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famfftrille mibum awarded jos clark memorial trophy for j 939 vol 52 no 47 stouffville ont thursday march 7 1940 eight pages pioneer newspaperman was born in stouffvill e w j white who was bornj moving to rockwood in the east end of stouffville after fifteen years spent in 89 years ago but vho left here the rj and stouffville locality mr and mrs lindsay ferguson are moving this week from the sim atkin son farm recently purchased by percy allan at the rear of the 4th to rockwood between guelph and acton in a good farming centre they have tak en a hundred acre place there and we wish them and their family of eight children the best of success they have proven themselves good neighbors- both mi- and mrs ferguson are natives of king township mr ferguson moved most of his implements to his new dis trict by use of the trailer and car when only a small lad died at his home in lockwood sask last week pioneer prairie newspaper man mr- white founded the brandon sun and opened the first paper ever printed west of the assiniboia later he went to the usa where he was employed by the us govern- bent in promotion work of an advertising nature for the dept of agriculture a couple of summers ago this venerable old gentleman while on a trip east to visit his daughter in ottawa called on the editor of this paper for a brief time it was his first visit to his native village in more than 75 years still he could tell where certain old established businesses of his boyhood days stood mr- white was a man of remarkable ability and could wield the pen quite as forcefully at 80 as when he was a younger man he entered the newspaper work first of all in the town of exeter where his father was in the business his death marks the passing of a friend we are charles e stiver of union loath to see taken from us for ville son of the late william he linked the early pioneer days and susan hesk stiver enter with the present in a more able eel upon his 80th year sunday- manner than many could do j mr stiver was born at the old stiver homestead on the 5th concession of markham close to unioiiville and has spent al most all of his life in the vicin m ity he is a cousin to mr f l the stanley theatre manag- stivei head o the stiver bros charles stiver was 80 on sunday lived around unionville all his life band benefit monday er has arranged to put on a show for the benefit of the local jr band monday march 11 the feature picture swanee river a musical drama in technicolor a biography of the life of stephen foster composer of american folk music this picture is comparable to alex anders ragtime band local junior band will render several musical selections the band committee solicit your patron age to this worthy cause seed firm pie is a carpenter and builder and still does considerable work along those lines- mr and mrs stiver are active workers in the central united church they have a family of two sons and three daughters clarence of timmins harold of london ont mrs luneau and mrs white of toronto and miss effie who resides with her parents locals urop denes opener by big 2 return game postponed on monday now scheduled for thursday night here face a nine goal lead stouffville returned home from sutton last thursday night after seeing the biggest barrage of rubber pushed into their net in any game of the season the locals were blasted 123 in the first game of their intermediate series with the lake simcoelites considering that stouffville was without the services of nicholson their regular goalie and were forced to use two lads in the net who had little or no knowledge of filling in between the posts the showing was not as bad as the score indicated sutton were able to score al most at will providing they could manage to get in a shot on the net the lakeside team potted three gift goals out of their first four in the opening period and kept up a steady stream of longdistance sniping which netted them at least fifty per cent more counters than they earned on the play the stouffvillelites got away on the right foot when murphy batted home lou mordens pass after just five minutes of play burchell sutton wingman who lived up to his badman reputation during the entire game was serving a penalty when the goal was scored this opening success was shortlived as milroy speedy sutton centre kept the locil fans in an uproar as he swept in to score four goals in the 15 remaining minutes of the per iod sutton were held to one lone tally in the second period and barring this one breakaway were kept in close check by the local forwards- the local line of rennie dalzell and murphy which outshone all other com bination trios was only kept off the scoresheet by the brilliant performance of goalie smith vail who made a very weak effort in the stouffville net was replaced in the third period by forbes who was treated no better and watched seven pucks sail past him in the final twenty minutes crozier milroy cul- verwell shute brady and burchell being the goalgetters stouffville continued to press but the ganging attacks back fired as sutton broke away and the red light flicked repeatedly while the best the visitors could do was to beat smith twice vail and murphy whip ping the boatheel into the twine on two wellearned goals stouffville took fresh hope with husky vail on defence to batter down the greenshirt bruisers who had been hand ling the lighter home town lads pretty rough sutton faulter- ed as the city service notched their two quick ones to make it 7 but a couple of blue line hots which