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the tribune stouffville out thursday march 30th 1939 page three mmffl town topics phone in vovk personam 16301 the regular monthly meeting of the veterans will be held on monday april 3rd all veterans are asked to be present saturdays heavy rain pre sented no flood problem on main street because of the ac tion of the council in cutting gutters to catch basins and re moving a good deal of ice from the pavement during the noft spell on friday taking time by the forelock as it were owing to the transfer of w d atkinson imperial oil agent at markham it has been found necessary to appoint mr arthur smith now of imperial oil limited oshawa to the position of agent at markham starting april 1 1939 mr c wark of the bank of nova scotia spent the weekend with his mother mrs c n wark in petrolia mr wark reports his home town as be ing about two weeks ahead of stouffville springtime ing practically no snow at all the 5c to 100 store march sale is now on and is especially interesting one week from tomorrow is good friday and a public holi day if the usual procedure is followed those stores in stouff ville observing the all-year- around wednesday halfholiday will have a really short week its not often one sees a gig on the road these days but lloyd moyer rural mail courier finds it about the best thing with which to buck snowbanks ice and mud on his route north from town certainly the gig is a great labor saver on the horse mr and mrs arthur hess of strathmore blvd toronto were the hosts at a shower for miss glenna davis of dicksons hill on monday night miss davis engagement to mr sal abell ox ringwood was recently announced miss ruby lotton daughter of mr marshall lotton of altona appeared last week among the eleven graduating nurses from the salvation army grace hospital toronto the graduates received their di plomas at westminster central united church every house in town available for renting is quickly snapped up by tenants and the demand is not filled considering the the low tax rate rentals are very good in stouffville and higher than in uxbridge where taxes are a third higher it is in the matter of i unfortunate that investors do weather they hav- not j building more houses of the low rental type high building costs especially for material is no doubt the chief detriment the district young peoples lenton fellowship service to be held in stouffville united church monday april 3rd at 8 pm is sponsored by the yp executive of toronto east rural presbytery and all young people are urged to not miss this outstanding passion week service fix that cough- coughs that persist indicate weakened recuperative powers build up your resistance with nyal creophos this wonderful remedy rebuilds waste tissues imparts strength and rejuvenates the entire system j m storey druggist reporting for the recent federation temperance con vention in toronto miss helen rowbotham quoted dr kistler of rochester as saying that contrary to their statement that the liquor business pays it is the only institution that does not attempt to pay its bills or balance its ledgers cost of handling drunken people is far in excess of any revenue derived from the traffic the liquor people give statistics a year late we are getting only the year 1937 statistics now they do this with a purpose it beclouds the real issue but lawlessness is increasing im mensely as we see from the re ports in our daily papers miss rowbotham pointed out the liquor business inside a government is as bad as a dict atorship in europe hitler and mussolini have closed drinking places by the thousands can our democracy stand with this cancer eating our life xoxaoc aojj order now and our driver will call phone 189 the stouffville bakery o ioboe mr james taylor of new market will have charge of the services in the stouffville christian church here next sunday the regular pastor mr vickers will be with the tor onto bible college quartette who will supply the music in the newmarket church for the ex change service on good friday april 7 an important gathering of odd fellows from all over the dis trict will assemble in stouff ville to the number of about 150 degree work will be ex emplified by various lodges mr ross allison ddgm will be present and lodge will assemble in ratcliffs hall while the local lodge quarters will be utilized as a banquet hall for the guests lost a silver bread tray anyone finding it please leave at the tribune office mr and mrs robt cockerill of orillia were visitors at mrs e tarrs last week e a grubin ro optome trist and optician will be at his office in stouffvile on monday april 3rd mr chailes ratcliff son of mr and mrs robert ratcliff 6th line has been confined to his bed now for over a week with bloodpoisoning in his leg charles was playing with the dog when he apparently receiv ed a scratch which developed poisoning the public school of sixty pupils at concord where charles is employed as teacher has been forced to take on a supply in his absence rev dr mitchell is leaving today thursday for vierrie vermont state where he will attend the 50th anniversary of the church there where he had his first charge in the ministry after graduation dr mitchell has been induced to give sever al lectures during the special services in this vermont centre noted for its great quarry in dustry mr bruce mortons farm stock sale last week at blooni- ington was highly successful and mr morton expressed him self as highly pleased with the total income from the sale