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y tt Era and King City And District LAURA CORRESPONDENT KING East Mr Kayc of Quill Lake paid a few days visit to Ms sisterinlaw Mrs M on his first trip to Ontario Mr Kay had motored friends to Windsor who drove their new cars back to the West Mrs Ralph Burns of became suddenly ill on Thursday night and on Friday night to the Womens College Toronto She required transfusion and was strength over the Saturday and on Jo Move to Calgary- Judd his wife and family where they will MjM motored with Dr and Mrs Donor to Toronto last Thursday and spent the weekend with her j sister Mrs Fred Boys at Oak Ridges She called on Mr Ross r her brotherinlaw and Mrs Cecil Walker Mr James her uncle and telephoned her cousin Mrs Williams The Doners came the city for the Sportsmens Show Walker met them in v viTpw aKJ of Toronto West Wesbyterial held in feria Church last anex jessed the of planned programs to covei the years work in each society She yill visit Eversley arid Strange societies this Sour Of all the auxiliaries in the east and west Reading An important part of the public school curriculum is map reading based on the same methods used by Canadas military reserve forces This subject was des cribed by Mr Chas Mustard lec turer at the Toronto Normal School at a meeting of King Kinghorn School Has Colorful History Few rural school sections my boarding house and they undergone such changes as told me had taught through King at jrfcere have been two alterations in the size of the section and the enrolment has ranged from less than 20 since in I860- There have been about 27 teachers including sistafis fin the years- school is historically the holiday The original section included what is now the west half of 2 King until when it was decided at King City that a new section would be formed The original site of onequarter acre of land purchased from James unique because Miss Elizabeth B M Iron first Canadian money It is Mr kept school on the first Dominion Day in I knew grammatics my Euclid and Latin roots but I knew very I little about current events she once said when she was years old I did hot know it was Dominion Day or that it was a holiday until I went home to Doug Barracks in a of quarters SgfeVirudd his wife and their three est children Carol Dales Stephen Leslie left this week while Glenn will nine work at Aurora nigh School and will join his parents at the close of the term w June The home is rented to Mr and Mrs Bill On Saturday afternoon Mrs was presented with a Fiesta Pfh her parents was first standard j The April meet- will marry John Jr on Mr and Mr Campbell will be held at Saturday Apr 5 at a ceremony looks over some old historical records on school SS with his teacher Miss Evelyn Courtney Doug is the filth generation of the family in Kinghorn Era and Express photo which she was bearer The presentation was made by Mrs Arthur Fleet pre sident and Mrs Alex Campbell secretarytreasurer Mrs am second standard bearer replaces Mrs in that capa city The best wishes of the com munity go with the family when all school trustees will be invited to attend While snow plowing has cost King township considerably less than other years spring road maintenance still remains a ques tion After the last thaw Mrs Johnson Toronto arid his roads crew a- visitor of Miss Kay Clark on Monday afternoon King Ministerial Associations preparing a program of Easter Week public worship which fall on three evenings of that week Rev MichelVis holding Lenten services on Wed- evening of each week The regular weekly cottage pray er meetings are well attended Last week worshippers arid cler gy met at the home of if fe veyFolJiott The group at- Mrs G Stones this J- Friday Service The Presbyterian congregations of Strange Paulas meet at church Strange on the evening of Good Friday lor A special service of and music United Church of TestOn Group on Monday eyeing when the visiting Union provided part of the program Clark of Hope showed mterestihg films of local scenes and English viewsf Visit Relatives f Mr and Mrs Bud Toronto spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs J Armstrong Mrs Walker of Kirkland freed any culverts plugged with ice Unless the weather becomes unseasonably Mr Black does not anticipate that town ship ibadswill be to bad this year First Grandchild Mr and Mrs OBrien are proud of their son John Freder ick Bruce born at York County hospital Newmarket on Satur day Mar ZSL bears the Christian names of his grand father Frederick OBrien and his late grandfather John Smith The child will be called Bruce Bruce is the first grandchild of the OBriens and Mrs Kathleen Smith of Strange He is also the first nephew of Mrs Charles South wood Gwendolyn Smith of Aurora Social Events Held Phillips was a dinner guest at the 50th wedding anni versary of Mr and Mrs George Phillips of Aurora held at the home of their daughter Mrs Clayton Bey no Temperance- on March Mrs Phillips also attended a shower given by Mrs John Nimmo at the home of Mrs Eric Johnston last Satur day afternoon in honor of her future daughterinlaw Miss in Hope United church The bride elect is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Edgar of Maple Has Birthday Party On the afternoon March 21 Mrs Gordon enter tained a number of John leys friends on his eighth birth day The children