forbes only fanned on soon blasted any hopes of coming close referee meaffery handed out eight penalties six of them to sutton tobias caster 94 dead high school hockey finals stand all tied as we go to press this wed nesday at 230 we learn of the death of mr tobias caster of claremont in his 94th year following a considerable period of ill health mr caster was 93 last sept and will be buried on sunday afternoon with pub lic service in the claremont baptist church whitchurch finals begin friday night white rose downed vandorf 86 in overtime in the local arena on tuesday night to clinch the other whitchurch playoff berth against king city the finals will open this fri day night in the first of best twooutofthree game series for the championship aged altona man preparing pen and pencil local history a peep at altona 100 years ago is what is in store for those who may read the history now being prepared by mr- obijah jones the veteran 83yearold resident of the hamlet east of stouffville who marked his birthday only last sunday in deed mr jones is not only re cording the lives of prominent people there when he was a very small boy and before but he has made pencil sketches of many old building the house he was born in the old altona inn coopers walter andrews house and the familiar mill lane and others living alone and in good health he is quite indepen dent of any aid one might ex pect a man of his years to re quire why mr jones even puts down fruit and attends all his culinary work from which he takes enjoyment- for many years he farmed on the proper ty of his brother ralph and since he has no family and his wife dead these many years he takes life easy at his home north of madills store dog owners pay 130 in taxes the revenue produced from dog taxes in stouffville is 130 for 1940 assessor george storry told the council on mon day evening only half a dozen names were handed over to the town fathers who in turn pass ed them on to the constable as delinquents when receipts from these are in the total will be close to 1939 receipts hospitalization costs for january amounted to 119 for car e of three patients while other relief costs were over 100 for fuel and food supplied to homes where the bread win ner was said to be in destitute circumstances relief officer john dougherty said the de mand for relief was falling off as work is opening up reeve weldon presided mem bers present being councillors r e brown ira rusnell del- bert holden john silverthorn the first game of the inter- school hockey playoffs between scarboro collegiate and stouff ville high school resulted in a fourall tie last wednesday night at agincourt after 60 minutes of hard battling on the part of botv teams- ramsey and walker the star centre player for the southern ers both scored early in the first period to maintain a two goal lead which extended into the midsession the stouffville lads however came to life when abell and cadieux combined for their first counter and schell notched the next one from an assist by abell and cadieux to finish the second period twoall walker chalked up two more goals in the next few minutes of play when he scored first from an assist by barrell and then in a scramble in front of the stouffville nets cadieux took advantage of a minor pen alty to ramsey to come through with a lovely shot from outside the blue line making the score 34 with only two minutes to play bob abell scored from a pass by jim abell to make the final count fourall the deciding game for this interschool championship will be played between the two teams possibly this week- farmers body of wife found at lottom of well the body of mrs daniel dick siloam was found by her lrusband around four oclock on tuesday afternoon in about five feet of water in a cistern on a neighboring vacant property to their home where they had been going to draw water since their supply had ran out mrs dick itis believed had slipped and fallen into the cistern and since no one was about her cries must have gone unheard she had been dead two hours or more when the discovery was made their nine year old daughter was at siloam public school nearby and the husband had gone down the road to the home of his brotherinlaw leaving no one at home excepting mrs dick she had gone to the cistern with two pails one stood filled with water and in the act of hauling out a second one she slipped on the ice which coated the whole top and fell in this is the way neigh bors reconstruct the story of what must have happened when mr dick returned home around 430 pm he found the kitchen fire out and the house cold calling his wife and getting no response he rushed outside and follow ed tracks to the fatal spot unaided he managed to recover the body the unfortunate woman 42 years of age was a daughter of the late mr and mrs john wallace three sisters surviv ing are mrs cecil heard of uxbridge mrs clifford rose of newmarket mrs sam montgomery toronto also three brothers john arnold and harold wallace the former being a resident of siloam and at whose home the bereaved husband was cutting wood when the tragedy occurred- the un fortunate lady was a niece of mrs george watson of stouff ville school concert draws big houses both nights markham looks over a capacitv crowd filled ratcliffs hall on thursday and proposed road bylaw friday nights for the annual i commencement exercises of the the maintenance of the stouffville high school the markham and pickering town- j students 140 in number were ship townline would be divided ass and directed by the equally over specified areas