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tje fittonfftrille awarded jos clark memorial trophy for j 939 vol 52 no 22 stouffville ont thursday august 31 1939 eight pages slave trade recalled by wh1tevale man a relic of the days when there was slavery in the british empire and that not much more than 100 years ago is in the possession of judson pugh of whitevale it is a convenyance of four slaves executed at kingston jamaica in 1816 ah involved legal document which in its square yard of beautiful copper plate writing would seem to indicate that legal language has changed very little in the past century it appears that one wm park er bought a number of slav es from an estate and discover ed that four of hem were mort gaged to another estate by the time he had agreed to pay es tate no two to get a clear title he had given some poor lawyers clerk a very hard days work the same clerk however made a very nice job of it not leaving out a single twirl or squiggle that could be worked in the ink has not faded in 133 years the slaves involved were mrs mary bond a negress and her three children james described as a mulatto sucky and john with the usual legal caution the conveyance in cludes any future offspring of sucky and her mother the conveyance is written on a heavy paper of the type known to modern bookbinders as text but of a much heavier grade than any made now it is still uncracked except at the folds and the years have not made it brittle how the document came to this country is not known it was found by mr pugh among a large pile of papers in a farm house he had purchased the previous possessor and all his family were believed dead mr pugh also has a number of relics handed down from the first pugh who settled at white vale in 1837 his grandfather the blades of the first reaper owned by the grandfather are among them and a number of indian arrow and tomahawk heads one of the prizes of the collection is an old chair which was brought out from an irish castle about 200 years ago mr pugh at 70 is now prob ably the oldest of the pughs of ontario county at least he won a prize for that at the last three family reunions finest basket at north york was sent from stouffville society north york market was a riot of floral v blooms for the annual flower show of the society there among the beauiful displays was the prize- winning entry of the stouffville horticultural society shown below upper left is a fine basket by mrs a sparrow of willowdale and upper right is a wonderful spike of yellow dahlia from the pike toronto exhibit stouffville society is being congratulated on every hand for their fine basket which won the admiration of not only the judges but of the many visitors to the show on our local page an item indicates the names of the society members who were responsible for the exhibit and its arrangement veterans shun drum head service stouff ville park sunday afternoon september 3 all unattached veteransplease fall in with stouffville unit wesend of town at 2 pm sharp the salute will be taken at the post office captain reesor 97 years old engagement i mr and mrs william pennel of toronto announce the en gagement of their daughter doris isabel to harvey c maye of toronto only son of mr and mrs george maye goodwood the marriage to take place on monday september 4 at north broadview united church at 2 pm standaid time attractive green river estate sold laying aside his gardening tools for a few minutes capt robert reesor cedar grove markham township recalled many interesting events of his lengthy life as he talked with a neighbor on tuesday the 97th anniversary of his birthday capt reesor served with the york rangers in the fenian raid in 1866 and is the last surviving member of his corn- any still quite active he walks with his customary soldierly bearing and has announced his intention of attending the cne three days this week he is particularly proud of the walnut maple pine and other trees he has planted and can show his visitors trees whose ages vary from saplings to veterans 70 years of age one and onehalf years older than sir william mulock capt reesor stiil takes an interest in politics he has been a con servative all his life the sale is reported of the fine acreage at green river belonging to the state of the late albert hisey to mr eugene forsyth of greenbank who will probably take posses sion this fall the farm of 60 acres is situ ated on the highway just east of the hamlet itself and is beautifully fronted by a fine evergreen hedge the house is modernly equipped piped water being supplied from a drilled well all the buildings are equipped with hydro the property contains much fruit and is particularly adapt ed for market gardening on a extensive scale such as the late mr hisey undertook and which line the new owner intends to pursue mr hisey occupied the farm for some 20 years but he died a year ago last july his widow who is former lemon- ville girl- being a sister to our sam mckeown feas conducted the farm since her husbands death there has for many years been an outstanding herd of milch cows on the farm and these have been largely main tained and will be sold with the other goods and chattels at an whitchurch branch veterans picnic whitchurch branch york county veterans held their picnic on august 23 at apple- tons park lake musselman b f cox secretary of the ex ecutive committee major a c condie j butler c jaynes mr and mrs morley rankin mr and mrs a h jones w e card wife and family mr and mrs j turner miss marion turner and others join ed the gathering prizes were presented in the childrens races to eleanor simpson doris paisley douglas card p paisley r stevens r douglas ruby paisley mar garet fine henry jones duncan simpson marion turner bar bara fine w fine clifford hollidge the first prize win ners in this grouping were alma paisley john ferns r rankin june mclellan leo jaynes helen