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A. 8 . F O R S T E R EDITOR $ 2 .0 0 A YE A R 2 . 5 0 T O T H E U N IT E D S T A T E S OAKVILLE, ONTARIO. FUIPAY. APiill, 27. 1934 F IV E C EN TS P E R C O P Y V o l. 47 No 4 0 All Ready For The Ball Season Oakville W ill Have Intermediate and Junior Ball Teams H A S P A S S E D ON T O H IS R E W A R D Council May Handle Relief ALL S E T FO R CIVIC BAN Q U ET Town to Pay Honor to Victorious Daylight Saving Next Sunday Put You r Clock Ahead One H our for Sunday Next On Tuesday o f last week there was not a quorum at a reorganiz ation meeting o f the Oakville base ball club, but on Thursday evening one o f the largest and most enthusi astic gatherings o f players and fo l lowers ever held in town took place. The meeting was particularly re markable fo r the number o f players present, which was a- good om en . Following were the officers elect ed: Hon.-presidents -- T . A . Blakelock, W . S . Davis, Arthur Hillmer, Davey Chapman, Arthur Tuck, L y man R oot, W . T . Marlatt. president-- Frank Heath, Vice-president -- W m . Galbraith. Sec.-treas.-- James Ridley. It was decided to place both an in termediate and junior team in the field, and that an admission fe e o f fifteen cents be charged, with child ren free, in order to try to bring back the old game to the popularity it enjoyed in Oakville fo r over half a century. The first match will take place at Victoria park on Saturday, May 19th. M r. Hillmer made the liberal o f fe r o f providing the club with three bats, three balls, and to pay trans portation fo r the first three games to be played away from hom e. T: e are Lopi.:g' to'n ee the baseball teams emulate the good ex ample set b y the hockey team. Arthur Stewart Forster, propri etor and editor o f the Oakville Star, W e lfa re Board Voluntarily Ceases-- after an illness o f nearly three Funds Now From Taxes months, passed on to his reward at 9 o 'clock on Thursday morning. A severe cold, contracted early in the It was expected the town council year, resulted in a heart a fflictio n ,1 would hold a meeting on Monday which caused his death. evening, and the chamber would Hockey Champions hardly have held the crowd o f work ers and others who 1 vanted to be present to listen to the deliberations. , The retiring o f the welfare board to take e ffe ct on May* 1st, was lar gely responsible 'fo r the interest m anifested. The large sum derived through the wonderful generosity o f citizens having been expended, one-third o f all relief now being handed out comes from a general levy on the taxes. A bout fifty families are still on relief, but as spring work opens up this number, it is expected, will gradually be diminished,*-until per haps not more th'an fifteen families will be relying upon the town after May 1st. Through the co-operation o f the campaign committee, generous friends and the welfare board, it was possible to carry all relief in cluding administration costs, from O ct. 1st, 1932, to D ec. 1st, 1933, without any cost to the taxpayers. Do what you can, The great benefit o f that united Where you are, e ffo rt is now manifest, when the With what you have. |town' s third o f all relief money has An The author o f the above three to be paid out o f iow n taxes. lines^to the writer o f this obituary estimate states th i»^ . l l mean two is anonymous. Only on \Vednesday mills extra on tf^ T T ^ rateT ' T>y lift evening we saw them on a sign at campaign method the funds were the corner o f a church property in procured in the main from those one o f our big cities. Now they who could spare the money, and who -- Cheer up, and be thankful that come to us as strikingly symbolic o f gave voluntarily. B y the tax meth you don't live in Port Credit, with the life o f the departed, whom we od the burden falls on many quite a tax rate o f 53 m ills. knew fo r over a quarter o f a cen unable to pay, 'but who, according tury as a publisher and in and out to law, must pay. -- Indications are that, owing to When the voluntary system ceas dissentions in the ranks, or fo r some o f public life . ed the members o f the welfare board Arthur Forster had a keen and other reason, the b ig May day par analytical mind and a penchant fo r felt that relief was more a civic ade at Oakville will n ot be held. public life . His heart and soul was matter, and decided to relinquish o f j wrapped up in the progress and wel- fice . Small Advertisements I fare o f the town o f Oakville. He was born at Britannia in Peel coun H IS T O R IC A L S O C IE T Y L A W N MOWERS ty, on October 17th, 1871, the Sharpened and Repaired; guaran F O U N D E D A T M IL T O N teed satisfaction. Used mowers fo r youngest son o f English-Irish par sale, also a trailer. W . Riesy, 8 entage, his father, John Forster, A t a meeting held last Friday ev John S t., o f f Chisholm. being born at Brampton, England, and his mother, Eliza Forster, at ening no one could remember how FOR R E