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pjje 2 the st0uffv1u trjbune thorny dtctmbv 13 1956 f the stouffville tribune established ihzi a v nolan son publishers alember of the canadian weekly newspapers association and the ontarioquebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations aaieorxwa j mccscui mail pcitoac dtpt olu printed and lued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada s350 elsewhere 5450 c h thua publish in thomi associate editor ditariak municipalities face expensive financing actio taken fome time ago by the bank of canada in raising interest rates as a means of putting the brakes on inflation is making it considerably more expensive for municipalities such as stouffville and surrounding townships to borrow money there is fear that some municipalities not locally however may be driven into bankruptcy some municipalities have even turned to the american money market where rates are lower while this represents a saving now it could be risky if the canadian dollar weakened debentures are becoming increasingly hard to sell whitchurch township has been attempting to sell school debentures locally stouffville has not yet entered the debenture market and is currently bor rowing money for the sewer expenditures from the banks at high interest rates many other municipal ities are similarly affected where projects were begun before the tight money situation became so evident stouffville is paying 5t and this rate might no doubt be higher if stouffville did not have such a good credit rating maybe the bank of canadas policy which is causing tighter money will be justified in the long- term although certain chartered bank officials have warned against such a policy being carried too far as putting many lines of work out of business it is significant of todays borrowing by govern ments that the province of ontario is selling a deben ture issue of s50000000 with an interest rate of 41 and at a price to give the lender a return of 470 or 473 depending on the date of redemption he selects from two alternatives the province of new bruns wick is selling bonds at a price to realize more than five per cent to the investor probably the interest rates will go higher still before there is a down turn when the provinces have to pay such high interest rates it is easy to under stand the financial predicament the municipalities are in to go ahead with necessary projects such as erecting schools and opening new developments to take care of increasing population remedies for colds are dime a dozen the sniffles are so much in evidence these days probably every family has one or more members afflicted with them that one cannot help but be reminded it would be a great day for wheezing and sneezing humanity if a sure cure were found for the common cold to this day science has been unable to find such a cure or for the uncommon cold for that matter science has smashed the sound barrier and placed chlorophyll in toothpaste yet no one can cure a miserable cold this is progress medicine cabinets are full of enough cold nostrums to keep a drugstore going for weeks there are in halers with all the magic snuffed out halfempty bottles of evilsmelling greases and salves old pre scriptions labelled one every four hours for 24 hours plus a box containing 10 cough drops tightly fused together there are as many remedies for colds as there are people who have them and all the cures have one thing in common none of em work some persons swear by the turpentine method this consists of pouring a few drops of turpentine on a spoonful of sugar holding the nose then swallowing the mess heavy smokers are cautioned to wait at least five minutes before lighting up following this treatment another group advocates soaking the feet in hot vinegar water some claim theres nothing like goose grease and theyre right there is nothing like goose grease these adherents combine a spoonful of goose grease with sugar and with the aid of five strong men force it down the victims throat any goose grease left over is rubbed on the sufferers chest the theory is no germ can stand the smell one of the most popular treatments consists of going to bed armed with a thermos full of rumlaced hot lemonade this probably produces happy results and even if it doesnt cure a cold this method has turpentine beat by a country gesundheit mile laff of the week tvell now lets eal the crackerjack bxtftwfe december 9th 1926 village is being added to the stouffville got her share of the markham and stouffville hydro record cold snap over the weokjlires this week and that an extra end six below zero was record- j transformer is being added to ed on local thermometers at i our system over at yonge st 6 oclock monday morning the lit is to be hoped that this will storm on sunday badly depleted result in a better light being the church attendance i furnished on our streets than eggs were firmer on the local we are enjoying at present the market last thursday realizing addition of unlonviue to our 63c per tjozen from all the buy- rural system should ultimately ers and stores chickens 25c a help us to get further reduced pound and hens 20c there is no rates change in the price of butter on thursday evening the mu- which brought 35c a