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the tribune stouffville ont thursday sept 9th 1943 page three local and personal happenings ssi for wood doiet clinic tae municipal council on thurs day evening made a grant of 25 to the markham blood doners clinic similar grants have been made by markhaui village and township councils and other organizations in the district mr and mrs ed reichardof tor onto are guests ot mr and mrs j b bartey at spruce villa mr and mrs a s collins were in toronto for several days and attend ed the wedding of their granddaugh ter the daughter of mr and mrs bruce clark division court will be held in stouffville next monday sept 13th several cases are down for hearing mr harold mason of hamilton was in town on labor day visiting at the walter brillinger home wayne irwin who purchased the mrs levi hoover house near the c nr station has rented it to frank aldred duchess street e a grublu ko optometrist will be at his office in stouffville on monday sept 13th j lac harper u home- from dart mouth on a three weeks vacation visiting his patents in whitchurch mr and mrs leslie williamson toronto spent the latter part of mr williamsons holidays in stouffville with his mother on church st mrs s w hastings enjoyed sev eral days vacation last week the gue3tf mrs h w sanders jack sons point mr and mrs sam bailey also mr and mrs wash vanzaut toronto were recent guests with mr and mrs tv h boy tenth street mrs bailey will be remembered as the former mary vanzant on the staff of the bowmanville collesiate for two years miss jean lennox who resides with her mother here has joined the staff of north toronto collegiate and entered upon iter teaching duties there this week mrs w h shaw and miss lucy waters accompanied by mrs goudie and mrs leslie motored to brant- lord on the holiday and returned through the peach district one of the town clippers mr har old forsyth is commencing his 23rd year in the same bartering stand in stouffville red as he is familiar ly known by divulged the fact few days ago when confessing that he is keeping ahead of the war draft since he just chalked up his 45th iirthday war itnincli we wish to acknowledge the fol lowing contributions mrst holden quilt top and coat 9th line workers 3 quilts 2 utility bags and baby clo thes miss young clothing mrs silverthorn clothing we are pack ing on friday sept 17th please send in all knitting or anything you wish jo donate toward this work mrs davey secretary when the town maintenance man 3ra knsnell attempted to shut the water off on montreal street last sat- nrday morning to repair a leak running into a private residence the shutoff stuck and later had to be taken out for repairs when it collap sed entirelyand caused a shut down from s to 12 noon much to the annoyance of the housewives who were caught without water for cook- firg the noon meal mr and mrs carl boadway and son lome motored to niagara falls on sunday and reurned on the holi day mr robert stewart who was a hospital patient at the brierbush hos pital for several months is now- boarding at mrs irwins on victoria street since he has made a very good recovery mr and mrs walter mcmullen and two daughters were here from tor onto visiting their aunt and uncle miss martha mcmullen and henry walter is a son of the late william mcmullen old stouffville boy wholesale houses are now only permitted to sell envelopes done up 1000 to a box instead of in boxes of 500 as heretofore customers who have an envelope box should per- serve it for future use since with a 500 order there will be no box and 500 envelopes on the loose are very awkward to parcel and care for list of fall fairs lindsay sept 15 is midland sept 15 is orangeville sept 1415 oshawa sept 13 15 sunderland sept 21 22 udora sept 29 markham sept 30 oct 1 2 oakwood oct 5 g mrs wm redshaw whose litis- band died a year ago iias decided to give up farming and will shortly re tire from the big 200 acre place at dickson hill under lease from the j m storey estate with the aid of her son mrs redshaw put in this years crop although part of the farm was rented to the grove bro thers the public auction sale of house hold furniture belonging to mrs david snider will be held on satur day at her residence which is cen trally located in the business section of the town it promises to attract a large crowd since the goods and effects are extra good earl cook local baseball product has been one of the mainstays of the portland team in the pacific coast league this year according to latest reports from the oregon state earls club is in fourth place in the eight team league the team carried nearly a dozen luirlers at the opening of the schedule which gave little work to any of them this number is now reduced with cookie hold ing one of the permanent berths lull- lo good work the red cross gratefully acknow ledge the good work done by the more youthful element of the town when two bazaars were held to raise funds for this laudable work s451 was raised from a bazaar in charge of douglas barker john davis roy ward bud lehman ian lewis ron ald walsh donnie lewis the other bazaar raised slss and was in charge of percy schell roy ward garry lewis dr l s klinck in town dr l s