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volxlviii no 3 stouffville ontario thursday april 7th 1938 a v nolan jr pomiaher farmer ordered to pay full amount of note in horse deal division court in stouffville on monday heard a case over the ale of what was said to be a belgian gelding as fat as butter which was sold by john oboyle and george watson to w j calvert markham township farmer his honor judge lee awarded oboyle and watson full amount of their laim for s225 with costs and at uie same time dismissed the counterclaim of mr calvert for 50 george watson first witness call ed explained that he had been called to the calvert farm to sell calvert a horse back in july 1337 he had frequently done business with cal vert before he took down two animals one young beast and the belgian which was of more mature years mr calvert said he did no want the young horse as he only had a lad to handle the team and wish ed something older consequently the gelding was left on the arm and calvert was to try it on the binder that day he worked the gelding all day and when the vfcc- dors called in the evening he made settlement which included a trade of horses and s0 to boo going to oboyle and watson mr calvert that evening signed a note for the s0 the horse taken in traoe wag left for use on the farm until the crop was cut and was then possessed by the plaintiffs calvert according to the witness never registered any complaint against the animal he bought at any time when the note came due he refused to make pay ment mr oboyle corroborated the evidence of mr watson and added that he was a comparative stranger to calvert both witnesses denied anything being said or guaranteed about the age of the gelding sold by them other than that it was said he was a smooth mouthed horse which is taken to mean that it would be ten years old or more joe cooney who did the trucking to the calbert farm admitted that he was not conversant with the deal excepting that nothing was said in his presence to misrepresent the horse walter melton was also call ed to say that he was present when the animal taken in trade by the dealers was picked up but mr cal vert was not present at the time dr bodendistil for the defense said it was impossible to declare a horses age after about eleven years and he wouldnt say how old the gelding was but he estimated about 15 years mr calvert in the box practically substantiated the story told by watson excepting in one respect and that is regarding the ago of the horse he got he said its age was represented as ten and he disputed the name of mr oboyle being on the note however this didnt im press the judge apparently and he gave prompt judgment for the full amount due with costs while at the same time dismissing the counter claim without costs no april fool when clerk charlie hoover of markham township opened his mail on april 1st his eyes must hae bulged when he scanned a clieaue for upwards of 12000 his first impulse must have been that this was april fools day but on closer examination he discovered it was a genuine cheque direct from the ontario dept of highways the suite being markhams road subsidy fr the year 1937 this is the earliest the cheque has ever been receivd and mr hoover did not expect it aiong for another month naturally it was thankfully received as a substantial reduction against the townships bank borrowings says senior judge must rule representatives of whitchuich council and clerk j crawford at tended division court in stouffville on monday expecting to hear a re ference made to judge lee concern ing the division of costs for division courts in which the township is now being asked to pay a part the judge refused to open the case at all stat ing that it was purely a matter for the senior judge to hear and thi- was his only comment the matter involves a sum liss than 40 as between stouffville and whitchurch but the township is also being asked to contribute to the court at richmond hill loses fight on plea for wages consider new school markham high school board have under consideration the matter of building an addition to their school in that villago to provide for the present overcrowding and the necessary accommodation that will be required for teaching manual training and home economics the- board it is said have preliminary plans that would run 10000 and 00000 and these have been sub mitted to the village council mrs james mcmuiien friends in the vicinity will be sorry to hear of the death at toron to on sunday of mrs james k mcmullen former resident of ballan- trae her deceased husband was a provincial constable for many years a son of the late sam mc mullen she is survived by a daughter pearl two sisters mrs george potch nobleton mrs c williamson aurora and a brother j j young toronto funeral fri day at 330 from win spears funer al chapel 2920 dundns street interment prospect cemetery get your radio license from j m storey druggist th home of quality drnff frank williamson of markham twp sued albert hawkins 8th con farmer in court at stouffville on monday