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tmtffwlle unburn awarded jos clark memorial trophy for j 939 vol 52 no 43 the tribune stouffville ont thursday feb 8 1940 eight pages hog marketing studied by stouffville farmers there was considerable com motion in town on thursday morning last when a big 40- passenger bus pulled up to the loading chute to take on the greater part of a party of 62 farmers of the stouffville dis trict who were to spend the day as guests of canada packers to study the marketing end of the hog business the party com posed of perhaps more seniors than juniors had been organiz ed by the stouffville junior farmers with the assistance of agricultural representat i v e w m cockburn and was made up of almost equal numbers from whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge town ships it was brought home to the group that canada is at war when they arrived at canada packers at 945 and found the plant under guard with a sentry at each entry to the premises the war office apparently real izes that the soldiers stomach is the backbone of the nation mr cockburn met the stouff- villites at the gate and escorted them into the reception room where he introduced mr frank curtis who outlined the plans for the day from 10 to 1130 was spent in a tour of the plant to see how the various pork products were processed including an inspec tion of the smoke chambers the shortening sausage smoke meat and curing departments everyone was keenly interested in the packing of the brine tanks where 800 sides were piled up like cordwood in concrete tanks from here we went to the cut- ing floor where carcass with proper finish was cut up to com pare with an overfinished side from which considerable excess back from the lake nipigon district mr gordon murchison who has been up on the east shores of lake nipigon for some mon ths is home visiting his mother on church street he was em ployed by the government measuring the cut pulp wood seeing that both the abitibi power paper co for whom the cut was made and the woodmen get proper measure ments the coldest dip up there was 32 below but the snow was only six inches deep gordon and the other cubers as they are called walked the seven miles from camp to camp in the performance of their duties enumerators list 1000 voters here last monday morning the enumerators started out to register the names of voters en titled to vote at the dominion selections on tuesday march 26 ross davis jack sanders n m maclean and martin tait are doing the work in stouffville they completed the job by wednesday and recorded 1000 voters in town every person man or woman is qualified to vote and is entitl ed to have his or her name in cluded in the list of electors for the polling division in which he or she ordinarily resides at the time of the preparation and re vision of the list of electors for such polling division if he or she is of the full age of twentyone years or will attain the full age of twentyone on or before poll ing day at the pending election and is a british subject by birth or naturalization and has been ordinarily resident in canada for the twelve months im mediately proceeding polling day at the pending election and was ordinarily resident in the electoral district at the date of the issue of the writ for the pending election fat had to be trimmed out in the stock pens w s mcmullen chief hog grader of the dominion department of agriculture discussed eight live hogs of various types and finish and each man recorded on a card his impressions a ciass of four live hogs was also judged the final placing to be made on the carcasses at the complimen tary dinner mr hugh murray manager of the provision dept who has a farm in peel county presided from 2 to 230 was spent on the killing floor seeing the various operations including the inspection of carcasses by the health of animals inspectors all the killing and dressing oper ations the weighing of the car casses by the electric scales which automatically stamp a duplicate weigh ticket to attach to each carcass and finally the grading of the carcasses by a government grader who remov es one of the weigh slips and records the grade for returning settlement to the farmer whose continued on page eight aurora man buys gravel hill property mr harry paisley has sold a 20 acre parcel of land at gravel hill to w h chapman of aur ora who also bought a portion of the ralph connor farm the land was obtained for the gravel desposits and both parcels ad join each other at this well known gravel mine north of stouffville old goodwood boy killed by moior david g scott aged 81 was almost instantly killed near his home at 145 collier street tor onto on saturday night when he was struck by a motor truck driven by elmer miller aged 26 who was arrested and charged with dangerous driving mr scott was a native of goodwood district and is widely known there and in stouffville where his son alexander scott lived for years at the time of the accident mr scott was crossing a street corner and persons rushing to him quickly summoned an am bulance and the police but he died before he could be removed to the hospital born near goodwood david scott as a young man married hannah kellington sister of mrs wash paisley of stouff ville they farmed on the third concession during the rush to western canada in the early part of the century they took up land at caron sask four teen years ago while in the har vest field mrs scott lost a limb when the binder passed over her and the accident proved fatal she was brought to stouffville for burial from the home of their son alex who at that time owned the residence now occu pied by dr bodendistel mr scott later married mary dew- pugh who survives him also his only son alex now of kirkland lake district after the loss of his first wife mr scott spent some months in stouffville liv ing with his son when he went to toronto and married again the funeral was held on tues day with interment at pine hill cemetery toronto usiness and