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i tonffiwtle sfitow volxlviii no 1 the tribune stouffville ontario thursday april 6th 1939 a v nolan jp publisher foote brothers win double court action o new hall proposed division court sitting in stouffville on monday provided a regular day for litigants in addition to other cases there were three suits for damages two of which were tried to gether with a rather signal victory for plaintiffs in the joint action brought by joseph foote and walter foote sons of mr septimus foote the foote case arose out of an automobile collision west of stouffville on the townline last december in which walter foote crashed headon with a car owned and driven by c l bellamy of peterboro walter testified that he was well on his own side of the road travelling west that visibility was poor and that bellamy was on the wrong side of the road or parti ally so travelling east to stouff ville he asked for 120 dam ages to his car and was allowed the full amount of the claim by his honor judge jackson joe foote younger brother and passenger in the car sued for 117 damages he was thrown against the wind shield and suffered severe cuts to his nose dr ball stitched up the wound and told the court that joe might carry a scar for life bellamy denied that he was on the wrong side of the road- and said that walter foote ad mitted to him that he foote was on the wrong side but said it didnt matter as both were insured evidently this didnt impress his honor and joe like walter was awarded full amount of his claim for 117 costs were allowed the plain tiffs in each action fl button kc acted for the plaintiffs and phelan richardson obrien defended bellamy other court cases barkey bros represented by mr isaac barkey was awarded 690 full amount of claim against howard storry for work done on the latters truck mr storry seems confused as to who was liable himself or his garage- man less wilson wilson told me that 50 would do all the work wanted clone i told him it was not worth that and all i would pay was 25 wilson agreed to the 25 amount storrv told the court mr isaac barkey said both storry and wilson had been to his foundry in connection with the job and wilson in the box explained he was there to give instructions as to what storry wanted done this ended the matter with judg ment being rendered for full amount of claim f l button- for barkey storry had no coun sel nelson byer vs harmon jones was laid over to the next court with costs allowed byer for four witnesses summoned at this time remand was made at last minute on behalf of jones the court was advised by mr button the case arises out of a contract for wiring jones house glen alden farms mark- ham sued ward hallman of dickson hill for payment on a note given for registered cattle as part payment sever al deals were involved and hallman claimed certain ani mals were not as represented judgment for 40 with counter claim against glen alden of 120 dismissed d e elliott farm manager- for glen alden and hallman were the chief witnesses at the monthly meeting of the stouffville war veterans on monday night the matter of building a community hall for stouffville came up for dis cussion with an enthusiastic reception a hall around 50x75 feet in size with basement and ground floor was suggested as something that would meet the requirements of the local organization it was decided to pursue the matter further by contacting the main organiza tion someone said the cost of such a structure would be around 5000 without a site several locations were suggested when the discussion ended the city mission workers convention will be held in the stouffville mennonite church from april 12 to 16 miss ac spellman of detroit with a few of her workers will be on hand with a musical program the convention opens on thursday afternoon the 13th at 2 pm friends quarrel over repairs to car regrettable as it may seem the best of friends may part especially when they allow themselves to drift into court on opposite sides two young chaps of good repute found this to their sorrow on mnday when thos carter employed at wex ford parted company with his former chum walter booth also of markham over a few dollars for repairing the formers automobile booth tendered 850 but it was not enough to satisfy carter total claim was 4000 carter loaned his car to booth to drive home one night when booths own car would not work he returned it on schedule time but it had de veloped a knock which proved to be a broken rearend booth said he reported the condition to carter and offered to pay half cost of repairs which he estimated would run around 16 carter rejected amount paid into court of between eight and nine dollars by booth and so if was up to the judge he assessed booth 20 half the amount asked by carter ask for first loan in eleven years reduced surplus and higher operating costs combine to wipe out surplus of board for the first time since 1928 the stouffville school board will carry a bank over- draft for current expense from april until probably mid summer over the past eleven years the school account has held sufficient reserve funds from the previous year to fin ance on until taxes were re ceived without borrowing one cent the changed situation this year has been brought about by a combination of circum stances over which there is no local control the surplus it will be remembered reached a peak of approximately 6000 in mr and mrs j watts celebrate anniversary small vote in markham the election in markham vill age on monday to fill aseat on the council made vacant by the resignation of mr garnet williamson elicited little or no interest and loss than 25 per cent of the available vote cane out william payne headed the poll with 98 votes g s patter son polled 