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tottfftrillt 3fcitaiiie awarded jos clark memorial trophy for 1939 vol 52 no 27 st0uffv1lle ont thursday oct 12th 1939 eight pages lightning damages local hydro service a bolt of lightning created considerable havoc in the west- end of stouffville about 10 am on sunday morning putting qiit the hydro service in that part for several hours it struck the grist mill near the mansion house and tore off part of the wood roof went down through the building and left in its wake a strong smell of sulphur fortunately the building was not damaged every electric service in the westend business block was damaged meters blown off the wall and fuses burned out by the wholesale twentyfive street lamps were blown to pieces leaving in many cases no trace of the bulb whatever many homes on church street obrien avenue blake street and west beyond the tracks were without power as the fuses gave out under the heavy flash which was follow ed by a tremendous crash of thunder such as has not been heard for many a day in the kitchen at mr truman holdens the ceiling fixture was blown into a thousand pieces while a wire holding up the kitchen stove pipes was sizzled up mr and mrs holden were in the kitchen at the time both received considerable shock but were quite all right in a few minutes down at the stouffville flor ists greenhouse a heater was destroyed while a relay switch on the town service was put out of commission plowing matches north ontario plowing match will be held on the farm of talmage bryan just east of sunderland on monday oct 16 south ontario at heber downs in pickering oct 19 and north york at aurora oct 21 business man is injured in crash one of our business men mr hugh bannerman figured in an auto collision in toronto on monday evening which sent him and miss anna mckay toronto a passenger to the toronto general hospital the driver of the other car mrs delia parr of york mills escap ed injury but both cars were badly damaged mr bannerman was found to be suffering from severe cuts while miss mckay received a fractured leg miss bannerman also a passenger was uninjured the chief of the 5c to a 1 store was able to re turn on wednesday and we trust will soon be himself again mr bannerman was proceeding south and making a left turn into the york market at the top of hoggs hollow the parr car was going north and the two crashed oldest driver at markham fair the great crowd cheered and watched with thrill ing interest the vain attempt of driver l g bennett of port hope to wrest first place with ashworthy grattan from blanchard bros of newmarket with walter grattan but few who watched ever realized that bennet with sporting coat goggles and peak cap was in his 83rd year this veteran of the turf had all any younger driver could show plus all the cunning that long years could teach blanchard s horse won first in the 216 in straight heats while bennetts pac er was a close second in the 224 race miss lee grattan owned by c smith weston took first monev in three heats with four entrants was marriages earner stevenson quiet outdoor wedding solemnized on satur day afternoon october 7 1939 at three oclock at the home of mr and mrs walter t steven son kinsale ontario when their eldest daughter florence edna became the bride of reginald ramer only son of mr and mrs fred ramer altona rev robert mcvee officiated the bride given in marriage by her father wore a gown of white net over taffetta with matching shoulder length veil and carried a bouquet of pink roses babies breath and maiden hair fern she was at tended by her sister marion stevenson wearing a gown of pink net over taffetta with matching accessories and carry ing a bouquet similar to that of the bride the groom was atten ded by harry spang of clare- mont the wedding music was played by wilma richardson of toronto cousin of the bride the bride travelled in a navy and wine ensemble after a motor trip to michigan the couple will reside at altona lemon ramer an interesting event took place on wednesday evening october 4th at forest hill farm the home of mr and mrs malcolm ramer when their youngest daughter mary grace was united in marriage to mr eugene lemon eldest son of mrs lemon and the late philip lemon the ceremony was per formed by the brides pastor rev h shantz of the mbc church stouffville the happy couple left immediately after for a short honey moon trip on their return they will reside on the grooms farm just north of stouffville ferguson smith on saturday october 7th at the temperanceville united church parsonage by the rev w a westcott blanche second daughter of mr and mrs parker smith aurora was united in marriage to edwin eldest son of mr and mrs peter ferguson stouffville thieves fail in attempted breakins once again thieves attempted to rob the store of reeve a e weldon on tuesday night he was awakened by his watch dog but could not find anyone about however in the morning it was discovered where thieves had removed the screen from the rear window and prepared to force the sash up working from a pile of boxes that had been carried to the spot evidently the continual bark ing of the dog frightened the thieves away in time to escape being caught by the proprietor three years ago this was the window the thieves broke in and made off with a pile of merch andise groves store at ringwood was also visited and an effort made to remove the glass in the front door when the thieves were heard and frightened away mr grove saw the car which tallied with the descript ion of one that constable gay- man is looking for as stolen re cently stouffville ousted from the ontario baseball picture trip to milwaukee delightful holiday bethesda auction totals 3600 plans are likely to be com pleted this week for two more rew houses in town ideal weather tremendous crowd and brisk bidding com bined to produce one of the best auction sales held in whit church in many a year on the farm of mr fred march last friday afternoon the live stock was all in the pink of condition a fact readily seized on by auctioneers john and ken prentice to bring the last dollar from every hoof brought into the ring it was stated that the farm would be offered at a sale to be held later in the season in response to numerous enquir ies for this is one of the finest acreages in the township fred march was congratulat ed on every hand for the fine stable of horses and cattle he was able to produce to the pub lic a team which the owner prized very much and would never have parted with had he een continuing on the farm were divided in the ring one selling for 191 and the other for 135 they were six-years- continued on page 8 motoring to milwaukee wis covering 644 miles and return ing by a different route cover ing 633 was the remarkable comparison in distances covei- ed by mr and mrs thomas simpson mr seneca baker and daughter mrs barnes last week entering the states at sarnia they returned by de troit yet the remarkable thing was that there showed only one mile difference in the two rout es their destination was the home of mr alfred pipher with whom they enjoyed a visit also with ada lemon and ed lemon all former residents