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stouffville ontario february 5 1931 local happenings feagaggjibgigi ttsfcatettzflirxrsxvxattifttsxr- carnival next tuesday order porters valentine cookies at mr w r bone of the canadian liank of commerce staff since last september has been transferred to the relieving staff and enters today en his new duties at cannington fresh homemade cookie at porters domestic shortening in pails dropped to 280 supply now schells butcher shop carnival next tuesday feb 10 judge ocoucell wrote the new market council stating that unless better quarters were provided the division court would be moved to aurora last week mr and mrs jame muslim attended the ball given by the york rangers iu the crystal ball room of the king edward hotel toronto the stouffville united church in the year 1930 raised a sum totall ing s137 for all purposes includ ing congregational offerings and organization endeavours the amount is large and records one of the biggest years in the churchs history which information we pass on to our readers t having been omitted from the report of the annual meeting published last week it is also announced by the church treasurer that 180 additional funds hive been contributed to the m im fund to apply in the call sent out for other subscriptions to meet the dire need in western canada all but eight of the available votes were polled in the municipal election at alliston when the com plexion of the council was changed considerably auditorium theatre stouffville friday and saturday february g and 7 despite the big storm last friday the bus service of the gray coach lines was running as usual and on saturday were right on time accord ing to schedule herbert stouteuburg who under went an operation at the general hospital toronto last week has since developed bronchial pneu monia if you like fish bite while it pays quality service mr james brodie the sheep king in this part of ontario is in toron to this week attending the annual meeting of the ontario sheep breeders association mr harvey rose engineer for the toronto york road commission was on tuesday appointed engineer for yorkcounty by the county coun cil in session on adelaide street the drake case comedies friday saturday j 3- 14 fourteen below zero on sunday morning gave the local people tho heaviest touch off winter weather we have experienced this season fortunately it quickly moderated some y a scotchman went iiito a local dentistry oitice last week and en quired how much it would cost to pull a tooth for him one dollar said the dentist after a moments pause the chap said and how much would it be just to loosen it a wee bit claremont people are anxiously waiting to hear the name of their new post master the position has been vacant for some time and several of their villagers are seek ing the job announcement of the successful applicant is expected any time white fish dressed 2 to 3 lbs per lb 12c silverbright salmon 5 to 10 lbs per lb 12c silverbright salmon in cuts per lb 15c smoked fillet of haddie lb 16c oysters by jar only 30c choice clover leaf sockeye sal tin 21c fancy quality red cohoe sal large tin 26c best quality pink salmon money can buy 2 large tins only 25c these prices good only while this fresh shipment lasts pure pork sausage per lb- only 20c dont forget our pork prices h schell opposite post oilice the cash butcher telephone 200 following a very severe illness mrs james waddiugham a former resident of church street is slightly improved according to latest word received by friends in town who are all grateful to learn that a change for the better has been shown mrs waddiugham is in grace hospital toronto smilling guns comedies groceries apricots per lb 25c soda biscuits per 2 lb 25c assorted biscuits rog lb 25c 22c oranges reg 55c per doz 45c grape fruit seedles 3 for 25c creams special per id 23c chocolate special per lb 23c baking powder reg 25c lb 20c newmarket are easy winners of the oha intermediate hockey group in which the stouffville people had an especial interest be cause the york acs oue of the teams in the group played all their home games on the stouffville arena thereby providing some real fast hockey unfortunately the yorks did not make a good showing in the group standing otherwise they would have been greeted with pack ed houses at every game anyway the boys played wonderful hockey and merited the best of support w among the renewals received at the office of the tribune last week wero those for rev f j lehman of kitchener ontario mrs w j heisey of vernon b c and mr j brownsberger of deloraine mani toba these former citizens look up on the tribune as a letter from home every week hence if you have a news item phone the editor so that nothing of public interest may be overlooked lost a valuable stouffville reward phone g513 necklace it a j baxter markham intermediate o h a team having won their local group were scheduled to play fenelonfalls last friday night with the return game in markham this monday night having won the round from the falls lakefield is the victim in hand now a w scott th best bread is only 8c per loaf delivered but you should insist on securing stouffville made bread or you may not get the quality there is a big difference these days between our bread and the loaf made to sell at a low price to compete with us dont be fooled eat stouff ville made bread a stover since our last issue a week ago we have had the heaviest winter weather thus far this season sett ing in last friday a regular blizzard lasted for a day and a night piling snow high and deep in places the weather was bitter coldas well but on saturday it became more settled and high winds ceased giving way to nice sunshine a srfow plow which set out from toronto on friday evening did not reach stouffville till four oclock saturday morning and then only with the assistance of a couple of teams to draw it through the drifts on the sth concession at dixon hill motor traffic was greatly slowed up since the storm but this is no hardship to the farmer who has horses idle in his barn his school chums of a few years back will remember ted craw ford and the older people will remember his parents mr and mrs f r crawford who lived in the silvester block well ted is spending a few days in town at the home of jack hill on mill street although a small lad when the family left here