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the tribune stouffville ont thursday january 17 19sj quality service weve used ful0pep for years says n i clark lone pine farm local and personal happenings remember that big sale at the harry golden clothing store is continuing this week e a grubin ro optometrist will be at his oilice in stouifville on monday jan 21st mr ault burkitt of oakville and a local son has been hospita lized due to a heart ailment friends will regret to learn gentlemett we bate used fu0pep egg masb and fulopep breeder mash or a number of years and hate found it tery satisactor we have bad nigh production excellent tivability and jor the past 4 years tee hate averaged over 80 hatchability jrom all tl signed x i clark lone pine farm berwick xs you get more dozens per bag with fulopep available in mash pellet or crumble form that longawaited feature pre sentation showboat starring kathryn grayson ava gardner and howard keel will be showing at the stanley theatre on monday and tuesday jan 21 and 22 on friday dec 2sth mr walter e brian who with his wife resides on market street cele brated his eightyfirst birthday mr and mrs briard both enjoy good health they have seven children fifteen grandchildren and fourteen great grandchildren stiver bros stouffville phone 64501 or 45 mr and mrs don brown of woodstock the former norma stover rn of stouffville are visiting his parents at their home in florida for a few weeks mrs delos brown and susan of colborne have returned home after spending a couple of weeks j with her father mr ambrose stover i the new years meeting of the garrett evening auxiliary of the stouffville united church was held in the church parlours on wednesday evening jan 9 mrs j m storey president presided the meeting opened with a hymn followed by the lords prayer the worship service under the theme working together was conducted by miss eva hoover assisted by miss gladys brooks the scripture reading was taken from romans 12 410 i chapters 1 and 5 of the study book from lakes to northern lights were reviewed by mrs s hastings these chapters deal with the influence the rural church has on the nation as a whole and as the farm is the back bone of the nation its importance must be emphasized and the call of the soil should he recognized as a call of god student missionaries play a large part in bringing church services to the outlying areas of canada during summer vacations the pay is small and the work is hard and widespread miss claudia brillinger stouff ville and miss barbara hastings melville rendered instrumental j numbers and two poems suited to the new year were read by miss kay williamson rev d davis conducted the installation of officers for 1952 and a social halfhour followed the close of the meeting the january meeting of the wa of the stouffville united church will take place january 21st when the installation of officers will be conducted rev claude brethen will be the speaker and mrs allan mccon- nochie will sing despite a mixup which occurred at the beginning of winter former arrangements with the county concerning the snowplowing of our main st have been renewed and rennies big plow will do the job there is always some con fusion over the maintenance of the street due to the fact that the provincial highway ends at the cnr crossing west of which the county takes over however since the county plow is stationed here it is only sensible to have that out fit look after the job and be reim bursed by the province 15ig store laying unique new floor the spofford co big store on the corner of main and mill sts in town will go through quite a face lifting experience this week when an entire new floor will be laid covering an area in the main por tion of the store of 1s00 sq ft the new floor covering will be flor- ever vinylite plastic the newest type of floor covering and one which is being advertised by spofford co in this weeks issue of the tribune the job in the store will require eight men who will work a night and a day to complete the job according to the company this new plastic cover ing is guaranteed to wear longer to cut cleaning up to 10 per cent and comes well recommended by local customers the public is invited to visit the spofford store to inspect this new covering in use as if in answer to an editorial which appeared in the tribune recently concerning the absence of ilie oldfashioned sleighing party the girls of the local cglt group held a modern version on thurs day evening it was a gay party with a fully loaded sleigh and a modern tractor to provide the power replacing old dobbin following the outing the girls returned to the united church to enjoy a tasty snack the new executive of the womans missionary society of the united church was installed in office by rev douglas davis at the january meeting of the organ ization the society reports a very successful year in all departments with an increased membership and attendance the allocation of five hundred dollars was reached and passed the community friendship secretary mrs d davis and her assistant miss bannerman reported 270 calls made during the year on the sick shutins and newcomers in the community mrs a h williams replaces mrs f l button who has retired after fourteen years of efficient service as treasurer of the organization during the year 1951 two bales of new and used clothing valued at 137175 were packed and shipped one to korea and one to ossington ave depot for redistribution executive for 1951 is as follows honorary presidents mrs d davis mrs h sanders president mrs w f riches 1st vice presl lent mrs s s ball 2nd vice president mrs