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mmm vol xl no 20 stouffville ontario thursday july 12th 1928 a v nolan publisher safe speedy harmless storevs headache hrs wafe for the lelief of headaches colds neuralgia and pain in general contains no dope but relieves by getting at the cause of the trouble does not effect the heart or cause any unpleas ant after effects acts on the stomach relieving gas stomach aches and stomach flu price 25c a box bold holdup of farmers son 30 mill tax rate for stouffville j m storey druggist the home of quality drag phonb 100s mrs a griffiths spirella corsetiere stouffville and vicinity phone 15303 boadways drug store stouffville wedding bouquets and funeral designs muston sons wholesale florists stouffville ontario phone 7001 about eight oclock on saturday evening a bold rgbbery was commit ted on the sth concession of whit church when four holdup men stop ped the car in a swamp driven by ed ferguson and under the point of a revolver relieved him of 7 all the money ferguson had on his person young ferguson who is a son of p e ferguses wellknown local farmer works for howard mcclure north whitchurch and was coming from his employers to stouffville at the time he was held up just as he entered the short piece of swamp road immediately north of reeve morgan bakers home a large tour ing car parked on the road necessi tated him pulling up and immediate ly two men mounted the running board one ramming the gun at him and the other demanding him to gel out of the car ferguson who is 19 years old and a big lad for his age refused to budge but tamed out his pockets and was allowed to remain in the zat the bandits then drove off towards ringwood at a rapid speed in their big car leaving ferguson in a cloud j of dust there were font men in the gang but no description was got nor make of car ascertained in the dusk of evening the victim was so taken by sur prise that he was sometime starting his car and failed to give any chase in fact it was nearly two hours be fore he notified the local constable of the holdup any chance of cap ture was then lost had ferguson had presence of mind and rushed to the nearest telephone along the road he might have caused the capture of his assailants by notifying ring- wood and the constables at stouff ville and lake musselman the holdup car had to pass one of these points stouffville lodge no384 meets every monday evening at 8 oclock in the oddfellows hall visiting brethren welcome jess cook w r sandere noble grand recsec archie stover fin secy farm implements why pay big prices for new implements this spring when we can serve you with any kind at less than half price we have an 1816 in ternational tractor good also binders mowers plows rollers etc at bargain benj renlin phone 102 highest price for fat fowl wool hides and junk deluxe cleaners and dyers tailor and furriers price list gents cleaning in pressing 6uits fl60 coats 100 pants 75 vests 25 overcoats 160 up dying and pressing euita 350 coats 200 pants 150 vests 50 overcoats 300 feathers cleaned curled and dyed specializing in cleaning ladies and gentlemens hats comforters cleaned velour and tapes try curtains cleaned and dyed f c rowbotham dry goods and groceries agent- all orders promptly executed and delivered goodwood mrs james forsyth of walkerton who has been visiting her twin brother here celebrated her soth birthday on monday july 9th mr hutchinson of mount albert is being transfered here as track foreman replacing mr e bright who is going to grasshlll miss olive maye has been success ful in passing her elementary piano forte examination at torontoj con servatory of music she is a pupil of mrs george maye goodwood congratulations goodwood orangemen celebrated the 12th at uxbridge turning out fairly strong with the jonathan terry fife and drum hand to cheer them along jim stewart an honor ary member was perhaps the eldest orangeman in line from here peter vanhorn and bert stewart two other honorary members were out but they have not the age to make them pioneer members at the head of our procession was norman wagg who has the distinction of be ing the worshipful master for three successive terms goodwood womens institute have had printed a neat folder announcing their program for the year the pamphlet will command attention and it shows our institute is alive to the great opportunities before them any lady would do well to become a member and receive a program and the benefits of the association the president is mrs mcdonald vice prest mrs j ashenhurst secy treas miss l collins and director mrs t wagg itjndicrft additional personals mr and mrs b heise of buffalo are visiting his mother in town mr and mrs john anderson and family of chatham are visiting at the home of his sister and brother- inlaw mr and mrs e a button james whlmstor who has conduct ed a general store business in aurora for fiftyfive years has sold the business to mr g it ardell who will conduct a dry goods establish ment only theres no remarkable secret about the recipes we use for our excellent bread and pastry we make use of the bst ingre dients