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sy tefcilmn vol xlviii no 21 stouffville ontario thursday august 11th 1938 a v nolan jp pubisher youth is fatally injured in crash with auto henry hosking 23 died in the brierbush hospital stouff ville on friday afternoon following an accident on thurs day night when he was in collision with an automobile the young man was walking north on the 8th of markham just below ringwood about 8 oclock thursday evening when he was struck by a car also pro ceeding north and diiven by kirby hacking of markham the youth sustained a fractured skull and was removed to the stouffville hospital constable daniels of markham investigat ed young hosking who was em ployed on the farm of george harmon markham is the eldest son of mr and mrs alfred hosk ing of ballantrae henry is survived by his mother and father and a younger sister and brother an inquest has been ordered by assistant crown attorney harold sanders for august 10 830 dst in stouffville service for the deceased was held at ballantrae united church on monday and conduct ed by rev w s irwin with interment at pine orchard cemetery men take your wife and family to the arena for tea among the pleasant surround ings of the flower show on thursday and friday evenings the ladies have made prepara tions to satisfy you iiagtfig narrow escape from drowning glenn gibbons farmhand employed by watson fairies 9th concession of whitchurch narrowly escaped drowning on friday night at island lake young gibbons along with several companions had gone to the lake to swim when the un fortunate lad got beyond his depth and was pulled to safety by harvey byer of lincolnville another rescuer arriving on the scene employed respiratory methods driving consideiable water from the young fell ows longs indicating his narrow escape american minister visits old town an interesting visitor in town on tuesday was di a m brodie of florida mr brodie who was accompanied by his wife crossed the line from their summer home at onekama michigan to visit h w fleury of aurora who is quite ill our american friend was born near aurora eighty years ago this friday and came to stouffville to work in wheelers mill nearly sixty years ago the old town has certainly changed said mr brodie since i went to school here with the fleury boys mrs brodies home was in chicago where the couple lived for a number of years on october of this year they will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary prior to the war the doctor was pastor of new york avenue presbyterian church in wash ington dc this is the church that lincoln attended and has a membership of 1400 during the four years 191418 mr brodie was chairman of a com mission on christian religion jfollowing the war it was his privilege to tour the united states on behalf of 13000000 orphans as national representa tive at washington of the near east relief endeavouring to r 8110000000 on his travels through the states he had as a partner the now fam ous jackie coogan of film fame dr brodie is at present minister ing to the summer residents of his home in florida faulty digestion causes gas formation dizziness palpation and general distress get a bottle of storeys digestive tonic and get prompt and effective re lief soon restores the digest ive organs to normal scores of people have benefited by- this wonderful tonic j m storey druggist tha horn of quality dfbjji tempermental dynamite at bridge blasting finally after several futile attempts on saturday afternoon engineers managed to blast the concrete bridge on no 7 high way between markham and unionville to allow for the com pletion of the south half of the new fortyfoot structure being erected there engineers and workmen blast ed away all afternoon while an interested crowd watched from a safe distance the spectators saw two explosions out of four attempts and only one end of the bridge had been moved at all the old bridge is being re placed by a new one the north half of which is already built the fact that the old and the new were almost touching made the demolition job tricky a pow er line and telegraph wires close overhead made it more so engineers planned to turn the whole bridge over with one ex plosion away from the new structure to this end they plac ed charges which would blast the southerly end of the abutments out sideways and heavier lifting charges under the northern edge first four half sticks of dyna mite judiciously placed toppled the northern arch of the bridge onto its deck so that it would not catch the overhead wires as the bridge turned over then it was time for the big explosion with militiamen from the royal canadian corps of engineers among the spectators to see how bridges are demolish ed came the crucial moment the danger area was cleared a hun dred cameras were poised there was a loud wham chunks of concrete flew smoke and dust cascaded upwards when it cleared there stood the bridge apparently unharmed more than half the dynamite was unexplod- ed fuses were checked and re placed the wires led out once more a second wham and the western end of the bridge settled gracefully about tvee feet in the easteri end the dyna mite sulked the connections and fuses were checked and double checked but it refused to blow finally after two more attempts it was announced that blasting was over for the day regretfully everybody went home except the bridge crew knowing the fickle ways of dyn amite they waited until the last spectator had gone then tried again the dynamite rose to the occasion so did the bridge and 11 was over it did not turn over as planned but was thoroughly wrecked and the wires and new bridge were unharmed yesterday scores of motorists halted to see unionvilles first concrete bridge built in 1913 lying in ruin for 15 years it has caused a