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j f thomas was noted soccer star on monday oct 10h john francis thomas a former resi dent at the horse of his son at millsken passed away at the greenacres rest home new- rhuii odobtr m 1960 the stocfrvule tribw5 fa a4r04r- lcca and personal happenings ringwood store sold miss bertha clark of toronto the ringwood store and res- j is spending a few days at the taurant formerly owned by j archie and irene reid has been his yrth year he had sold to the mehaffey family of rae home on church st market in been in failing health for some time born in searboro on the pres ent elliott harrington farm the deceased later resided on the pickering townline on properly now owned by mr arthur wide- man he alo lived on cone ringwood the transaction was completed this week mr and mrs reid would ask that the j same customer patronage be ex tended to the new owners as they have enjoyed in the past mr and mrs reid will reside in stouffville for the winter markham while a young man j months they plan to take up bridge classes beginning tuesday october huh soo oclock phone 446 stouffville weird but beautiful a rather wierd but beautiful bloom has been produced from a starfish cactus plant in the home of mrs j c steckley burkholder st stouffville the flower which measured 15 inches from point to point is pale yellow in colour with a lark brown centre three more blooms are expected to burst forth shortly wedding banner entry george roman flight of the romamlale farms fcnionvilte is receiving from d s dunton on the left 2nd vice president of the holsteinfriesian assoc of canada the premier breed er exhibitor banners won by pomandale holsteins at the peterborough championship show white 1hsset north hill united church calgary alta was the setting for the marriage of lorraine patricia bissett daughter of mr and mrs l j bissett of calgary to george henry white son of mr and mrs rolph white stouffville out for the ceremony at 5 pm the church decorations were candelabras and baskets of mixed flowers and rev pottruff was the offi ciating minister given in marriage by her fa ther mr laurence bissett the bride wore a gown of white or ganza with a chapel train and featuring a shawl collar lily point sleeves and a panel of iridescent sequines on chantilly lace down the front of her dress he full length veil was high lighted by a crown of rhine- stones and was worn over her face until lifted by the groom site carried white rubrum lilies with pink roses and stephanotis placed on a white jobs daugh ter bible with lily of the val ley the brides attendants were miss beverley thorell as maid of honor mrs bernice toomer as matron of honor miss pat white of stouffville ont as bridesmaid and miss patty lynn toomer as flower girl the at tendants dresses were of silk organza in romance blue and shrimp pink and they wore matching net picture hats and carried bouquets of mixed flow ers with the alternate colour of their dress predominating the flower girls dress was in romance blue and exactly like the other attendants air griff griffth was the best man and the ushers were mr john lane and sir charles livingstone mrs mae brown as soloist sang o promise me as the mother of the bride was seated the wedding prayer during the ceremony and i love you truly while the register was being signed baskets of flowers decorated the lions club senior citizens hall where the wedding recep tion was held the wedding cake was in the shape of a church with bride and groom coming down the steps a toast given to the bride by mr c e landymore a long time friend of the bride was responded to by the groom for travelling through glacier na tional park seattle and van- he performed as a player in the well known box grove daunt less football team that cap tured the provincial champion ship in 1s90 mr geo freeman of cedar grove is the only sur viving member of that club the late mr thomas was the last surviving member of a family of seven four sisters and two brothers predeceased him he has one son harvey of milliken two other sons ivan and harold have passed on the funeral service conduct ed by rev butt formerly of unionville united church and now in toronto was held from the dixon chapel markham on wednesday afternoon at two oclock interment was made in pine hills cemetery the pall bearers were messrs norman thomas donald penrose john thomas leslie andrews james turner and roy penrose permanent residence at ring wood in the spring missionary quests here on sunday morning oct 16 the united missionary ss was pleased to welcome dr john erb and dr jean erb and their four children and have them take part in the sunday school hour dr john erb is a son of dr i h erb of thornhill many years a pathologist of toronto and well known in stouffville he and his wife also a doctor are on the staff of the united missionary hos pital at tungan magajoya ni geria west africa and with