pound nlclpal fathers convened- in the the annual report of dr s council chambers council dis- s ball moh to the town cussed the advisability of put- council last thursday evening ting in a proper fire alarm sys- showed there had been 28 deaths tern to replace the town bell a in stouffville for the twelve pre- siren such as is used in mark- ceding months and only 14 ham was favored but beyond tomorrow and tomorrow a tew years ago a friend of mine travelled around the world he visited a score of countries and made closeup study of many nationalities the thing which impressed me most he said was how much the different peoples resembled each other i saw the same types everywhere we could go a step further than that and say that people are much the same throughout the ages that the people of yesterday resemble those of today not so many years ago andrew carnegie startled the world by his declaration that he would be ashamed to die a millionaire and he gave away money lavishly he assisted hundreds of libraries and in other ways helped worthy causes ir comes as a surprise when we learn that there was an andrew carnegie in ancient athens more than twenty centuries ago a wealthy athenian realized as carnegie did that wealth was a trust that life is a stewardship and he also gave away freely that which god had made it possible for him to give ik a book written a few years ago by r w livingstone called the pageant of greece he makes it clear that the ancients were facing many of the problems that we face they tried hard to reduce poverty and to curb human selfishness many of their methods are strangely like those of modern days the philosopher plato suggested that they would strive each for all and all for each it all has a very familiar ring even after more than twenty centuries then again ancient greece as well as ancient rome had pessimists there were thoughtful and sincere citizens who deplored the tendencies of their times more than one thinker declared that joung people were going to the dogs and they were decent people who thought that way for pessimism is frequently a sign of sincerity they talked about the good old days and probably made younger people annoyed perhaps we all live too much in the past we live over again the happenings of our yesterdays until our friends think we are in our anecdotage a man i once knew was bewailing modern events when he suddenly checked himself and said after all tiiis is gods world and we can leave the future to him richard mansfield said i love children they do not prattle about yesterday their interests are of today and to morrow one of our difficulties is that we know those who are passing on but we do not know those who arc coming there is a vast host of babies coming from the gates of birth and births thus it will be noticed that unless some new families have moved to town during this period our population has slip ped backward the construction of a proper sewerage system was the main recommendation the local board of health made to the council the curling club has been organized for the season with lite following officers elected hon pies wm armstrong pies harry brillingcr vice- pies w j mather sectreas h w sanders stouffville oha intermediates are grouped with markham ox bridge lindsay port perry and whitby it is hoped that mark ham stouffville and uxbridge can play a double schedule and then play off with the winners of the other three teams looking into the matter it was not proposed to make any pur chase this year few places rejoiced like north york did on election night al though the conservative candi date wm keith was defeated by a big majority there was great rejoicing in the tory ranks be cause the government had been returned by a good margin at the same time the liberals were over joyful because of their success in winning the riding back to the liberal ranks in electing p w pearson of newmarket over wm keith al so of newmarket mr pearsons total majority was 1537 mr pearson warden of the county of york was tendered a ban quet last friday evening in the crystal ball room of the king edward hotel by his colleagues it is reported that unionville of the york county council for parents only legends of christmas j by nancy cleaver why have wc so many christ- infant in her arms an angel mas legends mummy teacher took a sparkling jewel from her says there are dozens of them hair and gave it to him to light and why is a legend different j his way from a story junior asked even the humble spider fig- eagerly i tires in these folk tales of the story of the first christ- j christmas it is said that he mas is beautifully but very spun his web over the door of briefly told in the new testa- j a shed where the holy family ment saint matthew writes of j were hiding from the roman it in one chapter luke whose soldiers the rough centurion gospel is supposed to be based j saw the web concluded no one on the account mark received had entered recently and passed from peter lias only one chap- j on mary touched the spiders ter too covering the birth of i back with gentle touch and a christ until he was grown for cross appeared on his back many many years this story there are folk stories about was passed on by the common the palm tree the cherry and people by