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stouffville ont thursday march 4 1937 the tribune published every thursday at stouffville ontario yearly subscription rate canada united kingdom 200 united states points j250 a v nolan jp editor and publisher editorial think before speak you pew people realize the import ance of a pleasant wellmodulated voice it makes a great difference to a person meeting you for the first time whether your voice is soft rasy whiny or harsh unconscious ly we judge people to a certain ex tent by their voice it is difficult for you to notice your own voice critically or even that of youii friends but if you think carefully of those persons whom you dislike you may be surprised to see how many of them have unpleasant voices it is much easier to criticize the voice of a lecturer however if you consider what lectures you like best to attend and then think of the pro fessor who gives them the majority of them you will probably find have pleasant speaking voices no one this should be a fairly safe general ization likes a nasal squeaky or whiuy voice it makes all the differ ence in the world to what you say if you say it in a voice that is going to grate on other peoples ears or that is going to ripple in upon them softly some have naturally harsh voices but many people have been able to overcome them in the past and with patience and honest endeavour many will be able to do so again in the future consider your own voice can you improve it first black fox pelts brought 2000 each the pox farming industry on prince edward island is now a 3- 000000 a year business the first sale of pelts began about thirty years ago and they brought 2000 each on the london market at that time the breeding of black foxes was more or less of a secret business but along about 1909 it came into the open market and has steadily grown ever since with the increase in fox ranching the output of pelts grew and prices came down till today the average price paid for a good pelt is around 40 at that however it is a good pay ing business if you understand the little animals well sw99 early events reviewed w j white reviews pioneer days of stouffville events dating back three quarters of a century fowl wanted highest market price for live fowl sam golden apply at e penuocks carols candy we are now handling the famous carols candy made with pure cream and the finest creamery butter half pound one pound 2 pound boxes vandorf special 6 bars pearl soap 25c with 1 regular size package handy ammonia free evaporated apples per lb 14c canned apricots per tin 17c the new manna cereal per package 28c good humour frumenty per package 23c tea cup orange pekoe tea get a unit of the handsome english chinaware freda pattern with every pound old colony maple syrup bottle 25c bulk cocoa 2 lbs 25c cooking figs 3 lbs 25c frozen salmon smoked fillet fresh oysters herrings ciscoes fresh fruits fresh vegetables ratgliff co stouffville ontario mr herbert e oliver was serv ing on jury last week mr and mrs george sproxton and family were guests at mr and mrs scanlons in toronto on sunday miss blanche atkinson and friend had tea thursday with mrs r sproxton and family we congratulate misses mabel carr and jean lundy on winning the prizes in the intermediate and junior classes of the temperance oratorical contest in newmarket last thursday afternoon miss- blanche atkinson of raven- shoe spoke in the senior class and won second prize mrs nelson bostwick had a rather bad fall in her home last week and has been unable to at tend her household duties as form erly mrs bostwick is remarkably smart for her advanced age we are pleased to report that mr edgar rose is slowly improving ladies aid was held in our church basement on wednesday of this week the cgit will meet at the home of miss olive ireland on satur day all young girls cordially invit ed mrs george sproxton is all smiles she was fortunate in winn ing the lucky draw at ray marshalls chick hatchery the prize is a fine dinner set the provincial temperance con vention will be held in toronto on thursday and friday of this week a number from here are planning to attend the yps are holding a special service next sunday evening at 730 pm a missionary speaker from toronto will give an address eboe d ionot xocaor aoi iocxoe7i d shaws weekly store news showing of new early spring frocks a delightful showing of new styles in street and afternoon frocks in new patterns of figured crepes and silks short and long sleeves and with smart and attractive neck lines in the face of advancing prices in all lines we are still keeping our prices very moderate 325 to 495 clearing odd dresses we have gathered together a few odd lines which we are going to clear regardless of cost some allwool some silk crepes and rayon crepes not many of them and not out of date styles but smart little frocks that will prove extraordinary value at the very low prices there are all sizes among them and it will be worth your while to come in and see them coloured cotton tweeds and crepes a splendid showing of cotton tweeds and cotton crepes in desirable pattern regular ly sold at 29c per yard and in order to make room for our new spring stock we have re duced to 25 cents allwool and silk and wool underwear a good time to supply your present or future requirements