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1 the tribune thursday january 177 j- ft t with the g6 fjttwm frep says that heise burning tve cjanipuesit honour groufmuets centennial- blooniington road is only practical to wn bypass route the provincial government it seems plans to restructure the intersection of bloomington rd and highway 47 sometime next summer properly posted bloomington rd would be ideal as a bypass for stouffville unlike other proposed routes it has an advantage in that it is already a good quality heavyduty road and no expropriation would be required the town line road has frequently been mentioned as a possible bypass but it would take possibly millions of dollars and several years to upgrade- that route at least two bridges would have to be replaced and some sections of the road are not yet paved l rather tfiap have bloomington designated as hnway 47 and take that away from the maui st we would suggest that council prgss the province to have a joint postingjjssllingthem 47a and 47b inihisway the town would still have whatever advantages there are to being j located on a designated provincial highway land would stiufunnel off some of the traffic that is just passing through there arespme advantages to being on the highway for example the province pays for road maintenance and snowplowing expenditures that would ordinarily come out of the town coffers i it is debatable whether this saving makes up for the weekend business lost by the local merchants but a joint posting would seem to provide the best of both alternatives we urge the new council to press the province for adequate posting of bloomington rd the traffic muddle in stouffville is long overdue for some positive action in these times of tight money it seems unlikely the cash would be made available to construct any kind of a bypass making this proposed solution the best viable alternative if- anything constructive is to be ac complished in the downtown area of stouff ville a bypass is absolutely essential good response to 100th opening the tremendous turnout for the first of the centennial year events should be very gratifying to those who have laboured so long in preparation for the various festivities if this positive trend continues the years activities should prove to be an unqualified success o m kvftv ssi 7afst sugar and spice human spirit inflicted on studenh could you write a pungent telling essay on the human spirit in the new year no well thats what my senior students tell me too but i know they are wrong and i think you are wrong also ill bet you could write a dandy especially if you have lived a lot i gave my students instructions for an essay and most of them went into a state of mild shock they shouldnt have they are dealing with the human spirit thejr own and othersevery minute of their young lives however students like most of us prefer things to be spelled out but how can you spell out the human spirit you cant touch it taste it smell it weigh or measure it you cant peer through someones navel and shout tallyho there it is your spirit from the beginnings of thought our great origins of the founding family by jean barkey jthe family name staufferoriginal spelling of the name came from the canton of berne switzerland and was a title of an official position the cup man or cupj bearer this title became a family name descending from father to son seven stauffers were emperors we commence our record with daniel stauffer who was born in thun a town in switzerland at jhe head of lake thun in 1630 ad we do not know much moreof daniel other thanhisson hans stauffer started for america in 1709 hans had three sons and one married daughter they arrived in philadelphia in the summer of 1710 his eldest son jacob bought from samuel powell five hundred acres of land on the west branch of perkiomen creek in what is now mont gomery county pennsylvania his third son henry married magdalena hess to whom were born eleven children abraham being the sixth child of henry the records of this abraham tell us that he with two sonsinlaw metz and shetter bought a large tract of land out of which they mad three farms about a mile east of chambersburg pennsylvania lj abraham built a flouring mill about1793 which wasoperatedpy- his direct descendants for ninety yearsandfrom which the prent stauffertown received its name- i f jf abraham had six children- the fourth abraham was born january9 1780 in pennsylvania he married elizabeth reesor they canie to canada in 1804 bringing with them their two ctfdren christian and elizabeth sometime before this emigration to canada this branch of our founders changed their name from stjuffer- to stouffer abraham stouffer and his wife elizabeth raised bur more- children and two died in infancy -a- bybill smiley writers and thinkers have explored the human creature in an effort to pin down this elusive thing some philosophers believed they had put their finger on theslippery little devil only to find that it has squirted away clerics are motfe apt to call it the soul psychologists pin nasty names like id and ego and libido on various aspects of it writers givefexamples of it artists try to depict its highest aspirations the humaif spirit exists in all of us it along with the power to reason is what raises us above the lfcvel of the beasts its presence is allied to all that is good and great in hurnan kind loyalty integrity compassioriihonor courage dignity f its absence represents all that is bad in the human iface greed cruelty prejudice indifference treachery