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t volxlviii no 18 stouffville ontario thursday july 21st 1938 a v nolan jj publisher summer school surpasses expectations 106 attend there are one hundred and six children in attendance at the summer bible school being con ducted in the mennonite church in town for the next two weeks this is great news for most people and will be especially re freshing to those who feel that the present generation are on the down grade and off to the bowwows the school opened on monday and will conclude on july 29th the youthful students taking the bible course come from lemonville gormley altona mongolia lincolnville and from the village rev i brubacher pastor of the church is acting as manager for the course while the three teachers in charge of the different grades are mrs fred mcnair mrs eldon smith and mrs harry stouffer it is reported that they are doing good work and form a strong organization rev mr brubacher said to the tribune concerning the work we had a splendid re sponse the first day of this sum mer school our teachers have the work well planned and the prospects look very well for a profitable term with these children of school age special issue next week a bumper yield reports are coming in of wonderful yields of alsike around the home district an average of around six bushels to the acre however j 0 spang east of town threshed alsike all day tuesday and obtained a yield of a good ten bushels to the acre not only the yield but the sample is excellent said a neighbor who was present at the spang place during threshing operations it is expected that when fall wheat threshing gets well under way in a very few days equally satisfactory results will be re ported alfalfa however is be ing cut for hay as the seed prospects are not very good in most instances we are told the next issue of the tribune on july 28 will be specially dedicated to the cottagers at musselmans lake and 350 extra copies will be printed for the lake area boosting our circulation for the issue to between 1600 and 1700 copies- every cottager at the lake will be provided with a copy in accoidance with an arrangement made with the publishers this information is im portant to advertisers who wish to get a message over to the campers who invade our village every week from musselmans telephone 15301 and a representative will call to assist you in writing up your advertis- ment old burial ground will be preserved a crowd of more than 200 at tended the annual picnic satur day of the markham branch of the york county veterans the picnic was held in glen- wood park markham on a spot which used to be an indian burial ground j c brown man ager of the park told the crowd that the area which originally containied 60 graves would be fenced off in the near future a short ceremony for the un furling of the flag followed an afternoon sports program the choir of st monicas anglican church toronto led the singing lantern explodes and barn burns southern guests entertained here on the afternoon of july 9th between fifty and sixty friends mainly from toronto gathered at the farm home of mr and mrs chailes carruthers south of mongolia these friends had at various times been the guests of mr and mrs carruthers in their winter home near vero beach florida and all were delighted to again fire destroved the larcre barn i enjoy the hospitality the host iii a3fltl f hostess and to renew old on the arnoldi farm just south of cashel on tuesday evening around 1030 but the efforts of the stouffville and unionville fire brigades saved the house the unionville brigade was ham pered by the lack of water after the cistern ran dry stouffville directed their chemical hose on the house roof which was threat ened several times part of the seasons crop was burned but the stock was in the fields it is said men were filling the tractor with gasoline when a lighted lantern nearby exploded pre sumably from the gases the present owner of the farm frank brown formerly of browns corners had only re cently bought the farm hence the loss is undoubly hard the tractor was new and was lipinc made ready to do threh- i it was destroyed but the threshing separator was saved a meeting of the directors of the horticultural societv will be held in the telephone office this thursdv evenmer july 21 at 8 nm please attend backrite tablets for weak kidneys rheuma tism intammation of the bladder lumbago pains in the muscles and joints help to cleanse the blood and also act on the liver j m storey th druggist horn of qoajity drag friendships among themselves mr carruthers a toronto man of bakery fame purchased 200 acres at mongolia about nine years ago and has developed the place until today it is one of the fine farms of markham while a socalled gentlman farmer he has always hart an eye to the management and this- accounts for the beautiful herds and lovely landscape which the visit ors saw it was natural that the carruthers sumer home should be located in markham for mr carruthers is a member of the madill clan with many relatives in the locality while his wife was a member of the middleton families rural ontario was looking its best on the afternoon in ques tion and the farm home with its flowers and neatly trimmed lawns in a setting of green fields and beautiful woods provided an entransing picture mr- car ruthers like so many other successful businessmen who have of late years taken up farming as a hobby raises thoroughbred stock his choice has been durham cattle and he has some very fine animals in his herd a half dozen of which are being fitted for the exhibi tion needless to say the men of the party were greatly interest ed in iookincr them over and listening while their fine points were being explained toward evening all were in vited inside where a tasty meal had been provided by the host ess during the course of the meal rev dr peter bryce and rev dr burns took the oppor tunity to express the apprecia tion of all for the delightful out ing to investigate lake parking while