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totifmle sfcitawie awarded jos clark memorial trophy for 1939 vol 52 no 3d stouffville ont thursday nov 2 1939 eight pages meet to organize for the christmas market in markham preparations will be under way this week for the annual christmas market fair in stouffville for which a public meeting is here called for fri day evening in the municipal building by the fair president j r hodgins all business men and any others interested are requested to be on hand to aid in reorganizing the list of offic ers and discussing the prize list to be offered anniversary confined to sunday services while there will be no mon day entertainment this year in connection with the united church anniversary next sun day in stouffville the yearly event is an important time in the history of the church and one of great interest the special worship services held on nov 5 will bring to town two outstanding churchmen rev- c m curtis of hope united and rev archie p gillies of mills the former for the morn ing service and the latter for the evening worship kicked in face by a horse the second youngest son of mr and mrs leslie wideman east of town narrowly escaped the loss of his right eye on mon day when one of their horses kicked him inflicting a cut just below the eye which might easily have destroyed the sight had the hoof of the animal struck an inch or two higher up as it was the injury is not serious and was readily attend ed to by the family physician brodie southdowns entered for chicago no third day shootj j apportions the division court upkeep to four municipalities was hunt no third day in markham there will be special musical numbers and large crowds are anticipated on both sions occa toronto men buy markham estates two toronto business men have purchased interesting country properties just south of markham this week- one is situated on the banks of the rouge river at boxgrove while the other is located at bay view and steels corners markham j others township hubert pages four and a half acre property with coun try home at boxgrove has been purchased by d ross hossack the property was acquired early this spring from major gillespie who had purchased the old gooderham home at meadowvale the boxgrove property is beautifully landscaped with flagstone walks shrubbery and flower beds and has a young orohard and splendid vegetable garden the quaint old frame house on stone foundation has barn stable and garage an attractive feature is the rouge river which flows along the west side of the property the second acreage sold con sists of 5 acres of the john evans farm located at bayview and steeles corners markham township purchased by j p ramsay who contemplates building on it early in the spring this property is beautifully wooded with tamarack beech maple and elm trees and has a springfed branch of the don river winding through it- the district has recently at tracted many torontonians and is near the country home re cently purchased by miss mazo de la roche and diagonally across the corner from the hon dr herbert a bruces country estate chicago oct 30 eight on tario stockmen and two from alberta made entries today for the 1939 international live stock exposition to be held at the chicago stock yards dec don 2 to 9- the government of ontario will pay bonus prizes of 2500 for each first prize winning grain from this province and will also pay 1000 each to on tario exhibitors winning high est awards on corn small grain and seeds ontario livestock entries re ceived include purebred south down sheep and a carload of native lambs entered bv c j and w j brodie stouffville exhibitors of the grand cham pion carload of lambs here for the past five years in succession and shropshire and hampshire sheep listed by f w gurney of paris brant county herds of purebred beef cattle were entered by f- h deacon son unionville and there pheasant township it is true that the depart ment authorized a hunt in sev eral townships including mark ham clerk hoover explained but that was only subject to the approval of the game com mittee i each township which includes he reeve and other officials in markham the com mittee decided that a third day of shooting was undesirable when we have hunters come up here to shoot i think the idea is to have something for them to shoot at at any rate the deci sion was ot to approve the third day of shooting it was decided l eliminate the third day in markham township months ago when the game committee of the town ship was firs given the author ity from the department of games and fisheries reeve james renie of markham township said- we thought two days would be sufficient the reeve said our people resen too much banging around their farms we complained to the depart ment last year and after a lot of discussion they permitted us to cut it down to two days many farmers were unaware that the third day of shooting had been cancelled and many properties were posted with no shooting no hunting and no trespassing signs wins secretarial prize gloria windsor daughter of mr and mrs n j windsor locust hill has been awarded the loretto secretarial scholar ship open to catholic girls from all parts of ontario out side toronto it is valued at 13000 and gives 10 months tuition at loretto secretarial l college miss windsor attended markham high school several years ago feeding business hits peak stride opened and closed quite a number of the local stores will continue to observe the wednesday halfholiday throughout the winter season with the exception of the christmas weeks beginning this week how ever a number of