he is a young man now and for three years has been on the bank of nova scotia staff as a relieving agent he has been visiting his parents in sudbury but the bank has had him in nova scotia most of the time and this is his second trip home f r crawford it will be recalled was employed in the hardware store of silvester bros when living here the monthly meeting of the jr womens institute will be held at the home of miss marion klinck on wednesday february 11th at 230 pm roll call what r consider the most important factor in a girls appearance each one is to bring an attractive and easily made article prize for same judging competition judging a country girls wardrobe prizes for same music by miss myrtle watson mr isaac wagg a veteran of uxbridge township who for long years served on the municipal coun cil there was iu town on monday although not so nimble as he once was mr wagg is the picture of health motto of the conservative investor gentlemen prefer bonds 320 bargain pure lard only 10c per pound in 20 pound pails at schells butcher shop mr elijah pennock was in toron to on thursday on a business trip this being his only visit to the big centre in the past 8 months when any of our citizens reach 80 years of age the glare of the white lights have no great charm w j gibson and d f baker of toronto were in town last friday looking over the prospects for the sale of associate royalty trust shares oil royalties mr baker is an old stouffville boy and son of mr oscar baker of welland and grandson of mr seneca baker of baker hill on wednesday of last week mr and mrs william obrien a bride and groom who were married only that day arrived in town and re mained here until thursday the guests of mr and mrs a s collins the bride who was imrs esther greenbury is quite well known locally and quite a few years ago when she married the late mr greenbury her honeymoon at that time was spent with her friend mrs collins any wood to cut 1 let us help to do it easier we can supply very high grade handmade axes and the old reli able maple leaf saws buck saws cross and cut saws cir cular saws mrs sarah lemon of newmarket has moved to town and is occupying the front portion of the former archie leaney house one door east of the public library her brother louis pipher has come to live with her the couple were once residents on the 9th of whitchurch but for 40 years mr pipher farmed in mark ham and lived in newmarket they intend to spend tho evening of their lives in the old market town of stouffville vjf more light whiter light with the popular and safe coleman lights and lanterns let us demonstrate these to you during january february and march we close at 6 50 every evening except saturday f y w brathwaite hardware stouffville ontario mr h o klinck one of our obrien avenue residents has been pressed into service as a school teacher this week thus taking up what was at one time his regular avocation when he lived in western canada mr klinck is supplying on the high school staff in the place of miss r fuller who is ill in view of the fact that it is very diffi cult to secure teachers at this sea son for this work tho school board are fortunate in securing a local man qualified to carry on the work of first form until the regular teacher recovers her health again writing from fleet alberta to renew her tribune for another- year airs wihnot wideman indicates that the winter in their locality is wonderful there is an absence of snow and dust is blowing the wide- mans follow the events of the old home sectiop through the columns of the tribune messrs f l button and san armstrong both took rinks to toronto this week to play in the ontario tankard in their prelimi naries they lost out badly but came back strong in the contest for the consolation first winning from kingston by one shot the teams expected to finish wednesday as we go to press lest their friends are alarmed to read the sign scarlet fever over the door at the home of mr and mrs walter brillinger it is in order i to state that little gerald the patient is not very sick and is able to run about the home the attendance at the recently organized business and young mens bible class which meets each sunday in the united church reach ed sixty last sabbath afternoon messrs leslie marshall smith and lehman sang a quartette number while the teacher rev t laidlaw led in the discussion of the lesson an effort will shortly he made to secure the help of other teachers and possibly the other ministers of the town if any or them can spare the time from their own duties al most every minister in stouffville has an afternoon appointment some where inthe country three young men have gotten them selves into difficulties owing to their capers last thursday night when they deliberately destroyed the cement pillars at the brier bush shortly after midnight the three chaps in question walked down from the 10th concession enrouto home and at the home of arthur clarkson they trumped up a big noiso on his veranda then proceed ed west to the brier bush where they attacked tho pillars throwing off the cement caps and removing several blocks of the cement work this is the ono and only intimation that tho offenders will have they wore seen committing the destruc tive act and unless they report this week at the home of the owner and make matters right the caso will be taken bofore magistrate keith without further warning our advice to the three young men in volved is to stem the trouble at once for if the next step is taken to invoke the law they will find them selves in a lot of unnecessary difficulty that they may know this is not a mere bluff the specific number in the gang is specially mentioned hydro extension is going steadily on east of stouffville so that by spring several more farmers will be enjoying the privilege of the niagara current lei and johnston on the brown farm on the 10th con is completing the wiring of his house leland is something of a geni us and is doing his own work on the other brown farm occupied by lloyd turner preparations are underway to wire both the nouse and barns with provision for power in the barns for chopping and other uses this property owned by dr richardson soninlaw of tho late wilmotbrownis gradually becoming one of the most modern farm homes in the district many improvements have been added the last few years and the land brought up