klinck president of the university of british columbia has been in town for a few days having come from the coast on a business trip dr klinck divulged to some of his friends that he is looking forward to being superannuated in the not too distant future but we venture the opinion that he will not be relieved of his important position so long as the war lasts about duck season the open season for shooting ot ducks and geese for this part of on tario opens on sept 15 and continues until nov 30 daily bag limits are 12 ducks and 5 geese or a seasons limit of 15c ducks and 50 geese tly in the ointment for hunters is the fact pronouncement from ottawa lhat the supply of small arms am munition for civilian use cannot pos sibly be increased without seriously jeopardizing war production accord ing to the prices board which added that it was deluged with requests for such ammunition from all sec tions of the dominion so unless you have a stock of scattergun shells laid by better make up your mind hat so far as you are concern d the ducks and geese will be per fectly safe from harm the popular cnr sunday even ing train did not come down from the north last sunday since monday was a public holiday the big pas senger held over until monday even ing and several people were fooled sunday evening as a result of the change the fact that the change was noted on the black board in front of the station did not seem to broad cast the news very well one or two soldiers who simply had to make the city by midnight set out on foot hoping to hitchhike the distance collaid residence sold the tribune joins with scores of old friends in welcoming back to town miss bert clark and her aged mother mrs wm clark miss clark last week purchased the collard bun- galo on victoria street and is moving in at once mrs clark disposed of their willow avenue home in the city to mr don mover son of mr and mrs harvey moyer don is on the staff of malvern collegiate the re turn to town of miss bert clark brings her back to the spot where she commenced her long telephone career it was here that her father was president of a small local pion eering company and from here miss clark joined the staff of the bell telephone co where she held an executive position at the time of her retirement stanley theatre phone 100 showing each night at 815 saturday and holidays 700 and 900 an old tribune date may 14 1942 sold a years subscription for us to a lady in markdale last week she had received some goods from relatives at goodwood- wrapped in a tribune of the date mentioned so pleased with the paper was she that a sub scription was immediately mailed the new subscriber is mrs geo e summers niece of the former miss annie brown of goodwood and first cousin of mr percy brown just north of town mrs summers maid en name was mattie brown whereabouts of miss percy sought friends in stouffville of miss eliza beth percy are seeking in vain for news of her whereabouts it was re ported that she was at pearl harbor when the japs invaded that ameri can outpost but this has nevefbeen definitely confirmed except to the ex tent that miss percy set out for the east a year or two before hostilities being a great traveller it is difficult to estimate where she may have landed however anyone who could give this paper information as to her possible location would confer a great favor an old stouffville girl and daughter of the late rev wm percy she was the donor of the town clock to the village in memory of her parents thus it became known as the percy memorial clock mr and mrs morley c barker and daughter ruth motored through the feuelon falls and lindsay dis trict over the holidays a lot of wood is coming into stouffville wherever one may look he can see a wood pile some of it is being hauled from haliburton dis trict but the great bulk is being con tributed by the ratcliff truck from goodwood where harry ratcliff has a big bush under the axe and saw gunner with the royal canadian artillery harold cook of lemonville has been promoted to a corporal thus winning his second stripe corp cook is a son of mr george cook and brother of earl the famous baseball twirler and is a big heavj man ty pical of the finest in uniform mr and mrs robt snowball mr and mrs jack fennock and mr and mrs chas nolan enjoyed a fishing trip to hawk and kenise lake over the weekend another local party spending the holiday in the north country included messrs elgin wagg jack mcmullen clayt tarr don lewis clarence degeer wm armstrong and anthony hoover quality service fall fertilizers shurgain for better value fertilizer for better results on hand shurgain 0147 shutgain 2126 shurgain 2 12 4 granular superphosphate 20 order now for fall wheat 0147 2126 2124 20 for pastures 0147 ceresan for treatment of fall wheat reduce these destructive crop diseases new improved ceresan gives control of seedborne stinking smut it reduces losses from seedling blight root rot and smut dockage stiver bros sept 10 11 forest rangers fred macmurray fred macmurray paulette goodard select short subjects moxbay tuesday wednesday sept 13 ii 15 sweetheart of the fleet joan davis jinx falkenburg also sabotage squad added water supply ready the new water supply at the town