winter and ar rangements are being made to oper ate a night shift in addition to the day shift just as soon as warmer weather arrives both lumber and sawdust are loaded at claremont three miles from the bushland being cut s ftv township clerk retires after sixty years service 41 t move by highway dept gives pickering back payment of 2000 for machinery pre viously purchased trio believed connected with claremont holdup to stand trial walter moscall mike cembal and jerysemowomyk were- committed for trial in cobourg police court last week on six assorted charges including the theft of license plates from edw taylor markham town ship the bulk of the evidence against the three men was heard in court last month and included the testi mony of several claremont men the trio were allowed out on 5- 000 bail each to await trial over 9000 ration books distributed a total of approximately 9500 ration books were distributed at the various centres throughout picker ing township a r accord ing to the chief offlcer of this area mr lloyd johnson thisabout 800 more books than were given out last year the increase being made upchiefiy at ajax gongert dramas by claremont and greenwood young people also local talent in the community- hall brougham on wednesday april 12th sponsored by the friendly bible class lehmans shoe store footwear for au the family shoe repairing women s hosiery gloves shoe9 socks boots anitmitts dtoutfvllle phono 4301 z f j opposite the town clock donald beaton of whitevale who has held the position of clerk for the township of pickering for the past sixty years has retired from active service in this capacity mr beaton whose father served the municipality for many years before him tendered his resignation at the regular meeting of the council held on monday he will continue how ever to serve pickering in an ad visory capacity lloyd johnson who has held the position of assist ant clerk will take over the full duties of the office the dept of highways has in formed council that the purchases of all new machinery purchased hitherto on a rental basis have been audited and show that in order to bring the subsidy on these expenditures up to the regularly paid 5050 basis a further payment of 2000 is due the township and will be paid forthwith it was revealed at mondays meet ing that pickerings assessment is 86000 below the alltime high of 1940 which assessment amounted to s4077422g0 the loss to the ajax plant of 120000 m assessment on expropriated property in that area has thus practically all been gained back considerable of this gain is made up through assessment i on bell telephone and cnr pro perty john phillips locust hill who has held the position of truant officer in the township for over ten years tendered his resignation on monday and requested that his son be allowed to carry out the du ties on his fathers behalf until the end of the calendar year request was granted relief accounts for themonth amounted to 63 37 while an addi tional 30175 was passed for pay ment to the county as the town ships fifty per cent payment for indigent hospital cases road ac counts passed for payment amount ed to 50000 the march report from the pick ering public health nurse was re ceived and showed that mrs gor don had during this period visited eight schools made 30 special phy sical examinations 16 special in spections and 33 vision tests the report further stated that it will be the endeavor of the moh and the nurse to have an inspection made of all children who anticipate be ginning school this september the parents will be informed when to bring their children to the school donald beaton a weekly editor looks at wa send the tribune to absent friends writmn ipidatlf by jimgreenblat a look at the c bc annual re port the national radio system in the last fiscal year had an operating surplus of 230260 which most peo ple will be interested to know came from a total revenue of 4970 000 licenses from receiving sets brought in 3701690 and the com mercial broadcasting take was 1- 243553 in six and a half years the cb c handled over twentyfive million dollars and the folks with sets contributed 18500000 for the jazz opera newscasts and other things which we get over the air parliament is studying every an gle of the government bill to create an industrial development bank which is intended in brief to sup plement the activities of existing lending agencies not to displace them the idea is to create the necessary machinery for extending credit to smaller industrial enter- prices this looks like a move of continued on page 7 fvi hkmsam the names in this newspaper that interest you most are names of boys you know whoare on active service boys from this community youused to their names in schdblvepbrts in- church and sunday school items in newsjof sport you read these hamestoaay in news from the fighting fronts so often now these names make sadhews lets do all we can to hasten the day when our riewspkpers tell of happy things yes we candosomething to hasten that glad day when we do this job we help to win victory sooner we help to end the war sooner and we do something to benefit ourselves the job that we are asked to do is to save our money and lend it to our country v as each new fighting front is opened more money is needed more people must be ready to furnish this money more victory bonds will be issued those who have not bought victory bonds before must buy them those who have bought bonds must buy more we are not asked to give we are just asked to lend wewtllkave money for things we plan to do after the war dedfcate yourself to this waren6rt something you can do one thing you must do your help isurgeritlyneeaed a newspaper saying- namesmake ivews y -a- t saaav national war finance commftoa s iiv il