The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

vol xxxvii no 13 stouffville ontario thursday may 27 1926 do your friends admire your hair bring out its natural beauty keep it silky soft attractive with parke davis cos tar shampoo here is a preparation that contains both pine tar and cocoanut makes a rioh fragrant v lather keeps the scalp clean and white boc a bottle storeys drug store phone 1003 did you ever think what it would cost you to replace your furniture if destroyed by fire do you carry sufficient insurance to refurnish your home if not why the cost of insurance in a brick house in stouffville is less than lc per day per 1000 thomas birkett general insurance broker lawson block phone 18202 stouffville a c kennedy chiropractor church st stouflvllla monday wednesday and friday 9 to 12 a m mrs a griffiths oorsetiere for splrella corsete for stouffville and vicinity stouffville phone 15303 it easy limelight on the assessors roll district news the stouffville court of revision of the assessment roll to be held on june 4th promises to be more than a perfunctory affair we understand that one business man who failed to get redress asked for of the assessor has appealed not only his own assess ment but that of two of the coun cillors who are members of the court one of the interesting points about courts of this nature is that when an appeal is made the assess ment may be boosted still higher if the court so desires although the appeal is for a lower assessment what will happen friday night will the court alter the assess en of the business man and will it raise or lower the sesames t of the councillors appealed gainst as hav ing too low an assessment planting twenty thousand trees the government forestry dept have a gang of men working on the sand hills south ot uxbridge town which the ontario county council purchased for the purpose of refor estation twenty thousand trees are on hand and arc being planted as a start on the reforestation of about one thousand acres of waste land and when completed will save the surrounding land from being buried in sand the uxbridge township council have purchased a plot of ten acres on the east part of the wicks farm lot 26 con uxbridge which is one of the worse pieces of blow sand in the township and as soon as a few minor details are completed will have trees planted the trip to a happy meal time is an easy journey if you place our bread upon your taole its the one sure method of making your meal complete your friends and neighbors have proven this to be true why dont you ambrose stover baker implements at bargain prices farmers need not buy new imple ments if they come to my yard we have almost everything in the im plement line every article is guar anteed highest prices for hides wool and junk h herman phone 192 stouffvillb gas on stomach made mrs cook nervous for years i had gas on the stom ach and was nervous adlerika bas done more good thari anything signed lela cook one spoonful adlerika removes gas and often brings surprising relief to the stom ach stops that full bloated feel ing dont waste time with pills or tablets but let adlerika give your bowels a real cleansing bringing out matter you never thought was in your system j m storey drug gist stouffville do we really welcome them oscar pickett a lifelong resident of glen major and cliremout sec tion is dead aged 77 years st andrews presbyterian church scarboro will celebrate its 107th anniversary on june 27 lj2n a woman died in the collingwood hospital last week who had been a patient there for 22 years markham presbyterians have taken an option on a central property in that village with the intention of erecting a new church richmond hill has adopted day light saving and a wednesday half holiday the council have made tha latter change compulsory by bylaw the newly elected officers of the unionville lawn bowling club are p j dixon prest win caldwell icepresident and abaer summer- feldt secretarytreasurer the death occurred suddenly on thursday last week of mrs sarah percy widow of james percy who died ten years ago airs percy was horn near claremont seventythree years ago the daughter of james pugh a welshman summer dresses cleaned youll be surprised at the low cost chester company cleaners and dyers agent w h shaw phone 9612 stouffville on friday the writer stepped into the office of a professional man when the conversation drif ted to the summer tourist and the treatment of visitors and strangers to our town it is recognized as advantageous even in large cities like toron to where the traffic cop courte ously tells a stranger in the city that he has made a mis step and where minor infrac tions are oft tilmes overlooked by this important arm of the law towards motorists towns that do not have a welcome sign on every main road leading into the place are regarded as slow and out of date as a rule the sign em phasizes friendliness regardless of whether the community has it or not once there was a man who believed in signs and taking the one at the edge of town literally not those at the outskirts of stouffville he drove in prepared to havea real friendly time he walked the streets for an hour and not one person save the town cop who belched out that his car was not near enough to the curb spoke to this stranger now this is a mistake common to us all we boast of our friendliness and advertise the fact to the worm but how much do we exercise our shaking arm on strangers or discommode ourselves in order to give them pleasant re membrances of heir visit the tourist 3eason is about to open thousands of motor ists will pass through stouff ville will they get a kind re ception from you if they chance to pass your way that will cause them to want to stop hero again will you loosen up and act human to these strangers welcome signs are the most expensive things a town can have if tho welcome is not there when tho stranger arrives stouffville has welcome signs let us ask ourselves have we done our share in tho past to make them pay it is to be hoped that after this season is over every one of us can ans wer in the affirmative mcssrshiram and robert winter- stein were in markham on monday attending the funeral of their brother v j wlnterstein whose death is