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sttlmtie ojjxkxviino23 stouffville ontario thursday august 5th 1926 protect the skin hot summer sun and wind arc trying times for the skin sun burn and redness come from exposure but nyal pace cream protects apply it before going out and avoid discomfort apply it after exposure and note the sooth lng comfortable feeling it im parts 553c and 80c jars storeys drug store phone 1008 nine apply for postmastership did you ever think 1 i what it would cost you to replace i your furniture it destroyed by ore do you carry sufficient insurance to refurnish your home if not why thecost of insurance in a brick house in stouftville is less than lc per day per 1000 thomas birkett general insurance broker lawson block phone 18202 stouffville the trip to a happy meal time is an easy journey if you place our bread upon your table it8 the one sure method of making your meal complete tour friendsi and neighbors have proven this to be true v why dont you ambrose stover baker let us serve you i with the best stock up on the staple grocer ies now is the time to buy you will never get more in value than we are offering as a safe guard why not just jot down the items you need send to us wrphone and we will prove our ability to serve yoa- with qual ity unexpected at the prices we keep fresh vegetables and lsh season remember wbdeltvbr jeo j lawson phone 182 the west end grocer stouffvellb the eight stouffville applicants for the iofcitdan of postmaster here wore requested to appear at the post office on friday morning last week and be interviewed by mr w it ecclestone assistant post office inspector up to 12 oclock noon the following gentlemen held an audience with the inspector h o klinck k ross davis gr tubrnas eugene leavens sidney schmidt j cadieux miss annie duncan during tlie afternoon air wh todd was also in consultation wllh the inspector in addition to the eigu locnl ap- iiiints fo- ihi- iosiliu m- v l nighswander a former resident here and a member of the post office staff in toronto also applied but he was not notified to appear in stouftville on friday the inspector enquired of each as to has present occupation aind the amount of time they could likoly devote to the position of post master as well as to common- place queries he intimated do 6ome that a returned soidier would un doubtedly secure ths preference over any other applicant if all tilings else wore eqnal messwrs ross davis s schmidt and fd nighswander come under this catagory and mr leavens served in the american airnuy but this may not put him in the returned clags for this purpose mr klinck does not anticipate that he will be the successful appli cant and mr toad is being pushed in by his friends miss ducan also has some friends who would like to see her receive the appointment and among her qualifications she has 15 years experience as a post office clerk mr geo thomas is a mail courier and would not be adverse to stepping up a little nearer the position of posft office inspector he is the faithful and obliging courier of r r no 1 mr cadieux is said to have the backing of some of the out standing lilberals yand if the ap pointment is purely political and the liberals have te voice in the matter he would be a likely ap pointee however anything might halppeh under ithe present situation a conaervaive government in office for the moment la ofvtfl service commission with a majority of liberals and a law which says returned men must be given prefer ence mies rae who is anxious to be relieved of the postmasetrohip has been requested to remain for a period of 2 months and some take this as a sign thlat mo oppoinitment will be madti until after the election on soli 14th district and general over 300 applicants were received for a vacancy on the staff at the puddle school alliston hon geo s henry sent a cheque for 100 as a donation to the funds of the north york fire brigade as a recognition of the services of the brigade at the fire at mr ifenrys home on june 1st jack cowan county constable at 130 am on monday morning while lying in wait at john sewells sheep fold at hillside searboro shot and killed two airdale aogs as they were chasing the sheep these dogs were suspected for a long time and an effort had ibeen made to convict the owner the charge of reckless driving a- gainst magistrate purdy of port perry has been postponed pending the complete recoveryjif certain of the witnesses the case will be tried before magistrate clark of pickering tin case against robt beatty of petenboro who faces a similar charge has also been ad journed until wimlam cardinal re covers sufficiently to appear in court the contract for laying thixtyifive hundred square feet of new side walks ithis year in the town of whit by was awarded by the town council tut a special meeting monday even ing tot g deverall whose tender was the lowest of three submitted the contract price is 19 cents per square foot for plain sidewalk and 24 c for crossings m one of the most largely attended garden parties cyer held in this dis trict was that trader the auspices of bums presbyterian church ash- burn last thursday evening on the spacious lawn surrounding the resi dence of mr john millar this was tihe first occasion in some years that a garden party has been held at mr millers and the combined attrac tions of this delightful place and the unusually promising program drew a crowd of over a thousand people social personal mrs gordon ferrier hos gone to toronto for a short time mr and mrs jw lowery were in town from oshawa over the holiday mrs ira anderson has been visiting at her parents in fenelon falls x mts chas bowman of toronto is spending a month at mrs e tarrs east end mr and mrs george reynolds of montreal yisited at fw suvexsides lafct week mrs d h cook has returned from rochester accompanied by her brother rev s j clarkson imoss kathleen mocay and miss eleie dunham of burlington are spending their holidays at mr ira bulgeros rev and mrs wanren with their family lent on a motor trip for lake katrine where they