word of mouth it is the holly bush helping the holy likely that often a story teller i family in their flight to egypt added a little part here or there i the plants share the wonder of which he may have imagined the nativity too according to then are all our christmas j legend the herb bedstraw lay legends not true just made up dry and withered in the stable stories but when mary rested on it does it matter actually j the bedstraw revived and gave quite a number of them are out a faint perfume rosemary based on infancy gospels was said to he the bush on which were not included in the which the baby jesus washing bible two of these oidmanu- was spread to dry and it too scripts were supposed to have j was given a delicate scent they are fresh and eager and promising for every spiritual been written by james and by i one of the best known stor- giant who finishes his course there is another just beginning thomas and another one was ies is that of the christmas and as longfellow wrote the arabic infancy of the sa- j rose the little christ child had what the leaves are to the forest viour received the simple gifts of the that to the world are children in the gospel story there is shepherds a homemade rattle one writer points out that the year 1809 took a heavy toll no indication that the infant whistles and a calendar of wood of world leaders so much so that many wondered who would j jesus had a bed of straw or that i the three kings had given take their places here is the answer in 1809 ihe following j the ox and ass shared the stable jed representing the respect babies were born alfred tennyson william e gladstone with the holy family the wise shown to a ruler frankincense charles darwin abraham lincoln felix meldclssohn and men are not called kings nor i which is the offering made on richard wagner so those newcomers were at least the equal are they named as three in num- i a altar and myrrh which sym- of those departing recsntly i came across a poem by lulu e thompson about the birth of abraham lincoln in a little log cabin on february 12 1809 here is one stanza got any news to send along no nothin happens here near me doggonest place you ever sec tom lincoln lives right over there in that log cabin bleak and bare they say they have a little babe i understand they named him abe yes sally said just tother day that nothin happens down this way our quotation today is by samuel johnson we lire bj hope if there were no liopc there would be no endeavour m m fund reaches 34 of 5 million objective her although they have been i bolized incorruptibility hover- given the names caspar mel- j big in the background was a chior and balthasar in folk lore there is no complaint about an inhospitable xnn keeper just the simple statement she brought forth her firstborn son and laid him in a manger because there was no room in the inn among the many quaint stor ies which were centred around the journey of the wise men is the one which tcils of the bright star which guided them it moved in the sky until it stop ped above the entrance to the nativity cave the magi real ized they had reached their des tination at that moment the star fell into a well in bethle hem from which joseph drew water for mary it is helieved until ths day the pure in heart look down into that well they can see the reflection of with two months yet to go ashford pointed out that a new the united churchs missionary i church or hall or manse must j he christmas star little shepherdess madelon who dearly longed to give a present too but her hands were empty and she went outdoors and wept bitterly the angel gabriel saw her crying and tried to comfort her asking what dost thou de sire a gift for the christ child madelon answered what gift dost thou wish- asked the angel the little shepherdess answer ed alas the shepherds and the kings have given him ev erything no not quite every thingfor the baby has no flowers but where could i find flowers at this time of year then gabriel took his staff and touched the ground im mediately up sprang a lovely plant with beautiful white bios- part of europe boys and j soms fair and pure the first and maintenance fund today i pl need fadngth church i girls put out food for the birds i christmas roses swiftly mad reached s34924 13 toward its is to be met and beasts on christmas eve be- elon gathered the roses and car- cause they believe the legend of ried her bouquet to give to the the adoration of the ox and the little king ass when jesus was placed in is to be met 5000000 and more goal the i nearly every town or city of church year ends january 31 5000 or over has a church ex- rev h e d ashford direc- tension problem as far as the your dollars spent at home help build stouffville for some weeks now christmas advertising in this newspaper has been a reminder that the home town stores offer a large range of gifts at reasonable prices local stores are attractively decorated to help you enjoy shopping tliere and they will be open every night next week to give customers more shopping lime christmas we all know is the season for giving but lets not give away our community through short sighted shopping remember the dollars we spend in our own community stay here to support it to pay taxes build schools put in sewers