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over 5000 readers mibnm largest circulating weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twps copies this issue 1500 vo 53 no 40 stouffville ont thursday february 131941 eight pages over 500 jam the arena for the lions winter carnival between five and six hundred people patronized the lions club carnival in the stouffville arena on thursday night last week and those who attended were rewarded with program of real entertainment and recreation a feature of the evening was the broom ball game between the lions and lionesses with the ladies as one might expect being the victors by one to nothing the males were lions hugh bannerman lion dan oboyle lion tim oneill lion telf irennie also ormsby leh man and walt brillinger who have not yet reached the lion stage the lionesses were jack hodgins ralph haist gordon spence mervin watts andy williams and carl boadway the lady lions brushed right in with their curls flying and rouge run ning in their comic makeups scarcely a player on the ice was recognizeable the arena band rendered music for the skaters who were as thick as flies around a bowl of honey it was truly a night to be remembered and after all the fun the lions have about 75 with which to carry on their benevolent work among child ren prize winners speed race douglas aldred and lucille howsain a schell and betty williams best couple skating mary davis and norman steckley eulah brillin ger and earl hoover best comic mrs j k webster 1st lou raxlin and bill nicholson patriotic costume audrey ander son helen stouffer lucky spot aldon redshaw rodd foote w smith m smith lucky draw exreeve h w sanders a mcdowall p idle v atom lccm rights for oiiunsiing sought in whit spokesman foresees good chance striking gas farmers still hesi tant about signing up lo permit further exploration work choirmaster and organist of st enochs united church toronto was recently appointed leader if the stouffville junior band mr ridley will preside over the program this thursday in ratelitfs hall skating party in aid of a coming event is the skating party under the auspices of the stouffville war veterans on wednes day february 19 in the arena this skating party is in aid of the soldiers comfort fund in addition to this worthy eause providing ex tras for boys from here going over seas there will be lots of music and some spot skating get in on this helpful scheme admission 25c ice harvest in full swing at mussulmans quality uml thickness low oom- jmrcd to last years isumncr rop gat and whitchurch council on saturday heard more about the desire of a private concern to drill for oil on the west side of the township when toronto man who seemed familiar with every oil well in canada and the usa declared that the farmers had everything to gain and nothing to lose in permitting drill ers to enter their properties farm ers will he asked to sign a tenyear lease embodying permission to drill with the farmer fully protected for any damage whatsoever to his crop or property the speaker said there was little likelihood of any damage as a test hole could be put down in a farm lane and it had not been the experience to cause damage the lease would be void after two years if no work is done on the property in the event of a strike the farmer would share to the extent of oneeighth of the profits which might run as high as 20 per day in a firstclass well the area blocked out for special consideration embodies some 4000 acres a solid block along the second and third concessions be tween lots 3 and 4 to lots 1g and 25 the area extends over near the fourth two domes were said to exist in this locality there is big possibility of en countering gas which would be in valuable even for piping to toronto similar areas were mentioned in scott and brock townships but none exists in uxbridge township where the hills are very sharp whitchurch farmers are still hesitant about signing up to permit further exploration work but it was said that there tvas every possi bility that an agreement would shortly be reached tile speaker represented a differ ent body of men than visited the section about the middle of decem ber so that there appears some competition to secure the area a special gasoline is being sought and the department in toronto it was learned had had this section of whitchurch staked as a possible source of oil supply the speaker said he had nothing to sell and did not seek publicity hence names are not disclosed the ice harvest is in full swiii mussulmans lake this week some ten thousand cakes will have been cut by the time all the ice- houses are filled in this locality last week about 2000 cakes were taken cut of the east side of the lake for george davies at cedar beach while the bulk of the cutting will come this week on the west side to he trucked to stouffville by telf rennie for the maple leaf dairy there is certainly not the ice there was last year mr rose told the tribune carl rose and his gang of men do all the cutting on musselmans witli powerdriven equipment ice is also being cut at almira pond where a few thousand cakes are trucked out by hoover and roberts of unionville fractured shoulder mrs jake hoover is nursing a fractured shoulder as a result of a fall on the slippery