teaching staff and presented a according to a proposed bylaw read and discussed at the regu lar meeting of the markham township council held at unionville on monday mark ham would shoulder the upkeep very favourable programme musical numbers which were under the supervision of the principal l c murphy con sisted of several choir numbers and a duet by mary and elaine of that portion of the road lying baker boys gymnastics m- north of no 7 highway and i cluclilg tumbling pyramids and pickering the south half comic act and girls costumed bylaws were also passed re- were in charge of mr r hiring assessors craig and for- an miss p wilson ster at salaries of 27o and t feature number of the 210 respectively with an adu was a short play ditional ten per cent of all dog tax collected this is an in crease of 25 and 10 for each of these officers the additional money was deemed necessary continued on page 8 ballantrae loses one of oldest residents ballantrae district lost one of its oldest and best known citi zens last sunday when death claimed william coppins in his 77th year although born in the township of markham he had spent practically all his life in and around ballantrae and farmed for more than half a century although ill only a week or ten days he had been in delicate health for a consid erable time with heart trouble his immediate death was due to a stroke as a young man he united in marriage with emma nesbitt who survives him together with a family of five four sons and one daughter they are mrs w- vaughan of bloomington roy coppins of claremont george of goodwood wm in zephyr and herbert at church hill they were all home with their mother over the weekend the deceased is the last surviving member of his family except ing for a halfsister mrs for- tal living in marine city us a- mr coppins was a quiet in dustrious man and many life long friends gathered for the funeral at church hill church on tuesday afternoon when the i remains were laid to rest in the little cemetery close by the church entitled the bishops candle sticks adapted from victor hugos les miserables the role of the bishop was ably en acted by gordon baker and the part of his sister was taken by mary burkholder other char acters were portrayed by bud sanderson aurelia jennings jjim abell vernon davies and fred clubine mr- g bailey and miss r miller were responsible for the dramatic efforts j thursday evening diplomas were presented to the follow ing graduating class by rev c e macleod thelma atkinson harold boadway beryl brillin- ger erma dowswell isabel fleming mary graham lois kester arthur rusnell betty sanderson bruce stover ellrie thompson phyllis winn the valedictory address was given by bill tranmer a 1939 graduate now attending the university of toronto on the second night dr h b- freel chairman of the school board and mr l turner pre sented silver cups to the field day winners the former made a brief comment concerning the silver trophy won by the high school in the interschool hockey competition last term the athletic awards were re ceived by the following stu dents junior girls jean westlake joan baxter- junior boys kenneth klinck and grant turner intermediate girls beth kellington frances forfar intermediate boys jim abell cameron aldred senior girls isabel fleming myrtle bacon senior boys harold boad way bob abell tied carpet factory owner died at age of 101 over half a century ago archie campbell ran a thriving industry here three days in jail convicted of attempting to obtain relief when he had a i small bank account a resident between markham and union- ville was given three days in ones memory would have to be able to go back fifty years to recall the campbell carpet works which flourished in stouffville half a century ago when the building stood on the north side of main street al most north of obrien avenue on the west shore of the pond which once was there archi bald campbell who died in philadelphia some days ago at the wonderful age of 101 years was its founder he came here from markham where he had established a similar business and when his plant was in full operation it employed a goodly number of men- stouffville saw the greatest boom in its history during the operation of this factory here after the factory burned down campbell returned to j markham and operated the jail on tuesday clerk charles p there until i 1900 when he hoover and the bank manager p place to under- at unionville gave evidence for hl sl shoc c hc i the township remembered by our older rcs- engagement mrs- florence chadwick announces the engagement of her youngest daughter edna florence to mr wilfred fergu son son of mr and mrs peter ferguson of stouffville the marriage to take place wednes day march 27 1940 dents as a public spirited man and a real hustler his wife lived to be 93 years old and died in 1930 one daughter and two sons survive the centuriah father ballantrae capture uxbridge hockey title led by joe austin who slip ped in five goals during the evening ballantrae coasted through to the uxbridge hock ey championship defeating claremont 105 in their third playoff game on tuesday night a crowd of 1200 watched the shellmen forge to the lead in the second period with six counters and then hold off the battering claremont lads for the final session the british consols cup was presented to manager ed mcnelly in a brief ceremony following the game coach herb simpson voiced a fitting reply on behalf of the ballantrae team it is remored that an oyster supper is in store for the victors at ballantrae in the near future