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wanted more cream shippers for best results ship your cream to stouffville creamery we pay two cents more per pound butterfat for cream delivered to the creamery to have our truck call phone ls6w stouffville creamery co cold storage lockers for rent parkside christian yourh centre second anniversary banquet monday feb 9th 1959 at 7 pm speaker rev ken campbell special music 1 for tickets phone stouffville 204w4 or 223w body fender repairs duco diilux refinishing estimates without obligation w g garrett and son main street stouffville ont phone 265 rr 1 hi u 1 1 mi i ff h i small european cars the lark big north american cars luxurious 6passenger roominess inside 3 feet shorter outside n mrk on the way up were on the way up every way nnd weh have fun nil the way why because all our family started the saving habit early everyone of us is a steady saver at the canadian bank of commerce money in the bank means mace of mind siouffvuie branch f w todd manager claremoni branch h t green manager store topples to street baring fierce blase snxsxkxxxxxxxtx3aexxsxsxv the stouffvllle tkieume twr ftbrany 19 1959 pi 5 rural eavesdropping on the party line when the wisconsin tele- 1 on a deal being made between phone company proposed rec- his competitor and a potential ently that it be allowed to aban- customer then call the buver don four party service in this and beat the offer area memories were stirred of put lp struggle the days when a telephone call despite its limitations sub- was considered something less scribers to the partv lines did than a private matter when rubbering on the party line not give in to the more modern service without a struggle ev- was as normal as snapping on en the state public service com the tv set is now the party line to be sure has involved a few persons in trouble notable have been cases of farm wives who hung onto the line while the neigh bors house went up in flames for want of the volunteers that could have been summoned if the line had been open most vigorous of this lot of relentless talkers was the lady at poughkeepsie xy who re fused to yield the line to a man anxious to report a brush fire let the thing burn and get ott the line she said despite her plea that you hear the riarnd- est things on a party line she was found guilty of a charge ol information mission once was caught official ly recognizing gossipy neighbor- liness as an asset to rural life the belmont pleasant view telephone co asked to aban don its fayette exchange with its newfangled switchboard it is impossible for parties on the line to listen in as the sub scribers are accustomed to do said the telephone companv the psc said that the firm could abandon its switchboard the telephone operator in those days before radio or tele vision was the fountain of news and information she sup plied election results baseball scores the time and other bits jii a refrigeration ford last week the towns aux pumps to the hoi- had to supply most of the fltore is tilted at an angle lol- water pressure cropped from lowing a 500000 fire in brad- fortyfive to five pounds and lanci marsh drainage canal water to fight the fire origin of municipal names described by star writer did you ever wonder how and when the name of a town or township might have originat ed some light is thrown on the subject by mr dean hughes a writer for the toron to daily star he writes as follows sub postoffices them and how to lose them again are high in the news these days but have you ever heard of the political role a postoffice played in giving the town of agincourt its name back in 1858 a man named john hillhad a general store at the northeast corner of what is now brimley rd and sheppard ave he had long wanted to have a postoffice there and one day he met an old friend who was a member of parliament from quebec the mp slapped mr hill on the shoulder can i do any thing for you he asked yes said mr hill use your influ ence to get me a postoffice its a french name the friend promised on one condition the postoffice had to be given a french name so in due time it came about that the postoffice was built and the name was chosen it was called agincourt since this was the name of a battle wherein the english were victors over the french one wonders if the com mittee which picked the name i wasnt doing some legpulling at the expense of the mp from quebec at any rate on june 1 3858 the name went up over the postoffice door speaking of names i never knew until a month ago how the village of unionville got its name although it first occu pied a site north of where it is now it was lured to its present location because of the sawmills and grist mills which had been built there and it was named to celebrate the union of upper and lowor canada in 1811 instead of pursuing the sub- i ject of how places were named i this might be a good time to say a word about some places j that were renamed for instance i the townships of toronto scar- j boro and pickering