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2925 copies this issue ztye fiftmfftrille snirnne fourteen pages vol 61 xo 1 the tribune stouffville oxt april 21 1919 campaign for arena on last quarter markham farmer faces charges constable clarence wideaian received a hurried call to the neighborhood of victoria square on sundav night and found that j d mckendry of willoughby had been gkleswiped by a motorist who failed to stop all that mc- kendry could tell the constable was he had been hit by a big buick car which seemed to swerve from its own side of the road right at him constable wideman later found a hub cap lying at the side of the road and set out to locate the hit and run driver he found the car several miles away with a man slouched down as if sleeping bruce wallace was thereupon placed under arrest and faces several charges one of which is leaving the scene of an accident wallace is a township farmer with a family of five children over five hundred attend decomposed body lectures on temperance north york liberals to call annual meeting according to a report in the xewmarket era the liberal assoc iation of nork york which now includes the township of markham and the villages of markham and stoulfville will hold their annual meeting on saturday may 7 at armour heights public school invited to address the meeting is hon paul martin minister of health along with local speakers j 12 smith mp is likely to be chosen candidate again only recently returned from ottawa mr smith started to tour the riding when he was taken down with the flu but he anticipates getting around shortly seek to improve town property messrs brown a e weldon and e r good representing the stouffville horticultural society made a request to the local munici pal council that the town lot adjacent to the cnr be cleared so that the society might go ahead with a beautifieation program on this site the clerk was instructed to request mr xevel to remove his building which is at present situ ated there under a goday agree ment however council pointed out that they must have some stor age space for hydro supplies and a place easily accessible in the winter months and while they heartily endorsed the intentions of the society they could not entirely relinquish their use of the lot for this purpose it was agreed that once the building is moved the cellar should be filled in and the front half of the lot be turned over to the flower people for improvement markham trailer camp gets the green light lis- i 11 ireen i think its about time we stopped dallying around and did something with this mans request declared councillor harry barber before markham council monday night in reference to an application for a tourist ealvn camp in markham township a man named matthews had visited council meeting after council meeting pressing his request for a permit council had spent much time debating the issue reeve griffin opposed grant ing a permit at this time other members including councillor barber admitted the delaying tactics were unfair to matthews and favored granting him the right to proceed whether any more per mits are issued or not mr harpers resolution read that this council offer no objection to opening a tourist cabin camp at lot 10 con s by mr at a special session of the executive of the xorth york unit of the ontario temperance federa tion held at the home of the president dr j p wilson rich mond hill this month encourag ing reports were given of the series of the five sectional rallie on the alcohol problem which were held during the past winter in xewmarket richmond hill stouffville aurora and keswick they took the form of a school progressing from one plan of the subject to another by means of sound films and a different speaker for each meeting who is a special ist in each line of the thought developed on the subject they were rev albert johnston acting general secretary ontario temp erance federation david archi bald psychiatric social worker whose subject was alcoholics anonymous royal moulton one of the field workers for the field workers for the ontario temperance federation lome shewfelt ma a young man active in youth work and rev w b smith ba a prominent minister in toronto thase meetings were held in the evening with an aggregate of over in attendance and offerings amounted to over 10000 the local committees rendered enthusiastic cooperation several young people gave numbers in recitation at xewmarket the christian businessmens quartette and at stoufrville the baker hill octette participated at richmond hill and aurora a number of youths gave musical numbers the teacher training depart ment of the ontario religious edu cational committee agrees that any person attending three meet ings and writing a satisfactory assignment on the temperance problem will be given a credit for a half unit on their teaching train ing course this series of meetings was so encouraging that the provincial temperance office staff urges other unit organizations to follow similar programs in the areas where they serve at the above mentioned meeting of xorth yorks executive apprec iation was expressed for the fine county convention that followed this series of rallies reports of the years work the recitations and orations of the 12 young people in the temperance oratorical contest and the introduction of and the address by the new field worker rev d c mcleliand all gave flesh hoe for the present and future possibilities of overcoming humanities physical moral and spiritual deadly foe alcoholism therefore this executive consid ered additional temperance courses for the county about which further particulars will be publish ed later they also planned for thorough publicizing of the ontario provincial temperance convention to be held at park road baptist church toronto easter week april 20th and 21st especially the youth rally on thursday evening april 21st com mencing at 730 pm it is hoped that xorth york alone will have at least 100 youths at this rally plans were made for special attrac tions and entertainment for them by the county public school principal loses mother the death of mrs john watson over the weekend at the home of her on cedric principal of stouff ville public school took a lifetime resident of the district from our midst mrs watson over so years of age was born at goodwood a daughter of the late isaac purely she was married to john watson and the couple took up farming in the township of uxbridge and later moved to the 10th concession of markham where mr watson died a few years ago two sons cedric md carl survive the parents the funeral from the