we dont like to carry over stock so we have made drastic reduc tions on all these lines all this seasons goods come in and ask to see these lines new seasons prints our new 1937 prints are now in stock and you will find the new patterns exceed ingly attractive 36 wide and sunfast and tubfast we are showing a very wide range at 16c 20c 25c 29c wool blankets still a few pairs of white ailwool blan kets to be cleared out pink or blue borders these are the very best quality blankets and are genuine bargains at this price regular per pair 750 600 cotton batts we have had a very gratifying response to our efforts to provide the best quality batts for our patrons 1 lb natural 30c 1 lb white 35c fine quality 42c extra 50c 2 comforter batts 85c bitex silk hose in all sizes and in black white and all col ours our whole stock of these fine quaity hose to be cleared out at an amazing reduc tion regular per pair 150 for 89c allwool and silk and wool hose end of the season clearance of these hose it will pay you to stock up for your future requirements at these prices silk and wool full fashioned regular for 79c allwool regular 95c and 89c for 69c new pure silk hose select your easter hose from our new stock with all the new spring shades to choose from mercury hose are always de pendable both for appearance and wearing quality per pair 75c 95c new 1937 wallpapers our new 1937 wallpapers are new in stock and we are sure that you will find them fully up to the standard both in quality and beauty and we invite your inspection the w h shaw store xoexoi ioc sox i0e30e a short time ago i received copy of your excellent paper print ed in a place that 1 hold especially dear it contained an account of the celebration of the sixtyfirst anni versary of the wedding of myself and wife it was very kind of you to give it the publicity you did i know that editors are not infallible for i have gone through the mill myself so if you credit me with having as parents mr and mrs edward white the honors are mine tout in all fairness i want the onus to be lifted from- any memory that they or should i say their progeny may have i believe i remember them and as splendid people but myohmy they were i think english and i a true and blue irishman of parents both of the north of ireland could not for a moment shelter myself behind the cloak of those who were english surely not my parents were john and margaret white dating themselves and their forbears as north of ireland stock of lineage dont know how long they didnt own houses nor farms tout did for a time keep a store a store that i am satisfied didnt keep them after a few short years with an accumulation of istock that didnt attract buyers they left for a newer and further west of ontario or that as then known as upper canada my conscience clear and your apologies accepted i will as briefly as possible probe the brain cells settle into one of my frequent reminiscences and gather up frag ments that might interest those who can exercise sufficient patience especially those of the midnear eighteenth century to listen to the revealing of such things as meet my own fancy even if you and your readers may suffer at the desolatc- ness of the- fabric someone may say why resurrect the past any kind of a past in palliation despite what happened the wife of that fellow lot and the remembrance of it i would like to quote yesterday that far silent land in memorys moonlight fair should bo remembered- for the beauty and the happiness that we once found there thats my desire and i shall try and observe the sentiment as fully as possible here as i sit at my fire side this beautiful winter day with a thirty above as reported by my son who has just returned from town with the mail and a few things for christmas my mind is carried back to that near midcentury period just mentioned why my parents seleated stouff ville as a fitting place for my nativity i have no idea had there been any choice in the matter i am sure the vote would have been unanimous in my mind i have carried all those years with deep and pleasant thoughts the years in which i emerged from first seeing the light of day to those when i wore che clothes of childhood to those when i wore fathers made- overs to those when i was given my first pair of long boots with their colored tops and copper toe pieces the- handiwork of my father who at his workbench fashioned them as he fashioned the footwear of many of those of the surrounding country what a change shoes known as shoos were for girls and women it was long boots for men and grow- ingup boys they were a marvel in style and build saying nothing about inconvenience they were long boots reaching well up to the knees they had colored tops and were pulled by the use of leather straps when removed at night it was mother whores the boot jack your readers wont know what a bootjack is im not going to enlighten them by a description it would take up space for matter just as important now that i find myself on the subject of dress let me tell you of somo of that worn by the ladies of that day avoiding undies and that sort of thing it was just before school hours one bright morning in may that 1 was passing leaneys store i may tell you more about this store later on that mr kent the head clerk and the only one was unpacking a case of