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the tribune- stouffville qnt thursday august 4 1949- claremont anct district b renovation by stafl correspondent local dealers madills store and overlands store further plans for the womans missionary society will hold its regular meeting on thursday aug 11th commencing at 230 pm at the home of mrs david gregg mrs condys group will be in charge of the program a special feature will be a lady guest speaker from toronto everyone is cordially invited to attend the sunday school picnic of the united church will be held on saturday aug 13th at lynbrook park it is hoped that all parents will plan to attend and make a church family picnic further par- ticulars next week friends regret to learn that two- monthokl barbara jean maclean daughter of mr and mrs h mac- lean pei and granddaughter of mr and mrs fred morley passed away at her home in the mari- times the group of members of the goodfellowship class who served supper in the basement of the united church last thursday are grateful to the general public for their splendid response the sum of 5450 was realized for the chime fund the second group which expects to serve supper in august hope for a similar success the wi have accepted the kind invitation of the altona branch to be guests at their august meeting on second wednesday mr and mrs harry porter have been holidaying in haliburton during the past week mrs herb sheppard of toronto visited for a couple of days last week with mr and mrs henry johnson the ladies baseball team wish to thank the community for their generosity in providing their nifty new suits in the game between elgin mills on thursday evening the score was 62 in favor of our team on the home field herb kewley a member of last springs canadian- hockey team touring the european capitals has been visiting with gil williamson claremont mr and mrs chas cooper have returned from a two weeks motor trip to the maritimes mr and mrs burnell moved the first of the week to their new farm home we extend best wishes for success in their labors through the coming years the goodfellowship class will hold its regular meeting next tues day evening aug 9th commencing at 830 oclock at the home of mr and mrs henry johnson mr sam taylor with the help of a brother from uxbridge and neighbour henry johnson placed the 10 cement curbs each weighing 930 lbs in his well last saturday afternoon and evening using heavy ropes and pulleys with the help of a small truck all went well rev m davison of the baptist church who has conducted the services at brougham church each sunday during the month of july in addition to the regular morning and evening services at claremont will have a months vacation dur ing august when his congregation will worship in the united church continuing the joint servicesthere will be a special minister at each service and the united church choir will furnish the music mr and mrs alan tomlinson of hamilton have been visiting with dr n and mrs tomlinson during the past week the front of the overland groc ery is receiving a fresh coat of paint have you checked those bargain tire prices at jack brignalls it will pay you to do so if youre contemplating getting a new set brougham mr and mrs v j brown and son john of toronto called on mrs t c brown on sunday miss mary clark of toronto is visiting with her friend miss barbara mairs mr and mrs al harvey are spending a few days at tall pines haliburton mr russell gray and mr a storrey are holidaying at algonquin park miss jessie haddow of peterboro spent the weekend with mr and mrs fred madill congratulations to mr and mrs gordon duncan dorothy harlock on the arrival of a little daughter on july 29 first grandchild for mrs and mrs m harlock and mr and mrs wra duncan master john harvey is holidaying at sherwood camp carnarvon haliburton mr and mrs win boyington and son of uxbridge called on mr and mrs dean mairs on sunday as the township hall is undergoing repairs it has been necessary to change place of institute meeting mrs cassie the president has kind ly offered her home and the meeting will be held there on august 9th there will be a speaker hostesses mrs d beer mrs ross knox mrs l t johnston mrs m annis mrs t philip mrs gannon roll call helpful hints hope all members can be present rev george westcott of klinburg will be the speaker in st johns united church here on sunday aug 7th mr westcott will be the first of a number of ministers who will be preaching for a call to this church mr and mrs h malcolm also mrs t c brown were at toronto on saturday afternoon attending the funeral of the late mr arthur f harvey who passed away suddenly at his home in hamstead montreal on july 25 mrs harvey is a niece of mrs t c brown mrs l mathews was holidaying several days last week in toronto with relatives mr and mrs c devitt accompan ied by mr fred wright spent a weeks holidays in the north mr wright visiting with mr and mrs h parker mrs parker who was the former lena moore of brougham says that she gets the tribune and the first column she reads is the brougham news and asked the above mentioned visitors to give her best regards to brougham friends miss reta williams and miss muriel wood of toronto spent a day