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famfiviue euawmut awarded jos clark memorial trophy for j 939 vol 52 no 25 stouffville ont thursday sept 28th 1939 eight pages local women asked to register abilities calling all women of stouff- ville and district between the ages of 16 and 65 to come in and register registration may be made at the brown betty tea rooms any day this week this registration is dominionwide and is government approved it doesnt obligate any woman and is nonpolitical and nonsectar ian mrs mckeown of toronto was in town last week and arranged for local registration station next door to the tri bune the project for the volun tary registration of canadian women vrcw arose out of discussions by a group of wom en who were interested in ques tions of defence they were convinced that something ought to be done to insure that in the event of a crisis women willing to serve their country would be put to the tasks for which they were trained and qualified and that a record of their willing ness to serve their training and their qualifications ought to be made now so as to be readily available in the event of such an need they foresaw difficulties in the way of getting any can adian government to under take such a suivey in peace time these women thought they saw a way in which the matter could be undertaken with the least expense and the greatest expedition and with out involving the government canada is a perfect network of womens organizations through which women have learned how to organize and how to get big jobs done they found out that in eng land the first step taken in the programme of air raid pre cautions arp was the regis tration of all women who were willing to give their services voluntarily for such purposes as first aid ambulance driving fire fighting organizing metro politan evacution etc this scheme which was started about may of 1938 utilized the existing womens organizations although there the plan from the beginning was sponsored and financed by the government a canvass of the heads of womens organizations in can ada bore out not only their cap ability but their willingness to undertake the work of registra tion indeed the reception of the idea was so enthusiastic that there was nothing else to be done but proceed with it women in surrounding com munities have been busily fill ing out the questionnaires for more than a week so that then- capabilities will be known when their services are needed it is hoped that the response will be great the registration puts no woman under obligation but is being conducted to discover what female strength and able- ness there is available form war work branch the stouffville senior insti tute voted 2500 to the promo tion of a branch of the war work officers appointed are president mrs geo t lee secy mrs e j davey treasurer mrs a farthing buying com miss sadie stew art and mrs lloyd turner knitting mrs p barrie sewing miss m mowder e drys win liquor fight temperance forces rally in force to keep out beverage room uxbridge voters thursday de feated a proposal to allow the sale of beer by 639 to 215 of some 1000 voters on the roll 854 cast ballots the town has been dry since 1916 the temperance campaign was launched after a petition for a beer parlor had been cir culated early in the summer more than the 25 per cent of the names on the voters list neces sary to force a vote were ob tained church business and com munity organizations united in a temperance federation headed by mrs rev p g powell and j smith womens meetings young peoples meetings were climaxed by a general mass meeting in the town hall ad dressed by temperance leaders from toronto at home mr and mrs charles lee of goodwood will be at home to their friends on monday october 2nd from 2 to 4 and from 7 to 10 oclock it being the occasion of their 50th wedding day age doubted but for bible record 150 mare at locust hill sale mr herbert jarvis of mark- ham purchased the highest pric ed mare sold at the farm sale of stock and implements belong ing to miss m boyd cedar valley farm locust hill on monday afternoon another mare sold for 78 the highest cow went at 65 and heifers averaged 4750 oats in the bin went readily at 40c bushel and wheat 75c hay 7 per ton in the mow implements sold well as did all the live stock auctioneer farmer handled the sale miss boyd who conducts a summer park in connection with the farm is moving to toronto for the winter where she ownes an apartment next season she in tends to operate the park as usual but has rented the 100 acre farm to john graham on monday afternoon the scribe encountered one of our prominent whitchurch citi zens on the street in the person of mr abner baker and we learned from him that he had reached his 81st birthday just a week ago because he does not appear a day over 65 we questioned him on making errors but mr baker says his age is recorded in the family bible so there is no room for argument seven years ago he underwent an operation for rupture of the stomach and to day is feeling fit for anything he cares to do mr baker is a member of a longlived family his grand father came here the year 1804 his father lived to be 94 and his mother 87 mr baker thinks the present generation of young people travel a pretty lively pace and not confronted in the home with the christian teach ings that many homes present ed back in his youthful days his long life has all been spent close to his