steel and other com modities seem to be replacing wood in most undertakings to day whitchurch township council rather turned the tables on saturday when they author ized payment for a wood culvert which is now doing duty on the sideroad between the 8th and 9th concession just above the south townline the wood cul vert is built of stavelike pieces all specially treated with creoste driven into the wood under great pressure they have a guaran teed life equal to metal culverts at least and are said to be much cheaper the one in question cost 5106 placed the july meeting of council on saturday was as expected very quiet and few ratepayers called to take up any time councillor herman kidd mov ed for a committee composed of reeve toole and councillors wells and leary to investigate parking arangements at wilcox lake where an unsatisfactory situation was said to exist the amount of constable duty at this lake was also brought under consideration we seem to live peaceably all the year and then in june we have a lot of trouble at the lake observed councillor kidd reeve toole explained that a great deal of extra policing had been ordered last month be cause a call for it was made however he suggested that the constable might be instructed to be on duty wednesdays satur days and sundays as in other years on week days it would be only night duty that is required the extra hours in june this year all came during that very hot spell said the reeve ed leary had a claim for sheep killed by dogs and was awarded 15 for five killed and flock damage he was also granted 5 for killing a dog caught at the sheep the dept of highways advis ed council by letter that no per son shall erect a building or structure of any kind within 150 feet of the kings highway without first obtaining a permit from the dept about 1300 has been spent this year for calcium for town ship roads general and road accounts ordered paid were as follows general j c crawford office supply 1425 j a clark 4 trips re sheep 6 jno williamson con stable 8825 tribune board of health 375 tribune ptg 35 whilleer co supplies 2092 twp etobicoke relief 12 hospitalization for june 9337 r windsor constable 3175 road accounts w h smith gravel 12 div no 3 13660 div nol 7 tl south of 4th 5605 div 13 and 14 12715 div no 12 920 div no 11 3830 h widdifield salary 124 div 6 17340 div 9 1135 div 4 9540 div 11 13520 div 28 s1510 div 8 8160 div 12348 30 george wesley 3360 div 24 4250 div 27 5080 div 10 1285- div 25 21 harry hill 550 div 19 1865 culvert 2794 div 22 13div 18 730tls 1712 div 16 520 army worm at brodie s outbreak in crop of 22 acres is stopped by 100 men the army worm may yet encircle the stouffville district for it is reported on the farm of william rennie at mongolia where steps were taken to kill the pest then west of town on the william brodie farm on the townline corner of the 6th con cession 100 men banded together monday evening and distributed bait over 18 acres of oats and 4 acres of barley in exactly the same manner as they went to work on col deacons farm at unionville last week and so minutely described in this issue of the paper at the brodie farm during the afternoon preceding the assembly of the men the bait was prepared and it consisted of molasses of the cheap grade of which one barrel 30 gallons was used 1500 pounds of bran and 60 pounds of paris green all mixed in sufficient water to just moisten it for handling pur poses it was placed in bags and distributed at convenient points throughout the great field in the evening the men came from all over the section and joined in the work they spread out ten feet apart and 25 in a gang each with pail under arm and throwing the bait broadcast over the ground tuesday morning wm brodie reported there was evidence of at least two thirds of the worms being dead and he thought the others would get their dose lat er as some of them did not feed over monday night because of the commotion in the field after the work was completed monday the farmers were all invited to the home of mr brodie where they were given light refreshments while listen ing to mr w m cockburn dis trict representative of the dept of agriculture who told the men about the worm how to watch for it and just what to do the insect he said is like an ordinary cutworm the color is green or brown or nearly black when fulgrown it reaches nearly two inches farmers were advised to watch for it particularly in lodg ed grain evidence of the worm on a few farms in whitchurch is re ported but up to tuesday it was not considered to be serious local farmers cut alsike i best mr midnight hour folks hurrying home to twnr f0r ey from the city at three or lour conservation ociock in the morning last week j might have been given the im pression that farmers along the eighth concession of markham jwork all night for the sound of the mower might have been heard on more than one farm as early as 330 on different mornings on investigation we learn that it has long been the custom of many farmers to cut and handle alsike when it is heavy with dew this prevents shell ing which is one or the big loss es in this grain more than one farmer informed the tibunej that they started cutting alsike as near 330 in the morning as they can get at it then again they work in the alsike field around nine oclock at night all for the same purpose of course as one dickson hill man admitted when he was out at 330 it was the order of the day to lie down for a couple of hours when the sun is on the meridian which would only be expected in order to gain up a little sleep the idea may appeal to other farmers too for after all it must be nicer out in the field during the cool of the night and if the crop is alsike one has the double advantage of saving the grain from waste of course there are other crops which the farmer would prefer to cut when per fectly dry ana midnight or early cutting would not appeal or be in order the writer recalls travelling throught the heart of whit church one fall not long ago at one oclock in the