ross winterstein recording secretary mrs floyd fairies assistant mrs herbert lee treasurer mrs a h williams assistant mrs f l button corresponding secretary mrs albert king department secretaries christian steward ship mrs milton harris christian citizenship and temperance mrs s hastings literature mrs gay- man mrs f button mrs stewart stoufler associate helpers mrs k campbell mrs e a button mrs cayman community friend ship mrs d davis miss banner- man supply mrs a dowswell mrs w atkinson mrs p stover press secretary mrs fred brown mrs d holden pianists mrs b sanders mrs gayman miss bannerman nomination com mittee mrs f l button mrs s hastings group leaders mrs campbell and mrs winterstein mrs king and mrs wood mrs brown and mrs ball patrons of the stanley theatre will kindly note that there is a enange of program for wednesday jnd thursday january 23rd and 2 hh thats my boy starring dean martin and jerry lewis will playing instead of rhubarb as was previously announced mr and mrs wm bagg of tor onto spent christmas with mr and mrs clarence lageer be sure and attend the first of a eries of euchres to be held in the loof hall on friday jan isth a prize will be given at the end of the season to the lady and gentleman obtaining the most points throughout the season mrs christie armstrong has returned home after spending two weeks at the home of mr and mrs murray nendick in toronto where she was convalescing after her recent sojourn in hospital steve thomson and ladv friend also mrs pree and miss pree motored from owen sound last week to stouffville where they called at the gold fish plant and to sutton where mrs pree visited her sister life membership presented the wms of st james presby terian church met at the home of miss a duncan for their january meeting with the president mrs stevens presiding an interesting event of the afternoon was the presentation of a life membership by mrs a g thompson the third chapter of the study book on south america was reviewed by group 2 led by mrs c morris the meeting closed with a social half hour friends will regret to learn of the death of nelson aldred brother of ira aldred formerly of stouffville and now a resident in port perry the late nelson aldred passed away at his home in toronto on friday he was a widower and leaves to mourn his loss one son russell of washing ton dc three sisters all of tor onto three brothers in port perry and one at brooklin the funeral on monday was conducted from the trull funeral home danforth ave with interment in port perry x so far this month stouifville like the rest of the province has had an exceptionally generous share of snow as well as cold weather handed down from the skies however twenty years ago january in stouffville was like january in florida this fact was revealed with a perusal through our tribune files at that time it was recorded that not with in the memory of the oldest resi dent had so mild a brand of weather been passed out for jan uary so balmy was the weather that there was a suggestion that even the bowling greens might be used flies were common and groundhogs were out in a neigh boring municipality the golf links were in use a real midwinter novelty the open season not only cut down on the fuel bills but stimulated business by making it possible for shoppers to come to town as in midsummer euchre ioof halt friday january 18th prizes refreshments proceeds go to cnncer polio and tb fund for welfiire work stouffville iortgo n 384 coop fertilizers make their way by the way they are made order in january and qualify for excel lent discounts coop fertilizer is semi- granular and does not harden in stor age reports indicate a shortage of fert ilizer materials this spring and a prob able price increase after january we are having a very long cold winter here much different to the one we spent in stouifville last year i would like very much to be there to enjoy the curling that i experienced with the boys so writes a j ace davis from leroy sask when renewing his tribune last week the davis family it will be recalled occu pied a home on church st north for a time recently mr davis com ing originally from stouitviue and returning to the west where he hail established business norm farr local businessman has been away from his store stouifville radio electric for some days suffering a bout with the flu reading maketh a man full but if he doesnt exercise consider able discrimination in selecting his reading matter these days all he will be full of is baloney a surprise housewarming party was tendered mrs les wilson last thursday evening when she received gifts for their new home on lloyd avenue editors mail the editor stouffville tribune dear sir at the end of this month a con siderable number of the readers of your paper will receive a historic document a cheque representing the first instalment of the old age pension to be given to all can adians who are 70 years of age or over and who have lived in this country for 20 years some people and some news papers not many i am glad to say have suggested that selfrespecting people ought to be reluctant to accept this handout from the public treasury and that any industrious selfreliant citizen should have been able to put by enough by the time he or she was 70 years of age to live in com fort for the rest of his or her life 1 hope however that if anyone lias red cheeks on coming from the post olfice with his first old age pension cheque it will not be a blusli of shame but rather a flush of pride that he lives in a country that has done at least something towards recognizing its obligations to its older citizens the idea that