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ititame vol 61 no 22 the tribune stouffville ont september 15 1949 unionville award greeted with big applause atcne cheers and applause greeted the results of judging the saddle pony stake at the canadian national exhibition on saturday evening when the announcer said the class was won by dress parade owned by mrs g a m davison union ville and ridden by miss betty rae mrs davison who has been a continuous exhibitor at the ex has not missed a show since 1922 has together with her late husband been very successful and to have her pony go to the top a winner of winners- in a class of ten entries of the finest saddle ponies ever exhibited in toronto is a most gratifying event betty rae also showed her young ponv lea of daviburn winning third in a class of twelve good ponies this is the first time the colt ever faced a judge conservation report for york presented to legislative committee a recommendation that the federal government investigate adapting the prairie farmers rehabilitation act for ontario soil conservation was made at bramp ton on friday to the conservation committee of the ontario legis lature under the prairie farmers re habilitation act the federal govern ment would undertake the financ ing of conservation and reforesta tion in the province representatives of york peel and halton counties and the hum- ber valley and etobicoke river authorities submitted briefs on conservation paul fisher member of the agricultural institute of canada called for investigation of the prairie act saying that the con servation policy for ontario should be administered by the department of agriculture at ottawa s f thomas mpp for elgin chairman of the legislative com mittee said arrangements have been made for the committee to meet dr e s archibald director of central experimental farms at ottawa and the pera to discuss use of the act in the province representatives of the three counties suggested that a provin cial conservation and land use act be enacted as soon as possible this act would coordinate all departments working in the field of conservation define responsibil ities and increase efficiency it was stated the counties opposed the grant ing of subsidies as an essential part of any conservation and land use policy in ontario the briefs stated some type of compensation would be necessary to maintain swamps and replant forests also compensation should be provided to make available to farmers equipment for contouring weed control and drainage r c hodges field officer for the humber valley conservation authority told the committee that there are rural slums in the area east of bolton the joint committee representing the three counties recorded opposition to the establishment of government demonstration farms it preferred the policy of coopera tive demonstrations between prac tical farmers he said eight farms and a swamp had been selected by the authority as a conservation demonstration project but neither governments offered financial assistance to carry out the work eric baker chairman of the humber valley conservation authority said he had received no communication from the federal government refusing or offering assistance for the project the authority chairman stressed the urgency for advanced pollution control he said it was one of the major problems in the humber valley chairman of the york county committee which prepared the brief was a c mctaggart other members were chas v hooper president of york county federa tion of agriculture vice chairman a v nolan secretary eric w baker j d sibbald w c harris frank f marritt alex davidson and x mcmurchy hes a champion beef cattle class reserve grand champion at the can adian national exhibition is ringwood del zento 17th who poses with jean rodanz daughter of owner george rodanz of stouffville ont reserve space early advertisers would do this paper a favor and help to maintain its high standard if they would speak for display space not later than saturday in the week if they do not retain a regular space this week for instance display copy had to be refused because the paper is already overcrowded when the publishers know space is required extra pages can be added but once we start press work first thing monday morning the pages cannot be increased father of former pastor oeai henry worling who died thurs- dav in toronto was the father of a former minister in stouffville rev harrv worling of stouffville christian church deceased had been on the staff of the globe and mail for 25 years and was prom inent in the work of forward baptist church two other sons besides the minister and one daughter survive the late- henry worling was burled on saturday at st johns cemetery norway last week mrs dewitt drove joyce and mrs g h leary of gormley to peterboro where they were joined by mrs milton clark and her daughter mrs j moore who accompanied them to ottawa where she is now living they also called on mr and mrs bruce clark and enjoyed a tour of the capital city mr and mrs george hughes are moving this week from toronto to their new home on lloyd avenue mrs hughes was the former annie boothby and when she was a girl living at altona the present site of their new home on the avenue formed part of the fair grounds mr and mrs hughes are valued citizens we are fortunate to gain in stouffville drum head service the stouffville branch of the canadian legion announce their annual drum head service to be hold in memorial park next sun day at 230 in the afternoon the service will open at 230 but the veterans are asked to fall in at 130 col sidney lambert will give the address and rev d davis will conduct the service with dr s s ball presiding in connection with or immediate ly following the service the new veterans hall will be declared officially opened the hall has been in use for some time but there has not been any official recognition of the event since the laying of the corner stone nearly two years ago muttoneating dog not very ferocious when a muttoneating dog attacked the sheep fold on the farm of charlie dennie the other night only one sheep was killed and mr dennie received compen sation amounting to 15 from the whitchurch council last saturday