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the tribune stoubville ont thursday may 5 1949 claremont and district local dealers madills store and overlands store mrs j pickins of toronto spent last thursday with her parents mr and mrs j mccullough mrs stewart of eoclaire ont also visited for a day iast week with her 6isterinlaw mrs mccullough miss isobel gregg is enjoying a few weeks vacation from routine secretarial work with her brother gordon and mrs gregg of melartic que and becoming acquainted brougham the intermediate hockey boys wish to thank the brougham institute through this column for the lovely banquet put on for them last thursday april 28th the con vener mrs mary mathews deserves special mention for her work in organizing as it was no small task however it was a real success with 15 players present with a wee ruece jennifer lynn all ot wnom enjoyed the banquet gregg born in melartic hospital some dating afterward to the u o of cari devutand hugn percy this was the 10th year that don beer has been looking after the team and he feels that it was the best team yet it was the third time in that period that they had won the cup so they feel very proud of the situation especially as seven of the players either live in the village or within a stone throw of it the boys were all presented with wine gabardine windbreakers with crests mrs c kavanagh mr and mrs robert kavanagh mr and mrs jerry young and son jackie all of toronto had tea with mrs see- beck and ethel one sunday recently mr and mrs ic bent of oshawa called on her mother mrs w hamilton on sunday mothers day service will be held in st johns united church here next sunday may 8 at 2 pm both services will be combined there will also be baptism miss percy returned to her home iat markham after spending the past week attending mrs m- hamilton who is not improving as fast as her many friends would wish mrs robertson of toronto visit ed with mrs lemmon and mrs middleton on saturday visitors with mrs geo philip last week were ray mclaughlin jean and beverley brodie of tor onto mrs will smith mr and mrs roy dawson of toronto mrs john miller visited with allan and mrs miller of pickering on saturday the misses wilcox of toronto spent the weekend with bruce and mrs ritchie george and mrs smith of beaverton and mrs bud todd of toronto visited mrs geo philip on sunday dont forget the appeal of the churches for good used clothing that can be sent to britain and europe while doing your spring housecleaning lay aside that dis carded clothing and send it along to mrs lemmon it will be apprec iated by many less fortunate than ourselves please send your gift now mr and mrs donald beer attended a dance in the royal york hotel last monday night sponsored by the young progres sive conservative association of ontario on wednesday donald beer was the only representative from the township of pickering outside of ajax who had a vote for congratulations on april 19th congratulations from claremont the junior group boys and girls of parents of the goodfellowship class will conduct the evening service in the united church next sunday evening all parents and friends are expected to be present special mothers day services will be held in the sunday schools and churches next sunday may 8th dont forget the appropriate flower and plan to attend both services mrs frank loyst has returned to her home in claremont where she will probably remain for the summer the property is for sale miss jean gregg attended grad uating exercises at the toronto bible college last thursday even ing when miss jean linton of mount zion having completed a three year course of bible study received her diploma from the college principal mr and mrs humphry and mr and mrs smart of whitby visited on saturday evening with mr and mrs jas coates miss daisy ryall who started in to business some months ago with a line of gifts has decided to sell out and accept a position which has been offered to her mrs carman fligg who recently bought the wm barkey home here expects to move in very shortly the regular monthly meeting of the womens missionary society of claremont united ohuroh will be held on may 12th at 230 pm at the home of miss stella rolling mrs rawsons group will be in charge of the program all ladies are cordially invited to attend mr b burnell has excavated and is putting a cement foundation under the house belonging to the 50 acre farm he purchased last year from mr j norton located on the 5th concession of uxbridge when ready for occupancy again mrs burnell and children will move to their new farm home mr and mrs e pilkey former occu pants of the house