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Stouffville Tribune (Stouffville, ON), October 8, 1953, p. 1

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touffutlle qtrtbtttie vol gr vo 22 the tribune stouffville ont oct s 1053 cruiser wrecked markham township constable injured constable donald dukes of markham township arrested george mehaffv of ringwood early wednesday morning fol lowing a jo mru chase the mahatly car and the cruiser failed to make the turn at the corner of the 7th concession and the dickson hill sideroad both vehicles were quite bad ly damaged constable dukes although injured arretted the driver and charged him with careless and dangerous driv ing he has been remanded for one week on 2000 tale the speeding vehicle was spotted at the corner of no 7 highway and the sth conces sion about i am on wednes day morning by constable dukes who gave chase in an effort to lose his pursuer ma- naff turned left at the dick son hill sideroad but failed to hold his car on the road when he reached the 7ui concession constable dukes blinded by dust also failed to make turn and plunged into deadend ditch the the vegetable stouffville tonnage from the ai e rea is enormous home and school association is organized here despite the fact that there were no less than a half dozen other meetings going on in town on monday evening a pleasing crowd turned out at the public school for the orga nization meeting of the stouff- ville home and school assoc iation a slate of officers prepared bv the nominating committee was laced before the meeting and was adopted without change heading the organiza tion will be mr wm gardiner tenth st with mrs cliff salm on 1st vice president and mrs gar brown 2nd vice other officers are as follows record ing secretary mrs elmer dan iels corresponding secretary mrs jack skinner treasurer mrs john brubaoher five members of the executive committee mr lloyd mclean mrs thos vvedseltoft mrs bob bone mrs belfry hamil ton and mr bill sanders the organization hopes to bring a closer relationship be tween the home and school an equal benefit to children par ents and teachers stouftville association will be part of a nation wide organization which has functioned very successfully for many years copy late we regret that a number of news budgets and advertise ments as well had to be omit ted from this issue due to their late arrival all copy should be received in this of fice on monday for advertising and news budgets no later than tuesday morning to as sure publication in the cur rent issue mr powell driver ger ald and walter brillinger hold ut a few fine samples in their choice cauliflower acreage robert- timbers represents ontario bob timbers of is this wednesday stouftville represent ing ontario in the plowing matoes pumpkins and competition for the all-canad- varieties of cultivated ian championship at cobourg match bob is a son of a famous plowmen family and a seven times win ner ralph boyd on top of the load don lehman and gar lehman hoisting up every season literally tons of vegetables aie hauled from the farms of local market gar deners in the stouftville dist rict to toronto where they are disposed of through large pur chasing agents the excellent quality of produce grown here during the past half century has gained a high reputation for the producers and their products mr gaivv lehman market gardener on no 17 highway east of stoultville is one of the heaviest growers of hoe crop vegetables in the com munity some thirty five acres of cabbage are grown twenty five acres of cauliflowers and a considerable quantity of to other crop restaurant business changes owners the grand grill restaurant operated for the past two years by chinese proprietors has been sold this week to mr h meyers of toronto mr meyers has had resturant ex perience in the city and will take over this main st estab lishment on monday the big mr lehman has been special timbers izina in market gardening for the past thirty years during the peak of the season often four truck loads of calibage cauliflower and tomatoes are shipped to toronto per day a number of hired workers pick ed 120 tons of tomatoas this summer for the campbell soup company in new toron to and in one week 10o0 crates of cabbage were trucked from the lehman farm the market gardening game is not all profit as the own ers crop is dependent almost entirely on the weather this season in spite of the hot n york plowing match next wedday oct 14th the farm of sheldon walker lot 2 concession i east gwil- limbury township will le the scene next wednesday of the annual north york plowing match the farm is located on the don mills road five miles north of vandorf and two mil es east of newmarket thirteen classes are listed his year in the 1953 prize lis with class no 13 being a util ity class three furrow plows the usual esao champion- hips are being offered in both tractor and horse classes the annual hot supper will be ser ved in sharon community hall m the evenly by the how w i iadiw allan baldon of sharon is this years president with oth er members of the executiv being as follows hon pres peter ferguson past pres ed logan 1st vice pres ivan mc laughlin 2nd vice pres jack rye holt secretary les har per rr 3 newmarket assist ecy allan shaw sharon treas win timbers directors wm king bernard davidson frank marritt murray mc- mihan lome holbourne har ford wardell walter rate sheldon walker willard cry- derman titus perigrene el mccarron elmer wells fred timbers ed ferguson wm simpson the crates of plump cauli flower weather the growth has been very good ana tne marxet sat isfactory mr walter brillinger well- known stouirwille market gar dener has over fortv fiye ac res of cabbage and cauliflow er under cultivation he and his son gerald have literally grown up with the business since it was first started by mr william brillinger over 00 years ago mr biiilliriger recalls the days when the entire crop was carried out of the field in bushel baskets now a horse and two wheeled cart is used to transport the crates to the truck some 1250 pounds of fertilizer were distributed to the acre and a field of hay was oloughed under before the hoe- erop was planted the veget ables were dusted six times for plant lice and worms ac cording to mr brillinger cau liflower are