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tonffinll btumiic vo 59 no 49 the tribune stouffville ont- april s 194s twelve pages early action is urged on vandorf subway harvey rose chief engineer for york county was instructed to com municate with the board of railway commissioners to expedite a hearing for toronto and york roads com mission for approval of alterations to the subway at vandorf on the 1th concession of whitchurch at a meeting on monday j kingsley graham kc chairman of the commission said the subway was a bottleneck and a threat to traffic cnr tracks ran over the subway which was planned by rail road officials it was reported that the commission has received many complaints of the conditions moved from markham twp to whitchurch mr and mrs harry white who have farmed on the ith of markham for some years moved from the place last week and have taken up residence in the emmerson house at bethesda the farm at gormley has been sold to a mr mumberson gormley business max will build new home feed and fuel dealer at gormley mr frank harvey is holding an auction sale of household furniture prior to vacating the residence now mr graham saictthat should the bv mr and mrs harvey board of railway commissioners next tne m3c church there the want the hearing to be held in ot- property has been taken over by tawa the commission would be will- tne church as a parsonage buys fifty acres at auction sale forest johnston was the purchas er of the 50 acre farm belonging to the estate of the late william whittleton and located on the 3rd concession of uxbridge south of goodwod a few miles the sale was made on sataurday when the place passed under the hammer of auctioneer as farmer who dropped the place to mr john ston for 2500 the auctioneer declared that the buildings alone were worth about the total paid for the farm located in a rather difficult sideroad that is isolated in winter season longest in business ing to attend will send ottawa account for 27000 central mortgage and housing corp at ottawa will have to con sider a claim for 27000 made this week by combined councils of pick ering township and ontario county for services to the wartime housing community at ajax an official of the corporation in toronto said the claim when re ceived here will be passed to ot tawa for a final decision the council said ciaims were based on expenses incurred for ad ministration of crown lands at ajax for the past six years the bill totals costs for adminis tration of justice care of neglected children indigent hospitalization aftercare of tuberculosis patients and education for secondary school students mr harvey has acquired a small acreage on the 4th concession just south of old gormley and will commence building operation there right away just as soon as the garage is completed they will occupy it while the house is being built during the summer dogs off the streets constable rusnell is warning one and all persons owning or harbor ing dogs that the bylaw forbidding them to run at large will be enforc ed from the date of this notice dur ing the winter season no effort was made to force dogowners to live up to the terms of the bylaw but now with gardening about to com mence and lawns being tended it is very annoying to have dogs racing over them especially at this season when the grass is tender dogs become a nuisance and therefore must be kept on leash owners of dogs running at large therefore may incur a fine of 5 if they do not keep their clogs tied up or on a leash wigwag at crossing comes expensive markham township council did not look with favor on the proposed installation of a wigwag warning sign on a railway crossing in the southeast part of the county when it was learned that the installation charges would be 3600 after that there is an annual cost for upkeep of 250 per year of which the municipality would pay half it is expected that a petition will be circulated in the municipality against the installation of the pro posed warning sign said one observer the crossing referred to is no worse that several others over the municioalityand if one gets a wigwag then the others should have them and the cost is just prohibitive there are definite warning signs on all these crossings and acci dents are caused by the deliberate indifference of the car drivers it cannot be expected that tax payers are to be burdened with heavy payments for this sort of protection for the few who will not take the time to safeguard their own interests when approaching railway crossings elizabeth hill a keen conversationalist miss elizabeth hill poses at her home in bloomington before the tribune camera last week on her 91st birthday moved from iemonville burned out two weeks moving from the ira ramer place north of lemonville mr and mrs free hill lost their home which they just got settled in near vivian together with all the contents last sunday by fire after giving up employment with mr ramer the hill family consist ing of mother and father one daughter and two children wards of the childrens aid moved to a house on the farm of mr hills father west of vivian from some unknown cause the frame dwelling caught fire on sunday and was burning lively before the oceuoants knew it was afire mr hill was barely able to get the children out and