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oratam awarded jos clark memorial trophy for j 939 vol 52 no 32 stouffville ont thursday november 16th 1939 eight pages bench nonsuits action modern gas lines against railway co justice mcfarlane takes case vandorf farm and dismisses entire equipment sold the j e rose farm north of vandorf at lot 23 con 4 whit- from the jury and the claim against cnr justice mcfarlane last wed nonsuited the assize court ac tion in which edgar storry of bloomington sued the cnr for 19500 damages as a result of a level crossing accident atstouff- ville costs were awarded to the railway if demanded the case which had aroused widespread local interest was a distinct disappointment here where everybody was hoping that mr storry would emerge with some success the jury was discharged after his lordship granted the motion of r e laidlawkc and a d mcdonald counsel for the railway h c breuls repre sented plaintiff evidence was that on nov 29 1938 storry started his car across the stouffville crossing but it stalled when about 18 inches over the rails he at tempted to push the car but ran for safety when lie saw a train coming- before he got clear however the car was struck by the train and jammed storrys right arm against the wig wag post the arm was subse quently amputated about a dozen witnesses were called by the defendant from stouffville mostly parties who had witnessed the accident opportunity to appeal is now open but the point we under stand will not be decided for a few days church was sold last week through a newmarket real estate agency to n giancatto the price was 12000 which in eludes farm stock and imple ments possession will be given on nov 15 mr rose has pur chased a home with five acres of land in mount albert and will move there this month service students junior band to give concert the stouffville junior band will be heard in the united church on the evening of fri day nov 24 in company with the kiwanis boys band of toronto in a joint concert pro gram the purpose of the con cert is to raise funds for carry ing on the work of the band which now has a total invest ment of around 3000 it is a foregone conclusion that the concert will fill the church which the organization has secured for the occasion and to hear the lads in com pany with another outstanding juvenile company will be most inteiesting be ready to buy your tickets when the lads call on you in the next fev days adults 25c children 15c govt order doubles clerical work gas at the turn of the tap is now available at the continua tion school being turned on only last week when the new wing was built all necessary pipe lines and fume inhalers were installed but now pyrofax gas is actually available and will be used extensively by the students at the science tables for chemistry and physicsa line is also available in the shop room for soldering and other purposes principal l c mur phy superintended the installa tion and says he is more than pleased with the results obtain ed heretofore small individual gas lamps or burners were used in the science room but the new equipment will equal that in most modern city collegiates it is something that few rural high schools can boast in main taining modern equipment and an efficient uptodate school more and more scholars are at tracted from outside the section all of which goes to reduce the maintenance charges to the local tax payers for instance the per pupil cost today is only about one cent above what it was before all the modern con veniences were installed a year ago and when the upper school work had to be taken at mark ham the larger area served by the school spreads the costs so that all may have the best that is available in this line at no greater cost to the village than they would be taxed for a third rate school as it is stouffville stands out as a top rate insti tution among the continuation units in the whole province to call public meeting for the formation of a local patriotic society veterans at preliminary meet ing tell workers that socks were not the urgent need of the hour in xast war factory brand best twp o- uxbridge township council met on saturday nov 11th with all members presentreeve ashenhurst in the chair communications as follows department of municipal affairs wrote that is not legal for municipal council to make grants for patriotic purposes unless bylaw passed and ap proved by department any councils doing so may be com pelled to pay the same out of their own funds p g purvis secretarytreas urer ontario county municipal association and the ontario association of ruralmunicipali- ties requested fees of 5 no action taken the department of highways advised council that all road expenditure cheques are to be issued individually to persons working on the roads as it appears that some road fore men have been negligent in handing over the proper amount owing to some of the men working on the roads the new order will cause an extra amount of work for the road superintendent and treasurer as it will double the number of cheques and postage as well as the book keeping the hon eric cross minister department of municipal aff airs wrote counsel that it is the intention of the legislature at its session in 1940 to mount albert hunter one of four week end deaths well known to stouffville hunters milton mainprize of mount albert was overcome while deer hunting at bolger he died in a hospital at parry sound on saturday and was taken to his home village for burial on monday deceased was stricken in the bush and his death brings the casualty list to four among hunters in the sound district for last weekend besides his wife milton is survived by a son lome m of toronto manager of