toronto thats dublin it all started back in 17ss when the sienr de rocheblave i became interested in the little settlement of toronto and ap- plied for a largevgrant of land in return for establishing a por- tage service over the humber trail lord dorchester vns gov- ernor of canada then and he ap- prayed this application and rie- j cided to lay out a town at tor- onto orders were given to survey the fronts o a series of town- j ships between the trent and j the etobicoke the proposed 1 township of toronto already j laid out on paper was to be called dublin the net town- ship east now scarboro was to be called glasgow and the i present pickering township was to be named edinburgh however these plans were upset when colonel john graves simcoe took over the adminis tration from lord dorchester the result was that nothing was done until 1793 when sim- how to get j c02 organized his plans for founding york and somewhere along the line there was some namechanging otherwise the townships of toronto scarboro and pickering might today be known as dublin glasgow and edinburgh incidentally scarboro and pickering were slow in being settled and one reason was the presence of scarboro bluffs the town clerks report for 1809 showed 140 inhabitants in scar boro and 180 in pickering on the other hand markham town ship farther inland had 1111 people one of the main reasons was that settlers couldnt find a de cent landing place until they went east to the mouth of the rouge river and highland creek they travelled by boat up these waterways and set tled in markham there are re ports of boats going up the rouge as far as no 7 highway york county population is climbing the population of york county has increased from i more than one country doctor g9640 in 1951 to 98210 in the was summoned to a farm bed- which called for a s500 fine a year in prison she got ofr however with a suspended sen tence dashed for thone the woman could not have been more right in her analysis that you hear the darndest things on a party line with just that promise of a choice morsel there always was a dash for the wall telephone as it sent out its peal to all sub scribers one woman in fact broke her toe at 2 am when she slipped while hustling along the cold linoleum to see what was on the line although plenty of party line lore developed in the cities it was in the rural areas that the telephone equipment reached its folksiest it was not uncom mon to have 15 to 20 subscrib ers on a line as the receivers went off the hooks the signal underpowered in the first place became fainter and fainter cou pled with the heavy breathing from those who tuned in it was often impossible to hear at all the choice then was to bellow will you get off the line so i can hear or to hang up and make the call later one subscriber used to foil the intruders on her daily call to her sister by shifting to her native norwegian tongue this brought a snort from the eaves droppers hut also the clicks of their receivers usually matters did not reach that point the lack of privacy was taken as a matter of course a two way conversa tion often picked up another member who had a valuable contribution to add to the con versation there was no embar rassment on either side at this butting in line of rural life the telephone system was the life line of rural life as well as source of gossip when trans mission was poor messages of ten had to be relayed from lis tenerin to listenerin all the way from sender to receiver milwaukee journal new books in local libyary fiction venetia hever love calls the doctor seifert return to cheltenham ashton where din you go out what did you do nothing smith portrait of peter west butler jarrish savage battle royal dawson hair trigger marshall lost pueblo grav the dude ranger grev the fugitive trail grey mrs lorimers family clavering beware of the mouse wibberley ordeal by innocence christie night of reckoning strange ice palace ferber- dr zhivago pasternak mr robbins rides again streeter the straight and narrow path tracy the tall ships jennings the middle age of mrs eliot wilson the prospects are pleasing tracy desert passage poole more stories to remember vols 1 2 beecroft costain anecdotes of destiny dinesen a hospital summer andrews mountoliva durrell the rock tute the sugar island waugh year 1958 this increase in growth is partially indicated by the revenue from the registry office in 1955 the fees from the south and north york offices combined amounted to 37000 canada is the united states biggest single customer buying more than one fourth of its ex ports side by this method emergencies of all kinds were handled by the faithful oper ator she would ring her lines with several shorts then re- port a fire or even a coming tor- by the end of last year this nado local merchants used this amount had grown to 53000 system to announce a special bargain event and buyers quot ed the price of hogs this way a hungry man is more inter- 1 a merchant could put 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