the places will discontinue the halfholiday and this includes shaws general store schells meat market the post office and the banking houses if a farmer requires grocer ies or other wares there is al ways some merchant available to meet his demands in most any line although the majority of the business places are on the closed list with the coming of novem ber stouffville will see the opening of two more feed emporiums in our midst to supply the wants of both man and beast messrs bell sons will swing into action with a fish and chip stand in the vacant store between wardp garage and red forsyths clip shop any fear that may be aroused among live stock and poultry that stouffville with the biggest number of eating houses or restaurants in its history is forgetting the needs of the beasts and birds is off set by a move on the part of mr herb ferrier and his son- inlaw mr ken rusnell who announce the opening of a grain and feed store next the library the premises occupied by the central feeds now west of the library the new store will handle the dickson hill products and agencies with a fish and chip stand stouffville will have four restaurants two on each side of main street also the mansion house dining room in the grain and feed line there will be four exclusive flour and feed stores stiver bros hastings old es tablished businesses near the station plus the central feeds owned by price pugh and the ferrier and rusnell shop each located on either side of the library the opening of a third butch er shop which started in the lawson block westend now sees every available stand in the business section occupied there is not a vacancy of any kind in line with increased num ber of feed stores and restaur ants is the barbering business a few years ago when two bar ber shops did the work today there are four shops and two hair dressing establishments mrs joseph gould gone a widely known family of markham township was ber eaved last saturday when the death occurred of mrs jona than gould at the farm home on no 7 highway east of mark ham village araminta plank was a resident of uxbridge town for many years and con tinued to live there following her marriage to jonathan gould around 35 years ago they came to markham and bought the farm where they have since resided besides the husband who is so widely known through his connection with the markham fair and sporting organizations there js an only son joseph on the farm the funeral on tuesday after noon following service at the home proceeded to uxbridge cemetery for interment battle practice near markham troops of the active service force on tuesday staged a suc cessful counterattack again st enemy forces near mark ham village and gained from allday manoeuvers in open country a picture of moving warfare the 53rd field bat tery rca 48th highlanders and toronto scottish and planes of the rcaf took part in the battle practice four municipalities will con tribute to the maintenance of the second division court of the county of york which holds sittings in stouffville alternate with markham village three in each place per year the fix ed charges of the court that is for hall rentals clerk and bailiff expenses runs annually 78 judge barton in stouffville last week met the reeves of markham and whitchurch and apportioned the court costs asl between them basing the amount each must pay accord ing to population in part of the municipality served markham township will be required to pay annually 30 whitchurch township 10 stouffville and markham village 19 each the townships also contri bute to the upkeep of other division courts which reach in to their municipalities but as the court boundaries are set by the county judiciary there is nothing to do about it how ever the amount assessed each place is not very serious in so as the second division court is concerned heretofore stouffville paid 24 and whit church did not contribute any thing the reeves assembled be fore judge barton rather agreed among themselves to meet the expenses of the court as outlined hence settlement was an amicable one and with out argument being heard- vandorf farm to be scene of another big auction many at funeral of john snowball died gasoline refunds checked closely in unionville in 81sl year his commissioners for taking oaths are being cautioned about any letdown in the usual form ality in the matter of farmers filing gasoline tax rebate forms every applicant must be sworn in the proper manner said a department official to the tri bune on tuesday when in town on an investigation of rebates the farmer enjoys a great privilege in being able to have rebated the tax paid for gaso line used for tractor or other work on the farm but he must be sworn on the claim he pre sents and commissioners should they fail in their duty to properly swear them are sub- ject to a penalty of 2500 for each such offense- the oath may be taken either with the uplifted hand or by being sworn to with the bible in hand farmers are required to keep a close record on the purposes for which the gasoline is used if gasoline is taken from the barrel for use in the family car it should be recorded and so declared after all farmers should guard closely the privilege they enjoy of being able to have re bated all taxes paid on gasoline consumed for farm work in trac tors or engines if it were found that the privilege was being abused it could easily become the means of causing a govern ment to abandon it entirely the funeral of john snow ball father of robert snowball stouffville barber was held from the family residence unipn- ville monday afternoon to elmwood cemetery