considerably more difficult to grow than cabbage every week the cauliflower patch must be gone over to tie up the small heads and cut out those full grown other growers in the im mediate district are dawson hare jim barry jim logan mj lewis and numerous oth ers clippers open senior oha schedule oct 21 on wednesday oct 21st the stouftville dinners will make their debut before their home fans to open the 195354 sr b schedule the visiting club will toe dynes leasiders five clubs constitute the group the other teams are lynd- hurst motors- kiyflyers and lambton lumber wheelers a fortv ame schedule has been drawn u stouftville will have fifteen saturday night games and five contests on wednes day nights coach bob bangay had a- bout twenty five players on the ice for a workout on tues day night and another prac tice has been called for thurs day evening both goaltenders blake eatough and norm stunden were on hand other familiar faces were ron bell bud watson mac clement frank stephenson george stark polly minton hal gib son mark mills les clark herb rose don lewis and many others a number of newcomers turned out with the club many of whom show plenty of promise mother of three dies in crash mother of three small child ren mrs christina teengs 24 prestons lake 1th con of whitchurch twp was fatally injured thursday nijht when her husbands ear was thrown upside down into a ditch after a collision with another car at don mills rd and steeles ave rushed to east general hos pital with head and internal injuries mrs teengs diet shortly after admittance her husband leo teengs 30 is in hospital with undeterm ined injuries the driver of the second cat- wilfred j jillings 21 mill rd richmond hill suftered head injuries mr and mrs teengs dutch immigrants came to canada in june 1952 their children are audrey 5 linda 2 and jackie 9 months the couple had left their home at preston lake three miles north of gormley to come to toronto where mrs teengs had a dental appoint ment two young hitchhikers jim campbell 11 and a girl friend riding in the jilling car suf fered minor cuts malvern farm three ring circus in off season 18000 paid for pickering farm ben corson well known o- shawa citizen who for many years has livedon king street west in the area which was annexed to the city in 1951 is now a resident of pickering township mr corson has bought the 45 acre property some 2 miles north of ajx known as the winters farm paying a price of 1s000 for this fine proper ty which includes a modern and wellibuilt eight roomed house here mr corson is go ing in for the breeding and has 15 very fine specimens on raising of ponies and he now the farm some time ago mr corson sold his property on king st west on the south side of the road and comprising some 39 acres of land which included his former home for this pro perty he received a price af 90000 the purchase being made through a real estate firm in toronto for an unnam ed purchaser markham council oks revised plans for arnolds million dollar subdiv markham township coun cil agreed on monday to the revised plan of the arnold mil lion dollar sulmlivision at the corner of the 1th eon and no 7 highway solicitor thomas representing mr arnold was present and was informed of the decision markham plan ning board recommended that the top soil not be remov ed from residential lots and the two finger lots on the east side of the subdivision he withheld from sale until prop er park land is dedicated there was some alteration in streets and fewer residential and commercial property per centage was not altered the plan now- goes to town ship solicitor jd lucas foi an agreement to be prepared between mr arnold and the township covering the subdi vision roads road accounts passed for payment monday amounted to 9405 and it was revealed that only 7000 remained in this years road budget grants council agreed to a grant of 3co for the community cen tre board and 25 for the north york plowmens assoc iation licence mobile eateries council gave final reading u a bylaw licencing mobile eat ing establishments a propos ed licence fee of 30 was turn ed down and the bylaw com pleted with a fee of 250 dep uty reeve lemasurier led the objection to a smaller fee sta ting that these travelling eat eries were in competition with local merchants who were pa ying taxes bylaw violated w masters appeared before council asking action in the case of a resident in plan s subdivision near thornhill where he alleged extra famil ies were being housed up stairs and in the basement of a new house plan 8 is covered by bylaw restrictions cahng for one family dwellings building inspector norton told council that a permit had been issued for a onefamily dwelling only mr norton was instructed by council to inves tigate the alleged contraven ing of the bylaw goo pheasant licences six hundred pheasant licen ces the same numher as in 1952 will be issued for the an nual shoot this month non resident licences are 250 and residents 50c court of revision the annual court of revis ion date was set for oct 28th at 10 am dozens of children see show daily free increase insurance pickering township coun cil members agreed on mon day that the insurance on their municipal building and contents should be increased up until the change there was 4500 on the building and 1500 on contents the increased protection provides for 7000 on the building and 3000 on the contents valuation not satisfactory a letter was received from mr jack spang of altona claiming unsatisfactory aw ards made on his sheep by the local valuator mr spang had eight ewes killed or injured by dogs and the loss was valued at s100 for five sheep mr spang was awarded fifteen dollars each while the owner claims the animals were worth 2500 payment was withheld until further consid eration could be given in june air and mrs wm garden purchased a portion of the wm barnes property at malvern and since that time literally dozens of children in the community crowd the circ us ring to see the trainers put the animals through their dai ly practice routines mr garden a circus opera tor since 1938 extends a hear ty welcome to the many young visitors in the district to fur ther encourage their attend ance he intends to build a playground on a part of his land to provide further- enter tainment for the children