and a lot of expert knowledge of the subject youll make no secret of how pleased you arc if you try our product ambrose stover baker a sad and untimely death a very sad death took place in the general hospital toronto on sun day morning last when mrs ira moyer of donsland passed away fol lowing only a brief illness mrs moyor who was only 34 years of ago was a daughter of rev c e mc- leod of stouffville who is now on a trip to scotland having landed in the old land only a few days ago when ho left home his daughter was in apparent good health and her death comes as a great shock she underwont two operations within a week besides her tothor she is sur vived by her husband and five child ren the oldet being on 11 yers of age rev mr mcleod has not yet been apprised of bis daughters death the tax rate in stouffville will be 30 mills for this year a drop of one mill from the tax imposed in 1927 the bylaw setting the rate was pass ed by the municipal council in ses sion on friday evening with reeve harry sanders presiding all coun oillors wce present excepting mr ward who 3 rated for iit allow ing the members to bold a regilar love feast and with stimulating de bate among the members with the reduced rate and the large amount of work done this year council have no hope of a large sur plus such as was carried in the bank last december the amount of money required for the various items and the rates are as follows cash raised mills s410s62 county purposes 7 1s7s7s village purposes 3 5loths 3s151 cement walks 710ths 56000 library 1 161600 street lights 2 sloths 577500 school mainten 9 910ths 296900 school debentures 5 l10th the taxes this year will be col lected in two instalments as in the past but there will be a slight change in the lime of payment for the second half the expiry dates for collection will be sept 1st for the first half of tax bills and deer 1st for the second half instead of dec 15th the shorter date will en- i able the clerk to insert a more com plete tax accoont in the financial statement published after decemher 15tn the council discussed the advis ability of maintaining the rate at 31 mills where it stood last year which would ensure a larger surplus at the end of the year but the by law passed without opposition to re duce the rate and go easy on expen ditures for the balance of this year in hopes of maintaining a proper bank balance as only one tender had been filed for a heating system in the munici pal hall it was left over and the time extended to next meeting no further extension will be granted after that miss eckardt applied to have a tree cut and mrs mowder and geo simpson each requested a street light near their properties no action was taken for more light but the street committee will look into the matter of tree cutting councillor dowswell reported that 945 had beou spent on gravel this year the bills to be paid at this ceding amounting to c44 for 322 loads from patcliffs pit obrien avenue received 116 load3 all for road work excepting 10 loads used on cement walk the remainder was placed on smith clark church and second streets also 3s loads on the street passing mr robt m the clerk reported receiving 13 in lines as returned by the county magistrate the clerk also presented a half yearly statement to show the coun cil where they stood financially prior to this meeting this showed a cash balance in favor of the corporation of 2500 nearly 700 of which be longs to the park fund and cannot be used or counted as general re venue the splendid surplus carried forward last january had enabled the council to finance all this year without a bank overdraft something few places can boast of doing council granted 31845 for gravel and work done at cemetery grounds the following accounts were or dered paid general accounts sandy jones work 780 robt silversldcs 1000 john gower 550 f mowder painting 1200 w crossen cartage 1050 john turner work 1500 h burgess work 3300 h a sanders legal exp 1100 treasurers bond 500 w ratcllft 322 loads gravel 64400 brathwalte hardware supplies 1177 water works john gower work 2100 h burgess work 1260 postage clerks office 295 brathwalte hareware 4220 a number of small accounts wore passed for hydro electric supplies mimjmimj christians enter i personal notesl union at oshawa i the oshawa christian church at j miss jc neal and miss margaret a we attended business meeting have returned from a holiday motor week by an almost unanimous j trip to st marys j vote only two dissenting votes being jack sanders has joined the onj cast decided to enter the united weego campers at whitevale fori church of canada recently the a weeks outing i christian church decided to memor- mrs ed boothby is spending a laliz the ontario christian confer- among the churches couple of weeks with her sisterr mrs giffen at belbeim principal stouffer of the continua tion school with his wife and family are holidaying la- kitchener frank burkholder and wesley boadway motored here from detroit this week to visit their parents mrs a m stracham and son ence in seeking union with the unit ed church the conference at the june session