step at the front of the hoover home the accident happened on monday of last week and mrs hoover is improving con siderably since the heavy shock is over school hockey final considerable interest is being shown in the final hockey game of the school league in the playolf when markham will meet stouffville in the local arena here this friday evening building bylaw given consideration by the twp of whitchurch leads lions to the back forest miss j vanzant passed at banff the many friends and relatives of miss jessie vanzant a resident of western canada at banff alberta for 1 1 years will learn with gen eral regret of her death which occurred at the banft hospital on saturday evening february 1st many years before going to tor onto jessie banzant was employed in stouffville at the bakery of the late w b wurts probably 30 years ago or more miss vanzant was a daughter of the late vanzant who jived in the east end of stouffville for many years the family have many friends here and still many more friends who will be keenly interested in this news the banff press has this to say re- 1 garding her death a resident of banff for 14 years miss jessie jane vanzant gl died at the banff the income tax department at toronto will not reap much benefit from the two per cent income tax from the coffers of whitchurch it was indicated on saturday when it was revealed that only251 had been collected from men employed by the municipality in january single men must earn over 600 and married men over 1200 before they are liable for the tax saturdays meeting saw few visit ors owning to the condition of the weather when one of the worst storms of the winter raged all day auditor roy andrew presented his report for 1940 which council scrutinized and accepted copies will shortly be available for the rate payers the auditor was paid 12 for his services the bylaw providing for the annual road appropriation was pass ed at 20 sos the same amount as that spent on roads in 1940 a copy of this bylaw is forwarded to the department of highways in toronto on which they will pay 50 per cent on motion of councillor wells and kidd miss m wallace hamilton was ordered to be paid 2s for board four weeks for j c barkey in hamilton a resident of this township who had been in the san pte harold lewis of stouffville who is now serving with the ordinance corps in the canadian army photo courtesy wr sanders payment was ordered on motion of deputy reeve jess cook and councillor leary of all poll clerks deputy returning officers and polling booths for the recent municipal elec- continued on page s whitchurch farmer fined for cruelty harry c clegg of whitchurch township appeared on a charge of illtreating animals in newmarket police court on tuesday and was fined 500 and warned what to do in the future on thursday january 30 ac companied by constable williamson i went to the farm of accused lot 22 con 5 whitchurch testified inspector william weatherston we went to the barn and entered two markh sold tota lam rarms 300 acres but skin and bones they were robert johnson and egbert avison farms both sold to toronto con tractors buyers favor oldfnshloneil fully cultivated farms since outbreak of war two firstclass farms in markham township changed hand during the past week the one property is known as the old robert johnston farm and this was sold to w a mackey prominent toronto contrac tor the vendor being reid brum- wellthis area of 100 acres is well located fronting on a paved road the fourth concession east of yonge st in markham township the land is all under cultivation slopes grad ually down to the pavement and is well adapted to tractor farming buildings include a large brick house of 10 rooms with furnaco in stalled also a hip roof bank barn 70 feet by 36 feet a hog pen and a garage tho original barn on this farm was burned down in the early harvest season of 1920 and a more commodious structure has re placed it this farm adjoins the former warren wilson farm pur chased recently by w j ilarman another toronto contractor the second sale w3 of the egbert avison farm at victoria square vvhlchvas purchased by reid brum- well this farm consists of 200 acres in the third concession of markham township fronting on the new high way the area is all workable and there are three acres of orchard a creek traverses the farm and water is pumped to the buildings by a hy draulic ram egbert avison pur chased this farm in 192g from henry arnold in 1931 the house was burned down and since then a solid brick residence of 10 rooms with all modern conveniences has been built other buildings on the farm consist- of a good bank bam so feet by 50 feet with stabling for 30 head of cattle and eight horses also a large driving house hog pen hen house silo and garage the asking price for this farm was 25000 location of tho farm is a halfmile south of victoria square and four miles east of richmond hill it is just one con cession east of watfords silver stream farm and in the vicinity of farms owned by george i hambly and col deacon prior to the war it seemed that toionto buyers were large ly interested in farms with consider able rough land streams and bush to be used principally for country estate purposes but now there is a swing back to the oldfashioned farm where