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vol xxxvi no 8 stouffville ontario thursday april 23 1925 films developing and printing bring you films here to be gurantee our work as good as developed and printed we the best no extra cost for glossy finish we pride ourselves on our en largements any good negative can he enlarged to any size de sired avoid disappointment by using ansco cameras j m storey chemist and druggist a c kennedy chiropractor iiiurch st stouffville monday wednesday and fridays 9 to 12 am t h and sarah ratcliff graduate chiropractors albert st stouffv1lm5 office hours mornings 9 to 12 tuesday thursday and saturday evenings 7 to 83u pm other hours by appointment phone 5304 fancy cattle furnish our roast beef steaks etc we buy only wellled grain ted animalb our meats are caretully priced and cost no more than inferior beef h leadbetter butcher phone 0701 soooffriue canned goods and fish joint pastorate for union church the local boards ol the methodist and presbyterian churches are deal ing with the problem of uniting the two congregations under one roof at a joint meeting last week the officials were addressed by rev mr miller representing the presbytery and by rev c w watch chairman of this methodist district it was pointed out by these men that even if a union were consumated here on the 16th of june the congregations would be required to maintain two ministers until such time as the machinery for operating the united church of canada was properly functioning and the district reor ganized so that the country churchfts would not te deserted in the mean time 20 years for slee now then in the assizes court at whitby last week after thirty miuutesdel ibera- tion the petit jury returned with a verdict of guilty against thomas slee charged with conspiracy to commit arson mr justice riddell concurred with the finding of the jury saying he thought their finding was a proper one and reserved sentence until later in the day when he gave slee 12 years iu kingston penitentiary slee asked if he had anything to say why sentence should not be pass ed said yes i am not guilty i never conived with anyone to do it there is no evidence that i did it is only his word against mine his lordship sheriff remove the prisoner 1 will sentence him later thomas slee of zephyr charged with conspiracy to commit arson was mr adam r ross whose father taught school in stouffville some 45 years ago is anxious to receive a photograph of the old school as pre viously stated in the tribune here is an inducement for the board of trade to get that photograph april 14th 1925 dear sir i note the people of stouffville are raising a fund for the park if the old school photograph i wrote you about a few weeks ago can be produced by some interested citizen 1 will guarantee a substantial cash contribution sincerely yours adam r ross 121 bleddyn road ardmore pa 252s3b wsgnwwwitstcr personal notes il public meeting it was decided to call separate the only criminal case before mr stouffvillo thursday amil 23rd meeting of the two boarcs early this j justice riddel at the spring assizes elliott yonge and alexander sts toronto noted for high grade instruction and buperioremployment service enter any time catalogue free w j elliott principal boadway s drug store stouffville week and again on friday night hold a joint meeting of the boards follow ing which a congregational meeting will be held the plan most favored is that the congregations should worship toge ther after the 10th of june and maintain two ministers and work the outside churches melville and bloomington as at present until such time as the united church comes properly into an organized body this is likely to be the out come of the meetings now being held mili gormley miss m johnson visited her aunt mrs frank thompson a fine baby girl was born to mr and mrs percy cober ox easter sun day miss cora steckley is home from buffalo where she has been employ ed for some time mrs j thompson spent a few days with her son and daughter in mount dennis the snowfall whicn ive had on sunday makes one think of winter t whitby last week the grand jury returned a true bill after calling one 1 witness and within half hour slee had b3en arraigned the petit jury sworn and the case progressing j o bartlett testified that his store had been burned to the ground at a loss of about 13500 covered by 7500 insurance wm hillis internationally known safe blower now serving a term in kingston penitentiary testified that he made a deal with the prisoner to burn the store of j o bartlett at zephyr the negotiations were car ried out in the national hotel in to- onto and he was to receive 100 for the job witness told of a first visit to the premises in zephyr and of looking over the ground and of go ing back to toronto and returning to zephyr on the morning of sept 30th last between 330 and 430 oclock in company with charles laing and d ward and with gaso line as- a fuel set fire to the store and returned to toronto and meet ing mr slee in toronto at a lacer date he was given 50- by slee which he split up between his two accom- ulices ward and laing- col lennox took hillis step by at 8 pm auditorium theatre stouffville lodge no 384 meets every monday evenlns at 8 