the family dog was burned so badly it had to be destroyed all possessions the family had in the world were lost including the last bit of clothing they owned and everything about the house in the way of furniture and linen dishes etc german foe tells of last fateful battle with nephew of local couple it is just five years las saturdav since pilot officer john newton millers spitfire spun into the med iterranean off cap passero sicilv marking the flight to death of young miller who was a nephew of mr and mrs john miller of stouff- ville resident on montreal street since coming here five vears ago from goodwood strange as it may seem the tri bute to a gallant officer comes from an advisary who participated in that last air battle of millers full of respect for a worthy foe lieut heinz schlecter messer- schmitt pilot of the german luft waffe tells of young millers last fight one in which the canadian raf flyer accepted twotoone odds and came within a split second of coming off a winner it was a split second in which the leader of a german twoman section got in a burst of fire across millers line of flight as the spit was bearing down on the number two man with guns blazing years after the incident lt schlecter could not get the memory of the battle out of mind as the lone witness to the encounter still alive he wrote about a year ago to mauirce smith assistant editor of flight british aviation magazine the letter has been forwarded bv the british air ministry to mr and mrs harry ave with a notation from the air officials investigation has proved that it schlecters letter undoubt edly referred to your son the note said the german tells that he was flying in a section on patrol off sicily and spotted a spitfire slowly circling a spot above the sea he and his lead lieut bernd schneider a 21yearold veteran i with 27 confirmed kills turned their imeloos to attack local musical festival draws capacity house continues this week j moxkhouse fiftyseven years on main street john monkhouse mer chant tailor is the dean of the local business men he is down to work every business day and recently marked up another birthday magistrate makes first visit to town david dunn former garage owner in stouffville was awarded 1782 with costs in division court on monday against mel venn for paint job and repairs on a car owned bv venn the original claim was s20324 reduced by the court 25 on account of alleged bad work manship particularly on the paint ijob reg button represented dunn while venn conducted his own case he maintained that the apprentice work on the ear resulted in gouges being made in the body with the electric sander and dunn admitted that there was some defect around a door of the car the total account of in- miller 166 hampton eluded certain rental agreed to be paid by venn for use of space in the garage where he could repair cars since styled himself a mechanic magistrate factor presided and this being his first visit to stouff ville he was officially welcomed bv the reeve highclass pickering farm changes hands j after 35 years on the one farm bernd attacked but the spitfire mr chas gostick this week enter- a packed house for the opening evening of the sacred musical festi val on saturday evening in stouff ville showed the youthful con testants the interest of the com munity on their behalf each in their turn did a grand performance and the audience were only sorry they couldnt all win rev norman rowan acted as chairman for the evening and the judges were mr david tees choir leader of fairlawn united assisted by miss rushton who judged the piano technique cash prizes were donated to the winners in the sum of 15 s10 and 500 the prize winning contestants steckley were as follows male quartette 1st dixons hill quartette bob mcdowell lloyd wideman warren mover lawrence barkey 2nd stouffville quartette bert stouffer howard baker keith clarke dave ratcliff 3rd uxbridge quartette harold brethour ted cleland garnet gray ladies solo 1st mary hutchinson 2nd helen ratcliff 3rd isabel stewart piano solo thirteen years and under 1st patricia stansfield 2nd louise clarke 3rd jean paisley girls solo under 13 years 1st roberta bone 2nd marilyn bone 3rd ellen maple syrup production is normal on local farms ratcliff bros or perhaps we should say howard ratcliff has been extracting sap from 2000 trees on the mccormick property at vivian which was acquired from the estate several years ago mr sam fretz is taking the luscious liquid from 400 trees and several other farmers have smaller tapp ings of 100 and 200 trees thus the maple syrup harvest in the nearby locality is about normal again this spring with the run of sap being a good average the price of maple syrup 5 per gallon has taken the edge off for some householders who feel that the price has got beyond their capacity to pay however farmers who hire help in the bush pay 50c an hour and cannot afford to sell for the old price of syrup of around 4 00 to 450 per gallon last year some parts of ontario were paying as much as 6 and 7 per gallon hence the rate in this district does not seem so high in comparison however its a long way from the socalled good old days when you were asked no more than 250 a gallon in the light of all other costs maple syrup is not too high at 3 gallon and