have taken temporary possession of a farm house of mr ross watson located on the 4th concession of uxbridge sales of homes in the pickering district recently included 2 homes at 7500 and 11000 made through the pickering real estate broker age firm operated by mrs george pattison sale of the 7500 dwell ing was made to the first prospec tive buyer who replied to a news paper adv an invitation has been extended to the men of the claremont dis trict to attend a meeting of the stouffville and district christian mens fellowship class in stouff ville united church this thurs day may 5th at 8 pm rev dr oswald j smith of the peoples church in toronto will be guest speaker and as a special treat he is bringing along with him the wellknown ladies octette from his church this is ladies night so visitors and members are invited to bring their wives or girl friends the baptist missionary circle held their monthly meeting on april 2gth at the home of mrs- kobt forsythe with a good attend ance roll call was responded to by members naming a woman of the bible a splendid biography of dauntless missionary women of the past was presented by a member during the meeting mrs edgar ward with a few words of apprec iation presented a life certificate of the baptist foreign missionary society to miss viola forsythe who responded by a few words of thanks for the honor conferred a social half hour was enjoyed at the close at the united church last sun day evening the pastor preached on the three attitudes of ieople in general towards jesus comparing them to our attitude towards sweet innocent lxib first the loving attitude with the desire to show by our outward actions acceptable service second the careless indif ferent attitude third the actual repulsive attitude combined with hatred if we the parents and citizens of our community desire our churches to fulfil their ministry we have need to show a greater appreciation by more faithful attendance at the regular services and helping to interest others by speaking that word of praise and in not allowing other things to smother our good intentions to wards the church on sunday of be ing in our places in the pew en courage the pastors and reap the spiritual blessing for yourself and community big reforest job north of village a big reforesting job was com pleted on the r k mcconnell farm north of claremont on the brock rd last weekend a total of 26000 trees have been set out covering some twenty acres mr mcconnell a city man has acquired some thousand acres north of claremont mr lloyd bryant manages the large holding several men from the village found employment during the planting process including duncan dolphin bill tonner albert pilkey and jim taylor ccf and liberal party conventions set for may 1 1 the announcement by prime minister louis st laurent that the expected federal election will be held on june 27 coupled with the fact that both the liberal and ccf parties in ontario riding plan to hold their nominating con ventions on may 11 means that the political pot in the riding which has been in the simmer stage will progress to the boiling point in coming weeks the liberal association of ontario riding announced today that its nominating convention will be held in the town hall at whitby on wednesday may 11 at s30 pm special speaker on that occasion will be hon humphrey mitchell minister of labor and w a fraser exmp for northum berland riding who is liberal organizer for eastern ontario lyman a gilford well known oshawa district farmer who was the partys unsuccessful candidate in the federal byelection in june of last year is expected to get the nomination to again carry the party banner the cooperative common wealth association of the riding also plan to hold its nominating convention on may 11 this meet ing will be held in oshawa if was stated by party executives delegates from all sections of the riding will attend to hear speakers from the provincial and federal ccf organizations in addition to the convention a cam paign fund to defray the costs of the election will be launched it is almost a foregone conclu sion that arthur williams who won the riding in the balloting in june 1948 will again represent the ccf party in the election campaign mr williams defeated mr gifford and frank n mccal lum the progressive conservative candidate in the byelection it will be remembered that mr mccallum was again chosen as the candidate for his party at the annual meeting of the ontario riding progressive conservative association held in the town hall at whitby some months ago pickering building near half million in four months building in pickering township