the show which travels thoughout the united states and canada during the sum mer will spend the winter months on the newly purchas ed farm at malvern mr and mrs garden have every kind of animal imaginable housed in the barn there are ele phants hears lions monkeys and dancing horses stalls which less than six months a- go were occupied by milk cows now house elephants bears and lions twice a day trainers char lotte walch and joe hartman put their twelve bears through a 30 minute act at the ap- ointed time the long proces- ion of excited- boys and girls lxgin their parade along the wellworn path to the edge of the ring tmr garden keeps a close watch on the children in case one should venture too close to one of the huge 600 lound grizzlies who are very dangerous the 75 member cast travels from city to city in huge vans the shows are all arranged un der the auspices of service clubs and welfare organiza tions the big top farm as it is called will not be affected by the new housing development in the immediate area pickering oks fire agreement at the regular meeting of pickering township council on monday members agreed unanimously to accept the terms issued by the stouftville town council to provide fire protection for a portion of their municipality the area concerned lies adjacent to the stouftville pickering town line for this service the twp of pickering will pay 6000 for the first two hours in which the engine is in use and 2400 for any additional time ok meetings for travelling preacher rev g barrett whose recent street meetings in gormley caused quite a stir throughout markham township when he alleged he was silenced by township police was given the go ahead by markham coun cil on monday afternoon he may continue his meetings anywhere in the township providing he does not contra vene the markham antinoise bylaw councillor hooper raised some objections nsking for a full investigation by council and not the police committee councillor hooper objected to the phoning of police chief wideman who is in vancouv er deputy reeve iemasurier stated that thelong distance call was in the public interest to clear the matter up coun cil agreed that it was bad pol icy to curb the preachers speaking and it was pointed holstein export business good jos darlington sales agent ifor the county holstein clubs in york ontario and simcoe counties reports that there has ibeen a brisk demand for cattle for the past two months iboth for the export and local markets during that time he has sold more than 250 head of cattle which is as many as he has ever sold during a comparable period of time ac cording to mr darlington pri ces have been good with ani mals of better than average quality bringing as good pric es as they ever did mr darlington states that most of the cattle he has han dled have been exported to pennsylvania but that he has also sent high class lots to o- ther states including one ex ceptionally good shipment of 20 head to herman gte or- land park 111 another good lot of 15 head went to ra cowan of st johns nfld mr cowan had previously purchased animals through mr darlington and now has a milk herd of ap proximately 40 head he sup plies milk for the st john market at 950 a cwt trib une late in order that the trib une staff may enjoy the annual thanksgiving hol iday next monday thc-rc- gular issue will be one day later in the week than us ual isaac shaver of goodwood is 92 today as- stouffville coop annual meeting stouftville cooperative sociation will hold their tenth annual meeting in the stouft ville united church on thurs day evening oct loth the an nual moeting is called to re ceive the financial report to elect directors for the coming year and transact any other business necessary the guest speaker will toe dr hl patterson director of farm economics branch ont ario department of agricul ture on thursday oct 8th mr isaac shaver wellknown res ident of goodwood will cele brate his 92nd birthday born north of the village on the farm now owned b tom ma- chesney the son of the late mr and mrs wm shaver the 92 year old resident has cont inued living jn goodwood prac tically all his life for many years he was employed as a sectionman on the local cnr line with headquarters at goodwood and blackwater in past years mr shaver was musically inclined and played in the goodwood band now he is contented to sit by the fire and listen to the music on the radio in spite of his years mr shaver still remaia in very good health a cousin mrs fred reynolds resides in stouftville his many friends wish this celebrated resident many more years of good health and happiness fish dying reeve win timbers reported to markham township council monday that some scourge had suddenly stricken the fish in some markham streams and the health unit had been cal led in to investigate farmers had been warned it was stated not to allow their cattle to drink the water the reeve stated that in a pre vious instance when many fish died some years ago the trou ble had been traced to cold storage locker drainage skating club registration called for october 19th registration for stouftvilles figure skating club has been called for monday oct 19th from 4 to 6 and 7 to 10 pm at the arena season ticket pric es as set by the joint associa tions of stouffville bowman- ville and oshawa will be 15 for juniors and 20 for seniors this amount covers the entire cast of instruction for the sea- out that the gormley people g unlfcshrdividuai levon were not objecting 1 i the stouffville child health are desired the clubs are fortunate in clinic will be held in christ obtaining the services of mi church parish hall on friday and mrs wallace distelmeyer afternoon october 9th from i two of the countrys outstand- 130 until 4 oclock ling instructors as teachers lessons will be on mondays and saturdays chairman of the stouffville club is mrs june button with mrs mary baker secretary and john mathewson treasur er the arena committee will be mrs cliff salmon and mrs h tatton stouffville fees are to be paid to the local treasur er with all cheques made pay able to the central skating committee the fees also entitle local members to use the ice time toeing provided at bowman- yllle if they desire to provide their own transportation

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