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/ / --- 7) PORT PERRY, ONT, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 80, 1941 BROCK THEATRE| Phone 618, WHITBY Healthfully Air Conditioned. All Shows Daylight Saving Time. . Thursday, Friday and Saturday, "OCTOBER 30-31, NOVEMBER 1. Two shows at 7.80 and 9.30 p.m.' Saturday Matinee at 1.30" °° Jimmy. CAGNEY, Betty DAVIS, in The BRIDE Came . C. 0. D. with Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette, / Plus the Latest Canada Carries On-- <A "BATTLE FOR OIL" Tuesday and Wednesday, VEMBER 3, 4 and 5 Last Complete Show at 8.650. "Reaching for the ' Sun." with Joel McCREA, 'Ellen DREW. Also an ADDED Attraction: "Men Against the Sky" with. Richard Dix, Kent Taylor, Edmund - Lowe, Wendy Barrie. Monday COMING next Thurs.,, Friday, Sat., November 6-7-8--In - Technicolor-- 'Moon Over Miami' with Don Ameche, Betty Grable. "Lindsay Presbyterial The full executive meeting of Lind- say Presbyterial -W.M.S. of the Pres- byterian Church in Canada was held -. _in_St. Andrew's Church, Lindsay on ~A - Manicure - Saturday . afternoon, October 26th. Miss Grace Kennedy of Uxbridge had "charge of the méeting. The meeting was opened by singing "Take up Thy Cross the Saviour Said". Miss Ken- riedy read the Scripture., Her mes- sage was one of hope, reminding us to fear not, for God is passing through * these trying times with us, and has promised "I am with thee, He is the " Lord, He has formed us that our lives may be praise unto Him. We. must --eall on Him as individuals and as a nation." Prayer was offéred by Miss Kennedy. = Mrs, W. W. Finney of Kirkéeld gave a very full and inter- esting report of the Provincial Boa meeting, recently held in Calvin Church, Toronto, the need of more deaconesses, and that every woman inthe -auxiliary hould become - wel and welfare conscious. We must be able-to show the spirit of Jesus in our lives.: The light is breaking, what plans are we 'making for the dawn? : PRENTICE'S -- BEAUTY PARLOR -- Skilled Operator. Very moderate prices e specialize in-- Bonat Permanent Waves Shampoo and Wave b0c Marcel - - - = PERMANENT WAVES $1.95 and up 'Our work is up to a standard-- Not down to a price. 'Phone 223, Port Perry Mrs, Finney stated |: Secretaries reports were encour- aging. Miss Allin, Girls' organization secretary reported there are two Girls' Groups in this Presbyterial. There is a decrease in subscriptions to "Glad Tidings". A very special ef- fort must be taken to greatly increase our subscriptions for the coming year. Miss Bick réported a decrease in Life Membership. Mrs. Leask, supply secretary, reported that our bales were exceptionally fing, but there was a great difference in value of clothing for schools. Each Auxiliary is asked to consider before the annual meeting held in January, if it would be pos- sible to send money for the outfits to the supply secretary. In place of the Auxiliaries purchasing the ; clothing. Mrs. Leask read letters of apprecia- tion received from-D. 8. Pitts, Prin- cipal of the school at Kenora, and E.|. H. Lockhart, for the splendid supplies sent to Birtle, Manitoba, and Mista- wasis Reserve. The dolls sent from Ashburn for Christmas gifts, were worthy of special mention. . They ar- rived in good condition and were gratefully appreciated, ~Faeh Aux- iliavy is asked to try and raise their givings by the end of the year. The meeting was brought to a close by singing a hymn and prayer offered by Mrs. G. A. Lucas, a former president of the Presbyterial. ~ Lindsay ladies served afternoon tea to the members. BLACKSTOCK The Rev. Ramsay Armitage, Prin-|. cipal of Wycliffe College, Toronto, preached in St. Church on Sunday last and in addition conducted a dedicatory service, when | Mrs. F. W. Marlow, Toronto, (widow of the late Dr. Frederick W, Marlow) presented -a flag to the Church, with the following words: "To the glory of God and in gratitude for His mercies vouchsafed to our King and the British Empire, and in particular that part of it called Canada, 1 present this beloved Flag. (for many .years in the possession of. the Marlow Fam- ily), "the symbol. of our love and loyalty to our King and Country, to St. John's Church, Blackstock," Mr. Armitage also "dédicated new hymn books (Book of Common Praise with music) which Mrs, F: A. Bailey presented to St. John's Church choir recently, A number of the Marlow family (including Mr. and Mrs, Howard J. Philp, Toronto, as well as many from this locality) were present to witness the ceremony . : "Lieutenant Sam Hughes, Toronto, who was with a central Ontario Armoured Regiment, was among the latest contingent of new arrivals for the Canadian Forces in Britain. He is a grandson of the late Sir Sam Hughes, Canada's Minister of Militia at the outbreak of the first World War, and greatgrandson of the late John Hughes, one time public school teacher at Blackstock. The Girls' Homemaking Club of the Victorian W. I. held the second meet- ing of the unit "Sleeping Garments" at the home of Mrs. Fred Toms. the members and the leaders were present, . : ! Jean Toms president conducted the business part of the meeting. Irene Coates demonstrated ,the method, of altering a pattern explaining that there is a correct place on each pat- tern to. make the alterations. The leaders described some of the finishes the girls might use on their gowns and the different seams suitable for the different materials. Mrs. Wright explained the difference between single bias binding, a double bias binding and a false binding. They Torres, too, how to make a shell hem, a roll hem, work a bar-end button- hole and hemstitch. vay "Roll Call for next meeting to be answered with a suggestion for a name for a club and a sample of hem- stitching, worked buttonhole, roll hem and of shell hem. There.is a cry for blankets and more blankets by the Red Cross from Oct. 27 to Nov. 1st, and the public are asked to duplicate its feat of a, year and a half ago, when thousands. of blankets were donated and were used to -help provide wormth for women, children and old men, in the cold air raid shelters in Britain, also they were used in hospitals and. ambu- bi Coal Transportation | a Real Problem ORDER Transportation on coal is hecoming more severe each month.. We have our brders placed for four months aheid. Kindly co-operate in this effort and have your coal ordered ahead so as we can All your coal bin off the car. This means a 15% saving to you between now and: Ocfoher the Ist. "EARLY ~~ Phone 240m. 3; x LAKE $CUGOG LUMBER & COAL CO, ~++- LIMITED John's Anglican |' All} Done by Experts 4 : At Reasonable P Phones 50 and 85. Good Printing is essential to inmost business men, and to many private individuals. are equipped.with modern printing machin- ery operated by expert craftsmen, and are in a position to'offer 'fine printing at fair market prices, Call and consult us. ThePort Perry Star rices. We FUG UGG HR ER LE GG SG QUE GAR RAR F. W. BROCK & SON » PHONE 43 PORT PERRY CAE Tailored You'll appreciate that « -- from Canadian Red Cross overseas warehouse to the Russian Red Cross. It is rushing $100,000 worth special medical supplies to. Russian ' Red Cross to meet present emergency. We must help to alleviate the terrible suffering of our fellows in this dread: ful conflict, The Food Situation in England A Letter Received by Rev. Joseph Denny 13 Buckland Lane, Maidstone, Kent.,, Eng., Sept. 7th, 1941 Dear Uncle: " Things have been much quieter here lately, we were not disturbed by raids either by day or night. How we do apprediate a good night's rest. Of course we still have our wardens and fire watchers on duty in case the Ger- 'mans decide to pay us a visit. Tues- day night is Charlie's turn and it al- ways makes him very tired on Wed- nesday, but it is a job that must be {doné and not shirked because the | Whole street relies on the pérson on duty, | Hop picking commenced last week and what a difference there is between "this year and last, for the Battle of i Britain was on and {t was very dang-| erous to be out in the open whilst the fighting was going on averhead. We have been blackberrying twice this last week. We were unable to go out at all Jast year and did not taste a blackberry the whole season, so we are going to make up for it this .year, : I' have made three pounds of jelly and am bottling the rest. Of course sugar 1 the problem; we only get 8 ounces each week, We have to do without sugar in our tea to save to make any preserves we can, Apples TR RAY BERN 2 {377.4 32 '3 '| first -every--egg was bad, "BE READY - ORDER YOUR JOHNSTON-APPROVED ~ OVERCOAT NOW!