the dennie farm is- located at lot 11 con 1 and has had visits from roaming dogs on other occasions but never on so moder ate a scale ringwood accident case heard in division court a division court action was tried in stouffville on monday arising out of a motor car accident last january 23 at ringwood when the truck driven by donald doner of gormley careened into the grocery store building of fred hicks on the southwest corner while attempting to avoid a collision with a car driven by roy brown doner settled for the damage caused to the hicks store and sought to recover from brown whom he charged was to blame for the affair his honor judge honeywell heard the case and awarded doner damages in full of 5416 plus division court costs his honor held that brown was to blame be cause he attempted to make a u turn on an intersection contrary to the highways traffic act evidence was given by donald doner and walter farmer and by brbwn and constable c l wide- man who was called to investigate browns defense was that doner was driving without lights while it was dusk and snowy and he couldnt see him coming when he looked just before making a turn from a point on the townline and the intersection at the end of the sth concession of markham doner held that it wasnt necessary to have lights because there was very good visibility he saw browns car stopped on the eighth headed west but suddenly it turned south to make a u turn to come back to stouffville to avoid an accident doner said he tried to turn down the sth but the icy road forced him over into hicks grocery in a manner the groceryman suffered damage farmer supported doners evid ence and constable wideman wasnt prepared to say that it was really dark enough for lights although he said he came to the accident with his cowl or parking lights on j donald bell represented doner and brown was defended by f l button kc markham ponders shutting out cellar dwellers if markham township council holds a session next monday one matter likely to be considered is the imposition of 300 deposit from prospective home builders in the township as a guarantee that they will not just build a cellar and stop at that the thing has been done so often that some people fear a section or two of the township may be occupied by people who more or less live under ground the way the wind blew toward the end of the last war it might be a good place to dwell after all in any event council will debate the issue reeve vern griffin has expressed opposition to the measure feeling it would be a hardship on many who need every cent they have when building operations start it is likely that if the measure is adopted it may be in some modi fied form its in the bylaw in pick ering township and it is felt there to be a good thing even though on the surface it appears a bit harsh mrs bert lickorish is spending a week with friends at inglewood lodge wassaga beach messrs robt snowball reub meyer elgin wagg and elmer daniels motored nearly 400 miles one day last weekend while seek ing a new hunting ground for this fails deer season the party went as far north as mayncoth which is miles beyond bancroft whitchurch twp council moves to regulate sale of land under ten acres there is a pressing need for some form of bylaw that will regu late the sle of land in this town ship said clerk john crawford before the whitchurch township council on saturday during a light session so far as business is con cerned mr crawford laid before the council a bylaw drafted by the township solicitor entitled land restriction bylaw of lots less than ten acres without a registered plan he asked council to give it two readings then submit it to the ontario municipal board but reeve ed logan wtio said he favored the bylaw asked that it be held up for a special meeting on the ground that two members of council were absent councillor fred timbers and deputyreeve ivan mclaughlin who had asked to retire eariier in the meeting to attend other pressing engagements the special meeting will be called this week if the bylaw is finally approved and becomes law no person may sell lots in the township without first obtaining a registered plan at the present time there is no satisfactory way to describe them metes and bounds is a way that the average man cannot understand if the lots sold are on a plan they are sold by number and the description is simple for township officials to locate the properties councillors sid legge and richsrd baycroft agreed to the special meeting without comment ing on the bylaw at this time building inspector and township assessor fred cummings told the council that the increasing activity in real estate throughout the town ship could be gathered from the fact there had been 165 building permits issued so far in 1949 this indicated that many lots are being sold without an intelligent descrip tion for use in the township records all of which is creating great difficulty to retire after 40 years service in postoffice mrs g a m davison who has served in unionville post office for 40 years and has been postmistress since 1935 is retiring from the position this post office has been in the davison name since 1880 when the late john f davison was appointed postmaster and which position be held until he retired in 1918 the late g a m davison his son was then placed in charge continuing as postmaster until his death in 1935 after which his widow the present mrs davison assumed the responsibility in the meantime miss l a weighill who has been employed in the unionville post office has been appointed acting post mistress until november 30 when the new official will take over the dominion government bas not yet named a successor to mrs davison but it will be open for some person sympathetic to the liberal party with perhaps a war veteran having the edge on other applicants death latimer samuel at toronto on saturday sept 10 1949 samuel latimer husband of the late eliza beth mackenzie loving father of mrs charlie hobbs nellie and mina interment melville cemetery stiver bros to entertain farmers farmers of the district are invited to be the guests of stiver bros this thursday evening sept 15 which is to be known as dairymens night mr frank king of the