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pp mtmm vol xl no 45 stouffville ontario thursday january 3rd 1929 a v nolan publisher 1 beware the flu at the present time grippe colds and the flu are prevalent and all are la danger of these troubles those who have vigorous health are less likely to become- victims but it behooves every person to adopt protective measures the providence baftisi church nyal vieos will fortify the system by increas ing strength and rebuilding waste tissues and because of its antisep tic properties creophos prevents the lodgment of germs take i creophos now as a preventative measure and be sure 100 per bottle j m storey druggist the home of quality drugs phone 1008 towxshu of markham 1848 1028 an acclamation in whitchurch business cards medical dr ss ball physician and surgeon office cor obrien and main phone 100 coroner for york county drs ira herbert freel consultation hours dr ir freel i- j to 12 am mon wed frl 6 to 9 pm saturday tues thura sat af ternoona by appointment only briherbert frefel 9 to 12 am tues thurs sat to 9 pm tues sat hon wed frl afternoons by appointment only a ckennedy chiropractor 0 church st stouffvllle monday wednesday and fridays 9 to 12 am dentaii e s barker lds dds honor graduate of royal college of dental surgeons and of the university of toronto office in grublns block phne 8201 markham every tuesday office in wear block dr d c smith honor graduate of royal college of dental surgeons and of the university of toronto dr neil c smith honor graduate of royal college of dental surgeons and toronto university also post graduate of rochester childrens hospital i office standard bank upstalrs phone office 1011 residence 101b jgb0s mharold a- sanders barrister solicitor notary public conveyancer ete office silvesters block phone 18008 mccullough button barristers solicitors convey ancers c buttons block stouff villa money to lonn mrs stadlebar hair dresser main street stouff rllle phone 8000 for appointments anne lehman j a t o m j x i teacher of pianofortepiaying and theory studio lehmans block phone 4301 vyr wedding 2 bouquets and funeral designs mustotifi sons wholesale florists stouffville ontario gtf phone 7001 boadways j drug store stouffville ffville lodge no384 every monday evening at 8 oclock in the oddfellows hall sis ting brethren welcome book- w r sanders bble grand hecsocy j le stover flu secy in attempting to review the past history of a church many avenues of interest invite entrance the re cords present much of interest in the matter of old residents father son and grandson local conditions community interests past pecu liar wording and spelling chaugos in financial conditions changing values in properties and remunera tion but what of these is this the highest interest or the real purpose of the review of the past history of a church we feel rather that the avenue of greatest importance and of largest blessing is the one that leads us to the place where we may tune in and reproduce the spiritual aspira tions of those who have gone seen the hand of our heavenly father in his children learn some lessons from the seasons of spiritual barren ness as well as the seasons of spirit ual blessing in short to get first a new and enlarge vision of the lid portance and purpose of what we call a church and second our re sponsibilities and privileges in this regard so that through this new and enlarged vision we may be brought to the place not where we may do larger things for the master the impossible but to the place where we may surrender our all to he who is the king of kings and lord of hosts who is able to take our weak nesses yea our nothingness and by his power use us to his own glory and make us instruments in his hands to the saving of precious souls sometimes we say our church with the emphasis on the word our and we organize and plan and marshall all our energies to make it a success in financial and numerical results let us remember the masters own words to peter upon this rock i will build my church have we a church here then the master says it is my church hark it is my church no earthly power of human ability or organization has built or owns it if it is a church it is my church and has been built only by and through the power of the holy spirit and on the one and only foundation even the christ the son of the liv ing god in this light what is the past und present history of this unit of the lords church away back in the thirties of the past century a godly woman living in england of goodly family and led of the spirit in read ing the word was brought to convic tions of truth that brought conflict in the family life she true to her faith arid what she believed to be her masters word and command in the matter of baptism found it nec essary and expedient to sacrifice earthly inheritance and family bonds and with her husband set sail for a new land arriving in canada in the early forties they located in on tario and started life anew on the farm which is today the site of the present church building and in the then only baptist church in the community the parent church on the ninth line of markam township known as the first markham baptist church they established their mem bership and worshipped god accord ing to their conception of his word for some years the eight miles be tween home and church were no bar rier to constant and loving attend ance at the place of worship visi tors were always urged to accom pany them but on refusing were