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leading weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twps vol54 no24 stouffville ont thursday oct 21st 1943 ten pages uxbridge township clerk died early last sunday hezekiah ltoach native or township would have celebrated his 83rd birthday in three weeks few men of the great age of hez- efciah roach remain in the public eye as long as this man who was the clerk of the township of ux bridge at the time of his death last sunday morning following an illness of some duration although not very well mr roach carried on his duties until only recently had he lived another three weeks he would have reached his 83rd birthday for a year and three mouths or since the death of his wife 1 had lived alone in goodwood where he died born on the roach homestead at lot 6 con 4 mr roach was the son of alexander roach who came from the usa and his wife caroline eastgate a native of uxbridge town ship he only had one ibrother and he died at the age of 12 hezekiah re mained constantly in the township allhis long life and was a successful farmer in 1923 he retired from the farm to become township clerk suc ceeding the late jos millard few municipal officers were more consci entious and painstaking with their work he was a past master and hon orary member of the loyal orange association at goodwood mr roach was twice married his first wife was martha gourley who died 44 years ago in 1sd9 he mar ried a widow mary taylor who be fore her marriage was mary alsop ten children were born to the late mr roach five of whom survive him they being christina mrs win tindall stouffville emma mrs fred betz hezekiah and robert all of toronto and orval of mark- ham also one stepson walter tay lor the funeral on tuesday afternoon was attended by so many friends that the capacity of the jjnited church goodwood was taxed the preachers were mr mather and mr taylor united and baptist ministers while the pall bearers were members of the township council and one ex- niember former reeve r ashen- hurst the remains were taken to the family plot in uxbridge cemetery where they were laid beside those of his first wife ballantraes eldest resident laid to rest the death of mrs jackson elliott at the advanced age of 92 occurred at the home of her daughter in tor onto last week and the funeral was held on saturday to lemonville cem etery from the trull funeral par- j north y ob the list of objectives for york county xorth in the coming fifth victory loan has some interestin comparisons stouffville is asked to raise 100000 whitchurch town ship 160000 and markham town ship 290000 the complete list is towns and villages aurora 200000 newmarket 335000 stoulivillo 1uo000 richmond hill 100000 imarkham s5000 woodbridge 110000 sutton 60000 towilships x gwillimbury 65000 e gwillimbury 160000 king 225000 markham 290000 vaugnan 290000 whitchurch 160000 georgina 65000 former school boy is stouf wed a quiet wedding took place at the home of mrs robert young church street when lawrence dack form erly of cobden and nephew of mrs young was united in marriage to melba costa of toronto the happy couple were attended by david kirk and doris mcgregor both of toronto after lunch mr and mrs dack re turned to their new home on bruns wick ave toronto mr dack enter ed the rcaf this week heifer caught in cultivator strangled a peculiar accident happened to a young jersey heifer belonging to mr peter steckley 7th concession mark ham when the animal was strangled to death after getting its head caught in the farm cultivator which was parked in the orchard after its head became caught the days eight million lors the many flowers showed the esteem with which she was held both in toronto and ballantrae where she spent so many years dr r s stew- rt of st johns presbyterian church toronto officiated the pall bearers were messrs george wood roy andrew milford rose ross hood thos simpson and leslie feasby mrs elliott was born in glasgow scotland coming to this country at the age of four years the family settled in markham township and since her marriage she lived in bal lantrae district and in the present home there for 63 years mr elliott died 19 years ago on oct 9 this month mrs el liott returned to the city as was her custom each winter to live with her daughter mrs geo ifeasby she suffered a stroke the following day and passed away on wednesday oct 13 of nine children there arefour living all in toronto they are miss laura elliott chester elliott mrs george feasby blanche and floyd elliott there are 12 grandchildren and is great grandchildren mrs elliott was a remarkable wo man for her great age and was al ways surrounded by a host of friends who will sincerely miss her cheery company age never dimmed her interest said one of her neighbors drive is cn the canvassers are now out selling the 5th victory loan and within the next ten days every man and woman in stouffville and all canada too will be called upon to make a pur chase stouffvilles objective is a hun dred thousand dollars last time we went over the top of this same ob jective by forty thousand dollars let us do as well this time whitchurch markham uxbridge and pickering townships are all hop ing to reach their objectives so whatever municipality you subscribe in do your best for all canada in the first two more was sub- animal apparently fell and was strangled as a result the beast may have been dead a day before it was noticed scribed than in the first two days of the last loan but the average is be low the amount required to reach the total for all canada in two weeks gormley contributes 21 students to first school bus the first passenger bus service ever inaugurated to carry students to stouffville high school was plac ed in service last week and is be ng operated by mr jos slder of gormley his bus seats twentyone itnd he now lias a capacity load while still others would come to this school it they could obtain the transportation in this bus cost of transportation is borne by the five sections from which the students come and those sections are xos 3 and6 in whitchurch and 4 5 and 6 in markham the cost is divided and the sections obtain a grant from the department toward the expenditure so that the net outlay to the individual taxpayer is very small the trustees make their own contract with the bus owner and make payment to him obtain ing their grant from the department on