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stouffville may 3rd 1928 tt quality service the home town store salted peanuts fresh stock special price lb 20c kellogs all bran pkg 20c burford peas 2 tins 25c tomatoes large tin 2 for 25c fresh shipment clover leaf salmon tin 45c nu jell the jelly of quantity or quality 3 for 25c all flavors quick quaker rolled oats with china pkg 35c special price on clover honey in 5 and 10 lb pails order your sugar now for summer use very low price another big shipment of those quality prunes wonder ful quality you pay less for more ratcliff co town deliver phone 7112 what the people are looking for boots and shoes that the people are look ing for to suit all pockets are to be found at our store mens solid leather work boots mens and boys pancoe soles boys solid leather boots mens oxfords in patents kid side leather and calf womens misses and childs oxfords and straps also patents and kids remember we carry the lifebuoy tennis shoes none better repairing done as usual a g lehman the peoples shoe store stouffville ford masseyharris place your oders now for ford cars and masseyharris machines do not deplay as the sooner an order is placed the better service we can give you we have a large stock of ford and masseyharris parts on hand also a good stock of used cars for sale call and see us we will try to satisfy you d holden stouffville phone 184 ford and masseyharris agent seeds seed grain seeds oats mangolds barley turnips peas lawn grass spring wheat all kinds garden seeds alsike red clover alfalfa sweet clover timothy our seeds- are carefully selected from york county and government tested order your coal now for next winter s w hastings coal and coke always on hand phone 169 stouffville stouffville creamery company before buying a separator it will be to your advantage to inspect the new delaval with its many new fea tures to mark their 20th year in the separator business one of these new separators is now on exhibition at the stouffville creamery co stouffville ontario we are open tuesday thursday and satur day evenings notes and comments stouffville is to be congratulated on the life and energy shown by its horticultural society we look for big improvements in the town again this summer as a result of the or ganization tommy church mp and for many years mayor of toronto alone held up in the house of commons the bill to increase the capital of the bell telephone company now the tor onto telegram is putting him the class of heroes with tie boy who stuck his finger into the hole in the dyke and saved holland the town of uxbridge through the municipal council planted maple trees on all its streets last week where old ones had died out or in vacant places this is an act worthy to be emulated in stouffville our town woutd be more beautiful and inviting if mare shade trees were planted the council in coopera tion with the horticultural society should take up the question of tree planting taxes returned and uncollected in the town of uxbridge last year totals 3157 according to a return by the collector to the municipal council tills amount is unduly high for a small town of 1g00 people the situation indicates that too many people are unable to find employ ment in wliiah they can earn a com fortable living or that the tax rate of 54 mills as imposed last year was an undue burden on many of the citizens this yea uxbridge has been able to reduce the rate four mills the financial post recently printed figures to show that hydro electric power is being furnished in the province of quebec by privately owned companies cheaper than it is furnished here in ontario under public ownership following close onto this comes the announcement that electric light in toronto is to be advanced in price and the commis sion is out with big space in the newspapers to show that they are justified in their action they deal with every phase of the question excepting the vital one of too much overhead we havent any doubt but that hydro electric rates in on tario would be materially reduced to a figure below those quoted in the province of quebec if the overhead of the big ontario commission and the toronto commission were reduc ed to the same careful operating cost as the quebec company maintains whitby gazette in gananoque re cently the town council engaged a fnm of outside auditors who sent in a bill of 137373 and the reporter the towns only newspaper states that the only surprise about the audit was the bill as only a few minor errors were pointed out with no evidence of dishonesty in any particular the town now faces a deficit of 5700 as the result of the audit and of course it must pay in previous years the town got its audit ing done for less than half the amount charged by the auditors the town of whitby had a similar experience a few years ago and while it is only fair to stale that as the result of the auditors report a more uptodate bookkeeping sys tem in the municipal oflices was in stalled the bill which was close on s1000 was considered very high for the amount of value received coming up from toronto the other night says editor duncan of the wiatton eoho i blew myself to the luxury of riding in the chair car it costs 70c extra in the smoking compartment beside myself were two young men and a young woman i wont call her a lady the three were smoking cigarettes i do not fault the boys but tho girl went down in my estimation 100 why if it were ok for the boys why measure the girl with a different yard stick it it sounds like a fair question doesnt it well to be pre- fectly frank yes but somehow or other i cant i do not like thee mr fell the reason why i cannot tell but this i know and know full well i do not like thee mr fell anent to this question i heard a sermon in the presbyterian church a couple of years ago by n former pastor in the course of it he made reference to some of the modern ten dencies in speaking of women smoking he said it had no particu lar attractions for them nor did they enjoy it but do it for tho rea son that they think it so devilish smart and thats the truth of tho wholo matter ing agent but now he sees its possi bilities of greater service the appliances said mr gaby that are so helpful