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j ye 7 life aspzr- four me rerier ttranvt be SUH ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA Maim MISCELLANEOUS Main SL life Association fire Automobile and Casualty Eagle St Newmarket Albert T the coop way Enquire at your local coop Phone OF CANADA ADBOftA raONE PA CM- LEGAL CORNER Lawn Garden Equipment SALES SERVICE EVANS NEWMARKET Coke Wood and Stoker Coal Orders taken for Gravel Sand and Crushed Stone and General Hauling EVAN FIBS In District for WHITE ROSE PRODUCTS Gasoline Motor Oil Stove Oil Fuel Oil s The new president of the Newmarket Veterans Association William Andrews is shown with a group of veterans part of an installation drill team which installed officers of the Newmarket group Friday night They are CWACs and WDs new members of the Canadian Corps Association Era and Express photo RECALLS TEACHING IN BRITISH GUIANA FOR B AND CLUB Miss Lee a member of the Bradford High School teaching staff will be the guest speaker for the International Night pro gram of the Business and Profes sional Womens club Newmar ket on Monday Feb 21 The dinner meeting will be held In the King George hotel beginning promptly at pm Miss Lee will tell of the time she spent in British Guiana as an exchange teacher The an nual candlelight service will be held with three of the clubs past presidents participating COUNCIL A record for brevity was set by this months session of Geor- township Council at on Monday Feb when the meeting was completed and ad journed in an hour and a half Reeve Ralph Corner put a zip to the meeting when he noted that there were ho deputations to be heard by council and only routine business and accounts to be transacted The Newmarket Era and Thursday Feb It NURSES PLAN BRIDGE AND EUCHRE A Valentine bridge and euchre party will be held on Friday Feb 11 pm at the Newmar ket Legion hall under the aus pices of Chapter District Registered Nurses association of Ontario Tickets will be avail able at the door The euchre will be progres sive But those who make up to year The Junior camp Director of the camp will Rev J C who con ducted camp Leader will bo John Taylor John Addison Keith Profit and Ross Elliott Swimming instructor will be Kenneth who has been instructor for the past several seasons A camp rally will be held in Aurora United church on April beginning at pm The a table of bridge will remain camp staff of will be the same table all evening There will be prizes and refresh ments from July to July includes boys from to years as well as members of the York County Boys Work Board Applications for the camp will be off the press this week CAMP At a recent meeting of York County Boys Work Board held in First Baptist church Aurora announcement was made of dates SCOUT NEWS By Floyd Morton The Scouts presented their Scoutmaster Mr Craig with a pair of book ends as a going away present Mr Craig is moving to London The Cougars won the Honor of boys camps at Ahshilnyoong for the coming summer Senior camp will be from June 29 to flag The Eagles won the Cuckoo July to- include boys from Flag Women War Veterans Install Newmarket Vets 55 Executive ley Wood Ontario Provincial Sec retary of the Canadian Corps Association A Lanning Dominion Pres ident of the Canadian Corps spoke briefly attend ance were Sec- William Andrews president and executive members of the Newmarket Veterans Associa tion for were installed by women veterans in an impress ive ceremony held in the town hall Friday night The drill team was composed Vice Presldeni of the veterans of the Command A A Mac- Division and the etude and the mayor They came from Toronto and several numbers of council womens groups of the Newmarket ran Corps Association A lunch was Served after the The installing chairman was ceremonies followed by dancing Miss Penny of the in the auditorium wltn music unit of the Canadian Corps by members of the was Miss Shir- NewmarketYork County Band EVENTS by GEORGE Lack Of Funds Cuts Work Oh York County Roads CONVENIENCE BY WITH Sflrftarv NHS NEWS ROUNDUP News and Views on Newmarket High School Sports Social Edited by Brown Activities Pen Portraits Valentine dance and the girls the Newmarket must ask the boys The student council lias hand- Editorial Last month Lions club sponsored an contest for students at out student cards which must from grades 12 and One be shown by each student at all person entered No contest was school functions held school is glad to welcome In March NHS is presenting back another teacher Miss Stew- a school play called Our Town art who fell down some steps last week and was unable to at tend school Last Thursday junior girls basketball team went to Richmond Hill winning Unless York County obtains financial assistance certain es sential road work will remain undone Chairman Toole of Toronto York Roads commis sion told York County Council on Thursday Feb 3 as he pre sented the 1955 roads budget An application is now before the Ontario Municipal board for financial aid to relieve the bur den which the county bears as a result of its severance from mu nicipalities which are now part of Metropolitan Toronto Council gave contingent ap proval to the budget which would set the county road levy at 216353 about the same as the 1954 figure Approval of an additional contained in the budget will be possible only if financial help is given the county he said it is neither feasible nor prac tical for us to adopt this overall budget without