of whitchurch at pontiac thev called on mr and mrs fred flath who once lived north of musselmans lake the veteran seneca enjoyed every minute of his holiday and was morethan interested in the big airport at milwaukee where the big machines from all parts of the states call mr baker was able to climb aboard one of them visualize what it felt like to be in the seat of the passenger liner the corn belt encountered from chatham south was most interesting as well as the manner in which the harvest is handled on such ex tensive scale mass meeting of social interest sunday october 22 has been named as the occasion on which an officer will visit stouffville in the interest of the bible soc iety a mass meeting has been arranged by the churches ot the town to be held in the unit ed church at 7 pm rev a w bamfield will show pictures and give a talk on a trip through etheopia by motor camel and mule all churches in stouffville are co operating and centering their efforts on this meeting offer new courses to claremont pupils tuesday sreception on wednesday of last week finish was written on another attempt by stouffville to grab off provincial baseball honors when their hardfighting nine went down to defeat at the hands of gait for the second straight loss to the western champions the overwhelming score of 20 8 was considerably more than gait deserved the short age of local pitching reserves and fielding much below local standards accounting for the running up of such a margin after the first loss to gait 73 it was still thought that stouffville might prove equal to the task as a couple of costly errors netted the visitors their winning runs on this occasion with tip anderson on the mound stouffville packed a 52 lead into the third innings wideman holden and clark do ing the hitting however ander son weakened badly in the fifth was relieved by hodgins who was likewise slugged freely for one and a half innings and gave way to pennock who finished the game with stouffville out of the picture there are just three teams left in the race gait were defeated in their second game with lucan and their ser ies now stands tied oneall sunderland was eliminated on monday at hagersville by the score of 42 leaving hagersville to go into the final round again st either gait or lucan james neil familiar figure died suddenly a familiar figure in whit church township for the past 25 or 30 years james neil died suddenly at york county hos pital newmarket on friday last following a stroke the pre vious tuesday he was 76 years of age and had lived at various places in the township the funeral on sunday from new market took place to church hill cemtery besides his wife living in toronto a family of six child ren are believed to all be living although no relatives could be reached by the press to ascer tain this information two sisters in aurora are mrs cole markham red cross a mass meeting is being cal led for next monday evening in the township hall at union- ville for the purpose of organ izing the municipality for red cross work the meeting will be presided over by reeve james rennie and speakers from tor onto will be present to give addresses and assist in the or ganization program farm wo men from every concession are expected to attend the formal opening of the new wing at the brierbush hos pital will be announced in this paper next week watch for the announcement mr and mrs g h bailey re ceived for the first time in their home on main street on tues day october 10 in the afternoon mrs bailey in her wedding dress of pink silk net received with mrs c g bailey and mrs j e hogg mothers of the couple those assisting were mrs f marshall miss g todd mrs f l button and mrs herbert lee four girls of the cgit served in the dining room misses ruth marshall aurelia jennings kathleen turner and beryl brillinger in the evening mr and mrs bailey received many of their friends and introduced them to their parents who were all pre sent miss g todd mrs s ball i mrs l c murphy and mrs l e atkinson assisted those ser ving were misses ruth miller joyce ball betty sanderson and and thelma atkinson the house was decorated with fall flowers the table covered with a cutwork cloth was de corated with ivory tapers and red roses nearly ninety guests attend ed those from outoftown be ing rev and mrs c j bailey of kleinburg rev and mrs j e hogg of drumbo mr and mrs macrae miss g feir and miss roberts of uxbridge a quartette from hamilton will sing at the anniversary service in stouffville christian church this sunday evening eight students from clare mont continuation school will find a place for themeslves in the new shop and domestic science courses being taught in the new wing of stouffville school it was decided on mon day evening at a regular meet ing of the local trustees that classes from claremont should be accommodated and principal and mrs gallagher murphy expressed the view that if these classes were to start it should be immediately in order that students have fail- opportunity on the years work claremont trustees who made the request met on tuesday and made the new arrange ments the classes will be in stouffville twice a week 945 until noon and will be merged into the present classes taking the courses outlined we were informed on wednes day that ten from claremont will now enroll this week 54 bus to the acre mr sam armstrong returned a few days ago from a three weeks trip to manitoba and saskatchewan stopping at saskatoon then proceeding to melfort in the famous prince albert district crop conditions he found good in the crow lake district farmers reported 54 bushels to the acre of wheat most of them had their grain in the elevators before the upturn in grain prices but mr arm strong thought that for the most part the farmers would benefit from the advance as they had received only a down payment and thus would receive more as a result of advanced prices which came on the out break of war who will go to england dis- con- births meyer at the obrien avenue maternity home stouffville on october 5 1939 to mr and mrs allan b meyer of claremont rr a daughter unusal interest is being played in the salada tea test at the provincial plowing match this week each local plowing association may enter two contestants those from the local associationnorth york be ing win ferguson and louis wells from north ontario john mead port perry and d j tran atha have been chosen and from east york our next nerest society richard jarvis and ed timbers will be the en trants these plowmen with two from all other societies will en ter one grand competition on the last day of the provincial the winner and the runnerup being eligible to be sent to the old country by the big dispen sers next year the salada co are certainly to be congratulated in taking such ctive interest in the mak ing of good plowmen and lend ing encouragment to the work of better farming in this way this competition as we stat ed two weeks ago is for a sale in jointer plows in which only horses may be used engagements mr and mrs f w thomp son stouffville ontario wish to announce the engagement of their eldest daughter laurel eileen to mr charles william bushel of weston