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SHEPPARD & GILL Mr. Builder, we assure you that it will be to your advantage to get acquainted with our lumber values. Tell us your building plans and look over our stock. It will pay us both for you to come in and say “howdy.” Lumber Co. 51 Petawawa Avenue Newtonbrook, Ont. Phone Will. 738 Estimates Given MMOONOOOOO“OOOOOO D MOOOOOOONOOOOOOOM Richmond Hill mwg you BUILDER-MAN -- YOU'LL SHOW To US YOUR we Jones Coal Co. Helen Six-.Lpson Lynett J. F. Lynch ORDER HELEN SIMPSON FLOWERS For All Occasions Phone orders delivered any- where in North Yonge St. District HALL’S Q 315/? W’@E fi. 57% w CODN a THURSDAY, OCTOBER lst, 1942. Hall’s Service Station gas is rich and volatile.‘ This is Reason Number 3 why you should use it regular- ly, and gain maximum-a- mount of mileage per gal- lon with your car. “Be Ready With Reddy Power” OPPOSITE ORANGE HOME SHINGLING 2518 YONGE STREET (At St. Clements) Telephone MAyfair 1145-6 General Insurance Richmond Hill Telephone 87 Policies issued through this office covering Farm Property â€"Private Dwellings and their consentsâ€"Automobile â€"- Plate Glassâ€"Residence Burglary, etc. Claims Settled Promptly MAXI M1 1924 Old and New \Vork Asphalt and Cedar 15 YEARS” EXPERIENCE Roof Repairs a Specialty Let us send you lhe low ash radanukcd bud m1 J. R. HERRINGTON RICHMOND HILL C. BRETT INSURANCE Phone 188 1942 I come face to face with some- body in the High Street and I find myself thinking, Now, who IS that? And presently a name swims up from the deeps of memory. So this (I think) is the Miss» Soâ€"and-so who once scared me nearly to death with her severe glances at me; this is the Mr. Whatnot who used to look so tall and important. As- far as I can make out, nobody has died; they are all here still, and- livin‘g in the same houses. An astonishing place. I have just popped in to see the old dear who used to sell me can-dies when I came here as a kiddie. She is a cripple now, and there is a. strange face over the counter; but upstairs my old friend sits looking out, and beneath a thatch of white hair the same twinkling blue eyes laughed at me._ She was tickled] .to death when I told her â€" quite truthfully â€" that I have never bought a packet of candy since those days without hav- ing a picture of her somewhere at the back of my mind. My Old Nurse, Alice Then there is ‘Oldr Alice,’ who nursed me, many a time, when I was a baby. Alice is seventy-five now, but her pretty hair is still broWn, and she can cook with anybody. Ev- ery morning Alice comes along and smooths the path of life for 11.5, weeps over me a little and looks- as Grey Main Street ‘Only those of you who know Eng- land} can picture such a place. The main street, which: wanders down into the valley, is narrow andl grey, with shops and private houses, cheek by jowl, flat against the narrow sidewaik. Almost everything is built of the local grey stone, and every shop has a monbid‘ fancy for ibrown paint on its woodwork. Half way down the street widens to an irreg- ular square, and there stands the ancient market cross and the last of the old stalls or shambles â€"â€" the latter roofed over with old red tilCS and looking just as it did in thr- Middle Ages. Here and there some ugly building of the Diamond: Jubiâ€" lee period raises its head“ as a bank or Municipal building; and how those buildings have shrunk since I saw them as a child! They seemed very tall and grand thenâ€"as did manv of the people. I have met a lot of those people again during the past three weeks and, like the houses, they have grown short, podg'y and not at all awe-inspiring. We have no radio and no elec- triclty. Consequently my mind is now as dim as my eye-sight. Occas- ional trickles of news come through from some neighbour, but, to all inâ€" tents and purposes, the war might be five thousand miles away. True, soldiers march or stroll past these Windows all day, and there are har- riers at each end of the main street, but there is a kimfl of spurious peace about the place which irks me. I feel that no place in this country should suggest peace to such an extent. Well, I suppose I must be lenient with the old town â€" which was a little town, quiet and settled, in those far-off days before the Romans came to Britain! Somewhere in Englandlâ€"This time I feel as if I am writing to you from another planet. Nearly three weeks ago I had come to this little country town on family business, and real life has faded further and further into the distance with every- day. Of course, I am as homesick as a. child; I lie in [bed 0’ nights and: wonder what the Allotment is doing, and if the sheep-dog still s-niffs inquiringly undler my door. Every now and then my friends write and say ‘Do hurry back’; but who ever heardI of family business which allowed- itself to be hurried? There is a constant influx of solicitors, auctioneers and callers of all kinds, and one or the other of us seems to :be endlessly writing letters or sorting out ruvbbish. What a life! Life Goes on as Usual In Ancient Engfiish Vifiage Despite Wgr’s‘Alarms Life Insurance Always Attractive Particularly Now 12 Wellington St. E., Toronto Phone AD. 4646 : EL. 3119 TOMENSON, SAUNDERS, SMITH & GARFAT LTD. msmm HERBERT R. BUTT AGENT 18 Elizabeth St. RICHMOND HILL Telephone 25-R By Margaret Butcher So here’s hoping that life will soon resume its normal trend for me: life with its digging and chatter, its oldl friends and fresh ideas, its atmosphere of inspiriting struggle. After all, one is happier that way, even when the news is not so good, and the rations less plentiful than they are here. I have been promised a welcome home; and. back I shall go, a little dingier from living for weeks; in a suitcase a little more de- termined never, never to board. I have lost a job through this untime- ly interruption in my affairs, but who knows? Something better may come along. Anyway, the sight of that bulging truck made up for much; never was an out-of-work further away from desrpair. The Gardening Partner, in his usual blithe spirits, has taken» pen to paper. He tells me that the new potatoes were left in too long to be really new; the lettuce and spinach have oolted to seed; and if we don’t get rain soon ‘everything will per- ish.’ He completes his effort by putting the wrong address on the envelope, but since all is known about everybody here (and then some) the letter reached me without delay. I surmise that the G. P., taking everyâ€" thing into consideration, is enjoying himself in his own quiet way. It is only when he bursts into jollity that I feel something is really wrong. And what work it has been! A sal- vage truck has already rolled away from the door, positively filled ‘to the brim with good stuff for the war effort. And it has made me wonder if we are tackling our old folk in the right way? There must be a wealth of salvage in almost every house in this long street, if only one could persuade these people to send for the truck and) throw useless sentiment overboard. After all, of what real sentimental value is a bundle of bits and rags weighing over a hundred pounds, and who real- ly gets any joy out of a trunk filled with old: newspapers or a back room stocked with bits of old metal? And where is the pleasure in pictures hung in dark, unseen corners? I have come to the conclusion that we ought to have a new slogan: “Grandmas Must Give It Up.” Just think about it, Grandmas, will you? This house has been a revela- tion of useless hoarding, and there must be houses like it all over the world. Now the whole place looks brighter, fresh-er, more pleasant to live in â€" and certainly more easy to keep clean. What is more, it is far less likely to make a funeral pyrt for somebody, should an incendiary plop down on it one of these nights. And munitions are all that much the richer. Yes, give it a thought, Grandma. I-t’s worth it. Even up in the cemetery there is a strong smack of social exclusive- ness, I observe. There is a tendency for the Best People to herd together under large and expensive looking stones, while the rank and file are just so many little green, mounds on the slide of the hill â€"â€" and! so infin- itely more pleasant to look at. I fancy that I am being a shade difficult to “place,” for I am- (behaving in‘ an in- discriminate manner, talking to this person and that, and being equally discouraging to all who show signs of interrupting me when I am work- mg. Alice makes up for a lot; because I dlo l'Ot think I could ever live .in this kind of little town. Not for long. All those bits of gossip and those social distinctions -â€" so very baffling to one who can’t see a pin of diffâ€" erence between the status of one person and another! â€" are trouble- some. I am sure I should. horrify everynod-y by 'getting to know all the “wrong- p‘eople"â€"andi find them ever so much more interesting than the right ores. if, with the slightest encouragement, she would still pick me up and nurse me, bless her. THE LIBERAL, RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO “Machines cost money. Machines save us casualties. They help 130 preserve the lives of those brave young Canadians across the Seas» who, if they survive, mean so much 'to the future of this country.” â€" Hon. J. L. Ilsley. “ We, The People, Speak...” “The generosity of our citizenship into which men and women of many races haée been free-1y welcomed? has been repaid by unquestioned loyalty to our institutions and our cause."â€" Premie: Mackenzie King. “When peace comes, that peace will not be decided by a junta or a cabal or any clique of rulers. It must â€"- and it will be â€" dictated by the people themselves.” -â€" Hon. Ian Mackenzie. “Never was there so much evil and} never so much good in the world.”-â€" Dorothy Thompson. son “We have to win this war, if we want to live. There is only one roach to follow. We followed it in 1914)- 1918 and we won."â€"Premier Adelard Godbout. “Democracy is without doubt the best way of life, {but a way of life is of little use without a. proper sense of direction."â€"â€"Honv. R. B. Han- “If a man never makes a mistake, that man isn’t doing anything.” -â€" Donald M. Nelson. High Quality Spices, Extracts and full line of Household Necessities. Also 100% open formula mineralized stock, hog and poultry tonics. Insecticides, fly spray. Sold under my per- sonal guarantee. Help me and yourself to save gas by phon- ing or writing to Watkins Products ERNIE DURIE R. H. CROSBY, Secretary. R. S. WARD, Treasurer O. B. HEISEY, President Glde Tyme Dance Saturday Night Oder 1st, 2nd, 3rd 87th ANNUAL Richvale P.0. Phone Maple 64r4 Saturday, October 3rd Judging of HORSES, CATTLE, SHEEP, PIGS, POULTRY HORSE RACES ADMISSION 35c. CARS 2.26 Trot or Pace MARKHAM CITIZENS’ BAND under auspices of YORK COUNTY HOLSTEIN BREEDERS ASSOC. Markham and East York Agricultural Society THURSDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY BLACK and WHITE SHOW TWO GOOD RACES â€" PURSE $200.00 Friday, October 2nd WWW”W MASTER FED BIRDS Phone Thornhill 54 Poultry, Hog, Dairy and Dog Feeds YONGE STREET THORNHILL 79% Higher than the 1941 Canadian Average Your profits depend on the number of eggs your flock produces. You can make more money from higher egg production by feeding one of the Master Laying Mashes. Start now â€" Let Master rations help boost. your production. Master Laying Mash 20% Protein Red Head Egg Mash 171/275 Protein Master Breeder Mash LAY More EG For sale by Production Reports from a number of Poultry Farms feeding MASTER Rations show an average annual record of 201 EGGS PER HEN 350. CHILDREN FREE W. R. DEAN 2.17 Trot or Pace PAGE SEVEN 87 th ANNUAL