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4 the tribune thursday nov 29 19j3 established 188s established 188s charles h nolan publisher james thomas associate puwuhrr and editor robert mccalslaxd advertising director published every thursday bv inlasl publishing co limited at at main st stoulfville oat tel mo2101 toronto phone 3611680 sinte copies 15c subscriptions 600 per year in canada s1500 elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian coarnunity newspapers association and ont ario weekly newspapers association second class mail registration number 0896 editorials were chronic complainers weve become a country crippled by chronic complainers its a disease a contagious disease that undoubtedly extends from coast to coast many whitchurchstouffville residents have been stricken there is no known cure the contacts are everywhere in restaurants on street corners homes schools meeting halls wherever people gather its the negative side that seeps into every conversation espite the fact most canadians never had it so good the media including newspapers are much to blame theres the pessimistic approach readers and listeners become so saturated with this kind of thing they find themselves accepting it as gospel truth when in reality quite often the opposite is true an example was a recent news conference called by the prime minister with representatives of the parliamentary press on the national news that night who was featured not pierre trudeau but the two leaders of the opposition who took obvious delight in slicing the prime ministers statement to shreds the same holds true in ontario queens park establishes policies but the ink goes to the critics does ottawa never do anything right by the overburdened taxpayers of york- simcoe not according to sinclair stevens column on the other side of the fence much the same holds true for don deacon york- centre and some of it tends to rub off on an un thinking segment of the electorate many of whom take delight in castigating inpower politicians as moneygrabbing crooks we say criticize where criticism is warranted but commend when commendation is justified worktorule in reverse we hear of teachers demands for higher salaries we hear criticisms of spending ceilings theres talk of wholesale resignations of worktorule here in stouffville we have worktorule in reverse at summitview school the principal lome boadway has four organized guitar and ukelele classes that he personally con ducts in his spare time editors mail sir progress has done it again the very old goodwood house in uxbridge twp was recently demolished as pictured in a recent issue of the tribune ironically an editorial in the same issue gave notice of plans to research stouffvilles history this wellknown building was a landmark of historical value once being the only inn 1830s on the road from uxbridge to this is dedication at orchard park school the principal keith sutherland conducts his own personal safety program in his spare time this too is dedication it will never prompt support through placard parades it will never be featured on tv but its part of an everyday program and warrants appreciation stouffville in 1857 michael chapman was the innkeeper and postmaster at goodwood i hope that the committee formed to research stouffvilles history will consult the toronto plan for preserving historically valuable buildings and set in motion similar action used by the city that inn should not have come down david hwaite rr 3 newmarket h mmm fll elizabeth ree0r flr ji1i1im stouffer i- piedrstpuffvllle i- w r oct 27 1851 v j i aged 72 years t v jjsf elizabethrstourfer hsr died april 7 1835 w 0xaced61 years ftsjr 0ne tenekflwi passcth away ako vvolii r cnttrc x ft kj erecteq in 1927 u their- descejsd w s towns historyin stone with the approach of stouffvilles cen tennial 1977 theres growing interest in the history of the town some of this information is contained on a stone in the stouffville cemetery placed there by descendants of abraham stouffer and his wife elizabeth reesor stouffer who arrived here from chambersburg pennsylvania in 1804 the family names through three generations are engraved on the reverse side of the marker jim thomas stfrin r isugar andspice keep a bushel of wild blackberries by the bed by bill smiley first well do a book review this week a fascinating volume has come intc my hands it is called drink your troubles away the title alone would sell a lot of copies i can just hear the boozers say hey thats for me its time somebody wrote a sensible book and then theres the name of the author it is john lust what an intriguing combination drink and lust all for 95c its not quite as exciting inside as it is on the cover because its a natural foods tract unless you can get excited over the thought of a brimming glass of carrot juice or start to drool at the image of a cabbage pie it may not be your meat if the author will pardon the expression i was a bit cynical at first but i read on with growing interest and by the time i had gone through a few chapters i was engrossed im a meat and taties man myself you know what that will get me i quote wrong diet brings with it constipated bowels hem- morhoids anemia defective secretions acidity ulcers bloating arthritis headache nervousness liver and kidney ailments heart disease feeblemindedness and thousand other ailments well i think thats a pretty sweeping statement i have never been constipated in my life lots of the people i know who follow the same diet as i are constipated i do have hemmorhoids and arthritis occasionally and i am definitely becoming feebleminded but ive had none of those other things though i try not to think of my liver defective secretions indeed what kind are you supposed to have effective secretions dont im knocking this book i think john lust is on the right track even though it has many turnings i havent seen any signs of feeble mindedness among natural food fiends let us say charitably that there is a certain feebleness of will my son comes home with his little bag of unpolished rice he cooks some for breakfast taken at 12 noon he gives us a lecture on what harm we are doing our bodies putting poisons in them during the afternoon he smoked eight of my cigarettes though theoretically he doesnt smoke that evening at dinner he decides just to keep peace in the family to break his habit for once and eat meat he eats about a pound and a quarter of the roast beef we can afford only because my wife rushed out and put a second mortgage on the car how would you like to have to kill a fatted calf that story would never have made the bible at todays meat prices my daughter who is also a natural foods freak has even less will power after a few weeks on rice and beans and macaroni she comes home with her husband a sensible young chap who would eat stewed rats if he were hungry enough she goes straight to the refrigerator whips open the frozen meat department and starts muttering meat glorious meat the saliva running down her chin but this is a good book no doubt the title refers to the fact that we can drink all our health problems away with vegetable juice what a way to go it is based on vitamins take iron for example if you are short of iron in your blood you can have one of 40 different symptoms of debility space forbids the listing of them but a few