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the tribune stouflfville ont thursday february 18 1943 selective service charles e ncedham of toronto is now aocinto director of na tional selective service at ottawa mr xecdhuni is on loan to the government from the canadian national kailnajs some one tells us that it was the winter of 191s when the snow traa so deep that we have never had bytnang to equal it until 1943 as 1918 saw the end of the first great war il is argued that 1943 will see tie ead of the present world con- het if there is any money in opera ting a tow truck the local garage- men would have big income taxes to meet however one of the biggest operators assures us that there is little profit in this angle of the garage business cost of labor maintainance of truck and equip ment and use of gasoline combine to build a big expense account fire of unknown origin com pletely destroyed the farm home of robert lawrie just west of mark- ham on no 7 highway on monday evening there was no one home at the time but it is thought that possibly an overheated stove may have been the cause the dwelling was a frame structure and has been occupied by the present owners for many years a considerable amount of furniture was saved by neighbors who rushed to the scene the war branch we wish to thank the following for contributions received mrs kaiser clothing mr hornsby quilt top pr mitts dress aprons and other articles mr w reesor fur lined coat mrs ross harper 2 overcoats 2 suits of clothes 2 shirt waists 1 quilt lemonville war worker 1 cotton quilt ladies of the church at vivian 2 large quilts 9th line 1 large quilt 1 small quilt babies clothing and other clothing miss tilhe stouffer knit ted 9 pairs of booties m davey secy clefllstrest rooms you can be sure of unexcelled gas oil plus highgrade service at boadways service station phone 265 stouffville is jennings proudly goes to school mrs jennings had been just managing to keep her family going but things were look ing brighter at last now with the children able to help with the housework she had applied for the post of school teacher and had been accepted but that meant she needed suitable clothes and clothes cost money she took her problem to the manager of her bank on the strength of her ability and character he arranged a loan of 80 and so- it was that she was able to take the position and greet her first class proudly she paid off the loan after six months at a cost in interest of only 240 this is a true story only the name has been altered it is typical of hundreds of human dramas in which the bank manager has been privileged to play a helping role war requirement have increaied immeniely the work of hanks and bank staff at the him hm more than onethird f our experienced men have entitled bank early pay tmall t mils by cath h helps the chartered banks of canada e a grubin ro optometrist will be at his office in stoutfville on monday february 22nd misses ruth reaman and sheila beresford of richmond hill were weekend visitor at the home of mr and mrs charles h nolan pte george morden is completing a two weeks furlough from his post with the rca at petawawa camp it is expected that 2500 ration books will be issued at stoutfville that calls for a state of 15 or 20 women workers port elgin a village the size of stouffville raised 1200 for rus sian relief well done you lake shoie residents true to the record this winter last sunday was another terribly cold day with high winds old man winter seems to have it in for the church folk mr and mrs claude brillinger and daughter claudia of toronto veie weekend visitois with their parents mr and mis harry brillin ger and mr and mrs jos gayman elizabeth snively of whitchurch twp one of ontarios top women skieis finished third in the lauren- tian invitation ski meet a week ago she was a member of the eastern canada team last winter and be longs to toronto ski club one week from saturday will be the final date for purchase of your 1943 car license there has been tendency to hold back the purchase on the part of many owners fear ful of gas restrictions now that this matter has been cleared up it is hoped by department officials that the final few days rush will not be so great home for first leave kenneth anderson son of mis j t anderson of stouffville who enlisted with the vrcaf three weeks ago was home on sunday en joying his first leave ken is now stationed at gait where he is now training as a wireless operator be ta e enlisting he was employed lr toronto and earlier on had attend ed school in stouffville few candidates for go eminent sponsored course messrs jack davis and bill kellington found they formed fifty per cent of the class of a govern ment sponsored chemistij coiirse be ing offeied in toionto a week ago and as a result the boys have already been placed in jobs only four turn ed up for the couise and the government had the choice of either sending the boys to a legular technical school couise or getting them jobs which they