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stolwville february 21st 1929 george gowers auction sale in markham township today fob saijk large comforlable robe mrs j mckinnon phone 6s13 send in your personal items and local news early as possible in the week there is always a big rush for this paper on wednesday and we appreciate getting the news before tftortay when possible the tribune is special agent for all toronto daily papers if your subscription is about to expire be fore you can come in to renew it just phone the tribune and we will renew the paper promptly so no copies will be missed this will often save inconvenience an early easter it has been said aioans an early spring it is some years now since easter fell on as early a date as it will fall in 1929 palm sundlay is march 24 good friday the 29th and easter sunday on march 31 february 13 being ash wednesday ushered in lent let us hope that the old saying is correct and that the spring of 1929 may be early and pleasant auditorium theatre stolfrville friday and saturday feb 22 and 23 white pants willie johnny hines hodge podge comedy friday and saturday march 1 and 2nd american beauiy billie dove charlie chaplin in easy street tuesday and wednesday march 5th and 6th lone eagles a universal special s g schmidt prop messrs grelg littlejohc barris ters at lsbridge have opened a branch office at claremonl winston booth formerly of stouff- ville was transferred to the saska toon branch of the manufacturers life insurance co lust recently the council of tne township of whitchurch has granted permission lor stone pillars to be erected at the road entrance to vanaort station which has been requested by mr ledson the stouffville choral class is shortly to put on a concert in clare mont miss susan daley has been spend- a week in toronto with relatives and triends strawberries are selling on the toronto market for c5c a quart box if city folk would pay that price for the first picking of the local crop the growers would feel overjoyed in the work of picking mr jess cober of gormley who is shortly to retire from farm life has purchased the frame house on the corner of main street and baker avenue from frank baker who re cently purchased it from the isaac reanian estate te sale price is reported at 2900 choral class practice for the old time concert of one hundred years ago will be held in the basement of the united church thursday feby 2sth at s pm fee 50c music in cluded hand your name to the secy mrs davey fifty members are re quired thieving is again complained of by those who use the united church sheds for their horses last thurs day evening someone stole a pair of chime bells from off a horse but fortunately the guilty party is strong ly suspected and we may have some thing further to report if the musi cal instrument is not left at the tri bune office before the next issue of this paper mr jw mcfadden the president of the dickens fellowship of toron to will be in stouffville on monday evening feby 25th to deliver an address on the life of charles dickens before the swastikas of the united church the meeting which will be held in the sunday school auditorium will be an open one and all who are interested are cordially invited to attend a silver collec tion will be taken to defray expenses the most liquid investment a saving bank account is primarily an invest ment but it is the only investment yielding a fair rate of interest that is available for your use at a moments notice emergencies can be immediately met by the bank account that has been consistantly developed your investment as such yields regular returns in interest your investment as a bank account yields constant satisfaction and peace of mind because it is always available the canadian bank of commerce with which is timatoatnatai the standard bank of canada jl 1 v m ieii hi i 1 mr jacob boadway contemplates installing a new store front in bis newly acquired building now occu pied as a chinese safe and next his drug store poor and outofdate business fronts are now becoming scarce on main street which ail adds to the attractiveness of the town as a i rsiriess centre potatoes are only bringing 30c per bag at uxbridge and thousands of bags are stored in the town and vicinity the toronto market quotes them at 90c bag which seems quite a spread from the meagre price re ceived by the farmer many of whom will find it more profitable to feed the tubers to their hogs than to draw them to market shaws big anniversary sale is at tracting buyers from long distances from town and opened on monday morning with several customers who had driven horse and cutter tor an hour over the heavy roads in order to be here for the opening day the sale wjll continue until closing time saturday night and the bargains in every department will be maintain ed or replaced until the last day a break in the small water pipe leading from the mains to the post office necessitated a couple of men digging up the earth in front of the government building on mondayand putting in a new pipe the break was discovered because the water leaked into the basement of the office the piping had been put down to serve the old town hall building which