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for cqugi a few doses of fjm coughs and hi i pletely balsamet i and dean the iai tubes i ch stouffville ontario thursday january 11 1923 boadwaj i am apn- grayct auditorijt phof alexp inaugural meeting ufo turnover of the council aver scotch flni black 90 babys allt value at ttfens vnfl at 90c n mens unj tions at j mens all 125 37 ladies e v j 3oys und at onl liff misses j ors mens j iville mens i grey are saturday blanft i grey jy childr boys i mens onl des irk and on- the a j a specialty on in touch menfat breeders ladlor dates and sffii ladj meh m school ont experience 7 stock m e all kinds f u attended to wis 0 soiu most h it and a the d small tiled thl trusted f- he tickets imw ppy l0 tt agent ft s ftkrd line ocean the membeis elect of the new council for the town of stouffville met on monday morning and sub scribed to the oath of office as fol lows reeve w e morden councillors alex scott f w sllversides geo t lee and b e bcebe at 7 oclock in the evening the j membersconvened for general busi ness with reeve morden presiding the following officers were ap pointed for which necessary bylaw was passed assessor frank sangster at a sal ary of s0 auditors j d aitchison harry perry at salary of 750 each pound keepers d mcconnochie s jones fence viewers jacob fockler elias hoover h elson member public library board for 3 year term dr f a dales member board health lemon baker sanitary inspector j nendick at 40c hour while on duty the reeve and treasurer were authorized to sign cheques and vou chers for the current year on motion of councillors beebe and silversics it was decided to pay a b hoover 500 on water works loan the imperial oil co asked the council to reaffirm their dicision of last year granting them permission to cross blake street in order to erect gasoline tanks on property they propose to buy the clerk was au thorized to write the company re questing a plan of what they pur pose to do mr herman jones will be instruc ted to put his scales into proper order for the safety of the public a discussion on the hydro ques tion and other matters took place in an informal way before adjourn ment the standing committees for the year were struck as follows roads and bridges silversides and beebe light and water lee scott sidewalks silversides beebe contingent silversides lee finance lee and scott accounts parsed tribune account 53 50 laurie bailiff3 sessions court 12 00 burkitt draying election expenses f pratt tor board for- power house e pullan supplies 14 s5 burkitt drawing 1 25 belting for electric plant 35 10 h d sawyer work at plant a g lehman exp toronto northern electric supplies electric supplies barret co oil church st 11 10 2j 30 1 25 7 70 5 52 6 12 15 50 fuers pacific i trusted tr ha tickets and i e no 384 iday evening loclc i lows hall f eu welcomo j w r sanders secreterj jlnanciai secy lies s3 toronto salaried future hid the road to- and failure is to training in otir ested write to- atalogue enter tt principal jways store ffville you will kxow him breates there a man with soul so dead who never to himself hath said my trade of late is getting bad ill try another ten inch advt if such there be go mark him well for him no bank account shall swell no angel watch the golden stair to welcome home a millionaire the man who never asks for trade by local line or ad displayed cares more for rest than worldly gain and patronage but gives him pain tread lightly friends let no rude sound disturb his solitude profound here let him live in calm repose un sought except by men he owes and when he dies go plant him deep that naught may break his dream less sleep wherein no clamor may dispel the quiet that he loved so well and that the world may know its loss place on his grave a wreath of moss and on- the stone above here lies a chump who wouldnt advertise walt mason church notes presbyterian the sunday school will meet each sunday at 230 pm instead of in morning as heretofore mexxoxjth sunday jan 14th w m mcgniro pastor stouffville 10 am sunday school classes for all 11 am and 7 pm preaching ser vices by pastor everybody welcome dixon hill special evangelistic meetings are being held at the church every even ing excepting saturday conducted by the pastor rev win h yates agisted by rev c raymer and other a song service at 730 preaching at s good speaking good singing come and hear the old fashioned gospel preached in the old fashioned way s sales notes ranches of this bank in rural sections render valuable service to fanners by acting as cus- dian for their sales notes or by discounting them jid making collections when due standard service makes the farmers financing sy x the standard bank or canada lvl assets over eightythree millions 1 branch a c burkholder manager nearly 100000 the severe weather of last sat urday was not very inviting to drive in and thus the annualmeeting of the stouffville ufo club was rather slimly attended the im portant feature was the receiving of the financial reports it was shown that 12000 was the turn over for the year in ordinary busi ness of the club while the live stock cooperative end of the business had a turnover of more than 83000 perhaps the most interesting re port given- was that presented by j w cleaver live stock shippers it is interesting to note that out of nearly 3000 animals shipped during the year only one hog was killed in transportation while another re ceived minor injuries as well as one steer the shippers figures in de tail are no cars shipped 53 no of- cattle 337 number calves 26 number sheep 326 number hogs 2022 cash value s3735s5 collected reserve fund 12842 losses and damage in transit 1 dead hog 3560 crippled hog 190 injured steer 400 and ex tra expense on 9 cattle held bvera weekend 1196 total 5446 with this amount- paid the- reserve fund stands at 7496 officers for 1923 are president stanley hastings vice pres earl drewery sectreas e honsberger directors abner