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j v tf 1925 copies 6000 readers leading weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twps vol 53 no 37 stouffville ont thursday january 28 1943 bight pages heres a typical scene near stouffville last week ljist uccks oijr snow storm blocked more roads than have been tied up in this lis trkt at one time for ninny jcars senos like this were common in alnrklinin whit- church ami cnroute to goorl- wood from stoulfville a bull dozer piled these bank fifteen feet hiah as it left town for guorinuod just before tbe hijr tlnal storm tbe snow was piled back over the fence line and enabled the snow to keep i bo road open if ou uunt to witness tliis siene just snou- sboe up tbe tenth as far as ijincolnvllle collecting dog tax constable rusnell is carrying the dog book these days and is out collecting the dog license money the town seems to be infested with dogs and so many useless looking critters are running the streets and not too well cared for in lieu of paying the tax or license fee owners have the option of destroying the dog which can be done in a human way ly sending it to the humane society iu toronto so many of them are not worth the amount of the tax that this would seem the best way out on the other hand who can blame the owner of an intelligent dog for wanting to keep the animal i the town bylaw forbids dogs run ning at large and owners are re quired to keep them on a leash but in the winter season the law is not enforced unless the dog is com plained about when the owner then must keep the animal under control just as soon as gardening comes aiound all dogs will have to be confined to their home premises exhausted woman spends night in service station enroute to stouf fville battling snowblocked suburban roads to reach her sick mother mrs myrtle crawford young toronto negress and sister of victoria hollingsworth pupil of stouffville public school told how she walked several miles through a raging blizzard she stayed overnight at a highway service station to cover a part of the 35mile journey from toronto to stouffville starting out early tuesday with a box of chocolates for her mother mrs crawford made ihe first lap of the journey from toronto to lan sing by car at lansing the gener ator of the car burned out unable to get a bus or t rain for northern points she began the sevenmile walk from lansing to agincourt through a raging blizzard halfstumbling and halfrunning at times through drifts from four to six feet high she covered a five- mile stretch from lansing to sulli vans corners before she became exhausted she asked for shelter at a service station and stayed over night i gotup early wednesday to catch the early train to stouffville i from agincourt she said after walking to the station at agincourt i found that the trains were can celled that was at s30 in the morning i knew that there would be a train through sometime so i wait ed at the station all day until the 6 oclock train came through that night nowton joynt station agent at agincourt remarked on how much the young woman treasured the chocolates she vowed she would not touch one of them because she had bought them for her mother he said i arrived in stouffville all right late wednesday night only to find that the road to the farm on the ninth line where my mother was staying was blocked after coming that far i wasnt going to balk at a twomile walk over country roads it took me about two hours to get through that stretch but i was get ting used to it then she continued mrs crawford mother of three children was wearing only city clothes when she started on her twoday trip i the box of chocolates wasnt touched during the trip and it reach ed its destination in fairly good shape in spite of what 1t had been through mrs crawford revealed my mother is not so bad now and im ready to go home to my family in toronto any time but i think ill wait until the roads are cleared i wouldnt care to go through that again but i would do it if it wore for the same cause she said her mother is mrs margaret hollingsworth staying on the form cr wlnterstein place at corner of sideroad and ninth concession just above stouffville the doctor was through on sun day to see her but all the roads from stouffville arc blocked now my younger sister vlkkl walked to stouffville to get medicine for her she said mrs crawford had one of her legs slightly frostbitten and her fingers nipped i didnt bother with a doctor when i was in agincourt hut 1 wish now that i had the frost didnt do any serious damage but it feels a bit painful outstanding speakers for sunday school convention the annual convention of the markham township sunday school association will be held in the j unionville united church on thuisi day februaiy 4 do not miss any of the sessions dr i h erb professor in toron to university and rev c e craig ma bd pastor of grace united in toronto have been secured as special speakers gnr knudsen english tenor will sing in the afternoon and evening with tank corps pte haiold alorden son of mr and mrs lou morden of stouffville is the second son in this family to don kakhi haiold enlisted seveial weeks ago and is with a tank unit mining at newmaiket george an older brother is with the artillery at petawawa i i vivian farmer dead fell off doorstep cgit entertain mrs f l button opened her home on tuesday for the canadian girls in training to entertain their friends at tea mrs button received at the door accompanied by jean millercgit presidentwbile wait ing for their tea guests were en tertained by splendid musical sel ections by mrs r barker and the girls these included solos by marguerite grubin duets by helen campbell and jeanne westlake trios by lillian piper marion wel- don and audrey jennings and beat rice lickorish cart weldon and norma fairies betty jean fieel and olive fipher gave very fine piano solos mis g bailey showed the guests into the dining room pouring tea were mrs r button and miss i foster leaders gills in their cgit uniforms prepaied and serv ed the tea proceeds were 20 stouffville drops froai taxkari competition stouffville dropped from this dis tricts curling tankard on tuesday night when they were decisively eliminated by unionville in the crosby memorial rink although reports indicated that unionville were far from championship form themselves the local boys just could not it their stride at all the local rinks were skipped by harrv brillinger and m e watt a quite well known figure in whitchurch township