dangerous kink in the road being set at an angle its successor will be straight and 40 feet wide markham pioneer dies in 83rd year there passed away at his hrme in markham last thursday gideon brownsberger pioneer farmer and horseman of mark ham township mr browns berger was in his 83rd year and is survived by his wife formerly mary elliot of todmorden and two children one daughter mrs eltherington of markham and a son walter brownsberger in toronto mr brownsberger was born at ringwood one of a family of nine children born to samuel and fanny brownsberger who were pioneer farmers coming from pennsylvania of this family of seven boys and two girls only three remain mrs f reesorscarboro henry browns berger ringwood and jacob brownsberger in the west the- deceased was a great horse fancier and was employed by graham bros claremont for some years and by davies stables toronto later he mov ed to the 9th concession of mark ham where he took up farming for himself until he moved to markham some fifteen years ago the funeral on saturday was from his late residence with ser vice in st andrews united church and interment in mark ham cemetery stouffville may meet huntsville plan to check recent robberies stouffville and oshawa play ed to a 33 tie in their return game in the motor city last wednesday afternoon tip anderson was again on the mound for the locals while mckenzie a big sixfoot right hander did the oshawa twirling both pitchers handed out only a few scattered hits stouffville led 32 into the 9th innings when with two out and a man on third a close decision at first on a bunt allowed the tying run to score the oba playoffs are scheduled to start about the 15th of this month stouffville who received a bye this year will probably meet huntsville in the first round of the finals dont fail to visit the grand flower display at the arena this week determined to end the wave of breakins of service stations and small general stores in its rural areas york county police with the cooperation of local authorities are conducting an all night patrol of the provincial county and township highways north of toronto acting chief george stuart has selected a special squad of sergeant sidney barraclough and constables tony crouch william hill and aubrey fleury to cooperate with municipal police of markham north york and scarboro townships rich mond hill to maintain an all- night watch over these thoroughfares the special squad will also be used to track down chicken thieves which have been preve- lent in rural areas in the fall season in other yeai it is the aim of the county force reorganized a few months ago to give better police pro tection to the northern munici palities with a police station opened in newmarket acting chief stuart is now giving the northern areas twentyfour hours continuous police service this new night emergency patrol had its first test last sunday night when an attempt ed breakin at doanes service station near newmarket was thwarted constable cecil dun ham of aurora setting the trap that effected the capture of the four thugs on charges of break ing and entering monster celebration here labor day combines satisfactory the new harvesters introduced on at least three markham township farms last week prov ed quite satisfactory their own ers told the tribune harmon jones on the 9th concession har vested some 40 acres cutting about 15 acres a day mr jones said that the 30 acres of wheat averaged in the neighborhood of 40 bus to the acre mr zimmer man on the 6th harvested near ly 100 acres and found the com bine quite to his liking i have cut 50 acres said mr grant of cashel and am quite satis fied with the results although we might have done better had the weather permitted we notice that a farmer in kin cardine township cleared 18 acres of wheat in one day last week with a combine having a yield of 300 bushels reeves who haveserved a faithful servant of the vill age for nine years r p coulson filled the position of councillor for three terms from 1904 to 1906 inclusive and then was elected reeve and held the office for six consecutive years from 1907 to 1912 inclusive at the time of his retirement he moved to toronto to become superin tendent of the york county childrens aid society mr coul son died in jan 1920 and was buried in the local cemetery aged 67 years probably the most outstand ing municipal events in his career came in 19089 when the question of the repeal of local option was a live issue in 1908 a petition signed by 160 rate payers came befoie the council praying that a bylaw for the re peal of the measure by submitted to a vote councillors were j s dougherty fred wilson w c lafraugh and levi hoover mr dougherty and others de clared the measure should be submitted and so it went with a vote against the appeal the question went to ballot on january 4 1909 when there was a contest for the council and all the old council was returned and probably have to their record a council intact longer than any other the council mentioned above sat from 19081911 with out a break in its membership in 1912 mr dougherty dropp ed out and became collector of photo by w b sanders r p coulson taxes mr lafraugh also retir ed the 1912 councillors were reeve coulson charles rad- more fred wilson isaac rea- man and j w shankel in july thos klinck filled out the term of j w shankel deceased it seems almost a tragedy and is appalling to think that every municipal officer named above with the single exception of j s dougherty who is the present clerk and treasurer of tlie village has passed on to be with the great majority one of the biggest entertain ment days in stouffvilles his tory is being planned by the local war veterans for labour day sept 5th commencing in the morning at 10 oclock with scftball tourn aments for both ladies