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strawberries i indications are that the crop will be good but short lived as the plants have been held back by the cold spring bringing all the fruit on at once having secured one of the finest berry gardens in the county we are prepared to take care of your canning order at the lowest price order at once so we can supply when the berries are at their best ratcliff co stouffville june 26th 1924 the tribune is published j thursday afternoon terms 200 a year in advaac a v nolan publisher stouffville ont equipping mirutco high school the above debentures will be sold by tender editorial comment s p e cia ls in boys and youths heavy canvas trimmed leather soled boots boys size 1 to 5 225 youths 11 to 13 good buying 200 regular prices 275 250 glehm z footwear of me s t o uf rville phone 43q1- b mm summer time toggery of cool material for the ladies ah ready with new and natty lines of hot weather goods at low prices straw hats shirts underwear sox ties and beautd7ul house dresses j l little west end stouffville what is spring without an overland where can you get the same value for so little money overland body is strong and durable as any 1800 car excellent upholstering and the new engine has increased power we invite you to our show rooms at rear of todds old carnage shop big dunlop tire special at 1050 wagons buggies harness robes and farm implements todd scott phone 3006 stouffville iwarket3 eggs 26 butter 25 oattl hogs fcj hogs smooth 325 hojjs select 900 calves 700 to 900 butchers cattle 6 to 9 cows 300 to 500 common calves 450 butchers 700 oraxti oats 40 to 46 fall wheat 1 00 goose wheat as barley 62 to 67 stouffville try our milk and we feel sure you will ba satisfied our premises are absolutely sanitary and wa invite you to call and inspect the dairy back of that the milk and cream comes from good healthy cows fftksh buttermrlk and sweet cream the maple leaf dairy h gilkoy prop phona us and our rig will call phone sios stoajlvllle ii8bssi there aro 74 inspectors ot public and district schools in ontario and the legislature paid them 143- 21725 last year the big printing firms of toronto which have the name of their pub lishing house prominently advertised on every school book they publish do not print text books at the price advertised in the books says the chesley enterprise they get direct grants from the legislature to pay the cost of the plates and any loss they may have at the low price of printing the school books this ex tra comes under the heading of what is known as subventions to publish ers as supplementing retail prices of text books heres the haul six firms got from the provincial treas ury copp clark co 1357818 t eaton co 10669294 wj gage co 13212 hunter rose co 17459 mcmillan co 147516 ryerson press 2292115 the t eaton co isnt printing those pub lic school books so cheaply after all canada now has a flag of its own that has been ratified in both eng- lnd and in ottawa for flying on a public holidays on public buildings in the form of a red ensign bearing on the red background the national emblems of the five people who made up the original population of the country in a shield on the red of the ensign which is divided into five parts are shown at the top the lions of england and directly opposite the rampant lion of scotland below the english leopard is shown the harp of ireland and on its right is the fleur de lis of france right at the bottom occupying the full meas ure of the escutcheon are three maple leaves this is the new cana dian flag to take the place of the old red ensign with the provincial arms which is now used by the cana dian merchant marine it is just printed and being shown to the pub lic for the first time collingwood bulletin york co council time session tjuder way york county council met monday afternoon june 16th for the begin ning of their june session there being almost a full attendance a budget of correspondence- was re ceived several items creating dis cussion that bordered upon motions amongst the iptters received was one from the ontario plowmens as sociations stating that owing to be ing unable to secure suitable lands the plowing match would not be held in york count- this year but would be held in peel county judge coatsworth reported by let ter that the york county police commissioners had no jurisdiction over township police and only con trolled those that are paid by the county unless the county decide to pay the township police salaries the commissioners have nothing to do with them he reported a petition was received from onion school section no 21 north york requesting that a board of arbitration be appointed to dissolve the uss and create a new sec tion in harrington district to repair roads the toronto and york road com mission reported that owing to the late season this spring they had been unable to make their annual tour of inspection of the county roads and stated fhat no work of very large proportions was being undertaken this year reeve gard- hmis of weston stated that tho commission would make a tour ot inspection in the near future and all roads in the county would be looked over and those in bad condi tion repaired are you going to repair the road north of ballahtrae asked reevo morgan baker of whitchurch the commission will look over that road but we will not promise to pave it this year although wo will put it in good repair stated william keith mpp warden w j gardhouse invited all the members to a visit to nia gara falls on tuesday and council left on the early boat on wednes day morning j maevicar provincial engineer in a short address said that after this year the townships would receive 30 per cent of the cash expenditure on roads and 00 per cent of the roads superinten dents salary this year they re ceive 20 per cent anil 40 per cent clerk to be appointed the council decided to furnish a clerk to