purina co will be on hand to tell the farmers why it is that always the best cow goes wrong and other things about the dairy business films will be shown which will be entertaining and helpful and lunch will be served dairymen are asked to bring any friends or neighbors they wish veterans hall of course is at the west end of stouffville mrs h spofford speaks for home town at cne saturday the last day of the canadian national exhibition mrs harold spofford represented stouffville at the daily luncheon in the womens building presided over by airs kate aitken among the guests at this affair were visit ing school teachers from overseas who were given special recogni tion on the toast list for several years stouffville has been honored at this womens luncheon and several of the women from here have been guests from year to year those invited this year were mrs s w hastings mrs s s ball mrs g kellington and of course mrs spofford who was called on to produce in verse form something of her own development about the town of stouffville as was to be expected mrs spofford responded in fine form and here is what she gave the luncheon ladies the attractions are many in our prosperous happy town where the tribune our weekly paper has for seven years won renown two choir groups from church and school have sung their way to fame and our own fish hatchery in world markets made its name such active clubs as hobby lions veterans and athletic sponsor many worthy projects which keep us energetic the artificial ice arena is near completion it is true while our modern homes and businesses say a cordial welcome to you come up and see us sometime engagements mr and mrs alexander forrest of maple wish to announce the engagement of their daughter ina margaret forrest rn to blake andrew yake son of mr and mrs austin yake of stouffville rr4 the marriage to take place at 330 oclock on saturday october 1st in maple united church mr and mrs william daniel killingbeck of steen sask announce the engagement of their daughter margaret olive killing- beck ward of toronto to clarence earl steckley son of mrs steckley and the late jos steckley of gorm ley the wedding will take place at 5 pm on october 1 1949 in perth avenue united church tor onto old horse jumps to death leaving lifetime home poor old doll is today serving in another world of industry after passing through the mechanism of a glue factory because she tried to take her own life late saturday night rebellious over being trucked from her own home pastures where she had spent every day of her entire twenty years or more it may be more for the owner never announced dolls age except to say she was aged and thats quite a confession in the horse world saturday was a trying day for doll her owner mr stanley mitchell was worried because he was giving up farming to retire fiom his ringwood acres and to keep doll and her stable compan ion of all these years was unthinkable it was also unthink able that she should be sold too but life has a sad ending for so many and that goes for horses as well as man doll was knocked off for a few dollars to find a new home over in pickering township and a trucker was engaged to transport the mare the parting scene must have been touching as the two old bays neighed on being forced to separate doll was plainly heart sick but went into the truck with out opposition even if with a big tear in her eye mr mitchell watched her out the gate the truck turned toward stouffville but after reaching the corner field of the mitchell acreage where she labored over the years doll reared her head hard broke the fastener and plunged over the side of the cab barely missing the men in the seat as she went to earth in a suicide effort to get over with it all that she nearly accomplished her end is borne out by the fact that she was so badly broken up from the plunge that she was quickly disposed of to put her out of misery at that moment she was destined for use in another sphere where her horse sense will not cause the old mare any more heart aches at midnight doll was reloaded and moved away con stable shephard of markham was on hand and quite a few gathered around one individual lost a wrist wateh watching he appealed to the tribune sunday morning and while the paper made a search of the ground around noon no watch was found probably the finder will turn it in to this office mr mitchells farm auction went off successfully fine weather good crowd and fair prices implements were mostly horsedrawn type and most of them had seen long service a cultivator still in good condition was said to be 50 years old indicat ing that the owner had taken good care of his implements although this one had also been purchased at a sale long years ago mr and mrs w a fockler motored to sudbury on a recent holiday which took them to the home of their daughter and son-in- law mr and mrs g m mc- corrnack mr mccormack is city treasurer the visitors from bloom- ington were given an opportunity to look over the great skeod lum ber co plant 30 miles from the city and mr fockler noted that crops are excellent in the north grain was still unharvested but in the advanced ripening stage potatoes too he said are a big crop this fall windy ridge wendy a champion spaniel from the kennels of mr j dowl- ing on claremont rr no 2 windy ridge wendy proved to be a distinguished female spaniel at the canadian national exhibition last week the english springer was well on the way toward the championship with six points to her credit and that her owner con siders is very fine standing in so wide and hotly contested a class she was adjudged the best female in her breed and as recorded a strong contender for the grand standing mrs french of evanston 111 is visiting her sister mrs j l abell other recent guests have been prof and mrs bosch of evanston mr and mrs f matteson of buffalo and helen and jim abell who spent the weekend at home age means nothing here featuring a cowlick cos tume and a big grin 12-year- old alfy myhre from alberta pleased crowd at oldtime fiddlers contest held at can adian national exhibition welcoming him are samuel park 82 sutton west ont thomas e sanders 80 guelph w j lennox 84 barrie and w sharpe 87 thornton ont