allowed the privilege of remaining alone until in the appointed place the family had rendered unto god that which was his viz forget not the assembling of yourselves etc and from lovebjating hearts had united with the brethren in lifting up their hearts in praise in suppli cation and feasting upon the spirit ual food of his word this home verily was one of the kings out posts in the land of the enemy and no secular or material interests were sufficient to interfere with the dally hour set apart for worship and fel lowship with their god not a god of stone or the creation of mans mind or mens hands but god the living god the one who heard who loved who strengthened and sustained them in many an hour of need and of difficulty and who enriched their lives and made their hearts respond with joy and gladness to his serviced the community at this time was rough and godless the sabbath day given over to horseracing games of all kinds and the utter disregard of god or his laws was the all- wise infinite god mindful of these things had he in his infinite wis dom knowing the end even from the beginning touched the heart of this godly woman and her husband and brought about the conditions in the old land that made it difficult to re main in tho old easy selfsatisfying conditions and led them forth into a far land to be the instruments n continued on pago 8 whitchurch nomination miding i do not suppose that any young member of york county council ever had a more stormy career therethan i have had but i want to tell you men here that when the last audit of york county on the highways com mission books was made it was shown that i was right that material had been paid for by york county commission that bad never been placed on the roads so stated the retiring reeve morgan baker in his address to the electors at yandorf on monday mr baker dealt largely with county affairs in dis cussing the cost of secondary educa tion in the county mr baker stated that whereas in 1920 the county spent 2732242 in 192s the cost to the county was 24074460 but the increase was largely made lip in the unnecessary elaboration of school buildings gymnasiums and concert halls that one township in the south was even providing free text books for the pupils and wanted the county to pay half the cost of trans portation of pupils to and from school he added we in the north protested i brought in a resolution against it but they have the pre- pondrance of votes and they outvote us they force us to pay mr baker went further tostate that it was time seeing that we could not get justice from the county council on this matter that the northern muni cipalities cooperate and take a de putation to wait upon the hon-min- ister of education and ask him for legislation defining what school costs the county of york should pay for in the matter of municipal govern ment in the county of york he show ed how the cost had jumped from 10930 in 1924 to over 20000 in 1928 he claimed that the work of county council could have been done in half the time if the standing committees would put forth an effort to get in their reports that considerable portion of time was wasted just standing around waiting for these reports to be brought in for discussion in the matter of assessment he showed np how whitchurch town ship was assessed up to 54 per tent of sale value for county equalization purposes whereas these southern mun icipalities were only assessed up to 34 to 35 per cent of sale value and thus whitchurch was bearing an un due share of county expenditures and most of the money being spent in the south in the matter of municipal relief that in 1926 when the law had been changed that air hospitals bills of indigent patients should be paid by the county and one half charged directly to the local municipality the cost to the county was 42000 in 1928 the cost was over 90000 a resolution is on the books of the county asking to jiaye the old sys tem restored at least in york county mr kidd in his address dealt with purely the township affairsconfininfi his remarks largely to the road question he stated that during 1928 7740 yards of gravel had been placed on township roads 1 yds to the rod making a little better than 16 mites that had been gravel ed that of the 23930 that had been spent on roads and bridges over 3000 had been spent bri a larce grader and 3 cement bridges along with retiring reeve mrbaker has gone on record as opposing the appointment of a school or public health nurse until such time as the people wanted one appointed for deputyreeve the following were nominated ross e ratcllff g w williams geo h leary all three addressed the council on their own behalf mr ratcllff stressing his length of service in the council- that he now felt that iad- vancement was due him mr williams stated that he felt that the electors would cast their votes for the man that had delivered the goods and that he considered he had that he was instrumental in getting better tenders for culverts on 7th- cori line that he was re sponsible largely tor the leasing of the gravel pit near bogarttown as suring the township good gravel for the next few years whereas we had in the past to be- satisfied with the poorer grade left over after the con tractors got theirs for cement con struction work mr leary who has spent 3 years in the deputyreeve tehair wished to come back to fit he felt that he could serve the township better than either of his opponents particularly in county council with his pastox- perience