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fcrnffirille cnbnne awarded jos clark memorial trophy for 1939 vol 52 no 31 stouffville ont thursday november 9 1939 eight pages court hears of collision at ringwood corner o- r e brown was given judg ment for a claim of 7675 against e r sinclair in divi sion court at markham on mon day arising out of a car acci dent in which the autos of both parties were damaged a coun ter claim for 3000 against the plaintiff was dismissed his honor judge honeywell presid ed the damage suit had been pending since last winter aris ing out of an accident which happened at ringwood accord ing to the evidence morley browr driving his fathers car was proceeding west on town- line to aurora to see a hockey match bruce harper bruce winterstein and wes jack were passengers at sinclairs corner in ringwood they struck mr sinclairs car which was just pulling away from his gasoline tank and travelling west all passengers in the brown car gave evidence for the plaintiff also young murray vague who saw the accident from groves store he ran over and said mr sinclair told him he was to blame other witness es also declared mr sinclair ad mitted being in the wrong they declared the sinclair car pulled out from the gas tank allowing no change for the brown car to save itself from collision mr sinclair on the other hand admitted seeing the on coming car which all agreed was travelling around 30 miles an hour he denied having ad mitted being in the wrong and said that he looked well before he pulled out into the line of traffic and estimated he had time to take up a proper posi tion on the townline before the oncoming car could reach him this he declared was done be fore the collision in summing up his honor said he had been enclined to place some of the responsibility on the plaintiff but after mr sinclairs admission that he saw a car coming he had changed his opinion the defendant says he saw the car coming he look ed i believe him when he says that i find that it would just take 10 seconds at 30 miles an hour to travel from where he saw the car until the impact and therefore find him in the wrong the claim is allowed in full counter claim dismissed concluded his honor in giving judgment the amount of each claim was said to be the cost of re pairs to the respective cars which were both insured in different companies through a c burkholder i df holden sons were giv en a partial judgment against charles homestead of mark- ham village on a disputed account in doing certain gar age work the plaintiff made charges for material which the defendant claimed he never ordered judgment for 1331 against claim for 2711 one markham and one whit church farmer was brought up on judgment summons wouldnt this jar your nerves mr dint law reports that 30 or more quart jars of fruit were stolen from the cellar of his home sometime last week the thief or thieves picked the jars over taking what they be lieved to be the choicest pres erves just what kind of a citizen would do a thing of this sort on anyone is hard to imagine much less to pick on a hard working man who can ill afford to be the object of such attack mr law placed the matter be fore chief quibell but there is little or no clue to work on farmer asks for 19000 damages in crossing accident council contemplate purchase of p ow the cost of any snowfence purchased by markham town ship should be divided equally among all ratepayers stated deputy reeve charles hooper when this winters snow prob lem was discussed at the regu lar meeting of council monday those ratepayers who are situated on good roads should pay just the same as those who need the fence mr hooper stated councillor w l clark felt that it was inadvisable to make a large outlay for snow fence which might prove its worth probably only a couple of times in ten years councillor barber was defin itely in favor of purchasing a snowplow to do the work of keeping the roads open council finally decided that tenders should be called for the purchase of snowplow suitable for attaching to a truck and a resolution was passed to this effect it was also decided to pur chase a limited amount of snowfence the long heralded suit be tween edgar storry of bloom- ington against the canadian national railways opened on monday in the assize court toronto before mr justice mcfarland and a jury after many adjournments the case got under way monday afternoon mr storry was the first one called on to testify and was kept in the box 2 to 5 pm under a critical examination by the company lawyer plaintiff told the court his automobile stalled on the tracks of an appioaching passenger train on the morning of nov 5 last he said he jumped out of his car and after signalling the engineer to halt attempted to push his car from the cross ing when he saw the train was not going to stop he tried to run for safety the train struck his auto he said and hurled it against him as a result of the crash storry said he suffered body in juries and had to have his right arm amputated he estimated the damage to his car a 1932 model sedan at 200 defendants claim the acci