the basis of the outlay by the section the plan is not new on yonge st where xewmarket and aurora re ceive bus pupils but it is the first the character reference saves man from jail sentence character evidence of former reeve earl toole of whitchurch saved a resident of the townshipj from a possible jail term after her- ing found guilty of stealing magis trate robinson at newmarket court found elmer druery cedar valley guilty on a charge of theft of some tools from fred bowsers farm and on payment of costs was given suspended sentence earl toole far mer gave evidence that he had found druery honest and the magis trate said that in view of this evidence and the small value placed on the articles he would suspend sentence william goode testified that he had been at the farm as a hired hand and that he had not given mr idruery permission to take any articles mr druery said that mr goode did give him permission to take certain articles ifred reynolds a neighbor denied mr bowsers statement made at the hearing two weeksagothat mr briierykacr taken himself and mr bowser to places where some of the articles were hidden along the road side frank bowser son of fred bows er said that he could not put a valuation on the articles stolen i have never even bought a second hand monkeywrench in my life he said then you wouldnt know wheth er they were worth 50 cents or four or five dollars asked defence counsel charles evans bradford no its not the value in money of the articles said mr bowseri its that some of those articles are very old and valued as keepsakes whats four or five dollars to yuor me charlie i don bowser speak for yourself not ine joked mr evans frank bowser said that mr dru ery had toid him that he had taken the articles away each evening on his way home and that he had ad vised mr druery to put them- back i must accept the evidence of mr fred bowser stated magistrate irobinson i wasnt impressed with the evidence of either the accused or mr reynolds i was impressed with the evidence of the complain- antsson lie fc t know about that mr field d can due to the shortening of the school term caused by the govern ment order allowing students to help with the farm employment sit uation the annual field day held by the stouffville high school has been cancelled for this year at one time this school usually held a meet of its own the winners competing later in a competition with those from markham agincourt and richmond hill schools last year stouifville dropped from the interschool meet but carried on wih their own day fires threaten twp bushland dry spell leaves whitchurch bush like tinderbov government ban is lifted from local church group i the rains of last weekend came just in time to stem several threaten ed fires in the country in whit church township a rather serious fire broke out north of lemonville in the dan hall bush and spread to adjoining properties before it was under control neighbors rallied for miles to aid in subduing the blaze which was finally brought under con trol the fire was believed to have started from a roadside fire set by some hunters another fire- broke out north of roy morleys farm when again a goodly number rallied and put it out before it got beyond control everything was sp dry that even the slightest blaze could travel over fields and bushland at terrific speed the weekend rains allayed the threat mrs louise nattress who has been visiting her sister mrs david watson for several days returned to her home in delevan illinois usa last week the ban against jehovahs wit nesses has been lifted by the king government which blotted this or ganization out of business in 1940 the great preponderance of people will be pleased with the present action a branch of jehovahs witnesses operated in stouffville meeting in a hall over les rowbothams work shop but closed up as soon as the order came out in 1940 no one could point a finger at any wrongful word or act committed by this little band of people which would warrant the action taken against them on the other hand real benefits were to he seen in this town where they had touched some followers in such a way that not only the father of the home got religion as they say but the whole family benefited by the change since the earnings of the bread winner went to them at a re newed rate however witnesses were witness ing too aggressively in the province of quebec where their heretical doc trine was resented and pressure was soon exerted in high places which in duced ottawa to act against these j people it could not be learned at the time of going to press what action would be taken locally to reorganize the group here if at all some of the fol- lowers have found their way into other churches and others have nev- er darkened a qhurch door since they were put out of action lifting the ban at this time seems to ffe an admission that it was never warranted in the first place of course so far as the local situation goes stouffville does not need any more religious groups since we now have five from which to choose ciilkkmoxt hoy overseas claremont man awarded 10000 in alienation suit earl curly cook son of mrs blanche cook of claremont who is now in england with a branch of the ordnance corps earl has lived in claremont practically all his life attended school there and was a popular figure in the local field of sport prior to enlisting he was em ployed at coopers hardware for some vears farm buildings sell for 1675 to be taken down mr jfrank bowser 1 faxcy jersey prices at the public auction on the- t e rigler farm at buttonville in mark ham township this week auctioneer a s farmer said that without a doubt the herd of jersey cows was the finest he ever held a hammer over the fancy priced cow went at 170 to maurice eoy elmer baker from whitchurch took home three beauties and paid substantial prices for them claremont was almost deserted for a day or two last week during the hearing of the trial by jury be fore the supreme court at whit by in which fred c mowder brought action against robert g roy for merly a dealer in arts in toronto and who had operated a chicken farm near claremont for mis conduct toward his wife that was of sufficiently grave a nature as to alienate he affec for nimr it took the jury 50 minutes to each a unanimous verdict although the trial itself opened n tuesday afternoon twentytwo witnesses were summoned and the following gave evidence