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page two the tribune stouffville ont thursday august 17 1939 established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association issued every thursday at stouffville ontario eight to ten pages average circulation 1375 subscription rates per year in advance in canada 200 in daa 250 a v nolan jp editor and publisher notes and comments better ape than sleep on the job it is with pardonable pride that the tribune re ceives the congratulations of many of its readers on win ning another high honor by being placed in third position among the newspapers in canada having a circulation of 2000 or under this competition conducted by the canadian newspapers association was won successively three years by the newmarket era which withdrew from the contest this year one of the speakers at the convention warned the weekly press against aping the daily newspapers in style and presentation of news this the tribune has always fought against and its one reason why we always oppose the streamer headline which was first used by dailies as a selling agency for news stands indeed aping is a poor thing among weekly newspapers and the publisher who originates his own style and makeup of front page is more likely to get to the top than is the paper which lacks initi ative and ideas but feeds on the other fellow if there is one thing more than another which has brought the tribune to the top in its field of endeavour it is in dividuality because we have made a success of publish ing a paper which has come into such recognition among all the weeklies there are papers now who fashion their front page indentically after styles originated in the office of this paper however even aping is to be preferred to the paper which hasnt enough ambition to attempt to do a good job and are totally asleep to their obligations to a reading public a bit of horseshoe history two thousand years ago a roman slave tossed a horse shoe in emulation of the aristocratic discus thrower and thus the ancient and honorable game of horseshoe or quoits was born after all quoits are horseshoes gone ex pensive never in the twenty centuries that have elapsed has the pastime been out of favor although it has had its lap ses from universal popularity for its present revival two things are chiefly re sponsible the need for inexpensive amusements and ex panding waistlines in fields backyards parks summer resorts playgrounds and vacant lots summer evenings find men of all ages tossing horseshoes or uppish quoits to get out of doing something that costs money or to keep the waistline under control the health value of this homely pastime is not gen erally understood in an evening of quoits one will walk several miles do bending exercises equivalent to a weeks calisthenics and work most of the muscles of the ar shoulders and back it is effective but not strenuous exer cise strange as it seems mans gambling instinct has never shown itself in this game nor has it ever been commercialized these facts may help to explain the long popularity of the game filling the ark is surest sign of election even though hon wlm king refuses to say there will be an election this fall plenty of evidence is to be found which leads the casual observer to think there will be a contest the spending of large sums of money for harbour improvement on waters designated dominion waters even though a steam boat never travels them is one of the unnistakeable evidences and of this form of throw ing out money we register our protest however the sur est sign of an election comes when vthe cabinet fill the senate vacancies and this mr king has not done there are so many political friends anxious to get into the aik before the flood or any chance of deluge descends that no vacancies are left unfilled when mr king fills the seats in the dead chamber or rather the red chamber then we may expect an election date to follow lowest taxes not the goal sometimes we hesitate to print something we know to be a fact for fear of being misunderstood but here goes one concerning local taxation the town with the lowest tax rate is invariably found to be the sleepiest town in a hundred miles and having said this we would not have our taxpayers in the village imagine that we advocate high taxes it is a fact however that councils can become too niggardly and by so doing their village or town is made so unattractive that nobody with ambition wants to live there low taxes attract a certain class who are good people but the average man does not clamour for the lowest tax so uch as he demands a low tax and reasonable improve ments it is inherent that we have modern improvements cleanliness and altogether an uptodate town every body likes to live in that kind of a town and a council not willing to provide reasonable improvements are likelv to be a short time in oflice just as is a council which goes on a spending orgy jn this matter stouffville is particularly fortunate we do not boast the lowest tax rate in a hundred miles but we do boast one of the most uptotheminute towns in that great a stretch we have a lovely park attractive homes and lawns toilet accommodation for strangers and folks from out of town a pavement second to none high class stores and one of the cheapest and best water sys tems in ontario all these added attractions are quite as important as low taxes a really progressive town seldom is able to boast the lowest tax rate which so often goes with a sleepy place lacking initiative former cabinet man not in contest hon j earl lawson minis ter of national revenue in the bennett government in 1935 and mp for the past 12 years will not contest his seat in the next federal election he an nounced his decision at a meet ing of south york conservative association executive the meeting passed a resolu tion of regret and approved holding a convention in vau- ghan road collegiate sept 15 to choose a candidate transfer oshawa inspector cecil f cannon inspector of oshawa public schools for the past 10 years has been trans ferred to the york county in spectorate duncan f mcar- thur deputyminister of educa tion has announced mennonite school at markham ends stouffville play good ball but lose twin bill 30 and 83 hillcrests 3 stouffville 0 toronto hillcrests moved out in front in the north toronto baseball league on saturday afternoon here taking both ends of a doubleheader with stouffville 30 and 83 the first tilt was a nip-and- tuck pitchers battle all the way bruce stover on the