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jv v jp read the classified ads leading weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twps circulation copies vol54 no49 stouffville ont thursday april 13 1944 ten pages coilard block in process dt changing ownership after fifty years the well known coilard block oc- cupying one of the best business pre mises in stouffville is changing bands at areported sale price of 6000 the owner is mr benjamin raxlin who states that there will be no drastic changes made to the building at this time the premises are occupied by snowballs barber shop and a vacant store while up stairs sanders photo gallery and an apartment are located the coilard block was built about 50 years ago or earlier the first tenants on the main floor being the coilard drug store and the stouff ville free press newspaper mr coilard later acquired the place and retained ownership until his death in january 1943 since that time it has been in the hands of the estate the personnel of ownership on main street has undergone a mark ed change in recent years and not a proprietor of those early days half a century ago stands today it is rather remarkable however that both the coilard block and the shaw block one door to the west are both passing into new ownership this month mr and mrs harold spoffoid of uxbridge will assume ownership of the shaw store and business complete on april 24 we understand that mr raxlin will establish a secondhand furnit ure business in the vacant store of the coilard block which he is to ac quire he has been dealing in this line more or less but a suitable place of business has always been a handicap it will be something new for this district reaches retiring age dr l s klinck president of the university of bc has ap plied for retirement from office a native of markham township at victoria square dr klincks activities are followed with par ticular interest here his mo ther mrs thos klinck obrien avenue is one of our eldest residents photo courtesy vancouver sun former local girl fatal accident in miss nora vanzant native of stouftville died in the wellesley hospital toronto on wednesday as a result of a motor accident on saturday night she was in collision with a car police said she was crossing oriole parkway to enter upper canada college where she was employed when the accident happened the alleged driver of the death car was placed under arrest charged with careless driving and failing to produce an operators license miss nora vanzant aged 60 was a daughter of the late unas and rachel vanzant of this town she is survived lay two sisters in tor onto misses laura and lizzie van zant and by three brothers charles of calgary fred of edmonton and frank of detroit the funeral on saturday afternoon proceeded to stouffville by motors and interment was made inthe local cemetery witnessed by quite a following of old friends 300 additional cold storage lockers for the creamery plans are now prepared and work will be started just as soon as the ground is ready for excavating on an addition to the stouffville cream ery about 23x30 feet to be con structed to the south of the present plant the new space will accommodate lockers a number of these will be installed immediately the building is ready and more may be added as the demand increases the creamery building will be extended to the south and east forming an l and entrance to the cold storage for customers will be from- the platform at the front of the building mrs tilman hoover had premonition death near itclovcd wife passed away in her 5cth year on sunday jack clubine graduates the passing of mrstilman hoover at the late home in stouffville on sunday may have come with sur prise to a great many friends but to the deceased her going was an ticipated mrshoover whose burns proved much more serious than was at first believed after the re cent fire in their home told her husband the day before her death that she would be going out the front door next day and she passed as she foretold mrs tilman hoover was in her 56th year and was born in scarboro a daughter of mrs empringham of gormley and of the late john empringham the family lived on the david pugh place just north of the 2nd line baptist church when the then emily empringham was a girl and she attended sixth line school in whitchurch about 32 years ago she married tilman hoover and for a long time the couple lived in stouffville they had no children and mrs hoover is survived by her husband also her mother and by one sister mrs jack oboyle of stouffville and two bro thers david and john empringham of gormley two sisters prede ceased mrs hoover in ill health now for a few years mrs hoover was seriously burned when putting rubbish in the stove in her home some weeks ago she was taken to the brierbush and later was removed to her home again apparently somewhat im proved however her condition rapidly changed for the worse she was a faithful and attentive wjfe whose home was her shrine the funeral on tuesday afternoon was private from the late home rev d davis conducted the ser vice and interment was made in stouffville cemetery j council gives lead for sixth victory loan will invest 6500 cash in trust funds and hydro accounts will double bank interest council at regular session reviews summer work may build additional new sidewalks this year saw service at k1ska i 19th contention mbcyoungpeopie among the wireless mechanics and wireless operators ground who graduated recently from no 1 wireless school montreal was a c 2 d j clubine of stouffville eldest son of mr and mrs edgerton clubine townline west jack clu bine enlisted just a little over a year ago giving up his school teaching duties at the 5th line markham school nearly 500 parcels needed for local armed forces drive underway to provide enough money to keep up flow of monthly comforts for balance of year married 44 years on tuesday of this week the wea ther was somewhat cloudy and it was just such a day 44 years ago only with a downpour of rain in the evening mr alf pugh is our informant on weather conditions back in 1900 he remembers be cause it was his wedding day and goodwood was the brightest spot on earth to him two weeks ago mr pugh was very ill but is around again while mrs pugh says she the 19th annual convention of the young peoples societies of the ontario conference of the mennon- lte brethren in christ church con vened on good friday in toronto several dozen members were pres ent from the stouffville and neigh boring societies kathaleen jones was the official delegate from the local society the convention was heid in the spacious