enjoyed five movie films shown by Mr Geo Witt Oak Ridges The guests were Carol Parker Clare Barry Ronald Parker Adrian Barry Dennis Guthrie ton McKay Rickey Belknap John Tommy Co and Johns brother and his grandmother -Mrs- of To ronto Mr Charles Gibson arid fam ily have sold their home on Dew St Mr White of Oak Ridges and are presently living with Mrs Mr and Mrs Stanley Rule Mr- arid Mrs White owned the Wheel House at Oak Ridges Holds Pinner- Mr and Mrs Aubrey Camp bell fifth line were hosts to the A of King United church last Friday evening when and families met for a pot luck dinner Thirty and a silver collection gave the organization over MrsCampbell and Mrs are social conveners of the Auxiliary and assisting were Mrs Roy and Mrs Archie Campbell Rev arid Mrs were E lis it we ore saving money and materials by reconditioning wire cable telephone equipment of all kinds and putting it back to work Or checking fuel consumption of our trucks In the hope of saving a few per truck per Or devising new that will carry a bigger load or last longer or down on repairs lit fltlPHOMl COMPANY Of CANADA Sleeping an eye on costs is part of out daily chore To give you the big- possible value for your telephone j dollar we must get one hundred cents out of every dollar Keeping our costs down has kept the cost of telephone low Thats way we both want it to be their daughter Mrs Raymond Love her husband and son Paul of Toronto he y remained overnight motoring to the following day to spend the weekend with Mr Loves par ents- Mrs has returned to Yorkton Sask after a lengthy visit with her sister Mrs Farren Mrs came east to Ottawa before Christmas where she her IceCovered Roads Mr Clifford Gray west is not likely to forget his experience early Sun day morning- Mr Gray left his home at to motor his guest to Toronto by By they had gone a mile and a quarter to the top of the grade 3rd con cession at the bridge This was a mean spot arid they had difficulty there A car proceeding north was in the same predicament getting down grade Mr Gray finally backed into the driveway and the two left the car to walk back to the Gray After struggling along on the red road for an and a half- they finally reached the house road was one sheet of ice front fence to I Mr Gray saw twohydro wires near the roatiside about yards north of the railway track This he reported to Rich mond Hill trouble office The Kettleby motorist had a story all his own He had mo- from Maple Leaf Gardens after the Saturday night hockey match and he was at the Ev bridge or close to it by 530 Sunday Mr roads foreman helped him out after he was held up for an trying to the grade During the forenoon Mr telephoned Mr Gray to say he would have the sideroad sanded and would drive his car home Mr Grays visitor got to his Toronto destination via King bus on Sunday evening Storm Damage During the icestorm over the weekend all over the country side reports came in of cars be ing abandoned most of them in ditches or on roadsides Motor- walked to their destinations or stayed put- until gave them a chance to get Hydro and wires wore snapped trees down and branches strewrV across ways Telephone poles were down in many places and ser vice disrupted There were seven poles down between Maple and fourth concession of between Highway No arid Steeles Cor- was hard Telephone poles were snapped and police used cruiser telephones to call Richmond Hill hydro office to breakdowns district was also reported badly crippled Maple had to via Toronto tele phone lines A Toronto hydro was offered to this district to repair dam caused the ice and wind An area in King township wo without hydro from four oclock Sunday momiri until etehded west of the sixth conces sion and to Aurora sideroad with similar breaks Another ljips occurr ed later In day ektendinfe from the sixth in MjV1qdtlQ The VMS out of order V lines King were affected Motorists ffont Toron to to King City at on Sunday morning highway from Maple north was very bad Church attendance was cut down on Sunday Mr David did not attempt to motor to the Ninth Line Presby terian church on Sunday morn ing Rev did not preach at the Kettleby Baptist church In the afternoon he made the trip to the Second Baptist church concession near this line Mr was able to reach Teston United church in the morning and Rev Michel was at Oak Ridges Rev Father Downs was two and a quarter hours motoring to Sacred Heart church fifth line a distance nine miles district was an early morning scene of stranded cars Two young couples to Kettleby crashed the guard rail near the fifth corner King City Motors tow truck was used all night t tIv Visitors at the home of Mrs Cecil Walker on Sunday were Mrs McLellan and her daughters Mrs Stanley and Deborah of Toronto On Tuesday March Mrs Walker- was entertained at a surprise birthday party given by her son Jack and his wife Mona at their home There were two birthday cakes In the ga- were Mr and Mrs Ross Walker Mr and Mrs Mr and Mrs Bob Walk er Mr arid Mrs Marvin Wilson and their daughter Pat Wilson From but of town were Mr and Mrs Elmer Had wen of Maple Mr and Mrs Harvey Roger of Toronto Mr- Howard Case of and Mr and Mrs Roy Wilson of Mrs Walker received gifts and several birth day cards Mr Dan operator of the KingToronto bus found road conditions of the highway about the worst he has ever experienced He