goods my attention was drawn to what re sembled an oversized bird cage curiosity impelled me to ask what it was and its uso the answer came if a hoopskirt or crinoline an article of womens wear a demonstration was at hand there drove up to the store a woman hail ing from a nearby concession attached to the light wagon was a beautiful span of grays splendid horses wore bred and raised toy the farmers of that day that is those who had been able to omorgo from the- ox stago in the wagon could be seen baskets of eggs and a crock or two of butter which sho doubt less intended to trade in for groceries or other needed articles for the farm driving the team up to a hitching post she began the pro cess of alighting exercising unusual care she didnt set one foot on the front wheel as the unhampered girl of today would do giving one spring and landing gracefully on her feet she slowly rose lifted herself carefully gathered her skirts around her and as slowly descended in this she succeeded but not as well as she thought in her desire to hide from several pairs of eyes a pair of ankles that she neednt have been so careful about nor ashamed of for as one of the spectators said they were a beauti- ul pair she entered the store took one of the stools on her sido of the counter between making her selec tion of goods and keeping her skirts in position in her desire to he comfortable she had a busy time that was a demonstration of the hoopskirt only a rew years will have passed if a visit were made to the nuisance ground there would probably be found the remains of many oldtime hoopshirts the girl of today should rejoice that darnel fashion abolished them and that the day of their existence had long since numbered them as antique socialism and its true meaning socialism was an ism that ex isted and flourished away back in the eighteenth century and further than that yet there is a group of people who weave around them selves a badge they profess to think call it socialism there is no wish here to criticise the doctrines they may hold but it is claimed that in all fairnoss they should not proclaim themselves as the originators of socialism there was a true socialism in days and years before and during the civil war in the united states it was practised in upper canada of which stouffville was if not then but has become later on an import ant centre i had got homo from school with a bundle of books under my arm i rushed into the house my home to deposit my load ibefore starting out for a mile or two of a run to bring in the cow i ushered myself as any boy of my age would do only to find my progress impeded by a framework surrounded by ladies gathered from all parts of the vill age busily engaged sewing on a multiplecolored quilt my entrance was unnoticed and gsnt that a babel of voices stifeto sew and sing talk over in one corner the only corner miss lang was playing the melodeon no not piano no not organ i said melodeon and im going to stick to it piano and organs there wasnt any of either anywhere in the two counties the ladies were having a good time and every face expressed it that was socialism they were the true socialists showing to tho fullest de gree the true meaning of the term by helping their neighbor with her quilt tho applcpnrinji bee in the fall the fall of the same year i think it was i went over to holdens place it was evening seated on chairs and stools and some of them on the floor were those who today would be said to be boy and girl friends in that day they were beaux and ihelles the same hut only in name over in one corner were apple barrels that had originally been full but now rapidly approaching emptiness owing to the demands made upon them by the applepeelers corers and stringers it was a paring bee which doubtless afterwards to some of them resulted in the same thing with a different spelling the evidence of the preacher would substantiate this tho paring bee is over ropes stretched across the room carry strings of quartered apples for drying purposes as the word went around that the barrels wore empty tables and chairs were piled up in the corner or shuffled to a nearby porch there sounded the notes of a fiddle yes i said fiddle and im going to slick to it i didnt know that a fiddle and violin were of the same family un til some sophisticated individual came along and enlightened me and i didnt thank him i still call it a fiddle and im going to con tinue its notes gave life to the feet whieli soon marked time as were played the enthralling tones that brought out cotillions schottischos polkas squaro and other dances and were kept up with unceasing vigor until early morning that was an emblem of socialism but not the socalled article of today a visit to tho sugar bush it was anothor ovening an even ing just before tho breakup of winter that out in front of leanys store a couple of sleighs might have been seen each having its load of boys and girls men and women all ready for a start for buggs woods his maplo woods where had been tapped a number of maple trees the sap was flowing in good quantity juicy and sweet over tho splendid trail did i say trail well if i havent almost disclosed the part of the dominion which has been off and on my habitat for the past fifty odd years away out in prairio country a few hundred miles east of the