and light streets and in dozens of ways make our home town a better place to live lets keep our money at home this christnas mail carriers deserve help during christmas to meet pressing relief needs in corporated into the missionary i praise of the little lord jesus lion is held on february 25 and here are a few suggestions j 3 dont leave loose change in other parts of the world when and maintenance budget at oneejon his birthday night and talk 26 f a lashlcy secretary- that will enable hoe who nan- mailboxes have you ever tried emergencies arise as a special fund for church each other in human speech manager announced today the tile your mail to give you the picking change out of a mall- grants for hungarian relief extension and that all monevs but in the legends there are convention will also formulate service you expect box on a fold frosty day try it come out of the churchs over- contributed over the 5000000 oilier birds and insects which plans for next years match 1 have vour letters properly and you will never be thought- seas relief and interchurch aid budget he devoted exclusively have a part in the christmas which will he held near simcoe ecdrcsscd and stamped es again place money for committee which is supported to hat problem drama one tells of the robin october 15 to is the meeting dont urile mr and mrs stamps in an envelope your by the missionary and maintch- well taise 5000000 by our getting his red breast by fann- will be held in toronto smith r r mr i carrier will bring them out jnee fund dr ashford pointed years end january 31 dr ing tle embers of the shepherds annual meeting of the ontario tliere may be four or five to ou he said that the ongoing ashford predict but unless fire so it would not go out an- association of agricultural so- j mrs smiths on r r 5 and 4 clean snow away from the work of the church in canada we raise far more than that other relates how the nightin- cieties at which the affairs of 3 nl inn i nind mailbox at all times jhas been greatly stepped up he- we shall not have faced up to gale learning to sing with the fall fairs will be discussed will remember 4i mail cairier is cause of church extension needs lie realistic need angels their song glory to be held in toronto february 27 ni required to leave his car to in new urban areas half i million dollars for gil in the highest peace on and 28 sendee any miillxiv nrr is he during ihe past 10 years the church extension is not enough earth good will to men the scene of the annual meeting loquiied to affix stamps on your united church of canada has we should have s4o0oo00 itlle beetle who lived in the of the ontario horticultural letter built a new church or a church the need is theie the people nativity cave wa supposed to association will shift to hamilj if these rules are followed a hall or a manse every four da s aie theie it takes money to have beer turned into a firefly ion this year with the twoday merrier christmas will be had on his irtuin fiom a coast- build churches and our people when h wanted to go out and ssion scheduled to open on by aa concerned iooast tour of canada dr have the money he concluded tell his friends of mary with her march 7 tor of the fund said that the united church of canada is con- i hc manger the ox is credited agricultural events raising of the sj000000 and cerned dr ashfohd said with tossing hay into the man- 1 the ontario plowmens asso- morei is of primary import- to speed up the program of i fer with his horns and keeping ciation will get together to rc- ance in view of the fact that building new churches and i the infant warm with his breath view the international plowing last week the united church manses the 17th general council i is thought that the birds and match held at brooklin in octo- sent s30000 to aid hungarian of the united church of can- e animals in the forests and ber and plan for future activi- 1 refugees and must be prepared ada ordered that 500000 be in- fields still sing the song of ties when their annual conven- reader iikv your cauls in bundles according to districts and tie them securely on rural routes tie them to pe her or place them in paper iwjs l the fint corner of the mailbox not at the very back trie gift that only you can give we give you perfed results every time truly superb photographs that will be given with pride received with joy avoid the list minute christmas rush nows the time to make an appointment lor your sitting individual and group photos cadieux studios stouffville 0kt phone 24j2 above iga foodliner l you cant do better than qive the tribune this christmas saturday excursions to low fares every saturday to and i nci dec 15 tickets good going and returning same saturday only excursion fares from uariu10 allaxijalk isiadfoltl holland laxdixc xivvikkjt autoltl 230 ss i ill 1 50 135 1 20 lindsay suxdlihlaxn lilacivwatkil riiuii stolirvillk ruthltlioko 270 i 203 200 103 i it noo iii i f if you cut in on traffic passing cars when there is barely enough room to avoid oncoming traffic causes count less highway accidents make certain you have plenty of time to pull out pass and regain your place in line you will lose only seconds of lime but you may save a lifo how good are your driving habits department of h ig h ways ontari o