john b grose died in newmarket hospital on monday afternoon about two houis after being admitted death was due to an injured skull believ ed to he the result of a fall mi grose had been working about his farm east of vivian as usual when shortly aftei dinner he went out the l ear door of his homej shortly after mis grose had occa sion to go to the door and theie lay the prostrate form of her hus band he had evidently slipped off the step and struok his head later examination also revealed a couple of broken libs and a fractured arm mrs giose had to run for help a mile and a quarter to the home of a cousin ben grose since the roads were impassable and a doctor could not be obtained a farm sleigh was brought into action and mr grose was taken as far as vivian where the sleigh was met by a motor car he never regained consciousness john b grose was born at hart- man son of mr and airs james grose as a young man he married elizabeth millei of queensville who survives him they had no family one bi other surviving is mr joe grose of ringwood and an only sister is mrs james cunningham of queensville the idea that death was due to a falling icicle is not taken too seriously the funeral will be held today thursday afternoon at 230 in the mount albert chapel interment at newmarket cemetery s former bank mgr died suddenly calls 900 salary out of pocket expenses believed safe abner baker is 85 there was a time when one of the jiest known personages passing along our main street was mr abner baker of the sth concession of whitchurch mr baker was in town on tuesday for the first time in two months i wouldnt be here today were it not for urgent busi ness said mr baker this citizen of the district who looks about 75 is actually ss years of age and he has spent all those many years right where he now lives at baker hill not exactly in the same house for when abner was a lad the present harding farm house at baker hill was their home mr baker knew on the streets of years ago but he sow ix kxgiax1 pte robert miller son of mrs peter it raymcr mount joy ha jus arrived in england it was an nounced this week fto milter wis in training at red deer alberta and it is a brother ci wilfred miller st cathornes arrive at wedding in horse and sleigh snowbanks seemingly unsurmount- able failed to deter dan cupid on saturday afternoon although the big plow from uxbridge township did everything possible to open the road to the home of the brides par ents air and airs lloyd brown 10th concession north of stouff ville for the wedding of their second j daughter lillian g brown to trooper arthur w johnson son of air and airs george johnson of j every citizen oshawa the ceremony was solem- stouffville 60 nlzed on saturday afternoon the confessed that the rapid changes bride and groom and other guests today leaves him at a loss having arrived- at the home by horse even many faces that are famil- drawn sleigh j iav to him he finds it hard to read- the bride was given in marriage ily call them by name despite this by her father wearing a dusky pink bit of weakness that affects lots of street length dress her bridesmaid people at 50 abner baker is a was her sister zella brown whose wonderfully well preserved man dress was of gold colored material and may ho long bo spared to en- mr jim bryajit of oshawa was best joy the eventime of life man the nuptial knot was tied by rev e alorton of stouffville while the wedding tea was under way and during the felicitations following the big plow passed the home so the new road it made was used by the guests in their back to town groom left amidst best wishes for or air scheil where they are picked toronto guests were present from up this applies to both town and 0hawa toronto and from stouff- country and is urgent the collcc- vllle were mr and mrs fred smith tlon is sponsored by the stouffville she being an aunt of the bride red cros the death of elmer al still former manager of the canadian bank of commeice at stouffville was received hei e last week with shocking suddenness he died with out the slightest warning at his home in oiangeville and was laid to rest in the cemetery theie where so many of his forebearers were buried air still would have reach ed his g2nd birthday this coming april the shockng suddenness of air stills death was related by his wife who said that air still had been working in toronto for quite some time in the income tax office and had come home for a few days rest on the evening of his death he had spent the day in a normal way they had tea together and while alls still was doing the dishes he lay on the couch airs still suggested that they play a game of checkers and air still readily agreed and sat at the table rthey had just started to play when his head was seen to slump over no word was spoken for air still was dead in 1929 elmer ai still came to stouffville as successor to air a c burkholder he remained with us us for eleven years during which time both 31 r and mrs still en- deaied themselves to the people of this community he was a member of the session of the unjted church and sfwilling worker in any depart ment where his services were re quired his financial support too was most impressive mr still was a member of the alasonic order and joined richardson lodge here he was also a member of the eastern star and a past patron of the local chapter also a charter member of the stouffville lions club and an enthusiastic bowler on his retirement from the bank heie air and airs still returned to orangeville his native town where lie had extensive real estate hold ings he was a son of william still and alary ann alayne and was educated in orangeville public and high school and as a youth enter ed the banking business surviving besides his good wife is a son william of toronto the funeral to forest lawn cemetery orangeville on saturday took place from his late h6me there rev r o wilson conducted the service despite the fact that the mem bers of the toronto york road commission offered their services free of charge and reeve earl toole resigned because he would not serve on that basis now th special committee of york county council will recommend to council that it pay all five members of the toron to and york roads commission 900 per year for their out- ofpocket expenses in administer ing county roads ii the committee obtainedxan opin ion from rjaiw chitty kc which said it was in the power of the council to pay their commissioners the committee then wrote t b aicquesten who in replying de clared that