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sjj p o t iirtji5rpv ii leading weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twps vol 57 no a the tribune stouffville ont may 24 1945 twelve pages brierbush hospital changes ownership on june 1st on the first of june the brierbush hospital stouffville will change ownership when mr and mrs e r good will retire from the business they founded here back in 1932 on church street and which they es tablished in the present commodi- ous premises on main street east in june 1933 the new owners will be mrs ella m malcolm rn and miss martha robson graduate nurse from brandon man the new own- els are highly recommended and thoroughly competent to conduct the hospital which is one of the finest institutions of its class in on tario mr and mrs good started the business with four beds and today there are 25 beds plus eight beds in the nurses residence at the rear of the hospitaltor thehelp last year there were no less than 59 babies born at the brierbush which is only one department that has grown beyond all imagination two new wings have been added ih re cent years with one of the finest heating plants obtainable being installed thespacious grounds lend them- selvesto such work as is carried on by a hospital and leaves ample room tor further expansion at present time the place is filled with exception of a couple of bedsin the i womens ward mr and mrs good will move to theirnew house recently purchased from mr jess cobar at corner of baker avenue and main street and we wish for them and their family every success in their new quarters where they will enjoy a well deser ved rest the new owners of the hospital will find stouffville a good place to live and we look for them to carry on the good traditions of the hos pital which can be further deve loped melville church to mark 100 years of service melville church 6th concession markham will celebrate its centen nial in june on sundayjune 17rev john mutchdd of hamilton will preach morning and evening dr mutch was pastor of melville church 191317 on sunday june 24th at 230 pm rev i g boalcsof tor- f ontdp onetime pastor- ofuhe-lemon- ville circuifwillpreach watch for advertisementnext week stationed in germany alton a farm sold the farm f mr william mcnair at altona is reported to have been sold last week to a toronto buyer owner of the old mill site and dam held by mr earl howsam- the mcnair place has 65 acres and mr mcnair will continue to work tlie farm and look after the pond development for the purchas er of the properties who hopes o develop a private summer resort pte lome hopkins of clare- mont is serving overseas with the rcasc and is stationed in germany now according to word received by his sister mrs iwm slack of claremont he enlisted in feb 1913 and wont overseas in aug 1943 paper a day later the next issue of the tribune normally in the post office on wed nesday for distribution on the rural routes thursday may be late ow ing to the flood of election advertis ing and a larger paper than ever subscribers will please keep this in mind if they do not find their tri bune in the mail box on thursday as usual attended lindsay wedding last saturday was a nice bright day for rev and mrs e morton and mr andmrs bert silverthorrie and family to be in lindsay for the wedding of the grandson of mr and mrs morton as many of the people of stouffville will remember that wilbert morton who used to live here and learned his trade here now lives at oakwood eight miles south of lindsay this adds to our interest in the wedding of m e r dunn streets now have names atfixed have you noticed the new signs at the street intersections in town with their white lettering on a green background they will be found very convenient for strang- prsseekingoutastreet and towns people will also find them handy since many people do not know the names of our streets stouffville is 78 years old and this is the first attempt to place names of this kind on the streets but it is never too late to make im provements of this kind below we give the names of the streets so placarded- streets on the south side of main street beginning with the first street east of the 9th concession coming east clark victoria albert blake fair obrien market sommerville burkholder rose theatre church pine college cemetery north side of main street begin ning with first street east of the 9th concession coming east charles william albert edward harold rupert second mill duchess george warrlnei frede- rick manitoba church baker stouffer montreal north boyer south lemonville beaver colony build dam mrs walls and miss ruth have gone to little britain for a couple of weeks holidays i hundred yds long probably the most interesting family to have moved into the township of whitchurch for some time is a colony of canadian beavers which authorities tell us moved down from our northern land for some unknown reason perhaps just to fulfil a strange de sire to roam as we humans so often delight to do the busy little animals established themselves on a spring creek on the property of mr a huckerby at lemonville officials from the department of game and fisheries at queens park estimate that- the beaver colony started only this spring in real earnest is now developed to a community of some 30 or more busy workers they have construct ed a dam 100 yards in length back ing up what was once a very small stream to a pond six feet in depth mr huckerby said the beaver cut all the logs for the dam in his bush some distance above the dam to do this the parent beaver sent the young animals to the bush to cut and drop the logs into the stream to float down to the head of the damtlfe wood is cut into lengths six and eight feet long also smal ler sizes cut at a greater distance from the dam just why only the young beaver venture far from the safety of the deep water mr huck erby did not know but offered the suggestion that the younger ani mals were more venturesome or perhaps the older ones are busy be low water doing the work and chores closer to their home mr huckerby is interested in fur bear ing animals consequently he can follow the movements of the colony with greater intelligence than the average person since the beaver pelts are worth from 30 to 80 