practically every acre is under cultivation and producing fourteen counties throughout hospital saturday following a brief ontario have launched into the j illness she was born at stouffville county reforestation scheme reeve ontario she was a member or the james rennie told the lions club spray valley chapter of the eastern at stouffville on monday evening at star lodge no 64 their biweekly dinner meeting mr surviving arefour sisters mrs j rennie said that the name ofjweinholdt and miss laura vanzant the horse stable first and saw seven daniel was running through his at blind river out miss nora and thin horses we came to a wet dirty head for never in his life had he he- miss lilly vanzant both of toronto cow stable some cows loose with three brothers charles of banffabout thirtytwo pigs these pigs fred in edmonton and frank at were in very poor condition nothing detroit lakes minn services were conducted at the banff united church on thursday enclosure these were the worst at 230 pm with rev t ii lonsj looking pigs i have ever seen in my dale officiating interment will be experience i had a conversation in tho banff cemetery the banff with accused and he showed me a funeral service is in charge of bag of chop in the cupboard he arrangements supervised by jacques said lie had been feeding them chop stands at tho top and york county j ftiiiearl home and their condition is third in importance simcoo he worms it was told the lions has some 5500 acres threatened they went at it and re- and the pigs hadnt been fed that around the morning he said he belonged to came the rsvc in england and he back with new life and are sunplyl was going to belong to the humane fore been in a den of lions now he was actually feeding with them and he was really liking it mr rennie had been invited to give a short talk on reforestation work in which he is so vitally inter ested and the head of a provincial organization for the promotion of this work of tin- 14 counties with forests established simcoo countv about you going in asked ar- leigh armstrong defence counsel he took his own time about coming replied witness he gave us permission to go in how did you know the pigs hadnt been fed in the morning by his own admission it is not the usual practice to put down fresh straw every day no was there anything else the matter with these pigs they were lousy the sows were very poor and certainly needed bedding testified constable john williamson they were just laying in manure the little pigs werent as bad as the old was due to quarter to seven with over 25 million trees growing aside from reclaiming waste land preventing sand from blowing over great areas reforestation fs stalling a water shortage that might other wise exist lie pointed out that the village of beaton was running short of water 15 years ago springs were drying up and the town system similar to slouffvilles system was forested the 100 acres reservoirs and the springs with new life and are supply- was ample water today the speaker also society here isaidi would be back lots wherein the next day and when i returned advocated farm wood it is claimed that five acres will pro vide a farmer with all his fuel with out diminishing the wood lot the speaker was introduced by his son telf rennie next morning the stables had been cleaned bedding was down and the pigs were fed their stomachs show ing clegg was quite cooperative dicksovs hill hoy olalif iks as lance corporal at newmarket camp queens york rangers company at newmarket has 10 who qualified as lancecorporals left to right front row a karl hoover j mtinro c s m johnston c w armstrong p widgett back itow w s russell c w narraway w hurst k crowhurst f holt digging into the filth and dirt in this sows the next day they were all bedded up looked comfortable and had been fed they were in horrible condition the day before on january 31 i examined 32 hogs one bore three sows and 27 young pigs testified dr leason a veterinary employed by the tor onto humane society the pigs had been fed that day their ab domens were enlarged once fed in a day they will swell up they were lousy and extremely thin the ac cused stated that the reason the pigs werent fed the day before was because the water lino had broken this time of year you often find pigs in poor condition due to the feed lacking in vitamins stated dr lockhart veterinary surgeon i am employed by captain por- ritt who is in england said accus ed i have worked on that farm for seven years it was ten or fifteen below zero that day and the pump was frozen i usually mix a porridge for tho pigs and i couldnt this morning i just gave them three pails of wheat i had an adequate supply of feed and minerals wheat and chop my pigs had lots of bedding too i didnt have a stiff pig the food does not come out of your own pocket asked crown attorney mathews norcplled accused ah you do is look after them yes and i am a professional i didnt have a sick pig nowell porrltt brother of accus eds employertestlfled tha the was not familiar with farm work but noticed everything was alright whon he visited the farm in december and again in january do you think your brother would bo satisfied with tho condition of these pigs asked crown attorney mathews i dont believe he would be replied porrltt