once stood on this site rev- d l gordon chairman the toronto east presbytery of tite united church and quite well known in stouffville has stated his inten tion to resign the pastorate of the agincourt united church on june 1st unless the board of managers of the church make further financial in ducement for him to stay mr gor don has been pastor there tor ten years coming from cobalt and the many duties and increased congre gation is the cause of his seeking more pay march corner 1st is just around the earl a grubin ro eyesight specialist at stouffville from wed nesday to saturday of each week and every evening phone 2405 on friday evening stouffville and district were well represented at marknam when the victoria hockey team won the second game of the round from markham juniors by 5 to 1 thereby putting the former out of the league honors markham has a splendid team but the city players were too much for them when it came to shooting sevendoukhobors men and women are on trial at xelson bcrt two of them man and woman were arrest ed in the snow after having left their clothing at home these poor people are merely following their religious beliefs for which they will have m pay the penally of the law but what of present day flappers who come nigh an infraction of the same law when they are merely following out fashion beliefs the north york veterans for the federal riding met at aurora last week and after hearing wesley w brooks address them unanimously endorsed him for the position of postmaster at newmarket- mrbrooks is a native of the county being born in newmarket and had a proud war record under the civil service act the position must be filled by a re turned soldier if one qualified to act is available we doubt if there lias been a win ter in the last seven when less wood was being hauled into town at this time of the year than there is at pre- snet time is not far past when one could scarcely look out of the win dow without seeing a nice load of body hardwood oh the sleighs but now we can count more loads of coa being hauled by the farmers to their homes it is a sane prediction that there will be no wood available for fuel purposes in this locality in an other ten years mrs hary marsh mother of mrs ww fleischer died on friday at her home 13 adams ave toronto she had been in illhealth since last fall when she was taken seriously ill while on a visit to her soninlaw mrs fanny marsh of london out mother of kearney marsh pro champion of the london golf and hunt club- she was a member of christie street baptist church sur viving are lou e marsh of the tor onto daily star garnet marsh now in new orleans harold e marsh of toronto and mrs fleischer wife of rev walter fleischer of the bap tist church stouffville the oratorical contest conducted by stouffville continuation school to be held on friday feby 22nd will be held in the assembly rooms at the school and not in ratcliffs hall as previously announced ah parents and the general public are asked to patronize this very worthy event mr thos birkett has added a new chevrolet coach car to- his insurance- service disposing of the roadster ear just why the insurance man is adding to the seating- capacity of his car his friends are hard pressjd to figure out and we confess we are uu able to assist them- quality service announcement we beg to announce that we are taking orders and selling gilt edge 650 ft gold leaf 600 ft this is a product made in the largest factory of the kind in the british empire we have a binder twine calendar for you did you get one j stiver bros while driving over the cork-screw- road from unionville to markham on monday morning last mr f w silversides was unfortunate enough to run into the ditch bending the radius rod on his car the road at this point is very slippery and only moderate speed may be held or one can scarcely make the sharp curves a passing truck assisted mr silver- sides to get his car on to the road again when he was under the im pression that no damage was done after stalling up again lie landed in the opposite ditch when the condi tion of the radius rods was discover ed cober bros of markham were sent for to tow in the crippled car laco mazda lamps give the very best service and lower prices are now in effect they give more light and burn less current than other makes try them keep our radio dept in mind our machines give entire satisr faction and sell at low prices watch our window for weekly suggestions on articles for winter use buy stoves and heaters now we have a big rangs in axes foi the woodmen mitts for cold weather and a nice tine of sport skates 7 y w brathwaite ore closes each evening except saturday at six oclock in the whitchurch council report last week the salary of the collector was given as 120 when it should have been 5320 collector frank steckley thinks the last figure is plenty low enough and at no time was the salary down to 120 since he took over the appointment quite a few years ago the low figure was printed in error the amount of work to he performed by the clerk treasurer collector and most of the other oiticials is steadily growing in whitchurch due chiefly to so many intricate government reports demand ed and to