while many people will not pay that price there is no jack of buyers to take up all the avail able syrup that will be made in the stouffville district one of the best runs came last weekend and those who did not tend their bush over night found the pails running over the run last sunday was said to be good and so far as we know farmers saw to it that the sap did not go to waste and other farmers even boiled that day on the sam fretz farm no effort was made to collect the sap we take the sabbath day for rest said mr fretz and do not worry about the sap even if the pails run over mr and mrs arthur cook of dillsburg pennsylvania were visit ing at the home of clarion baker last week clarion met mr cook on his trip to poland two years ago and the pair enjoyed a reunion at the baker home in whitchurch dust nuisance resembles horse and buggy days the surface treatment given our main street pavement last septem ber by the toronto york road commission is proving highly un satisfactory to business men and persons who live along main street dust from the soft stone put on carries us twek to the days of the old gravel road town workmen births mcdowell at the tillsonburg soldiers memorial hospital on monday march 29 to mr and mrs stanley h mcdowell rri tillsonburg a daughter beverly joyce have been unable to properly sweep sheisox at the brierbush hos tile surface and as we go to press pital stouffville saturdav april efforts ore being made to get fire 3 194s to mr and mrs james e hose to flush the street in the busi- shelson stouffville a daughter ness area at least margaret jean action of the countv in laving steckley at the brierbush this material on the pavementandl hospital stouffville saturday seemingly spoiling our fine road i april 3 194s to mr and mrs ievi surface is stronglv resented which steckley gormley a daughter according to the reeve was done dickixsox at the brierbush withouf anv notification it is nowl hospital stouffville sunday hoped that the alleged error can be april 4 194s to mr and mrs got away so quickly that the attack was fruitless i did not fire but covered my friend from the rear our unknown enemy dodged every attack wrote schlecter he ex plained that during the attack the reason for the spitfire low circling was evident a man was clinging to a liferaft in the sea subsequent investigations by the ministry established that this was millers commanding officer who had crash ed after 15 minutes the letter tells the germans gave up and climbed away fuel was getting short sud denly however the spitfire was on their tail we realized what we were up against this man was no novice but a first rate man who meant to settle this fight one way or the other it would have been easy for him to have gone into cloud but he did not suddenly he came toward us with the evident intention of shooting one of us down i was so surprised i forgot to fire but bernd fired a fraction of a second before the spitfire pilot who flew into a hail of bullets the letter continued that the spitfire went out of control and plunged into the sea without catch ing fire the waves rolled high like a memorial which the unknown man had erected as a token of part ing with life then swirled together and closed the gap made by the aircraft ed into an agreement for the sale of his 150 acre farm at lot 26 con s pickering to mr david mcdowell of markham township the gostick farm is one of the best in pickering under high state of cultivation with good buildings throughout mr gosticks thoughts turned to selling because he does not feel equal to the heavy work any longer and with hired help hard to get he decided to give up after these 33 years of successful farming on tuesday april 20 mr gos tick will offer by public auction his fine herd of ayrshire cows young stock and all the implements etc on the place it will be one of the big sales of the year gravel prices recede from j peak in markham township native of uxbridge mrs john forgie dead the death of mrs john forgie who passed away at her home in dunbarton will be learned with general regret by a wide acquain tance of the family in the clare- mont and uxbridge township local ity mrs forgie was a daughter of uxbridge pioneer mr and mrs james howitt in which township she was born after her marriage to john forgie the couple settled on the townline schlecter described the sections norln qlareroont on the dawson return to base bernd climbed out j v s th tired in of his aircraft and was quiet war unbaiton besides the husband had its will and we lived from dav s l m they to day i have never forgotten u f uetro and murray of markham four sisters also survive mrs forgie they being mrs george coates uxbridge town ship mrs wellington wideman markham township mrs bertha carruthers atha and mrs john soden brougham mrs forgie was active in church work and all worthwhile under takings for the benefit of the dis trict in which she lived her death was the culmination of quite a long illness the funeral proceeded to ershine cemetery following a public service held in the dunbarton united church this man bowlers attention meeting of the stouffville lawn bowling club will be held in the telephone office on wednesday april 14th at 8 pm all members and prospective memlxjrs are urged to attend t b rae seev robt snowball