45 and f malcolm received ly votes thus it will be seen tnat mr payne topped the total vote of the other two candidates there was no issue in the campaign and most of the voters didnt bother drop ping in at their polling booth flag at half mast persons might have noticed the government flag hang ing over the post office was at half mast on tuesday this was in recognition of the late king ghazi the 27yearold monarch who was killed as a result of a motor accident king ghazi ruled over iraq a british pro tectorate in mesopotamia with an area of 116000 square miles and a popuation of three mill ion people king ghazi was edu cated at harrow england mr and mrs joseph watts on sunday quietly celebrated their golden wedding annivers ary at their home in aurora on wellington street married in unionville 50 years ago mr and mrs watts located in aurora some 15 years later their two children mervyn of stouffville and irwin at home and a few friends attend ed the celebration presbyterian by faith- the couple have been very active in church work at the aurora presbyterian church mr watts chief hobby is iawri bowling and many a rink he has skipped to success he was president of the aurora bowling club for several years 1936- when the countv auditors i f ft visit01 f jj i u l c n btouffville greens every season 1000 thisj engagements th engagement is announced of margaret grace correll the daughter of mr and mrs wm correll of whitby to william leonad vanzant elder son of mrs vanzant and the late j l vanzant formerly of stouffville the wedding will take place in whitby this thursdav evening april 6th advised turning about into the village treasury was done and since that time this surplus dropped another thousand leaving it at 3600 at the beginning of this year the monthly salary accounts of over 1300 plus general operating expenses are higher than two years ago one extra teacher hence the normal sur plus would be more quickly wiped out coupled with this there has not been any grants received this year- and some fairly substantial amounts are due at any time on monday evening the vill age council provided the board with authority for an overdraft at the bank of nova scotia to take care of expenditures until such times as receipts from grants and taxes are received it is hoped that in time the sur plus to the credit of the school may be so built up as to enable us to do away with borrowing money but if sufficient money were gradually accumulated again is likely the county auditors would take steps to have it reduced as they did last year few municipalities if any carry sufficient surplus to en able them to finance without borrowed money it was a unique situation that stouff ville enjoyed since 1928 and which we trust will be the happy position in future years while there is no provision in council stands for temperance act the municipal council of stouffville have sent a strong protest to premier hepburn against the proposed abolition of the canada temperance act councillor ira rusnell introduc ed the matter to the council when he presented a resolution seconded by councillor r e brown- and which was unani mously carried the motion said the council went on record as being much opposed to the re peal of the canada temperance act having in mind the coun ties of perth peel huron and manitoulin island a copy of the resolution will be forward ed to the premier and to the members for east and north york it may have little or no effect said councillor rusnell but it will at least show where we stand in stouffville councillors pay passed up for the present some members favor allowing ratepayers to pass on the question tax reduction refused hospital markham sale runs to 3500 bond bros public auction sale at lot 15 con 5 markham just north of unionville last week attracted a good crowd of buyers who turned out 3500 from their pockets to make up the afternoon receipts the sale was conducted by a s farmer autioneer horses did much bet- than at many other sales one mare sold for 140 a gelding 130 and a yearling colt 62 the cows averaged 4750- while ten sows sold at an aver age of 48 implements soared high the binder selling for 237 a wagon for 65 and set of bench sleighs for 18 wheat went out at 62c a bushel and other grain soid at the market all in all this was one of the j best sales of the year in mark- ham township marriages drudge recsor on thursday march 30 1939 a quiet wedding was solemniz ed at the home of mr and mrs henry reesor pickering ont when their daughter anna was united in marriage to frederick louis drudge- son of mr and mrs menno drudge of mark ham the ceremony was per formed by rev a smith of markham in the presence of about thirty guests refresh ments were served mr and mrs drudge left amid showers of confetti and good wishes for niagara falls and other points on their return they will reside on their farm 10th line markham near locust hill pay for village councillors seems to have fallen by the wayside until next december at least it was indicated at the regular council meeting on monday evening councillor silverthorn wanted to know if council contemplated taking action on the matter calling attention to the fact that it had been left over for a full membership which was now around the council table i think we should submit the question to the ratepayers- or let them know before elec tion time that we favor pay if returned said councillor rus nell we didnt do that when we changed the clerks salary said councillor tait reeve weldon said that was different thing there was very little increased expense and he thought it was different raising someone else and so the matter ended with not another word on the issue the auditors report for 1938 was received from t b rae and council perused it for half