oclock in the oddfellows hall visiting brethera welcome 0am mckuen w r sanders n grand recsec archie stover financial secretary loyal orange lodge no 1020 regular meetings friday t 8 pm on or before full moon stouffville ont cut prices on highclass glasses i have decided to make a new standard price on all my glasses in oder to be from 200 to 500 oelow city prices for the same qual ity of eoofis the reason i can do this is the large number of glasses i sell and my low overhead ex penses regular 1500 double sight glas- aes all ground in one new price 81200 regular 1200 famous crooks tints guaranteed to stop head- atehenew price 1000 regular 1000 reading or dis- tance glasses new price 8800 these glasses come in light or dark shell gold frame or rim less large eyes see me and see better adam r yake optometrist watchmaker and jeweler 2 doors west of railway tracks phone 159 stotjffville cleaning the ruler factory here is a busy- one at present eight employees are at work some of them working for several hours at night a great number of the young folks report a good time at the party held at mr ed learys on friday night too bad you had to stay home and take care of the mumps edna both sunday school and church were lifted at the mennonite church on sunday last owing to the funeral of the well known mrswesley steck ley of bethesda another funeral took place on fri day afternoon when the youngest daughter of mr and mrs john nigh age three years and two months was laid to rest in the heise hill cemetery ringwood who said winter was over e r sinclair and family moved to toronto on tuesday dr and mrs law were toronto visitors over sunday jacob groves attraction seems to be west this last while v a great many in our burg are suffering from severe colds mrsbingham of toronto is spend ing some time with her sister mrs ayers hugh fockler and family have moved into the house vacated by ed cook miss addie pipher of toronto spent the holiday under the paren tal roof miss alma brownsberger has gone to betheada for the summer months a little longer drive ross wm pipher is busily engaged getting his threshing outfit in at shape for the coming season farmers look we buy and sell farm implements ot an kinds also i have some extra good stoves for sale and all kinds ot scales highest price tor junk and hides h herman phone 1903 wanted now live geese and fat hens required good prices 8am golden at pen- nooks livery was 33 years of age but agreed he had spent the greater part of the last 22 years in custody witness said slee had asked him if he wan ted to earn some easy money and re plying in the affirmative he said slee told him he would give him 100 to burn a building in zephyr saying he was to keep the deal a secret and that slee had said bart lett would have to buy his slees store or build another asked why he did not burn the store the first time he went out to do it he said the job was not done because of a bouse which was very close to the store and he did not want to do too much damage for 100 charles laing next witness called said he did not know the prisoner but knew hillis and confirmed the statements of hillis so far as setting fire to the store was concerned he could tell of no arrangements with slee as to setting fire to the store but did make a deal with hillis to do the work and did do it and he got 16 for it from hillis witness during cross examination said he had previously served a five year term and was now doing a three 3ear bit for the theft qf bonds from james lucas at port perry he also admitted he had a checkered criminal career slee on the stand denied the truth of the statements made by hillis and laing and said there was no opposi tion to speak of between his store and bartletts and that his business was flourishing and that hehad re fused to sell out a number of witnesses were call ed by the crown and a few by the defence including mrs slee and character witnesses mr lennox in addressing the jury advanced the argument that hillis laing and ward had robbed the bartlett store and then set fire to it to cover up their tracks but offered no sugges tion as to why the men accused slee of conspiring to commit arson mr shearer held in his address that slee was guilty of the offense charged and stressed that hillis a man of skill in his unlawful profes sion was a proper person for anyone who wanted arson done to hire that if burglary had been done and fire then set to the building he held that the men would have taken 23 that was in silver under the till in the store which was not done his lordship charged the jury at some length on the law in the mat ter dealing with conviction on the evidence of accomplices and the method of selecting a truthful wit ness he charged that hillis had no advantage in telling a storv that was not true and it was backed up by laing who he remarked had some spark of good left in him he dis credited slees evidence whicn he said was of tremendous advantage to slee if it was believed and re marked the crown witnesses had no thing to gain they being now in penitentiary serving long sentences is there anything to indicate that this was not a straight piece of wicked malicious arson- he asked the jury he could not see where the evidence showed there