assist magistrate t h briinton in connection with his work in the county court since april when various municipalities adopted a police system of their own the work of magistrate brunton in mak ing reports and receiving payments of fines has been accordingly in- creased until there has been con fusion the bylaws committee was in structed to prepare a bylaw guaran teeing he issue ot debentures a- mounting to 95000 for the equip ping and construction of richmond hill high school a bylaw war p4ssd guaranteeing the issue of de bentures amounting to 20000 for deputations from three scboo sections occupied the major portion of the york councils time thursday afternoon a delegation from sec tion no 4 requesting payment for the maintenance of york cottage pupils a total amount of 41670 had its petition referred to the edu cation committee to be paid if found correct after some discussion the bylaw committee was instructed to prepare a bylaw appointing a t wilson pw pearson and ttrench as arbitrators to consider the request of the ratepayers of section 21 j north york for dissolution of the section at present this section comprises a union section with the town of weston the petitioners contend that an unfair assessment is impos ed on them and as they are now in a position to maintain their own school section wish to do so com plaining that the 600 acres of land taken over by the county in section five whitchurch for reforestation would so reduce the school taxes in that area as to cause much hard ship a delegation requested the council to help them in this matter although not compelled to pay taxes on this land the council agreed that taxes should be collected by the sec tion on a fixed assessment the county commissioners report was adopted it was decided to take no action with regard to the unopen ed interboundry line south of clalr- ville between the counties of york and peel full accord existing be tween each of the counties repre sentatives on this matter county tax rate on friday afternoon the council struck their tax rate 64 mills for general purposes or twofifths of a mill more than last year the in crease being occasioned by extra road improvements the total amount levied for the various purposes was 48575657 the amount per municipality as fol lows for stouffville 288036 markham 277292 whitchurch tp 1620309 the council decided to try out for one year at least the present system of policing with six permanent offi cials notwithstanding a motion to dispense with these officials be cause of reported overlapping with the work of the township staff giant to local horticultural society on the recommendation of the finance committee the council ap proved of the following grants for the soldiers memorial at wood- bridge 250 north york township horticultural society 25 north york poultry association 25 r j rogers district representative of the dept of agriculture 500 markham rose association 25 mimico dahlia association 25 stouffville horti cultural society 25 a raise in the honorarium of the warden from 500 to 600 council then adjourned to meet again on tuesday afternoon new books in the public library the public library board are al ways ready to get books of general information that are asked for by the public the following are some recently placed on the shelves the canadian almanac 1924 a volume of abundant and valuable information about conditions and men in various positions in life in canada today pundita ramabai by clementina butler a brief account of the life of one of the most notable women of the day recently deceased who did a marvellous work for her sisters in india four epochs of life by elizabeth h muncie stories prudences sisters by the author of prudence of the parsonage eve to the rescue by the author of prudence of the parsonage the bells of blue pagoda carter cochrane the well of st claire a france the soul of ab lincoln bbabcock bars of iron ethel m dell love of the wild mckishnie the right stuff ian hay bobbie general manager prouty fan of belseys freeman the charing cross mystery j s fletcher the secret city hugh walpole the white cipher henry leverage the gay cocade temple bailey the murder on the iinks christie juvenile ruth fielding at cotrege ruth fieldin on the stlawrence the remaining numbers of the bob- sey twins series 8 volumes ot tie bunny brown and sister sue series older boys hooks on order have not yet arrived in response to the demand for books in the interests of the hor ticultural sociey the following have been ordered but have not yet arrived in the meantime there are other books in the interest of the gardener in the library making a garden to bloom this year by grace tabor making the grounds attractive with shrubbery by grace tabor making a garden ot perennials by w c egan making a bulb garden by grace tabor notice in order to secure balance of need ed rney for our school fair occur- ing ou sfpt 13th a- canvass will br made of this town th first wee of july aocaos w h shaws 3030 o a o great stock reducing sale i owing jto the backward sea son in a great number of lines we af e overstocked in and we are sacrificing them at very low figures 35 mens suits to clear at 1495 15 mens raincoats reg 1000 and 1500 to clear at 495 15 all- wool ladies dresses to clear at 895 12 allwool ladies navy suits to clear at 895 10 dozen mens summer caps to clear at 139 500 remnants consisting of ginghams table linens towellings and dress goos to clear at very low prices w h shaw phone 9512 stouffville store open tuesday thursday and saturday evening closed friday afternoon during summer months a o a o o q o o 0 o a 0 o o n o o o 0 o a o n o o o o 0 o a 0 a u o u a o 0 o o 0 o o 0 o aoaoc i0e30e loiaoe o z0e30 seeds for sale fresh turnip seed mangold seed seed corn lawn grass seed also garden seeds our stocks are all new and prices are right f t hill co limited office phone h0l hoh3e 189 l e todd managing directot