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tarfftriue wtifam vol 51no stouffville ontario thursday may 18 1939 ten pages baseball opener here wednesday may 24 stouffvilles initial start in toronto friday baseball for 1939 will be initially opened in stouffville next wednesday afternoon here in memorial park when stouffville meet ostranders at 230 st the local nine will journey to toronto this friday night for a starter against pears incidently in the sched ule published in this iss le pears are referred to as mir acles the park where all the city games will be played is situated just off eglin ton ave west of yonge and east of oriole road according to toronto sports writers stouffville are not re garded as any easy mark and are pointed out as having won several championships bred several big league players and at all times have been a real hustling club in intermediate competition ostranders first city team to be seen in action on local grounds are managed by jack robinson and won the north toronto championship last year with one or two excep tions the entire squad are back in action george pyzer winner of last seasons outstanding pitcher award is again heading the ostranders mound staff hanson supplys the outfits big gest threat at the plate he batted 350 for kirkland lake last season stouffville will present no new outside faces for friday nights itoronto gamef tip anderson of oshawa who carried tim oneills boys into the playdowns last year will likely get the mound assign ment jbruce stover local hope ful may also get a chance to show his wares bruce is a smooth speedy actor and has displayed some real talent in high school circles council congratulates paper among the scores of con gratulations received by the tribune on being awarded the j t clark memorial cup donated by the toronto star the whitchurch township council in session on satur day graciously made refer ence to the fact when resolu tion sponsored by councillor george leary and councillor h kidd leceived the assent of the council reading as follows that we the council of the township of whitchurch extend to the editor of the tribune our hearty congratu lations on being awarded the j t clark memorial trophy for best weekly in ontario and quebec published in places of 1500 or less popula tion the circulation of the tribune in the township is greater than the combined circulation of all other local weeklies entering the munici pality and good wishes of the municipal body are greatly appreciated as are all the compliments extended to us by friends everywhere on our recent award cnr special new salary scale trains may 22 continuatm school ballantrae estate sold gray coach ilines extra we have an advice from the gray coach lines stating that the company are making extra ordinary effort for handling the traffic on may 22 on the occa sion of the royal visit to tor onto to assist in handling the traffic they recommend buying tickets in advance by may 19 for the big day col o s hollindrake of tor onto has purchased the well- known hill property in ballan trae from miss alice brown toronto in addition to the fine brick residence lateiy re modelled there are ten acres of land with the property the colonel plans to convert the whole premises into a country estate for the personal use of his own family exten sive improvements are shortly to be made the canadian national have issued a timetable for its many lines dealing with the special trains during the visit of the king and queen on may 22 there will be no morning train from toronto at all so far as our line goes while the evening train from port hope will also be cancelled the regular evening train from toronto will be held at the union station until 630 arriv ing at stouffville at 731 special excursion trains pass through stouffville for toronto in the morning at 1040 1104 and 1119 all trains run to riverdale park returning trains leave river- dale park where markham and stouffville children have re servations to see the procession as follows 3 pm 315 pm and 330 pm standard time gordon murchison was in town for a few days visiting his home on church street gordon has completed his fourth year at toronto university in forestry and has received an appointment under the domin ion forestry branch for work in manitoba he left this week to take up his position at ridj ing mountain park where he will be in charge of 50 men salary increases were in or der at a special meeting of the school board on monday even ing for the continuation school staff the board was influenced in striking a new scale by the salaries commanded in nearby i schools with similar work done beginning next term principal lc murphy will receive 2400 mr gordon bailey s1500 mr haist 1350 and miss miller 1300 a new teacher to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna tion of mis hogg will be offer ed 1400 the total increases are 850 each teacher holds a uni versity egree and a specialist certificate with the inareases granted it is believed that the daily per pupil cost will compare with the lowest in the county the daily cost is now a fraction over 42c as