present home on the 8th concession of whitchurch at baker hill and he recalls hauling hundreds of bushels of oats to stouffville dumping them into a hopper at the mill which stood right where the post office now is located today we drop in letters where mr baker dropped grain overboard abner baker gave some years to public life and served the township of whitchurch as a councillor for numerous terms friends are proud of his activ ity and wish for him many years in his present good health he is the only surviving member of a family of six brothers and sisters and mr seneca baker in his 89th year is a second cousin stolen six weeks car recovered word was received in town by constable quibell on mon day morning informing him that mr paul boadways auto mobile stolen six weeks ago had been recovered at peterboro police chased a suspect from marmora in a running battle during which 20 shots were fired and the thief overtaken in the northern city besides the 1935 chevrolet car owned by mr boadway and removed from his home during the night a quantity of cloth ing stolen from blake yakes car in the west end of the town was found with the thief peterboro police said the serial number had been filed off the car and the markers chang ed the thief gave the name of kenneth mitchell and as he admitted six different charges is likely to be tried in peter boro and sentenced there the boadway car was insured and the owner in the interval pur chased another car believing the stolen bus would never be recovered death recalls pioneer family miss jane minns 90 daughter of local ness maker was a har- 45c a bushel no price for wheat all the western farmer was getting for his wheat when i was in alberta a few weeks ago was 45c said mr henry wideman well known farmer on the townline east of town when discussing his trip to the west with a reporter mr wideman was reticent about bursting into print but we per suaded him to talk just a little he noted with pleasure that wheat had advanced around 20c bushel since he came home and estimated that the farmer might reap some of the benefit of the upturn although he fear ed some had sold their crop early to pay debts mr and mrs wideman in company with her sister mrs morgan hill and mr hill left the old township of markham about continued on page 8 the death of miss jane minns in toronto last week brings to the mind of old timers in stouffville the familiar harness shop on main street which thriv ed some 50 years ago on a site about where mr clayt bakers residence is located miss minns passed away in her 90th year at the belmont home and was laid to rest in the anglican cemetery at norway there survives one sister elizabeth also two brothers frank of markham and wm iiving in saskatchewan the family were among the pioneer residents of the village but there are still a few people who recall the minns harness shop and the proprietor james minns who died in athabasca a couple of years ago was a nephew concerning his widow now a resident of victoria bc an interesting fact comes to light in that- she was twice bereaved last week in addition to the death of her aunt on thursday last her brother david harwood sand- ford orit passed away in his 74th year and was buried near uxbridge stouffvilleballclubf elimination at gait o- breaks against locals in 73 loss fine fielding a fea ture return game schedul ed for wednesday is rained out will play in gait on saturday a soft run in the second in nings and two easy ones in the eighth along with eleven solid pokes were enough to give gait an opening win in the first of home and home games in their no occasion for alarm john couperthwaite of scar- boro purchased the highest priced horse sold at the auction sale on the frank seebeck farm at atha last week but left the animal in the stable until he could take it home the next day to his dismay when he went to get the mare like old mother hubbards cupboard the stall was empty and the owner had visions of a horse thief so did others and a hunt was prompt- the police was called the mare was located down in the pasture field she had in some way be come untied and just walked out on them thats all lions recommend patriotic society at a dinner meeting of the stouffville lions monday even ing it was unanimously record ed to ask reeve a e weldon to call a public meeting for the purpose of organizing a patriot ic society in the village f l button kc sponsored the resolution and received a seconder in secretary hugh bannerman members pledged their sup port and resources to a society dedicated to aid in the present national crisis and believed the time now opportune to get an organization under way miss mary miller of mont- clair new jersey has been vis iting mrs w h shaw for a couple of weeks be sensible the way to stop a rumor which steals the char acter of an individual a firm a product is to refuse to repeat it it is a thief this sort of thievery seems to thrive in war time it did in the great war and there is an epidemic of it now the wildest rumors are afloat rumors about men rumors about goods rumors on internments and shootings all equally unfound ed without a shed of truth behind them some of these alarmist yarns are calculated to harm firms of the highest standing and products of the utmost reliability other stories deal with ind ividuals in some cases with citizens of foreign an cestry whose loyalty is beyond doubt the anonymous originator of malicious and false stories