are face alternately flushed and pale murky yellowish gray face crying in voluntarily fearful of losing reason tense genital organs swollen ankles bed wetting film before eyes desire to carry arms over head partial deafness how would you like to crawl into bed with somebody who had no iron at all bit of a nightmare what apparently the best cure for this is wild blackberries so remember if you are suffering frohi an iron deficiency and at the same time want a fulfilled sex life keep a bushel of wild black berries handy by the bed lay in a good store theyre a little scarce in february glroaming around 11n w return of a smalltown boy who made good the 100th birthday of the incorporated village of stouffville is still three years and 32 days away but already the communitys interest in this historic event is beginning to shine through the local schools are taking the lead hardly a week goes by that this newspaper office isnt invaded by children all asking the same question where can we find out about stouffville i welcome them for i think projects of this kind are great but sad to say i cant help them much for our tribune files were once destroyed by fire and are pretty sparse to the early 1920s and besides not being a native i dont hold our history in the palm of my hand iluwever in an effort not to sound and look too stupid i dig out all the in formation available spread it out on the floor and say okay kids there it is help your self its all about how peter reesor traded his horse saddle and bridle for 400 acres a site that was to be stouffville its been read and reread so many times by so many people its lost all its glamor if in fact in an editorial way it ever was glamorous anyway its supposedly factual if pupils have sufficient patience to wade through to the end far better i say to obtain the in formation firsthand and that opportunity occurred sunday i spent two enjoyable hours with jesse gall 6720 woodside trail west bloomield michigan he was a welcomed weekend visitor at the home of mr and mrs oliver harding ninth line north jesse was born 78 years ago at the home now owned by mr and mrs walter pearson tenth line south the son of andrew and jessie boadway gall he was raised by his grandparents mr and mrs george boad way jesses memory of stouffvilles past is amazing grandfather boadway operated a pumd- makers shop on the lot just south cf the house he would craft them out of logs and supplied most of the farmers in the area he also dug many wells by hand hiring help one of the mcmullen boys to operate the windless jesse can also recall winding up the buckets of dirt from the excavation jesses formal education never advanced past the senior fourth at a school down the lane to the collins farm south of sum mitview jim hand was the principal he was a tall strick disciplinarian a fine lawn bowler and quite a man around town he recalled only two others passed their en trance exans that year they were lillian cain and barstow miller two teachers were cora wideman luds daughter and a miss robinson he jim hand kept us in line now the teachers cant lay a hand on the kids trouble is theyre not enough woodsheds what about recreation no problem there was skating on boyers pond and some great games of shinny jesse pointed to a scar on his right hand where some westender had cracked him with a stick he also lost a front tooth in one of the frequent melees there was public skating in daleys hall post office and at nate forsyths rink up mill street to this day i dont know how they ever flooded the wood floor in daleys hall the ice couldnt have been very thick but i never could figure how they kept the water from leaking through in the summer the kids would build a dam on the creek that flowed through wilmot browns place there theyd swim often in the buff jesse recalls joe nendick as the village constable in his spare time he replaced the slats in the wooden sidewalks downtown the walks were brick he remembers the hitching posts in front of the stores the horses were not that well mannered that they didnt leave their calling cards in the summer this was carted away but not in the winter sure i guessed it smelled a little he joked but nobody seemed to mind the main street was only a gravel road with a log foundation in front of the presbyterian church because it was swampy there sleighs and cutters were popular forms of transportation with the route often swinging off through the fields when the drifts became too deep as individuals jesse recalls wilfy nighswander he was the village bellringer four times daily at 7 am 12 noon 1 and six oclock i can remember once standing there watching him pull the rope he yanked on it hard two or three times but there wasnt a sound it was the day after halloween and someone had wrapped a coat around the dinger the bell also served as the fire alarm wilf morden had a blind horse jesse remembered no matter where that horse was when the bell would ring at noon hed head straight for the stable bob coulson was the reeve of that day he built his home on the north side of main street now the srterbush hospital johnny dougherty collected the taxes ed pennock was also a village constable he had a livery stable on lloyd avenue byron by jim thomas beebee operated a blacksmiths shop midtown garage wurtz had the bakeshop and a barrel factory wb sanders ran the post office godfrey and wilmot shenkel were barbers also len vanzant a haircut cost 10 cents lud wideman had the monument works and johnny urquhart a paper store there were two undertakers phil davis at a convenient location near cemetery lane and nels burkholder at church and main jesse remembers phil and his beautiful team of black horses the lehman name is an original that still stands mcnabs had a wicker works with the plant situated near the missionary church christie armstrongs carpet weaving factory was on montreal near stouffer with a pork packing plant on the site of testa villa apartments albert south isaac arid ed barkey had the foundry now akron standard jesse carried the hod for the brick chimney there cuffy johnson had one of the first cars in stouffville also dr walt sangster the docs car had big buggy wheels jesse remembers it could go a bit faster than a horse could trot pat malloy had a moon it was a type of car with one headlight in front jesse remembers the standard bank the employees lived above there was a hole in the ceiling to spot and shoot any unwanted visitors who might sneak in after hours the railroad station was a hive of ac tivity in jesse galls day the depot even had a turntable to switch the sutton engine around at the end of the line ice was shipped in by the carload from lake simcoe fred jennings operated the stations semaphores and took care of the baggage a bus met every passenger train and took overnight guests to the queens hotel jesse gall is a selfmade man after a short stint as a railroad engineer he joined the navy during world war 1 coming home in 1919 he was with brown engineering in toronto and later at the river rouge plant of ford in detroit he spent 30 years with general motors retiring in 1955 at the age of 60 he has two daughters gloria at home and jean in saginaw michigan on the weekend he returned to where his heart is stouffville and enjoyed every minute of it well welcome him back in 1977 jesse gall the smalltown boy who made good