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the tribune stouffvilte ont thursday december 26 1940 page three town topics mr e tyrer teller at the local bask of nova scotia spent christ n at toi3 home in barric e a grubln ro optometrist uid optician will be at his office in stonflville on monday and tuesday dec 30th at 31st kiss norine cockerill has been borne during the holiday week with her parents mr and mrs fred cockerill mr and mrs fred chamberlain out from toronto for christmas market fred is steadily employed at the union depot in the city and finds his old job quite a diversity from farming east of stouffville the action of the toronto york road gang in removing the ice from the centre 20 feet of the roadway through the business section of the tillage was greatly appreciated last week the cost seems more than the local council care to place against the tax bills so that when the county stepped in they solved a rather troublesome question one of the victories which the ontario press particularly the veekly press may justly claim is in that battle which has raged in edi torial columns o te far too fre quent and costly changes in text books authorized by the department ot education in recent years the minister of education the honor able duncan mcarthur has just an nounced that no more text took changes will be authorized during tho war the changes have been approaching a racket some editors claimed and the people pay no matter whether pupils or school boards purchase the books miss robson who has been living in town with her cousin mrs geo lawson is spending the yuletide season in lindsay aurora and uxbridge town are observing boxing day as a public holiday this year and all places will therefore close the day following christmas this is an old english custom and is very acceptable this year with christmas day coming in midweek our east end neighbor edward walls received a fancy dog for christmas of the irish setter breed another dog fancier in town will be a delight to the dog tax collector the addition to the dog canine population balances a loss incurred a week before when rev mr mac- gregors pup was killed by a passing truck more than 2000 canadian girls in training took part in the special candlelight services held a week ago on sunda y evening when the group of the stouffville united church formed a link in the chain which reached from coast to coast throughout the dominion canadian girls in training worshipped to gether as one community reading together the familiar christmas story and singing the old carols with their message for all nationalities the ceremony in the stouffville united church was especially im pressive the many beautiful candle- bra added to the solemnity of the service miss wilson member of the local school staff gave the topic and the service was well attended mr and mrs syd schmidt have been receiving the congratulations of their many friends this week cele brating their 2cth wedding annivers ary last saturday dec 21st mr schmidt is the proprietor of the stanley theatre in stouffville don lehman with the 2nd field ambulance at camp bbrden and a familiar figure in uniform in town fom time to time has been dis charged from the army a medically unfit don was found to have very poor eyesight and the puzzle is how he got by the first official inspection however the medical staff ultimate ly realized the defectiveness of this willing soldier and promptly mark ed him for permanent layoff he has his honorable discharge papers and expects to now take up peaceful pursuits around toronto members of the school teaching staffs who live at other places in the province left town on friday to spent the yueltide from the continuation school miss pearl wil son will be at her home near port hope and miss ruth miller has gone to kirkland lake to be with rela tives mr ralph haist has gone to fenwick near st catharines to visit his parents from the public school staff miss anne lindsay will spend christmas at hor home near bolton rnd miss margaret goodyer at home london ontario dr and mrs s t bodendistel vere christmas guests at the doctors home in guelph mr and mrs harman hoover are spending christmas with mr and mrs archie stover muverton mr and mrs walter brillinger and family spent christmas in tor onto at the albert miller home imr and mrs gordon bailey and baby daughter were spending a few days in drumbo with her father rev- mr hogg and with relatives at ux bridge on christmas day miss charlotte lehman was re moved from the home of her sister mrs william watson to the brier- bush hospital on tuesday suffering from a rather sudden attack of pneumonia christmas market day was some thing of a social event as well as a commercial enterprise we noticed sereral old friends atoout who came back for the occasion just now we have in mind mr e b hoover main street toronto who left the alha district 22 years ago to settle fa the city not as young as he once was mr hoover enjoys very good health and is keen and alert in the tribune office he met mr seneca baker who is in his 90th year and the pair had an interesting conver sation on days of yore mr hoover is treasurer of the congregational- christian conference board which is itrtficient evidence that his mental faculties are all that could be de sired the womans association of the stouffville united church met at the home of mrs k g tarr for their dec meeting miss s daley con ducted a christmas worship ser vice and miss eva hoover played c piano solo election of officers re sulted as follows president mrs jb sanders first vice miss daley second vice mrs d cook recording secretary mrs ted cadieux finan cial secretary mrs j hodgins treasurer mrs levi hoover flower committee mrs w h shaw mrs f l button kitchen misses j and m lemon parsonage mrs j r hodgins mrs i barkey mrs k g tarr the secretary reported a ship ment of more than 100 cans of fruit and vegetables and a number of bushel hampers of fresh vegetables to the home missions council tor onto to assist in the christmas cheer baskets a hat belonging to one of the ady members of the high school staff was mysteriously removed from the school last week and an old piece of headgear left in place of the much better hat it is actually be lieved that someone entered the building and made the exchange for the particular bonnet left for the teacher does not appear to connect itself with any pupil in the school a rather careful survey has shown strange things happen and this is one of them some unique uses are made of the biproduct of beekeeping according to mr j l byer 8th concession of markham who last week completed the shipment of 500 pounds of bees wax to a montreal firm who make the wax into candles for roman catholic churches another quarter ton goes to eatons large thread works in toronto owing to a slim crop of honey this year the output of wax is little over 12fl0 pounds whereas on a normal year the local apiarist sometimes disposes of over a ton of the biproduct mr and mrs w d parker of atha have rented the john turner house next the public school and will move in immediately stouffville thus gains two new residents to whom we extend a welcome mr grant turner enjoyed the christmas holiday with his parents mi and mrs lloyd turner east of town grant is employed with a tor onto firm engaged in the manufac ture of gas masks information received by the tri bune from mr allen clossen who with his wife left by their trailer for aliami fla reached their destina tion on dec 3 the