rockies where roads arc spoken of as trails over splendid roads made for nnd by the teams used in hauling timber from the ridges transporting it to tho grand trunk railway fifteen or twenty miles distant then to be carried to seaport and by ship to the old couutry for conversion into ship- timbers but pardon the digression 1 was telling you about the sleigh loads of energetic humanity on the way to buggs woods where the maples grew and the sap flew or rather flowed a huge fire was ablazing in a clearedoff space a welcome to our arrival but youngster i was one of the party i would have been called a stow away if discovered on board a ship i had avoided being seen as i was hidden in the ample folds of the dress of one of the ladies if you have never taken part in a sugar- ingoff you dont know the pleasure you have missed this was one of tho events of the year the huge cauldron suspended from an iron with a great fire beneath soon started the sap boiling as it reach ed the necessary consistency it was ladled out generously snowpiles were convenient and taffy plenti ful can you imagine the charm not only of the saccharine element but the singing with accompanying music that swept with resouancy of melody through the surroundin woods making tho welkin ring as the notes of those welltrained voices echoed and reechoed throughout the entire evening 1 would like to go to another wont someone in vite me these people weresocialists but entirely different outlook on life than do chose disciples of the so- called socialists of today those who have adopted a title to which they have no license the barn raising of yesteryear there was to he a barnraising out at ira laws place timber had already been hauled some twenty or thirty neighbors had gathered for the bee barnraisings were not an unusual event they always at tracted a crowd not only of those who were to take a part but of scores of others who were there to cheer for either side the sido of their particular choice soon the fun began as well as the work the timber was squared to exact propor tions jack simpson was boss of one side and joe hoover of the other eight or ten men on a side now they are ready up heave cheer after cheer dare after dare up go the sides then the roof tim bers and in a trice shorter than seomed possible there is the com pleted frame of 30x60 barn its supper time mrs law with the help of halfadozen or so ladies has cooked a meal what a meal and what appetites then hero conies the sound of a fiddle floor has been laid on the floor joist of the barn probably a little rough in places but what of it highland flings and other dances night approaches lanterns are suspend ed and the rollicking continues until midnight maybe until morn ing and wasnt it a dance well yes there may have been some stimulant hut the man of that day knew his capacity in the matter of indulgence the doctored article that the bootlegger of today dis penses was unknown then they were socialists and of the true order continued next week to be given away absolutely free a new standard ford v8 coach 60 hp by d holden sons ford dealers at stouffville markham and 3290 danforth avenue toronto to the winners of the luckvdrawn ticket at a public demonstration on july 1st 1938 terms and conditions free duplicate tickets will be given on purchases as previously carried out in former years see our advertising phamplets for particulars we have installed in our premises at markham over 1000 worth of special equipment and tools to give firstclass service on ford v8 and ford a cars and trucks we have also installed a high power greasing outfit 6000 lbs pressure which will handle trogan grease which lasts 3 times longer in your bearings and bushings statistics show that 85 per cent of re pair accounts are due to poor and improper lubrication your upholstery and inside of car vaccumed free with each grease job we have also secured the services of an experienced and competent mechanic who has been through the school at the ford motor co which gives a mechanic the proper knowledge pertaining to service proper but no mechanic can do a proper job without the special equipment and tools to work with we have them i list of our reconditioned cars and trucks for sale ford v8 tudor trunk 1936 ford v8 tudor standard 193s durant special coupe 1931 ford a tudor std 1930 oldsinobile sedan spec 1930 2 ford alvjton trucksduals 1930 also a number of other good ford v8truck2 ton dual 1935 ford v8trucks2 ton dual 1934 ford light delivery 1933 chev light delivery 1934 ford panel delivery 1931 ford a light delivery 1930 ecouditioned cars and trucks for sale including 4 fordson tractors d f holden sons ford sales service phone stouffville 18401 phone markham 120 toronto 1390 danforth ave phone howard 0156 coal grain seed all kinds of coal reading anthracite genuine pokohoutas alberta and coke poultry feeds of all kinds on hand at all times hog feeds cattle chop and whole grain we are in the market for farm seeds s w hastings stouffvlllo ontario phone 169 important to dairy farmers feed prices are very high and the dairy farmer must get every possible cent out of his cream to make the business pay by shipping your cream to us you are assured of getting out the very highest market if you are not a shipper try it now stouffville creamery co phone 186