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ftp 0t0ttffpille miimm awarded jos clark memorial trophy for j 939 vol 52 no 16 stouffville ontario thursday july 20 1939 eight pages bible school hand craft on display at the closing exercises of the glasgow bible school a large and appreciative audience on friday night viewed with great satisfaction the work accom plished by the students during the course the colored pictur es were by the children in the kindergarden from 4 to 5 years of age while the primary child ren displayed note books and picture paintings the work of the junior group indicated care ful study in care of note books and old testament kings life and reign the intermediates displayed mottos mounted on glass also note books covering the last half of the life of christ all over 12 years of age were grouped as seniors and they made quite an exhaustive study of the early life and missionary journeys of paul their relief maps with all places clearly marked where he visited on his three journeys and probably fourth and last journey to rome this work was the standout of the display and was both educational and artistic not only to the pupils but to the instructor mr gordon schrag great credit is due the kindergarten teachers were miss mary burkholder miss sarah hoover primary miss elsie hoover junior miss g gingerich of zurich intermedi ates and miss marie burkhold er of presleau seniors dowswell clan reunion members of the dowswell clan from various parts of canada and the united states will gather at the horticulture building exhibition park tor onto on saturday july 29th for their annual reunion it was an nounced following meetings held in westdale park hamilton the committee in charge of the arrangements are hon prest j a dowswell essex prest harry armbrust 1206 ossington ave toronto vice- prest george oliver bright secv treas miss lillian dows well stouffville santa visits sandy in id july gift is six months in transit from toronto to stouffville our popular village farmer sandy jones had a visit from santa claus on saturday six months behind schedule but nonetheless appreciated so sandy says when mr jones received his mail on saturday there was a parcel from santa claus all done up with red seals and wishing our citizen a very happy christmas right on the outside of the package inside was a briar pipe and christmas card indicating that it was a gift from an old friend living in toronto and who had not failed to remember sandy over the years since he worked in stouffville on the farm as a lad the surprise was great but the mystery as to where the package has been these six months is something the post master and others cannot an swer or even guess anyway six months for a parcel to travel thirty odd miles from toronto to stouffville is a re cord low speed in these days when high speeds are being shattered lemonville loses miss lillian cook there passed away at the brierbush hospital on wednes day morning this week miss lilliam cook following a long illness from which it was real ized she could not recover miss cook was a daughter of the late macklem cook of lemonville where she was born and lived on the homestead just a year ago a sister scynthia died and the only sur viving member of this well- known family is mrs e c pennock of stouffville private funeral this friday afternoon will take place from the pennock home on main st for interment at lemonville four pupils all over 90 years old attend locust hill reunion three hundred former pupils gather to mark schools 75th year strick f en in field passes a armer rasses rway o- death came with startling suddenness to a prominent farmer of altona on saturday morning when barkis reesor aged 63 was stricken with heart trouble while working in the potato patch he was assisted by the hired man to the lawn at the house where he was administered aid by the family physician and although saying he felt revived and all right he suddenly passed away born and raised on the farm where he died at lot 27 con 9 pickering barkis was a son of the late elias reesor and annie burkholder thus being of dutch descent in 1900 he married ida wideman who with three sons and one daughter mourn the loss of a loving father they are ken blake and stanley all on the home stead and blanche mrs frank lackie of fraserville mrs leslie rowbotham of stoutt- ville is an only sister the deceased was identified with the union church at altona and taught a sunday school class there where his father before him had been superintendent for years the funeral on monday afternoon to dickson hill cemetery was one of the most largely attended in the dis- trict for a long time presiding eder m bricker of the mbc church and rev e morton officiated at the last sad rites the pall bearers were messrs edward arthur and percy wideman fred mcnair walter carter millard reesor model work shop in local school principal murphy and his assistant ralph haist at the continuation school have had a fine compliment paid them for the manner in which the shop room has been planned and laid out at the school it so impress ed inspector gordon manual training innspector for the pro vince that he requested pictures be taken which he intends to show as a model shop for other schools contemplating similar shop installation uxbridge men crash constable quibell was called to altona on sunday night where a car had rammed into the ditch and- the occupants dumped out the occupants hailed from uxbridge harry stewart who was found lying in the ditch with serious chest in juries was not noticed until several hours after the others had been picked up edward stewart uxbridge mail courier and