markham mr snowball was in his 81st year and was born on the seventh concession of mark ham where he lived until mov ing to unionville seventeen years ago he conducted a farm and a tile and brick manufac turing business was a con servative in politics and an ad herent of the united church he was the son of john snow ball and ann glue last january he and his wife celebrated their golden wedding- he is survived by his widow ellen spence previously of yorkshire england they had a family of six sons and three daughters all of whom survive they are arthur wilbert john of markham ernest and harold of unionville and robert stouffville mrs foster wagg stouffville mrs albert west- land toronto and mrs eleanor shank buffalo the funeral service was conducted by rev a e owen at the house and the united church also at the graveside the bearers were his six sons- circulation hits weekly peak the weekly output of the stouffville tribune reached 1400 copies this week the weekly increase in demand for single copies and steady rise in yearly subscribers are responsible- this is the largest circulation ever attained for the regular issue the tribune staff including twentytwo rural correspondents comb i n e each week to bring you a true picture of the district happenings interspersed with liberal illustrations of nationwide events be tween four and five thous and people will read this weeks edition perhaps the largest sale of individual articles ever knocked off in one day by a team of auctioneers was the kingsley farms vandorf on march 18 1938 well believe it or not since that time the place has been restocked with sufficient furniture to set up many homes yet everything on this big estate is billed to pass under the auction hammer on satur day november 11 the kingsley farm was re established by the rev john franks trinity anglican tor onto immediately after being abandoned by the toronto hos tel it will be remembered that rev mr franks opened his church to helpless men and allowed them to sleep in the building while the city and government fought out the question of looking after them last winter mr franks immediately sent up 50 men to vandorf and quartered them at the well known white house a the numbers grew so did the sup plies of bedding cots furniture ec commence to mount now most of the men have enlisted and the place is again to close down hece j- h and ken prentice have been called in and will conduct another big sale- just turn to the display adv in this issue and see the layout of goods hundreds of blankets cots chairs besides the e list of farm skck and imple ments must be disposed of the sale will open at 10 in the morn ing and continue throughout the day pays dearly for pheasant excursion bought a farm mr joan lewis has purchas ed the 50 acre farm east of stouffville owned for the past ten years by fred chamberlain who will give up farming mr lewis is an experienced farmer and his success is assured for he has purchased a splendid home well located and fitted up excepting for electricity wliicii the new owner intends to install the property is less than a i mile from the village at the ex- one wouldbe pheasant hunt er engaging in the shoot in markham paid dearly on tues day for his excursion into the township williams howitt was sentenced to seven days in jail and his car was impounded for three months when he was con victed of drunken driving by magistrate keith the officer patrolling no 7 highway stat ed he had collided with a pole about a mile from markham village the pole was broken in two pieces and accuseds car was badly damaged the officer stated howitt was intoxicat ed howitt said he had been pheasant shooting and that he had had four glasses of beer on an empty stomach- he declared it did not affect him there is no question that you were intoxicated stated magistrate keith you have had to pay the damage to your car and the hospital bill for the passenger with you and i think the minimum penalty will be sufficient punishment oddfellows install new officers twenty lodges were repre sented at installation ceremon ies of the local ioof on mon day evening the one hundred and fifty members present in cluded those from aurora mt albert agincourt whitevale markham weston and toronto- bro a m walton ddgm of dist 39 was in charge of the installation other notable officers present were bro geo- morrison ddgm bro iron- dale grand warden patriarch and bro balsdon ddgm- dist 41 new officers for the year are bros wtrenniejpg- lome kester ng w c sanders vg w r sanders rs t b rae fin secy hj malloy treas w holden warden h slack cond- o spang o g w d malloy ig r storry rsng w e morden lsng j b sanders rsvg w green- bury lsvg j- silverthorn rss price pugh lss jess cook chap- altona scene of another collision treme end of the townline run- nuing through main street formerly it was the harry gil bert estate mr chamberlain an em ployee of the cpr- is now working full time in the linen dept at the union station one of the worst corners to contribute to accidents is in altona where one cannot see traffic from at least two direc tions owing to the buildings last week one day w eckardt said to be travelling at not more than ten miles was in collision with roy tindall who was re ported going 30 miles it was foggy weather which added to the poor visibility at this point more or less damage came to both vehicles but no passen gers were injured mrs- eckardt was somewhat bruised and shaken how about approaching the proper authorities with a view to having stop signs at this intersection of two quite busy roads which is also the public square of the hamlet of altona