reported in our district column j s dougherty brother- inlaw of the deceased ajso attend ed the funeral send the tribune to absent friends the markham township fire en gine which is at the disposal of all the farmers of the township coupled with the unionville volunteer fire brigade made a hasty run to the farm of richard jarvis lot 1 con last week and extinguished a straw stack fire which looked at one time like a destructive blaze it was within a few feet of the barn the prize list for 192s issued by the newmarket horticultural so ciety is now available and will be found to contain many splendid prizes over 100 in cash silver cups vases and other priies grace the attractive list thre shows will take place during the season the peony show in june tho gladiolus show in august and the a3ter and dahlias show in september last thursday evening the new market citizens band the boy scouts and the newmarket fire brigade truck paraded about the streets of the town the demonstration was held for the purpose of giving pub licity to the cleanup week idea no matter how clean our town is kept at this season of the year it is never very difficult to find some corner of your premises which will be benefitted by a bit of raking and burning of rubbish clean things up and be proud of your premises so says the newmarket express a division court case at meaford arising out of the sale of a quantity of butter mixed with lard attracted a large crowd at the hearing john son and tomlinson of meaford had purchased 28 prints of butter from mrs geo s hill and placed it in the refrigerator the price paid for the butter was 35c a pound the quality of the 28 prints being extra fine customers brought back some of tho mixed prints and the merchants ask ed hill to take it off their hands but he refused to do so they sued for the price of the seven pounds which it seems had not been made by mrs hill although sold by her to the store judge sutherland dis missed the action as there had been no implied warranty on the part of the defendant as to the quality of the butter so the question of qual ity did not enter into the deal m w vincent j wlnterstein an old and esteemed resident of markham township and village passed away at his home in mount joy at one oclock on wednesday last week born at drayton ont on may 20 1853 mr wlnterstein came to markham township wnen a lad of 18 and excepting for a couple of years spent with his son the rev william wititerstein in hawarden iowa has lived in the township and village ever since he was engaged in farming of which he made a suc cess up to some fifteen ysar3 ago when heart trouble developed and on the advice of tils physician he sold his farm on the 10th concession markham and moved to tho village his wife who survives him is a daughter of the late john jacob lunau a pioneer farmer of mark ham besides his widow two sons survive rev wm wlnterstein of laurens iowa who was with him when he died and royden of abbey sask hiram and robert wlnter stein of stouffville are brothers to the deceased has been with his silvester jos mowder home from toronto over sunday messrs da u item lewis and cleve pearson spent the 2lth in midland misses mila and mima hoover of toronto were in town on saturday mrs e a button was visiting at her former home in wallaceburg recently misses hannah ana- nellie stiver were at their home in unionville over the 24th friends of mrs monkhouse church street will be sorry to learn of her continued illness mr john urquhart took a trip last week to jacksons point tor onto and port credit mr and mrs o h byam of maple were week end visitors with mrs w t byam and miss ethel rae perry of midland spending a week in town father and grandmother mr and mrs t w motored to their summer cottage on lake simcoe on monday last visitors with mr and mrs leslie kohbotham over the 24th were mr and mrs tran from toronto mrs cliff of toionto a former resident of stouffville was the guest of mrs n forsyth on sunday mrs r b hastings and miss louise hastings of toronto spent the holiday at the old home near iemonville miss whineta taun public school teacher at mount albert visited her parents over the 24th mr and mrs j w taun miss nina zeller of lindsay re turned- from north bay where she was called owing to the illness of her brother miss winnie silvester of toronto visited over sunday with her cou sin mrs w a silvester of church street north also miss hazel silves ter was home mr and mrs ernest forsyth have been visiting his mother on church street this week mr forsyth is on the staff of the north toronto col legiate on the holiday mr and mrs me watts motored to niagara falls where they witnessed the evening illumination which attracted so many people last summer mr w knapp and wife of hamil ton also mr and mrs j tupman trumpeter and their son of kit chener were guests or mr and mrs noah stouffei over the week end mr and mrs walter davey of to ronto- were visiting with his brother mr e j davey over the week end mr and mrs davey may spend the summer months here this year as they did last mrs dawson davis attended the funeral of mrs samuel hess in to ronto on wednesday mrs john grove of main street east was a sis ter to the late samuel hess who pre deceased his wife five years holiday visitors at james mowats on the 24th were mr and mrs magnus mowat and family of lind say mr and mrs w s hare of temperanceville and mr and mrs a j mowat and family of king a big surprise was arranged for miss zora clendenning on tuesday evening when her numerous girl friends in town met at the home of miss hattie ratcliff and presented her with a shower the bridetobe was the recipient of many useful and beautiful gifts we are glad to report that ken neth p zeller of north bay has re covered from his recent illness and expects to be back at his business the first of the month mrs chris zeller returned home on monday from north bay after spending sun day in toronto with her daughter mrs j lonergan girl friends in large numbers as sembled at the home of mr and mrs w b sanders on thursday evening of last week to tender a shower on behalf of their daughter mary louise in view of her approaching marriage the bridetobe was the recipient of beautiful gifts bespeak ing the esteem in