auditorium of the toronto bible collegefour hundred young people registered from all parts of ontario the convention being the largest for some years two new societies were organized during the past year at st thomas and at cape chin memberships through out the projince increased 7 dur ing the past 12 months average at tendance at the meeting was 85 of the memberships offerings for foreign missions increased 14 with total offerings 29 more than re- ported a year ago offerings were the highest in the history of the on thursday evening at their regular meeting the municipal council planned to give the forth coming victory loan what will probably be its biggest single boost m stouffville it was moved by councilllor nolan and seconded by councillor walter bnllinger that we invest 6500 in the new loan of funds that do not belong to the general tax rate 4000 will ome from a trust fund for stolen bonds which the town inherited from the mountain min ing co which wound up two years ago and left this amount in the hands of the town it is earmarked for a community hall when the time is ripe to build 1500 of the thos williamson trust will also be placed in victory bonds and 1000 from the stouff ville hydro electric system reeve weldon and councillors r e brown and hugh boyd were unan imous in the decision to make the investment all these funds are now lying in the bank bearing in- teiest at only one and a half per cent the council received a detailed report from engineer ferguson of the h e p c setting out needed improvements in the local hydro system that will remedy the present inadequate service in the obrien avenue area the work will be done by the markham ruyal men and will entail an outlay of probably 1500 although the engineer did not give any costs however there are ample funds in the hydro to take care of this expenditure after 1000 is invested in bonds the street and walks committee was urged to make hastein clean ing up the main street much of which is ready for its annual spring cleaning before the weekly touch- up is commenced n weldon said that he was of the opinion that some sidewalks would be built this summer in an swer to an enquiry from council lor brillinger it was decided that the committee should make an in spection of the walks at the earliest possible moment so that a con tractor could be secured before they are all booked for the season walks built last year by the jupp construction co are showing some cracks and the work was not en tirely satisfactory removal of the old walks costs too much money it was stated dr s t bodendistel filed a re port on his work as inspector under the milk and dairy act he report ed visiting all stables from which milk is supplied to the town and found the shippers tothe maple leaf very cooperative carrying out improvements and changes were he deemed it was necessary april wedding for local teacher the home of mrs thomas bacon claremont was the scene of a quiet wedding on friday evening april 6 when her daughter hazel m bacon teacher on the stouff- r booth son of mr and mrs d booth 10th concession markham took their vows amid a setting of spring flowers rev d davis per formed the ceremony and wedding music was played by miss myrtle watson the bride was becomingly attired in mauve silk with matching veiled flower hat and her corsage was creamy roses the brides mother was gowned in navy polka dot crepe with corsage of coral roses and the bridegrooms mother was in navy crepe with contrasting corsage of tea roses mr and mrs booth will reside in stouffville uxbridge twp receives cheque for 255168 said to be the dept of highways share still to be paid to the town ship of uxbridge over a period of years on the road mamtainer the council in session on monday at goodwood received a cheque paying up in full amount an explanation was forthcoming stating that the department was abandoning the subsidizing of road equipment on a rental basis and that in future a fifty per cent subsidy would be paid on the purchase price of such equipment at the time of purchase general accounts of 97 were passed by the council for payment by the treasurer also road accounts of 16549 for removal of snow ac cording to clerk john ashenhurst the total road expenditure from january 1st has only reached 600 vt i pte kenneth l hamm is a son of mr and mrs g w hamm of lemonville kenneth who was employed at the stouffville machine and tool works prior to enlisting joined up over a year ago with the brockville rifles later transferring to the rocky mountain rangers he spent some months with the canadians at kiska in the north and is now stationed at vernon b c a brother douglas has been serving for some time with a unit of the royal cana dian artillery ottawa to remit entire hog bonus under an arrangement completed between the ontario and federal governments ottawa in future will pay the entire hog bonus to hog producers and ontario will remit its portion of thebonusto ottawa minister of agriculture t l ken nedy said the new procedure will simplify hog bonus payments which are now paid by both gov ernments ontario pays 1 on grade a never has time to get ill last sun day mr and mrs stanley robinson convention doris pugh or brampton werei there were three meetings on in town spending the day with her friday all in charge of the pres- parents ident gordon stauffer of kitch ener the general theme was the rising tide speakers during the it will require nearly five hun dred parcels with the cost of ap proximately 600 if the steady flow of monthly comfort parcels is to be maintained to our local members of the armed forces overseas for the balance of this year the comfort fund which is spon sored by the stouffville veterans is maintained to a large degree by their energetic secretary mr bert lickorish who certainly deserves great credit for the work he has done fifty dollars a month is needed for the next nine months and you will be canvassed shortly in this worthy cause nearly 100 has al ready been subscribed since the brief announcement of the drive was made last week the appreciative letters that are published in this paper from time engagement mr and mrs clarence doner an- day were revwrm7shantz kitch nounce the engagement of their ene alice hackborn breslau paul daughter gladys irene to mr j j storms markham and reg tomp- harnson schlichter of new dundee kins listowel the special speaker the marriage to take place on in the evening was rev j e april 22 1944 at 3 oclock in the mai lis formerly of india with looking over our system the port perry star published a complete article on the stouffville water works contributed to them by