he was opposed to any remuneration to road commissioners and that he would not favor the passing of special legislation for that purpose the amount of work which will be required of our road commisi sioners particularly in the prepara- tion of a postwar construction pro- gramme makes it imperative that we pay them outofipocket exipenses reeve f g gardiner of forest hill declared we must take care of our county roads and unless we seriously con sider the question of the realloca tion of the suburban road system we will find that the plan outlined by the city of toronto will be forced upon us or our road commission will evaporate and all the roads may be thrown back on the individual municipality mr gardiner warned reeve f j macrae of york township declared that he could not agree with the opinion given the committee by mr chitty i must as a mattei of principle oppose pay ment of the road commissioners he said it was generally conceded that as j soon as these men got into office some machinery would be set up to secure pay for them the whole i thing still looks bad said a prom- j inent man of the county if a paid commission was to be set upj the men who were chosen would not now that the arctic storm is over have received the appointments the and normal weather is back again reeve of whitchurch for harry avorling the tribune is reliably in formed that official confirma- ation lias been received to the effect fliat harry woiling is a prisoner of war in tlio bands of the japanese and that he is safe missionary to india when tbe war broke out lie is a former pastor of the stouff ville and church hill christian churches coal truck makes record run to save local rose crop i instance some interesting stories continue to would have been a commissioner come out of the situation that bid since present commissioners wanted for coal to serve the stouffville the job bad enough to take it with- j floral plant was quite a thriller out out of pocket expenses why j during the height of the storm the not let them have a go at it then big bins at the floral plant were almost exhausted of their supply some time later if a definite salaiy is decided on the commission should be chosen wthout this cam ouflage anyhow ratepayers of york county would resent the sum of 900 being- called mere out of pocket expenses its really a good salary for the work done proaioted lake aiusselaiax isouvpel a farmer called the tribune this wednesday mornisg to say that there has not been a rural mall de livered around lake alusselman since a week ago last saturday the service comes from cedar valley and had only been able to reach ballastrae a few days go but in the meantime postmaster gib wright sent out a team to meet the mail man notice owing to the shortage of fats olr and bones for the manufacture of explosives all housewives are dash urged to save these and take them while the bride and to the butcher shops of air pitman wellknown uxbridge farmer is dead the death of andrew wilson on alonday this week at his home a mile north of claremont came with great surprio to many old friends he was 3 years of age the funer al will be held this thursday after noon with service in the 5th line united church at 230 oclock interment will follow at the ux bridge cemetery born at ashburn a son of the late hugh wilson andrew spent all his hie in the neighborhood of clare mont and in uxbridge township twice married his first wife was annie stephenson and following her death he married alfctt elizabeth symcs surviving arc a stepson morley srcr and z daughter mrs martin gall pilot officer elmer winn who is stationed with the rcaf at brandon manitoba has been promoted to the rank of flying officer elmer is n son of mr and airs fred winn 10th concession of wliitclinrcli ordered long ago when 40 tons were still in stock the supply failed to come in and so the plant was at a dangerously low point just when the storm was at its worst there was five feet of snow on the roadway between the greenhouses and the townline or alain street too with less than a days supply on hand of steam coal barclays big transport started out from toronto and wheel ed the load of seven tons to union- ville then proceeded along no 7 to brougham as the 8th of markham was impassable from brougham the truck veached claremont and then a snow plow went ahead of the truck from there to stouffville thus making the longest way round the surest way home ten or more men were digging out the high drifts from town to the plant so that the plow could finish off the job and let the coal through thus were thousands of dollars in rose crop saved by only a few hours from de struction by the frost next day harry ratcliffs big truck brought in another load the plant is said to consume around five tons a day dur ing the depth of winter births graham at the brierbush hospital stouffville on saturday january 23rd 1943 to air and airs chester graham whitchurch township the gift of a- son huckerby at the brierbush hospital stouffville on tuesday january 26th 1943 to air and airs a huckerby whitchurch township the gift of a son coates r at the brierbush hos pital stouffville on alonday january 25th 1943 to air and air3 david coates brooklln thieves steal ration books from farmers during the past few days thieves stole the ration book and car keys from an automobile belonging to arthur baker also the ration book from the car of ross aicmullen in the same neighborhood in both eases the- thefts were made as the cars were parked in the laneway to the farms on the baker farm and on the farm of jacob aicaiullen nearby on the 10th of markham airs harvey baker mother of a rthnr saw a man open the car door away down the lane toward the concession line as she looked out of the window just about dark but nee alma redshaw the gift of she thought it was one of her own a son later- she told arthur that aicalullen at st josepvs hos- she snw someone looking into the pltal toronto on friday january f i he immediately made an 22 1943 to air and airs clifford nvestlgatloli the cushions were mcmnllcn the gift of a daughter asit the ef had been looking for something of value the ration book and car keys were gone ross aicmtillens car was simil arly rifled but only the car keys- he had his ration stouffville war branch at a meet ing on tuesday decided to continue were missing to accept donations and clothing for book in his pocket it is belevo f that the russian relief be sure and give the thirving in tii case tne them a lift work of a very local person