at keswick voted to postpone the matter for a year but at the same time gave to any in dividual church the privilege of unit- j ing with the larger organization and also retaining their church property the christian church of oshawa has been in existence for nearly a jock of gladstone man are spend- century and has made steady pro- mr and mrs w p white over the week end mr and mrs edgar gray of east toronto were guests of mr and mrs alt hoover church street mr and mrs ed walker and daughters may and florence of port perry visited at the home of mr and mrs k g tarr on sunday- mrs george hessell and daughter bernice of new york are spending a month with her parents mr and mrs win crossen pupils of mrs beeremonks the pupils of mrs beebe monks were all successful in passing the ex aminations of the toronto conserva tory of music intermediate piano bertha stouffor elementary school piano eulah brillingcr grace leh man sam borinskyj introductory piano ruth nendlck wee ruth while only eight years of age passed her examination with little more on tuesday mr and mrs wm reesor mrs geo robinson and hewson millard were in newmarket intending the funeral of a cousin the lata david millard visitors at the home of mr and mrs l lageers over the holiday were mr and mrs herbert lageer and daughter also miss wismer of toronto mr and mrs w lageer and family of oshawa mr w brown of broughty ferry scotland mr and mrs aiken mr and mrs taylor mrs brown mr and mrs j gerrie mr a s gerrie of toronto were guests of mr and mrs ira brown on sunday back flies which pestered the camp visitors at mrs hattie saunders over the week end were mr wm t saunders of orillia h e purdy of philadelphia pa mr and mrs c- ridgin and family of oshawa chas laviqlette sutton mrs f stoddard of toronto dr j f burkholder and family of chicago have arrived at jacksons point for the holiday season the doctor states that mr jacob barkey who was to be the special guest in stouffville on july 2nd is confined to the hospital in chicago his num erous friends all wish him speedy recovery one day last week mr a m st john former station agent at ux bridge was the guest of mr s w hastings mr st john is slowly recovering from his recent serious ill ness although he is still unable to walk without assistance ijir and mrs roy strong mr and mrs harry sawyer and wm arm strong returned last week from a fishing trip up in muskoka north of huntsville while they had con siderable success catching fish they didnt have any luck catching the robt ferguson of leamington motored to stouffville to attened the funeral of his late sisterinlaw mrs wm morden sunday of last week he is 81 years of age but stood the trip well others from a distance who attened the funeral in cluded mrs i pearson mrs scane mr and mrs harry brown len morden all of toronto mr and mrs howard kelly of kingston mrs hough of silsville and mrs hill of st catharines after spending a couple of weeks in stouffville and claremont mr and mrs r c birkett of regina have left on their return journey home they were the guests of his brother mr thos birkett insurance agent and of other friends and re- laties at claremont rcbirkett is c n r engineer running out of regina he is a native of claremont but had not visited the scenes of his boyhood days for the past nine years an interesting caller at the tri bune office on monday was mr e r jewitt of elreno oklohama who came from his home in the south to markham township in company with his mother and father mr and mrs edwin j jewitt the elder jewitt is visiting his brother rob- son jewitt whom he had not seen for 44 years the visitors are also guests with mr and mrs edwin jewitt speaking of the presidential elec tions mr jewitt states that it will be a big fight and may develop religi ous fervour to some extent the de mocratic candidate is a catholic the first ever to attempt to gain this office while as many know mr hoover the republican candidate is a descendant of a quaker family budget in the hisfory of the church but despite this the members thought that the church would serve a still greater field of usefulness with the united church representatives were present at the meeting which have been identi fied with the history and traditions of the church among them being members of practically all the oldest families of the church a daughter of rev thomas henry a granddaugh ter of rev jesse vancamp a son and daughter of mr and mrs w r stone being among this number rev thos henry and rev jesse van- camp were two of the pioneer pas tors of the church and mr and mrs stone were associated with the pas torate as far hack as seventyfive years ago the action of oshawa church will not in any way alter the stand of the other churches to consider the question of union for another year ballantrae a big time is looked forward to on the occasion of the garden party at wm cockerills on wednesday july isth wm gordon of toronto canadas popular entertainer will render part of the program with local talent tea served at 5 oclock until all are served moderate ad mission fee refreshment booth in spite of the entense heat last