h chrieves toronto were removed from the scene by constable quibell and constable wid miller their car had miss ed a curve it is said and crash ed into a tree and the occupants were so dazed they could not tell exactly what happened it was several hours later that a farmer saw harry stewart lying there in an unconscious condit ion he was removed to the hospital three hundred or more school children of former days gathered again last saturday afternoon in the old school yard at locust hill to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the school they came from as far as oswego cleveland and lake- wood in the states and from brampton ottawa oakville new dundee and eagle lake in ontario besides many other places nearer the old school section miss irene reesor and miss alice pike capable registrars saw to it that those who regis tered gave their married names and those by which they were known in the old school daysand their well arranged books will be a prized record for years to come teachers too of other days came in goodly numbers the oldest present being isaac pike of bethesda whitchurch who taught in the school for one year in 1873 mr pike holds the record for teaching perhaps longer than any other peda gogue alive he taught for 46 years and recited poetry at the reunion to prove that his mind is working well today although 86 years of age the boys and girls of other years were called together un der the beautiful shade trees for which the grounds hold a real charm by william irwin who studied the three rs at locust hill and who hadnt for got that he was made to climb one of the trees and cut a gad for his own threshing frank reesor trustee gave an inter esting history of the school revealing that when the pre sent building was erected in 1864 the old frame school was sold for 900 sitting in the school yard were three women chatting happily all of them were ninety years of age and pupils who attended the original school indeed there were four monogenarians on the grounds for another sat in a car they were mrs alex dewey of whit by who will be 90 this friday and when a girl was margaret winn next was mrs riddle whose maiden name was mary cole then there were mrs ben hagerman and mrs duncan the latter coming all the way from ottawa these two are sisters and were daughters of the late col button mrs dewey recalled that her mother planted many of the locust trees around their farm and from this the place became known as locust hill the four ladies are wonderfully bright and might be much younger if one judged by their looks only despite the tendency of people today to roam this sec tion of markham township can point to families who have re mained in the same locality for four generations it was relat ed that a fourth generation is attending school at this time they were all present for the reunion first mrs ben hager man and her daughter mrs m r hoover granddaughter mrs ab troyer and great grandson and granddaughter rae and shirley pupils of the school shirley just passed the en trance this year the teacher miss nellie hy- land is very popular and is a local girl her mother was a reesor and one time pupil of the school louis pipher of new dundee came back for the occasion recalling only pleasant memories of the days he taught here mrs shirk of ridgeway the former mabel ramer was also welcomed by many on the grounds from cleveland ohio came mrs g v woodling and her husband she was the form er margaret gould mr and mrs parish b steeper came from new york state after speech making and musical numbers by markham band the tables were laid out with a wonderful array of cook ing indicating that the girls who over the decades attended the fine old school at locust hill had learned something more than reading writing and arith metic the cooking was wonder ful and the affair closed with all feeling that it was worth while to have paused in the hurry and bustle of life to live again the scenes of youth in this lovely of lovely school- grounds duncandewsbury at melville church cashel on saturday july 15th 1939 george harvey dewsbury son of harold dewsbury and his wife bertha snider of vandorf and dorothy evelyn duncan daughter of stuart duncan and his wife janetsummerfeldt of bethesda were united in the bonds of holy matrimony in the presence of immediate relatives by rev gordon r duncan cousin of the bride mendel ssohns wedding march was played by miss nettie bruce and the bride was given away by her father it was in this church that the bride was bap tized in her infancy and it was here that her father and grand father were baptized as well as mr duncan who performed the ceremony miss betty duncan sister of the bride was bridesmaid and mr keith preston a close friend of the groom acted as grooms man the bride looked beautiful i n a gown of navy sheer with white accessories and carried a bouquet of red rose buds while the bridesmaid wore a gown of periwinkle blue sheer with white accessories and bouquet of pink roses the happy couple left almost immediately for montreal and eastern points and will on their return reside at vandorf courtesy pictures the group pictures of the stayner camp printed on page 3 were from mats kindly loan ed by the owen sound sun- times pictures were by paul l storms good weather is predicted for friday nights street dance in stouffville by billie hole campbells rent storage space here the gold fish supply co announced through their presi dent mr george asten who was in town on wednesday that an agreement had been reached with the campbellsoup co weston ontario for the lease of the basement story of the gold fish building the big soup company will use