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5000 readers tottffoille tetawe 1425 copies vol 53 no 5 awarded jos clark memorial trophy for 1939 stouffville ontario thursday may 23 1940 eight pages local storm damage will cost thousands retiring manager honored by staff weathermans rlitzrieg levelled two of townships largest barns irreparable damage to many pine trees in sundays wind storm the weatherman sent a blitzrleg over a large portion of ontario sunday afternoon which struck heavily at markham township in flicting damage running into thous ands of dollars on no 7 highway just east of markham village and due south of stouffville two of the townships largest barns were flattened on the farms of harvey burkholder and jonathan gould which will run into several thous and dollars to replace valuable spruce trees which money cannot re place were laid low the most re markable thing about this terrible wind storm is the fact that not a single human being was harmed and save for poultry there was not an animal injured over the whole countryside on the harvey burkholder farm there were 100 men at work on mondayfollowing the storm on sun- flay afternoon willing helpers ral lied from the mennbriite brethren of the various churches and not one of them had been invited to our enquiry we were told by numbers of them that they just came knowing there would bo work to do the large modern barn was twist ed and torn with the roof blown away one stick of timber several feet long blew 200 feet to the house and crashed into the frame kitchen at the rear of the solid old stone dwelling the whole superstruc ture on the barn was more or less a wreck but the large timbers were not injured to any extent part of the roof on the dwelling house was torn off and on one side of the kitchen 15 or 20 men had this re paired by monday night the most amazing damage was to the sturdy big trees in the fine spruce grove standing between the house and the highway snapped off as though they were matchess were massive trees 75 years old here thirty men labor ed monday clearing away the snarled wreckage and recovering valuable logs which were being hauled ihy a tractor into the open and trimmed up ready to go into lumber the burkholder bush to the east of the farm came in for a share of damage a couple of hundred trees large sturdy spruce were cracked off some at the butt and these will later be made ready for it he mill it is estimated there will be ample lumber to rebuild the ibarn without buying a board i was in the barn cleaning the stables out in readiness for milk ing said john greenwood hired man i had the electric lights on because it got very dark just before i the storm struck there was a wing commander cm hovsam native of port perry who has been appointed senior air staff officer for no 4 training command with headquarters in regina he is a brother to earl howsam altona see article on page 2 swishing noise and things began to i move i feared the barn was com ing in and i ran for the cement silo but heavy pieces of timber soon came in on me and i had to make for the open storm i feared that fire might trap me in the silo and i might have been roasted alive when i reached the outside the wind carried me into the field with terrible fbrce timben ptraw and everything iwas hurled through the air the noise was so terrific that the falling of the barn was not heard when the piece of timber hurled through the dwelling the family were fortunately in the main part of the house jonathan goulds barn immedi ately north across the highway fared even worse the massive structure 100x50 was lifted into the air and dropped again right on the foundation but it crashed down in to imatchwood and nothing of much value was left of it an elderly gentleman who had worked on build ing the foundation of the burk holder barn about 25 years ago ex plained that the timber was all new in the building whereas in the gould frame erected 50 years ago and frame was of used timber which could not withstand as much jonathan gould ss sat at a window looking toward the barn and heard the roar of the wind but did not see the fall of the barn his son joe who operates the farm had just arrived home with the coming of the storm aibout 430 in the afternoon he rushed the car into the driving shed which attaches to the west side of the big barn he continued on page s work started on new waterworks extension a rather happy and pleasing incident took place last week when the entire bank staff at the canadian bank of commerce presented their retiring manager mr e m still with a beautiful chrome nickel plated clock swung from a pedestal small in design it is beautiful and useful and highly appreciated it ii just a little more than ten years since mr still located in town to take over his duties at the bank which he relenquishes at this time in favor of mr j s spence from thornhill during his decade here mr still has been favored with adding scores and scores of friends to himself so that his retirement is generally regretted the members of the staff participating in the gift to mr still are messrs j c porter w r sperry d a merae jean collard and manager j s spence teddy meyer is first plane casualty while working in local orchard hakmox yakk 8 a sumptuous dinner was served at the home of mrs loss hill in claremont in honor of her father harmon yake who celebrated his 89th birthday on sunday the birthday cake with greetings to father inscribed decorated the table toronto oshawa and clare mont and other places were repre sented at the party and all wished mr yake who is hale and hearty every happiness in the days ahead stanleys holiday treat showing at the stanley theatre this weekend may 23 24 25 with two shows both friday and satur day night is hollywood cavalcade with a lineup of star filmed in glorious technicolor its a real holi day treat with don ameche alice faye stuart eryvin buster