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the tribune stouffvilte ont thursday june 14 1951 dairy foods break open a hot baked biscuit and spread on golden butter ummm its mtltingly good as summer ram glorify your summer meats with creameryfresh dairy foods theyre so delicious nutritious they make every meal a treat to remember early days inlocust hiilj make interesting readinai bob mustard was the town clown beautiful locust trees now th for mellow sauce for tasty croquettes use creamysmooth evap orated milk dairy foods service bureau 409 huron street toronto an express box arrived from an ontario town addressed to the sports editor of a newspaper after looking at it for a while trying to think who might have sent it and unable to find out the name of the sender he opened it much to his surprise he found a beautiful rain bow trout weighing about five pounds not knowing what to do with it he decided to give it to a friend in the office next morning the friend remarked it was won derful eating and he enjoyed it very much a short while after this there was a phone call the caller wanted to know what happened to the fish he had sent in to the fish i contest years ago folks around locust hill dont like to talk about him too much it might seem disrespectful to the dead and all but they enjoy remembering him it seems that every now and then sometimes with alarming frequency mr mustard would swell out his chest and beat upon it with clenched fists the result was a rumbling basso bearing remarkable resemblance to an oversize drum mrs o a hagerman 72 member of a pioneer locust hill family suppressed a smile when his name was mentioned ob yes she said he would make quite a noise all right he sure would her husband added especially at a chivaree hed just swell up and roar like a bull howard hagerman his son passed judgment with he was really quite a charcter around here but his mother tempered it well maybe he was but he wasnt a bad character it was just that he was very fond of music and 1 guess he was spoiled as a youngster we did have to laugh at him perhaps its just as well not to criticize or laugh too hard at a bygone generation it was compar atively recently that howard hagerman was wed that was the night someone backed a motor- cvcle uu to the house in the dead of night and took great delight causing it to backfire there were other sounds in locust hills past that were more on the mellow side they arent heard today but they might be be hind the giant 14room 81yearold mansion of the hagermans hang ing high on a temporary barn is a bell it was perched there by col w m button mr hagermans grandfather who migrated to can ada from pennsylvania with others of dutch stock like the hoovers and the reesors the bell is silent now but mr hagerman remembers lets see there were no there were only three bells around here in those days we used to ring it at exactly 1130 every morning and six at night everybody around would know it was time to eat and the horses would neigh his wife interjected the men would drop the reins the work men and their teams in a fivemile radius would head homeward its years since the bell has sounded now 1934 to be exact that was the year the grain eleva tor burned down the bell had a different task that time it sounded an alarm very little grain is grown in the locust hill area named for its e trend has turned to prize dairy country with an everenlarging canning vegetable and pea crop there was another fire in 1923 one day that year mrs hagerman saw flames and smoke in town it was the hoover stables she tried to telephone but no one answered the old reliable bell if it pealed at 1130 or at sis in the evening it was time to turn homeward but if it rang at any other hour there was trouble the community responded rush ed to the stables and tried to help some things were saved but it was too late to prevent the building from burning to the ground the old alarm system is kept in shape still in case it is ever needed but when the cpu line to montreal went through locust hill it took over the job of dinner gong the original button land was 200 acres a crown grant the rails whittled it down a little but put locust hill on the map forever after it went through about 1ss3 mr hagerman recalls three houses were built for the crews then came a store and a pumping station it was still pretty small just a few families around west of the tracks was bushland owned by mrs christian heesor soon the place grew and became much like it is now steel rails cant claim all credit it was the old covered conestoga wagon and a lone mennonite rider from pennsylvania and the amer ican revolution that were respon sible for the beginning of locust hill it was the troubled year of 1799 the lone rider was a 27yearold man by the name of peter reesor swiss dutch in extraction he saddled his fine horse and loped his way 500 miles to york on an urgent errand for his father christian peter didnt waste time his family and friends in pennsylvania were being abused by the ameri can revolutionists because their mennonite faith forbade active participation in war they were harassed but refused to battle the british the small settlement decided to flee to canada and peter was an advance envoy to choose farm sites and purchase land at the land office in york he asked for good land with ample water the vicin ity of what is now locust hill was indicated peter looked it over and purchased he still wasnt quite satisfied as he prepared to return to pennsyl vania the land was excellent but he wanted still more and didnt have the money thats when he 0 wfeobgconomca poi0jws picture news from m mm mmm chemistry starts sorving canadians earl heres a modern pram covered with smart durable fabrilite long lasting and beauti ful in purses luggage belts and upholstery too hi