church mourn robt leslie o intermediates open second round friday stouffville intermediates will open the second round of the yorkontario hockey league in the local arena here this fri day night against uxbridge there will be home and home games between the three teams stouffville markham and ux bridge during the second series at the completion of the sched ule the second and third place teams will play home and home games goals to count winner will take on first place team in a lwooutofthree series for the championship this wednesday night the stouffville team are playing in fenelon falls a challenge game winner to take one hundred per cent of the gate after the expen ses have been deducted horseless sleighride thrills city guests j something entirely new and novel was enacted here on satj urday night when folks who came down town to shop wit nessed a bobsleighing party of 50 or so peopie in two sleighs linked together being hauled by a tractor skiffing along the roadway at a speed even faster than the best old dobbin ever did not only was the event the first mechanized sleigh ride seen in stouffville it is probably the first in york county and on top of that some of the partici pants members of the masonic craft 1937 masters and their wives from toronto had the first sleigh ride of their lives city born some knew only of the thrills and spills of a sleigh ing party from story books and tales told oy their country cousins the jolly group were guests of their craft associate and pres ident mr jos borinsky foll owing the sleigh ride for which mr lloyd turners hew massey harris tractor did the pinch hitting for a couple of teams of clydes a banquet was served in the oes rooms and a bright toast list was presided over by mr borinsky he explained that the horseless sleighride had been planned for toronto last year but that country members would have had to take along the snow so it was abandoned this year they brought the sleigh ride to the country instead the route of the sleigh ride took the party east to altona thence south to the 9th of pick ering and was thoroughly en joyed by men from the profes sions of doctors and lawyers city police force business man agers but was lacking a well known crown atorney around the city hall who while a native of the district got his directions mixed and arrived in town so late that he missed out on the sleigh ride was born on site of wideman church mrs martha m carter died january 21 1940 at the home of her eldest son harry carter 214 west 12th ave vancouver bc she was in her 80th year survived by four sons harry george walter and oscar and 14 grand children one sister mrs e menzies of vancouver and a brother i david ramer of uxbridge ont mrs carters husband george predeceased her 12 years ago funeral ser vice was held at mt pleasant undertaking parlors wednes day january 24th conducted by rev m burch pallbearers were t s mclaren a f smith e c carter and philip meyer mrs carter was the youngest daughter of the late a b ram er of mount joy and was born on the farm on which the wide- man church stands she had a dressmaking department for a number of years in connection with the store of the late henry wilson in markham after marriage she resided in toron to until 1900 when they came to mount joy where mr carter built the brick house next the mbc church in 1902 they moved to sardis bc and about twenty years ago moved to vancouver where mr carter had a grocery store on broad way w up to the time of his death the choir loft in the stouffville united church was strangely vacant on sunday morning as the surpliced choir members took seats in the body of the church and no anthem was sung because of the deep mourning for their leader mr robert leslie who suddenly passed away at his home satur day evening he had been ailing for some months with heart trouble but resumed his work as manager of the shaw store when he was forced to give up the beginning of the week in which he passed away the end came with shocking suddenness about 7 oclock saturday even- ingdeath was due to coronary thrombosis with his wife and family mr leslie came to stouffville in 1930 to manage the shaw store for his sisterinlaw mrs w h shaw and his kindly quiet disposition soon won for him many warm friends a choir leader of considerable exper ience he took over this position in the united church and faith fully promoted the musical tal ent of the church born in owen sound mr leslie was one of ten children eight of whom grew to man hood and womanhood one of his brothers while serving as mayor of that city died in office mr leslie was a choir leader there and later when he went to edmonton to become appraiser for the city council in the wes tern centre developed a large and important choir in a church in that city he was married to isabel e waterswho with an only daugh ter betty survives the beloved father there are three sisters and one brother living namely mrs thane wilson owen sound mrs william paton brantford mrs leonard cun- ney worth hamilton and alex leslie waverly iowa in a brief but feeling an nouncement made by his pastor on sunday morning rev l e atkinson said that we were all conscious of the fact that the village had sustained a great loss and more particularly the church for a fine christian gentleman had been taken the united church auditori um was filled on tuesday after noon for the funeral service which was conducted by the pastor rev mr atkinson and dr thomas mitchell scripture was read by rev h lee and prayer offered by rev robert young beautiful floral rem embrances covered the bier in eluding wreaths from the official board of the church the choir the stouffville high school and staff friends and the family the choir rendered a selection very effectively peace perfect peace interment was made at the stouffville cemetery the pall bearers being isaac barkey f e rae carl boadway geo nichol owen sound allan les lie toronto leslie cunney- worth lbndon the late robert leslie wesley hill takes bride on the first day of this