to the city dweller such as washing machines irons ans etc are of even greater help to the farmers wife but in addition the farmer can make use of a large number of devices which are even more laborsaving than those used in the city such for ex ample as urate pumps cream s-a- parators churns and milking mach ines which can all be operated bj quite small motors where electrical service ot great er capacity can economically be in- sailed additional machinery such as buzz and dragsaws choppersroot pulpors ensilage cutting boxes and threshers for whch the farmer usu ally employs auxiliary power can be operated electrically news and sometimes novel uses of electricity are frequently being dis covered according to mr gaby ho added that the shortage of farm labor was to a noticeable extent being overcome by the use of elec trically driven devices many ontario farmers even cut their wood by electricity some of them selling an amount of this fuel in adjacent centres thus making enough money to pay for their juice he instanced in addition the way that power was giving a fresh im petus to many a little local industry declaring that in almost every rural power district there were power- using industries such as brick yards tile yards cheese and butter factor ies gravel plants stone plants quar ries chopping mills and flour mills several oldfashioned portable saw mills had been supplied with elec tricity the supplying of power to the farm and rural communities of on tario has not been simply a casual and spasmodic performance on the part of the commission it has been a definite policy of service although from the point of view either of the amount of power distributed or of the capital expenditure involved the distribution of power to the power districts must always be a relatively small proportion of its activities a scattered population at long dis tances from the source of supply make relatively high annual charges for the capital investment in the necessary transmission and distribu tion lines only a small return can be secured from any capital invest ed the operating costs due to the distances to be covered are exces sive the load per mile of distribu tion system is small the load factor is low and the demand irregular be ing controled in part by weather conditions which affect most farm- el s in a given locality in a similar manner at the same time but in spite of these handicaps to j the distribution of rural power the hydro has already formed 153 rural power districts with definite boun daries ot wilch 107 are receiving service a rural power district roughly 100 square miles in area i3 not a set geographical district but depends on the economical distance which may be served from a central distribution ttentre at present there is a total of 2250 miles of rural distribution lines i serving some 19000 customer of these 6500 are more or less isolate farmers the other 12500 being agri cultural in the main but closely grouped in hamlets or other small communities as a working basis of distribution in a rural district the hydro com mission has bad to require threi farm contracts or their equivalent per mile of line compare this with the scores of users and the amount of power used per mile of distribution line in such a city as toronto and you have an idea of the problems which the com mission are meeting in bringing nia gara power to the farflung farmers of lower ontario mr gaby explained how the gov ernment has helped in giving tae rural communities a service thai helped to put living on a basis that approximated that of their urban irotheis and sisters the government ha said pass ed legislation to provide for grants inald of the capital cost of the in stallation of rural transmission lines at the present time this grant-in- aid is made to the extent of 50 per cent ot the primary and secondary equipment in other words the government pays half the capital c03t of the lines and equipment nec essary to deliver power from the dis tributing centre to the property of the individual consumers the grantsinaid thus given make it possible to extend hydroelectric power serviceto those engaged in and connected with agricultural pur suits in less densely populated dis tricts where otherwise such service would not be financially feasible hydro on the farm continued from page 1 pasteurization tank and i hp motor on tho bottle washing mach ine two hot water tanks wore iheated by electricity in addition to other motors and us general use in the house and hams the farmer and rural dweller generally according to f a gaby chief engineer of the hydroelectric commission of ontario has become generallv familiar with the uses and possibilities of electricity at first he thought of it merely as a light- our best advertisement 2iv is is cwjoweowjkoi d markham ontj cant be written in any newspaper or folder just ask the man who feeds marmill mash and scratch grains he will give you his own opinion of marmill an unbiased opinion so far as we are concerned and we are absolutely content to abide by his opinion marmill chick starter and chick feed are complete feeds for the first five weeks of the chicks lifethen- follow them up by marmill growing mash an developing feed supplied either with or without 2 per eort cod liver meal for safe by your local dealer s w hastings or direct from di i reesor sons makkham flour mills markham ontario save at our store smart spring urnishings for the oit16 you will enjoy looking over our store this spring with all the new assortments of tasteful spring acces sories for men boys young men women children and greatest of all for the home housecleaning time has arrived and we are prepar ed to show you very unusual patterns in curtains floor coverings rugs nettings etc below are only a few of the lines you can buy now on which we can show you excellent values and genuine savings reversible rugs 27x54 in rose sand blue brown and red shades at a very low price of 149 each mens spring suits from 1500 to 2500 fully tailored buy your curtain nets linoleum oilcloths and rugs wall papers from us open tuesday thursday and saturday evenings close wednesday at noon w h s h a w save at our store phone 9512 stouffville ont lm sep sgsgggjgpgggjgjiii i