with mrs d seebeck this past week mr and mrs cliff hubbard called on her parents mr and mrs m hamilton on sunday mr e cammack of detroit visit ed with his nephew mr and mrs fred hicks last week mr and mrs a ramsay are holi daying at nobel with the latters sister mr frank carter one of our local firemen had the misfortune to lose thirty dollars three tendollar bills at the firemens garden party at greenwood purk last week anyone finding same will be liberally re warded by the loser miss shirley beer of toronto spent the past week with her father d a beer and her grandmother mrs t beer we are glad to hear that mrs seebeck and mrs elllcott are both n- recovering from the effects of their mr and mrs r cooper are recent falls enjoying a 10day vacation while mr and mrs ross middleton were cash crop from county forest son gary is enjoying a boys camp at minden mr and mrs shirk entertained a couple of friends several days during last week mrs herman burndt and son mr and mrs sam kindy of toronto were sunday guests miss gladys pugh visited with her sister mrs geo alsop of stouffville for the past week mrs towner attended the wedd ing of a relative in port perry last saturday mr and mrs finney had their son and daughter of toronto visit ing them during the past week miss reta finney has been visit ing with an aunt in oshawa we are all very pleased that mrs c reynolds who has been ill u musselrnans lake on sunday cherrywood the wa will hold an afternoon tea and home baking sale at 300 pm on saturday august 11th at the church lawn mr and mrs murray spent the holiday weekend at their cottage in northern ontario mrs crozier of whitby spent a few days with her sister mrs e arm strong mr and mrs jack mitchell of claremont spent sunday with mr and mrs walter hollinger bob morrish is sporting a new meteor mrs w j petty of toronto spent for the past few weeks is able to- the weekend visiting her family here be up again rev davison preached a very fine and thoughtprovoking sermon on sunday morning his subject mr and mrs wm judd visited with mr and mrs leslie hollinger on sunday mrs brown and children of tor- was temptation and 2 texts were onto spent a few days with mr and chosen as illustrations genesis 36 and matt 189 there was a good vocal trio selection from the choir and a large congregation mr and mrs tansley were visit ing relatives and friends at fene- lon falls last week and entertain ed a group at their home on a couple of occasions since return ing from their trip mr and mrs t gregg movedon friday evening to the west half of mrs condys house they will be missed by the neighbors of the other section of the village we understand mr earle cooke and his mother will be occupying the house vacated by mr and mrs gregg mr reg sanderson is enjoying three weeks of his holidays at uxbridge mr melvin johnson has had electricity installed on the 50 acre farm he recently purchased from bis father on the 9th of pickering mrs frank torronce mrs s toole and son had dinner on sunday with mr and mrs newton laughlln mrs hamilton of brougham vis ited relatives here one day last week the sympathy of the community is extended to mrs leonard gates in the death of her mother mrs gollan who died in toronto on sat urday mr and mrs carl devitt of brougham had dinner on friday with mr and mrs frank torrance mr and mrs pullans and family had dinner on sunday with mr and mrs george todd by the oshawa timesgazette now approaching 25 years of age the ontario county forest in uxbridge township is starting to produce a cash crop and is payin its own way well justifying the foresight of the council which a quarter of a century ago bought a tract of barren land and began planting and hoping thinning is being carried out this year cord- wood has been shipped and a little logging for lumber done according to county authorities reeve rae m ferguson of ux bridge is the eilicient chairman of the reforestation committee this year we have 1200 acres- in forest now said mr ferguson for the past two years 100 more acres was acquired each year it is something which still has great possibilities before the forest was started there was just barren land there even unfit for pasture the uxbridge forest is an employer of labor and has a bene ficial effect on the township as a whole at its june session council considered the subject so impor tant that it adjourned for half a day to inspect the forest in com pany with government experts some goes to mill some of the current lumber crop is being processed in the uxbridge mill a lot of thinning lias been done recently and produc tion of pulp wood has paid the county dividends ontario as a whole is just begin ning to profit from its municipal forests while the program goes on apace with more and more counties joining in several municipal plan tations are now approaching 25 years of age and require thinning out to achieve a better develop ment of stands several hundred cords of pit- props have been sold to the british government and considerable pulp- wood has been marketed and it is expected that thinnings for pulp- wood will increase rapidly states the latest annual report of the ontario minister of lands and forests hope that forestry practices on private lands