month barbara janfe piper daughter of mr and mrs thomas ripley became the wife of j wesley hill who is so well known in stouffville and its community the bride and groom were united in matrimony at the home of rev e morton and will reside in the westend of stouffville mrs hill came from mt albert to stouffville about two years ago may move to almira we understand that mr jacob wideman on the 7th concession of markham intends to give up farming this spring and move to almira where he is thinking of buying a property next to the lehman mills his sale date is not yet announced but is ex pected to be decided on shortly mr lehman has been a renter on lot 26 con 7 for some years war branch donations war branch will meet in the municipal hall on tuesday feb 8th at 3 oclock everybody welcome donations received since last meeting sr womens institute 2500 mr h golden 200 mrs jm storey 100 miss b winn 50 cents miss l baker 100 miss j brodie 200 bloomington school 150 ballantrae group 200 additional knitters are bloomington glasgow schools a stouffville booster for britishbacon william r coates farmer east of stouffville has a brood sow which is a real booster for filling up the gap between the requirements of the british bacon market and the porkers so far supplied by canada this particular mother pig in the last four litters has given birth to no less than 73 lusty squeelers there were two litrs of 17 one of 21 and the last 18 the toronto star will now probably rush in and say this is a hogs answer to the threat of hitler that he will starve out the brit ish isles record hydro peak reached in december the hydro power peak touch ed in the month of december last was 269 horse power per haps the heaviest drawn or de mand yet made by stouffville a clock arrangement at the en trance of the town located on the hydro lines registers the amount of the peak or highest point of demand during the month on this high point the town pays for the month hence it is desirable to have an even load rather than one that is flighty the december bill for power cost the users 90821 as against some months when the bill is only 750 there is a steady increase in the use of current more stoves and other appliances going on as people find that hydro is as cheap to use as other heats and much more convenient percy ashs truck takes a ducking when the ice on lake wilcox started to crack last friday dur ing icecutting operations and finally gave way three men were forced to jump to safety ritchie syers of richmond hill who was atop the truck when the ice started to give way had the narrowest escape he jumped to the ice below but crashed through up to his waist he was pulled to safety by his two companions elwood ash and les white both of lake wilcox the large truck which was loaded with ice was lost in 25 feet of water i guess we had just a little too much ice on it percy ash owner of the truck stated fol lowing the near tragedy he said his brother elwood heard the ice crack but paid little attention to it then he heard a further crack much louder than the first and saw the ice break away revealing open water my brother yelled to the other two men to jump for their lives les white scrambled to safety beside elwood but ritch ie syers was not so fortunate he was atop of the truck which carried approximately 9000 pounds when he jumped as he landed he struck open water getting soaked to his waist glasgow couple married 61 years sixtyone years ago on sun day february 4 1879 mr and mrs jess davis of glasgow were married in the methodist church parsonage stouffville by rev george washington the late mr and mrs elezer forsyth of uxbridge township stood up with the couple on this happy occasion so many years ago mr davis who was a son of george and elizabeth davis of jscarboro and one of a family of eight will be eightyeight i this coming june mrs davis was the former elizabeth pick ering a daughter of mr and mrs frank pickering of ux bridge township and she will celebrate her 82nd birthday in july to the union were born seven children three sons walter of glasgow newton in the west ralph on the home place and one boy deceased three daugh ters are mrs herb ferrier of stouffville mrs lou slack and mrs john spang there are thirtyone grandchildren and eight great grandchildren mr and mrs davis first took up farming just north of good wood following this for five years an acreage was worked on the 3rd of whitchurch the last fifty years have all been spent at glasgow two years ago mrs davis suffered a stroke and has been rather poorly every since her husband is extremely active for his years he works quite a large garden and turned a hand only recently to cutting wood this local pioneer has not had to resort to glasses and reads the newspapers quite readily without any such aid mr davis attended school just south of malvern his first teacher being alexander muir famed writer of the maple leaf i think our winters are coming less davis as he chatted tribune why i be- severe said mr with the remember when the snow would fall three and four feet on this concession and there were no snow plows either everything had to be done with the horses then even to the threshing mr davis recalled the rail way going through to uxbridge for the first time glasgow when he settled in the district boasted two stores one kept by ben parker and one by william burton also a hotel operated by elisha miller there were two village smithies thos latch- am and sam ottowell and a flourishing grist mill over the hill to the east that frame school on the corner he said must be over 75 years old it was one of the first building contracts taken by ben parker all the davis family have attended this same school which sits on the south east village corner this fine old couple who have passed their diamond jubilee were greeted with many family calls on sunday and also a num ber of lovely gifts in honor of the occasion the community extends con gratulations at this time and best wishes for continued health and happiness