an hour the report will be printed in detail in this paper shortly to comply with the law which assures every citizen a chance to study what is going on in the financial realm of our village mr and mrs good at the brierbush hospital made a formal application in writing askingxouncil fora reduction in taxes on hospital property the letter stated taxes out standing were 32280 and suggested that the amount be reduced to 225 the offer was not favored by the council the clerk was asked to call atten tion of the hospital owners to the fact that no business tax is exacted from the hospital and that while improvements of quite extensive nature had be made by way of nurses quarters- etc no increased assessment was being imposed the junior farmers were granted the use of the municip al hall for their business ses sions which are held monthly the usual list of accounts were scrutinized and passed for pavment council sat from 730 to 1130 present reeve wel don councillors brown rus nell tait and silverthorn woman 87 breaks an arm mrs m hodgson who is in her 87th year and until the death of her sister mrs george bowers recently reputed to be one of the eldest twins in all ontario fell on the side walk in front of wards garage on wednesday last week and sustained a fracture to her left arm mrs hodgins picked herself up after the tumble and pro ceeded on her way to visit friends- and did not realize that she had such a serious injury until some hours later she was on her way to visit an old friend mrs george robinson who is in her 90th year when she met with the misfortune as her arm began to show signs of serious- injury mrs hodgson returned home when a doctor was called an xray was made and the fracture revealed just above the wrist of the left arm mrs hodgson is about her home as usual despite this handicap of one arm in a sling and everything is normal ex cepting that she has assistance with her housework now still one might expect to have help at 87 even if two arms were normal saps held up the unusual cold weather this week completelyheld up the sap running hundreds of trees in whitchurch hadnt yielded any thing worthwhile up to wed nesday while east of town where there several farm ers whomake quite an exten sive business of making maple syrup have not yet hung up their pails robert ratcliff has three hundred trees tapped but has no response to speak of so far severe winter costs markham over 3000 town water al stores open tonight owing to the fact that to morrow is good friday we are authorized to state that busi ness places in stouffville will re main open on thursday evening for the convenience of their customers from town and coun- the statutes to levy taxes be- try if the weather is faorable yond requirements for the curj there will undoubtedly be a rent year the ideal thing is to crowd of people in town have a surplus sufficient to the regular opening three eliminate borrowing and the nights a week will not corn- act should be changed to make until may 1st as in other t perfectly legal vears a test of the town water made last week by the provin cial laboratories in toronto indi cates that the supply in stouff ville is al it is a fine thing to know that we have a safe water supply without the aid of coiv snow shovelling will cost the township of markhaman estimated 3200- according to road superintendent maxwell at the regular session of coun cil held at unionville on mon day this sumhowever includ es nearly 500 for a snowplow and is therefore not considered an out of the way figure for such a severe winter as has just been experienced constable ben gayman intervied council in regard to the new arrangement handed out from county authorities whereby the township con stable will no longer receive mileage expenses from the county for delivering summon ses henceforth mr gayman will be required to keep account of such mileage within the township and present the bill to the township council it is inter actions many municipalities have to add to their systems tolesting to note that of the twen- punfy the liquid locally thetysix municipalities in the samples submitted are drawn i county onlv three have failed from the tap and nothing in the way of a germ killer is used at the reservoir births armstrong at the private patients pavilion toronto western hospital on saturday april 1st 1939 to mr and mrs john armstrong- markham nee annie barnes a son john david so far to fall in line with the new arrangement one of these centres being the village of markham where it is reported the constable still journeys out side of the town limits to de liver his papers remuneration was sought from council by norman dol- sen of richmond hill mail courier on the second of mark ham for thirtvthre hours snowshovelling he claimed was necessary on his beat this win ter mr dolsen who operates a car for the reason that half of his route- lying on yonge street was always free of snow claimed that he could not afford to keep up a horsedrawn out fit also to cover the drifted portion council left the matter in the hands of road superin tendent although all members expressed the opinion that since he was not forced to carry the mail where the roads were impassable they did not feel inclined to pay any remunera tion jno obrien waited on coun cil regarding the farm place ment plan but no action was taken a bylaw of the woodbridge and vaughan telephone co giving them running rights in the township was given its three readings and approved relief for march was 1-547- 46 general road accounts pas sed totalled 26991 road foremans accounts were as follows j g wideman 625 d boyl 2337 l grove 25 r j cunningham 33230 d brown 7960 t canning 14290 j jones 3274 j scott- 10825 e a buchanan 13035 w allchurch 8870 a w milroy 5680 c wide- man 2180