for 140 claimed due wages earned while working tor hawkins back in 19345 hawkins defended his own case and succeeded in having the claim dismissed with out costs williamson according to hinilclf and other witnesses was taken in by his sister mrs clark johnson when he had no place to go back in 1934 she also took his son who was re presented to be mentally deficient trouble ensued between her own bey and the williamson lad so that reeve george padget with james walker acting relief officer visited the johnson home to see what could he done they planned to send the father a man of co years to the home on yonge street and the ad to whitby williamson pleaded not to be sent away and in deference to his request padget secured a place for him with mr hawkins the agreement was that hawkins shoold take father son five head of cattle and a horse all for their keep they went to the hawkins place in october and remained until tho following spring this is the story as told by the veteran george padget to his honor judge lee whose sympathies at the beginning wero all with williamson but after hearing walker and padget the scene changed in addition to the winter spent with hawkins williamson claimed wages for working for haw kins the previous spring but clii was thrown out when the case vas dismissed little importance was attached to the value of the cattle by walker or padget sam fretz appeared to testify that williamson was a competent worker and was worth average wage he is now employed by him and could do an average amount of work- he said mrs johnston swore that her brother had been engaged for a month by hawkins prior to the time the reeve and relief officer placed him on the same farm hawkins de nied this part of the story and ro iterated tho story of ueeve padget that williamson had come crying for a place and had been taken in more as an act of mercy both hawkins and sam fretz re fused the oath when presented to them they told his honor they belonged to the mennonito faith and accordingly the witnesses were sworn by the uplifted hand overload and road confuses officer during the last ten days local live stock truckers received a verit able bombshell thrown into their business in the way of wholesale summonses for overloading t h paisley who maintains two of the largest trucks in live stock shipping and joe cooney each re ceived two blue papers at one time w f ratcliffs big truck also was charged with one overload during the months of march and april when the frost is coming out of the ground and greatest damage to highways is occasioned truckers are obliged to carry only half their maximum load but just what constitutes half a load seems to pre sent a puzzle at any rate paisleys trucks which the officer found were over a ton in excess of what should have been on them turned out to have only 200 or 300 pounds over weight it is said the officer was not aware of the license which imx pais ley possessed and wrongly assumed it called for a lower maximum than was found to be the case another unusual point in the case is that the provincial police were right in stouffville to check up and so for the first time in history ordered a truck load of live stock to pass over the scales at the cxr all this despite the fact that stouffville is still on the county road system at one time the east half of the village was part of the provincial highway from uxbridge but realizing tho peculiar position the village was placed in the department issued their map showing they had assum ed the road from uxbridge to the east boundary of stouffville only leaving the village still in the county system if the officer was wrong in laying the charge in the paisley case on assumption that the license for the truck permitted a much smaller load it would seem a second error should be recorded for stepping off the provincial road onto the county system which we are told they are not supposed to do at any rate mixup or not truck ers will have to be very careful about overloading if they want to avoid a summons and a fine centurionwhomade orangeville takes bedspringshere c crown passes on john hagerman passed away on sunday at the home of his daughtei mrs dr thomas broom of essex in his 101st year funeral services were held from the hicks funeral home on wednesday afternoon at 2 oclock with burial in greenhill cemetery kingsville mrs wililam wardle accompanied by mrs a a bennett at the piano was the solo ist rev mr durrant conducted the services mr hagerman was born in mark ham township at hagermans oth ers on the 20th day of march 1s37 after retiring from the farm he lived in stouffville and had a work shop about where a w swift lives on main street here he made bed springs the place in after years sold to fred wilson and his son dr harry wilson is present owner mr hagermans father came to canada from the united states receiving a grant of 200 acres from the crown which he later dividedeqully among his four sons married when he was 21 years old he and his wife work ed his farm until he was 43 years old when they with