reservoirs is now practically ready for actual use this week the power was hooked up at the small pump house erected to accommodate the electric motor and pump used to force the water from the neverfail ing spring brook a distance of nearly 300 feet into the town reservoirs if we could be assured of as much mois ture every summer as we have had the past season the auxiliary water supply will scarcely need to be used at all however there will be times when extremely dry summers are on us when the additional water will prove a blessing if the estimates prove correct there should be ample water in future for every reasonable use no matter how dry the season might be stouffville womens institute the monthly meeting of the wo mens institute will be held at the home of mrsjrobt burnett on thurs day evening sept 16th instead of the customer- date motto for the meeting is smiles are flowers of gods goodness the roll call will be answered by naming a canadian article every woman buys telling where it is manufactured subject for the meeting will be canadian industries during which we will be favored by a talk on synthetic rub ber by mr donald chadwick mrs chadwick will render a solo and mrs george saunders will give a reading there will be the usual social half hour and all members are urged to be on hand for this evening gathering mrs g kelling- ton president miss sadie stewart secretary recalls that grand peo ple live near stouffville sflpbsday frrday saturday sept lfl it 18 yankee doodle dandy gonnley wants bus service registration at the high school on tuesday while not nearly com plete indicates that the attendance may be over last year when about 130 students enrolled the shop courses for boys and the domestic courses for girls are attracting many from quite long distances stouff ville high school is one of the best equipped in the province for these particular courses it is said that from gormley district fourteen or more students will attend there ii a problem in that area of obtaining gasoline for transportation hence an agitation for a bus service is grow ing strong there were 53 students enrolled in first form on tuesday a record sized class principal murphy said a native of mount albert thomp son ctiyler whose father once farm ed at dickson hill and later kept store at bethesda has just been ap pointed principal of alexandra high school medicine hat mr cuyler had a distinctive career in that he did not enter university until he was over 40 years of age and graduated at the age of 50 he has been principal of four different public schools in medicine hat and has been a high school assistant for 14 years he had three children a daughter nance is also a graduate of the university of alberta and she is now head nurse at the sturgeon health unit contiguous to edmon- ton in a letter to the tribune mr cuyler says that a neighbor of his is none other than ab slack leading dentist and a native of altona dis trict he recalls that when just a kid living on the farm at dickson hill he got a great thrill when the family went on a buying trip to stouffville his recollections are that we have many fine people in stouffville district that is a grand country there and there are many fine people in it writes mr cuyler an obituary notice for hi need fa ther appears elsewhere in this issue former school student weds at mei5rickv1lle holy trinity church merrickville was beautifully decorated with glad ioli for the wedding on aug 2sth when jessie elaine daughter of mr and mrs harold jakes became the bride of cpl marshall ahbott only son of mrs e d roberts and the late r c abbott of vanderhoofbc the ceremony was performed by rev e c humphries of north augusta and mrs foster easton atcm played the wedding music the bride given in marriage by her father wore a graceful floor- length gown of white floral marquis ette over satin designed with a sweetheart necklane fitted bodice and long sleeves her fingertip veil was held in place by a wreath of orange blossoms the bride wore pearls the gift of the groom and carried an arm bouquet of better- timo roses and pink cornflowers the bridesmaid miss jessie mc- donell of maberly looked charming in a floorlength gown of watermelon pink taffeta with matching halo and carried an arm bouquet of johanna hill roses and blue cornflowers the groom was attended by sgt major lennox jakes brother of the bride and the ushers were mr don ald knapp and mr gardiner jakes following the ceremony a recep tion was held at pinecroft home of the brides parents mrs jakes mo ther of the bride received in a gown of navy blue sheer with matching accessories and wore a corsage of talisman roses later the happy couple left amid showers of confetti and good wishes for a wedding trip to lachute que the bride wore a twopiece suit of french blue with white accessories among the guests from a distance were mrs david lennox the brides grandmother and miss jean lennox stouffville the bride resided in stouffville for years with her grand mother while attending high school i miss emma prout rev albert oyvex inducted i at cooksv1lle two the aug following an illness of over years the death occurred at stouffville hospital on friday 29th of miss emma prout of mark- ham