pres corrected and representation will be made to the dept of highways in toronto in respect to the matter the dept of highways now have the care of this surface in their xorman dickinson daughter goodwood a coming to the stanley theatre may 3 and 4 louisiana all star charge from the loth concession to proceeds in aid of memorial the cxr tracks hal1 tund rixcwood couple return from month ix uncle sams domain mr and mrs delos graham are home again after spending about a month in the united states on an extended visit among relatives they visited the homes of his three brothers isaac norman and ed ward and the families of his two sisters who are now deceased the trip took them through michigan gravel will be laid down on the roads of markham township this year at a cost of 125 per yard a reduction of 10c per yard as com pared with a year ago frank roberts is again the successful tenderer he has been selling gravel to the municipality for 17 years stouffville sand gravel tend ered a little higher price mr roberts will provide 4000 yards of gravel in the bin at the pit for the township truck at 55c a yard which was also a tender quotation a group of ladies from victoria square spent an hour at the council chambers observing how a council functions on behalf of the group mrs r brumwell expressed their thanks and mr gjriflin assured them they would be welcome to return at any time councillor win timbers and councillor fred wicks moved a resolution to purchase a case tractor with mower attachment at a cost of 1735 unanimous approval was found for the move and the machine is expected to be on hand for the first cutting of weeds in fact immediate delivery is likely last year the township spent over 1100 cutting weeds with rented equipment and estimated the machine will pay for itself in two years culverts required by farmers or others will not leave the township yard until paid for according to a stand taken by council and passed on to the road superintendents the reeve refused to approve of a resolution which deputy reeve d rumney said he would support fatr of monies expended pended by mr bartlett for a private b tne stouffville lions club last drain at south end of unionville i am willing to interview them said the reeve who promised to do so shortly he will be accompanied by superintendent wm clark the isolation hospital toronto notified council that rates had advanced and henceforth non resident patients will be charged 6 per day instead of the former 4 it was decided to advise the local telephone companies that they should notify the township any time they contemplate a new pole line in the township since many lines now serving are set in the ditches in such a manner as to be in the way of road machinery engagements mr and mrs arthur hoover announce the engagement of their only daughter margaret jean to john bruce empringham son of mr and mrs david empringham of gormley the wedding to take place on april 10th in the united missionary church markham mr and mrs george middleton stouffville announce the engage ment of their daughter velma jane to donald william scorgie son of mr and mrs s scorgie of toronto the marriage to take place quietly in stouffville april 24th lions disbursed 1000 on various charitable works claremoxt the mission band will hold its april meeting in the sunday school rcom of the united church next sunday at 230 pm mrs roy morgan and miss mary and on to cnicago and minneapolis morgan and friend from stouffville travelling bv train j visited mr and mrs archie flem- mr and mrs graham report that ing of unionville on sunday excellent weather prevailed mr and mrs stewart ball and throughout and a warm welcome daughters helen and donna visited wherever they visited was accorded at the home of mr and mrs jack them morgan on sunday mr timbers said this man should not be out of pocket on this and i dont see why we couldnt pay him and try to collect from the people benefited in the area served by the drain mr bartlett caused the drain to be built and met the entire cost it is of benefit to ten or fifteen proper ty owners who it was said felt the benefit this spring by having their cellars drained we simply have no authority to contribute to this drain it would be illegal to do so and i favor con sulting our solicitor before we come to that said reeve griffin who further termed such a move a misappropriation of funds councillor fred wicks said that if the council paid this item they mav expect to do so in many other instances for private drainage year on various local charitable works discloses that practically 1000 was disbursed from the clubs welfare funds medical accounts paid amounted to 1650 and sight conservation s12 sports activities 395 the boy scouts were given 100 and ashuny- oong camp 100 the stouffville high school memorial fund receiv ed 300 while miscellaneous amounts totalled 22 the easter thankoffering meet ing of the wms will be held in the united church on thursday april 8th at 245 pm the worship service will be conducted by mrs clayton baker and the guest speaker will be mrs w r lang secy of temperance and christian citizenship on the dominion board i think these people ought to there will also be special music pay who empty into the drain and i all the ladies are cordially invited