the premises for storage purposes for which it is ideally adapted the interest taken by the camp bell people we hope may pres age greater development by this firm in the local district where they are able to procure a quality of vegetables second to none in the province leaving for calgary stove linings latest on peddlers list there may be nothing new under the sun but the practise of making a living by going from door to door repairing the family cook stove is something we never heard of until last week- police in whitchurch township had a report on a couple of gents who weje report ed to be canvassing the concession lines and really do ing a good business the line of approach was to promise to put in a new lining in the old cook stove for so much money or perhaps it would be just a repaid job anyway arguments ensued when settling up time came and in several instances the workmen usually wanted more thann the bargain called for at the start in one instance on the aurora sideroad police said the lady of the house had new linings put in the stove which were to cost only 1 when the job was finished the price was some thing like 13 she refused to pay and the workmen removed the linings and took them away along with the dollar for the most part it is un wise to allow strangers in the home much less to enter into contracts for work or for the sale of anything there are local dealers for most every thing and it is safer to contract business through one you know claremont band to play at union service claremont band will play for the church service next sunday evening in clarmont rev mr augustine will preach and it is expected a large congregat ion will gather for this union worship who is fred brown soliciting magazine sub scriptions in the glasgow area a man giving the name of fred brown church street stouffville aroused the suspi cion of one farmer who in vestigated only to find that rio such person lived on church street as the stranger claimed to have secured several hundred orders an effort to put police on his trail only failed because a constable could not be located in the immediate district stouffville and markham men could not act as it was beyond their county after all farmers who hand out money to subscription tak ers should te prepared to take a chance they know by now that most of them are in the socalled shark class yet in the hope of getting something be low cost good money is handed to strangers two women dead following crash highfield isters both dead lived here over 50 years ago a report from brantford tells of the death of mrs james pollock 72 who died following a heart attack be lieved brought on after a motor accident when a car driven by her son harry overturned seven miles from their home in brantford mrs pollock was rushed to the hospital but was dead on arrival her sister miss jane highfield 66 is also dead older residents of stouff ville will recall the highfield family living here 50 years ago in the house now owned by mrs w hopkins at least one of our residents mrs a s collins recalls going to school with mrs pollock when they were girls the pollock family visit the walter dickson home here every summer mrs pollock was buvied on wednesday at brantford but her sister jane will be interred at stouffville today thursday at 2 pm mrs forsyth 81 last of todd family sister of late john s todd and late jos todd who were prominent citizens in their day last surviving member of one of uxbridge townships early pioneer families passed away on tuesday afternoon when mrs eleazer forsyth succumbed to illness in her 81st year her husband predeceased her five years ago mrs forsyths maiden name was jemima todd and she is the last of the family of seven brothers two of them being prominent business men john s todd of goodwood and jose ph grain merchant in stouff ville married 59 years ago the late mrs forsyth settled with her hubasd on the farm where she died at lot 26 on the 2nd con of uxbridge just north of the highway 47 she was a hard working woman with all the fine traits of the pioneer of a family of riine children five survive the aged mother being mrs ted wagg mrs richard fooe mrs chas watson chas on the homestead and thomas in toronto the funeral will be held on thursday afternoon service be ing conducted at the late home at 2 pm interment will be made in glasgow cemetery baseball here saturday after noon in memorial park hill- crests vs stouffville mr and mrs john hodgins expect to leave town this thurs day morning on a trip to cal gary where they will spend a few weeks with their daughter and soninlaw mr and mr win allin local entrance class pass test 100 percent results of the entrance ex amination held at stouffville show a clean sweep with never a failure ten wrote and all were successful while seven passed on term work term work anderson audrey burkholder grace clarkson frances glover margaret honours longhurst muriel maskell alfred mcdonald evelyn written examinations betz floyd boadway theodore brillinger gerald brown harry castle william cooney grant maskell ruth nicholson edna smith pauline wideman edna mail couriers meet nearly one hundred mail couriers and their families of york and ontario counties gathered in claremont park on tuesday afternoon and evening for their first gettogether and one which they hope to make an annual affair chairman for the occasion was c e hunt president of york county rural mail cour iers and the speakers in the evening included rev mr augustine of claremont reeve jas rennie of markham e w bolton of the dominion rural mail couriers association and mr murkar box prize winners were messrs loss hill a don- obar j r haorizun