the mount albert telephone co test soil from six hundred farms 40 years married congratulations were due mr and mrs dan giebner tenth street south last tuesday which was the occasion of their 40th wedding anniversary married by elder prosser the couple have spent their time al ways in and about stouffville they have six children and 23 grandchildren and what a time there could be if all of them could gather around the parent al home- anyway they all send their best wishes which are coupled with a large circle of friends and the hometown newspaper both mr and mrs giebner enjoy a fair measure of good health huge cabbage order clears surplus stock just a mere handful of inter- estel citizens met in the council chambers on friday evening when after due discussion they resolved to ask the reeve to call a public meeting for the pur pose of forming a patriotic society for stouffville the res- lution was introduced by rev l e atkinson and seconded by g h saunders it was evident from the in formation brought in by some of those present that various organizations were prepared to do patriotic work of one kind and another and a central or ganization was imperative to coordinate this work returned men at the meeting pointed out that the great need in the last war was not socks there is a strong desire for women anxious to work to knit socks representatives of veter ans declared the factory sox was superior to the home knit and tried to encourage the will ing workers to put their escorts to producing some other kind of supplies which are not provided in the regular army quarters the meeting seemed to favor the formation of a local society that would not be under the red cross which might demand all their output an indepen- dent organization would leave the various units in the village to work as they saw fit and for whom they wish reeve weldon promised to call a general public meeting in due course of time and also explained that this prelimin ary meeting announced through the press was merely for the purpose of endeavouring to shape up a policy for stouffville many people here demand a branch of the red cross he said while others merely think we should form a local patriotic society it was hoped to settle this point at this meeting ere the larger one is assembled should a red cross organizer be invited to address a public meeting it would be unfortun ate to learn that a branch of that organization was not what the village wanted business men meet in order to check up on the progress of the canvas for funds to conduct the stouffville christmas mar ket fair business men are asked to meet in the coun cil chambers this friday evening at 8 oclock as a business man you owe it to your progress to support this fair local man sells pine orchard farm the 100 acre farm at lot 25 concession 5 whitchurch and located a mile and a quarter south of pine orchard was sold last week by the owner allan closson of stouffville to harry rawluk a native of poland who rented a farm in the neighbor hood for the past nine years rawluk will take possession this fall the farm in question is known to the older residents as the silas toole place and to a younger generation as the petch farm the place this past year was leased to a mr ken nedy who is leaving the section first hunter to return dorian woodburn was the first hunter from stouffville to return from the north country with a deer he brought down a nice 150 pound buck with the greatest of ease the party ran into the best of luck and de spite the fact they numbered thirteen nine deer were hung on the rail up to saturday night postmistress races second at duf ferin track lady drivers had their hour of glory at dufferin park satur day and enjoyed every minute of it miss june dillman of vie- toivjfy emerged as champion feminine driver when she pilot ed estelle grattan owned by james lytle of beaverton to victory in two of the three heats mrs blanche hornsby former postmistress at stouff ville and now a toronto resi dent drove lee oliver to vic tory in the final heat with estelle grattan slipping to fourth place seven horses competed in the lady drivers race estelle grat tan scored on the rail in the first heat took command shortly after the start and won by half a length from rayadale driven by miss grace rowntree in the second heat miss dillman brought her charge clown in front for the second successive time with lee oliver second and tony harvester third mrs hornsby handled lee oliver in fine style in the final heat following the pace of rayadale until going down the back stretch and then making her successful bid for victory water from jordon at local baptism the term of office of members of municipal councils and local boards from one to two years on motion of messrs middle- ton beach a bylaw was intro duced and given its several readings to provide for holding the municipal election for 1940 there is only one change from last years list same being caused by the death of william crapper mr wendell alcock was appointed in mr crappers place as poll clerkin no3 and the polling place was changed to mrs edgar storrys club house the townline adjustment continued on page s six hundred farm owners have taken advantage of the offer made last summer by the dist representative of agriculture at newmarket to test soil for them in a scientific way it was disclosed before the november meeting of whitchurch town ship council on saturday those farmers who still have contain ers may yet avail themselves of the offer mr cockburn reports by leaving samples with any exend councillor or the reeve no ex pense is entailed and valuable information is obtained the chief of which will show the farmer just what his particular soil lacks to