The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

stouffville ontario november 29 1934 alvtn s farmer licensed auctioneer farm stock sales a specialty sales conducted anywhere rates moderate phone stouffvllle 6312 address gormley po stewart bearb phone markham 2603 or to bralthwaltes hardware 9c01 radio repairing a service you will appreciate now is the time to make your christmas cake wo carry a full line of this seasons fruits nuts fuels for your chrismtas llakiiij largo valencia raisins2 lbs 25c bleached sultana raisins per pound 20c currants pound 15c cut mixed peel per lb 20c glace cherries per lb 10c seedless raisins 2 lbs 25c christies royal cream soda biscuits per pound 10c home made candy be suro to get one of bordens new recipe books for easy shortcut recipes for making your christmas candy 1 free with 2 tins of eagle brand condensed milk 38c chocolate gingers lb claremont choice pumpkin 3 tins tor homes jelly powders in glass tumblers each we have again arranged for our supply and will be able to supply you with fancy let us have your order early so as to get disappointment of northern turkey birds any weight first choico without ratcliff co town delivery phone 7112 the tribune published every thnrfoay at stouffvllle ontario yearly subscription rate canada united kingdom 200 united states points 250 a v nolan notes and comments barley we are in the market for barley oats wheat and mixed grain submit your samples of alsiki alfalfa red and timothy coal coke cement and tile notice we have just received a consignment of fasterfat cod liver oil for poultry sells at 90 cents per gallon bring along your container s w hastings phone 169 stouffville a man in detroit had a row with his wife and it ended up in police court it started because he contend ed his wife could not iron shirts as well as his mother and so persisted in having his mother do them if this thick head had stayed at home with his mother instead of getting married the court would have not had to listen to his shirt tale and things would have been bettor for all parties involved no less than three counties have petitioned the ontario government tor permission to call in their out standing debentures to reissue them at a lower rato of interest the governments virtually do this why not the counties and then if the counties have the right why not the individual who is struggling to meet interest charges at 6 and 7 per cent fact is the private borrower stands as much in need of relief from burdensome interest charges as any class or group but nothing is done to improve his lot how governments can help farms surely there should be some lightening of the farmers burdens the federal government can help him by allowing him to buy his implements and his clothing in the cheapest markets by not imposing a tax on such a necessity as sugar by- allowing the farmer to have a radio licensefree the provincial govern ment can help the farmer by turn ing over to the municipality in which the farmer lives a generous pro portion of the gasoline tax a large part of the farmers tax burden is municipal including roads and education and the provincial governments could help the farmer by helping the municipality to a much greater extent than at present with direct grants newmarket era send the tribune to absent frlendb christmas and holiday suggestions christmas but a month away dainty neckwear it is well to take thought of your christ- to freshen up an old dress or to add a mas shopping so that you may have a touch of beauty to a new one these dainty better selection and more leisure to make collars will be found most effective and the choice of your gifts without the rush and price and quality will surprise you as low as hurray of last minute shopping 39c each and up to 135 each silk hosiery bath robes every woman loves fine and dainty a bath robe would make a delightful apparel and silk hose are especially import- gift and these cosy eiderdown robes are just ant both for comfort and appearance we what is needed for these cold winter morn- are showing many very attractive lines and ings womens and misses sizes 125 475 if you are buying for gifts or for your own pttpq personal use you will find these hose entirely tt luuk itui satisfactory have you seen the bengal embossed chenille rugs in blue or mauve with fine silk and wool and all wool hose in fringed ends about 27x54 in size with all the fall shades all sizes outstanding very attractive embossed patterns a very values at per pair 75c 100 acceptable gift at each 495 special pure silk hose small sizes 8 v6 and gift notep aper 9 at per pair 59c a 0 dainty notepaper is a very de- van raalte silk hose are outstanding in sireable gift to give or receive and we are quality and appearance and you will find showing many very attractive and unusual them satisfactory in every respect st a th p and envelopes re of per pair 95c n quality moderately priced at 25c to 1 bath towels a pictures make an ideal gift and you will find on ave always acceptable and in good taste as our counters an exceedingly attractive dis- rifts and we hvc many reproductions of plav of bath towels of soft absorbent quality old masters that are worthy of a place in and with very delightful colour combina- all hom also many fine landscapes and tions priced at each 25c to 79c marine pictures that are exceptional in quality and beautv bath towel sets have you seen the new triple pictures comprising one bath towel and two face three separate pictures framed alike with cloths in cellophane wrapping a very attractive subjects in ech also many