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the tribune stouffville qntjthursday february 18 1943 toronto goodwood flashes walter davey stanton ave toronto the correspondent visited a sick friend marvyn maye in the general hospital on tuesday night mrs john todd and children called on mrs thomson pape ave on saturday mrs feren attended the funeral of the late john rowbotham of stouffville thank you mr clark village milkman even though the roads are blocked and delivery a little late mr clark gets around nevertheless with a handsleigh covering good wood customers the train on monday for toronto was very late going down with two engines sorry to hear that dr darling is on the sick list buy your spare tribune at wat sons store mr padgett of toronto is very busy these days on the snow plow on number seven highway and over goodwood way mr and mrs sheppard of tor onto spent the wee nd with mrs sheppards mother irs byam miss flora byer also lois and billy twin children of alvin and mrs byers are visiting mr and mrs j byer goodwood was shut off again sun day by road however the plows are getting through now and trucks left for toronto on wednesday 38 below zero on february 14 coldest in years the devotional group had charge of the byftj this week mrs harry woodlsnd was convener private brie walker was home f rom brantford for the weekend private harvey feasby was among the soldier who were entertained at the chateau laurier he personally had a talk with the hon mr gard iner our boys are stepping up delbert cooper has left to join the air force and kenneth stewart is now wearing a navy uniform sorry to learn that imrs white ethel and john have been on the sick list we hope irolph and his family are better mrs harry woodland and child ren spent saturday in stouffville mrs reuben hockley was in toronto visiting her father last week sleighriding is the order of the day cars are out of the question no church on sunday due to road conditions everyone will welcome spring after such a long winter of so much snow the most in years mr fred swain is having an auction sale on con 3 feb 23rd the roseville teacher is boarding with mrs tompkins for a time mr dean alcock has purchased the wm thaxter farm on the 5th concession of scott congratulations to mr and mrs jas knight of uxbridge on their 65th wedding anniversary mrs j collie visited the correspondents home on friday miss isabel hockley was home for the weekend we are pleased to report our friend mrs middletonsr is fairly well these days mr padgett who runs the plow on the stoukville road received some assistance this week he says sever al goodwood fellows came out two miles to aid in getting through the snow banks mrs james lynch visited the correspondents home on saturday afternoon our best wishes go to mr and mrs dean alcock of sandford whom we understand will start on his own farm this spring powell the train buster champion engine wrecker of the bcap is pilot officer lloyd woodrow powell 24- yearold flier from edmonton here he is behind one of the cannon which have done so much damage to nazi train communications in low level attacks powell has severely damaged 1 enemy locomotives he wears the dfc the editors mail continued from page 2 to read this scrawl let me know and i shall send you the key i am the only person of whom i have yet heard whose writing looks the same upside down as rightside up this is an achievement of which i am just ly proud very truly yours thos h mitchell later the tribune has just come in i am glad you enjoyed the crate of oranges an order came over the radio last night about five oclock that no shoes of any sort are to be sold in the us today and starting tomorrow no retailer will be allowed to sell more than one pair of shoes to any one person for the next four months perhaps we shall go back to the old custom of going barefoot next summer t h m green river r the annual prayer day program elizabeth nendick bielby mrs biel- iwill be followed at the ladies aid by passed away at the brieilbush miss julia wilson entertained at meeting to be held in the church on hospital on thursday evening last a croquinole party on friday even- february 24 the prayer day ser- and leaves to mourn seven sons ing the proceeds were banded in to j vice f wo throughout the james george harold rays frank the y py treasury world is dated for march i2 but john and alfred with his majesties miss r hutchings entertained dont get confused in green river forces and five daughters evelyn toronto visitors over the weekend date february 24th i mrs gill hose gladys jean and little miss carol percy of mark- during an icy evening last week agnes some of these children were ham visited her grandparents a few two ajax buses were held up here born in england before their par- i t w to write something about days last week for the night one near the church lnts canie to canada they settled j the snow bound highways of the old- we hope for a speedy recovery a one on the town line north of at atha ano later came to green er days in 1885 i was a high school for oliver madill who has been the cpr tracks even george river where the remainder of the student at markham and my class quite ill for quite a long time ihoovers sand truck operators were children were born mr charles mate was the late bill milllken of mr and mrs jas crossland and out looking for assistance out of bielby predeceased his wife about son jimmie who have been spend- the ai 12 years ago the funeral for mrs ing the winter in toronto visited a large number of friends here bielby was from the imarkham their farm home one recent week- sympathize with the bielby family funeral home on saturday feb 13 end i in the death of their dear mother interment in markham cemetery like a voice from the past comes a letter from an old resident of the local district james e gray of-chat- ham who was moved to write us since reading certain articles that must have aroused or stirred his memories of other days j e gray is quite well remembered by many of our readers he is a brother of our david gray on the tenth and an uncle of miss ho rose of the leola tea rooms his father was a retired farmer of ballantrae and lived on rupert avenue next to jos hoovers residence that was more than 50 years ago in fact it is 53 years since james gray located in chatham and for 42 years grays china hall there has been an institution for mr grays information we would ad vise him that seldom seen is not so much a place as an area of the i country due west of ballantrae and perhaps a little north the editor thinks it is well named because part of the district is seldom seen by any one due to sand roads and un tillable country however there are some splendid farms in the section too on the outskirts of the real sand area mr grays letter follows chatham ont feb 10th the stouffville tribune dear sir as a recent reader of your newsy country paper since jan millikens corners just about 4 miles south of markham on the g t r bill invited me to his home to spend the night and it was about this time of the year bill had tickets harold gillam hero of a hun dred adventures along the arctic airways froze to dcatli after crash landing in alaska with flvo passengers he set out on foot to look for help for lils passengers who were subsequently rescued gillam never returned rent control as it applies o farmers explained by board a farmer