did jack has been placed with the consumers gas co while bill is employed with a steel firm mr and mrs murray nesbltt and children of oshawa spent the week end with mr and mrs edgar lageer and other relatives the town of aurora found it necessary last week to engage a know plow at 350 per hour to clear the snow from the roads on all its side streets the snow situation was unusual this year some rate payers have urged that a similar job should he done in stoutfville but the council here has never entertained the idea so far a cable received by friends in stouffville from ralph stevens formerly of stouffville and now with the raf discloses that he has been transferred to india where he will no doubt see action in the general wavels lecently opened bui ma campaign ralph has trav elled half way around the world since the days when he attended school here his last known action station was in west africa where he was sent at the time of the british occupation of madagascar island at about the scheduled hour for the evening tiain to pull in here on sunday night everybody rushed from the waiting room as a roaring train came thundering along alas it was only a snow plow and the passen gers with their friends to see them off had to wait another hour before they got away it was the coldest night in many years and wonder was that any engine could hold steam at all with which to force itself along hello peeps just arrived eh after youve been fed on fulopep chick starter youll grow as 81g and strong as i am congratulations for old timer the joins with the many friends of mr herb obrien form erly of this town in greeting him on his 80th birthday herb is just now located at the home of his sister mrs a j brace in toronto he is in very good health and was the object of a card shower by his old friends anyone ever identified with stouffville must know of the obrien family who helped to build the place and knowing the obriens jou havent forgotten herh the easiest way to raise good chicks when you take off a hatch or receive a shipment of chicks put them on fulopep chick starter at once it is the safe sure way to give them all an equally good start in life feed it in hoppers with fulopep fine chick feed this is the easiest way to grow chicks rapidly develop their size and get smooth uniform feathering ml chick vstartera is a quality feed with an oatmeal base its ingredients supply the needed pro teins and vitamins and make it a per- fectly balanced feed which the chicka can easily assimilate stiver bros stouftville ontario firemen called to tenth street the fire biigade made a run to the home of mr jim hill ajax em ployee living in the randall house on tenth street north last thurs day morning the pipes had caught on fire due to burning a- soft type of coal no water or chemical was used but the firemen cleaned the pipes after the fire was suppressed and left the home in safe condition again the pipes had only been up a couple of months but it was amaz ing the accumulation in that short a time damage was mostly due to smoke something our avomen can do we have hundreds of women now on active service one of their gieatest needs today is for the toilet articles which have become to all women not only a luxury but a needed comfort these courageous women including some of our own canadians have undertaken to do piactically a mans part in this war need them and like them would it not be a pleasure for the women to consider a shower of some of the following articles that will not only give comfort but joy to those who receive them soap tooth brush tooth paste or powder laundry soap or soap flakes cold cream hair neu kleenex combs tape lines face powder straight pins hair fins bobby pins safety pins darning needles buttons mending wools mending cottons tapes elastic a container will be found in f riches haidwaie wheie any of the articles can be left up to march 3rd sponsored by the ladies of the stouffville red cross started for coast when fathers death occurred gnr harry davis was aboard the train in toronto bound for nova scotia last saturday tyhen a mess age from home here reached him apprizing him of the death of his father mr john davis who died saturday morning harry just had time to disomy bark and return to stouffville where his bereaved mother was overjoyed that he had been located hefore his long journey to the east coast gnr davis appeared before the local justice of the peace who granted a two weeks extension to his leave where there is no com manding officer stationed under such circumstances the authority rests with the local j p who may extend the leave four weeks this is the first occasion on which the local j p has been called to de termine any extension to a soldier in this war headaches for rural mailmen the rural mail must go through but at this season and in a winter like this its no easy task most rural couriers have jacked up their cars for the present and have taken to the horse but there are some roads that even the horee cannot travel