everyone should be able to provide for old age is a perfeotly natural one to a young man most of us when we were young and ambitious and just beginning to have a little success in our chosen occupations were quite sure that by the time we were 50 we should be indepen dently rich and then after a while things began to happen in some cases it was sickness in others unemployment remember the 1930s some people made investments that went wrong or engaged in a business that did not succeed some used the money that they might have put by for old age to give their children a good start in life through a better education than they had them selves but even supposing nothing of this kind happened suppose a man did save his money and put it away safely in government bonds annuities or life insurance what is his position now he finds that the income which by thrift and industry he has provided for him self and his partner in life is worth less than half what he expected we say that the cost of living has gone up but it would be more correct to say that the value of money has gone down if the people who are now over 70 start ed saving in their early adult life they saved dollars that the govern ment undertook to redeem in gold and which were worth a great deal more in exchange for the necessi ties of life than the dollars they are now getting the value of money saved later in life has also depreciated to a somewhat lesser degree but still to sucti an extent that the cost of living index com piled by the dominion bureau of statistics shows that it now takes something like 190 to buy the consumers goods and services that cost 100 before 1939 to those who are still earning their living this does not make very mucli difference because as prices have gone up wages farm prices and business profits have risen correspondingly more or less but to the retired man living on his savings it means that a half or more of his income has virt ually been taken away from him and who took it away who abolished the gold standard and decreed that canadian dollar bills were no longer redeemable in gold who put the printing press to work to turn out more and ladies wear ltd local clothing manufacturing concern opened their factory tljis week after a seasonal layoff of several weeks the members of the womans missionary society of the united church will hold a sewing meet ing at the home of mrs a m wood on tuesday jan 22nd at 10 am members are reminded there is a pot luck luncheon at noon w ii conner of stouffville was removed to the wellesley hospi tal toronto this week where he will remain for a time under observation mr conner has not enjoyed the best of health for some time mr and mrs wilbert irwin and boys mr and mrs stanley irwin of toronto mr and mrs bill mitchell of atha and eldon dixon agincourt also messrs ed and bruce lewis spent sunday with mrs sam irwin mr art kneeshaw deputy dis trict governor from bradford was the guest speaker at the stouffville lions club meeting on monday night accompanying mr knee shaw were four other members of the bradford club dr jack cote of stouffville who is associated tiere with dr ron smith in the veterinarian profes sion was bereaved this week in the death of his father dr frank j cote of guelph the late dr cote was head of the small animals department at the ontario veterinary college he was in his 52nd year and died saturday night surviving besides his widow the former isabel sheridan are six sons dr jack cote of stouffville ronald at st augustines semi nary in toronto paul with the rcaf at centralia ont joseph peter and david of guelph three daughters rita mary helen and mary ann of guelph his mother mrs frank cote guelph two sisters mrs helen gonter detroit and mother clara of toronto two brothers edward and gerald of guelph more paper money and so decreas ed its value the government and parliament of canada and the bank of canada owned by the government these things no doubt were done in the public interest for the good of the coun try a certain degree of inflation may be good public policy it is true at any rate that the dominion treasury for some years now has been full to overflowing but as a result of that policy many a thrifty industrious selfreliant citizen who during his working years made what appeared to be reasonable provision for his old age is now okeing out a bare exist ence so i submit mr editor apart from all humanitarian or senti mental consideration that for the dominion government to give our older citizens a small pension of 1000 a month without asking them to show that they would starve without it is not charity or generosity but only simple justice those who are still earning and who through taxes are helping to pay the pensions will not suffer very much if they take care of their health they will be old ago pensioners themselves some day then think what the pension scheme will do for trade in the great majority of cases those pen sion cheques or the proceeds of them will soon find their way into the stores and other places of business to help in promoting the prosperity of the community as well as to bring to the old folks a little more of the necessities and comforts of life john w ward igjaafis coop ord er no w ispao coop qie attend the federation of agriculture meeting in vandorf hall on january isth stouffville coop see for sale columns for specials phones 122 or 269 oeoooe evangelistic services commencing sunday jan 620 in stouffville united missionary church services each week night at 8 pm except saturday sunday 11 am 730 pm hear evangelist rev m j hill of toronto dont fail to attend rev ii s hallman minister ooopo