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the tribune stouffville ont thursday february 13 1941 page three local general news enclosed find for the renew of the grand paper writes mrs d a galloway former resident the galloways who live at 1770 queen e- toronto are just recovering frm the flu al on friday dr herbert freel left sorry to read about the tragic death of cully johnson whom i remember living in stouffville over 30 years ago writes mr charles a variant of banff alberta who him self has just lost his sister through death the editor of the tribune rcalls meeting mr vanzant at the heme of the late wm mathers in banff during the summer 1938 at which time we enjoyjd a pleasant visit with these former- residents mrs mcxeelly who is spending a few weeks a the home of her sister mrs james mowat spent a month down in charlottetown pei just prior to coming to stouffville from her homo in markham village while at the home of her son in the east lie suddenly became ill and passed away with shocking suddenness leaving a wife and small family a young fawn was seen racing down the main street of mount albert last week with what seemed all the dogs in the village in full pursuit some men rescued the irighlened thing and took it into the barber shop where if the young deer had only known it had the closest shave of its life with its strength exhausted the young ani mal was found to have been wound ed by a shot from a gun received tefore it reached the village and it soon died one can hardly imagine anyone mean enough to shool at an animal so innocent and harmless of course this sort of individual wouldnt respect the game laws either for shooting deer as every body knows is out of season at this time to take a short course at the polyclinic hospital in new york city arthur swift former stouffville garageinan and whom we reported last week as having been moved from his army post in toronto to niagara falls has just received his sergeants stripes stouffville curlers carried off the third prize money at the agincourt honspeil last week prize being given in warsaving stamps the local rink was skipped by h w sanders and comprised also chris armstrong win armstrong and harry stoufler all radios iu the district were turned on sunday afternoon to hear the speech cf prime minister win ston churchhill who spoke to the nations of the world from the brit ish isles churchill has played many parts soldier journalist polo play er orator politician statesman writer painter bricklayer at one time he held a union card but the role he plays today is the greatest of them all winston churchill holds the hopes of the democratic millions as no man ever held them before irev w m mcguire pastor of first nazarene church toronto who is at present conducting an evangelistic campaign down in akron ohio has been invited by his church to remain as their pastor for another threeyear term a former stouffville pastor mr mcguires success will be noted with keen interest by his many friends in this district mac as his intimates call him is a lover of clean sport and never fails to enjoy the opening trout season in local waters and he was one of the en thusiastic pheasant hunters in the district last fall thats stovers baking heres pastry that nourishes- delicious home baked pies and cakes made from choice ingredients to please the fussiest palate serve stovers bakery goods at least twice a week and watch the family appetite perk up also seven delicious breads to choose from the stouffville bakery bakers for two generations mr e a grubin ro will be at his office in stouffville on monday february 17 a mrs x robsou nichols of winni peg is visiting her daughter mrs herbert freel baths auction sale of wood lots next tuesday february is at lot 25 con 7 pickering the junior institute will hold their regular meeting on thursday of this week at 2s0 pm at the home of mrs j h silverthorn miss jane birkett was in belle ville for a few days visiting the new home of mr and mrs don fraser who were married in stouffville recently mrs a v nolan was in toronto for several days this week and assisted at the reception at the home of her brother and sisterinlaw mr and mrs charles gansler who mark ed their 23th wedding anniversary one day after mrs mary forsyth and family vacated their house on tenth street to locate iu toronto their premises were reoccupied by mr and mrs arthur williams who had been farming just east of town postal records cause us to wonder how bright we are in the month of november there ere 3911 letters so poorly addressed that but 63 of them could be delivered to the soldiers overseas the stouffville arena has arrang ed for the appearance of the oshawa skating club here on wednesday evening february 26 admirers of fancy and figure skating will look forward to this visit with interest details will be announced shortly ontarios 1942 automobile lic ense markers will have black letter- ingn on an orange background it has been annouced by provincial secretary harry nixon the plates as usual will be made at the ontario reformatory at guelph and approximately 700000 will be turn ed out there in the next few months carswells economy store this week point oiit the certainty of in creased prices on many lines be fore long as so much of their stock cannot be replaced notwithstanding the big corner store is offering