will spend a moasqis vacation mr and mrs patrick cadieux of toronto accompanied by mr and mrs everton smith and mr jos cadieux spent monday at massing- ton park lake simcoe holiday visitors with mr andmrs grwthomas were her parentsmr and mrs jh copaland ofvtoronto also rev sh moyer and wife and children of norwood mr and mrs bert reesor of acton were visitors at wm hopkins last- week mrs jb wurts and master edward gallaway have returned home to the falls after a few weeks here mr and mrs ag lehman and mr arthur lehman and miss ida left on a motor trip to visit friends in michigan during their absence mr ormsby lehman and misses ann and alice lehman will have charge of the shoe store mr isaac headway and wife left on thursday to visit friends in tara near owen sound they journeyed north from toronto in company with mr boadways son and expected to spend a week on the banks of the sauble river mr ma hutchinson of oxbow with the churches business cards uboal stouffville presbyterian james dickson pastor 130 sunday school 230 the power of he cross midweek meeting on friday evening baker hill and 2nd markham baptist churches w s whitcombe ba pastor subject a boaster silenced pastor whitcombe will preach at baker hill 1030 am and markham second at 7 pm christian church edgar morton pastor the best kind of service is not simply that of entertainment ren dered a christian man or woman is expected by the lord to render service that will be a real spiritual uplift we aim to nave help for each and all who attend any of our services united church of canada rev h s warren ba minister s sunday august 8th 10 am sunday school send the family come yourself 11 am a speaker from the prohi bition union 7 pm the adult bible class of uxbridge with their orchestra mr gold will preach a bright helpful service anticipated mennoniteohurch a g warder pastor sunday august sth 10 am sunday school 11 am ireceeptfon service 7 pm preaching by the pastor wednesday prayer meetings east class at fred pughs on townline pickering and imarkfoam west olas3 at- a stouffers church street our young peoples society will have charge of the sunday evening service at glen major miss williams returned mission ary from india will speak at stouff ville and altona on august 15th keep the date in mind mccullough button barristers solicitors convey ances c buttons block stouffville money to loan medical dr s s ball physician and surgeon office cor obrien and v phone 196 drs- ira herbert frees consultation hours dr ira freel to 12 am mon wed jb frt t to 9 pm thurs satf tues thure ft sat aftsrnoom by appointment only dr herbert freel 9 to 12 am tues thurs ft sat to 8 pm tues ft sat mon wed fri afternooas by appointment only dental i ui dr d r da vies dental surgeon office over standard bank stouff ville every friday and saturday j n dales lds dds dentist claremont honor graduate of royal college of dental surgeons and of the university of toronto office over mr scotts storo phone 1405 claremont the road program nearing completion mrs a grd7fiths oorsetlere for splrella corsets for stouffville and vicinity stouffville phone 1ss03 boadways drug store stouffville george keay auctioneer rnduato national auction school canada arm and general sales a specialty write rr3 stouffville for terms and dates pnone 9003- sale register aturday aug 7th real estate and furniture belonging to estato of late james brown glasgow implements furniture rootsgraln and the 2 acres of land no reserve salo at one f w s1i- versldes auctioneer hursday aug sth factory building double house and lot being part lot 35 con 3 mark- ham jfow gormloy will be sold under iiiortgago see bills for do- tails sale at 2 pm mccullough ft button solicitors f w s1i yersldes- auctioneer mr and mrs a j mcnabb of rrie accompanied by their son 1 daughter angus and mary spent t week with mr and ms a gar- hexs at arthur i the toronto and york highway commission is rapidly overhauling the big program of work mapped cut earlieiin the season fo the re construction of the highways in different parts of the county in the neighborhood of 500000 was set apart for this work now drawing to a close the mile and a quarter on the townline between stouffville and rjngwood will be commenced this month and the work will be in the hands of the road foreman cliff riphor the road will be a water- bound macadam topand will be widened to eighteen feet s on the clark sideroad 1 miles south of the markhamscarboro townline where ae jupp and sons have the contract of widening the roadway from 14 to is feet the work was completed just today tws will leave the kennedy road from tho village of unionville to clarks corners a distance of four miles 18 feet wide the langbtaff road from tho in dustrial farm to dollar is now open to traffic for the balance of the sea son both the clarks and lang- staff roods are built of penetration maoadom n the dawes road from stciair to eglington is under reconstruction this road is of concrete base with bituminous top two miles from newmarket to keswick is being built the full 18 foot width to provide for the heavy tourist traffic were in bradford on sunday d h sawyer and wife visited relatives at kimaxney beach lake simcoe on sunday the womens institute will hold their regular monthly meeting on wednesday august llth at the home of imrs l hodgson the programwill consist of the following a paper on the art of friendship by miss im williams readingmiss e wagg music misses k and e reesor reading mrs n bunker roll call current events demon stration in small cakes members will please not forget the bazaaft field crop competition roy crosby secretary of the markham fair board following the inspection by jas pullin of wood stock the government representa tive has announced the following winers for markham township in- the fall wheat field competitions jjmt weir of agincourt first wm rjennie stouffville second james torrance markham village third t hornshaw wihitevale fourth m milrop markham fifth major geo b little malvern sixth and r l stiver unionville seventh liberal