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lV OBITUARIES Mrs Following a lengthy illness there passed away on Tuesday afternoon Mar at the Western hospital Evelyn J Urquhart be loved wife of William Curl of Zephyr She was born in Scott Town ship on January elder daughter of the late John Urqu and Sarah who with a sister Irene predeceased her a number of years ago On December she be came the bride of William Curl and for a number of years the couple farmed near Zephyr In they moved to the village where they have since resided Mrs Curl was a member of Zephyr United church and for many years was associated with the Womens Institute Left to mourn her loss besides her husband are two daughters Mrs Margaret and Miss Dorothy at home one son Wilfred of al so two grandchildren Gordon and A private funeral service was conducted at her late residence on Friday March by Rev of Zephyr United church Pallbearers were four brothersinlaw Frank Fergus Douglas Curl Fred Walker and two neighbors Gibson and John The beautiful floral tributes were carried by nephews Howard Walker Joe Shephard Gordon Curl Clarkson Arnold Interment was in Zephyr A native of England who came to Canada in December Robert William Johnson of died at York County hospital on Friday Feb as the result of a car acci dent His death came as a shock to the community in which he made his home He was born in England on August After serving in the Boer War he settled in where he farmed and served as a cook in lumber camps In he came to and a farmer there until his retirement in He was married on June to Gertrude Penrose He attended Queensville United church and was a member of O Island Grove His chief interest as a hobby was in gardening Surviving besides his wife are three sons Alfred of vilie and Fred and Murray To ronto five daughters Ethel California Bertha Toronto Hil da Freda Toronto Mildred Quebec two sisters Evelyn and Rose in England and grandchildren Rev Eric Warren officiated at funeral services in church on February Pail- bearers were sons Alfred Fred and Murray and sonsinlaw Alfred Oliver William Haines and Louis Zidar Interment was in cemetery and Mrs Harold Pollard Keswick called on and Mrs Geo Wilkinson on Saturday A group of young people from Lome Park College took charge of the service in church on Sunday morning Messrs and Kay Lome Park College Port Credit had dinner on Sunday with Mr and Mrs Norman Kay Mr and Mrs Warren Ander son spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Ander son A family reunion with mem bers of the immediate family present was held at the home of Mr and Mrs Merlin Gordon on Sunday in honor of Mr William Stevenson who was celebrating his birthday Mr Ed Camp Bor den spent Sunday with Mr and Don Anderson Mrs Mitchell Roches visited Mr and Mrs Emery on Sunday Mr and Mrs Norman King and Floyd spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Ernie Balsam Mr and Mrs Lloyd Kay and Eva and Donna had tea Sunday evening with Mr and Mrs lard Miss Jean Morton Toronto spent the weekend with her par ents Mr and Mrs Carl Morton Mr and Mrs Stanley Wight Keswick spent Sunday evening with Mr Mrs Selby The Newmarket Era and Express Thursday Mar IS SPECIAL REDUCED PRICES 51 AND DOMINION WASHERS Reduced To ClearThis Week Only MAIN ST PHONE fy Margaret leading lady of Newmarket Schools play Candlesticks shows candlesticks to Ken Watts of presentation Bishops the Festival HOLLAND LANDING The general meeting of Hol land Landing Home and School was in the form of an open house at the school on Monday after noon The mothers were enter tained with songs by some of the grades and also had an oppor tunity of seeing the children at work A treat of ice cream and cookies was given to the pupils The thanks of the association is extended to the teachers Mr principal Mrs and Miss for an enjoyable afternoon St Patricks tea and bake sale will be held on Friday Mar from 230 to pm in the Sun day school rooms of the United church I FARMERS CANADA PACKERS LTD Is now contracting cucumbers for the season OUR TRICE for cucumbers IS UP this year and there are SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR DELIVERY For your contract or for more information about this PROFITABLE CASH CROP Phone write or see W ADAMS Newmarket phone 15 SNOWBALL Too late for last week Mr and Mrs Aubrey Wood and family were Sunday guests of Mrs Woods brother Mr and Mrs Ralph Toronto Mrs Howard Morning and daughter Cora also Mr and Mrs were Sunday guests of Mr and Mrs Lome James of Miss Joan of Holt was the weekend guest of Miss Sunday guests at the home of Air and Mrs Calvin Mitchell and family were Mr and Mrs Art of Mr and Mrs Win Storey and Mr Bert Douglas To Owners of FORAGE HARVESTER Equipment Complete Unloading Wagon Boxes FOR FORAGE HARVESTERS A We are now in a position to supply you with a complete selfunloading Forage Box for use with powerunit attachments available with most makes of Forage Blowers These boxes are well made All new material ami painted We can also