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vff leading weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twps vol 55 no 4 stouffville ont thursday june 1st 1944 eight pages tenaersare called for removal of gravel hill tenders will be called at once for the crushing and removal of the big gravel mound at gravel hill two miles north of stouftville it was decided- at a joint meeting of the municipal councils of whitchurch and uxbridge in session at stouft ville last thursday evening the councils conferred with the ontario county engineer d j keen it was estimated that uxbridge will take about 6000 yards and whitchurch 8000 this summer v the case of uxbridge the gravel will be largely distributed on the west side of the municipality while whitchurch will spread their quota over a greater area tenders will be called for remov ing the gravel and hauling by adver tising in the daily commercial news a publication going into the hands of all important contractors tenders will close june 15 when it is expected the award will be made and shortly thereafter work may be expected to get underway farmers of the locality are will ing to be inconvenienced in the matter of a right of way during the summer in order to get the hill cut and little or no grumbling is being anticipated from the disturbance that will be caused when the hill is being demolished silver threads no sign of old age the township of whitchurch pro- bably boasts of the youngest munici pal clerk in not only the county of york but one of the most youthful men holding this important office in all ontario on tuesday of this week john c crawford only reach ed his 34th birthday yet as the song writer so aptly called them silver threads are a part of his makeup and if they come from working long hours and carrying the load of two men then thats the answer mr crawford was only 27 whenhe assumed the position of clerk and treasurer succeeding his father the late wm crawford he was well fitted however for the position being a high school gradu ate and having some knowledge of the work through the assistance he gave his father many clerks and treasurers doing a similar work in municipalities the size of whit church have an assistant but so far mr crawford has carried on alone he goes on the assumption that he can do the work quicker alone than having to instruct others in the task at that he finds time to oper ate an important farm over on the second concession and to spend just a little time there with his efficient wife and his three lovely children elsie 6 ann 7 and audrey 2 fox destroys hundred chickens at peachs mr thos hastings farmer on the 7th concession of markham has it in for the foxes one bold animal has killed a hundred chickens on the hastings farm he was seen at the chickens three times and on one occasion reddie made a bold attack and was driven off when the farmer let out a warning yell a gun will be kept handy in future and perhaps reddie and not the chickens will suffer tuesday night opening begins next week whether the merchants are pleas ed with the prospect of- spending an extra night behind the counter or not the decision to open the stores in stouffville every tuesday evening beginning next week cer tainly brought forth many expres sions of approval from the farming sections in fact many now say that they had determined to shop elsewhere because of the refusal of the mer chants to cooperate as in other years but now the matter has been settled by deciding to open the threats are withdrawn for the most part the merchants are hard run for goods and some have not sufficient help but it would be wiser for those who can not stand the pace to remain closed until later in the day during sum mer and harvest season so as to give the evening service on tues day and saturday when to be open ed would be so much appreciated yes after listening to the com ments one is bound to come to the decision that the merchants were acting sensibly by deciding to open every tuesday and saturday for the summer the crowd that will come to town next tuesday night will be carefully appraised as to its size as in other years the tues day night business will grow as the season ad local girl heads graduating class of twentveight graduates of the school of nursing of the womens college hospital who received their diplomas at convocation hall on friday at the graduation exercises six of them captured the scholar ships and prizes and of the six betty sanderson obrien avenue stouffville was one of the disting uished this local girl then won a further distinction by carrying off two prizes the only graduate of the six to receive this honor and so to margaret elizabeth sanderson daughter of mr and mrs wm sanderson was awarded the prize for obstetrical nursing donated by mrs harold f ritchie and the prize for nursery technique donat ed by the club the graduation ceremony was followed by a reception at the great hall hart house and was attended fromhere by mr and mrs sanderson also mrs k d wood- burn a graduate of stouffville high school our school and the community in general is very proud of the enviable success of this young girl who has brought certain honor to her town as well as to herself rode to jail on a bicycle 1 benny gaudet of toronto who was picked up between stouftville and ringwood last week by con stables ira rusnell and b gayman charged with the theft of a bicycle belonging to gordon ratcliff plead ed guilty and was sentenced by magistrate keith on monday to six months in jail gaudets record showed that this was the sixth time he had been ap prehended for stealing bicycles over a period of twelve years but it never occurred to him to buy one instead of making off with the pro perty of others gaudet was seen hanging around town one evening last week and members of the bank staff phoned the police who picked him up later with the ratcliff bike which he promptly admitted stealing j stouffer buried from lemonville resident of lemonville for about two years jason stouffer died there on friday in his 60th year he was the eldest son of the late eli stouf fer who died in stouffville three years ago this may his mother before her marriage was adelia hall but she passed away 25 years ago besides two sisters in toronto mrs devlin and