compared with agincourt 54c markham 52c and aurora 64c summer population exceeds 5000 mark so figures and estimate show for whitchurch permanent residents 3090 army of dogs is 575 dairy buys building clayt baker has purchased the turner dairy building two doors west of the post office from the grubin estate this property was oringinally built for bank of nova scotia it is to be remodelled mark sixtyseven years married life cheque for 3090 new gold fjsh home at ringwood the gold fish upply co have completed the construction of a neat cottage at their ring- wood fish ponds for the use of their watchman mr chas dadson and his family- charlies duties are to guard the fish ponds where gutter snipes hawks crows also prow ling animals prey on the fish charlie makes a trusted senti nel engagements mr and mrs herbert pegg of church hill wish to announce the engagement of their second daughter barbara to denzil jaggar oldham elder spn of mr and mrs stanley oldham of mount albert the wedding will take place in june in the church hill christian church the engagement is announced of bertha joyce cleare daugh- ter of mr j cleare and the late mrs cleare waltham berks england to lome john byer son of mr and mrs j l byer markham the wedding to take place early in june at glasgow church the school board last week were quite jubilant over receiv ing a cheque from the depart ment at queens park for 3- 090 representing the final pay ment on the government share of cost of the new wing built at the school last summer plus an amount equal to 50 per cent of expenditures for equipnient for the new wing the department al cheque wiped out all indebted ness owing the bank in the special building account and provides a surplus that will be used to complete some further improvements in the school it is believed the members of stouffville ioof lodge held a ladies night on monday evening which proved a huge success especially in the line of enter tainment miss louise gold smith of toronto and her troupe of dancers and entertainers provided a program after which refreshments were served to about 65 members and friends garemont team for sir edw beatty despite the fact that the horse market has been anything but one that would create sun shine in the hearts of horsemen mr mac forsyth of claremont is carrying one of those smiling countenances that just wont come off last week he sold one of his handsome teams of reg istered mares to sir edward beatty president of the cpr apparently sir edward has some knowledge of a fancy horse as well as those great iron horses which pull the trains over his roads the ani mals sold by mr forsyth left claremont last week for their new home on the beatty farnj near kingston this is probably the most outstanding sale of horse flesh made in claremont since the days when graham bros were in flower on monday may 15th mr and mrs george wagg of island lake 10th concession of whit church marked their 67th wed ding anniversary mr and mrs wagg who have resided on this towrfine one hundred acres for fortysix years were married at lot 37 north townline uxbridge township on may 15 1872 rev mr dowling baptist minister of uxbridge officiated at the ceremony i mrs wagg whose maiden name was elizabeth caswell was born in osbrey township ontario 87 years ago of a family of eight of whom only two brothers and herself sur vive mrs wagg speaks proudly of her brother joseph in the states who recently celebrated his 93rd birthday and until this year never lost a tooth mr wagg is of english stock coming from norfolk in 1856 at the age of five to famous muddy york mr wagg remembers as a boy moving by horse and wagon to a farm site north of good wood but he settled for him self some fifty years ago in scott township the first team i owned said mr wagg was a horse and ox and the ox was blind after that i got a full team of oxen i hitched them to the cut- ter fortysix years ago mr and mrs wagg moved to the pre sent property now worked by their son george it is the first farm north of island lake 5 12 miles north of stouffville as a boy this uxbridge town ship pioneer attended the siloam school on the 3rd con cession when i used to travel be tween stouffville and ux bridge said mr wagg there were as many as eight hotels in the fourteen miles i recall cutting wood around goodwood for 25c a cord t to mr and mrs wagg were born eleven children all of whom are living there are 28 grandchildren and 36 great grandchildren the children are mrs fred chamberlain mrs austin bain newmarket jack wagg scarboro mrs delosj graham ringwood frank j wagg altona janies wagg mrs jess brown stouffville mrs oliver yakely uxbridge wm wagg torontg elliot wagg uxbridge and george wagg on the home farm mr wagg has been an ardent reader of the tribune for forty odd years he will be 88 this summer the couple have at tended various churches and until recently were connected with the churchill christian church both enjoy very good health despite their great weight of years the population of the town ship of whitchurch remains well over the 3000 mark ac cording to the latest assessment figures just submitted