had been moving pictures dr w j bel infant feeding dr j t phair health of the schoolage child dr f j conboy dentistry as part of a public health program dr d a mcclenahan district officer of health the meeting has been arranged by the stouffville local board ot health under the auspices of the provincial department ot health this will complete the demonstra tion in public health which miss hally has been doing during past month the public are cordially invited to attend and no admission will be charged at 430 pm there will be special moving pictures for school children free to all a dry summer bethesda mrs j scott of aurora was visit ing friends in this community mr and mrs a b steckley spent easter holidays at guelph the lighting system at our church has been improved by having new gas lights miss cora pointon of toronto visited friends here over the week end i miss bessie bollander of toronto spent easter holidays at her grand mothers mrs j steckleys following an illness that was not considered serious until recently death claimed mrs j wesley steck ley of bethesda on thursday april 16th for eighteen years or since her marriage mrssteckley had been a resident of this place and her many friends here mourn her pass ing away she was born at roseville in western ontario and besides her husband and an only son arthur she is survived by four brothers all living in kitchener and one sister in alberta the funeral on sunday to dixon hill church was largely atten ded rev mr yates conducting the last sad rites assisted by rev mr burgess interment was made at the little cemetery adjoining the church the passing of mrs steck ley removes from our midst a chris tian life and character we all ad mired nnd a woman ot kindly in stincts british meteorologists have been joined by the smithsonian institute in rather alarming predictions con cerning an impending drought it seems the meteorologists and astro nomers have been able to observe gigantic and most peculiar fireworks on the sun and this they claim is an indication of a dry period on the earth the effect of the drought is not to be local like a total or partial eclipse but the evil results will be suffered over a large part of the earths surface some people are still incredulous and pay little attention to the pre dictions of the scientific weather man the local weather prophet is still paramount in some communities while the actions of the squirrel and groundhog convey unerring truths to certain people the efficiency of the weather bureau has a rather disturbing effect on ones peace of mind for it is just as well not to know too soon of im pending calamities and disasters be he believer or doubter however the agriculturist can well afford to guard against the rather serious out come of this recent disturbing pre diction good seed and thorough tillage are the best and most prac tical safeguards against the ill ef fects of drought should the season of 1925 be characterized by lack of moisture the careful farmer who sows good seed in a wellprepared seed bed and gives his hoed crop the cultivation it requires will have done his part to meet any emergen cies that may arise and should the season not prove unusual in any re spect the precaution will be re warded in still larger yields greater profits and increased satisfaction bert boyd spent sunday at mr a bartholomews miss doreen hodgins spent easter holidays with mrs monks at balmy- beach toronto mr and mrs l helmkay of new market visited his brother in town on thursday last miss stella mccomb has returned to toronto after a couple of weeks with mr and mrs jos winterstein miss aileen lewis has returned home after spending the winter with her sister mrs howard kelly king ston ont- mr and mrs austin wagg of to ronto spent saturday and sunday with her mother mrs j patterson of bloomington misses e stiver and a stiver and miss m mccron all of toronto were guests of misses nellie and hanna stiver over sunday mr harvey schell accompanied by his mother and niece louie mc- mullen all of toroneo spent sunday with mr and mrs wesley schell dr and mrs jamieson and master ralph and miss aileen jamieson of hamilton visited over sunday at the home of mrs jamiesons father a s leaney mr and mrs howard kelly and family of kingston spent the easter holidays at the home of the latters parents mr and mrs wm lewis west of town business cards legal mccullough button barristers solicitors con- vevances c buttons block stouffville money to loan medical dr s s ball physician and surgeon office cor obiukn and main phone 106 dental j n dales lds dd s- dentist claremont honor graduate of royal colleg of dental surgeons and of the university of toronto office over mr scotts store phone 1405 claremont the 34th at brookux the prize list for the brooklin spring fair on may 21th is just off the press and copies may be had it the tribune office the entertainment committer have engaged the stouffville citizens band for the day and among other attractions there will be a big cali- thumpian parade at 1 pm the prize list is a most liberal one including all the usual classes in horses for heavy draught team in harness agricultural team in harness and light horses in harness the prizes are 20 15 and 10 cattle ex hibits are