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the tribune stouffvilfe onl thursday february 1 1951 interesting sidelights on villagers of gormley sect keeps old customs bxaming held stones early set tlers used for gravestones in heise hill graveyard because cut stone was not available are merle heise whose ances tors gave land for the ceme tery and luella winger wearing cap indicating she belongs to bunkers religious sect mrs joseph heise of gormley holds fourmonthsold granddaughter lucille seventh generation to live in 150year old heise house on the hill landmark of the bunkers and meruiunlte community m w lit f mm h illfifiili 9s the school teacher lois heise write name of their village also wears a similar cap as gloria tatton hetty dennie s v11cox writes on the she instructs pupils how to and joan cober watch as blackboard in a hamlet 23- miles from tor onto you cannot buy so much as a grain of tobacco in fact in one of the two stores there is a no smoking- sign though it is there mostly for the stranger because the resident do not smoke for gormley old and new with its few dozen houses- is a dunker and mennonite settlement neither sect today regards tobacco- as particularly evil the dunkers or tunkers whose w ishes to enter when anyone is ill in the stran gers house the neighbors are there with fresh cooking and offers of help when there is trouble there is no- criticism theyve never locked the freight sheds since the railroad came through and theres never been anything missing mr and mrs hilts who live in new gormley where the railroad is can remember some of the earlier times before electric stoves church is brethren in christ putland motor cars and store goods took over you can still get the north york market says mrs hilts i remember when we used to make it this way the use of tobacco is a filthy habit and its expense a real apple butter at misuse of the lords money hut one look around the country side with its solid brick farmjit we used to have schnitzing houses its big barns- wellstocked parties to peel and quarter the machine sheds and wide fields i apples to make the butter show there is so misuse of money twelve to 15 people would gather one night prepare five bushels of apples while they talked laughed played games and ate doughnuts and coffee the next besides the smoke would rather day gallons of sweet cider went ruin the lush odor of apple butter i into the copper kettle was boiled frying fritters and side pork and i down the apples added and boiled freshly baked pies i again until the whole was a thick here a visit to a shining farm kitchen proves how easily cigar ette ash on the clean linoleum could be considered abhorrent sign in j t johnsons store tells both sects attitude in tobacco eighty three year old george hilts has never tasted the weed has never used a swear word and can only recognize the ace in a deck of cards but he does not feel he has missed much he has retired from his farm to live in a big comfortable brick house with all conveniences he sold his car only recently because he can no longer get a license to drive and his hobby during summer is garden ing particularly gladioli- mr hilts wears no tie his wife no wedding ring and her dress is a simple one with no trimming personal adornment does not interest them nonconformity to the world in dress is part of their creed it is also a creed of live and let live mr hilts his neighbors his church and his friends have no desire to force their beliefs on others the cluirch door stands- open to anyone who silieereljc pl ay y our pa r t in building canadas defences waj fate royal canadian navy canadas expanding navy needs more men the navys job is important to every canadian important to you in more ways than one by doing your duty to your country you can gain a fine career life at sea is a challenge and you must be physically fit and able to live up to navy standards but its a mans life and the navy offers you a life job a job full of interest a healthy job youll sec foreign places and there arc fine chances for advancement jf you art between 17 and 29 have grade 8 education or betterare a canadian citizen or other british subject write to the recruiting officer naval headquarters ottawa or write or see in person the recruiting officer hmcs york 57 lakeshore blvd tororla ont jr i there are immediate openings in all branches j and especially m m m today in- 3 f electrical engineroom 1 communications air mechanics etc the navy will train you j as a specialist get fc the facts today a 9 cnlow dark rich mixture wed use 25 gallons of apple butter in a year said mrs hilts kept it upstairs in big crocks and it would x be on the table three times a day mr hilts remembers the crad- ling bees when at harvest time the men would come for miles around to operate the cumber some cradle that cut the- grain i heard my father tell how he used to get up at four oclock in the morning before sunup and walk 11 miles to another farm cradle all day and walk home that night i was never any good at the cradle takes quite a knack you know but it went out when 1 was a boy mr and mrs joseph heise in id gormley can still recall bread and pies being baked ill the out door ovens there is still one of ithese ovens standing on the empringham farm a square brick structure with an iron door and a rounded plastered roaf with a frame structure over that again they didnt have thermometers in those days said mrs heise i can remember my motherinlaw waiting until the coals from the wood were red then holding her hand in the oven and counting to find out if it was just right then you put the bread in and it baked in about threequarters of an hour yeast or starter was kept from baking to baking it still wonders me how my grandmother got it said mrs hilts up in the town i think she did it with hops she grew in the garden and potatoes the heises live in a 150yearold house on heises hill so named after christian heise who came to the district in 1801 from pennsyl vania christian took the deed from king george iii of england and built his house of logs with a big front double door hand- hammered jatqh and hinges and a strong oak crossbar he was the first deacon of the dunker church in the district and the love feasts or communion services were held first in his darn the house has been covered with clapboard since then not until 1877 was the church built next door because the dun- kers believed meeting together in small groups in homes was the better way to worship the dunkers also believe that war duelling suicide and pre natal destruction of human life is murder as well as all other forms of human lifetaking still their boys have gone to war not bearing arms but as members of the med ical corns mr heise remembers his father telling the story of how one of the family was called up to serve in an early war he doesnt remember which one the boy was drawing war supplies with his horse down vonge st when the horse fell and broke his leg the fellow came home and they never called him up again said mr heise who continued on back page