has shot to an alltime high this year according to frank prouse local building inspector mr- prouse informed the township icouncil on monday that for april he had issued a total of 58 permits for a total value of 259150 fortyeight permits were issued for permanent dwellings and ten for summer cottages the april figures bring the total for 1949 to 123 permits with a value of 457350 the value of new build ings and repairs for all of 19 18 was only 587000 pickerings road appropriation budget for 1919 will be 70000 the same as last year the depart ments approval of this figure was tabled at the regular meeting of council held on monday the total amount to be spent is divided up thus construction 15000 main tenance 35000 new machinery 10000 machinery repair 6000 and miscellaneous 4000 gilbert and sullivan operetta pirates of penzance produced by the young adults group of trinity united church uxbridge directed by mrs e dobson mustc hall uxbridge frisat may 13th 14th reserved 75c 50c general admission 35c plan at pollocks drug store uxbridge may 7th live stock all on decrease in ontario county ontario county farmers can well be proud of their achievement last year it was revealed last week that a survey conducted with the i assistance of rural school teachers and farmers last december showed that ontario county boasts a total of 11158 sheep and lambs the figure rated second out of 11 the new premier donald the annual meeting of the clarence house womens institute will be held- in princess elizabeth the home of omens institute win oe jiiuju an prince the township hall on tuesday may wa occupied by the duke 10th there will be an election of of connaught until 1942 officers and the conveners will give their reports the financial report will be read roll callpay your on sunday afternoon fee hostesses will be mrs h bar- pf w t0 mr mmivwi clay mrs f cassie mrs w milnejoth who were married on satur- mrs a glen and miss m duncan day afternoon they expect to live mr and mrs d lennox and fam- ln ily pickering visited her aunt mr middleton and mrs lemmon on sunday after- geaid vlslt01 fnencis at good noon mrs woodward sr spent a few days last week with mrs e wood ward andevelyn mrs t c brown accompanied mr and mrs t shark to wood stock one day last week when they visited mr and mrs thornton mr and mrs hardy and billie of toronto visited her parents mr and mrs w a knox mr and mrs jerry bowers of toronto visited with her brother jack and mrs stewart on sunday st johns united church will start morning services on may 22 preaching service at 915 am fol lowed by sunday school at 11 am mrs fred pilkey and family of altona called on mrs woodward wood on sunday counties in central ontario a total of 70844 comprised the total in central ontario the survey disclosed 8s67 sheep 1 year and over in ontario county on june 1 1948 and 8158 on december 1 1948 there were 8250 lambs under 1 year in the countv on june 1 1948 and 3000 on dec 1 1948 the survey also revealed there was a total of 73000 cattle in ontario county on dec 1 1948 and 77189 on june 1 1948 total for central ontario was 501670 on dec 1 1948 and 535938 on june 1 1918 in the swine column ontario county trusted a total of 18600 on dec 1 1918 and 50613 on june 1 1948 on dec 1 1918 there were 10560 horses including stallions in ontario county while there were 11270 on june 1 194s the total includes mares 2 years old and over geldings 2 years old and over colts and fillies under 2 years all classes of live stock in ontario showed decreases in popu lation at december 1 1948 as compared with december 1 1947 total cattle dropped from 2847000 head to 2723600 a reduction of 43 percent this was due principally to the opening of the united states market to beef cattle in august last year and to the continued heavy demand for ontario milk cows and heifers by american buyers milch cows two years old and over declined from 1256400 to 1219400 yearling heifers kept for both milk and beef purposes declined from 425000 head to 407100 calves from 687300 to 647- 100 and steers one year old and over from 309700 to 291600 total sheep and lambs on ontario fawns showed a reduction from 386000 to 341000 a decrease of 118 per cent while total swine showed a reduction from 2179400 to 2021400 a decrease of 77 per cent poultry numbers showed the same downward trend for this comparison when hens and chickens declined from 20473 000 to 13338000 turkeys from 548900 to 372000 geese from 217700 to 169000 and ducks from 242400 to 168000 ontario county farmers attend conference uxbridge april 30 the pro vincial conference and annual meeting for the provincial junior