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annual musselmans lake edition ctbtiwe copies this issue 1750 largest circulating weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twps vol 53 no 14 stouffville ont thursday august 1 1940 ten pages local tax rate struck shows but slight change from last years figure on monday evening stouffville municipal council struck the tax rate at 26 mills which is a slight increase over last year of half a mill the half mill increase is due to the fact that the ontario government last year paid 1 mills of our rate but this year are paying one mill the council could not absorb the half mill and had to pass if on to the ratepay ers however it will mean only a few cents to the average tax payer the rateable property is 650- 425 and the rates making up the 26 mills are as follows money raised mill rate 5300842 county rate 47 357735 general rate 55 392184 road debenture 6 350440 school debenture 54 56000 public library 1 152400 streetlights 24 687900 school purposes 105 32000 relief 5 the reeve said he had followed the usual custom in proclaiming the first monday in august as civic holiday and council approval of the action wesley hill appeared at the meeting and protested that a tree had been cut in front of his lot on clark street also that wood was being piled on the street allowance council said they had given no authority to cut a tree and took steps to investigate the complaint reeve weldon presided at the meeting all members being present namely r e brown ira rusnell delbert holden and john silverthcrn twins born 16 pounds while not the first pair of twins to be born at the brier- bush hospital in stouffville the babes presented to mr and mrs john h cleverdon on the 7th concession of markham last week are the first living twins born in that institution and their weight is 16 pounds theyre a great pair one 8 and the other 7i pounds and judging by reports these young fellows are going to enjoy life immensely just now they are going to be as popular as the quints jr farmers to hold ambu dance at one of the largest direct ors meetings in the history of the york county junior farm ers held in the office of the agricultiual representative at newmarket on monday night it was decided unanimously to accept the very generous offer of mr george davies of mussel- mans lake to donate the cedar beach pavilion and orchestra for a mammoth dance for the junior farmers ambulance fund on monday august 19th at cedar beach for civic holiday altona boy injured in motor accident travelling north on the 8th concession of markham on fri day night earl mcnair ditched his car near the wideman church and received serious injury to his shoulder he was conveyed to the general hospit al where his condition is still considered serious his com panions dawson hare and bill mantle came out with only a few bruises earl turned out for a passing car during a heavy rain and fearing that he was about to go into the ditch on the right side swung the car sharply back as the other car passed only to land in the ditch on the left side of the road the passing car did not know anything was wrong and failed to stop overtaken by tragedy on the bowling green albert e miller prominent uxbridge citizen and native of mount albert died in midst of game i on wednesday afternoon of last week while engaged in play at the cannington lawn bowling tournament at the northern town albert e miller of uxbridge expired suddenly on the greens he was seen to slump to the ground and passed away immediately dr mellow one of his partners in the game was at hand when the tragedy overtook them mr miller had been bowling excel lent ends and had made a second kitty toucher for which he was being warmly congratu lated a moment before in ill health for some years suffering from a neivous break down mr miller was consider ed to be greatly improved lately and enjoyed his favorite pas time on the green immensely only a week before his death he bowled at stouffville in the annual mens tournament at cannington he was accompanied by dr mellow andrew mc- phail and fred willis born at mount albert ab as he was called by his wide circle of friends spent his early life there and conducted a boot and shoe business he married maggie lemon sister of misses mary and jessie lemon of church street stouffville the happy union was shockingly short for mrs miller died in two years as did their infant child after this mr miller went to uxbridge where he lived most of his life with his sister mrs j f brownscombe later in life he married mabel button daughter of the late a t button of that town who predeceased him in 1925 the funeral from the browns- combe home in uxbridge on saturday took place to uxbridge cemetery a peculiar incident in connec tion with the manner of mr millers death is the fact that his office partner for many years fw thompson also died suddenly on the bowling green in uxbridge a few years ago flying west this evening mr john ratcliff will fly from toronto this thursday evening at 1045 for calgary where he will arrive the next morning at the same hour 1045 over the transcontinen tal airways by normal means of travel this is a trip of 2000 miles local j weds jacob l smith successor to h pollard in the jewelry busi ness in the grubin block has taken a bride on tuesday this week the local apostle of correct time was united in marriage with miss bernice winger of vaughan township after a honeymoon trip they will take up residence in their new home just built on fair street south of edw pennocks residence short fire call on monday evening the fire brigade was summoned to a threatened blaze at the rear of the block back from storeys drug store but it was quickly placed under control with little damage indicated local hydro hits peak during the month of june the month of june reached an alltime high point in de mand for electrical current by stouffville from the ontario hydro commission our peak demand was 2992 hp and strange to say our peak occurs on a tuesday between 11 and 12 in the morning a thing it has been doing for a year or more it is estimated that with so many electric stoves cooking dinner plus the fact that tues day is ironing day in the major ity of homes a peak load is registered we have not drawn a night peak twice in a year to the uninitiated the peak load means the highest amount