of that natiu is a low specimen of humankind unfortun ately many good people innocently pass on his lies- and help spread foolish fears it is time intelligent people stopped doing this if the rumors were true the newspapers would know it they know on the contrary that the rumors are false they are false even when repeated by some man who says he knows because someone else told him all about it but they spread like a prairie fire it is the part of good citizens to help put the fire out not to fan the flames do not repeat what you do not know to be true is a good motto at any time but especially so in war and again let it be said the mischievous yarns current of recent days are without foundation the suspicions and fears they have created are entirely unwarranted acts as judge at beaverton fair series with stouffville for thejfy instituted however before right to continue in the inter- mediate baseball playdowns stouffville were able to count one in the fifth and two in the sixth and although they were able to place men in scoring pos ition in nearly every innings the necessary hit to bring the runs across were not forthcom ing the local fielding deserved a much closer score than it re ceived but several costly errors combined with the lack of batt ing punch to bring the boys closer accles and murray led the gait hittingbarrage while lehman and cook accounted for three of stouffvilles five hits stouffville sacrificed men to second and third in the sixth seventh and eighth innings and then were unable to get moie then a weak pop fly to carry them home cutting off baserunners was continued on page 8 do you want a big crowd at your sale more people every week are finding out that the cheapest and best way to obtain a bumper crowd of good buyers for their auc tion sale is to advertise it in the tribune the tri bune press will print your sale bills attractively and at most reasonable cost but your surest guarantee of a good sale is to adver tise your goods in the col umns of this newspaper the great circulation of the tribune gives you an advantage over any other advertising medium if contemplating a sale this fall dont forget this im portant fact that to be sure of a crowd you must be sure your sale appears in the tribune eye witness to nazi persecution to give address here an eye witness to the burn ing of jewish synagogues in berlin carried out under the superintendency of men in uni form rev oswald a blumit will address a meeting in the local baptist church this friday evening sept 29 at 8 oclock mr blumit is pastor of a bap tist church in latvia near the border of soviet russia he came to america as the official delegate to the baptist world congress but before he could return home war had broken out because of his extensive travels in europe mi- blumit has first hand knowledge on conditions especially in ger many poland lithuania and latvia he tells of being in the home of a lutheran pastor when the police came and arrest ed this man and dragged him off to a german prison many atrocities he saw and these are graphically told by him you are cordially invited to hear this speaker whose ad dress is very timely an offering to aid in the care of orphan and needy children in latvia will be taken mr and mrs jack oboyle and son walter motored to beaverton for the big fair last week taking along mr george watson who was to act as one of the judges on light horses despite rain which fell from 12 noon until around 2 oclock the directors ordered the track events to proceed rather than allow the racers to suffer loss although they stood to loss probably 500 in prize money themselves i consider it pret- tv good sportsmanship said mr watson to the tribune fifteen horses were ready to start and although the going was in mud fine entertainment was provided the finest show of heavy horses i have seen at any country fair in years is the words mr watson used in describing this branch of the show new voters list for whitchurch 3071 names on 1939 issue the annual issue of a book entitled voter list for the township of whitchurch was issued last week and ratepay ers may have a copy on applica tion to clerk john crawford whose duty it is annually to compile a list of all the persons entitled to vote in any election that might be staged be it municipal provincial or dom inion just here it might be in good order to state that this list should ibe used for all or any of these elections instead of discarding it when it comes to a provincial or dominion con test when at enormous and wasteful expense the same thing is issued in another form there is no better list to make use of then that prepared by the municipal clerks for rural municipalities the whitchurch list was posted in the clerks office at vandorf last saturday and voters have 21 days in which to file appeals there are three thousand and seventyone names on the entire list divided 2060 on part one of persons entitled to vote at both elections for members of the legislative as sembly and municipal elections in the municipality 914 names of persons entitled to vote at municipal elections only and 93 on part three constituting those who may vote for mem bers of the legislative assembly only the letters nc after the names of women in part one stand for words ho count continued on page 8 mr and mrs walter barkey toronto were in town calling on relatives they found mr thos villiamson doing surprisingly well for a man of his advanced age