local mound held the class a rivals to six scattered blows or less than a hit an innings lefty wright was more than equally good for toronto giving stouffville only three solid pokes in the whole gae torontos big break came in the second when a double by gaul a single by harris and an error to hood sent two runs in another single and an error in the third combined to add another marker to the visitors lead in the 6th a smart double- play wideman at third to lehman at second nipped a possible tworun splurge when none were out in both games the fielding of murray holden local centre fielder was a treat to watch he covered more ground in the afternoon than all the base runnels combined and made two onehand catches that were labelled for home runs r h e hillcrests 3 6 1 stouffville 0 3 2 murray holden on allstar team murray holden stouff ville centre fielder was picked from the four teams comprising the northtor onto baseball league as the leagues allstar centre fielder the selections are made by jack fraser offi cial scoier and other associ ation officials murray is stouffvilles only representative on this picked squad and certainly showed his complete three stars in saturdays double- header here fielding in sen sational style this local light is quite a consistent hitter too and has stood among the leagues top twelve hitters all season an exhibition and concert marked the closing of the 1939 season of the fifth annual vaca tion bible school conducted by the wideman mennonite church directed by a grove the classes were divided into six groups in charge of the follow ing teachers elsie hoover evelyn byers elsie shank alice nahrgang of new hamburg ontario viola good of baden ont and rev l wever re turned missionary to the argen tine missionary pennies collect ed by the children during the year and totalling 1550 will be sent to south america institute to train young homemakers the average rural girl when she leaves high school is not actually fitted to homemak ing declared mrs nelson thompson president of the temperanceville womens insti tute she addressed a meeting at the home of mrs frank wil- kins wilcox lake she has an academic train ing and probably professional future but her training for homebuilding is inadequate said mrs thompson the jr institute will help to fill that gap with the system of project training mrs thompson ad vised that girls enter these both for the practical and com- pitent experience heads moscow mission lawn wedding at malton for former stouffville teacher rev f sullivan conducted a pretty wedding on the lawn of the ho of the brides parents malton when muriel jane hostiawser was married to james edward dodd the bride is a daughter of mr and mrs william hostrawser and the grooms parents are mr and mrs edward dodd inglewood miss velma darker played the music and the soloist was miss jessie jamieson the bride wearing white embroidered organdy over white satin was given in marriage by her father she was wearing the grooms gift a gold locket and had a shoulderlength veil caught with orange blossoms roses and bouvardia made up her bouquet the sisters of the bride and groom miss marion hostrawser and miss frances dodd were bridesmaids miss hostrawser wore blue organdy miss dodd coi organdy they wore flow ers in their hair and carried cornflowers and roses george hostrawser brother of the bride was groomsman mrs hostrawser was gowned in navy triple crepe and wore a corsage of roses mrs dodd wore blue and white sheer with a corsage of roses the couple will reside in brampton following their wedding trip by motor through the north the bride was in a light blue and navy ense with touches of rose and navy accessories the bride was teacher at stouffville public school and her husband is on the mciiugh staff of the brampton public schools league standing including saturdays games g w l t hillcrests 25 14 9 2 pears 22 12 8 2 ostrandeis 23 10 10 3 stouffville 24 7 16 1 stouffville have now complet ed their north toronto schedule and will enter the ontario inter mediate b playdowns a re maining game in toronto this wednesday was withdrawn hillcrests 8 stouffville 3 it looked like a different story in the second game of the twin bill when holden button and cook piled up a trio of hits in succession in first innings to bring over two runs in the third a double by bak er singles by roberts crain and rosenthal along with a local error enabled hillcrests to count with their three runs the fourth and fifth were scoreless stouffville getting the one lone hit in the two innings clark clipping out a single lehman and pennock collects ed two lusty singles in the first of the sixth and a passed ball into the screen allowed the ty ing run to score anderson who had apparent ly settled down after a rather erratic start weakened on the stouffville mound in the sixth and combined with two errors to allow five hits and give toron to a substantial fiverun lead acheson hickson baker head and harris were the marksmen two hits in the seventh by button and clark were fruitless head successfully retiring the side and chalking up his eight strikeout in the game r h e hillcrests 8 8 2 stouffville 3 10 5 this is burnest hurd 24 of vancouver who has trundled his iron barrel from coast to coast walking every step of the way he says and is now on his way back he modestly styles himself the worlds greatest lover and announces that he intends to marry a blueeyed blonde in the near future trans porting her in a cart which he will pull behind him while he pushes the barrel in front admiral sir reginald avlmer ranfurly plunket-ernle-erle- drax who is heading a british military mission to moscow g w baker sons gormley ontario stoulvvillo pliasse 0301 dealers ix cemext stuco manufacturers of concrete blocks and tile blocks sold in yard or delivered silos a specialty sure i can bake but stovers saves me time and trouble hundreds of enlightened stouffville housewives have found that it pays to let stovers do their baking for them especially in the summer when working next to a hot stove is particularly uncomfortable they use the time sav ed for more useful and enjoyable pursuits why dont you lake campers in particular should never miss an opportunity of dropping in at our store each weekend watch our window for daily specials the stouffville bakery amiilliliion paii are- omr one of them partnership with the sun life of canada is a deed of security for you and yours your representative j l abell 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