N T long ago it was that the late Jasper 8 roomed house, east end o f tow n; B alyduff House, Tullymore, King Martin started his flour and saw courjty, Ireland. His f a t h e r all conveniences. Box 2, Star o ff ic e . and mother retired from the farm mills, and from these mills no doubt and removed to Oakville, where the the name Milltown cam e. FOR S A L E The county town has organized son was apprenticed to the printing Quantity o f cultivated white cedar an historical society. Some peo A t eighteen years o f age trees, suitable fo r hedge or lawn trade. ple may think Milton was called a f planting. Also used McClary elec he assumed the proprietorship o f tric range in good condition. Phone this paper, and has been the pub ter the famous blind poet o f that name, but it was revealed that the 145 r 11 Sprucelyn Farm. ____ lisher ever sin ce. It falls to the lot o f few men to name was merely abbreviated from FO R SALF. have served in so many fields o f M illtow n. Field peas, American Banner oats, O fficers were elected as follow s: some gopher. E . Irvine, R . R . No. public activity as was the case with 2, Oakville. the deceased. He was reeve o f the H on.-president, Charles Jones, aged town in 1914, warden o f the county 85 y e a T s; president, D r. R . K . A n B O A R D A N D RO OM ' derson, M . P . ; vice-president, John Board and room fo r two gentle in 1918, deputy-reeve in 1919, may W illm ott; secretary, R . M . Clem men, in a business man's home, cent or o f the town, in 1922-23-24. He ral location, $7 per w eek. Phone represented ward 1 on the board o f ents. 1 6 6 w .________________________________ education and was chairman o f the Every town ought to have just Much o f the early FOR S A L E board. F or eight years he was such a society. Seed oats and seed barley, alfal president o f the Trafalgar Agricul history, fo r instance, o f Oakville will fa seed, hay and straw. J . E . tural society. He was a pastmast- soon have perished'with the passing Dunn, Base Line, Trafalgar. Phone er o f Oakville Masonic lodge, N o. o f our pioneer residents. Milton 92 r 5. 400, and was a member o f the Oak FOR S A L E Nobody ever doubted his politics, ville Oddfellows lodge, and was Quantity o f Banner seed oats chairman o f the local board o f he was a Liberal, yet was always grown from certified seed, cleaned. cognisant o f the fact that another Apply C liffview Farm. Phone 125 health. He was one o f the charter members o f the local Rotary club, person had a right to disagree with r 24, Oakville. him in such matters. He was a and fo r .a term was president. FOR R E N T When the depression cast its member o f St. John's United church 4-Room Apt., north end o f town. shadow over Oakville, as it did over and was a firm believer in the hope A ll conveniences. Phone 648m. so many other places, and a public o f a jo y fu l resurrection. FOR S A L E One brother, D r. James M. F o board o f welfare was found neces Healthy Viking Raspberry canes, sary, he was the choice, as being ster, o f Oakville, and two halfgrown from Vineland Experimental Station Stock. $10 per thousand; particularly well versed with the brothers, Newton L . Forster, o f Glen Mary; Premier, Howard straw citizenry in general and possessed o f Toronto, and Fred A. Forster, o f berries. W . H . Cudmore, Bronte, the necessary business acumen and Trafalgar, are left to mourn his phone 61. tact, especially tact, to fill the posi passing. tion o f chairman o f the board, and The funeral which will be o f a C U ST O M H A T C H IN G A N D B A B Y C H IC K S how well he did handle the duties private nature, will take place from Setting each Monday, in up-to-date pertaining to the o ffice , sometimes the home o f D r. Forster, on Satur sanitary Mammoth incubator, $2.50 o f an arduous nature, is known best day, the 28th in st., at 3 .3 0 o 'clock, per 100 eggs. Hollywood White and appreciated most by those with with Rev. E . O . Seymour conduct Leghorn and New Brunswick Barred whom he was associated during the ing the service at the house and at Rock baby chicks fo r sale. Write trying times o f the past two years. the grave in St. Jude's cem etery. or phone G . E . Hall, Trafalgar; Arrangements are in capable hands and are well under way for the civic banquet to be tendered the Oakville intermediate hockey team and officers in recognition o f their wonderful record and victory in winning the provincial champion ship . The date is Wednesday, May 2nd, and will take place at the Masonic hall. Daylight saving will be inaugur ated in Oakville, along with many other places, at midnight on Satur day, April 28th, and continue until Saturday, September 29th, at the same hour. All church services on Sunday next will be held on daylight saving tim e. G A V E PLUG H A T G E T T IN G R E A D Y FOR THE S A IL IN G SEASON T O T H E C A P T A IN Just about the busiest place in town at present is the plant and yards o f the Oakville Yacht Building