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page two the tribune stouffville- ont thursday jan 18th 1940 established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association issued every thursday at stouffville ontario eight to ten pages average circulation 1375 subscription rates per year in advance in canada 200 in usa 250 a v nolan jp editor and publisher editorial comment perjury in courts steve brandenburg and florence dzeobak of tor onto had much to do with passing forged cheques in whit by and oshawa they were placed on trial and sentenced to but the case did not end there they were tried the second time for what they had said during the first trial that is they had committed perjury the magistrate con tended it was not just one misstatement but plain deliber ate perjury and on that score both accused were given sentences the wonder is charge of perjury is not more frequently laid in our courts because there is far too much of it taking place paid with thankfulness last week ratepayers of stouffville received their water bills for the next ensuing six months householders with bath rooms and lawn taps using all the water they want on their premises excepting july and august when there is a restriction of two hours for use of lawn taps pay only 2 for the entire six months service if you have no lawn tap and no bath room the charge is only 1 for six months these rates will appear ridiculously low to any other municipality in ontario where a domestic water ser vice is available for the average rate is 8 and 12 no wonder we are able to truthfully say that rate- ratepayers pay this bill with a spirit of thankfulness there is nothing to compare with it excepting the free air we breathe despite these low rates stouffville last year turned a surplus of 1000 from the water works over to the general account of the town to help out the tax rate and gave water to the commercial users at a rate lower than obtains anywhere else there is a town over in michigan that has not collect ed taxes since 1935 being able to earn enough revenue from their water and light publicly owned systems to meet all demands had stouffville maintained average charges for water we too could have met half the tax de mand of the village from the profits of water perhaps its better as we have it only a modest charge for water and a moderte tax rate too i protector of the peace the ladies home journal of philadelphia which circulates in three million homes is very strong for keep ing the u s out of war and has engaged dorothy thomp son famous writer to contribute a series of peace articles and miss thompson is letting loose some wholesome truths in her first article she says many speakers and writers have urged the united states to avoid war remind ing us that for a hundred years from 1812 to 1914 this country had never engaged in a major international war what they have neglected to say and what is extremely important is that in these hundred years there were no major wars likely to involve us and the reason there were no wars during that period was the british empire main tained the peace by use of her power and further along miss thompson expresses this conviction yet after the last war the british commonwealth and the united states together could have guaranteed and maintained another century of peace had the united states been willing to use its financial economic and naval power for that purpose we can see that dorothy thompsons articles should be illuminating to her millions of u s readers mr dunnings return acceptance by hon charles a dunning of the chairmanship of the national subscription committee of the forthcoming war loan does not mean his return to the counting house but it does mean that mr dunning has sufficiently recovered his health to take on a bit of public serviceand while he scouts the suggestion that this chair manship involves serious work it is a beginning there is no ground whatsoever for believing that mr dunning ever again will be in a government but it may be forecast that he will take a more active part in voluntary public service as his convalescence proceeds since his return from london two months ago mr dunning has accepted four directorships the bank of montreal ogilvies flour consolidated paper and the canadian investment fund mr dunning was connected with the last two companies prior to his return to public life in 1935 he has been offered a large number of directorships and executive positions but has only accepted those noted these acceptances would seem to indicate fairly clearly the course which mr dunning has marked out for himself he apparently is not yet prepared to accept any position involving executive responsibility he is accepting posts which require only consultation and advice for the present it is most unlikely that mr dunning will undertake any more arduous work the former minister of finance who once appeared in stouffville and addressed a public meeting in the arena undoubtedly is well on the way to recovery but convales cence will be a long business extending perhaps over a year hitler and stalin i jy who built the pact signers bauantrae sch00 hitler say how about a pact with me it wont hurt much because you see a pact to me if old or new means no more than it does to you stalin this is so sudden adolph that it takes my breath and knocks me flat your books and all those things you said convinced me you were anti- red hitler i like to do things by surprise and sock the world between the eyes a pact would make an awful fuss and still not mean a thing to us stalin but what of john bull he and i are waiting now to ratify while i sit here and hesitate his envoys wait and wait and wait hitler well let em wait that is their way they never mind a long delay john wants his pledge plain and clear hes not like you and me old dear stalin youve said some bitter things to me and said em pretty candidly to team with you i must confess would make me feel a mild dis tress hitler say listen im no more for you than youre for me and this is true but pacts we sign em by the score so what the deuce is just one more stalin i guess its all in good clean fun this pact is but another one your names here if mine goes above it i trust youll not remind me of it hitler i understand just how you feel but sign and bring the proper seal the newsreel cameras are grinding you have my word this wont be binding stalin heigh ho here goes with foun tain pen but never bring this up again im now for you and youre for me until we think we shouldnt be hitler tis done the russians and the dutch are now in one embracing clutch were buddies under one bright star were bosom pals like fun we are exchange dies at newmarket well known cabinet was 84 maker kitchen range explod es but no one hurt mr and mrs james long of feversham had a rather unex pected experience in their home on sunday morning which might act as a warning to all people they had been out to dundalk saturday night and had allowed the fire in the kitchen range to go out it so happened that saturday night was one of the coldest nights of the year certain thermometers are said to have registered 21 below zero and the waterfront in the stove apparently froze up solid about three hours after the stove had been lit sunday morning it exploded with a terrifying roar breaking into several pieces and even dis lodging one of the legs on which the stove stood the plaster on the wall was broken by pieces of the shattered stove striking it fortunately for mr and mrs