to guide him since the nomination meeting both mr leary- and mr ratcllff have re tired from the field for the seat of deputyreeve giving mr williams an acclamation mr ratcllff who was also nominated for council is staying in the field for that position mr rao nnd mr evans both now men to aspire for seats n council ad- ss3ss4 grtkmhml mm i mr w p white is spending the winter with his daughter mrs a a voberts of orillia mr and mrs a burkitt of oak- vlle spent the holiday season with hs relatives in town misses gertrude and betty barker vere in toronto with their aunt for the christmas holidays mr and mrs o rea were holiday visitors from hamilton with ler parents mr and mrs b doten fred dewey and his mother both former residents of 7th of markham were out from toronto on friday miss gertrude nicholson from nia gara falls ny visiting at her home here for the christmas holidays mr d g walls of toronto was in town last week visiting his bro ther edw miss n huxtable a former teacher on the school staff was a visitor this week with mrs robinson mrs catherine johnson and dau ghter spent christmas with miss e johnson in toronto miss janet button was inohatham and wallaceburg for a few days last week miss ruth brown of toronto is spending a few days with miss ethel sanders miss ruth curtis of toronto visited with 1 relatives over the new year holiday mrs gladwell of toronto was a recent visitor with mrs frank gordon v the nominations in stouliville school trustees for term of two years w hi shaw j w memullen am brose stover jacob hoover drdc smith harold sanders ho klinck harry billinger for unexpired term of a e booth dr s s ball a v nolan h j jialloy for cemetery commissioners ehas hoover ludwin hoover j w ratcllff for council joseph borinsky george dows- well john mckinnon a j wara david rusnell wilfred morden john monkhouse norman mclean frank kowbotham mr benj madill left ten days ago foy long beach california where he will spend thewinter wlthhls son gladys miller of the high school staff at weston was with relatives in town for her christmas vacation mrs edw walls returned on monday night from toronto after spending a few days with her daughter miss marion clark was home from cqllingwood with her mother and brother for her christmas holiday mr arid mrst g mckeiizie of pontiac mich motored to stouff ville last thursday a distance slight ly over 300 miles to spend new years at the home of mrs mcken- zies father clerk j s dougherty mr and mrs j a jermiin spent christmas with mr and mrs as collins also mr and mrs p a jerman spent the new year the boys are both employed at the harris arbatoir toronto air and mrs t hargrave of tor onto spent the holiday in town with her parents mr and mrs p lehman miss mildred lehman also was under the parental roof for the christmas the paerntal roof for the christmas mr and mrs e lunau and daugh ter motored out from toronto on friday to spend the day with mrand mrs helmkay the former having suffered a slight stroke a few days ago it was an unusnal opportunity that of seeing some dishes christmas day on the dinner table at mr and airs thomas morton which were between 86 and 90 years old some of the dishes were used by her father and mother 86 years ago when they first started to keep house i at the christmas gathering at the i home of mr and mrs w a silvester church street tho visitors included miss hazeltheir daughter from tor onto also misses winnie and bertie silvester from toronto and mr and mrs j k brown and son walter from lemonvllle in a recent renewal for the tri bune from wilmot wideman fleet alta he writes in part we sure enjoy getting the paper its like a lot- ter from home we are having love ly weather no snow worth speaking about the roads are verjf du3ty but goodfor auto traffic births jennings jn stouffville on dec31 12s to mr and mrs del jennings a son dressed the meeting on their own behalf briefly while mr cutler who has been a candidate in previous elections criticized previous councils in not building more permanent roada he advocated the burning of even a mile or two annually and figured that it was better to spend a dollar or two in extra taxes than heavy garage bills mr cutler resigned which leaves the entire new council elected by ac clamation as follows roovo herman kidd deputyreeve wesley williams councillors r e ratcllff new ton rae lome evans town meeting for noniinatio s there was an excellent attendance including nine ladies at ratcliffs hall on monday evening it having been generally supposed that fire works were to be the order of tre evening at the close of the nominations on motion the clerk was voted to act as chairman the first item of business was the presentation of the financial sate- ment which was received without any oppositioneopies of the financial statement having been distributed at the commencement of the proceed ings the first speaker was w hshaw who while admitting that the mem bers of the school board may have made mistakes yet claimed that they had been animated by a sincere de- sireto make the sehoola success in the same manner j w mcmul- len also spoke and promised if elect ed to serve to the best of his ability none of the other taxpayers who had been put in nomination were present councillor ward offered some critic ism on certain events that had hap pened during the past year and urged the new board to adopt a more businesslike method in its conduct of school affairs none of those put in nomination for cemetery commissioner took