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awarded jos clark memorial trophy for 1939 vol 52 no 48 stouffville ont thursday march 14 1940 ten pages tells of rigors of english wartime winter 0 rev- harold c stephens form er resident to describe re actions and repercussions of war in england for tribune readers london england the one outstanding fact during the last eight weeks for us here in england has not been the war but the climatic con ditions as since christmas there has been a continuous cold wave bringing with it snow and ice to us personally it has been truly canadian and therefore somewhat congenial but the trouble is that instead of a good hard dry frost with brilliant sunshine it has been damp and dark and i suppose we have only seen old sol about twice since the cold reached us there has been a good deal of skating on the park lakes and incidentally our daughter muriel who is in training in a london hospital spent one evening with other canadian nurses skating on the thames and they created quite a sensa tion amongst the spectators by their exhibition of gracefulness as we know it in canada the severe frost has brought hundreds of burst water pipes and in our district alone there were over 400 our own pipes gave out about january 1st an other result has been a coal shortage and many household ers were without heat for days wood to burn is of course non existent logs about 12 by 4 are sold at around 25c and they are green living is not too bad as yet and the rationing system was a very wise move as it does en sure a normal food supply we only wish we could pick up a bag of sugar as you do in can ada the allowance here is pound a week per person so we usually get a 1 lb loaf and pound moist bacon v lb each butter u lb each mar- gerene we find is not so very awful after all as one acquires a taste for it after a time we are told that whale oil is largely used in its mariu- union meeting satur day the conservative or national candidates in east york south ontario and north york are holding a joint meeting in stouffville next saturday even ing when electors from these three ridings which are all in close proximity to each other around stouffville will have a chance to meet their candidate on this ticket and to hear them speak the meeting is called for 8 pm in ratcliffs hall facture and are consoled by the fact that it is strong in vitam in b so of course we eat it and grin and bear it milk bread and sundries are not rationed so we have not much to com plain of i think our greatest inconvenience as a wartime measure is the blackout ai most of us think it is being carried to extremes it is said that the blackout is hitlers best army in england for the deaths through it have been greater than all the casualties on the western front its worse than going from stouffville to claremont on a dark night and that was bad enough until two weeks ago there was no official speed limit for traffic and be cause of dimmed headlights drivers could not see beyond a cars length the limit now is 20 miles per hour which of course is amusing to you people but here believe me that is plenty fast enough buses and trains have a small blue light inside which enables one to half see ones neighbour but not sufficient to read stations are completely dark so if you are going over a strange part of the country there is the probability of missing your stop that mak es even a preacher say things even ringwood or altona with their stores lit up would be gloriously brilliant to the streets after dark if one wants a night out with sufficient light to gaze into the face of ones wife or girl friend the only thing to do is to take a ticket on continued on page 3 markham farmer to retire in newmarket mr and mrs charles martin living on lot 22 con 5 mark- ham are retiring to newj market owing to mr martins indifferent health their farm stock sale on wednesday march 20 is one of the big ones i and includes a fine herd of dairy cows and a registered bull i holstein as well as a long line of implements the martins have lived on this farm for eighteen years and it is now rented by william hisey of victoria square the prop erty is owned by charles par son toronto and consists of 110 acres sir wilearo mulock newt wagg dead n k wagg of midland died in florida this week and will be brought home for burial he was a native of uxbridge and is survived by one son and his wife who was the former mabel ramsey of uxbridge and a niece of mrs tarr main st east stouffville uxbridge road subsidy cut by department down sutton 9- lose on round 1712 cleanly fought game sees locals carry play but not far enough fo overcome nine goal handicap by trimming sutton 95 on local ice thursday night stouff ville lived up to predictions that they would be quite capable of humbling the lakeside team if they only had a goaltender wally nicholson provided the much needed net guardian and the rest of the team really went to work on the greenshirts for two periods in no uncertain manner still falling short by five goals however of tying the round a large crowd was on hand and although the opening stan za was a pretty slow exhibition of the winter pastime the game really got out of low gear from then on and provided the fans with plenty to cheer about there was no scoring in the first twenty minutes although there were numerous hard shots on the net the majority from a safe distance sutton seemed content to sit back and let the locals carry the play to hem which they could well afford to do on such a tremend ous lead there were two pen altieshanded out in