-- -To-Measure | $2750 cusiom-tallored feeling of being properly fitted and well dressed that you get in a Johnston - Approved Overcoat." tallored-to-your-measure, Your choice of 'many pat - terns - = light, medium and heavy weights In a great varlely of weaves. Order "now - -'be prepared for cold weather In a warm, protect. ing Johnston overcoat, SOLD BY 'F. W. BROCK & SON, Port Perry OVERCOATS In Silvertones in several models ee MEN'S SUITS $21.95 FDR D BABI BAD BADE DOR BERRI BR DADA Bev lances. The Canadian Red Cross has are very expensive and not very: Patricia's summer holidays are nearly instructed its London Office to ship! 870,000 medical and surgical supplies | Victoria's are 10d a pound (20¢.) the [23rd Sept. plentiful. Plums are also very dear. cheapest are 6%d (13c.) a pound. The prices of both apples and plums are fixed by the Government. The best cating apples (Cox's King Pippins) are 1/3d (26c.) a pound and cooking apples 10d (20c,) a pound. We had only three eath in August and that is to he our ration for this month. They have been better lately; but at Isn't dreadful that after having beén brought all those miles over the At- lantic and the sailors risking their lives; that when they reach us they were bad, . The boys at Tunbridge Wells had several cases that stank dreadful and every other storekeeper's were the same. Then our Minister of food tells us that only 129% of the im- ported eggs were bad hut we know better, Our cheese ration is better. We get three ounces each a week now and we have been told that our butter will soon be. doubled. That. will be four {ounces each week but it will: not make any difference to our, whole fat al- lowance, which is cight ounces cach a week. {The meat ration is still 1/2d (28¢) 'each, but liver and:suet is vei'y scarce --they are rationed. The butcher only lets us have suet .once a fort- night, Wé have had to register for milk and onions but we were told last week. they don't think we shall be rationed for milk after all. We were rationed during the summer, but not now. . Wa are all to be allowed two pounds of onions cach. (I hope I do not bore you with the food question), but it is quite a worry to us women to put up a nourishing meal before our folks when they come home. We spend hours at shops trying to get various foodstuffs, if one is not there when the articles some in we do "not "stand 'a chance - of - getting - any extra. These are some of the things we walt for---hiscuits, cakes, choco- late, cream chicese(this is unrationed) tomatoes, fresh herring and mackerel, sultanas, currants, jellies, ete, ~ Charles is working as busy as ever, late every night and each week end. ity 1D4-F4L 3 over, she returned to school on the Charles could. not get a holiday this year, perhaps the war|® will be over by this time next year, |¥ and then he will be able to get away | - for a good rest. I mention this: to you. told us there is nothing to report. raid warning.. In the distance over up the Thames. slowly passing along the horizon. was a very clear day. gradually get to hear. The Family Heralds have been coming very regularly, sometimes we get three in a weck, but none have been lost lately. Patricia does enjoy "the Sunday School papers. Directly | they arrive she says: "Good, now 1 I shall have something nice to read." t She enjoys "Thé Canadian Girl" hest tof all. | © Now I will try ao continue -my let- 'er to you, » Kenneth has had his seven days leave .anr has also spent today at home. He likes to get home as often as possible. We also have another soldier friend whose home is in the North of England, he spends all 'his free time with us when it is only for short leave; but for his seven days he goes 'home. They get seven days every. three months, i I do hope 'you will forgive me fot keeping you waiting so long for a letter, but T am sure you will under- stand and how very rushed I am these days and do not have much time to spare to write. When I wrote the be- {ginning of this Jetter I mentioned we seldom hear the siren, well things three warnings this evening and we had one on Friday last in the middle of the day which was very unusual, A German Dornier passed right over the town. It was just twelve months ago last week when so many German p) A anes were brought down around us. very particular memory I have, is - LATA CURRIN CRT ot A HACK The wire-| less is on and the announcer has just|§ Well, all morning the guns have been | roaring away, making the windows|g and doors rattle and vibrate, and no ; § the hills we could sce a convoy going gd It was only the