baker d law d rusnell percy brown millionaire houseman dies last week mr george watson of this town was called to st louis illinois owing to the death of his cousin joseph nugent a prominent citizen of that city deceased died at el paso mexico where he had gone a year previous in the hope of regaining better health he was a man of immense statue weighing 225 pounds the st lonis daily journal devotes several columns to the life history of this successful horseman and pronounced him as kind loving and liberal to those de serving and further says in part-r- the life of- joseph nugent it printed would read like a story book he was 61 years old and wos born in canada and has been a horse- trader all his life from boyhood he roamed the woods of the brit ish dominion trading norses and growing up in the atmosphere until his word was taken as lasting and final in passing verdict upon an equine specimen he is survived by his widow two daughters one sister and three brothers his wealth is placed somewhere between one and five million dol lars cold wave over lastweek end the cold spell over the week end was a ripper on saturday night or rather 3 oclock sunday morning the mercury dipped to 10 below one citizen took the trouble to no- lice when he arose from between the quilts to put more wood on the fires it was so cold saturday night in the stiff wind that few were on the streets the worst of it- was many people had but little fuel while there was no actual suffering so far as wo can learn there was great anxiety in certain homes for fear fuel could not be had from anyone one east end citizen solved the fuel problem during the week by felling several trees in the orchard while another resident had to burn coal oil heater to keep jack frost out there was not a pound of coal for sale in the town on sat urday nor was there any wood in the hands of the dealers mr j l little who has secured several cars of dry wood from near kearne says the supply is exhausted and nothing but green wood can now be had neighbor was compelled to borrow from neighbor on saturday and one fellow dug up a half a bag of coal from out the corners of stiver bros bns at the station zero weather prevailed over sunday with a bitter wind as a consequence the church services were slimly attended one building would have comfortably held the united congregations and what a saving of fuel if union ser vices could be accomplished for a month or two at this season of the year on monday stiver bros received a car of semianthracite coal and- tuesday mr stiver had the freight bills for five cars of hard coal it was in the york yards on tuesday and may arrive here before this ap pears in print this does not mean that coal is plentiful stated mr stiver so those who require a supply had better get their orders in bifr crowd at carnival the first carnival of the season in the maple leaf rink was held on tuesday night the attendance was large and stouffville band render ed good music the prize winners are best fancy drkss lady miss monkhouse altona in a calendar suit representing 1923 second miss russell consolation prizes ivy saunders in highland costume the best gents costume was won by a lady miss hanna stiver repre senting george washington c shackel in the costume of a demon won second butcher steckley won the speed race f c hessel and geo collard wore judges anglican entertainment christ church s s christmas tree and entertainment held in ratcliffs hall on monday evening last was largely attended the tree was beau tifully decorated with goltfand sil ver tinsel and presents for the chil dren a most enjoyable congrega tional supper was served by the ladies of the church after which a lengthy program of vocal and in strumental music and recitations were given an amusing and cle ver little recitation was given by- miss ruth nendick a child of two years of age eli jali wismer marklinni suddenly at his sons residence 61 linsmore crescent toronto elijah wismer passed away after many years of illness on dec 25th the deceased lived all his life in markham township on the old homestead lot 16 rear con 7 he was a son of the late david l wis mer and one of tho third genera tion of the wismer pioneer settlers in the township confined to his bed much of the time and a sufferer for many years with a rheumatic affliction death came to him as a blessed messenger from heaven the funeral services largoly at tended were conducted by rev mr morton of stouffville at 130 pm wednesday at tho home and thence to markham st andrews cemetery where a large number of old friends and neighbors gathered surviving are his wldowsusannah strlckler wismer on son cbas w wismor two daughters mrs donald douglas of edmonton alia mrs milford badgero of syracuse n y two grandchildren and one great grandchild and one sister mrs k coleman of oshswa many floral tributes covered tfcrvkct ujrrtvk claremont wheres the woodman wheres the wodman good sleighing in and around clare mont come on in the water is fine a cut in bread now and then in shaving too but none in postage stamps tore talk of organizing a pick ering townshipsunday school club and a meeting is called for wednes day the 17th at brougham to con sider the matter a fine programme is arranged for at the annual s s convention at green river church this friday morning afternoon and evening mesdames brown and miller and little dorothy returned from a new years liolday with friends in tor onto miss mabel edwards of the victoria st public school staff returned the first of this week after a holiday seige of la grippe under the parent al roof the 15 to 1 hockey match score at the rink on thursday between the local seniors and the high school aggregations was an aggra vation to the latter who are remark ing on the quiet well well get them later on just you wait the clareniont baptist church held a successful annual business meeting thursda- afternoon jan 4th follow ed by a social supper and evening roll call service