which she is held by the young people of the town mr and mrs wm martin accom panied by their daughter and son- inlaw mr and mrs mccallum are spending a few days with messrs f c and leslie rowbotham hav ing motored all the way from their home at rowland wantoba the motorists made the trip in a mc laughlin car and spent eight days on the journey despite the fact that mr and mrs martin are72 and 73 years of age respectively they enjoyed every minute of the time and stood the test well airs martin is a former almlra girl while mr maiin at one time taught school there with the churches stouffville presbyterian next sunday service at 230 pm the public invited christian chimch edar morton pastor sunday may 30th rev p l graham ma of new market will preach at bloomington sunday morning at 11 oclock and at ringwood at 230 pm and stouff ville 7 pm united church of canada rev h s warren ba minister sunday may 30th 11 am rev d l gordon agin- court 7 pm the pastor theme se cond hand religion let us not forget the assembling of ourselves together baptist rev w w fleischer pastor sunday may 30th we take great pleasure in inviting you to our services on sunday the bible tells us that ttiere remaineth a rest unto the children of god our services seek to bring you the rest of which the bible speaks subject sunday evening a foreigners loyalty to an alien king come early and enjoy the song service baker hill and 2nd markham baptist churches the second coming of christ is it real is it near at hand what will it be like why toes the bible have so much to say and the present day pulpit so little to say about it pastor w s whitcombe b a will preach on the above subject next sunday baker hill 1030 am markham second 700 pm mennonite church a g warder pastoi sunday may 30th 10 am children who attend sun day school seldom alien juvenile court 11 am power of ho gospel 7 ipjni power of sin wednesday class meetings will be conducted this time by the class leaders preparatory to quarterly meeting east class at henry mc- mullens west class at byron boakes north of ringwood altona union revival meetings to commence on june 1st with m bricker pe as evangelist pray and plan and come young peoples meeting on mon day may 31st at 8 oclock topic blessings and perils of youth forrester mustard a quiet marriage was performed on saturday may 22nd by the rev r young at the manse stouffville willa audrey eldest daughter of mr and mrs nelson mustard and harry thomas forrester son of mr and mrs wm forrester all of the sixth line of markham being the contracting parties few appeals in tp the court of revision of th6 assessment poll of uxbridge town ship held at goodwood last satur day had a fairly light task to per form only two appeals were tiled against the work of tho ase3sor although of course there were a few other minor readjustments mrs emma dewart appealed on two properties as being assessed too high and wm huntington appeal ed against the assessment of his farm but in each case the assess ment was sustained ae christian county clerk claim ed exemption from taxation on pro perty bought by the county of on tario for reforestation exemption was granted by the court on all taxes excepting school rates dogs belonging to iboth wm hill and john norton died since the assessor was on his rounds and same were struck from the roll a number of names were added to tho roll for voting purposes been omitted when the court which is composed of all the members of the council adjourned business cards legal mccullough button barristers solicitors convey- ances c buttons block stouffville money to loan medical dr s s ball physician and surgeon office cor obrien and mala phone 196 drs- ira herbert freee consultation hours dr ira frcci 8 to 12 am mon wed frl 6 to 9 pm thurs sat tues thurs sat afternoons by appointment only dr herbert freel 9 to 12 am tues thurs sat 6 to 9 pm tues sat mon wed fri afternoon by appointment only dental j n dales lds dd jl dentist claremont honor graduate of royal college of dental surgeons and ot th university of toronto office over mr scotts store phone 1405 claremont dr d c smith dentist stouffville honor graduate of chicago and toronto university and the royal college of dental surgeons office over shaws store phone office 1011 residence 1018 no outside appointments e s barker lds dds dentist stouffville honor graduate of royal college of dental surgeons and of the university of toronb office in grubins block phone 8201 markham every tuesday offloo over geo crosbys store do you drive a car eye strain may be very easily aggravated by driving a car the attempt to focus the eyes on objects which you are pass ing rapidly errates the already strained eye dont give up the car but have your eyes attended to begin by letting us examine them to find out what causes the strain good sight is too valuable for your success and comfort to run the slightest risk of impairing them our equipment together with our skill and experience en ables us to determine exactly the condition and needs of your eyes see me and see better adam ryake optometrist watchmaker and jeweler 3 vjoers west of railway traeka phonb i5 sroxnrwwla trucman w eagleson has been appointed to administer tho 4950 personal estate of his brother robt lavergne eagloson teacher who died in markham township april 6 leaving no will his father robert eagleson three sisters and two brothers share real estate news vacant lots we have some excel lent sites at snap prices houses several worth while buys in homes both in town and coun try farms large or small acreage from 7 to 195 acres and at prices from 500 to 13000 call and see our listings loans we want amount from 500 up and can offer good mort- gega security jacob take over buttons or at yakes jewelry next mansion house stouffville boadwayb drug store stouffvtlle used gars wanted a number of vealing calves jas l ogden phone 5827 here are only a few of the dozens of used cars we offer for sale lato 1925 chevrolet coupe model ballon equipment price 075 1924 chevrolet sedan duco finish perfect order prlco 025 1924 ford coupe good order price only 305 1920 ford coupe fair order 200 remember we have many cars ranging from 50 up big var iety big bargains beare bros clayton telephone markham ont