give maximum pro duction the fact that fertilizer produces increased production is no longer refuted but the type of fertilizer can only be known by soil testing saturdays session of council was not productive of any real news and business was light two small sheep claims indicat ed that muttoneating dogs are at large pickering farms through mr s w king made claim for two animals killed and continued on page 5 brillinger bros have con tracted and are completing an order for some 300 tons cab bage to be supplied to a factory in chatham such a huge order has cleaned up all the available offerings in this line and only some of the larger gxowers have retained any tonnage for winter sale when prices may be expected to advance over the present quotation farmers who contributed to the brillinger order received 1100 per ton we understand the entiie order will find its way into sauerkraut and one would imagine it would make a sufficient batch to supply the german army but the warring nation will never- smell this their favorite dish for it will be canned and partically used to meet the demand across the border where the chatham firm have a big demand for their product which the ameri can plant will not supply growers in the stouffville dis trict are highly pleased with the price of cabbage this year and with future prospects for sell ing any late crop held in stor age now the surplus stock is well cleaned up reporters and the public will be barred from police courts while cases of indecency are be ing heard in the future attor neygeneral has announced evangelistic services altona union church following closely upon the evangelistic effort at stouffville mennonite church and ring- wood and stouffville christian churches these churches are cooperating in a campaign to be held at altona from november 1626 the preaching will be done by pastors shantz and cock- burn with some assistance from the toronto bible college quar tette who will also bring mess ages in song and music mr max waine the leader of the quartette will play his violin and each evenings meeting will be one of interest and blessing to all on monday evening an inter esting ceremony was performed at the home of mr and mrs don storry albert street when their first born was bap tised by rev e c french of toronto grandfather of the wee babe little david edgar was christened with water from the river jordan brought by rev mr french when he toured the holy land the ceremony was witnessed by a dozen relatives and intimate friends tonsil operation on thirteen kiddies it was stated at a meeting of the stouffville lions club that the organization has financed the cost of no less than thirteen operations for the removal of tonsils for children whose par ents were financially unable to contract the liability all the surgical work was done locally and with complete success in every instance this has caused a serious drain on the resources of the lions who are now de vising means of replenishing their bank account despite the good work done in this line and the excellent work accomplish ed in seeing that needy child ren have proper eyesight there is still much more to do it is hoped the lions will again bring santa claus to town just before christmas and the prospects of a concert for rais ing funds was discussed horse and truck collide on 7th markham a horse owned by brown bros of unionville was struck by a truck on the 7th of mark- ham sunday evening and suffer ed a broken neck three ani mals connected with browns fox ranch found the gate open and made their way up the 7th wilbur batt driver of the truck failed to notice the one black horse and his rack struck the animal in the head poppy proceeds 50 the stouffville warveterans thank the public for their gen erous support on poppy day you may be assured that the proceeds aiound 5000 will be used for needy causes g my- land pres g saunders vice b licorish secy rolled off local railway track in the nick of time says one report a mishap which overtook miss bertha winn last week gained in momentum as it was repeated among friends and acquaintances the first report reaching this paper was to the effect that miss winn was on the railway tracks near her home at the extreme north end of church street when the train suddenly rounded the curve at this point and as she hastily moved to get off the tracks she stumbled and fell miss winn barely had time to roll herself off the tracks when the engine whizzed by like the report that once went out about mark twain to the effect that he had died the author stated it was greatly exaggerated the truth is that miss winn did get quite a scare and shock but we are given to understand that she cleared the tracks in ample time as to leave no doubt about her safety one youngster describing the incident declared the train sneaked up on miss winn for she didnt hear it coming until it was right on her death takes york pioneer members of a pioneer union ville family and one of the wide lyknown women in york coun ty mrs william milliken smith died at her home in unionville following a heart attack she was 73 years old born in this district she mov ed to toronto after her marri age her husband was a news paperman employed on the old toronto world and later on the suburban staff of the evening telegram following his death mrs smith moved back to the union ville she loved and as a corres pondent for the telegram carried on his work despite failing health she carried on her work up to the time of her death living for the most part alone when the final attack came however her dayghter mrs k b heisey and a nurse were in attendance besides her daughter mrs smith leaves a sister miss iso- bel r mckibben toronto and three grandsons