theeditor of this paper the scugog village is casting about for the best methods by which their local domestic water supply may be improved and 50 cents on bl hogs the with this payment made indicating annual cost being 2000000 ott- that snow shovelling was not a pro- awa pays 3 on grade a and 2 blem this winter as the 600 covers on grade b hogs snow removal and supervision of i at present hog producers must roads fmake two applications for the the next meeting of council will bonus to ottawa and queens park be held in the evening of monday but in future they will make their may 8th at 730 oclock the seed- application to ottawa the appli ing may be in full swing and those cations reaching queens park re- having business before the council quire a special staff of 25 which will not have to take off any day- j will be relieved of this work for time to do so other duties under the change whitchurch twp labor runs higher this year y- mbc church gormley nonresistant churches gave total of 162814 music being provided by the knox church ladies trio the officers for the new year are as follows general superintendent rev wm shantz kitchener gen eral president r tompkins list owel vice president will barkey markham secretary t a e warder kitchener our subscription iist all subscribers to the tribune whose subscriptions expired at the end of december have been remov ed from the mailing list and of course will not receive any more copies those whose paper runs out in january and who have not renewed should attend this little contribute 120 pairs of scampers whitchurch township council agrees to increase for casual road workers mil bishop alvin l winger of gorm ley an official representative of the brethren in christ church attended the annual meeting of the nonre sistant relief organization held in kitchener his own congregation at heise hill gave over 500 for relief purjmatter immediately totimeshouldneedno further an- 1 in england during 1913 the while all other costs have mount- noil to issue these comforts are mennonlte and brethren in christ ed the subscription price to the provided comious are contrlbuted nearly 5350 tribune has remained as before again thisweek brief messages i for tnis purpose last year but this i the war and because of this and of acknowledgment were received y an objective of 60000 has the shortage of paper subscriptions from the following t buckley been set i must- be paid in advance we ap- since the beginning of the war predate the fact that more than there has been received from these threequarters of our over 2000 groups 162814 a magnificent con- subscriptions are renewed without ribution so as bishop winger notice thus saving us a lot of work says keep up the good work yourand expense sending out bills and reward is certain at the judgment expiry notices day the tribune chas lintner h s cook fred cas tie and bruce lintner prisoners of war in germany oliver larkin jscotty hogg- andgnr f garth- wnite contributions may be left at the tribune office in an effort to build up added interest in the forthcoming loan the sisman co of aurora will don ate 120 pairs of childrens scamp ers to the successful boys and girls who secure the most promises to buy victory bonds these juvenile competitors will go fr6m door to door asking pros pective buyers to sign a slip mere ly stating that i hope to subscribe to canadas sixth victory loan and wish the points which are given in the school competition to go to if for any reason you fail to buy there is no obligation but if you complete the purchase intended then the child will be given certain points scholars in each school section and urban school will compete a- gainst scholars only in their own school and the competitions are open to scholars of grades 6 7 8 only as there are 120 schools there will be just that many prizes the ideals something new and every school through its teachers is urged to encourage the scholars to enter the competition law of 18000 for road expenditures in 1944 1 clerk crawford read correspond- ence indicating that a two mill sub- i sidy would be coming from the drew government this year one mill on general rate as previously j established by the hepburn regime plus one mill promised this year to help out on school taxation a mill amounts to about 2500 in the township therefore approximately 5000 will be forthcoming in this form of subsidy reeve geo leary and the council gave considerable consideration to the budget drawn up by clerk crawford as probable expenditures for this year which indicated that there will have to be careful too careful spending to hold the tax rate at its present level with every thing costing more taxes cannot buck the trend school taxes due to increasing salaries is one of the items that the indicator is pointed councillor l j harper as a dele gate to the ontario good roads con vention said it was the largest of its kind on record and he consider ed matters of real value were un der discussion j on motion of councillor eugene baker and councillor e logan a small list of general accounts were ordered paid also road accounts that had reached the office in time for compiling- in the report some road accounts are too late in arriv the labor situation was viewed to be increasingly difficult in the country when whitchurch council had the matter under discussion at their regular meeting on saturday jack preston grader operator ask ed the council for an increase an pay from 50 to 60 cents per hour and this introduced the matter in view of the general difficulty it was considered advisable to increase not only the road superintendent but the road foremen and the lab orer under them i dont think the laborers will come here and ask for an increase they dont have to i doubt if we get the help even with an increase said deputy reeve lome evans and council showed themselves in complete agreement the- new rate of pay will be laborers 40 cents hour road foremen with car 50c hour grader operator 60c hqur the road superintendent was in structed to gather in all the graders j v leaving one with each of the road u on foremen surplus machines may be made available for sale still onthe road issue council de termined to buy ten tons of calcium for use on roads this summer this will b available to property own ers at 75c per cwt which isjust half the cost council will absorb the remaining half since the gen eral benefit to the roads is consider able last year council charged 1 per cwt a- communication from the dept of highways signified- that they ing and will have tobe filed earlier approved of the appropriation by- or be left over for a month lwss