first knowing if financial help is forthcoming said Mr Toole The budget that the work be done but without help from somewhere we cant attempt it To date 750000 of the budget has received Highways depart ment approval An additional for flood repair and other work deferred last year is waiting department approval it is contingent on this approval that council accepted the com missions recommendation ANYTHING from a Sal of Plugs too Mo AT THE feat an ailing tractor call on us and get INSTALL WIGWAG Workmen of the CNR this week installed the new wig wag signal at the County Road crossing of the railway at edge of which had secured approval during from the York County Roads committee and had been sanctioned by Do minion Railway Board Many such requests for a cross ing signal draw dust in Ottawa aracur mm and w do oar el for years before getting action but the fact of the install- expenditures totalling a milelong new passing track Service HILL TURNER A BA Barrister Solicitor Notary Public Etc PHONE PA MATHEWS STIVER LYONS AND VALE Barristers Solicitors Notaries Contractors or No and No Hemlock Spruce and Pine Lumber Rough or Dressed Delivered on the job by truck Write for prices Port Ontario It took two months to gather enough students together to even participate in the play There are at least students attending the Newmarket high school There are only about 200 participating in any school ac tivities everyone belongs to the student council The students grumble because the football basketball or vol leyball teams dont win games the players grumble because the students dont come out to the games to cheer their team on to victory When will the students wake up to the fact that the socalled favorites would do anything 1679860 Each item in the budget is essential to the roads system said Mr Toole It is the intersection is believed to have speeded up ac tion on the need for crossing pro tection Geo Constable -TRUCKS- FARM DAVIS 2 Li NEWMARKET ONT W Our Write The Editor I am writing to express my of the column in in their power to get volunteers j your paper called The Town Pulpit Although still In my teens I value such spiritual messages as are contained in that column and sincciely hope it may continue to have a place In your weekly paper Yours truly Margaret Rose TRAVEL IS MY Bookings for Lux Sett Air BUREAU Main Street VICTOR SBOESTORE i- to help They are snowed un der with school work but be cause they are proud of their school and want to see things done they take on the task It is not too late this year to prove that YOU are not afraid of a little work to make things bet ter Pen Portraits Mrs Anne Burgess teaches pi AM BANQUETS history and art at Newmarket J High She lives in North To- and commutes to Newmar ket each day She graduated in modern history from Victoria College which is affiliated with the University of Toronto Mrs Burgess is of Scottish descent and has taught In Eng land This is the second year she has been teaching at New market High school Mrs Bur gess enjoys painting in her spare time College Dance Two weeks ago a dance was held at Pickering College and Aurora Newmarket and Pick ering College students attended- Its main purpose was to provide entertainment on a Saturday night At least students at tended An impromptu orch estra made up of several Picker ing College students played music for a bunnyhop in which everyone joined This seemed to the ice and the stu dents danced until Music was supplied by some good records After intermission a spot dance was held Betty Oliver and Gordon Downward grade students at won two sweaters The students at Pack- must be congratulated for their successful dance The second Athletic Night of FOR SCOUTGUIDE WEEK CELEBRATION Plans were completed for the annual scoutcub father and son banquet and the mother and daughter banquet at a meeting of the Scout Group committee on Monday Feb in the scout hall Chairman Robert Martin presided The banquet for the sponsored by the Group commit tee will be held on Wednesday Feb The girls banquet will be on the following evening Thursday Feb 24 The Guide Iocal association is in charge of it with the ScoutGuide Mothers auxiliary catering for both af fairs and contributing the dessert course for the dinners The ban- quests will be held during the annual ScoutGuide week trouble you come to for free examination We cure or money tack We have a full line footwear to fit everyone including babies STUDY WOMENS LEGAL RIGHTS Margaret Smith a To ronto lawyer addressed the open meeting of the Newmarket Wo mens liberal association on Wednesday Jan The well at tended meeting was held In the Veterans club rooms town hall Friday it with Mrs Donald Downey pre- Consultation by appointment only the school Juniors won the Following her talk on Women under the law Smith led an active discussion period on game played against Richmond while the mid- was held In the assembly hall af ter the games and gym display Mr Elliott head English teacher at was out of r Purpose or ch1 No W h fr- ting ram y J r sincere school last week with the measles Rumor has it that there only more weeks of school left in this year The Girls Athletic Society is holding its this Friday at the school It is the annual Canada Mrs Wheeland introduced the speaker The vote of thanks was moved by Mrs Nelson Ion The meeting closed with a so cial halfhour Refreshments were served by the hostess of the evening Mrs Harry Hooker and her committee -a- A- St T TION r z