farmer association was held at the oac guelph april 24th26th four hundred and fifty dele gates from practically every county in ithe province registered for this conference the program was under the chairmanship of ross beattie president of the provincial assoc iation all the delegates enjoyed a very extensive and well prepared program the following delegates attended from ontario county conrie ward rr3 uxbridge mary boyes pickering ted crox- all rr3 uxbridge betty flem ing rr1 whitby everson nor ton rri locu9t hill mona arm strong zephyr norman lyons rr2 uxbridge willa mountjoy rr2 oshawa maustyn mcknight rr2 uxbridge clarence ann- strong rr4 uxbridge jack pear son rr2 uxbridge h l fair agricultural representative ac companied the delegates to conference ti brougham on saturday next sunday there will be joint mothers day service at pm every family is urged ttend the wa will meet on wednej day may 11 at the home of mr r day mrs southwell is in chargl of the program i sunday visitors at the georgl wilson home were mr and mrfl alvin bushby and family of piclb ering mr and mrs les smith an family of prospect and mr jc jones of glen major about 45 young people attende the banquet on saturday night the church mr paul wellman claremont iwas guest speaker the balsam and mount zion miss myrna jones who is attend ing toronto normal school was at kinsale school last week doinj practical teaching mr and mrs cecil jones mr and mrs elmer wilson mr and mrs levi linton and mis ralph jones attended the graduation exercises of the toronto bible college last thursday night when miss jean linton graduated donald jamieson was rushed to oshawa hospital last thursday and was operated on for appendi- oitis miss betty appleby spent the weekend in buffalo mr and mrs r day attended the booth hopkins wedding at may 3rd greenwood miss helen miniker of the osj awa hospital was home over th weekend with her parents the wa will meet next wee may 12th in the basement of tl church the mephail family of toronl were visitors at the e pegg hon on sunday mrs bert wilson of raveni has been home for a few daj visiting her parents mr and mil a pegg mothers day will be observ this sunday with a joint service the sunday school and church 1115 the sunday school is askd to meet at eleven oclock answer the roll call and mall preparations to join the ohurc service upstairs seeding operations are in fd swing these days some fanmel are through and if fine weathl continues others will be soon tlf fall wheat crop is looking well a presentation was made to mh and mrs oscar raine and fami last tuesday night before leavi for their new home at nestletonj mr and mrs c flynn and chit ren of whitby were at the lattei home on sunday afternoon congratulations to mrs f gj son who celebrated a birthday joy beauty salon near cnr permanent waving individual styling razor shaping case implements wynn bros ph 141 unionville we have a full line of new case tractors dischar rows springtooth harrows oneway plows seed drills hammermills trailerwagons threshers combines we also have one reconditioned massey- harris tractor one allischalmers tractor used binders mowers and 2 used pickup case balers for sale we specialize in general overall service britains total tax is 40 per cent dublin zoo is world famous for the number of young lions it ex ports italys big estates may be split up among the povertystricken tenants increases farm yields the master shallow well pressure pump gives ample water for the house for the stock for fire protection no more pumping no water to carry you turn the tap otaco does the work claremont coop at the cpr phone 38w toronto east bound read down pm am danforth bus lines brougham pm sun hoi 945 1010 1020 1035 1038 1040 1050 1100 1105 1110 1120 pm daily ex sun hoi 545 610 620 635 638 640 650 700 705 710 720 sat only 200 225 235 250 253 255 305 315 320 325 335 sun hoi 1000 1025 1035 1050 1053 1055 1105 1115 1120 1125 1135 am dallv ex sun hoi 915 am daily ex sun hoi- toronto uii bay and dundas 840 940 danforth and luttrell 810 950 scarboro jet 800 1005 malvern 745 1008 browns cor 742 1010 town line 740 1020 markham 730 1030 locust hill 720 1035 green river 715 1040 brougham 710 1050 claremont 700 parcel express 0x1383 dally reduction in pares effective sept 20th from toronto single fare return fare to locust hill 60 110 to brougham 70 130 to claremont 75 140 claremont west bound read up am pm pm pml daily ex suiij sun sat hoi only holj 150 520 935 125 455 91c 115 445 9 100 430 84e 1257 427 84 1255 425 84c 1245 415 830 1235 405 820 1230 400 815 1225 355 81c 1215 345 80 sun hoi 935 910 900 845 842 840 830 820 815 810 800