in british columbia wrote the wartime prices and trade board the other day asking what notice he was required to give his hired man to vacate the house which he had provided for him on the farm the hired man had gone into town to get a job but was still living in the house on the farm officials of the wartime prices and trade board point out that farm land and premises are exempt entirely from rent control regulations so long as they are being used solely for agricultural purposes this means an official sad that any farmer may rent his land or his house on his farm in any way he pleases and on any terms he may make without regard to rentalvegu- lations so long as this is done solely in connection with his farming oper ations the deal he makes with his hired man to occupy a house on his farm is a matter between the hired man and himself and is not govern ed by the regulations so long as the hired man continues to work on the farm when the hired man ceases to work there the farmer can make his own deal so far as giving notice to vacate is concerned but if the farmer continues to rent his house to the hired man after he has ceased to work on the farm and has gone to take employment elsewhere then the rental regulations do apply gasoline btaf iomitag msn oes into effect o n march 31 the present gasoline ration licenses and coupons will ex pire and no gasoline will be sold except upon the presentation of a 19431944 ration book in his own interests every vehicle owner is asked to apply at once for a new gasoline license and ration coupon book for each of his vehicles under the new system effective april 1 all commercial vehicles will be rationed all non commercial vehicles will be granted a basic aa gasoline license and ration coupon book containing 40 coupons for a passenger car or 16 for a motorcycle owners of non commercial vehicles eligible for a special category who can prove their need will be granted an extra vocational allowance fixed in advancefor the year ending march 3 11944 the extra allowance for a special category car will be tailored to meet individual needs in determining this allowance the pre vious category and mileage of the car will not be considered instead the vocational allowance will be based on two factors l the gravity of the oil shortage with which canada is faced and 2 the importance of the vehicle to its owner in a country at war the extra vocational coupons will be issued in books labelled special and each such book will contain not more than 60 coupons only one special book or portion ofsuch book will be issued at a time and hence the case history of each special category applicant will be under constant review under provisions of the rationing order he oil controller will have the right to re fuse any application for a special category or to suspend any ration book for an infraction of the regulations every motor vehicle other than a motor cycle must bear on its windshield a sticker indicating its category after april 1 service station attendants will not be permitted to serve gasoline to a car which does not bear the sticker which corresponds to the ration book submitted at the time of the purchase to obtain a gasoline license and ration coupon book secure an application form at your nearest post office study the form and follow the instructions contained therein when you receive your ration coupon book guard it carefully it may not be replaced if because of your negligence it is lost or stolen do not leave it in your car keep it on your person at all times rd ij5- ljix the department of munitions and supply honourable c dhowe auntfer for commuting on the gtr so be hold the next morning when we went to the small station there was no train in sight and there had been a big snow storm during the night well we started out to walk on the hard crusted snow which would carry one easily and we followed the r r track and came upon a train snowed in we walked right over the box cars and stepped over the telegraph wires the only visi ble thing was the smoke stack on the engine in which were the fire man the engineer and the brakeman this was a freight train arid did not carry any passengers bill and i went on to markham getting there about noori instead of s30- a crew came outiffom toronto and it took them four days to dig out this train there were no motor cars then and the farmers pulled down fences and travelled through thfi fields un til they came to the next side road or concession if he was alive i would refer you to william milllken who was a valued member of milll ken mulock co solicltorsin tor onto may say the news from ballantrae where i was born before confedera tion is always interesting arid i re collect all the villages iri this district such as ringwood lemonville dick sons hill mount joy bethesda baker hill churchill goodwood vivian siloam bloomington but cannot locate seldom seen al though i have a faint recollection of this place sometime i may write to seneca baker for information about this and some other places yours truly jambs e gray ms5o public school inspector a stouffver makes interesting cojdients minden ont feb 0th 1043 dear sir i am enclosing the sum of 200 in payment of another years sub scription to the tribune we read its pages- with the greatest inter est each week i enjoyed the letter from a former neighbour nathan forsyth and from cousin wilmot wideman in alberta the winter up here has been un usually severe temperatures of 54 f have ibeen recorded while the local weather fan claims that over 7 feet of snow has fallen by actual measurement the cedar hedges in our yard that are- well over 7 feet high in summer can now be passed over on skiis and appear just as little humps in the broad ex panse of white we have the ad vantage over the southern part of- the province iri that the country is so wooded that very little drift ing results the forests with their snow coated evergreens look like a fairy land i was over a road the other day where the trees bordering it were so loaded with ice and snow that some of them bent over the road forming an arch under which the cars passed arid their tops were snowed under on the opposite side in spite of all this snow the high ways are ploughed out clean and wide making motoring even more pleasing than in summer many of the farmers plough out the side- roads with horse drawn ploughs and make a good job of it i was over three miles of such a road this afternoon a family of ducks has passed the winter in the open river in front of the house it makes one shiver to look out on a subzero morning and see them fishing in the water for their breakfast but when you stop to think of it the water even though at nearly freezing point may be forty or fifty degrees warm er than the air above it youra truly a stouffer rebeverage rooms it always seemed that when bur governments time is so well occupied some group or organiza tion come up with some unnecessary question such as wanting all bever age rooms closed after all what good will this do them it would sure de a good moire for the boot leggers so stop and think who would you rather help the govern ment or the bootlogger and second how would it help win the war by closing all beverage rooms so let us all stick to our own business what ever it may fco and let the govern- ment that we voted in power do what they see fit to do signed leave well enough alone v-