attractive gift each 59c to s125 attractive miniatures in handsome frames stamped goods prices are from 25c to 250 for those who like to make their own christmas cards and books gifts you will find many desirable it is not too soon to procure your christ- suggestions here pillow cases bed spreads ma cards for overseas a very choice selec table covers aprons cushion covers etc at tion to choose from 2 for 5c 5c 10c 15c 25c very reasonable prices childrens books in great variety suitable scarves tne very sma child and the that will match your costume dainty larger children 5c to 39c scarves with striking colour combinations in toys and dolls silk or wool plain stripes and checks in our toy department is replete with toys great variety and prices range and dolls that will delight the heart of every from 39c to 195 child at 5c to 100 mr a mcfadyen of toronto will be in our store on saturday december 1st with a full- line of coats a dresses in the newest styles and materials a lady stylist will also be in attendance to assist you in selecting and fitting remember the date saturday december 1st the w h shaw store phone 9512 open tuesday thursday an d saturday evenings stouffville ontario pickering pioneers of hundred years ago settlers came first to allona about 1830 monkhouse store established in 1857 by present owners father the first school house paper by mrs t dunkeld before the altona womensinstltute at the dawn of our provincial history some two hundred odd years ago we find according to the re cords of the french missionaries several indian villages in existence on the north shores of lake ontario the indians who inhabited these villages were of the tribe of sene cas one of the famous five nations or iroquois their ancestral terri tory was south of lake ontario with in the great forest that stretched from the niagara to the hudson but a considerable portion of the tribe seem to have made permanent homes for themselves on the northern shores of the lake attracted doubtless by the game and fish which wero there easily obtainable in rich abundance the french missionaries m fenelon and m trouve had established missions in two of these indian villages one in prince edward county the other where port hope now stands and in the year 1gc9 m fenelon proceeded still farther westward to a third village gandatsetiagon on french mans bay this village was later to become one of the best shipping ports on the lake all the grain and timber from this section being teamed and shipped from there now nothing remains to show any signs of these activities and the lake shore has become a summer resort in passing we may say that an indian buryingground was in later years discovered near the present atha school in 1791 the constitutional act was passed which divided the province of quebec into the two provinces upper canada and lower canada on feb 22nd of the same year instructions were issued from the surveyor generals office in quebec to one augustus jones to survey and mark the front lino of a row of townships from the mouth of the river trent to toronto and to carry the side of each township back one mile it is interesting to note that the work was completed in the fall by the surveyor and the ten men he was to employ the time being 79 days the salary 34 lis 3d or 17280 the survey of the township would seem to have been completed and some few settlers located in the township before 1796 the first township meeting was held on the first monday of march 1811 when town clerk assessors collectors pathmasters poundkeepers and wardens were chosen the census of the township at this time was around 180 persons in 1911 cen tennial year a suitable celebration was held at brougham the popula tion of the township at this time being near the 6000 mark how altona settled the year 1830 marks the be ginning of a new era in the history of upper canada it is estimated that 34000 settlers entered the province in 1831 and during the four years 18291832 fully 160000 wero added to the population pick ering township had its growing time in this iperiod in common with the rest of the province it was dur ing this period that the communi ties in which we are interested namely atha and altona received their influx of settlers among the first settlers to come to the eighth concession was nathan bentley who came in 1831 and purchased the bush farm lot 32 con 9 where he resided continuously till his death in 1874 one of his daughters mrs c mcavoy remained on the farm until the death of her husband the ownor now being mr a carruthers the lehman family seem to be one of the next to come daniel lehman came in 1833 bought the south half of lot 35 con s and in 1835 he and his bride settled on the farm ho erected a sawmill which continued in busy and successful operation as long as ho lived after his death in 1867 one of his sons abraham con tinued to operate the saw mill which was later transformed into a chopp ing mill the mill at this time is not in use but the property still re mains in the family mr el leh man being the present owner john bell a native of dumfriesshire scotland came to canada with his wife in 1834 and settled on lor 2s con 7 one of the sons john m bell married and remained on the homestead making stockraising a prominent feature of his farming activities his daughter mrs peter stewart and her two sons john and peter lived there until the death of vn6l the former also the son john and the property was then purchased by mr joseph byer michael nighs- wander and his bride susannah barkey came in 1838 and located en lot 34 con 7 in 1845 he erected a