mrs campbell the other surviving member of the family is samuel stouffer in toronto another brother milne having met a tragic death in the wilds of northern quebec when on a hunting expedition with his fa ther he went out from camp over the ice to the mainland and never was heard of again and it is believ ed hevwent through the ice the body was never recovered all this of course happened over 30 years ago the late jason stouffer worked in toronto for a good many years going to lemonville his wifes old home when his health failed mrs stouffer was the fonner annie law and she survives him together with two daughters florence mrs charles roland and madalenc also by one son eldon stouffer miss tillle stouffer patient at the brier- bush was an aunt of the deceased the funeral on monday afternoon from the late home proceeded to stouffville cemetery for interment mystery surrounds cattle destruction believed to be the work of young fellows bent on having fun with a 22 rifle two cattle on jhe ranch of sam bacon located between the second and third concessions of ux bridge township south of the stouff ville road were found dead a few days ago will hackney living near the ranch saw a cow lying on top of a knoll and invesigated to find v her dead she was sold for fox meat and when being skinned the wound of a bullet could be traced right to the heart indicating that the cow had been shot at the same time although not discovered until the next day a good steer was lying dead on the ranch it had been dead some con siderable time and too far decayed to locate the cause of death without a great deal of trouble however it is firmly believed that the steer met the same kind of death as the cow mr bacon of course lives on the second concession north of gara- baldi and does not see his ranch every day which explains how the animals were dead some time before being discovered by a neighbor it is reported that boys are fre quently out hunting in this part of the township also strangers make it a hunting section as uxbridge is not in the ontario game preserve area the supposition is that young fellows shot at these cattle at con siderable distance just to see them jump and smart from the bullet which they believed would not en ter the hide because of distance they were quite ignorant of the power of their guns a closer check up is necessary if farm stock is to be protected from foolheaded individuals roaming the countryside with fire arms ages of six patients reach 500 years discussing hospital matters with mr er good a few days ago your reporter stumbled onan interesting bit of information about our r- sick folk at the hospital the six eldest persons have a combined age of 500 years mrs isabefle mccreight of markham village being the oldest patient with 92 years behind her next in line is mrs- rachel soden also of markham village who is 88 years then we mention mr obijah jones of altona 87 mrs abram steckley 80 mrs anna honsberger 80 and mrs slyvanus baker 79 this combination of years actually runs 506 a highly impressive fi gure births hugh and marjorie michell clare- mont are happy to announce the birth of their daughter grace elea nor at the oshawa hospital on may 31 1944 hallman at markham on may 9th 1944 to mr and mrs w l hallman adaughter janet may graham on sunday may 28th 1914 at oshawa general hospital to mr and mrs norman graham nee ethel bray pickering the gift of a daughter mary anna- belle new high school teacher engaged 1 the high school board has en gaged miss mary borisuk of burl ington to teach on the local staff inext term filling one of the vacan cies caused by the resignations of miss irene foster and mrs reg button we understand quite a number of applications are in the hands of the board from which to choose a second teacher i miss borisuk has been on the high school staff at rodney and comes highly recommended to stouffville jos clark newspaper trophy cdrries to stouffville again attending convention dr e s barker was in attend ance at the annual meeting of the ontario dental asociation held in toronto this week above picture shows the j t clark memorial cup awarded at niagara falls last week to the tribune for best allround week ly newspaper in ontario and quebec published in towns up to 1500 population when the cup was first donated five years ago the tribune also captured it then and the renowned greg clark above of the daily star made the presentation of the cup at a convention in ottawa the name of stouffville was pub licized through the daily press last friday and saturday and over the radio both friday and saturday announcing this newspaper the tribune as winner of the joseph clark memorial cup donated by air j atkinson of the daily star for the best weekly in ontario and que bec published in towns up to 1500 population the award was announced atthe annual convention in niagara- falls friday afternoon and the hand some silver cup a true replica of the famous stanieycup will short ly grace the sanctum of the tri bune when this competition was first conceived among weekly newspap- rcaf officers inspect cadets monday night monday evening june 5th will be the annual spring air cadet in spection at 730 sharp in memorial park among the many high rank ing rcaf officials visiting stouff- enormous growth good crops are in the making engagement mr and mrs winfred timbers announce the engagement of their daughter dorothy ruth to lloyd m doner son of mr and mrs clar ence doner of gormley the marri age will take place in the dicksons hill church wednesday june 21st at 3 oclock squadron leader ciirrie ville on this occasion of the third inspection of no 94 squadron will be- squadron leader d h currie senior command cadet officer of no 1 training command who will take the salute it is expected that douglas boyd executive provincial secretary of the air cadet league engagement mr and mrs chas w hockley of uxbridge wish to announce the engagement of their daughter elsie margaret to joseph earl forsyth only son of mr and mrs chas e forsyth of stouffville the marri age will take place at 7 pm on june 24th 1944 at st pauls anglican church uxbridge moving next week the maple leaf dairy will move to their new premises next the lib rary next week first bowling tournament will be june 7th crs the