will be improved as a result of the example set in county forests has been expressed by government forestry officials counties made land purchases totalling more than 6000 acres and about zvt million trees were plant ed on municipal and authority forests in the fiscal year ending march 19 is under the municipal forest act counties are given the option of paying merely the net cost of their municipal forest at the end of the period of agreement 30 to 50 years or of selling the land at cost price to the province supervision work is done by the zone forester two more forests two of the most recent county forests were officially opened in the united counties of stormont and dundas eastern ontario by warden james macarthur field days were held at both sites this spring to stir up interest in- for estry as the solution to waste land thousands of trees were planted by school children who came from miles around some idea of the work and plan ning that goes into the establish ment of a county forest is present ed in the case history of the stor mont and dundas plantations the idea was acutally discussed in council 20 years ago but let drop until 1947 when attention was focussed on the retreat of the wooded area by zone foresters the ontario conservation and reforesta tion association and other groups and officials interested in forestry assessment figures showed that 20 of the land was classed as slash swamp and waste in 1918 reeve fred h broder of morrisburg was appointed war den of the united counties and he decided to take immediate action a strong committee was appointed to investigate the problem and owners of waste land were inter viewed in prospects of putting waste land to work producing trees advertisements inserted in ail newspapers requesting offers of suitable land brought a flood of replies land was offered at prices ranging from 25c cents per acre for blueberry marsh to 90 per acre for fine farm land two plots one of 100 acres in dundas county and another of 200 acres in stormont were finally purchased and a start made on setting up municipal forests first words spoken over the telephone were watson come here i want you spoken toy alexander graham bell to his assistant green river miss barbara cook has returned home after spending a month in the north country mr and mrs g freshwater and family also mrs frank are spending a twoweek vacation at eagle lake haliburton mr j lumley also mr cliff pos- tlll are driving new motor cars we hope for a speedy recovery for all who are so 111 la this commun ity mr ed wilson mrs g traa and henry gray show giant bulldozers scrapers and mechanized loaders scores of trac tors hitched to all kinds of agricul tural implements ditching ma chines spray painting outfits and innumerable other machines ail of the latest type for modern mechan ized farming will be in action on the farm of heber down on high way xo 7 just west of brooklin on september 8 on this day canadas first farm improvement and soil conservation day designed to put into effect in one day a complete five year program of soil conser vation and farm improvement prac tices will be held thousands of visitors from all over ontario from neighbouring sections of quebec and from parts of the united states adjacent to ontario are expected to attend anion them will be a large number of agricultural experts from canad ian agricultural institutions mem bers of the ontario legislature and cabinet ministers eager to assess the value of canadas first attempt to utilize a demonstration tech nique which has already met with considerable success in the united states to further the plans for this tremendous event the general committee in charge met last week at the brooklin farm of heber down where the field day is to take place and threshed out the prob lems which have to be faced in staging it under the chairman ship of howard harper of good wood there were in attendance committee members from all over ontario county members of the staff of the ontario agricultural college guelph and of the ontario department of agriculture tor onto plans in the blue print stage were presented and discussed and decisions reached on the general method of operation throughout the day it is intended to start the work of facelifting on the down farm at seven am on the day of the demonstration and some of the preliminary work will be clone to that date so that by nightfall a modern soil conservation farm will have been created by a great force of workers good cooperation encouraging reports were pre sented on the cooperation of man ufacturers of large scale machinery and contractors having supplies of the required implements and it seems likely that all the machines required for the many operations will be available district farmers are giving the use of tractors and will operate them in contour plow ing and strip cultivation work huge bulldozers will completely eliminate a long fence row now grown over with trees and shrubs ditching machines will tile drain a seven acre pasture field large scrapers will gouge out a diversion terrace in the centre of a sloping field on which the bulk of the work will be done fall wheat will be seeded on the strips on the hillside alternating with sod the creek