of current demanded in a period of twenty minutes an appara tus registers the draw taken by the whole village so that if during one hour we were using a total of 100 hp and the next enough users turned on lights to demand another 50 hp then this is all charted by the machine and we pay on the high est drawn of the month the cost of power to the vill age for june was 100980 while receipts from customers was around 1700 the difference be tween the cost of power and the receipts goes to maintain the local system miss toronto 1940 the tribune contacted miss frances oxtoby the sixteen year old sweet slim girl pictur ed here who won the title of miss toronto at the police games last week i have heard of musselmans lake but i have never been there miss oxtoby confided to us now she is go ing to see the popular cedar beach on the north shores for miss toronto is to be a guest at the big civic holiday func tion and will act as one of the judges she will not of course be in competition mr george davies who has secured this lovely city girl now in the lime- i light points out six new cottages at musselmans this year although lots have not been selling so briskly at mussel- mans lake this year there have still been six new cottages erected since last season accord ing to a checkup made by the tribune recently the north shore claims one of these on evans dr having been built by mark underwood on the east shore mcnellys drive mr c crawford has completed a new residence while a mr young of toronto is at work on a new garage robert windsor contractor of ballantrae has been engaged in the building of two new dwellings one for mr c ken nedy on connor dr and the other beside the topper farm on the 9th concession of whit church this latter cottage was contracted for by wes schell of stouffville fred cummings also of bal- mrs j gallaway of sariiia lantrae completed a new imita- is visiting with her brother mr tion brick dwelling this spring i joe wideman whitby twp for j westwood on mitchell dr east side a further cottage is also being built on the south sideroad leading into the lake for h burkholder material be ing supplied by a toronto firm other building improvements were completed this year at several of the amusement spots including moon haven on the east side and operated by w hoskin where additions were made to both booth and open- air dance floor to cedar beach grounds where several new cab ins have been added and win some hall which got a new roof this spring this latter hall is owned by percy winterstein who is a frequent visitor to stouffville from the states markham hydro also report a number of new services ross davis is new tax collector k ross davis was appointed to the position of tax collector for the village of stouffville on monday evening receiving the unanimous vote of the whole council from reeve weldon down the first instalment of taxes is due on the 1st of september when the new collector will be getting his baptism into hand ling the towns doomsday book long and lanky our new tax collector is not an exact pattern of little zucchcus of bible days but he says he is just as good a tree climber and in case of accident can mend his own trousers ross is a tailor bv trade salary attached to the job is s125 with the town providing i the necessary bond which must j be placed on all collectors of taxes musselmans lake retreat for bathers on the beach -news- plans are completed for the tenth annual ratepayers picnic at appletons park civic holi day postmaster jas pigeon mak es the request that all campers and cottagers check up with the local office at winsome hall as considerable mail has been un called for congratulations are being offered to the proudest man around the lake these days grandpa j halliwell last sunday was the annual visit of the salvation army to musselmans lake the army band favored the cottagers with a short concert at several points around the lake and a substan tial collection is ieported shadow lake reports a full house last week with 180 eaton employees in campa short time ago the eaton camp put over a red cross festival with receipts of over 2000 perhaps only a few are aware that on cedar beach drive there is a cottage name finlandia operated by mr and mrs n ouja where one can obtain a real wholesome finnish meal a nights lodging with a steam- bath thrown in these native finns tell us that their baths are busy most of the time the original method of hot stones and cold water is still used mrs r c evans mother of billy evans a past president of the ratepayers association is very ill at her home in toronto mrs evans is quite an elderly lady and this is the first season she has missed coming to the lake in 23 years which is quite a record she was one of the first to locate there and built a cot tage purchasing a lot then an orchard from the graham farm this farm was later bought by eatons and makes up part of the shadow lake pro perty mrs evans is doing as well as can be expected for one of heryears and she is greatly missed from her home on evans drive north shore each season sees an ever- increasing number of boats get their initial ducking in mussel- mans lake this year is no ex ception and past weekends has seen the water fairly dotted with small craft of every des cription one local sailor norman oboyle of stouffville has the distinction of being the first to use a surfboard on musselmans and has given a number of local sons quite a thrill lately by towing them around the pond at high speed on the slippery timber marknam is also likely to christen a trim 13foot launch in this whitchurch water in the near future the new boat is being built by messrs john williamson and jack todds of the sister town and is just get ting the finishing touches prior to launching a distinct loss is felt around the north side of the lake this season due to the sudden death of mrs charles neal in april mrs neal who operated a board ing house on evans drive was one of the most highly respect ed cottagers at musselmans there was never a more willing hand when help was needed and many the small fry can re call the sympathetic firstaid rendered when a contankerous fish hook got in his hand or cut on the foot sent him in tears to her door mrs neal was the founder of the musselmans lake ladies aid and was the organizations first president additional lake news on in side pages