giyeihthp right fertilizer the human spirit reaches out to other- human- spirits and mankind nioves an6therinchitowardthe starsfe i r- h ilhoutj proper nourishment the human spin shrivals or warps turns in on itself rots anspreade like a cancer v iin certlain periods the vundernourished irit produces the great psychopaths like ytila the fflun napoleon hitler and weare fed into dalrkness but afler each of these sombre intervals r the resurjmnt human spirit roars back fan- ning the mbers into a blaze of glory and once more maris on the march j this igall very inspiring im sure but its pretty abstract and i prefer the concrete letsseejwe can find someexamples of the human sftrit in action n wheriajtwoyearold child normally good and ofie refuses defies isats of spankings heis not just being staffiforn he is exhibiting to the world his sensf self of independence that is the human tmcl y whetofan 80 year old man i or woman prefersko- pig it alone in poverty and discomiet ratherthan be shuttled offtoa- their first born son christian married magdalensramer of markham their children were elizabeth abrahamj jacob r martha christian john r susanand peter the abore mentioned family of christian stouffer in the year 1848 sold therproperty in stouffville to edward wheeler and bought a farm near the village of washington in the county of oxford ontario then known as the queens bush11 was then that thisbranch of the faiiil changed the spelling of their name back to stauffer if j editors mail iv cosy se the sat dl mixed baby radiai vani plai n ipr citizens home he or she is doing get this human spirit thing all with sentimentality the cooing of a hichmightbe just a gas pain the smile of a bride which might be just j pr gloating no lets keep it on a high v rreare the instructions i gave my studbitssee how they grab you nvths essay is to be an examination of the huiran spirit soul self as it acts and reacts i i undev in interplay with other human j spirits in conflict- with society j jildeas expressed should not- be merely emoli6nal claptrap or mystic foofawraw nor- and information wanted yttst6yer8 shoud they be a mere recording ofe7arnpii sincerely- of ttehuman spirit in action- taken from the f eva l rich bool readthey should rather represent the can suggest y- mrs nelson rich stwfents own human spirit reacting to the any other source of inv formauonsuch as if- union lake michigan historical society thit 4 might have old record j might contact i wwld p s would therebe greatly appreciate jour death certificates in those i ttms unique veddlng certificate recording ahe 1889 tmarriage of edward gibson and annie jane micbeli both vtof ciaremont was inbmiued tojhe tribdne by peter and lillian dlmitroff of gormley itwak pdrchasedathauc- 4attoo in scarborongb by their danghterwho was inferested oolyin the frame it b the first wedding certiflcatevre have gvertujaynw fai this stylewe are very cnrwos as to i whether the manshown below the bride and gross is the minister or the fatherof the bride if anybody in the area knows anything about this docoment or the people named in it we would be interested to hear from themthe in scripuc i above uiebride vj9m make him sn help meet for him mold throw maxrojlfte more libera tea yoang women of todayrmtoqbtoke v- i tibial dear sir i am writing hoping you may be of some assistance if possible i am seeking in formation concerning my husbands great grand father abraham stover who migrated to stouffville area from pennsylvania around the 1840s he was married to catherine perkins stover who died 181883 and abraham stover died 2-9- 1895 we do have in formation on all their children which we would be willing to share i was wondering if there might have been an obiturary in your paper at the time which would give us any clues to follow possibly there are still some stovers in the area- who might have information about this family we would really appreciate hearing them as we are trying research- and preserve whatever- genealogy jn can to pass on to our children children if you grand- lj3- suggest stimulus of what has been read and pondered students may choose one of the following exhtrtations from their glorious leader good luck or j suggestions thankyou days eat your heart out arent you glad you dont take english h 1 iy1a i i fron me 30 years ago this week excerpts fwiri the january9 1947 issue of the tribune it agoodoev thereeve received three complaints made one morning last weekend to the effect that thrown plow was pushing snow out of a farmers lane so that a truck could get in to take away a dead horse when the streets were not powed out in town investigation proved thatthere was just a title of truth in the r complaints the plow was making a way through the cemetery for a funeral strange andsix calls from the outiyihgdistricreji- terhguxbridgc whitchurch and markham tojnships the longest call from the home base came- from victoria square for a chmney fire chemical was used and no danage ensued from the threatened blaze k ic not forming jvthe heavy overburden of snow lying on misselmans lake is preventing the ice from wckening at present there isabout six in- ctes of ice which is so well protected that the tiv isdfit howstories can be built up s doubucafl sv v i x vmdoesmostof the cutting will find it k i v z s to remove snowfromtanicre faj stouffvillessixteenmanfire brigade answered fourteen calls during the year just closed eight being for fires within the village v oder to let jack frost dohis work so that gdice blocks will be available for har3 sting 1