their children moved to stouffville and later to harwich twp in kent county and later moved into the town of blen heim in 190s mr and mrs hager man celebrated their golden wedding anniversary but the following year mrs hagerman died since his wifes death he has made his home with his different children who all pre deceased him except jmos broom with whom he had been living the past two years or more he was a member of the united church formerly of the wesleyan church and attended regularly for 70 years or more until loss of hearing made it very difficult to follow the service on easter sunday 1937 he cele brated his 100th birthday defeat aurora 21 in overtime orangeville oha junior c hockey team ended their game in a blaze of glory monday night when these battling youngsters again came from behind to beat aurora 2 to 1 after ten minutes of overtime in the third game of the series at maple leaf gardens from the start of the champion ship round the orangeville team were behind when they dropped the first game of the series 4 to 3 thcr last saturday at the gardens they were forced to come from behind markham township relief to be curbed in coming season on motion of councillors w l clark and albert reesor at mark ham township council meeting on monday clerk hoover was authorized to serve notice on all prospective relief recipients that they look for very limited relief in tho coniiug season the resolution backed up by a recent bulletin from the welfare department stated thar as this province agrees that the maximum value of aid given to a head of a family or other individual or together with any additional al lowances for aid shall be less tnan once more and overcome a twogoal tde normal earnings of an unskilled lead to win out by the same score as labourer in the district prospective jack hutchinson 20 eldest son of r a hutchinson public school inspector for pickering and south ontario was instantly killed along will another young man when a car i which hutchinson was driving crash- led into the rear of a transport in r e brown shipped a truck load whitby on monday night of turnips to tampa florida on monday the load consisted of 250 1 see the march of time stanley bags of 50 lbs each i theatre this weekend the first game but their efforts last night cap ped anything they have done pre viously when they once more over took their rivals and then won out in overtime for the last half of the second period the entire third period and a goodly portion of the overtime the new champions held the- upper hand after ralph wilson had put aurora in front with a solo counter six minutes after the second period started orangeville started to click but it was not until more than half of the final period had gone by that the eventual winners were able to tie the score hopkins and d gil lespie combined with the latter tak ing the pass at the aurora defense and firing a shot in the far upper corner and fortyeight seconds after the overtime started leach scored after a ganging play in the losers zone ferguson mairs and preston along with wilson were tho pick of the losers while d gillespie hopkins leach and jefferds were the best for the new champions marriages reeves who haveserved after thirtyseven years railroad ing john quihell retired last week and with his wife will take up resi dence in their home on north church street here for many years mr quibell was section foreman and his last position was at marmora ho is the father of constable harold quihell mr and mrs quibell will be welcomed as residents of the town again where they spent a few years some ma ago in the modest little cemetery beautifully situated on a hill a cedar grove seven miles south o stouffville one may see the last resting place of edward wheeler ir one of the founders of stouffville the cemetery there is tho burying place for the long established reesor family and edward wheelers wife was anna maria reesor of markham edward wheeler sr died in 1s97 at the age of s4 years and his wife anna passed away five years later in 1902 at the age of 91 in the family plot also are buried two daughters and one son susanna died in infancy 102 years ago also a daughter anna named after the mother and a son albert both dil while only children in the years 1811 and 1844 respectively there was however quite a large family born to this venerable old couple who lived to ripe ages three sons were george who became member of parliament for ontario riding while he was a resident of the town of uxbridge also edward and john four daughters were mrs w u sanders wife of the only warden of york county to be select ed from stouffville and mother of our exreeve ii w sanders mrs silas patterson mrs william somer ville and the last to pass away mrs ira g crosby who died in uxbridge only a few years ago at over 90 years of age long years before stouffville was incorporated edward wheeler established himself on the townllne of markham and whitchurch and here ho developed a saw milling business to which a grist mill was later added it was the logical placo for farmers