also very attractive stouffville baseball team will play the oshawa red sox while ladies soft ball games will be competed for by whitby and brooklin teams football is also on the program percy stover son of our towns man elias stover is a member of the entertainment committee and he promises one of the biggest days sport in a lifetime to the big fol lowing the band boys will have with them when they journey to brook lin on the queens birthday dr d c smith dentist stouffvillo honor graduate of chicago and to ronto university and the royal college of dental surgeons office over shaws store phone office 1011 residence 101 no outside appointments es barker lds dds dentist stouffville honor graduate of royal college ol dental surgeons and of the university of toronto office in grubins block phone 8603 markham every tuesday office ore geo crosbys store veterinary r g law vs bvsa graduate university of toroatf ringwood phone 601 with the churches mennonite church a g warder pastor sunday april 26th 10 am sunday school 11 am preaching by the pastor 7 pm preaching by the helper altona union 7 pm preaching by the pastor on monday april 27th reorganiza tion of young peoples society at altona 8 pm rev s cressman of kitchener ont will dv be present to conduct and address the meeting special singing all are welcome thomas birkett general insurance broker established 1907 i can be of service to you in all branches of insurance reason able rates fair settlement and prompt payment of losses sound and dependable com- panies phone 182 office lawson block boadway 8 drug stor1 stouffvillb baptist young people vvc jiuncu uicie nau oeen robbery why would these three jail birds go out and set fire to this store unless they were to bo paid for it he asked the jury to say toronto goes on daylight saving time on may 3rd the annual whitbylindsay asso ciation bypu rally was held in oshawa this month 66 registered from stouffville lindsay whitby sunderland manilla claremont to ronto and uxbridge outstanding features of the days session were two excellent addresses by rev john linton of high park church toronto the election of officers resulted as- follows honorary president rev w w fleischer stouffville presi dent c wilkins sunderland vice- president miss t priest whitby secretarytreasurer miss h kitch ener lindsay auction sale tuesday may 5th eight roomed brick house with kitchen in good condition also barn and furniture situate in village or claremont 1 acre of land will be sold in two parcels belonging to the estate of the late wm edwards sale at 130 see bills wm maw auctioneer health notice baptist rev w w fleischer pastor sunday april 26th 10 am bible school meets 11 am morning worship 7 pm subject lessons from a pile of bricks remember our prayer meetings wednesday and friday at 8 pm on wednesday nights the pastor is conducting a series of talks on seven parables of our lord bring your bible and enter this helpful and interesting series with us methodist church geo e coulter pastor sunday april 26th the services will be conducted by a victoria college student 11 am and 7 pm 230 bible study monday april 27th young peo ple league tuesday april 28th the ladies aid will meet at the home of mrs j heise at 8 pim election of officers wednesday april 29th prayer service 730 followed by sunday school meeting election of officers please note friday april 24th at 815 meeting of joint boards of the presbyterian and methodist churches flowers wedding bouquets and funeral designs on shortest notice we also have a beautiful selee tion of roses- floral pesigns for aix occasions mustoti sons phone 7001 stouffville rielected parties having privy vaults above or below ground are hereby notified that the same shall be cleaned on or before may 1st also all yards and rear premises of stores all stables cellars and other places must have any object ionable rubbish and decayed vege table matter removed by may 1st after which date the local officer of he when tnea b e w parties neglecting to comply with ha wv christian church edgar morton pastor sunday april 26th do we want health and prosperity i mean the greatest kind of health and prosperity then let us give special attention to the needs of the soul a healthy soul with a pure mind and heart is what we shall the health act in this regard will be promptly dealt with by order stouffville board of health stouffville april 20tb 1926 dust shall have to give up what a common thing it is to hear of a man or woman having to give up work services as usual next sunday come because you love the lord dont split your ticket when it comes to bread cast one straight ballot for our delicious nutritious loaf it lives up to its platform promises its the one bread that is always uni form in quality and weight ambrose stover baker properties for sale do you want a home we have some choice bargains in real estate for immediate transfer in stouffville and the surrounding country good farms at various prices modern brick residence in stouff ville central both electric and hard wood floors good garden greatly reduced brick residence and acre ot land barn fruit a fine property for retired farmer price- recently cut nearly halt jacob yake phone 8004 real estate agency button block etoaffrin