which ran around 1300 mr and mrs morton will continue to occupy a portion of the house on this farm which will now have a new tenant for easter swing high coiffure with curls the base for those curls must be a perman ent wave individuality is achieved only with proper hair shaping and styling and correct per manent waving be sat isfied with nothing less outstanding among the prize winners in the third annual york county seed fair held at sutton last wednesday was maurice hamill of markham who carried off four firsts one eighth in the grain and potato classes jack frisby and william e gohn of gormley also stood high while other local winnings included those of robert miller of markham thomas hastings i of markham leslie hart john smith j h frisby and fraser gee of gormley and marcus jarvis and james valliere of unionville betty beauty salon for appointment telephone 3206 last friday a few men were put on the main street and did a much needed job in remov ing ice which was hazardous to motor traffic and a menace even to pedestrians attempting to cross the streets old timers declare they never saw the street with such a depth of ice and the ratepayers were fairly unanimous in the action taken by the council to clean it away with the experience of this winter in allowing the snow to bank up and form into ice it is very likely that the matter will have careful consideration next fall with some plan being evolv ed to make use of the snow plow in keeping the depth down ordinarily the task would not be very expensive or arduous but this past winter was most unusual for snow and ice for tunately the sun has been doing a splendid job and in the ab sence of rain there has been no flood of any kind all in all the snow and ice has so far dis appeared without the usual spring freshets in the village at least mrs ross teele and two young sons of woodville have been spending a week with her parents mr and mrs lou lounsborougn edward street the spring breakup is at least two weeks later this year than last season and winters final kick a week ago was a real wallop signs of spring are gradually becoming more pre valent with reports of robins being sighted and the odd horn ed lark boys and girls have re surrected the marble bags and skipping ropes and persue the daily gambling for the alleys in spite of the copious amount of snow however a late spring is not without its benefits farm ers are always glad to see the warm blankets of snow not be ing removed too early to expose the tender roots of winter wheat and meadows to the frosty nights and chilling winds spring has always come eveiy year since the dawn of creation and sometimes the later the better mr robert stewart one of our esteemed aged citizens re ceived a letter this week from one of his relatives mr r byres in natal south africa he has filled many honorable positions there from health inspector to police inspector and looks on south africa as his home for it is long years since he left his native british isles mr byres was impelled to write to his cousin robert after reading an item in the tribune sent to him from england concerning mr stewarts birthday in ad dition to bringing great joy to mr and mrs stewart- the letter is just another example reliable brand garden seeds remember good seed always pays poor seed never pays our seeds are reliable because they are purchased from the best seedmeji we stock a complete line our price is as low as any for high quality seed for the small garden we have a complete vegetable list containing 16 varieties such as lettuce radish corn parsnip etc value 130 for 100 ask for list containing assortment for market growers we have a complete market gardeners list at reasonable prices we stock vigoro and kings plant food stiver bros phone 4501 stouffville ontario of how the home town paper travels all over the world what might have been term ed an unwelcome passenger was given a lift to toronto by mr allen closson of stouffville last thursday the transient whom mr closson definitely identified this week went by the name of welsh one of the captured sus pects in the markham bank holdup of friday last mr closson said that the man was at the markham corner of no7 highway thumbing a ride to the city and being alone in his truck he offered the fellow a lift welsh appeared quite docile and told mr closson of his work in the north country his appearance certainly tallied with the story of his experiences as he was as brown as a berry said mr closson the man got out at eglinton avenue and struck west into the vicinity in which he was captured the day following the robbery tribunes small advs cheap and profitable are mr and mrs joseph ogden from north of stouffville are leaving today thursday to take up their new home in ingersol where several of their sons are living it is 33 years nee the ogdens located north of churchill moving at that time from the 7th of markham we always regret to lose good hard working honest people who are the very salt of the earth pure fresh lard only loe a lb 0boyles butcher shop stouffville phone today 3501 mclaughlinbuick spectm series sedan with trunk better butj your fllclbughlinbuick right now you can obtain prompt delivery of your new mclaughlinbuick a better tradein allowance for your present car and grand new freedom from driving worries so why wait and wish you hadnt know the satisfaction of owning a new mclaughlinbuick that is staunch and dependable through and through know the thrill of 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