to get their grist ground and here they sold their logs and obtained hoard measure for building their homes and barns trading stores sprung up and quite a village was established in 1s70 there were murmurs that a village should be formed but it was not until 187g that a formal application was pre sented to the county and granted so that the village could like on in corporation in january 1s77 as indicated in our article last week james dougherty received the honor of the first rcevcshlp which he held until 187s two terms tho late edward wheeler sr dr s free then a member of the council sought the office and un successfully contested the seat with edward wheeler who filled the posi tion for the second two years in ttiu life of our village at the very outset tho ratepayers took their civic duties very serious ly and hot were the contests for office mr wheelers election was the occasion of a torch light procession in the absence of kerosone bull rushes were burned soaked in tallow to mr wheeler probably more than any other man tho villago owes is early development the wheeler mills standing on the site where the post office is now situated is familiar to many of our readers and the wheeler home stood where dr ira freels residence is now located wheelers owned much of tho land about and the farm barns stood where the baptist church stands at the corner of main and obrien avenue mr wheeler celebrated his 70th birthday while he was reeve of the village his office in the rceveship was un eventful the first year he had as councillors j j rae john urqu- hart j fairies and jessee g reesor the final year s fenton and geo flint replaced reesor and fairies wagg schmidt a quiet wedding was solemnized at the united church parsonage on wednesday evening march 30 1938 when margaret elizabeth only daughter of mr and mrs sidney schmidt of stouffville was united in marriage with dawson e wagg son of mr and mrs cecil wagg mark ham township rev l e atkinson officiated the bride was attended by miss verna cockerill she was becoming ly gowned in a dress of mauve lace over crepe with brown accessories miss cockerill was dressed in rose crepe with blue accessories mr jack barkey was groomsman the couple will reside in stouff ville where dawson is employed by mr harry paisley relief recipients should be notified to use all precaution and prepare for no more relief aid during the coming season than these regula tions specify several requests for further handouts were made to council and all were referred to the acting relief officer hoover a recipient from box grove asking for more fuel claimed her husband couldnt get work councillor reesor stated that a reliable farmer within halt a mile of this home was badly in need of a man and that this app arently unemployed individual had never so much as approached him for a job this statement brought no further comment from the lady who had made the request relief for the month of february totalled 167s86 with fiftyseven families on the books as compared with seventyone families iin tho same month last year the yonge street railway showed an operating loss for the month of 341 passenger revenue was up 123 over the same period last year council was waited upon by a rep resentative of a road company con cerning the treating of certain of the township roads with a dust layer the members agreed to consider the matter when they had inspected their roads at a later date mr mill iter of unionville brought a re quest for a grant to the unionville horticultural society but no action was taken a bill of 140 from the richmond hill fire brigade for three grass fires and damage to the catholic sisters home on yonge street wss given considerable attention coun cil finally agreed to pay for the grass fires but declined any assis tance to the home deputy reeve hooper said i dont see why we should pay for a fire at this cathollo home when they dont pay any taxes members agreed with mr hooper and the clerk was instruct ed to direct the brigade to send their bill to the home road foremans accts passed werejg wldeman 1545 l grove 2460 d boyd 1510 r j cunningham 35373 n boynton 2400 d rown 1680 t cann ing 3090 c armstrong 2005 w allchurch 4650 d shadlock 1430 e a buchanan 12950 w j stonehouse 390 a w mll- roy 4940 j jones 2103 gen- eral road accts- dailey commer cial news 375 geo hoover 3375 f fugil 410 general accounts totalled 71368 charter night this friday the stouffville lions clb will observe its charter night this fri day evening when about one hun dred guests from toronto and other centres will sit down to a banquet to be served in the oes rooms at 7 oclock john rutherford presi dent of the bradford lions will act as toastmaster and a f pugh de puty governor of the barrie lions club will give a short address on lionism the local club will ba presented with their charter by l w peterson windsor district governor and altogether a profitable and interesting evening is anticipat ed the lions club is organized to help the community and the local club has been active in this matter