late home on tenth street stouffville took place on tuesday afternoon rev f h muir conducted the private service and interment was made in the family plot at goodwood ceme tery crowds mourn 3yearold child although a delicate child 3-year- old keith pattenden eldest child of mr and mrs percy pattenden gth concession whitchurch died with startling suddenness on good friday little keith suffered a kidney condition and spent months in the sick childrens hospital last year although not fully recovered the child came home played about like other children and looked quite robust however he had to be on a strict diet and avoid colds if possible he did contract one however and was kept in bed his mother had taken him in her arms for a time and when the child said he would like to lie down again he had scarcely touched the pillow when he was gone crowds came to the pattenden home on sunday to offer their sympathies keith was laid away in lemonville cemetery monday afternoon rev x moddle and rev norman rowan conducting the service four youths were pall bearers cecil and douglas lloyd rae cook and john pugh besides the griefstricken par ents three sisters and one brothei also survive joyce 10 years ross 8 donna i and marilyn 1 of baby found near brougham the badly decomposed body of a very young child was discovered thursday evening in a clump of bushes about onehalf mile east of brougham provincial police under the direction of inspector w h clark are following meagre clues as to who tlie parents might be and who placed the body there the female child was wrapped in an old blanket and it was only after a lengthy examination that oshawa pathologist dr h g pritzker was able to establish a few facts about the body appar ently there were no marks of violence although further examin ation will be make to confirm this george paudash 2s ms queen street lindsay discovered the body and came to whitby where he reported to sergeant ronald love who was on duty at the town police office the remains were taken to a pickering undertaking parlour spot where the body was found is 25 yards from the edge of the high way and just west of a clearing which extended into the bush for nearly 50 yards although badly decomposed it has been established the infant was a female and about a month old police believe the body may have been lying there over a month be fore it was found by paudash pau dash who was visiting friends in brougham was walking at the side of the highway when he saw the blanket in the bushes some 25 yards from the south edge of the road he climbed the fence and went to the spot where he found the body of the girl covered by the blanket and wrapped in several pieces of sacking expect to reach 50000 goal in week urge speed in letting contract the final drive is under way for the last 12000 in the campaign for 50000 to install artificial ice in the local arena latest figures this wednesday morning show a total of slightlv over 3s000 subscribed in the two and a half weeks of can- vassingthe army of canvas sers will be bending every effort to reach the goal by the end of next week so that the company may be formed and contracts gone into im mediately wants water for new subdivision mr win timbers made represen tation to stouffville council at their last regular meeting regard ing the laying of a main on the new subdivision which he is open ing on the corner of the 9th con and the townline a street has already been opened up running north and south and a house or two is expected to go up their this summer council explained to mr timbers that he would have to bear the cost of the installation which was roughly estimated at 1500 it was also deemed advis able that a hydrant should be placed on the new street council lors ratcliff and baker will look over the situation and advise on the best place to enter the town water system my three children come first a man named allison told mark ham council monday evening that he would hae to proceed with a temporary building on his 50 foot lot on xo 7 highway at unionville whether he obtained a permit or not allison said that he had no place to go that he is being forced out of the place he now occupies and that he is prepared to proceed with the erection of a business building on his 50 foot lot with living apartment above 1 have the material all ordered and it will be here in three weeks said allison if you men refuse me the right to put up a temporary place 1 will just have to proceed any way and takes the chance he would do this rather than have his wife and children dumped onto the roadside or seek relief from coun cil allison said if council could not do something he would be forced to since my three children come first allison is breaking ground on xo 7 highway in unionville for a new hardware building with an apartment above but his brother he claimed was forcing him out of his present abode and he had to have a place while he was erecting his building councillor r rae pointed out that a similar request before coun cil last meeting was refused he shareholders in the proposed stouffville arena company attend ed a meeting in the veterans hall on tuesday evening and were addressed by representatives of the canadian ice machinery co and john inglis co two propsective tenderers on the new ice plant for stouffville rev douglas davis was named chairman and called on geo allison and others present for their views and information regarding the project mr allison chairman of the committee in charge of the canvass for 50000 reported a total subscription up to that time of 30500 mr allison reported on having contractors on the ground and suggestions regarding additions and changes in structure at the arena he told the shareholders that it would require approxi mately two months to install the ice plant once a contract was let mr xevel for the john inglis co quoted prices from 27900 to 33000 for single and double unit ice plants either manual or auto matie he also spoke briefly on the addition of a domestic ice plant which could be operated with the same machinery mr barton and mr bower of the canadian ice machinery co told the audience that their firm had installed sixty ice arena plants across canada eight in ontario last season mr barton had in spected the present arena and found it quite suitable for an ice plant with the additions which the committee has conceived morley symes contractor was asked for figures on cost of a 21 addition to the south end of the arena mr symes stated that he could not give an exact figure as he had had little time to look over the- situation but from his brief inspection he