was more than three hours late making the late Saturday night trip back to King City It was oclock on Sunday morning when the bus arrived Miss Dorothy Armstrong did not attempt to motor to Toronto on Sunday morning It is the first time she has missed taking her regular place at organ Baptist church Made Life Member Honored for years service in the Womans Auxiliary of All Saints church Mrs George D was presented with a Jife member ship scroll and gold pin by mem bers of her auxiliary Mrs Glen Lone- Aurora second viccpresir dent of the Toronto dio cesan board conducted a brief service in which Mrs was installed Congratulated by Mrs Mrs Lockhart who was deeply touched by the honor bestowed upon her pressed her appreciation in a few welt chosen words The text in scribed on the beautiful hand scroll was chosen by the auxiliary president Mrs Ray The meeting of the was held jit the home of Mrs Lock- hart on Thursday March presided Mrs spoke on the general work of the WA Mrs If II Alexander auxil iary education secretary read letters from her son Peter serving with the forces in Korea which described the pitiful con dition of the children In that l war stricken They told how soldiers their parcels from home with the undernour ished kiddies United Nations organization is helping to relieve hunger ami desperation Mrs Alexander also showed snap shots taken by her son there Willi a the locxd auxiliary had sent for She also displayed gifts which Peter had sent One was a fine blue silk dressing gown beau tifully embroidered- in yellow birds with quilted collar and The other gift a sports jacket Prowler of Ice What was thought to have been a made by an early morning- prowler In the vicinity of Kirig office around Sunday morning was very likely flip sound of high winds Irish Ing falling ice against the door and sides of the building police stat ed the prem ises Police said they found no foot prints and ho sign of other llian chunks of high winds had cut from tries and wires The night op erator said there were sounds of some person walk ing stealthily around the build ing and trying tho outer door handle Reason of alarm was understandable as it followed a report by John that he had seen a man peering through a window of the home fore midnight He had reported this incident to police he said after he had made some ligation his gun in hand Burns Burns who is the present sec retarytreasurer of A log school was erected and then a large frame building The log school was converted into a dwelling for Principal McKay about His assist ant was Margaret Johnston who later became the wife of the Mr J Davis owner of the Davis Tannery In these years the school population jus tified the use of the log build ing to take the overflow from the main building until 1872 when the section- was cut down When Miss Alice Ferguson be came principal in she had upwards of pupils However when Waiter Rolling came in to increase During the early years of his years stay the enrolment reached with an average attendance of In those days he taught first and second form high school He would have a pupil four years of age at the same time young men of were in the classroom It is interesting to note that Em was Mr Roll ings first high school entrance pupil Forty years later Doris a daughter was promoted high school when written examinations were i discontinued and pupils were entrance to high school this com ing June When the two young- sons of Mr Bruce Davis enter Kinghorn school they will I resent the Davis family who owned the tanning industry from to Miss Courtney states that all her pupils are keenly interested in their work The answer can be seen in the personality and modern methods employed by the gifted teacher Arts crafts are highly specialized velopinAoriginahty and crea tive ability in the students- There is much emphasis on oral a sr Snf ffi students pass through his hands the second change in area and population when Sacred Heart e school was built a few years ago fifth con cession which reduced the size of the section once again Miss Evelyn Courtney West King the present teacher has 21 pupils two of whom are Douglas and Barbara Sturdy whose an cestors were among the early district settlers With Donna 1895 the enrolment continued I they are preparing for system of remedial reading me thods with the young children develops assurance and gives them confidence in building up their observations They create and develop word recognition into complete thoughts The social side of life has its place in the school and the commun ity The contact between home and school is happily establish ed Freight rates in Canada de spite long hauls through un settled country are among the lowest in the world SPECIAL Tractor Disc Cars 2furrow 3furrow and Plows Woof 7foot and 8foot Tractor Discs 12foot and 10foot Cultivators 13 disc fertilizer Hitch i disc fertilizer Drills tractor Hitch W4 Farmall MH and and Cub Tractors No 200 Tractor Spreaders 400 Power Take Off Spreaders Smoothing Harrows Spring Tooth Harrows A C and Mowers and Side Rakes We have the new 1952 International liberators with A m automatic defroster A WILSON KING ONTARIO TEUPHONE UP TO 20 PERCENT EVERYWWif IT ARE WE reductions on i all merchandise Here are some of the specials 3 SPEED RECORD PLAYERS 10 PERCENT PIUS WORTH 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