supply you with a set of wagon parts so you can build your own box Dealer inquiries invited For further information apply to BROWN Case Farm Equipment PHONE AURORA Left to right students and teacherdirectors studying script of their play entry in Simpsons Annual Collegiate Drama Festival The Bishops Candlesticks are Bill Murray Gillespie Mr Michael Steele teacherdirector Miss Pat Brown Mr George teacherdirector and Bill Armstrong N I PRODUCE STAN TROY THE TRACTOR MAN Oak Ridges Phone King Hie first preliminary of Simp sons Annual Collegiate Drama Festival took place a little over a week ago at Port Credit High School with three high schools presenting prays Port Credit High Schools Thirty Minutes in U Street Brampton High Schools Brothers In Anns and Trafalgar High Schools Aforesaid There were more than s- Owing to bad March continue to sell by private sale at special prices 3fumnv attl Plows 6foot and Moot Tractor Discs 7foot 12foot and foot dkc Drills Horse fertilizer Drils Tractor rami C and Cub Tractors No Tractor Spreaders No Power Take Off Spreaders I Mill fflHTOWS and Mowers and Side Rakes A WILSON WbTWw I sons In the audience who highly enjoyed the presentations If the other five plays taking part in the second preliminary at New market March will be as well presented it will he difficult to select the four for the finals The schools competing in the second preliminary will Rich mond Hill High School New market High School Earl Halg Collegiate Colleg iate and Institute of Technology The festivals are now a famil iar annual event in Newmarket Newmarket High Schools pres entation of Our Dream House was one of the final plays chosen in last years festival Messrs Michael Steele and Mc are again the teacher- directors of years play j The Bishops Candle sticks They are busily occupied with the finishing touches inl ine production while the stud ents are keenly anticipating their In the second pre with the hope that their play will be chosen as one of the four finalists Newmarket and the surround ing district Is well known for the many groups actively engaged in putting on plays so there should be a lively interest In the out come of the school play in the festival A short note on the origin of the festivals They were started from an idea of Ken Watts the clover and energetic promoter of Simpsons teenage activities He to link teenage groups together in play festivals so that youth could become actively In terested In dramatics not only to awaken a liking for playact ing hut also to arouse keen zest for lively and group participation- He started a tentative experiment of such a festival in at his own Init iative and expense It such marked favor that he pealed another festival lowing year In the same way By this time the project had really awakened public Interest and the young people began to look forward to taking part In future competitions From these results Ken showed Simpsons that their sponsorship of his pro ject would be of great benefit to the public They willingly agreed and annually award their trophy and cash prizes for the winning play host actor and actress and host play direction Ken has in mind more Ontario high schools competing in forth coming festivals with possible interprovincial competitions in the future Mr Harold Garrett acting principal at the Newmarket High school told Ken that the school arranges an open house once or twice a year featuring student plays Mr Watts has put new life into the school with the con test he stated The whole student body is eagerly anxious to put their very effort into making their play an outstand ing one I cannot place loo much stress upon the significance of such a play festival In the lives of school groups have a purpose to achieve vhl at the same time acquiring friendliness and warmth of feel ing for one another ZEPHYR Am Mr Sam Jones who for the past number of years has staying at the home of Mrs A Smith has gone to the Old Peo ples Home at Whitby The of the United church held a very successful quilting and pot dinner on Tuesday of last week Iwilcs of good used clothing were packed also two new quilts ready to be shipped to Toronto for United church overseas re lief Many of these articles an sent to Greece and Korea QUEENSVILLE Mr and Mrs Fred Smith cele brated their golden wedding an niversary on February 2fl their home in Their children grandchildren and a number of relatives gathered to wish them many more years of health and happiness After a pleasant evening dainty lunch was served The family presented Mr and Mrs Smith with Talisman roses and for each a lovely wrist watch They received many other useful gifts flowers and cards The cost of the feed which you buy for your baby chicks Is im portant so is the QUALITY of thai feed ft is NOT WISE to feed poor feed to chklis AW It Is MOT to feed high cost feed For SHUR6AIN Starter combines QUALITY and ECONOMY tested at the Iconomfcal production of local PERKS FEED MILL Ltd CASE DIKE NEWMARKET Phone MOUNT ALBERT Phone Phone SOU