each the little animals must be careful of their common enemy the man hunter who would seek to make revenue from their skins all this the old beaver knows so he trusts nobody if is- a- strange factthauduringall the operations of building the dam mr huckefrby has never yet sighted one of the animals this indicates that busy as the little creatures are they keep a close watch every minute for the approach of human beings and it ever are caught unawares in addition there is heavy penalty for killing beaver and mr huckerby has instructions to keep watch we say the beaver came here only this spring well the fact is they may have been there earlier then that and for food they feed upon the young saplings or small birch the young limbs are taken below water and fairly line the bottom of the creek or dam area mr huckerby says so that food is always available under water hav ing moro sense than some human beings the little animals all work do not nsed unions and never go on strike they have something in their makeup or heads that a lot of human being havent got so all inall we may learn a worthwhile lesson from the beaver shield presented to town the town of stouffville has been awarded a beautiful shield by the county victory loan com mittee in recognition of the com- mtinitys outstanding purchases in the sth victory loan this place having the highest percent age per capita in relation to our objective of any district in york north the shield will find a place on the walls in the council chambers but is at present on exhibition in tlie widow of spofford co take aj look at this very attractive memento hardballers to practice friday night weather permitting the twenty or more boys who signed up for hardball practice on monday even ing will have a workout at the park this friday night weather permitt ing it is hoped to have earl cook local big leaguer on hand to assist with picking out a battery from among the wouldbo moundsmen jos bingham ballantrae is awarded the dgm not an undamagedbuilding appears in uiisphoto otberlin which wastake bomber of the rap shortly after the fall of the german capital taken from a lowflying mosquito e s i gravel hill farm reconveyed by agreement hon mr justice keiller mackay presided at the nonjury sessions of the supreme court of ontario at the court house in whitby last week and consented to a settle ment in a case from stouffville district in which aws greer of oshawa represented russel storry of uxbridge township who brought action against frank crowbotham stouffville henry curran and c lambert the latter two toronto men to set aside a deed by which the defendant lambert become possessed of property owned by the plaintiff by reason of a sale without notice over a mortgage according to the minutes of the settlement which were ratified by the court the property is to be reconveyed to the plaintiff and the mortgage under which the property was pur ported to be sold is to remain and be paid off within three months costs amounting to 700 are to be paid bythe defendants f c rowbotham was represent ed- by mccullougk button curran by wjudsonrand bert by f j sparham the plaintiff russel storry a farmer- of uxbridge township was for many years prior to october 21 1944 the registered owner of a farm of 150 acres with a twostorey 12roomed frame house thereon and the usual barns and sheds the farm itself was valued at 10000 at least while the property as a gravelproducing proposition had an estimated value of between 40000 and 50000 the defendant f c rowbotham of stouffville held a mortgage of 3000 on the farm which was later recapitalized by himself and the plaintiff storry at 3800 with in terest at 5 per cent nayable on the 1st of junf and 1st of december in pach year the full amount became due and- payable on december 1st 1914 from feb 21 1943 to aug 26 1944 the plaintiff kept up his payments in a total sum of 370 without notifying the plaintiff rowbotham on october 20 1944 assigned the said mortgage for 3- 800 to the defendant henry cur ran accountant in the city of tor onto on the same date curran conveyed to the defendant charles lambert of tpronto an accountant with the canadian national tele graph company the lands of the plaintiff referred to in the mortgage and extension agreement for a con sideration expressed as other valuable consideration and the sum of 2 this deed was registered in whitby on october 21 1914 on october 27 the plaintiff received a letter from lamberts solicitor de manding immediate delivery of the farm lands prior to this time the plaintiff had to the knowledge of the defendants contracted to sell 10 acres of gravel from the farm for 5000 a sum which was more than sufficient by approximately 1000 to pay off the mortgage which encumbered the property he was willing to pay off the entire but rowbotham had agreed that the payment of the balance due would be satisfactory by december 1 1914 being the maturity date of the extension agreement on oct 20 when rowbotham assigned the mortgage to curran the amount due on the mortgage was 401410 the defendants therefore conspired together it was claimed to deprive the plaintiff of his right to pay off the mortgage and redeem his property the plaintiff claimed an order of the court to redeem the property and set aside the assignment of the mortgage or in alternative 10- 000 damage and costs lambert set forth a counterclaim to this action stating that storry wrongfully held possession of the farm after his own purchase of the property and demanding posses sion the settlement finally arrived at between the several counsel of the defense and the plaintiffs solic itor a v s greer ordered a re conveyance to storry of his farm lands first boy from stouffville district to be honored with such an award cpl joseph bingham 28 has been granted the distinguished conduct medal for gallantry in action in holland it has been officially an nounced from ottawa we have no word from joe thai would inform us about the honor that has come to him his mother told the reporter when he called at the parental home at ballantrae all the family know about it is what they read in the dispatches she explained joe is in the gov ernor generals foot guards mrs bingham said she also gave the interesting information that of her