for the prosecution ken ward john scott chas coop- er j xesbitt r mcleod glen and if they came to the conclusion mrs mowders affections for him had been alienated these charges were by the verdict of the jury sustained the judge in his charge to the jury emphasized the fact that it was a wrong for which a man could be compelled to pay compensation to a husband whose wifes affections had wen alienated from her husband and our whole social structure was based upon the sanctity and inviola bility of the relationship of a man to his wife and home generally he told the jury that it was for them to decide taking all the facts they had heard into consideration wheth er adultery had been proved to have occurred and to assess a reasonable of compensation for such mrs flowers who formerly work ed on mr roys farm mrs lloyd turner and mr edw evans mr mowder also gave evi dence on his own behalf but mrs mowder testified along with mr roy an one or two otherwitnesses from toronto the case was the sensatio of tliejclaremont district for some time since mr mowder is a lead- fviipsiorekeeper and widely known in the district and mrs mowder too was very popilar and recently was actively engaged in the store busin ess with her estranged husband such had been proved justice kelly pointed- out in his charge to the jury that our law recognizes that no interference with a wife by another resulting in damages to the husband is tolerated without a wrongdoer being required to make compensation for his con duct a novel feature of the case was that the wife of the plaintiff gave evidence for the defendant d f johnson of oshawa was foreman of the jury which included three residents of the city the bal- william greenes farm stock auc tion on ifriday a mile and a halt north of lemonville was featured by the sale of the various buildings even the dwelling going under the hammer the r farm was recently bought by george rodanz who will use it for the pasture land hence he sold every building on the place the frame house went to w-pat- terson for 310 the steel barn 30x50 to ross hood for 630 a hog r pen to l j harper for 140 and av barn 50x3s sold for 545 w war ren of mount albert being the buyer driving shed attached to the house brought 50 from a carruthersof atha the buildings making five sep arate sales brought a total of 1675 a price which indicates that build ings are really valuable today greenes receipts ran to 2900 the high cow bringing 90 but pigs just weaned went for 350 1 each and sows 25 the following day saturday her bert mitchell provided a second sale in whitchurch which totalled short of 1000 for stock and implements offered the farm advertised was not offered since the crowd was very lo cal there were two big sales on fri day and four on saturday all with in a radius of 25 miles of stouffville mitchells southdown sheep went for 10 each just market price while the binder brought 70 what style of gover bo the school trustees in session monday evening decided to consult the department of education about the proper composition of the board at the first of the year since at that date the continuation school will of ficially become a high school will we require the setup of a high school board or a board of education in- local attempt of anything of kind and is likely to be enlarged stead of just a trustee board as at and extended to other sections eff orts to obtain a bus service from goodwood three years ago is now likely to become a fact if similar effort is made again it is also re ported that a bus service in that section of matkham serving dick- sons hill would be well patronized present this is what chairman al ii red and the other members want to know only routine business was trans acted and members present other than chairman aldred were trustees riches stover mcmullen and turner upon the return of the jurys ance of the jury being nearly all verdict a judgment was entered for farmers from various sections of the 10000 and costs by mr jus tice kelly who presided a w s greer acted for the plaintiff and j p mangan kc for the defendant the jury found by their answers to the questions put to them by the judge that roy had committed adul tery with mrs elsie mowder tho wife of the plaintiff fred mowder at roys farm on the 29th and 30th clays of may last when the presid ing judge read to the jury their writ ten answers to the questions submit ted defense counsel asked that the jury be polled whereupon all twelve jurors signified that their verdict was unanimously in favor of the plaintiff in their 10000 award the evidence disclosed that the plaintiff was married in 1932 and had been the operator of a farm in the claremont area since 1934 and also since march 1942 the operator of a general store in the village of claremont the plaintiff alleged that by reason of undue and unwelcome attentions and the conduct of roy county births heise on saturday oct 9 1943 to mr and mrs edgar heise gormley a daughter richardson alt cottage hospit al pembroke on oct 18 1943 to capt h j richardson rcamc and mrs richardson nee mar garet shank markham a son brodie sheep canadas first entry at chicago show canadas first entries for the forthcoming chicago market fat stock and carlot competition to be held at the chicago stock yards nov 29th to dec 2nd were made by w j brodie internationally fam ous sheep breeder and feeder of stouffville ontario he will exhibit in both the indi vidual and carlot classes of this event which takes the place of the regular international live stock ex position cancelled last year as a war measure 1941 an alltime record since the first exposition was held in 1900 and last year- at the substitute mar ket competition w j brodie again won the grand championship on a carlot of southdown lambs the market show which will com prise all the fat classes that have been featured in past years at the international in both open and jun ior divisions will offer the same prizes in these classes that have been paid at recent international shows sponsor of the competition is tho union stock yards and transit co the brodlcs c j and w j have operators of the chicago market a record of winning the carlot lambj where the show will be staged the championship at the international international amphitheatre built as live stock exposition every year in a home for the full exposition is unbroken succession since 1934 tojnow being occupied by thearrny