some interesting price quotations in this issue that it will pay you to look over in a car of lumber arriving in brantford came a hen the lumber was shipped from mississippi and the distance was 1185 miles the weather was of the below zero type on arrival but the hen had laid a couple of eggs on the way up on a trip of that length we suppose she had to do something to put in the time as there was no chance to look out the train window savings and thrift real savings are the excess of earnings over expenditures by saving now you build present security and make provision for future needs when your earnings may be lower thrift is a symbol of responsibility for your convenience there is a savings department at each of our branchesvin canada know your bank it can bo helpful to you the bank of nova scotia est 1832 over a century of banking experience once more the value of advertis ing is demonstrated last week dent law announced the loss of nine dollars rent money for his land lord he dropped it on the street but could find no trace of the missing bills after the notice in the paper bud vanzant son of wm vanzant and a pupil of c e watson at the public school promptly turned over the cash which he had picked up and wondered who it belonged to dent laws wisdom in coming to the newspaper office to advertise plus buds honesty made the law family extremely happy no time was lost in getting the money paid over to the landlord after that ex perience said mr law for best results ship your cream to us for the safest and most convenient way to store your meats and other eatables rent a cold storage locker the savings derived thereby are such that you really cannot afford to be without one stouffville creamery co phone 18601 mayor cunningham of alliston has refused to sign a bylaw duly- passed by the council over which he presides designed to introduce day light saving in that town it appears that the town was on daylight sav ing during the summer and ignor ing the government order or request that all places on daylight saving should remain on it throughout the winter reverted to standard time now the whole council excepting the mayor wants daylight saving just how the mayor of any muni cipality can refuse to sign a legally passed bylaw is something to con jure with it would appear that the head of the council is duty bound to sign such bylaws as may be passed by the council whether he is in favor of their contents or not providing of course that the bylaw is legal and properly passed as it appears to he in the case of alliston another stouffvilie boy james thomas has joined the rcaf and left this week to begin his train ing jim is the second son in this family to join the airforce alfred an older brother having joined up some months ago former clerk j s dougherty gave this paper a friendly call last friday afternoon it was his first visit since his serious illness last december and we were right glad to see his familiar countenance again in our sanctum more profit from every animal on the farm mr barsto miller son of the late mr and mrs robert miller was with the scottish regiment at brantford on sunday for a special broadcast program this former resident and native son of the dis trict has been promoted to the rank of major mr eli stouffer was removed from his home to the brierbush hospital last saturday although s4 years of age mr stouffer weighs 260 pounds thus when his lower limbs became helpless it required profes sional skill to handle a patient of his size cutting down trees in the bush mr joe byer of atha fell and suffered a broken collar bone on wednesday last week mr byer had felled a tree which became lodged he climbed up to cut the limb which held the falling tree and was in some way slipped losing his grip and falling to the ground the smallest crowd this winter was seen in town on saturday night instead of the usual crowded thoroughfare there was not more than a dozen cars on main street at nine pm this was due to the winters worst storm which blocktr lanes and left most roads rather dangerous for motor traffic a brisk trade was noted all afternoon and 6eldom have we seen so many horse vehicles on the street in recent years broom racket might be tried ix stouffville citizens warned to be on lookout for salesman claiming to repre sent canadian institute for blind has been chased out of several surrounding ontario towns al ready there is a new racket being worked in this section of ontario a salesman making a canvass selling brooms which he says are being sold for the benefit of the canadian institute for the blind and which society he claims to represent the person or persons conduct ing a 3alc of brooms and other articles alleged to be made by the blind have no connection with the canadian institute for the blind which is the only organization equipped to render services to tho blind of this district it should also be noted that suitable action will be taken against anyone who is guilty of misrepresentation in this re spect the senior womens institute will meet at the home of miss mae mow- deiv albert st on wednesday feb 19th at 230 oclock motto fill your life with love and scatter sun shine iroli call my favorite econ omy address by rev f herman music gary lewish reading mrs james coates demonstration on cookies by members echoes from hand book mrs h malloy display