dent was due to negligence on storrys part he disregarded the warning wigwag in opera tion and the trains whistle he did not have his car in proper control and did not stop it in a place of safety it is alleged other witnesses present mon day but not called were r e brown george storey leslie wilson and elmer barkey all eye witnesses of the fatality and dr s s ball who attended the plaintiffs injuries farmer loses barns and registered herd in mvsterious fire when the saturday night trade was at its height in town the big fire which destroyed- the large barn and pig pen 60x40 on the farm of d j tran southeast of stouffville was the signal for a wild exodus of people and cars from main street rushing to the scene of the disaster the flames tower ed into the heavens and folks in the westend thought the fire was only in the east part of the village it was so deceiving mr david tran had left the barn around 9 oclock after locking the dog in the stables and went into the house fifteen minutes later mrs tran saw the reflection of the fire on thp window even before her husband could rush outside the entire structure was enveloped he could not reach the barn one dojors so intense was the heat young men to join the colors so he ran to the front of the is a son of j w thompson and building and was met by the laura obrien thompson gor- dog which had escaped how it don was born in stouffville he got out is a mystery is a member of the lome scots the fine herd of ten cows i were burned in the stalls also a j bull and a 3months old calf the christian wms to hear team of horses and a pet pony of war in china the cows were registered anij the annual fall rally of the mals with one exception wms of the christian church shadow lake manager heads flower society arthur williams another en thusiast replaces george saunders at annual meeting gordon thompson of the first newmarket sold markham farm walter bradshaw 7th con markham about 2 miles south of the townline has sold his 100 acre farm to his neigh bor john ferguson mr brad shaw located on this property 12 years ago when he bought out fred dewey goes to newtonbrook elinore marshall who gradu ated this year from toronto university as an occupational therapist left town on sunday for st johns convalescent hospital at newtonbrook where she will spend the next six months as an interne on ther apy work with the patients junior farmers the junior farmers meet thursday evening in the muni cipal hall stouffville will be ad dressed by one of the editors of a farm journal all juniors are asked to rally markham to curb dog packs in township an effort is to be made to ban dog owners outside the munici pality of markham from bring ing large numbers of dogs into the township for hunting pur poses it was revealed at the regular council session on mon day particularly city hunters are forming the habit of letting loose packs of greyhounds and other dogs and bagging up the game wholesale a new bylaw to prohibit this practice will be drawn up im mediately christmas fair date set for tuesday dec19 robert mills newly located on the lou tindall farm at bloomington fell from an apple tree and is now nursing a brok en foliar bone business men met on friday evening and set tuesday dec 19 for the stouffville christmas market fair which is the same day of the week as last year when this event met with such unqualified success i think this year we are go ing completely over the top said manager john hodgins when it was indicated that a fair is to be a regular feature of the christmas trade every merchant with whom i talked was delighted last year and the farmers congratulated us on every hand for providing such a good list of prizes he declared there wasnt a single refusal for funds last year and the same canvassers are again ask ed to do this work when the merchants have made their contribution another meeting will be held to make out the prize list which will be duly i advertised ahead so that farm- months building in markham totals 11400 building in markham town ship during the past month tot als 11400 of this amount 6- 250 was for dwellings and 5150 for other purposes the largest single outlay by one in dividual in the township during this period was the new resi dence of professor gould of agincourt built at lot 154 in the highland park subdivision the contractor was r h spencer the imperial oil co will erect buildings on the unionville corner to the value of 3500 the complete outlay for this new service station on the southeast corner of the kennedy road and no 7 high way is understood to be around 10000 100 pullets were burned 3 sows and 10 chunks the threshing machine plows and the total crop this included 8 bags of alfalfa seed ready to market close to 3000 bushels of grain and about 50 tons of hay the tractor was in an out building and was only scorched a little fire departments from stouffville and claremont res ponded to the call and gave some assistance in saving several small buildings from ruin although the huge barn was reduced to a heap of ashes with everything in it this is the first fire in the history of the