even before they obtain their charter later in the year they hope to ibe of even greater service to the community former pastoki weds hyde hobsov stclair united church toronto formed the setting saturday after noon for the wedding of marguerite hobson daughter of mr and mrs a r hobson to rev f erwlu hyde of sanford north carolina son of mrs martha hyde and the late t hyde rev j e todd offic iated gordon douglas played the wedding music the bride given in marriage by her father wore a gown of pink gedigette with matching hat and carried a bou quet of pink roses isobel stookford was the brides only attendant and was attired in turquoise blue ma quisotte she carried a bouquet of pale pink sweet peas marvin hob son brother of the bride was the best man the ushers wore allen garland and charlie trill a re ception was held following the cere mony at the home of the brides parents where her mother gown ed in navy blue georgette with a corsage of sweetpeas and roses re ceived the guests among those who attended the wedding from stouffville were mr and mrs leslie rowbotbam and donald mr and mrs j s dough erty miss mildred dougherty miss nora stapleton also mr and mrs doyle mcfarland of sanford n c among the churches signed rusty a chap or at least we suppose it was a chap abandoned a stolen car at ringwood on wednesday morn ing leaving a note on the seat apolo gizing to the lady in toronto from whom the car had been stolen the evening before rusty evident ly knew his victim and was turning around in front of herb hiseys place when he backed into the ditch fearing ho would be caught he made off on foot after leaving a note on the seat apologizing for not return- wsemltab d miss p quibell investigated and found thei lemonville bloomington and ballantrae united churches rev chas b jeffery pastor sunday april 10th 1938 ballantrae sunday school at 1000 am morning worship 1045 on the way to the cro3s lemonville sunday school at 2 pm service of worship 3 pm what shall i do then with jesus bloomington 7 pm evening service sixth line baptist church rev w b snialley pastor phone 2203 friday april 8 at 8 pm yps at baker hill topic will be given by the rev robt wilson of mt albert everybody welcome sunday april 10th 1938 1000 am sunday school 1100 am church service subject our burden bearing god 12 oclock communion service bible thought for this week isa 534 surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows stouffville mennonite church rev i brubaclier pastor prayer meeting wednesday even ing altona and stouffville sunday april 10th 193s sunday school stouffville 1000 am altona 1030 am preaching at 11 am and 7 pm childrens dedication service in connection with tho mornlag 1100 am service preaching at altona at 7 pm we heartily invite people to join with us in worship special music and singing on sunday stouffville congregational christian church arthur greer pastor sunday april 10th 1938 1000 am sunday school 1100 am worship sermon subject four questions 700 pm gospel service sermon subject decision softig service christian endeavour choir and duets owner to be rhoda m phillips of toronto stouffville presbyterian rev w h fuller ba sunday april 10th 1938 200 pm snnday school 300 pm worship tuesday s pm senior christian endeavour rev w e s malley guest speaker chcrch hill 200 pm sunday school 300 pm worship service friday 8 pm christian endeav our at the home of jos martin christ church anglican rev f herman rector sunday april 10th 1938 2 pm evening prayer everybody welcome stouffville united church 1i e atkinson minister sunday april 10th 1938 1100 am morning worship this is to be our easter communion service also several persons are b- ing received into membership at this service 230pm sunday school and bible class 700 pm evening worship subj christ in gethsemane by hofmann this is the 6th in a series of lenten art sermons monday8pm weekly ypu un der the christian citizen committee wednesday 8 pm the easter thankoffering service of the garret evening auxiliary will be held in the basement of the church with miss margaret imckellermdkihlld and who spent forty years in india as guest speaker of the evening you are always welcome bloomington and ringwood christian church rev e morton preacher communion service next sunday sunday april 10th 1938 may the mercies of each day lead us to practice here on earth that holy unselfish worship which we hope hereafter to offer before gods whole throne services next lords day 1100 am bloomington 700 pm iringwood welltodo is the man that longs to go to gods house for worship wrshippers are always welcomed by him stouffville baptist church i macgregor pastor friday 7 pm the happy hour for girls and boys every girl and boy heartily invited lantern slides friday 8 pm young peoples bible study class sunday april 10th 1938 1000 am bible school classes for all ages 1100 am morning worship subject the twofold mission of- christ 700 pm gosped service subjt found after a search wednesday april 13th prayer service topic the divinity of christ come and receive a blessing