bar-|¢ rage balloons we saw; but they were|§ It | & So you can tell |g we are not told all the news but wel, have altered, we have already had- is'a memory. and the harvest is late in brought in and soldiers have had to help thé farmers. The potatoes are full of blight, our own crop is very bad and we shall nat have enough to carry us through the winter. In fact we shall probably be rationed for them. We have héard some talk of it, . Give our best love to Aunt Milly and the children, and accept the same yourself. Yours affectionately, Peggy. te o--> Local Car Dealer Reports the Extent of Ford War Work Denis Me¢Kinzey, well known local car dealer, spent Wednesday in To- ronto attending a general meeting of Ford dealers of the company's Toron- to branch territory which includes the greater part of Ontario and adjacent points in' North Western Quebec. Mr. McKinzey is enthusiastic about the 1942 Ford and Mercury cars which he claims are the finest his company has ever produced. "Of course, with the company's manufacturing plant so extensively engaged in war 'work;, the supply of new cars will be drastically curtailed. However, the new. models are design- ed, built and styled for long life and cconomical® service", said Mr, Me- Kinzey. - In addition to having a preview of the new cars, Mr, McKinzey heard ad- dresses by Ro M. Sale and E. F. Mil- lard, company executives from Wind- sor, Ont, and saw a motion picture showing the extent of war production in the great. Ford plant at Windsor, Nearly 13,000 workers are busy day ompire armies, "The Ford company in Canada is the largest single source of military automotive cquipment in the British Empire and has already supplied our fighting: men with more "than 100,000 fighting machines. : "Ford in the United States is now producing 1,850 and 2,000 horsepower engines for war planes. There is also a' mammoth bomber plant nearing completion for the production of B-24D bombers, and plans are under way for the production of medium and heavy tanks in Ford's immense Rouge plant in Detroit, Mr. Denis McKinzey reports. z that I had an apple ple cooking in the Well, September is nearly over ang it has been the best month in the yeaf. We have had rather a wet summer being and night! "producing equipment for |. OBITUARY oven, the raiders came over and as the fighting was very fierce we had to rush to the airraid shelters leaving Fg everything including the pie. It is a very silly thing to speak about, but it Mrs. R, Crozier Died in Cartwright, on October 11, Mrs. Robert Crozier, in her 70th year, after a prolonged ilness/ The fun- eral was from her home on 6th con- cession, where she lived since her may- Iviage to_the Jate Robert Crozier, 44 years ago. Before her marriage she | was Christinu Campbell of Hollang | Centre, near Owen Sound. She was fu member of the Baptist Church and after her marriage joined the Black- stock Methodist Church gnd continued with that" Church . into the United {Chyrch and a member of the W.M.S. She was knéwn by all her friends and neighbours to be a woman of splendid and strong character, a wonderful help in. her home and in all church work, a good neighbor and true friend. The service was conducted by her pastor Rev. D. Stinson. The hymn read was Mrs, Crozier"s own choice-- "Some Time We'll Understand", and Mr. Stinson followed the theme of the hymn throughout the service. The floral offerings were humerous and beautiful and the pallbearers were her neighbours. Interment was made in Union Cemetery. Left fo mourn her passing are her son and daughter Arthur and Mary (Mrs, Harvey Ginn), Bethany, alo two grandchildren Ralph Bertrum and Dorothy Irene Ginn; also her three sisters, Mrs. W, Campbell, of Chats- worth, Mrs. H. Heft, Willinmsford, Mrs. H. Jackson, Toronto; and three brothers, Edward, Noble and John Campbell, all of Holland Centre. Friends from a distance at the fun- eral were Mrs. Gilroy, Toronto, sister of the late Robert Crozier, and only surviving member of the Crozier family; ex-Chief Dixon and Mrs. Dixon, Toronto; Russell Nesbitt and Mrs. Nesbitt, Toronto; Alvin Bruce and Mrs, 'Bruce, and Miss Helen, of Seagrave, N8rman Holmes, Oshawa; Mr and Mrs. Burkeholder, Whitevale; Wesley and Marjorie Day, Toronto; Dr. Irvine and Mys. Lindsay, Mr. and Murs. Evans, Mrs. Thorndyke, Bethany. ------ to 4 THOU SHALT NOT KILL! 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