long neither one was in the kitchen at the time mrs long just having gone to another room of the house at the moment it would not have been difficult to convince mrs long that a german air raid was in progress at feversham george hilson was fined 10 and costs in oakville court last week for hunting cottontail rabbits with a ferret its all right to set the ferrets on rats but miss cottontail is entitled sides the price of the hide to r better change of life no doubt this animal one of newmarkets oldest residentsernest henry brooks died last week he was 84 years of age he suffered a stroke early in the morning and failed to recover born in yorkshire england mr brooks came to canada when a lad of three with his parents mr and mrs edward brooks who first settled in uxbridge the brooks pioneer families in the uxbridge area cleared land and built them selves one of the first homes in the district a cabinet maker by trade he came to newmarket 35 years ago operated a completely equipped woodworking shop be hind his millard avenue home sixty four years ago he built the old school at ballantrae de molished only in recent years records left in a glass jar when the old school was built showed that the late mr brooks and his brothers now deceased were the carpenters at that time as the old school which served until just recently was frame there was no such thing as a corner stone hence a glass jar or bottle was placed in the partition and was found intact with the interesting informa tion about the contracting car penters each brother of the brooks family had signed the record of late years mr brooks hobby was that of making grand father clocks he was a member of trinity united church and and was the last of a family of seven brothers and one sister surviving are two sons david of port carling and wesley of newmarket also one daughter alice brooks of newmarket road time for the road superintendents north gwillimbury township council at its inaugural meeting fired the road superintendent and appointed angus king to the position there was a lively battle among the councillors before mr king got the win ning vote over in uxbridge township an effort was made to change the superintendent there but the vote stood three to two against a change members of the council voting for a change said they had so many rate payers asking for it that the matter had to be brought to a head in both cases we are not aware that the department of highways had been consulted and no changes can be made without their permission which must be obtained before hand this mistake was made a couple of years ago by a township council in bruce county and there was lots of headaches be fore the matter was straighten ed out the department pay half the salary and will accept nothing less than half the say- so if gwillimsbury failed to get the ok from queens park the dismissal of one man and the appointment of another is not complete milk shippers told of 300 benefit markham juniors defeat newmarket the markham junior c steam roller powered by the 17-year- old 240pound defenseman bruce ike harper who inci dentally is a stouffville boy swept to victory in markham friday night against the power ful newmarket red shirts by a score of 8 to 3 with a total of 18 goals scor ed with one scored against them markham entered the fray against the formidable red shirts and sticky ice which made good hockey very difficult the first period ended with the score 3 to 0 in favor of the home learn two goals as a result of the smashing rushes of harper the heavyweight man-o-all- work the third goal was scored by austin baker left winger at the start of the second period goalkeeper gardner of newmarket was injured and retired being replaced by dil man the period ended with a score of 6 to 1 in favor of markham the last period began with the ice becoming stickier however with their sub goalie injured earb in the final stanza new market faded under the batter ing power of the hemstead aces and the final score was 8 to 3 in favor of markham making a record of 3 games won and 26 goals scored with 4 scored again st them particularly brilliant was the work of dick schad in the markham goal wolf shot near flesherton wolves have at last been found in the district reports the flesherton advance the first instance remembered of by some of their oldest residents last wednesday morning art chard and his brother leslie were out hunting foxes when the dogs came to this strange track just fresh and followed it the wolf kept just ahead of the dogs but did not appear to be afraid of them when art sighted it and brought it down with a wellaimed shot he was very much surprised to find he had bagged a fullgrown brush wolf he made the capture in the swamp at the rear of harry akins farm one and a quarter miles south of flesherton art will receive the bounty given by the ontario government bo- farmers were urged to con tinue their work instead of worrying how the war would affect their prices by speakers at the first annual banquet of district 7 of the whole milk producers association meeting at mechanics hall aurora the banquet drew an attendance of over 125 persons some 250 shippers are members of the district association lome hartman president recalled that he was born on the property where the hall in which the banquet was held stands although now a resident of bradford he formerly lived in aurora where his parents were among the first residents prof w m drummond head of the agriculture economics department at oac warned the farmers not to spend their money unnecessarily dont buy more land and more equipment or build barns because you think prices will go up owing to the war make bet ter use of what equipment and barns you have so as to keep your expenses to the lowest pos sible level he advised dr e c reynolds president of the toronto milk producers marketing board said the association had brought profits to its members shippers had benefitted to the extent of about been instrumental in killing off many sheep throughout the district deeds of which had been laid to dogs people south of town had heard the animal howling at nightbut had no idea that a wolf was so close to hand says the advance theres no time like the present we venture to say that time and again you have said im going to subscribe sometime to the tribune but you put it oft and thus depriv ed yourself and fam ily of the pleasure each week of reading this newsy local pap er subscribe dont try to do with out this welcome dis trict news letter any longer once you subscribe youll won der how you got along without your local newspaper there are so many things in it every week that you will be interested in now at the beginning of the year is the ideal time to get your name on our mailing list the stouffville tribune 2 per year anywhere in canada send friends the tribune to absent 300 each he urged all farm ers to carry on as they were be fore the war broke out wh wilmott new secretary- manager of the toronto milk producers association told of the sanitary regulations exist ing in toronto you cant be too sanitary about handling milk for toron to he added president hartman proposed the toast to the ladies lome evans of gormley proposed the toast to the guests entertainment was provided by miss helen evans and the aurora haybalers with william mcgee as vocalist you can climb 1200 steps on 2 slices of stovers bread its delicious round trip bargain fares from stouffville january 2 lo cnr 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