this period one to crozier of sutton and one to vail of stouffville both for boarding the second period had barely opened up when husky sparky vail stole the show by batting the boot heel into the corner to open the scoring for stouffville sutton apparently spurred by this sudden local success took full advantage of stouffvilles ganging tactics to break away and notch three in little less than five minutes burchell gibney and milroy coasting in on the unprotected nicholson stouffville gave the northern ers no rest bjit kept whittling contintied on page 2 farmers owed hundreds of dollars for milk delivered once again this section has a story to be written about the organizing of a dairy under all the most alluring circumstan ces only to see it crash and leave local farmers holding the bag or whatever you call it anyway the few shippers from this district have not been paid and some of them are owing 600 and 700 for milk plus share investment while one in vestor fears to lose thousands of dollars the union consumers dairy after being in operation for some time was taken over or came under the wing of the co operatives but for some time now those who supplied milk from the stouffville dairy have been shut off and have not been paid florida for training eail cook professional base ball twirler expects to leave this week for plant city train ing camp in florida where he will go into training with the buffalo bisons earl is looking forward to an outstanding season and in this everybody wishes the home boy all the success imaginable the date of his departure was not certain on monday and he may even be gone ere this item goes into print on the other hand some days may elapse before the boys shift off to the training grounds a national disaster to trust canada now to untried men said sir william mulock the other day on mounting the political nlatform in behalf of col w p mulocks candidacy in north york it was his first political platform speech since retiring from politics 40 years ago the veteran of more than 90 years told his newmarket audience projects from local school to be exhibited uxbridge township council which passed the usual by law in january indicating that they would like to spend 9500 on road work this year has been formally notified by the dept of highways that a sub sidy this year will only be al lowed them on 7500 any ex penditures the township run over that amount would not be subsidized naturally the coun cil will bend every effort to re main within the 7500 amount the council met on saturday at goodwood with reeve ashen- hurst in the chair and all mem bers present communications were read as follows provincial treasurer cheque for 444061 being 50 per cent of road expenditure during 1939 provincial treasurer cheque of 2147 being 80 per cent re fund on relief supplied in de cember less 63c medical trovincial treasurer cheque of 4200 being refund or pneumothaiax refills council but mr james also had a mission and speaking on re forestation he asked council if they would cooperate with him in encouraging land owners in the township in planting waste land to trees a resolution was unanimous ly passed by council that all road formen must have their road accounts in to the road superintendent at the end of each calander month giving road supltime to have voucher made out for council meeting all accounts not in by that time will have to lay over until next month the department of municipal resident of couple married at unionville the marriage was consumat- ed on saturday march 9 at the home of the brides brother chailes hoover unionville when mrs ruth a barkey be came the wife of mr maurice b eby the ceremony being performed by rev p g leh man the bride is a well known affairs reported that the sub- while the the oldgtrconductor dies in toronto reuben greenbury rorn on the 10th con- member of well known family a railroad man back in the early days of the old grand trunk through stouffville reuben greenbury died at his heme 23 avonlee ave toron to on monday morning of this week he was in his 76th year born on the 10th concession a son of the late robert green bury the well known home near the cemetery is remembered by many of our older people his father died very young man but during his time drove a pro vision wagon selling goods through the country reuben who just died had four broth ers jack george joseph and william but all are dead two sisters also deceased were hattie and sarah there are only two sisters of this family now living they being mrs t j feren at goodwood and mrs w h johnson 6th con markham william greenbury church street stouffville is a nephew of the deceased reuben when a young man united in marriage with lottie parker of lindsay who sur vives him with three of a fam ily being mabel mrs robin son toronto robert also in toronto and gladys mrs twining of oshawa reuben started railroading in 1886 with e j davey later went to lindsay as brakesman and was promoted to a conduct or operating on the lindsay district the funeral on wednesday proceeded to scarboro memorial park cemetery for interment projects from the stouffville high school will be on exhib ition at the annual gathering of- the ontario educational association in toronto during easter principal l c murphy has received a request to ex hibit several articles made by the students at this school and will be expected to give some information relative to the manner of preparing and teach ing shop work in our school which is outstanding in the province at this time mr murphy and his assist ant ralph haist may take it as a