fine ken card mrs m rankin mrs paisley and tmrs jones were prize winners in the married ladies race and t fellows morley rankin and c jaynes in the mens race a musical entertainment enjoyed annual holiday will advertisers corres pondents and subscribers please note that next week the tribune takes its customary one week holi day there will be no issue of the paper but we will be on hand again for the issue of september 6th the job printing depart ment and office will be open as usual for business new inspectors and new inspectorates was second playdown game on saturday this saturday sept 2 stouff ville will go to ivy for the second game of the oba intermedi ate playdowns the first game in the home and home game series was played here on wed nesday afternoon auction sale to be announced later by walter milne executor a revision of the boundaries of the public school inspectors in this part of york county is announced along with certain changes in the personnel of the inspectors we are informed that stouffville is placed in a more favorable position and that any sentiment worked up against the old boundary will be wiped out the new inspector succeeding mr gillies is r f cameron of oshawa whose territory will in clude all scarboro leaside forest hill village part of north york township inspector r j mooney late of toronto normal school will take over newmarket aurora e gwillimsbury whitchurch and markham entrance boards will be located at richmond hill and markham village and en trance pupils should write at the nearest entrance centre to their own rural school stouff ville is pail of his inspectorate in the retirement of inspec tor r gillies the dept is losing an official who over the longi continued on page 8 j stage set for big holiday program next monday is labor day and a day of celebrating n stouffville when the local vecer- ans will sponsor another big program which for length has not yet been exceeded here beginning in the morning at 1030 two softball tournaments will open and from then on a regular jamboree will be provid ed all afternoon three bands have been secured to provide plenty of music but when the men go out after that greasy pig therell be enough squeel- ing with out the lads in uni form perhaps you will be more interested in the sidesplitting fun of watching the ladies catch a rooster never fear its wings will not be clipped and theres to be some air dives be- on with the dance should have permission councillor thinks one in a season is enough councillor ira rusnell want ed to know who gave the authority for use of main street for a coming street dance when the village council assembled on monday evening reeve weldon said no authority had been given nor asked for so far as he knew the local veterans have a big dance adveilised for labor day winding up with a street affair and this is what brought about the discussion however the veterans were in session in another part of the building and were promptly summoned before the council it certainly was an over sight said president george myland who said that some of the old brigade each expected the other fellow had attended to the detail of obtaining per mission for the use of the street it was an error on our part said george saunders we do not want to appear high and mighty but per mission should have been secur ed reeve weldon pointed out he didnt think council would want to stop them especially when the advertising had all gone out he said he also had in mind the splendid work done by the veterans during the win ter season in helping those in disressed circumstances councillor rusnell stated be fore the veterans arrived on the scene that he would like the street dance cut out many people do not like this form of amusement and anyway the veterans he said held one dance this year he was will ing to introduce a resolution to put a ban on them but allowed the matter to drop after the reeve expressed his views that it would create hard feeling and trouble the session had little or no other business before them other than passing a number of accounts reference was made by councillor brown to a pro test from people on 10th street against the dust nuisance after the road was oiled the grader was allowed to turn over the sides and cover up the oil with the result that life is not so pleasant for those who have to take the clouds of dust monday evenings council meeting was the regular month ly session tout came a week earlier than usual owing to next monday being a public holiday mrs john taylor inter red at victoria square following a lengthy illness death claimed mrs john tay lor at her home in unionville where she lived for 30 years interment was made at victoria square on friday mrs taylor was a daughter of the late john trugeon she is survived by husband three sons lome harry and russel of albany new york three fore the prize is awarded raci nuz 11 u es galore for the young folk fc llv booth alberta mrs in the evening a graiid con- feto and cert in the area presents some geitrude ajld marjorie at home of torontos best talent this will conclude with a fine display of fireworks and if that isnt enough there will be a street dance to the orchestra of billy hole and his live wires this is the last big holiday of the season and youre going to miss something real if you are not on hand f l fowke piominent citi zen of oshawa died last week he was mayor of oshawa for eight terms former beihesda resident wins 190 births stover in stouffvile on august 27 1930 to mr and mrs wilmot a stover a has won two daughter our bethesda correspondent tells of a fortunate turn which came to a former resident of the locality melville march of tor onto on tuesday night mr march was the winner of 190 silver dollars in the treasure trail radio t program spon sored by pk gum the question which he answered to win the prize was what toronto boy 3 canadian swim ming championships