keaton and many others who made alex anders ragtime band famous and now have produced a real successor important convention next tuesday and wednesday may 2s and 29 the 15th annual sunday school convention for the township of whitchurch will be neld in vandorf church with services each day beginning tuesday after noon at 2 oclock standard every sunday school in the district is ex pected to send delegates william paisley is the president men were put to work on monday morning digging the trench for lay ing an extension to the water works mains in the east end on the north side of main street from the brier bush hospital to montreal street a distance of 500 feet a fourinch main will be put down connecting with the four inch which feeds along montreal street some time in the future it is expected that the line will be extended from the hospital on west until in time it will elimin ate feeding properties on the north side of the street from under the roadway where the pipes have to run at present to reach the big main on the south side al last winter several houses on the north side were without the water service because the pipes were frozen up aside from this in- convenience there is the danger from frost damaging the pavement should a pipe burst in winter under the road foundation the best thing to do in the opinion of the council king proclaims day op trayer next sunday has been proclaim ed a national day of prayer and all churches are called upon to observe the occasion according to a request made by king george to all his people bethesda girl is wed preston rolexder a quiet and pretty wedding was solemnized at the home of mr and mrs valentine bolender bethesda on wednesday may 15th when their daughter anna viola became the bride of bnrnico douglas pres ton son of mr and mrs fred preston irev h shantz of stouff ville officiated the bride given in marriage by her father looktd charming in a dress of tea rose crope and carried a bouquet of orange blossoms the bridesmaid miss stella preston sister of the the groom dressed in turquoise blue red cross proposal not favored by local war branch the stouffville war branch has turned down a formal proposal made to them to work in conjunc tion with the red cross organiza tion which recently named a set of officers for stouffville mr f l button president wrote the war branch asking that organization if they would be milling to unite their effort with the red cross who would become largely responsible for rais ing funds while the war branch would continue their effort in mak ing supplies the matter came before a recent meeting with the result that the ladies decided to continue in their own way rather than to form any link with the red cross any ad vantage of procuring yarn through the red cross is eliminated one of the members said by the fact that the stouffville group are able to buy this yarn now from red cross sources although the terrible european war has not actually reached stouff ville there was an aeroplane acci dent here on saturday afternoon teddy meyer one of our aged citi zens was the victim he was operat ing a spraying pump on a high spring wagon for mr edw walls when a plane flying over the village swooped low over the orchard and frightened mr walls gray steed so that when the horse bolted it threw mr meyer to the ground with such force that he was rendered un conscious at that he had a narrow escape for the heavy barrel and pump almost fell from the wagon on top of him the injured man was taken to the home of mr a s collins and was later removed to his own homo where he rallied from an unconscious condition found guilty on false evidence charge found guilty of attempting to obtain false evidence in court of general session at city hall toron to on tuesday ralph connor was held in custody for sentence today thursday through his counsel mr harold bruels connor put up a strong denial the case was heard before a jury and his honor judge mcdonald the whole case arose out of a charge brought by connor a year or two ago against the township of whitchurch constable windsor and the reeve of the municipality for alleged wrongfully removing him from certain water front privileges at lake musselman this action was ultimately dismissed when connor failed to prosecute the case deputyreeve cook presents shield york countys annual musical festival concluded its fourday ses sions friday with the highest award of the festival the piano scholarship being presented to miss margaret woods of markham the scholarship which is worth 25 is provided by mrs aubrey- davis and is awarded to the piano student showing the most promise in the opinion of the adjudicator mr frank welsman who judged all the piano classes stated that he felt miss woods deserved the award the mrs j whimster reading prizes were awarded to gordon winch of keswick and miss susan kuper of memorial public school of failbank for the fourth year agincourt choir captured the rural choir class thereby winning the township of whitchurch shield it was presented to the successful choir by deputy reeve jesse cook of the township who praised the agincourt group a smaller shield will be presented to the choir to be retained in its possession for having won the title more than three times now in training rdbert holman of claremont is in training with the ontario tank corps bol is a son of mr and mrs harry holman of whitby and at tended school in markham he has been a resident of claremont for a number of years where his wife now resides more enlistments two local men joe austin and gordon lehman have enlisted for military service joe is a son of mr and mrs george austin and has joined the royal air force while gordon lehman son of mr and mrs ab lehman is with the rce engineers gordon left on monday while joe is expected to report for duty any day high praise from school inspector the annual report filed by public school inspector w h