to the township council by assessor f g cummings of ballantrae between east and west they are fairly divided there being 102 more people resident on the west side of the 5th con- concession to yonge streetthan are living on the east side of the 5th to the uxbridge tewn- line the exact figures are west 1596 east 1494 a total of 3090 when the work of mr cummings was divided between two assessors the 5th con cession was the dividing line the summer population at wilcox and musselmans would easily total 2000 inhabitants counting those who occupy cot tages only so that during july and august the grand total is over 5000 j when it comes to actual i voters the difference between j east and west is not so great- on saturday morning con- 1 for figures show that 449 stable robert windsor met the people between the ages of 21 reeve and members of the and 60 live on the west side whitchurch township council i and 423 on the east a total of when the township cop with- 872 men and women between drew his resignation handed in these ages two months ago but which had the assessment of the twp not been acted on by the coun- stands at 2484770 the west donald r closson son of mr and mrs allen closson stouff ville who this jyear completed his four year course in mechan ical engineering at the univeri sity of toronto assessment court whitchurch june 3 mr and mrs george wigg receive eonpratulatfons cil mr windsor will again take on his full duties for the east side of the township with the approval of the council assessor f c cummings re ported that fifty dog owners or harborers had neglected to pay dog tax when demand was made- the defaulting ones will be ser ved with notice by the town ship clerk and given ten days to make payment otherwise the names will be passed over to the police who will deal with them according to the act a bylaw to license dance halls came up for discussion it had been drafted by the solicitor but certain phases of it did not appeal to the council hence it was laid over reeve toole introduced the question of grants last year council adopted a policy of giv ing no grants whatever no mat ter how worthy the object and some members felt the council had been placed in very awk ward position at times the reeve said he would favor a grant to the aurora horse show the north york plowing association and the junior plowmen councillor kidd thought the plowmens association was en titled to a larger share of any proportion set aside but it was decided to deal with each on their merits when the time arrived just now the aurora show was asking for a grant and on motion of deputy reeve cook and councillor herb wells a grant of 15 was made the aurora show i think the wire fence bonus is foolish said councillor wells when the matter of a bonus came uptf we take that money and buy snow fence we would get more good from it he declared reeve toole point ed out that the county paid a bonus on the fence only in those municipalities where the township pay a bonus and this would be lost aside from that the reeve had considerable doubt about the wisdom of the wire fence bonus however i rei ceived one from the county and would be open for criticism if i now turned around and voted against giving one to others continued on page two assessment being in excess of the east by 225258 an interesting feature of the assessors report is the dog population which is shown at 575 on which taxes totalling about 1200 are collected aside from churches schools cemeteries and the municipal hall property the only tax exempt premises are the lands at pickering college or a cer tain portion of them assessor cummings present ed a splendid roll with all en tries neatly kept stricken following brothers funeral john bowers of markdale died in his 89th year attended funeral of brother george in stouffville last september friends near stouffville will learn with regret of the death on friday may 5th of john bowers of markdale he was in his eightyninth year he at tended the funeral of his brother george in stouffville last september but collapsed a week later and had been in bed with heart trouble ever since for some years he lived near uxbridge and his first wife was formerly fanny walker whose sisters still- live in uxbridge they had one son coral who lives in owen sound he is survived by his wife formerly jennie hutchinson of markdale and by his son coral and seven grandchildren his brother sam bowers of ames iowa died in january of this year and of the family of eight there is left only the youngest robert of swift current sask mrs d h howe mrs judd miss may bowers wallace byer and george h hewitt attended their uncles funeral at mark- dale on monday may 8th crowded out owing to the demand for space in this issue several items of news are unavoidably held over until next week including a letter from mr john r hod- gins setting forth his views on there will be special holiday i ayiight savin s2 wi 0 thursday evening of this ssvls w the horticultural society day and wednesday evenings t t u i v will meet at the home ot mrs two showings each night at n f 7 and 9 oclock st i s y v s t0r sp ng