of valentines oldfashioned social halfhour you are invited pres mrs george saunders secy sadie stewart the worldly possessions of the late fred johnson were sold from his humble home on ifriday after noon to a half hundred people gathered at the property in the park district after everything inside the oneroomed home was sold the building itself was disposed of to sid schmidt for 10 the theatre man intends to convert it into a chicken house after moving it to his own premises the next largest sale of the afternoon was the bicycle for 750 then went the violin for 5 and still another fiddle for 2 tho guitar sold for 350 hut anything else for the most part went for so many cents each consisting of go pounds of coal a few dishes stovo washing machine for 50c and so on proceeds of the sale less auction fees will bo entirely devoted to the purchase of a marker to be placed on fred johnsons grave sugared schumacher feed is a great utility feed it serves all types of stock at all timet of the year sugared schumacher is better than corn belter than oats better than barley better than wheat feeds because it is a blend of all four of them plus minerals molasses and iodine quaker sugared schumacher feed ia been a standard feed for many years one with which oilier feeds are compared it develop a quality of lone skin and muscle that make better looking animals help keep iheni in vigor health and condition for growing young stock rebuilding dr stock develop ing fine beef raiding ton litters keeping the work horse and bull in splendid condition yes even for the milk ing herd sugared schumacher feed is the choice of experienced successful farmer for a dependable all round satisfactory feed stiver bros this friday is st valentines day mkxxoxites will uk uhged to slbscr1b1- to dis- mr geoffrey silvester of calgary tress aid loan alta and sister miss winnifred silvester toronto spent a day last week with their cousin mrs archie leaney stouffville curlers broke even in the second week of the york sched ule on monday night local rinks skipped by wm armstrong and thos burkett came out in front of unionville on the home ice while sam armstrong and f l button were just nosed out at agincourt in the last couple of ends markham will open their playoff series with aurora this wednesday night with the return game in markham on friday according to the regulations set down at the be ginning of the season this is to be a best twooutofthree series homo and home games with the third game if necessary on neutral ice the programs at the stanley theatre this week end and the first three days of next week are of an especial nature ab lincoln of illinois showing this thursday fri day and saturday and foreign correspondent showing next mon day tuesday and wednesday are slated as two of the best ten pictures of the year by the official critics not only has the canadian fellow ship service approved subscriptions of friends tunkers and mennonite members to a special dominion loan but tho organization will conduct a campaign urging adherents of these three dtnominations to support it the loan is for funds expressly designated to finance expenditures to alleviate distress or human suffering due to the war the objective is 1000000 certificates are non- interest bearing small denominations will be sold to mennonite children as war savings stamps are sold in other schools the campaign will get underway as soon as application forms are re ceived in sufficient number rev j b martin pastor of brb street men nonite church reportsjjev mr mar tin is chairman of the fellowship service which was organized at a re cent meeting of representatives of the three denominations in water loo a resolution urging the ontario government to take steps to or ganize from all possible sources a supply oflabor to assist the farmers of the province was passed by york county council at the closing meet ing of the january session last fri day wood sale cancelled owing to the blocked condition of roads and the raging snow storm last saturday the auction sale of wood lots at the rear of lots 25 con 7 pickering on tho lorne bath farm was postponed and will now be held on tuesday february 18 there are five acres of heavily wood ed bush to be sold in small lots containing much desired fire wood of beach and maple the salo opens at two oclock and as wood lots to be sold this winter are very scarce buyers will be on hand promptly 1 ik x 1 pi iii r r wk i 5 it v m 1 m 1 mannings cream tea sandwich biscuits lbs 29c domestic shortening prints excelsior pastry flour domino english breakfast tea richmello orange pekoe tea 2 lbs 25c 24 lb- bag 65c half lb 33c half lb 39c choice quality large tins pumpkin 2 for 19c white swan toilet tissue neilsons jersey cocoa christies premium sodas salted mannings tasty soda biscuits 3 rolls 25c half lb tin 19c lb 19c 2 lbs 37c 2 lbs 25c red rose vacuum packed coffee half lb lb 25c 47c cooking figs dates unpitteds hallowi apricots evaporated prunes large size lb 17c 2 lbs 29c lb 35c 2 lbs 29c aylmer in tomato sauce large tins pork beans 3 for 2sc maple leaf midget rolls 23 lbs each lb- 29c schnieders bacon squares smoked 2 lbs 35c iceberg head lettuce large size each 10c navel oranges sweet and seedless per doz 19c bc delicious eating apples per doz- 35c ontario firm j cooking onions 8 lbs 25c dominion stores iimitid