the growing subdivisions at the summer resorts which do not add much to the coffers of the mun icipality now that the local councils in this locality have taken a hand in help ing the dominion authorities at ot tawa to do the right thing in regard to the curtailment of rum running it might also be in order for them to pass a resolution to he sent lo pre mier ferguson protesting against any part of the proposed old age pension bui being saddled on the municipalities- we would strongly urge that stouffville whitchurch markham and uxbrldge councils get such a protest in to the government at once pickering township has already taken such action and if a united front is shown throughout the province there is little danger of mr rorguson moving against such mani fest opposition tile carnival held in the arena on thursday night by jubilee chapter of the eastern star proved a big success there was a large crowd of skater and a goodly number in cos tume for which the prizes were well distributed by impartial judges the pair of them acting being from markham and therefore were stran gers to nil in the contest some of the prizes went as far as uxbrldge town for that place sent down sever al competitors the total proceeds amounted lo 9215 leaving tiie or ganization a net profit of around 50 the prize winners were best valentine miss helen todd mens fancy dress middlebrook best clown byron willis uxbrldge best dros under 14 years nelda lehman best fancy dress miss drownscombe uxbrldge largest family c bunker mongolia during the course of his sermon in the baptist church on sunday evening the pastor recalled the changing conditions here hi this sec tion where at one time the people were served witli eight hotels in town and the immediate section as compared with today wheu they are served with some eight ministers he was quite safe in his opinion that the ministers do not do as much harm as the barrooms the passing remark emphasized the fact of the changing conditions of but a few years quite a number of our citizens remember six hotels running fn town and two more at ringwood but who of them ever thought forty years ago that such a change would be wrought in their day and generation spring now that the spring season is approach ing you will be thinking of redecorating your homes see our new spring samples of canadian manufactured sunworthy wallpapers that will retain their freshness and richness of color under the most exact ing conditions in patterns- to meet all pur poses at prices that will not exclude their use even when it is necessary to restrict the cost of repapering at a very low figure prices range from 8c up its beauty lasts large complete batts best quality 98c ea fine quality striped flannelette 36in wide suitable for quilt linings etc at 25c yd boys fancy knit v neck pullover sweat- ers special at 8199 ea ers special at 199 each ladies heavy and sand at knit toques in white red at 75c ea f c rowbotham at the first council mealing in stouffville this year councillor rus- nell mooted something about intro ducing a bylaw forbidding dogs run ning at large on streets without being on a leash if councillor rusnell attempts to bring in such a bylaw he will have the hearty support of the majority of citizens but will bring into his disfavor some of the dog owners no doubt in any event such a bylaw should be made effec tive for the summer months only a dog bylaw would be intended lo restrain the liberty of dogs when gardens and flower beds are freshly put in dogs are so apt to select the loose earth as a convenient place to bury hones to be later dug up and gnawed at when they get home late for dinner last week in luck- now five citizens were fined for in fraction of the dog bylaw which they held should only operate in summer season the magistrate agreed with them but the bylaw provided for all dogs to be twelve months of the year on the leash ammonia 3 pkgs 25c soap flakes al 3 pkffs 2c corn stacrh 3 pkgs 27c apriests fancy quality per tin 2sc bartlett pears per tin 30c harvest strawberry jam 4 lb tin 70c ileintz oven baked beans tomato sauce 3 tins 29c a w scott the grocer new and used cars we can make immediate delivery of any model of new car or truck if you have decided you want a new car in the spring order now to guarantee delivery when you want it it looks almost certain that we are going to be short of cars to fill orders when spring opens up we kave the followiftg good used cars for sale 1927 model chevrolet fordo- lt27 ford tudor 192c ford tudor j9 25 ford tudor h23 ford tudor 1921 ford tudor 12 for touring 921 ford louring 92i ford touring 2 ji23 foid tout lugs 1 25 ford truck 3 123 fod trucks 1fli gray djrt us ford coirpa these cars will be all sold and guaranteed as represented or money refunded delbert holden ford dealer phone 184 the moncton winter outdoor boot mndo in 9 and 7 inch hofehta for mon and women and 6 and 5 inch heights for boys the coldproof boot for all outdoor work or sport heavy felt top with rubber sole and heel a rubber for every purpose look for thetrade mark the hrus3er co limited a complete range of northern boots and kiibbcrs is on hand to meet your needs at george saunders stouffville ontario