the platform to seek support for their candidature reeve h w sanders on being called upon was received with ap plause the reeve expressed his appreciation of the honor conferred upon him in giving him an acclama tion and briefly passed in review the work done during the pastyear especially mentioning the bullaing of the road on main street and gra velling of the roads the institution of an artesian water supply instead of that previously in use the new system of heating the fire hall and council buildings and the new method of paying in the various taxes in outling the work for the next year he instanced the necessity for improved sidewalks the filling in of the ditches on both sides of main street and the purchase of a chemical fire extinguisher councillor jos borinsky in thank ing the ratepayers for the confidence they expressed at the last election when he headed tha poll briefly re viewed the past years work and sug gested in addition to those mention ed by the reeve that the streets be curbed and a fire alarm system also installed councillor mckinnon thanked his nominator and seconder for having been nominated for another term and promised to work for the best interests of the town councillor dowswell and ward ran true to form by going for one another after an announcement re specting the opening of the schools reported in another column thei meet ing closed with the singing of god save the king the voting stations are as in pre vious years the council chamber for district no 1 south of main st and porters ice cream parlor for no 2 north of main street just enough qualified to make up the school hoard as follows j w momullen w h shaw ambrose stover a v nolan there will be a run for council and the ratepayers will make their choice from this list jos borinsky geo dowswell john mckinnon aj ward f c rowbotham d h rus nell and norman siclean assistant male tea s clifford lownsbury of smithvillo hasbeen appointed to the staff of the continuation school at stouff ville and will enter upon his duties on the opening of school mon day the board were very fortun ate in their chotco of mr lowns bury tor he is writing on his ba examinations and thus far he passed with honors at the university of to ronto in mathematics and science the very subjects which the new teacher will be lequired to handle mr lownsbury has had two yeara xperience in continuation school work and is highly recommended by the high school inspector he should prove a valuable addition to the staff and will be able to carry- on the good work in physical culture that has been under the direction ot mr stouffer if mr lownsbury measures up to the anticipations of the board we have a real efficient js staff miss l hammond will act as principal and miss guardhiuse and mr lownsbury as assistants smithville population 800 the home town of the new teacher is located twenty miles southwest of hamilton but his latest teaching experience was gained at gore bay on manitoulin island among the churches bakeu hill and sixth link- baptist churches w s whltcombe ba pastor sunday jan 6th baker hill ani the holy spirit sixth line pm the gospel of the grace of god st james presbyterian church rev w h fuller thb sunday jan 6th j 130 pm sunday school 230 pm evening worship public cordially invited christian church e morton pastor sunday jan 6th gritsm- have we all entered th 0 in a way that is going heavenly father difficult- and calls fof n of ffis of soul to live a nff one let us be r notations pie through mi f canadian gold reserves depleted them this de- ttnttpti boe partially allo- wm x 5 im from england iport point ofy rev h s m increase in the countrys ii- hroikh mining operations p is fredon slogan hats f c coats off to most part to date baptist ci rev w w flels sunday jajrqo 10 am let one of your new year resolutions he on time at sun day school 11 am subject simply living 3 pm service 9th line baptist church 7 pm subject a voice from heaven faith and truth templib first door eastof fire hall thursday 8 pm prayer praise and bible study j o e crockford of toronto lords day services 11 am thei doctrine of god 3 pm sunday school 7 pm gospel service ttr mcdon- aid worker in charge- 3 melville bethesda jgglchs united ohuhches dr e h gray pastor sunday dec 16th peachs 7th line markham sunday school at 10 am public worship at 11 am melville oth line markham sunday school at 130 pm public worship at 73d pm bctltesdn 5th lino whitchurch union sunday school at 2 pm public worship at 3 pm young pebples meeting every tues day evening at 8 oclock lambert was first at 12 oclock last monday night master lambert malloy age nine years was the jucky winner of one dollar from mr k g tarr obrien avenue who had promised this amount to the first boy under ten years who wished him a happy new year in 1929 mr tarr states that hcploasuro he received from this now idea was well worth tho monoy paid his only regret being that more j boy3 had not been in the running as therewas a treat in stpro for fjf who called upon mm goodwood a large number have b with the mild typso flu sen laid un we are sorry to report the sehe illness of air3 j p rold ajvo for a very speedy recovery tfipme the sale of the late mfsitf ceived was well attended and yate am were secured for the prorominions walter brown purchsjjfconceivably and lot and tho 32 fffm of tho is still unsold ad ins cnthusi- owing to he i which he is znl- at the baptutconcral herteosr his 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