Co. Vessels o f various dimensions and styles o f craft that were hauled out o f the water last fall are now being made ready to be put on the runway and slipped back in again. Several o f these boats are owned in Oakville. There's W. W . K ing's fifty -fo o t motor launch; Ken. Slat er's Norseman, a fast racing sailing yach t; P . A . Bath's snug little cruis er the Psyche, who built her and will make his home thereon through out the season; Arthur Heaven's m otor yacht, and others. R . E . Larmour's new sailing vessel. equipped .w ith «» a m otor auxiliary, .wyvL on w fheinfP^F rpuuey onrniL I I ^ tended trip, is almost ready to be launched. Three more boats are in course o f construction. One is a fishing launch fo r the Bay o f Quinte, a pleasure launch fo r a Tor onto sportsman, and one that will be taken through the Rideau canal to Ottawa. A dozen extra men will find employment at this industry during the next few weeks. R A IL W A Y CH AN GE The big freighter C . W . Cadwell, with a cargo o f 800 tons o f coal fo r the Marlatt Leather Co., opened the season's navigation at Oakville port early Monday m orning. So rapidly are those boats unload ed these days that by 10 o'clock the freighteT was backing out into the lake again The Cadweil had no trouble getting in, in fa ct it is stated there is a fo o t more water at the mouth o f the harbor than there was last fa ll. Spring rains and melting snows may account fo r this. On Monday morning Coun. Ross M . Gibson, Reeve J . L . Hewson, Coun. John W hitaker and other dig nitaries o f the town, went to the west pier and presented Capt. C. Forbes with a silk hat, as being the first captain into "the harbor this S ftw o fl.--- -- _ A satisfactory part o f this visit was the promise by the owner o f the boat that it would be laid up in ^ i s harbor next winter, which means a, nice figure fo r the town treasury. O F F IC E R S ST. ELECTED FOR JUD E' S M E N ' S CLUB The final meeting fo r the season o f St. Jude's men's club was held in IN T IM E T A B L E the parish hall last Thursday even ing, when officers were elected fo r the coming year, as follow s: On account o f the introduction o f Hon. Pres., Canon D. Russell daylight saving time on SundaySm ith. next, some changes in the C .N .R . President, G . E . Bennett. time table have been made. Vice-Pres., J . B . 0 . Kemp The first morning train will leave Sec. Treas., Kenneth Chisholm one hour earlier, and the second 45 Executive Committee -- Herbert minutes earlier, going to Toronto. Return trains will leave Toronto Lehman, Harold Whitaker, John Hop at 4.20 o'clock p.m. instead o f 5 .1 5 , kins, O . H . N ickel. except Saturday and Sunday, stand ard tim e. The train form erly O A K V IL L E A R T IS T leaving Toronto at 6 .1 5 will leave W A R M L Y P R A IS E D at 5 .1 5 , except on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday only a train will leave Toronto at 1 2 .2 5 for A Toronto evening paper pays its Oakville. A new train will leave compliments to a young Oakville ar Oakville at 1 1 .4 8 a .m . standard tist, J . Adrian Dingle, son o f M rs. except on Sunday, arriving at Tor V . Dingle, Palmer avenue, in the onto at 1 2 .2 0 o'clock . follow in g: " Following an exhibition o f land scape paintings last fall at which N A T IV E T R A F A L G A R the young artist displayed some R E S ID E N T B U R IE D sixty canvases o f Ontario's out-ofdoors and which met with immediate Charles Appelbe, a son q f the late recognition M r. Dingle was fortun D r. and Mrs. James Appelbe, died ate in securing commissions fo r some Two o f these port in New York city on Thursday o f portrait w ork. last week, aged 64 years. raits are now completed, the one a The late M r . Appelbe was well three-quarter length life size port known to many o f the older resi rait o f Miss Isabel Kemp, o f Oak dents o f Oakville and Trafalgar ville, and the other a study o f L ieut. township as a young m an . He went W alter Lawson, aviator with a dis to New York thirty years ago and tinguished war record and a brother was r aged in the m otor industry, o f T . W . Lawson, well-known Oak rw o ers survive, Miss Mina A p ville resident. pelbe und M rs. George Binns, of Both portraits show merit above the average. That o f Miss Kemp H alifax. The remains arrived at the C .N . is distinguished by a breadth and R . station here on Monday morning simplicity o f treatment and charact at 7 .2 1 o'clock, and with R ev. C. er insight that is decidedly mature. K . Nicoll officiating the funeral The portrait o f L ieut. Lawson shows cortege proceeded to the town cem the artist's skill in portraying fa b etery fo r interm ent. The pall rics, the silver gilt braid and buttons bearers- were Joseph E . Atkinson, o f the uniform, and the texture o f W . S . Davis, Carl Johnson, Joseph the cloth adding by their fine work Atkinson, jr., H . C . Hindmarsh and manship to the completeness o f a striking likeness." J . C . Hindmarsh.