morning when we came upon a tractor at work with a dazzling headlight on a bethesda farm we later learn ed that the farmer and his sons kept it going 20 hours out of the 24 in order to catch up with the plowing retarded because of wet weather marriages in order to cope with the situ- tion arising over the can vass made of local public school rooms in search of children with defective eyesight and whose- parents are not financially able to take care of the obligation the stouffville lions club has swung into action this organization has named f l button kc arthur williams dr s s ball and a e booth as a committee for sight conservation who will further investigate these cases and have the children again ex amined and properly fitted with glasses this is a fine work to be en gaged in and the local club are sure to progress and gain pub lic favor so long as they put for ward the effort the club is show ing in spreading the gospel of helping the other fellow who cannot help himself editor wih attend convention at coast the editor of the tribune with mrs nolan will leave on august 6 for a trip to the coast attending the canadian weekly newspaper convention to be held in vancouver opening at the hotel vancouver on the 11th they will go viacnr and return over the lines of the cpr stopping at calgary and other points enroute home be fore leaving for home a boat trip to victoria is being arranged it would be a great pleasure for this paper to contact former residents of the locality while at the coast any of whom would confer a great favor by looking us up at the well known hotel vancouver visited new brunswick rev l e atkinson wife and family who commenced their holidays ten days ago have just returned from a motor trip of some 2300 miles in which they travelled as far east as st johns n b coming back through the state of maine en joying the mountain scenery in the states mr and mrs atkin son and family expect to leave right away for their cottage at wasaga beach for the remin der of their vacation mr and mrs james slack stouffville who were honored by their family and relatives at a birthday party held on the farm of their son william thirtytwo enjoyed the repast which was marked by the pre sentation of an address and an electric floor lamp to the be loved parents shown above on monday last mr and mrs fred mcnair mrs charles hodgins and miss esther davis motored to kingston to attend the wedding of mrs mcnairs feed store changes hands the dicksons hill mills have closed out their feed store in town and will service their customers in future from the mill as they did before they ven tured into the store business further information is announ ced by the firm in their adver tising space on the back page of this issue mr price pugh who conduct ed the store will carry on with a different line of feeds in the college friend miss mckeown who was wedded to gordon same old premises according to craig of hamilton j a statement issued on page five gooding cherry the mbc church at gormley was prettily decorated with flowers and filled with friends on wednesday afternoon july 20th to witness the wedding of laura e cherry daughter of mrs cherry and the late joseph cherry gormley to eldon f gooding son of rev t a and mrs gooding of vineland the ceremony was performed by rev mr gooding father of the groom the bride was given in marriage by her uncle charles cherry of toronto and was gowned in white lace with matching hat and nose veil and carried talisman roses she was attended by her sister hazel attired in blue chiffon with white accessories carrying johanna hill roses the flower- girl was dorothy gray niece of the bride wearing pink with white accessories and carrying sweetheart roses the groom was assisted by his brother vernon gooding florence cherry played the wedding music and verna cherry sang o perfect love ushers were messrs charles fincham and walter steckley a reception was held follow ing the ceremony at the spac ious cherry home mrs gooding and mrs cherry received both gowned in black and white and wearing corsages of white car nations later mr and mrs gooding left by motor for northern on tario the brides travelling at tire was an american blue suit with navy accessories on their return they will re side at mongolia where mr gooding teaches school mr marvin lemon has rent ed the house one door west of the mbc church from mrs jacob boadway who purchased the property at the public auc tion on july 9 mrs turner church street accompanied by her guest from edinburgh miss forest and mrs davis of toronto motored to windemere to spend a day or two while away they called at callendar to see the worldwonder children miss bertha davenport of toronto also mr and mrs oliver zellar of altona were guests at the home of mr and mrs j gayman during the weekend flash we have just re ceived word from our bronte orchards that our canning ship ment of montmorency cherries will arrive next tuesday even ing ratcliff co the stouffville junior insti tute are invited to attend the meeting of the claremont branch to be held at the home of mrs roy morgan on thurs day july 21st at 230 pm eighteen rinks teacher wed the marriage was solemnized at barrie on monday july 18th of miss elsie fines daughter of mr and mrs fines of barrie to william armstrong son of mr sam armstrong of stouffville they will reside at kirkland lake where mr armstrong teaches school eighteen rinks entered the lawn bowling tournament which was opened on the local greens at 1 oclock this wednesday afternoon as this paper went to press the sky was overcast and a shower of rain looked likely however the play got under way and a big afternoon and evening of sport was anticipated play for cup stouffville hardball team played this wednesday after noon in the tournament at sunderland for the rotheaton trophy there were four teams entered sunderland seagrave stouffville and sutton the local nine were bolstered by a new pitcher of quite high rating from oshawa who it was hoped would assist in giving them a win