weather is so in the day time and 70 degrees in the evening while mrs clossen stood the trip well she is not yet fully re covered by any means unfortun ately their copy of this paper has never reached them yet and this is a disappointment to them as well as to the publishers who are regularly mailing the paper properly address ed this matter will be checked at once by the postal authorities in the spirit of the season happy happy new year to you and all our friends on this bright holiday occasion it is our hope that the day finds you truly happy and joyous and grateful for santas largesse stiver bros lllsiisslrjj mr and mrs charles imaekechnie and sou peter mr and mrs gordon hall miss ruby good rn all of toronto were weekend guests at the brierbush miss enna heise is home for chrismas and new years visting her mother mrs jacob heise for the past fourteen months miss heise has been in regina with the welfare bureau of that city but after the new year will take up new duties with the toronto childrens aid society before going west ii heise was a valued member of the staff of the york county childrens aid society an advertiser asking for a barrel church received ten offers to sell such a machine last week wr attractive return fares montreal 1355 toronto 155 northbay1100j x 5day excur enjoy siqhtseeinq all the way f iy motor coachh ml gray coach lines a shortage of christmas trees is reported this year and while local folk can usually procure a tree from a farm closeby city dwellers are not so fortunate an inovation on christmas market day was the sale of christmas trees by jos ogden local farmer who landed in town early with a truckload mr ogden reports ample orders for trees but difficulty in getting help to cut them trees from northern districts are held up by snow local farmers receive 25 to 50 cents for their trees to city dealers who in turn sell them anywhere from 75 cents up to 200 the high school literary society held a christmas party on friday december 20 in the assembly room this social afternoon took the place of the usual christmas at home not held this year because of the new wartime attendance regulations after o canada and a short speech by the president bud sanderson don rowbotham delighted his audience by a piano solo when the nightingale sang in berkley square santa claus appeared next and displayed a wonderful memory for the private affairs of several of those present after the presents were distributed the girls served cookies and candies on saturday afternoon a number of ladies of the senior womens institute were gathered to do up thoir usual christmas cheer boxe3 for the shutins and they were thinking they would have to forgo the pro gramme from cfrjb with the village children singing but with that usual something that can overcome obstacles someone thought of the hardware store and mr agnew sent over a lovely small radio where the ladies were working and all the rustle of tissue paper and tying par cels was postponed while the pro gram was on this is not the first time the brathwaite hardware store has been generous to these ladies and so they would like to say thanks through this medium when renewing a paper to his sis ter in vancouver this week we learn from rolph jones of altona that his sister mrs benj palmer at the coast suffered a stroke last summer just a few months before his brother abijah jones was similarly afflicted mrs palmer is about 87 years of age and her brother who is in the local hospital here is 85 wonderful ages to attain may they be free from pain and worry is our wish for them richard williams who farms ebove lincoln ville has the determin ation it takes to get along in this world he suffered a long and serious breakdown over recent years but managed to operate his farm with the aid of hired help and his and his own daughters who were borne at the time last thursday mr williams called at the tribune and we were pleased to mark the mea sure of recovery he has made the day was rather an important one too for our lincolnville farmer for some one whispered to us on the side that mr and mrs williams were cele brating their 40th wedding day imrs williams was a daughter of the late wm h jones of bloomington and to her and her husband hearty congratulations are extended at this time smmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm u let thy light so shine that your goodness andvkindliness will light up the hearts of others and warm you too with its reflected brilliance during this happy season- l e oneill hardly without an exception stouffville merchants reported this years christmas trade as on an equal with that of last season in fact one of our largest merchants who employed some ten clerks dur ing the rush told us that christ mas fair day business this year was the largost turnover for any day since he had opened up business here local stores featured christ mas merchandise with attractive window displays showing some of the item3 which might be purchased while the largest percentage were well repaid by their own displays with liberal advertising in the tribune comparing prices with out- oftown firms it was evident that there was no advantage in going out of stouffville to shop and in some instances prices were even found to be lower stouffville floral roses wedding bouquets funeral designs cut flowers telephone 7001 7002 milt smith proprietor ateua yean to- qnzanau maries beauty shop phone 176 announcement opening of modern cold storage locker rooms at the creamery at last the people of this district will be able to enjoy the privilages and benf its that cold storage lockers afford to people in so many other districts and the great saving derived therefrom now you will be able to butcher your own beef or pork at any time of the year or buy your meat in large quantities and keep same or any other eatables at around zero temperature the year round i the fact that such cold storage locker plants are so successful and are growing in numbers throughout the province speaks for itself the storage is now ready for operation and we are ready to accept applications for the rental of lockers the size of the lockers run from about 6 to 1 0 cubic feet and will hold from around 300 to 500 lbs of meat the rentals are from seven to ten dollars per locker per year but as an indroductory offer up to april 1st we are making a reduction of one dollar on every locker you place your own lock on and have access to your locker at all times during creamery hours above locker service holds a special attraction to cream shippers as they can visit their locker at the same time as they bring in their cream and the exetra money they receive by making their own cream deliveries during the year will more than twice pay the rental of their locker truck cream shippers can also avail themselves of our locker service by making arrangements with our driver to have their meat brought out on his regular cream pick up the steadily increased demand for our butter together with the facilities for making same enables us to take on any new cream shippers who wish to avail themselves of the two combined services to obtain the best results in the preparation of your meat for storage after killing and allowing the carcus to thoroughly cool the meat should be cut into pieces the size that will be later required for use and wrapped in waxed paper such paper may be obtained at the creamery at a small cost phone for any further particulars the stouffville creamery phono 18c0i stonffvhle ontario