bed will be straightened and cleaned out where it intersects the farm and some reforestation and wood- lot improvement work will be done remodel farm house much of the discussion at the meeting centred around the remodelling and renovation of the farm house which is an integral part of the plan of farm improve ment the kitchen is to be com pletely remodelled and modernized and cupboards built in it a new roof will be placed on the house and a painting job done on it the grounds around it will be land scaped by experts congratulations to mr and mrs gordon duncan on the arrival of their daughter at oshawa hospital on friday last mrs s mcgraw and bryan spent the holiday with her brother in brantford mr- a hoover mr and mrs j nighswander and mr and mrs c woodkock had a picnic last week at innlsfil park lake simcoe young folk home for the holiday were barbara white bill mckay and reg nighswander mr and mrs allan dafoe and gall are spending their vacation in the gravenhurst district safety campaign opens in ontario president reg johnston pre sents first sticker to reeve w the people of pickering and whitby townships will have the opportunity to enter this years kiwanis safety campaign right in their own districts last week the dunbarton kiwanis officially open ed their campaign for safer and saner use of highways by present- ing safety stickers to reeve w h westney and chief constable jack irvine of pickering township at the clubs regular meeting percy muir of east yorks ki wanis club told the meeting that the current campaign was started at the request of the ontario de partment of highways which ask- ed that the campaign be run again because it did help to make motor ists safety conscious and was a public service the department is h westney left and chief constable jack irvine of pick- ering township donating 25000 to help pay fd the campaign publicity muir saij although last years campaij was centred in the toronto ard the current one will be provind wide muir pointed out that paj ticipation in the safety effort we not restricted to the kiwanis clubl in any area where there is kiwanis club to handle the loci campaign any other organizatio or qualified group can take it over he said reeve westney in his address the meeting stressed the impoi ance of safe driving at all time cars and highways have consil tently improved but it is the mat behind the wheel that is the d ciding factor in the practice safety he said agricultural college miss kath leen taggart expert of the womens institute branch of the department of agriculture is in charge of the plans for modern izing the farm home and in addi tion to the work being done on the house a scale model will be on dis play showing how it will appear when the whole project is com pleted the barn and buildings on the farm are to be improved and they will be entirely painted on the day of the demonstration the barn yard is to be completely changed around and modernized a new machinery shed will be built entirely on the day of the field day the various committees in charge of the projects all reported that plans were in a splendid state of preparedness to move on to the down farm on september 8 so that the thousands of visitors will be able to see all the operations going on at once to set up headquarters it was decided ito establish head quarters on top of the hill on which the terracing arid contour and strip cropping work will be in progres from which point it will be possib for visitors to have a birds e i view of the whole farm in th area eating establishments will 1 set up to provide for the needs the crowd a speakers platfor will take care of an hours pr gram of address with col the ho t l kennedy minister of agi culture and premier l m fros as the headline speakers membe of the ontario legislatures sele committee on conservation w attend and make observations cooperating in this project a the ontario county crop improv ment association the ontar department of agriculture tl ontario agricultural college tl county council of ontario count land numerous private firms ai contractors much of the cost of tl work- is being borne personally 1 heber down who in addition allowing the use of his farm for til first canadian attempt to stage fiveyear conservation program one day is giving the committj in charge splendid cooperation allowing it a free hand to devel and carry out its plan see the famous otaco no 21 manure spreaders famous for more than thirty years the otaco no 21 manure spreader is designed to make your spreading work easier speedier and more profitable all rotating parts except the conveyor are roller bearing mounted wooden box automotive short turn steering loading height 40 inches spreads 6v2 to 7vz feet equipped with pneumatic tires or steel tired wheel models no 21 tractor spreader 2 wheeled also available claremont coopl at the cpr phone 38w danforth bus lines east pm sun hoi 945 1010 1020 1035 1038 1040 1050 1100 1105 1110 1120 toronto bound read down pm pm am am brougham claremont west bound am am pm read 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 daily daily daily sun ex ex sun ex sun sun sun sat hoi hoi toronto hoi hoi hoi only 10 00 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