t mooney for stouffville public school proved to be very gratifying to the mem bers of the board the other evening when it was read to them as it must have been to the teaching staff and principal c e watson uptodate teaching methods the determination of every teacher to do a good job the standard of the equipment and work of caretaker all came in for highest praise in fact inspector mooney had not a single complaint to offer the staff he said were all doing great work and every member appeared efficient and capable inspector mooney a new man for stouffville is going to be very popular with the trustees and teachers alike we imagine after all we think that everything he said about the standard of our public school was merited brantford fellowship sunday night on sunday evening at seven oclock the young peoples fellow ship of brantford will he in charge of the service at the christian church this group comprised of young people from various denomin ations and with their motto brantfords youth for christ have done much toward the deepen ing of spiritual life among the young people of that city for the past five winters they have held fireside services in the different brantford churches following the regular sunday evening meetings these firesides attract as many as 500s00 and are broadcast to a large radio audience during the summer a young peoples confer ence is held where leading speakers from canada and the united states lead the young people into a deeper knowledge of christian truth this group will be in stouffvill- for the one night only and you are advised to be their early to secure a seat bloomington couple married 64 years births wilson at the brierbush hospital stouffville on thursday may 16 1940 to mr and mrs lloyd wil son myrtle station a daughter is to gradually lay a main on north side of the street and in time sheer carried pink snapdragons mr get rid of any pipes under the road- 1 gordon bolender was groomsman way the estimated cost of the pro- mrs george webb of stayner cous- ject now in hand is 750 j in of the bride played the wedding at the end of the year the water music system had a cash surplus in thej after the ceremony a dainty bank of s 1079 after donating to lunch was served and amid showers general account of the town 1300 of confetti the happy couple left on from the water works last year which a motor trip to northern ontario helped the general tax payer to this for travelling the bride chose a extent navy coat with matching accessories this barn is on the farm of almost due south of stouffville and havoc with the sturdy structure o suffered a worse fate than tho one harvey burkholder no 7 highways shows how sundays storm played her barns in markham township shown here the late queen victoria had been a queen for thirty years when both george vaughan and his wife alice wylds now living at bloomington were born but they have a special reason for celebrating the late queens birthday on may 24 mr and mrs vaughan were married on that date 64 years ago now and are therefore among our elder people who have been spared to each other many years over the average span both mr and mrs vaughan are over s3 years old he was born in toronto when the place was styled muddy york while his partner was born in england married in toronto they ventured into farming before many years and settled in scott and then in whitchurch in the musselman lake locality twenty odd years ago they gave up active farm work and moved into the hamlet of blooming ton to enjoy a well earned rest tholr six children aro all living namely william vaughan one time storekeeper in stouffville now of toronto arthur of church hill robert and george in toronto wallaco of bloomington and mrs john paisley at ballantrae there aro nine grandchildren and five great grandchildren victoria day will be quietly ob served by the venerable couple at their comfortable home where friends will be thinking of them and wishing them many years of continued good health whitchurch jersey may have taken lite by drowning walking back into the field last thursday to drive home the cows stewart rae lemonville farmer was an eye witness to the death of his choice jersey cow the pride of his milking herd just as he arrived where the cattle pasture the jersey bolted into a deep pool of water and sank below the surface the keen eye of the farmer told him that the cow was in deep distress and as he rushed to render first aid from drowning mr rae was open ing his knife to perform an opera tion first he raised the animals head from out of the water and holding it up he jabbed the knife in back of the stomach to relieve a bloated condition common among animals at this time when first going on new grass gas escaped all right indicat ing that a successful operation so far had been performed but the cow died forthwith mr rae said that when he hauled the animals head from below the surface two streams of water shot from her nostrils in a manner that would have done the ballantrae fire engine proud this indicated that water had been tak en into the lungs hut whether the cow was drowned or died from bloating mr rao was not prepared to say to onr way of thinking it was a clear case of suicide that poor beast suffered tho tortures of the condemned and must have been crazed when she rushed into the deep pool to drown herself surely no cow in her right senses would do such a thing and mr rae was high in his praises of tho common sense possessed by this particular animal which was the best in his herd engagements mr and mrs nathan w tarr announce the engagement of their daughter verna elizabeth to mr c aibbott wright toronto son of mr and mrs c harvey wright halifax ns tho marriage to take place quietly juno 15th in eaton mem orial chapel toronto mrs bert talt continues to im prove according to word from the hospital it is hoped that she will bo able to be brought home in an other week