sawmill on the farm in which he did a good business for 45 years their family numbered ten two sons michael and tillman lived on the homestead until their death and the property is now owned by mr kirton the whltson family also came from scotland settling on lot 26 con 7 in 1838 one of the sons john lived at lot 2s con 8 and since the death of their parents the two daughters misses ella and georgie still reside there samuel hoover of markham purchased lot 34 con 8 on oct 13 1s43 it was then known as mercers swamp having been granted in 1806 to andrew mercer on his fulfillment of the settlement duties in 1847 abraham hoover a son with his wife took possession a house having been built and about 10 acres cleared prior to that time he became the owner of about 400 acres of land and the only farm still belonging to the original hoovers is that owned by mr j b hoover the others now being owned by mr tran mr louis hoover and mrs w macdonald adam spears a native new style coats only 1250 owing to the unprecedented mild weather we have been able to pick up a manufacturers clearing of ladies fur trimmed coats all wool tree bark cloth sued and other cloths sable wolf and beaver trimmed all handsomely designed in the seasons latest these coats were sold to us at a tremendous sacrifice and we are going to pass them on to our customers at the same big reduction these coats were regularly sold up to 1950 sacrifice price only 1250 why wait do not wait until after christmas this is a sacrifice price that cannot be beaten at a later date coats displayed in your own home if desired harry golden next to the library main street stouffville phone stouffville 263 unplaned planked floors and abso lutely devoid of maps globes and all the modern apparatus of education of scotland settled on lot 29 con 7 the desks always homemade usu- in the forties and established a tally ranged around the walls and sawmill on the stream running the pupils sat on the backless through the farm large quantities benches facing them the centre was of lumber were teamed from here occupied by a big box stove about which sometimes when the seats around the walls were all filled other benches were placed for the smaller children as in other parts of ontario school life often languished in the summer months but when the fall frosts prevented sale register saturday dec 1 farm stock and implements hay and grain at lot 7 con 10 whitchurch just north of stouffville the property of joan lewis who is giving up farming salo at one torms cash a s farmer auctioneer tuesday dec 4 5 acres stand ing timber in quarter acre lots at lot 8 con 4 scarboro mostly beech and maple wood 8 months credit and 2 winters to remove wood john sewerll prop a s i i ifarmcr auctioneer to be shipped at french mans bay this mill was continued in opera tion by his son james till about fifty years ago the property is now owned by mr frank bilby other pioneer names familiar are lapp brown lott harrison hisey but all of these have now left the district and others have taken their places the first yake family one of the earliest settlers in the altona district seems to have been the daniel yake family who came about the year 1804 to north half of lot 33 con 9 pickering they came overland to canada from pennsyl vania with their family their little effects and three cattle of the children only michael remained in pickering about the year 1816 he married jane vanzant by whom he had a family of twelve one of the daughters polly married mr jones and spent all her long life on the farm at lot 1 con 2 uxbridge the farm still remains in the jones name ralph and mary still resid ing there another son abijah also lives in altona his name long be ing connected with the union sun day school one other name familiar to altona people was that of monkhouse joseph monkhouse came from cumberland england in 1849 and began storekeeping in altona the following year in 1857 he married christena reesor and leav ing the store began milling at the mill built by abraham reesor in 1865 his wife died and in 1871 mov ed to lot 32 con 9 now owned by mr win reesor and for twelve years managed the farm his second wife was elizabeth kester besides being a successful business man and farmer he was interested in public affairs he served ten years on the council on his brothers death ho he returned to the store and remained there until his death in 1903 he was succeeded by his son willis j monkhouse at an early date samuel nighswander built a mill at lot 31 con 9 for a number of years this mill was operated by mr cliff as a woollen mill later by mr enos nighswander as a grist mill and now by peter nighswander as a cider mill daniel barkey was horn in whitchurch township in 1824 and settled on north half lot 28 con 9 in the early forties he was a preacher of the mennonlte faith and lived to a ripe old age the farm is still in the family and further field labor the bigger kingston road there were scarcely any roads worthy of the name what did duty as roads were often simply paths blazed through the woods or at best chopped out only wide enough for a wagon to pass after a location had been chosen the trees had to be cut down and the log dwelling built gradually little clearings surrounded these dwellings and season by season they widened till at length clearance joined clearance then there came a time when the clearance was larger than the remaining bush and tho boys years hastened the time when only and girls and often young men and women came flocking back to school which became a very hive of busy work for winter the first school