coloured sponges cm is now making those wonderful cellulose sponges in four pastel shades to harmonize with bath room or kitchen colour schemes better gasoline results from such chemical additives as tetraethyl lead and other petroleum compounds supplied to canadas expanding oil industry by cm the helping hand of chemistry in town and country in the home in industry or on the farm life is daily made better for canadians through the ever growing aid of chemical research in health comfort and economy chemistry as applied at cil is ever reaching out to solve new problems ease old burdens through the development of products like those pictured here such progress is sym bolized by the cil oval the trademark of canadian industries limited the company serving canadians through chemistry team ptay between businesses large and small is exemplified by cellophane made by clt it is supplied to other manufacturers food pack- ogcrs and stores to protect and show the things you buy the farmer and the family toble both benest from greater crops and better quality through clls devel opment of modern pest control products and methods canadian industries limited montreal chanced to meet a retired officer frederick baron dehoen i learned you are looking for land dehoen said now 1 have 400 acres for your horse saddle and bridle peter asked to see his title and accepted the offer afterwards the officer wanted peter also to give him the halter since it was useless without the horse peter refused business was business a deal was a deal let your ayes be aye and your nays nay was his motto he set out for pennsylvania on foot arriving there two years later with the halter in his hand the family headed by christian reesor the father including his wife four sons and four daughters and a small gathering of men nonite friends loaded as much as a ton of furniture and belonging on each of their covered conestoga wagons and headed by way of niagara to their new home they arrived in 1801 and soon became the largest land owners in the area the reesor family spread out from locust hill and settled in many parts of canada some remained mennonite but many changed their faith but still retain ed their innate love of land and life there are still many of the fam ily in the immediate area of locust hill and they have brought the community to the fore in sports when three reesors were members of the famed locust hill clipper soccer team which carried off the fbc intermediate championship of ontario in 1905 in land owner ship and crops and in butter when fred e n reesor grandson of the original christian reesor gave southern ontario some of the con sistently finest butter ever made now retired fred reesor cher ishes the oversized grandfather clocks and polished early american antique furniture brought from pennsylvania by his forefathers hut even in his day things werent all roses in locust hill the roads were terrible it would take a days drive by team to get to toronto and in spring and full it was common to see five or six persons literally stuck in the mud then there was the day i was over at the creamery and a fellow named franklin raymer was com ing across the old wooden bridge with a load of cement all of a sudden he was gone the boards gave way and down he went team and all lucky he wasnt hurt its different in locust hill to day regular trains connect with peterborough and toronto and montreal number 7 highway adds another- link and a daily bus ser vice gives quick contact with larger communities rich in dairy farming the area is now giving rise to an ever- increasing pea crop and six vining stations have been established the p r wilson lumber and building supply company is doing a large business and new buildings are starting to dot the area even onto the sideroads frank wade and his wife run the general store with post office in cluded and lately they have built up an egggrading station handling some 1000 dozen eggs a week for 37 producers with its expansion it also grows in beauty sitting beside the little rouge river smiling at the world with its green fields lilacs and trim lawns we call it the garden of eden one resident said and i think thats an understatement toronto telegram he planted a tree from the hanover post he was an old man a bit gnarled but still sturdy and he plied the spade with vigor as he dug into the tough sod a passing neighbor stopped let me give you a lift on that what are you doing any way the old man refused the offer with firmness and dignity i guess i can still plant a small peach tree he said the neighbor laugh ed a peach tree do you expect to eat the peaches from it no i dont said the old man i dont even own this land i rent it all my life my work has caused me to move around quite a bit i have been eating peaches all those years but 1 cant recall ever eating any from a tree 1 planted my self if somebody hadnt planted peach trees i wouldnt have had peaches if you are building or remodelling order your heating system now for economy efficiency and solid comfort install a gar wood oil fired tempered aire unit estimates without obligation d j smith call unlonville 96 auv cream for best results ship your cream to stouffville creamery we pay two cents more per pound butter- fat for cream delivered to the creamery cold storage lockers and fast freezing facilities stouffville creamery co to have our truck call phone isfiw f ssxsssssa vnvm1v czxsbsammmfkiratttvnmsa three times greater catchet resulted when nets of clt nylon were put to the test a far cry from glcmorous stockings but another ne for chemically produced nylon attention farmers ue are paying the current market price for dead or crippled farm animals horses cattle hogs telephone collect for immediate service gordon young limited stouitville 255 toronto empire 33636 claremont 41rl4 uxbridge 27