estimated the south end addition at 5000 to t000 seats ami basement extra this is where the committee have con ceived of an additional live hun dred seats with elressing rooms be neath ami a basement for the ice plant mr f l button sketched brief ly the procedure for forming the joint stock company and it was agreed that the final drive to reach the 50000 goal should proceed with all speed car hits train at unionville two women escaped uninjured at unionville on saturelay when their car collided with a cxr passenger train at the xo 7 high way level crossing the car was only slightly damaged it was driven toy mabel edward stirling st hamilton a retired school teacher with one passenger a friend uninjured a lineup of cars was waiting at the crossing but miss edward apparently didnt realize the train was coming she swung her car to avoid a crash but was unable to stop in time miss edward calmly assisted a woman companion from the car and after making arrangements to have it repaired secured a ride from the other motorists to her summer home at clear lake near peterboro where she was heading mr and mrs w wright lake- view post office in the port credit district spent a couple of days at the home of his sister mrs t c gostick lloyd coxworth rural mail courier out of markham is break ing ground for a new house on the 8th concession of markham at widemans corners where he has three acres of land mr stan darling district gover nor of district a3 will pay his official visit to thestouffville lions club next monday evening mr darling comes from peterborough and his presence is expected to bring a capacity crowd to the meet ing province will not approve dismissal of road boss members of xorth gwillimbury no further action taken since a township council found out at the resolution of township council is last council meeting that the road disregarded by the province the superintendent angus king was only assumption for the people of in the right when he refused to the township who are dissatisfied resign because a majority of is to sit back and figure that their councillors said they wanted his road superintendent has a lifetime i couldnt see how council could mr david crosier altona was re- grant one a permit and refuse moved to stmiehaels hospital on others sunday 60 contestants compete in local musical show some sixty different contestants took part in the youth for christ sacred musical festival which drew to a close last saturday night the adjudicators throughout the matthews three night festival were providing he obtains a permit from david gordon of the toronto con- the building inspector and that servatory of music and mr davd the property is included in a registered plan v reeve griffin called for a record ed vote and stood alone against granting matthews the right to proceed mrs grw thomas is resuming her duties at the library after an enforced holiday during which time she was a hospital patient tees of fairlawn united church toronto in the piano and vocai classes respectively the prize winners in each class are as follows in order of mei i piano class under 12 years patricia parker mary pennanen barbara hastings under 16 years louise clark doris steckley and phyllis paisley tied open coral perkins gladys ratcliff lxu me- ewene girls solo under 13 years margaret reid beth rowan joan burgin and doreen hiltz tied girls solo under 17 years clara halstead patricia stewart thelma mckeown ladies solo open winnifred rumney xancy hiltz francis grose young mens solo open gar field brown howard baker lloyd grose girls duet mary and oliver hutchinson xorma stover and gladys ratcliff helen and rose shelton girls trio second markham ladies trio altona girls trio betz sisters trio council refused allison the right to build a temporary dwell ing and reeve griffin warned him what the consequences of defying the bylaw might be tree crashes truck near markham during a stiff gale on monday a peculiar accident overtook a truck driver in markham township when gordon j brown of browns corners narrowly escaped being killed a huge limb blew off a roadside tree and fell across the cab of his truck as he was proceed ing along xo 7 highway the limb crashed in the cab and the driver sustained injuries to his chest and a possible fracture of the skull as well as internal injury replacement when the councillors passed a resolution dismissing the super intendent the ontario govern ments officials tossed it right back appointment says department is satisfied the letter from engineer jas v ludgate as read out to the council at first recounted the fact that no keep in mind the big bingo this thursday night in the veterans hall under the auspices of the look at the majority of council and told municipal council can alter the them that the province of ontario bylaw of appointment of a road as represented by the district superintendent without consent of engineer is completely satisfied the minister of highways then with the calibre of work done by mr ludgate told the council if the road superintendent such a bylaw came in effecting as the province of ontario pays dismissal i would not recommend for half the cost of all roadwork in such approval to the minister as xorth gwillimburv including half am not satisfied that mr kings the superintendents salary the actions or jack of action has been majority members of council dep- such as to cause a dismissal reeve doyle and councillors jim suggest cutting supers salary clark and lloyd stiles have mere- councillor stile- expressed opin- iv found out that they can do ion i dont think jim ludgate nothing j understands what we want he the majority members had sent further asked if it wouldnt be to the province a request for dis- possible for a delegation to see the missal of road superintendent provincial dept of highways king on which they had noted councillor clark expressed him- refusal to carry out instructions of self as extremely dissatisfied with council even citing months in reply by mr ludgate and urged which he ignored instructions- that the township exercise its eon- the instructions were that thetrol over purse strings as all th road superintendent was to stayrovince pays is half what the with the workmen supervising township pays for its roadwork their work since receipt of the and employees provincial engineers letter read councillor clark moved that the to council last week is the pro- read superintendents salary bt vinces final word with regard to reduced to 500 per year but the the x gwillimbury motion by a motion was lost as no other coun- majoitv of council there can be cilman spoke to second it