house at atha was built in the year 1841 on the south west corner of lot 32 con 8 owned by nathan bentley it was of the cottage roof type and was a very fine school in its day the school grounds are said to have been composed of the kings highway and as much woods as the pupils wished to roam over the present school house was built in 1864 and opened on january 1st 1865 thomas c smyth being the teacher the record book of the altona school sec 17 entitled the secretary and treasurers book for union section no 3 pickering and 5 uxbridge bears the following on its opening pages school section formed 1844 school house built 1834 number of inhabitants 1856 286 unable to read and write about 30 per cent at this distance of time perhaps we may be permitt ed to hope that the estimate of the illiteracy was somewhat higher than was warranted by the facts in any case the school was there and doubtless was doing its best to im prove the condition the teacher at this time and for nine or ten years following was mr a mcsween his salary for 1856 was so 375 and ror 1857 85 400 tlio first church the only church to be built in the district near atha was erected by the baptist denomination and was opened on lords day august 16 1835 the services in this church continued to be held more or less regularly for 35 years though practically no written record re mains of the work of the passing years the preacher the rev t g gostick came to pickering in 1832 from england and until his death in 1859 was ever in his place on the sabbath all that remains 1 the cemetery located on the farm now owned by t c gostick church services were held in both the old and new schoolhouses but no other church was ever built in the patches of forest were left to dot at wide intervals the landscape of the township let us for a moment compare the conditions of the early pioneers to those of the present day the land at that time was ploughed with a yoke of oxen the seed sown by hand the harvest cut with the sickle and cradle bound by hand threshed by the flail the flour made in the hollow of a stump to day it is ploughed witlv a tractor sowed with a drill cut and bound with a binder threshed by a machine and the bread delivered to the house wifes door our grandmothers did the spinning of the wool and flax made all their clothes by hand with the glimmer of the old grease lamp and tallow candle the cooking done in the fireplace in crude iron unten- sils today the housewife presses a button floods her rooms with in candescent light uses aluminum cooking untensils on an electric stove goes to the large centres and purchases the clothes for the family ready made some of the old settlers walked as far as brougham for mail probably once a month now wo have rural mail delivery at our gates everyday and news of the world at our finger tip on the radio in the early days the kingston road was the only road worthy of the name other roads being simply paths blazed through the forest travelled by foot or on horseback where to day our roads are four rods wide well gravelled or paved with cement making it possible for us to use automobiles to travel long dist ances in short time and comfort to attend social gatherings and meet ings for the education and benefit of the community such as wo are en joying at present do we appreciate our privileges occupied by his grandson charlei neighbourhood a store and black- barkey other pioneer names famll iar were peter ireesor samuel hoover white jacob stonffer macfarlane and millard they valued education a largo majority of those who settled in pickering in tho earlier days were men of fair education and among them there wero not a few who received such training as fitted them for business of a public kind such as drawing contracts and other legal documents keeping accounts and recording the minutes of religious and other public gather ings such men valued education and wero careful at as early a date as possible to establish schools in which their children might enjoy its advantages practically nothing is known of school life in the town ship till tho period of the thirties it is probable that there were small gatherings of children under instruction before that time but tho formal building of schools states many came from tho states and their systematic maintenance travelling in their covered wagons begins about that time the first bringing their families and possibly schools were rough log structures taking six weeks excepting tho crudely chinked and plastered with cattle the journey over land often smith shop wero at one time located on the northwest corner of the john bell property at altona the mcnnonites were the first to erect a church the land was owned by christian stouffer the church was built in 1850 the trustees martin nighswander samuel hoover and amos stouffer tho church still stands and services are held the union church mennonlte and christian situated on the abram reesor property was built in 1872 daniel barkey being the promoter the samo denominations still hold their services there pioneer hardships it is difficult for tho young people of the presonf generation to appreciate tho hardships and sacri fices of the pioneers immigrants at this time had to face a long tedious and often dangerous sea voyage and a toilsome journey from the ports of the lower province or the atlantic blaise pascal noble deeds nro most estimable when hidden there is much of nobility in the llfo about us in the business upon our streets and pro fessions and this helps to make llfo worth while rg gendering funeral director phone stouffvllle 263