and gents at 130 a grand callothumpian parade will traverse the length and breadth of the town with prizes for the best decorated vehicles eight good teams have been lined up to enter the soft- ball while in addition stouffvilles hardball squad wiil perforh several garrisons of toronto veterans will be on hand along with their brass bands which will be a highlight stouffvilles own band and boys band are also expected to participate over 100 in prizes will be awarded in the sports program which be sides the baseball includes races for everyone from six to sixty at 4 pm a baby show is scheduled for the park a mon ster midway will operate on the grounds the entire day in the evening a double feature program will be pre sented with dancing to a good orchestra on main street and a big program of outstanding artists in the arena as if this wasnt enough a grand fire works display has been con tracted for from toronto to cap the evening performances tick ets are now on sale from any member of the veterans organ ization nearby lamp houses 1700 in a season probably only a few people ealize that within four miles of stouffville there is one of the finest and best conducted girls camps in the province eatons shadow lake camp was estab lished sixteen years ago when the farm was purchased by the toronto company from doctor dales the first manager of the farm was jack merriot who was replaced by mr andrew williams in 1930 the property consists of a private lake and 215 acres of rolling land of which about 150 are tilled by mr williams as has been described by the girls the camp opens when the woods are carpeted with lovely wild flowers and closes when the leaves are a blaze of colour in sugar bush with an altitude of about 1066 feet it is invigorat ing for activities and also re freshing for leisure to spend as one wishes a beautiful stone entrance was erected in 1934 the work being done by mr williams the shadow lake crests on the lighted stone posts of the gate way with their border of bright flowers form a most impressive entrance to the camping grounds the road leads along the lake shore to the main building where the office is located the lodge or recreation hall is a large spacious room with hard wood floor for dancing games and special programs and a stone fireplace a grand piano radio and victrola provide the music desired for the girls further enjoyment a cedarlined cabin is provided for writing and reading and is very colourful with its beautiful paintings illustrating pauline johnsons poems there is also a library of interesting books including fiction travel and biography the dining room has a seating capacity for 150 it has many screened windows which make it a bright airy place for meals the camp office is also located in this building sleeping accommodation is provided for 139 each cabin has continued on page s no tribune august 18 there will no issue of the tribune next week it being our annual holiday the next issue will be august 25th correspon dents please note job office open as usual local storage worker tells of his plant a matter seriously considered recently by a number of promin ent men in the municipality of markham is the establishment of a cold storage plant in the township the provincial government will extend loans on such projects up to fifty per cent of the total cost while the feder al government will give a grant of thirty per cent- of the amount of the capital expenditure these grants are extended over a period of years the purpose of such a storage plant is to provide a storehouse for overproduction of farm pro duce without handing over to the city warehouses the benefit of an advance in price bruce lehman son of mr- and mrs willis lehman of almira is employed in just such a plant at delhi ontario arid he has given the tribune consider able information on the subject the delhi plant is used chief ly for meat and contains two cold rooms the one for chilling held at a temperature of about 36 degrees and a locker room kept at about eight degrees above freezing both rooms are thermostatically controlled the lockers in the second room are of two sizes with capacities of 400 and 200 lbs respectively bruce tells us that freshly killed meat is usually brought in in the afternoon to cool in the chill room and then placed in the lockers in the morning a modern compressor is used with freeon as the freezing agent and the machine is driv en by a five hp motor power for the plant is developed on the premises with the cost almost nil the building is heavily insulated with rock wool the walls being eleven and a half inches thick charges of 10 and 550 are made for the lockers with space in the chill room at 1 a month for 500 lbs this plant is a big money saver for the consuming community and has proved a sound and profitable business venture former reeve has birthday sunday august 7th dawned for wilfred e morden with many a birthday greeting and a great many surprises to re ceived some thiity guests and to find tables beautifully arrang ed with a threestorey cake and fiftysix candles is a real sur prise even on ones birthday the table colours were carried out in pale green and yellow dennison baskets topped off with mickey mouse donald duck and other confections at the conclusion of a very delightful tea mr morden was presented with a number of gifts and a very fitting address by mr jack hardy with all the best wishes for many more years to mrs w e morden mr and come the guests were mr and mrs george heath teddy and frances mrs frank brooks mildred and phyliss miss myrtle wimsett mr wm andrews mr and mrs fred morden mr norman dike mr and mrs howard morden shirley and fraser mr jack hardy mr william thornton mr and mrs w seager all of toronto local guests were miss edith swift mr william sanders mr and mrs h malloy