then there is theproblem which deputy reeve evans of whit church told us about the mail route serving wilcox lake travels from aurora serving mall boxes along yonge street by automobile be cause the pavement is bear once he reaches wilcox lake district on the return journey alond the 3rd con cession line the snow banks are as high as the telephone poles and the road is most difficult even for a horse now how can a mall man operate under these condltfons where half the trip is over a road void of all snow and the remaining half over record drifts try and figure it out cold hampers lions carnival the lions carnival postponed from last week was held monday evening in the stouffville arena extreme cold weather and heavy roads combined to cut the usual big attendance in about half still this was expected imonday afternoon it was decided to go ahead with the carnival rather than to make a second postponement considering the cold the attendance was good and the lions here thank all the patrons prize winners in costume children 1st june and doris steck- ley 2nd mary castle 3rd dorothy wilson fancy 1st phyliss van- zant 2nd mrs charles nolan comic norman steckley and bernard fockler horse and cutter 2nd mrs7 g bailey three lucky draws on the sale of tickets resulted in win ners being miss margaret goodyer miss elda hutchinson and miss margaret hosie wilmot avcatlicr of other lays last week mr a d bruce gave us a record from his diary of feb 8 1895 which indicated that it was eleven below zero all day long with a hurricane wind and a fine snow falling i recall that it froze hard the snow fairly stung your face and was one of the worst days of his long experience again on january 31 1908 mr bruces diary tells of a party of young people from victoria square sleighing to stouff ville to spring a surprise party on mr thos kllnck a former resi dent of the square not so very long removed from there at that time a terrific storm came up and the group had to stay all night in fact they didnt get home for four days can any of the older square folk remember that excursion simian logic an old malayan monkey sat upon a limb and contemplated bullets speeding under him he stllfllod group behaviour twentythousand strong then said that fellow darwin must have figured wrong it couldnt be our family mans descended from an evolutionary ape x wouldnt act that dumb our dumb animate stanley theatre phone 100 showing eacn night at 816 saturday and holidays 700 and 900 thursday friday saturday february 18 1 20 true to the army judy canova and jerry colonna torpedo boat jean parker richard arlen and news reel monday tuesday wednesday february 22 28 24 canal zone chester morris john hubbard also lone star vigilantes biu elliot lex rltter asling was in gone 83rd year perot hamm dead for 23 years associated with the head office of the bank of com merce toronto percy hamm 41 of 288 mllverton blvd toronto died there last week following an illness of two years born in mark ham township he joined the staff of the old standard bank as a boy and remained with the canadian bank of commerce after the merger 26 years ago mr hamm was a member of the united church and is survived by his wife mrs ruth render hamm two daughters dorothy and june and a son paul at home a sister mrs f whetter and two brothers garfield and lewis both of lemon ville long time resident of the stouff ville district until he nought a residence in markham village four years ago wilmot asllng died there on wosdnesday last week in his 83rd year the funeral on saturday took place to wick cemetery in brock township and being just off the lindsay highway the last mile or two provided a hazardous motor trip a native of reach township the asllng family resided in the neigh borhood of epsom and greenbank wilmot was thrice married to his first marriage there survives one daughter mrs fred oneill mother of mr l e oneill of stouffville to his second marriage one daughter also survives namely miss cora asllng of toronto the late mr asllng is survived by his third wife the former llllle steele ot stoutf ville mr asllng farmed in the dis trict of stouffville for many years both 21 gravel hill and just west of town where wilt timbers lives he had a marvelous constitution and at 70 could do the work of a much younger man his death was the culmination of a years illness in bed send the tribune to absent friends it is just like a letter from home thursday friday- saturday february 25 26 27 dangerously they live rebuilt motors ford moled a exchange 4950 radiator fronts all makes of cars from 145 to 225 each only 50 left generator starter windshield wiper motors and fuel pump exchange service paris auto supply auto wreckers richmond hill ontario phone 86 cream we want more of it you want the best rnarketfor it have our truck call or make your own deliveries to the creamery and get two cents extra per pound of butterfat cold storage meat lockers for rent stouffville creamery co open saturday evenings stouffvihe ont phone 18601