sunday rev i g bowles preached to capacity congregations both morn ing and evening delivering two splendid discourses lemonville choir again gave the anthems very creditably miss cora cook ofiiciat- at the organ mr tom hill rendered two excellent solos mongolia cherries seem to be the chief fruit crop this year in this locality crops are looking fine along the tenth which we hope will prove a good success to our farmers haying is on mrs lotton and husband from ux bridge spent sunday at mr zellers also mrs fossy and children of tor onto a certain person travelling all the way from alberta says that the 10th south of town is the worst road he ever travelled on an interesting ball game was played at cecil waggs on wednes day night by the ninth line and mongolia boys which proved a win to the mongolia boys piano recital than a years piano lessons miss grace lehman not securing as high h vi7iijl71 marks as the other pupils was fluclf a descendant of one of the cessful in passing two examinations f p from swltzerlapd it with fourteen months piano lessons possible that his ancestry is the securing her first examination last j same as those of the hoover families february j of this section an appreciative audience of inter ested friends of the pupils of tru man w eagleson gathered in rat- cllffs hall stouffville friday even ing july 6th owing to the error in the date appearing in the tribune of last week and counter attractions the company was not as large as could have been hoped for the hall was appropriately decor ated with flowers ferns and flags a delightful program consisting of vocal and instrumental solos duets and trios was admirably rendered by the talented pupils twenty in all taking part each played their num bers which ranged from introductory to junior grade with ease and ability reflecting the careful training of their teacher an especially pleasing feature was two solos sung by florice lewis and luella cayman the assisting artists wore ten-year- old norma eagleson elocutionist of toronto pupil of the pearl newton studla of dramatic art who again amused the company with her humor ous readings and was heartily en cored also lome and murray baker who delighted all with their hawaiian guitar numbers at the conclusion of tlio program light refreshments were served the pupils and their friends baker hill and sixth use baptist churches w s whltcombe ba pastor sunday july 15th baker hill evening service sixth line morning service st james presbyterlix rev w h fuller thb sunday july 15th 130 pm supday school 230 pm evening worship j mr fuller will preach united church of canada rev h s warren ba pastor sunday july 15th 10 am sunday school 11 am rev c w watch 7 pm rev c w watch you are invited to hear this honored minister baptist church rev w w fleischer pastor sunday july 15th 10 am bible school 11 am morning worship 7 pm subject when god brought a man back to a forsaken task come early for song service mennonite church s s shantz pastor sunday july 15th morning and evening services will be in charge of mr i pike the service at altona in the evening in charge of william heaps and arthur lehman welcome all w m christian church e morton pastor sunday july 15th we forfit the good things of the universe when we strive for the things of the world as the best things last sunday most of the men at our services made themsel ves comfortable preacher included by the removel of coats we think just as much of you in your shirt sleeves let us try it again lemonville circuit united church sunday july 15th liallnntinu public service at 1030 am sunday school at 1130 for young and old blooiuiiigtou union service at 7 pm sunday school at 130 pm help us make a record attendance lemonville sunday school at 2 pm i church service 3 pm we will welcomfe you melville bethesda peaches united churches dr e h gray pastor sunday july 15th peachs 7th line mnrkham public worship at 10 am j sunday school at 11 am young peoples meeting every wed nesday evening at 8 oclock melville oth line markham sunday school at 130 pm public worship at 230 pm the members will please note that they are requested to record their ballots for two additional elders on either sunday july 22nd or sunday july 29th bethesda 5th line whitchurch union s s during summer at 10 oclock am public worship at 730 pm young peoples meeting every tues day evening at 8 oclock births whitson at sylvania sask on june 3rd 1928 to mr and mrs james whitson a daughter green at lot 3 con 8 whitchurch on july sth 1928 to mr and mrs andrew green a son sale register saturday july 14th 192s auction sale of 40 head of cattle including milch cows beefrlngers stockerg and feeders the property of j a hawtln will be sold at the stock yards uxbridge sale at 130 sharp f w silversldcs auctioneer eclipse transport dahy service toronto markham stouff ville uxbridge oshawa fline randolph 6505 or elgin 1815 door to door service all goods insured c noakes prop old horses wanted by sunny ridge fox i ranch gormley for fox food i we wll pay good prices for im mediate delivery e morris 50 helendale ave toronto hudson 68535 toronto