which was thor oughly enjoyed by all the annual reports presented by the treasurers and leaders of the various depart ments showed a balance on the right side financially and a gratifying ad vance in the missionary and other educational activities of the church the ladies mission circle had con tributed 112 besides considerable reliefand other work themission bantfis supporting a native telugu student- and the young peoples union a native pastor in india the sunday school had held its own although suffering through the pre vailing sickness in the congregation losses through death and removals of valued workers had been deeply felt but there was a fine spirit of fidelity and hopefulness evidenced both in the reports and in the roll call greetings of the members of which there was a goodly number in person and by mail from absent ones personal notes we are sorry to note that mrs j ratcliff is still quite poorly mr bert kester of saskatchewan is visiting his father mr geo kes ter miss reua fleury has returned after visiting mr and mrs h d sawyer mrs wm morden attended the funeral of the late mrs leonard j morden at uxbridge yesterday mrs nelson smith has been quite seriously ill for the past week with j grippebut is getting about again mrs duncan campbell mrs am macphail and mrs wilkinson all of uxbridgtt were visitors last week with mrs geo wajtson miss mccarty and mrs barker attended this week the reception given by mrs dr benson nee miss lola meek at collingwood the many friends of mrs f w silvester will be pleased to learn that her mother who has been so seriously ill lias taken a turn for the better i mr john williams of newmarket father f richard williams living near stouffville died at his home on tuesday last the late mr williams was well known in stouffvillo hav ing lived near here a number of years previous to removing to new market dr smith and mr a d bruce attended a banquet on tuesday evening at the king edward hotel toronto tendered by sir james woods to the lay representatives of the toronto presbytery about 500 guests were present fourteen new men in york cy council have you got your nyals galander forthe coming year there is one for you at the market drug store geo collard druggist stouffville ontario v as a result of the elections in ivklunexy at half price christmas novelties and fine selection of wool on jiand mrs m watts laivsons block stomffvliie j a york county 14 new members were returned to the county council v of a total of 47 last year there were 17 new men out of 43 the landslide in york township is the only feature of elections which is exciting comment of the 14 new members two formerly sat in council and one has a long ancestry of reeves and- coun cillors behind him rout mccowan comes back as reeve of scarboro after an absence of one year reeve thos legge of aurora sat in the county council in 1908 this year his son henry legge also enters the council as deputyreeve of king township in mimico alex john ston is replaced by arthur edwards who has served several years as a councillpr reeve robt ainsworth was reelected a few new councillors york township has contributed three of the new members t j glover j galbraith and r hmac greggor north york two jasbuch- anar and w g scrace s j totten deputyreeve of weston we mor den reeve of stouffville and a f j wilson reeve of markham enter the county council for the first time elections in scarboro again gave the northern section representation in the township council in the upheaval last year the south elected a solid slate the new reeve robt mccowan while living in the south is a farmer and a member of one of the oldest families in the township while jm t wier the new third deputyreeve comes from the nortii leaside is acquiring the habit of having an election after several years when general acclamations were the rule mayor ormsby and reeve jas lea were reelected in county conncil as a body york county council is not fond of change the average service of the members is about 10 years five of its members are ex- wardens one of whom a e pugs- ley has served for nearly 20 years other exwardens reelected are j mgardhouse reeve of weston wm keith reeve of newmarket alex macmurchy reeve of king chas e willoughby reeve of north gwillim bury and the retiring warden richard cronsberry reeve of geor- ginat while there are 14 new men elected only nine old members were defeated the rest resigned cut flowers and ferns wedding bouquets and funeral designs muston nurseries stouffville phone 7001 r a stouffville markets thursday jan 11th dairy butter 33 to 34 eggs 55 to 56 ducks 25 to 11 geese 20 to 23 chickens 20 to 26 turkeys 34 to 35 cattle hors c hogs 9vafl to 1050 good butchers 500 to 600 medium butchers 400 to 500 common butchere 300 to 400 calves per cwt 7 00 to 10 00 sheop por cwt 2 00 to 5 00 sheep skins 40 to 75 beef hides butchers 9c pound beef hides farmers 8c pound y grain market red winter wheat 100 to 110 white wheat 100 to 110 spring wheat 90 to 105 goose wheat so to 105 barley 56 to 60 buckwheat 70 to 78 oats 40 to 42 ryo 7fto so x births gould at ringwood on jan 1 1923 to mr and mrs fred gould a daughter henry at chicago 111 to mr and mrs fred henry nee flor- encestouffer on jan 4th 1922 a daughter is stouffville dead we say no not so long as stouffville citizens support stouffville industries oud mora than this stouffville citizens will be much alive by eating our delicious nutritious loaf its the one bread that is uniform in quality and weight visit our bake shop and see the sanitary condi tions under which our bread is made ambrose stover we deliver to your home i trucking long and local distance hauling prices moderate geo valder west of standard bank stouff ville phone 1603 0e30e o ioxaox 10e3qx 1 o aei extra special table of loo hats i for saturday and aj next week a table g of 100 hats also bargains all through the store 5 telephone 4303 mrs f wilson th steers er about f pieoae nionvllie 10c20i