personal honor to have been asked to participate in this way and they have readily agreed to acceed to the request king edges white rose in finals opener first blood in the whitchurch best twooutofthree hockey finals was drawn by king city on tuesday night when they de feated white rose 43 after twenty minutes of overtime it was a crowdpleasing struggle from start to finish with both teams putting forth everything they had the series will continue this thursday night march 14 school hockey cup stays in stouffville stouffville high school clinched the interschool hockey championship when they elim inated scarboro collegiate in their second playoff game here on friday night by a one goal margin the collegians were defeated 43 in the game and 87 on the round both teams put forth a grand effort and only after ten minutes of overtime were the finalists de termined underwood made an excellent showing in the nets for the home sextet limiting the orange and black to three goals one in each period cadieux and b abell combined to score the first goal and walker and rhydeven the second to finish the first period oneall a single goal in the second session was notched by walker the local squad opened the last twenty minutes of play with goals by cadieux and b abell b abell and j abelf asisting with about two minutes to go suggett scored to tie the count the deadlock was broken in overtime when b abell shot the puck at the scar boro goal and it glanced in off barrens skate lineup stouffville goal joe underwcod defence art rus nell fred williams centres bob abell jim abell wings ted cadieux murray vague arnold schell grant turner subs ken klinck harold boad way bob forfar next week a sizeable space will be used in this paper on be half of the candidacy of robert irwin candidate for york east 8th conces- groom since sidy grant this year will be ijjg return from western can- mill instead of 1 as last year i has also lived in markham year mr and mrs eby will take up miss e a mckay county farming near buttonville on the treasurer sent a hospital 14th concession account for 15225 one half j being payable by the township of uxbridge mr e a innis agricultur al representative requested 665 as one third costs care- taking room for agricultural courses messrs gordon mortimer kennedy doherty solicitors for mrs v graham campbell formerly mrs hartley dewart sent a lengthy surveyors dis- cription of properties as belong ing to their client and re questing tax certificate for same mr william eckhardt came before the council stating that he would purchase a heavy truck and attach a snow plow if council would agree to give him the ploughing in winter and he also would use his truck drawing gravel in summer there was considerable time given to the matter but nothing definitely arrived at as council are giving the purchase of some such outfit consideration albert e james ex reeve of the township was very cheer fully received as a visitor to true bill found against connor the grand jury in toronto on tuesday found a true bill against ralph connor who will come up for trial in may charged with attempting to procure false information the case arises out of an action brought by connor against the township of whitchurch and others when he was removed from certain water front lands at musselmans lake which he claimed to be in possession of this action was subsequently dropped by connor arthur russell brother of bliss russell of stouffville was seriously injured assisting in fighting a fire at the old mill south of markham village on tuesday and- was rushed to the toronto general hospital rus sell was struck on the head by a flying board from the roof whitchurch hope to absorb half mill cut whitchurch township council hope to absorb the half mill that is being withdrawn by the ontario government which they gave to municipalities last year we do not want to pass this on to the ratepayers if it is humanly possible to i ex penditures to take care of it said reeve toole at the march council meeting on saturday in 1939 the government rebated to municipalities a mill and a half of the general rate but this year are reducing the amount to one mill reviewing road expenditures it was disclosed that snow re moval to date cost approxim ately 2300 as against 3500 at the same period last year notwithstanding the gratifying manner the roads have been kept open this year with the new machinery this was whitchurch couple mark anniversary surrounded by their nine children 20 grandchildren and one great grandchild mr and mrs fred monkman ai today celebrating their 50th wedding at their farm home on the second concession of whit church township mr and mrs monkman have made their home on the same farm for the past 40 years and both attribute their long lives to hard work and clean living mrs monkman is in good heal th but mr monkman is just re covering from a stroke suffer ed a few months ago markham juniors oust cobourg six markham advanced another viewed by council as a good step in their path to the oha omen for the year ahead owing to housing the new power grader jn a shed forming part of the old sheds at the rear of the township hall insurance was increased to take care of the building and on motion of councillors wells and kidd the i policy was placed with ii o klinck premium 640 continued on page 10 j unior c championship by scoring a 103 victory over co- bourg monday night to take the round by a 156 margin cobourg kept pace with the homesters until the final period when markham rapped home six goals without a reply send the tribune to absent friends