to a higher state of cultivation ho for the valentine carnival in stouffville arena on tuesday even ing february 10th valuable prizes special band music all welcome this is the first carnival of the seas on and is under auspicies of jubilee chapter oes the town solicitor informs us that the details relative to the annexa tion of north church street are now complete and passed by the railway board consequently the properties involved are now a part of the village and our population is thus advanced by some twentytwo in habitants while the assessment will be increased by 9000 the council of last year are to be congratulated on taking up this matter of annexa tion of church street and the park property and pushing it to a successful conclusion on the park property we have been paying a tax to markham of 12 per year which will now be eliminated seven house properties will be affected by the change on church street and ten vacant lots the total taxation on which when paid into whitchurch township last year was 350 one of the big financial papers said just recently that one thing the present world depression had done for canada was to stop the rush of farm people to the cities thereby depleting the rural population to the general detriment of the country we thought when we read this that there was little or no rushing back to the land in this locality at least but last week wo heard of the first shuffle mr and mrs eldon fairies who a year ago gave up their farm at lincolnvllle and moved into scarboro have decided to return to tho rustic life of this peaceful com munity whether eldon has all the people down in the south whore the pooplo rush in for big schools and high taxes filled up with life in surance or whether he found they hadnt money to buy this necessary protection we havent discovered but hes coming back to the farm and selling insurance will hence forth be a second consideration with him during their absence from the farm the property was rented by floyd fairies and worked by frank whettcr who occupied tho house and who with his wife are now look ing for a position on a farm where a home can be extended to thorn according to stories circulated about town the past week one of our young married menjack larkln who lives on the 10th concession just north of main street had suddenly become a lord of the manor or had inherited a great heap of gold while others put the sum at the modest amount of 40- 000 a nice thing for a young man just starting married life with but little of this worlds goods the tribune was anxious to meet this young midas so tuesday evening we sallied forth to locate his home which wasnt hard to do cvir lark- in who appears about 20 years of age was eating his evening meal but hurried to the door to answer our summons i hear you have in herited a big fortune jack we en quired well said he smilingly im not saying but ho ultimately did say that ho had not received any fortune and was at a loss to know who circulated the yarn he did ad mit receiving a letter from an uncle in england in which it stated that he would receive somo money somo time and evidently someone in whom jack confided this informa tion exaggerated the story when it was passed on jack claimed re lationship with the larkins of england who aro welltodo and whon we told him we had once been entertained by the late hon p c larkln in london when ho was high commissioner jack declared the honorable gentleman was very closely related to him wo came away feeling that another bubble had burst and that something which promised to read like a real fairy tale had gone flat young larkln is a soninlaw of john castle corner of 10th and main streets quaker fulopep egg main the cost of a feed cannot be measured in terms of what you pay for it the true cost can only be determined by the results obtained remember one extra egg per hen per month at presnt prices will offset a difference of twenty dollars per ton in the price of feed quaker fulopep egg mash will produce this extra egg and more stiver bros phone 4501 stouffville the dairy cow good roads or bad rain or shine summer or winter she brings in the cash and keeps the farm going if you ship cream to stouffville creamery co closed at 6 oclock daily excepting saturdays buy now not in many years have prices been so low on a vast number of merchandise items as at present not in many years has there been such an opportunity to get so much for so little money the thrifty are seeing the advantage of buying now while prices are low knowing that these prices cannot remain at the present level very long buyers are eager to buy when they find bargains or hear of them the merchants who has bargains and advertises them well captures the buyers buyers read the tribune for bargains jk altona mr stanley slack spent sunday with stanley reesor misses esther and lizzie davis spent sunday with miss beatrice carter mr and mrs james tindall spent tuesday with d woodlands mrs m tindall called on mrs barkis reesor on monday wo are sorry to hear that elgin wagg is laid up with a broken shoulder irev s s shantz had tea with mr and mrs j hutchinson on wednesday evening the girls class meeting was held at the homo of mr and mrs j hoover monday evening we aro sorry to hear that o m madlll is not in tho best of health mr and mrs kenneth reesor visited at fred pughs on monday evening mrs a davis and mis esther davis called on mrs d crosier wednesday evening o dont miss amosn andy but remember to call stewart bcaro and you will get expert radio service phone markham 2603 bloomington air and mrs e a storry and family spent a day in toronto last week miss elsie lemon of birchciiffe was home for tho weekend mrs o r tranmer was in toron to last week marvin loraon of toronto university wa3 home for the week end the womens association of tho united church met at the home of miss hannah fairies oil wednesday evening a pleasant time was spent ontario association of fairs and exhibitions annual convention feb 5 and c king edward hotel tor onto ontario vegetable growers asso ciation annua meeting feb 10an- nunl convention feb 11 king ed ward hotel toronto the first of the series of short courses at oac opened this week dealing with the subject of fruit growing the courses will continue as follows vegetable gardening feb 9th to 14th landscape garden ing feb 16th to 20th horticulture feb 23rd to 27