their family are on furlough at present living in toronto the family appeared in african cos tume and gave a little skit de picting an african family and a sick child who later was tak en to hospital and after treat ment recovered from his illness the children and parents all look part as well as miss nan cy stover who had the part of a nurse the scene and the con versation partly in the hausa language will long be remem bered by the ss scholars as also the short address by dr erb the meeting of the wa was held in the parlor of the united church on monday evening oct 17th with mrs f fairies pre siding after the opening exer cises and business session the ladies of milliken federation put on the program there were duets by mrs myles and mrs timbers come holy light and hold thou my hand the devotional was taken by mis third and mrs gough the thought being based on thanks giving a reading was given by mrs risebrough a hymn closed the meeting and a social time followed remember the tea and bake sale nov 12th yorksimcoe home school council the first general meeting of the yorksimcoe home school council was held at the charles howitt public school in rich- vale representatives from as sociations in schomberg hol land landing gormley union ville markham newmarket richmond hill thornhill and richvale attended an address by miss barbara smith librar ian in charge of childrens lib rary service for the department of education in ontario was heard miss smith spoke of what the home and school could do in this year when the national federation is studying child rens library service a survey of childrens recreational read ing made by a committee com posed of librarians teachers mel johnson coming mr mel johnson one of the most versatile youth specialists of our day will be in the mark- ham united missionary church on thursday oct 22 at s pm he will be in the central ontario area for the entire week appear ing in high school assemblies banquets radio and television as well as special youth rallies mr johnson heard weekly over 17 radio stations covering a five state area as well as two canadian provinces was award ed the outstanding teen broad cast award of 1950 his weekly radio feature tips for teens has a wide acclaim with botli teenagers and adults appearing frequently before civic groups businessmens or ganizations and parentteacher groups he is considered an out standing authority on family- youth subjects as an author his recent booklets have had re peated printings out of demand of high school authorities par ents and young people an invitation is extended to all who are interested in youth work to attend this service mr rs lee has returned to mew york after spending a few weeks in stouffville staying with miss flossie barkey and at the stewart stouffer home and visiting other friends and rela tives mr and mrs sol bender left thursday from malton for new york washington en route home to granada hills los angeles after spending weeks with parents sir mrs horace crowhurst two and lucky draw winners mr keith sutherland princi pal oi oiliiard pk public school was the winner of the large ice cooler given away by giles chevolds on the occa sion of their recent new ear show other local winners of door prizes were earl ander son george timbers and carl timbers guest speaker for the regular meeting of the horticultural so ciety will be mr don wain of wains florist newtonbrook he will be speaking mainly on african violets the wains are one of the big violet exhibi tors at the cne monday oct 24 at 8 oclock will be the time for the meeting in the united church basement there will also be door prizes this is your invitation to attend mr and mrs morley barker j toronto were in town on tuesday dr and mrs t mcdowell of toronto were sunday visitors with mr and mrs telf rennie stoutyville mrs mcdowell is a sister of mr rennie santa claus paid an early visit to a small community in grand bay newfoundland re cently ni the person of sun shine wellknown knight of the road he was the centre of at tention for 10 children at a gala party the rieser family obrien ave suffered severe injuries when their station wagon was involved in a serious accident near perth on thanksgiving day mrs rieser suffered a broken ankle cuts and bruises she will be confined to the perth hospital for a period of two weeks their 2yearold son peter was not injured the auto was badlv damaged womens missionary meeting miss velma brillinger of gormley a returned missionary from southern rhodesia was guest speaker at the united missionary wms meeting held at the home of mrs reg stouffer thursday evening oct 13th the devotional was con ducted bj- the president mrs e herbert and the ladies all en joyed hearing of miss brillin- gers work in africa where she was secretary to ihcsupt of the brethren in christ mission in rhodesia she also showed her interesting pictures many in this country are watching devel opments in