tran family said the veteran george j tran who still lives on this farm with his son which he bought in 1912 from sam hoov er stouffville i cannot under stand how the dog got out if someone did not enter the barn he said the fine building 50x82 was built in 1855 when mr hoover was on the place the property has seen few owners since be ing deeded by the crown the original deed of which is still in existence held by mr tran george j is 84 but as smart as a cricket and if you hadnt known you would take him for 73 even this disaster found him standing up to the problem with all his yearsof wisdom the eight bags of alfalfa were standing ready for de- conference will ibe held in the altona church wednesday evening november 15 at 8 pm the speaker will be rev w e tyler recently returned from china mr tyler has an interesting story to tell of his experiences during the bomb ing raids over his station mr tyler is the father of a former pastor of the stouffville christian church who resigned his post here to go as a mission ary to china just cant do with out it i have been taking the tribune for 45 years and i just cant do without it i look for it every monday morning so writes mr james h white who only recently moved from roke- by sash to saltcoats mr white sends along his re newal for 1940 and we are proud to have this old tim er as one of the two or three thousand readers who scan these columns weekly for home news perhaps the most successful annual meeting yet held by the stouffville horticultural society was recorded on wednesday night last week a hot supper was served in ratcliffs hall followed by the business session and a program mr a williams shadow lake farm gave the directors report which showed that numbers of ash and spruce trees had been planted in the village last sum mer and that the society had won two outoftown prizes at other shows the supper was patronized by many townspeople who while appreciative of the work done by this organization are not themselves flower minded the business session was atten ded by a better number than is often seen at meetings of this kind dick the amateur gard ener gave an illustrated lec ture stressing the juvenile work and its relation to character building officers elected were hon presidents rev r young and miss c wideman pres a wil liams 1st vice h o klinck 2nd vice george saunders secy miss m mertens treas t b rae directors 193940 mrs a williams mrs a far thing mis d woodburn mrs ho klinck miss eva hoover directors 194041 mrs sander son miss edna hoover mrs p barrie j r hodgins miss m watson bornatmusselmans mrs durling dead member of the well known graham family passes on in michigan livery to stiver bros and were to have been taken to town a few days before the fire but were overlooked insurance on stock is 1000 while the building machinery and crop are also partially cov ered the total estimated loss will run around 12000 decoration service sunday zens will attend and later pror ceed to the cemetery to decor ate graves of former soldiers ubscribe it is believed that with the memory of last year everybody ifsthortts ns t0d service is in lieu of the othctcaffovkfrv rembrance day obser- vances on november 11 honored on 50th wedding anniversary on october 31 mr and mrs john t bramley pictur ed here commenced the 51st year of their marriage daughter of the late timothy bruels mrs bramley was born at ringwood has one sister mrs charles wismer and one brother ralph bruels on their golden wedding day many relatives and friends called to congratulate mr- and mrs bramley at the home of their daughter mrs charles l watt greenwood ave toonto with whom they reside mrs sophrona durling 60 years old wife of frederick j durling of vernon michigan passed away in the hospital on october 31 following an opera tion performed little more than a week before the funeral took place to veron cemetery sophrona graham was born at musselmans lake stouff ville a daughter of frederick and margaret graham she was 60 years six months and 13 days old at the time of her death she went to michigan at the age of 20 years and has al ways lived in durand vicinity she was united in marriage to frederick j durling sept 4 1902 in corunnia she was a member of the baptist church of vernon and also belonged to the circle of kings daughters of that viilage she is survived by her hus band three sons cecil and gra ham of durand harry of ver non one daughter mrs ford mcmichael of lennon four grandchildren one sister mrs frank durling of bancroft five brothers isaac graham of ashland wis edward of popu lar wis normand of minne apolis minn delos of stouff ville and william of toronto one uncle andrew graham of stouffville one aunt martha singer of toronto one son pre ceded her in death illustrated lecture on submarines on monday evening next at 8 pm in the basement of the united church the public are invited to be the guests of the stouffville lions club who in conjunction with the yps will have as their guest speaker mr brown of the toronto daily star mr brown will from his war experience take as his topic submarines and will also show slides