tribune captured the cup which was five years ago since which time we have been placed second and third in the competition it is a source of greatsatisfaction to the publishers to merit such an accomplishment which satisfaction is the deeper when we see the good advertising the home town comes in for because of its newspaper for the local merchant the fact that he has a newspaper with one of the best circulations in the pro vince at his disposal there is also more satisfaction your home town weekly doesnt take thecredit for stouffville being a good town but who ever heard of a good news paper being published in a poor town the publishers certainly appreci ate the splendid efforts of our rural correspondents 22 in number for the faithful service in gathering the news from outlying sections all of which had much to do with our high standing i new cops getting their initiation pickering councillor has high priced calf george todd of cherrywood pickering township councillor sold a heifer calfat the registered jer sey sale at oakville last week for 325 the second highest calf in the sale top price being 100 for a slightly older animal the animals up for auction were picked from the various jersey farms by the secretary of the canadian jersey cattle club and were a prize lot mr todds entry was a granddaugh ter of one of the foundation females of his herd and she was sired by a quebec cow the highest price paid for any cow in the ring was 1600 with the second at 1100 five heifers sold for 1500 the proceeds going to the farmers calling at the office of the tribune invariably speak of the enormous growth this spring all grain crops are leaping ahead at a tremendous rate plenty of moisture and warm weather of course are the cause grain sown ten days came through so fast that it completely covere the ground in that short time contrary to re ports from other districts where frost did some damage the local berry crop is highly promising and may easily be a record pick if no setback is encountered early gardeners point to potatoes well above ground and those who have a small bed of asparagus have been cutting all they can eat for a week or two back but regardless of what we have said or could say say about the phenominal growth at this time nothing could be so convincing as to take a contract for cutting a lawn the writer is under contract on his own greejis and the crop we cut twice a week in the last- half of may was amazing the hay crop is reasonably assured as a record heavy yield it should make all the farmers happy and when the yeo- the lawn bowlers are sprung into action again and will hold their first tournament on wednesday june 7th with a mens trebles for the toronto and stouffville old boys trophy presented by dr gf richardson and f l button kc r e ratcliff is president of the club this year with the veteran t b rae as secretary navy league mr todd is honorary president of the ontario county jersey breed- 1 man is feeling contented we a one orthe oik happy too original groups formed in canada douglas boyd of canada will also be present according to dh currie a wave of enthusiasm has carried enrol ments throughout the province to the present high of 80000 cadets within the sixweek period of apr 25 to june s the annual inspection of these air cadets was carried out in over 90 cities and towns he states- stouffville no 91 is considered a model squadron by rcaf ers club notice to stouffville hydro users customers of the stouffville hydro system will please take notice that the customary two- months billing for domestic consumers and also for bills for commercial users due the first of june will not be rendered power accounts and commercial demand meters will be rendered as usual the next billing for stouffville hydro consumers will be aug ust 1st thus covering a four months period with- this billinga 20 per cent rebate of all the money paid in during 1943 will be made since it will cover more than two months on the average bill your fin ancial outlay in august after four months without paying anything will not be even as great as the usual two months account this information is issued in order that customers may understand why they will not receive a account june 1st george storey treasurer the newly sworn in township constables for whitchurch elmer wells and jos foote were travell ing together at musselmans lake v so the story was told on saturday evening on one of their first out- ings under the peak of a constables hat and girded with the customary belt and holster akin to the police department at a certain place on- the lake they spotted four young men whom they decided to investigate this led to the discovery that the car contained four young fellows and a girl also young they had a case of beer and were about to engage a cottage where it might be con sumed by the group without moles tation by the law however while waiting for such a cottage three of them at least started to embibe and at this point the cops came into the picture making their first arrest proved a nervous business but the legal lights locked the members of the beer party up in the cottage they sought to rent then sent for con stable fleuryrwho ordered their release after a charge of drinking or having booze in a public place was laid 88 entriesiln jersey competition the county jersey show staged by the york county jerseyclubin conjunction with the richmond hill v- fair on may 24th proved tobe a grand success hvith 88 head of fine cattle in competition the senior heifer class had 18 entries prof j c steckley- of ridgetown york countys first agricultural repre sentative who judged the showwas delighted with the quality and con dition of the exhibits fred bagg son of unionville won the senior and grand champion on brampton val- aim favor and the junior championship on roseview valiant victor he also won the reserve senior and reserve grand female v championship on roseview simons euclle the showmanship for boys and girls brought out 8 contestants showing in the regular classes winners in the 12 to 15 were alan bagg edgeley betty barber gorm ley rr 2 kathleen barber gorm- lcyrr 2 bill bairdmarkham 16 to 20 winners were donald bagg edgeley lyman sniithrich- mond hill evelyn barber gormley bruce bagg unionvilic r asi iil