africa in these troubled days there has been some rioting in bulawayo cap ital of rhodesia where the speaker has spent several years the prayers of christians are being offered for a peaceful solution to the many problems and a continued freedom for missionary work to be carried forward a surprise birthday party was held for mrs wm beach on saturday evening oct 15th at the home of iter daughter mrs hetu aurora all the sons and daughters were present with the exception of david who lives in newfoundland and who phoned to give his best wishes there were 40 present including 16 grandchildren after the presen tation of many lovely gifts the evening was spent playing pro gressive euchre following this lunch was served which included a lovely birthday cake a well attended get ac quainted night opened the 196061 season for the stouff ville home school associa tion floyd marlatt was master of ceremonies assisted by wilf mcwhinnie this program in cluded a singsong with marion murphy at the piano a few lighthearted games and a skit this was followed by messrs ted cadieux bob hassard and lome boadway whose perform ance of music and songs was far too short for their appre ciative audience the evening was concluded with hot dogs doughnuts and coffee sirs john pollard of lincoln- ville entertained a few of her relatives to afternoon tea on wednesday this included her great grandmother mrs egbert hunter her grandmother mrs harold hunter and her mother mrs don h hunter of melville three of her aunts mrs ken neil and gerald hunter and mrs coatup and mrs s d pollard were also present mrs wm brown the former ida troxel passed away on fri day morning at the home of her son j elmore brown at stayner in her 87th year she was the wife of the late rev wm brown a former menno- nite minister here surviving are 3 sons rev cecil brown vineland irvin of toronto and elmore of stayner and a sister mrs isaac erb of thornhill funeral service was on mon day in the united missionary church at stayner interment was in thornbury cemetery mrs were sunday visitors with redshaw albert street mr and mrs james walker of toronto and mr and mrs joe brown and sandra of lindsay mr and mrs murray redshaw and son sharon and joyce sin clair and lois farthing all of stouffville mrs dave smales at the cor ner of main st and baker ave has sold her home to mr and mrs leslie wideman just east cf town they will be moving in shortly editorial comment editorial comment from indi vidual members of the student body at the stouffville district high school will be published in issues of the tribune during the weeks of nov 10 and 17 the project is being promoted in conjunction with education week nov 612 the copy must be presented to the principal not later than nov 5th the editorials will depict the writ ers personal thinking on a specific subject debbie garrett daughter of mr and mrs jack garrett al bert st n picked a huge maple leaf from a tree in the parry sound district over the week end that measured 19 inches from the tip to the bottom of the stem it was more than 12 inches in width the family brought a few samples home couver and back through the rockies on their honeymoon the bride wore a suit of teai blue sealskin with black shoes and purse white fur hat and white gloves she wore a cor sage of white french carnations on white net mr and mrs white wil reside at 3601 centre street north calgary publishers home and school members etc found two sig nificant facts first that 50 of the children in ontario are without library services and secondly that if parents are not interested in reading them selves and if they do not read to their children from the time they are liny the children will not have much interest in learn ing to read and often have diffi culty there is a great deal of criti cism by parents of the schools failure to teach reading yet this report proved the fault lies more with the parents than with the school if a child is to enjoy reading continued miss smith he must have at tractive reading material or he will never read anything else than the reader from which he learned unfortunately most continued on page 16 for beef csnd use your grain coop concent 400 per 1 m that full granary of yours can help you cut feeding costs this year mix coop concentrates with your grain and you wil have an economical and highpowered feed let coop dairy concentrates help your cows give you an extra 1000 his of milk use coop reef concentrates with stilbotrol and aureomycin to give yon the most gain per lb of feed yes for a resultgetting and costcutting feeding program use coop feeds stouffville cooperative st00ffviue riot 269122 garrcft evening auxiliary the thankoffering meeting of the garrett evening auxil iary was held in the united church parlours on wednesday evening oct 12th quiet music by miss watson called the meet ing to order and vicepresident miss eva hoover was in the chair the devotional was given