she had been in the hospital for about two weeks the daughter of the late john and elizabeth prout she is survived by two sisters mrs g t harrison 250 athol street east oshawa and mrs r j robertson manor apt oshawa the funeral service was held on wednesday sept 1st at markham united church followed by inter ment in pine grove cemetery prince albert attended cedar grove school h a clark dead herbert a clark 71 senior mem ber of the law firm of mulock mill- iken clark and redman died last week at his foxbar rd residence youngest son of james and mattie ann davis clark of north ireland ancestry he was born on a scarboro township farm he attended cedar grove public school and st cathar ines and markham high schools at tho university of toronto he took political science as a member of the class of 1895 among his fellow- students were w l mackenzie king and lord greenwood he entered the university with the bankers scholarship and during two successive years won the edward blake scholarships for a year he was president of his class and grad uated in first place after entering osgoode hall he was articled to the firm of mulock miller crowther and montgomery in 1s98 he was called to the bar and for 45 years practised with this firm as an authority on realty and estate law surviving are his widow laura macnichol clark two daughters harriet a l clark and mattie m i clark toronto two sons william h d clark montreal and pilot ofr ficer e ritchie clark rcaf a brother edward clark markham and a sister mrs anna johnstone toronto cooksville united church was 1 crowded for the induction of rev albert e owen ba who went to cooksville from unionville in an ex change of pulpits with rev h d maccormack the newly inducted minister was presented to his congregation by rev w c comming of north runuy- mede united church and was wel comed on behalf of the congregation by mrs jas smith and mrs arthur wilson at a reception which follow ed in the sunday school rooms ad dresses of welcome were made by re presentatives of various church or- ganizations rev a e owen ba who goe3 to cooksville after ten years at unionville has had 34 years experi ence in the ministry of the church he was born in yorkshire eng and came to canada in 1ss4 a gradu ate of victoria college toronto he was ordained in li09 and took his bride formerly lillian wickett to his first charge at gore bay mani- toulin island before going to union ville mr owen was pastor of the church at uxbridge for eight years the owens have one daughtergladys mrs k b kennedy of newton- brook ont price control rationing information we all cut our telephone talks j one minute it would liofioo hours for cau every 0 war calls must come first which means that we should reduce our non essential use of the telephone to the minimum present facilities cannot be increased your co operation is needed if war calls are to go through promptly t please remember that the wasteful use of telephone time can hold up war business and that every second you save counts settce typical questions consumers have asked wartime prices and trade this week are answered below by the womens advisory committee to consumer branch q i have bought a house and would like to move in as soon as i can how soon could i get the present tenants out a if they are monthly tenants you may give them a years notice now under the new rent order you may give them six months not ice the notice not to terminate during the winter months in other words if you give them not ice now it will be one year if you give notice nov 1 for ex ample they would have to leave may 1 if your tenants are rent ing under a lease you should send particulars to the nearest rentals office of the board where they will be glad to advise you in your in dividual case q are boarders allowed to take their canning sugar elsewhere for canning fruit a how each person goes about the canning of his supply of fruit for the winter is a personal matter if your boarder wishes to can his or her fruit elsewhere thats up to him he may not be boarding at your house next winter how ever in most cases where boarders are permanent they usually arr ange with the landlady to have her do up their share of canned fruit such details must be worked out between you as equitably and fairly as possible q can farmers apply for extra sugar for threshing gangs silo fil ling and extra men for part time extra farming work if we can get extra sugar where do we get our permits and extra ration coupons a yes farmers who hire extra temporary help may obtain addit ional supplies of rationed com modities for these extra rations you should apply at your local ration board office stating the athe specific nature of the work b the number of workers c the number of days they will be employed and d the number of meals to be served applications for less than a total of 12 meals throughout the season will not be considered q is my child entitled to tea coup ons in the new ration book she was 12 on aug 23 a yes as your child was 12 years old by sept 1 1943 coupons for tea should be included in her new book thanksgiving day in canada wilt be observed on monday october 11 this year it was announced by the secretary of state department last week