nomination mr harry sifton son of sir clifford sifton was chosen as lib eralcandidate in north york at a well attended meeting held in new market on tuesday evening for the coming federal election over 200 delegates were present including ten from stouffville and when the ouslness of selecting a candidate was on two other nomi nees wlutdrew to give mr sifton a unanimous ballo mimtr lone xamckam miss vera tarr of stouffville was hero with her cousin miss verna tarr on sunday mr and mrs rcove and the misses annie and lena reeve and mr hanna all of toronto and mr and mrs coxworth and master murray spent the holiday with mr and mrs jnmes mccrelght rnwnvood miss lillian wagg was a toronto visitor last week miss pauline carlton of toronto is visiting her grandmother mrs isaac plpher mrs wildgoose and son dick were in toronto last thursday mrs hann mrs jones miss bar ron miss wilkinson and miss flor ence low all of toronto were vis itors at e ir sinclairs recently mrs kershaw who has been visiting her daughter mrs wild goose for some itime returned to toronto on monday mrs wtt pipher with her grand son were in toronto recently roy grove spent a few days up on the muskoka laxes and reports hauling in a three and a half pound bans this is no ordinary fish story sask arrived in stouffville last fri day to visit his brother thomas at damon ville who is slowly recovering from a severe illness mr hutchinson is a king township boy but spent the last 26 years in the west he reports a bumper crop in his ter ritory mr and mrs ira badgero of stouffville with mr and mrs rus- sel logan of mt dennis have re turned from a motor trip through mtelangliton and osprey townships visiting relatives and friends they also saw the trout hatohery of l c struthers at homings mills where 5000 of tho speckled beauties wiere to be seenr for a few days mrs jatties minns of athabasca landing was the guest of dr and mrs fadales she was a resident of stouffville over 20 years ago when her husband conduc ted a draying business here mr ilinns is now the postmaster at the landing and their two ohildren are school teachers mrs minns was a welcome visitor to town as all the former citizens are mr s marshall of longbeach oal and his daughter miss- cora marshall of toronto were guests at the christian parsonage through the pleasant hours spent on sunday and monday it is over 25 years since mr and mrs morton had seen mr marshall his brotherinlaw because of poor health some years ago mr marshall went to california where he became quite strong and alble to carry on his business mr and mrs h j jarvis and family of markham township ac- companjed by miss pauline best of sandford made a record four days trip last week by automobile trav elling through the isouthwestern part of the province and covering a distance of 750 males they visited teliatave3 and friends at tilsonburg cottom essex windsor and at london and st thomas crops ore much farther advanced in that part of the province the harvest being all cut including a heavy to- ibacco crop the farmers are in nieed of more help particularly cheaper help which should be ob tained from among their own fami lies in one area between- st thomas and london every son had left the farms in a distance of nine miles land values are none 4he le5 high 500 am acre being se cured in the best farming districts albert stott fornteriy or churchill has sir acres rented at ueamdngton for which he pays 500 per annum he had it niostly under tobacco crop ono of the delightful ports of the trip was a visit to jack miners bird sanctuary at kings- tille the lennox picnic stouffville was largely represent ed at the lennox picnic at island grove lake simcoe oir monday in addition to the band wlhich was en gaged for te day the local girls baseball team participated in the rtoftirnmient after bealting the fast maple team by a score 12 to 9 and almost skunking mount albert stouffville was in the lead against aurora when the game was called on account of darkness and the prize money evenly divided had the game been allowed to go one more innings each it would have ibeen finished and stouffville girls would undouibtedly have won as they were four up when aurora ccmplained of darkness the attendance at the picnic was variously estimated at from ten to twenty thousand the globe also stated that not more than 2500 people could hear the speakers at the grand stand premier meifchen was the chief speaker of the after noon at this the 21st annual gath ering of the kind and among the others who spoke were senatorpope col gr geary hon dr manton t l church they were introduced by col lennosin addition to the speaking and the baseball a wide program of other sports was offered the baby contest was very popu lar- walter collins of aurora aged three months was the winner with lloyd george lee aged seven months son of mr and mrs george lee of stouffville second june patterson one year newmaret was third winner e s barker lds dds dentist stouffville honor graduate of royal college of dental surgeons and of the university of toronto office in grubins block phone 201 markham every tuesday office over geo crosbys store dr d c smith dentist honor graduate of the royal college of dental surgeons and toronfb- university dr neil c smith dentist honor graduate of the royal college of dentau surgeons and toronto universityalso post graduate of rochester childrens hospital offices over shaws store phone office 1011 residence 101 a c kennedy chiropractor church st stouffville monday wednesday and fridays 9 to 12 am two millon people in canada wear glasses to rest their eyes or to im prove sight glasses really save eyes and are a sign that the wearer values eyesight preciously our examination will tell you if your eyesight isright or wrong see me and see better adam r yake optometrist watchmaker and jeweler 2 doors west of railway tracks phone 159 stouffvilile worii r eipwlttoa m l per pumat kulldjop attmdance io m9iioa left new onuno government bulkus tob epenw tkii few canadian national exhibition toronto 1926 dates augr oo sept 11