by miss ida lehman for miss gla dys brooks who had prepared same but was unable to attend the theme was the flagship of the fleet and bible reading given was matthew 251429 miss lehman said that the rea son once given for the failure of the spanish armada was the lack of three ships marksman ship seamanship and leader ship we should make room for these and many other ships mentioned in the harbour of our lives mrs w doxbury favoured with two vocal numbers thy will be done and i look to thee which were much en joyed mist ann- lychman was accompanist miss winnie hut chinson read a poem when i whine which gave us many reasons for thankfulness mrs hastings reviewed the second chapter from the ship under the crossvntitled the vision lost tliii chapter was very interesting and started out by telling us that the early church was conscious of three things unity of purpose unity of mission and dependence of all its members upon one an other under christ mrs hast- ings said this last was the most important and was where the church has failed miss g todd and miss m watson were program conven ers a social halfhour was en joyed the balmy days of indian summer that we have been ex periencing during the past few weeks have produced some oddi ties in nature on saturday mr andrew hutchinson of queens- ville brought a branch of ma tured raspberries into the trib une within the past four weeks they have picked no less than 75 pints in their garden mr and mrs clarence mc dowell and family arc moving this week to the farm they pur chased from mrs bacon on no 47 highway west of goodwood mr mcdowell sold his dairy farm on concession 10 south of mongolia to mr and mrs b scliallock of toronto who plan to build a home on the farm next year the present farm houses will be occupied by mr and mrs john brink and family and mr and mrs fred gilham and family horticultural meeting several from the local horti cultural society attended a meeting on monday evening as guests of the agincourt society in the knox church hall dr bryce kcndriek of toronto and a past president of the ont hort association gave a trav elogue and showed pictures on his recent trip to russia that country has some of the most beautiful and largest buildings in the world and many are sur rounded by beautiful fiowerbeds which are tended by women workers the grass on the lawns is usually cut when about four inches tall as scythes are used for cutting instead of lawn mowers thank offering meeting the autumn thank offering meeting of the afternoon aux iliary of the womans mission ary society stouffville united church was held in the church auditorium on thursday after noon october 13th the presi dent mrs crouch presided and expressed a warm welcome to the members from several visit ing auxiliaries mrs grant wells of lemon- ville led the worship service basing her thanksgiving mes sage which was a real chall enge on jesus story of the cleansing of the ten lepers only one of whom returned to give thanks mrs robert hammond rend ered two very beautiful solos and doctor margaret arkinstall president of york presbyterial gave a most interesting and in formative resum6 of some of the highlights of the meeting ot general council held in ed monton in september doctor arkinstall reported that gen eral council had approved the amalgamation of the two wom ens organizations of our church into one to be known as the united church women mrs winterstein voiced the thanks of the association to all who had contributed to the very fine programme and after the closing hymn of thanksgiving airs crouch led in prayer the spirit of the meeting was greatly enhanced by the gorgeous colour of flowers and foliage which beautifully dec orated the sanctuary the gra cious gift of mrs j m storey president of the garrett even ing auxiliary bl death fred katcmff the death occurred october 13th i960 in the col belcher military hospital calgary al ta of fred ratcliff son of the late john w and mrs ratcliff of stouffville mr ratcliff leaves to mourn his loss his wife the former muriel archer son john and daughter margaret also two sisters mrs john morton of hamilton and mrs george sto rey o stouffville two sisters have predeceased mr ratclifr mrs c j honey catherine and mrs it o klinck isabel monster warehouse auction sale at warehouse furniture centre 28 industrial road richmond hill saturday oct 22 i960 at 100 pm fine new and used furniture refrigerators ranges pianos rugs dining room suites redroom suites odd dressers and chests of drawers lamps tv freezers hifi and many other articles too numerous to mention gordon sellers auctioneer -j- make dairy foods daily foods oktaiio chi am moduciir makketikc board rtftisintit sittt mm rtssixiit yangtze pagoda restaurant richmond hill ont extra extra eoti- mnr food in combination puu hsft only rvm rn 141 nljrht every mon to wju i pm to jo pm special mknu in ir ctvln rvi atrrrirmn t umt ry at mmi w3cn4 11