eight sons all six foot in height six of them enlisted and four went overseas joe who won the medal is in holland and has seen plenty of fighting he enlisted back in 1910 he is not married and there is no word of him bringing back a bride either all my family was born in scot land near ayr the home town of bobbie burns mrs bingham ex plained she was twice married three of the boys being born to her first husband there are in addition to the six stalwart sons in uniform two daughters the boys in uni form are joseph dcm hugh thomas george douglas and an drew probably no family in the whole county has quite an outstanding record as this ballantrae group with six enlistments one winning a dcm in addition one soninlaw one great soninlaw and numerous other relatives are in- the service living with mr and mrs bingham is their daughterinlaw and hfer three fine young boys the wee two- yearold lad made a sensational arrival at time of his birth it will be recalled since he was born in the passenger car of ballantraes local merchant mr gib wright while attempting to tieat the stork to the hospital the t lads daddy is now- in belgium the binghams have lived at ballantrae 15 years an interesting fact is that this small hamlet has contributed two families with distinguished records in this war for in addition to the bingham achievements there is the family of mr and mrs percy cut ler with five enlistments being four sons enlisted and one daughter a nursing sister the one son is listed as missing s jos- bingham dcm hydro troubles the high winds oatuesday just after the noon hour caused a lot of trouble over markham township and in north pickering where the hydro was disrupted for an hour or two stouffville was without power for an hour duetto a large limb fall ing across the wires west of town at the farm of henry miller on the 7th of markham thepole carrying the transformer was blown over and current cut- off from some 5000 eggs in the hatchery quick work on the part of the markham rural hydro fiave the milleivfarm current before the eggshadtime to cool down where they would pre sent a loss struck by fallingtree joseph earjak whose housevwas burned to the ground whenhewas absent from homo recently met withtahother jiear catastrophe on tuesday afternoon- when -the- wind storm was atsitsheighta tree blew down striking bar jak but not hurting him thvtrcef ell across the rear end of his truck mr barjak lives on the 8th concession a mile south of markham village engagements whitchurch lad receives first two submarines fit sergt ron gibbinsof whit church was the air gunner with one of the crews that escorted in the first two german submarines to surrender after ve day ron is a son of mr and mrs jno gibbins 7th con whitchurch and was na turally quite thrilled to be able to participate in such a surrender mr- and mrs james farley jpick- eringwish to announce the engage ment of their daughter phyllis mary to stanley ross son of mr and mrs fred madill claremont the marriage to take place quietly on saturday june 9th at three oclock i i mr and mrs george taylor of stouffville announce the engage ment of their youngest daughter violet isobel to walter douglas booth youngest son of mr arid mrs douglas booth of stouffville the marriagewill take place in june stouffville topped the list for victory bonds purchased now that the final figures for the 8th victory loan are compiled we are able to announce that the dis trict of stouffville which includes no more than the municipality it self stands highest and thereby wins the pennant tor selling more bonds per capita of its population in relation to its objective than any other area in the district of york north the village had an objective of 120000 which was 10000 above that asked in the last loan but the total sales reached the amazing sum of 211500 of this amount 117100 was sold by the three salesmen blake sanders l e oneill h o klinck the re maining 94400 was sold by the local branch of the canadian bank of- commerce everybody concern ed did an excellent job and are to be congratulated as are the people who so generously invested joe fry of markham stood third among the winning salesmen and alex macleod old stouffville boy in markham won one of the special awards as a salesman here we give the districts or municipalities with their objectives and the total sales it will be noted that every place went over its ob jective with the expeption of aurora objective total sales aurora 220000 189200 newmarket 360000 417050 markham vil 100000 108000 richmond hill 120000 172150 now 94 but still quite active on may 16 mr harmon yake veteran farmer just eastofstouff ville celebrated his 94th birthday at the home of his daughter and soninlaw mr and mrs gordon v riddle of claremont y mr yake enjoys very good health for his advanced years and re ceived with pleasure a number of cards and gifts visiting at the riddle liome for the day were ray yake and harry tobias- wilmot yake mrs wm gladwell mr and mrs c hallet and little daughter gail also missevelyn tobias tor- onto -v- y 150 young people hold convention stouffville sutton woodbridge georgina n gwillimbury e gwillimbury king twp markham twp vaughan twp whitchurch 120000 90000 130000 7oooo 80000 175000 270000 over one hundred and fifty at tended the- toronto east rural young peoples convention held at the unitedctiurch stouffville last wednesday the womens associ- ation provided a very enjoyable banquet the presbytery activities of- the year were presented in the form of a skit by members of the executive reports were read and adopted and mrs mccormack of unionville was guest soloist- the guestspeaker of the evening- was mrs gordon agnew wife of dr gordonagnew the dentist whom toronto conference sponsors in west china she gave the young people a challenge to live the good neighbor policy and thus help to establish an everlasting peace and she stated that if we had a third war the world would be doomed the installation of new officers was conductedbythe rev roscoe mm vim ofmelv bid abridge 300000 3165501 1c5000 165700 211500 137500 160650 77650 114150 237550 386100 objective for york north 25000001 ffi gssssikljss total- sales for york north ff j j ing- tfjfie3iilegu vivij v t krjum7m fn ufy ajvtijiiastcajga t sssns