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5000 readers mnhnm 1680 copies awarded jos clark memorial trophy for 1939 vol 53 no 10 stouffv1lle ontario thursday july 4th 1940 eight pages lemonville man 40 years dies suddenly markham youth was friday and conversing with his son bert with whom he was laying plans to move to quebec shortly william e taylor was found an hour later in a unconscious condi tion suffering from a stroke from which he never rallied and died in a few hours mr taylor was 74 years ot age last imay and had spent 40 years of his life around lemonville he married sarah pipher who prede ceased him in 1929 an adopted son bert living on the neighorn farm provided a home for his father but they were planning on moving back to the taylor locality at athletone quebec shortly deceased was a carpenter by trade besides the son there survives two brothers and four sisters living in california and quebec the funeral on monday to dickson hill cemetery was taken by rev percy lehman and the pall bearers were messrs oscar yake martin hutchinson gordon lemon elmer wells sep foote herman burkholder bed cross notes information has leached the local branch of the red cross society that a dominionwide appeal for funds will be made in the week commencing september 25th an exhaustive canvas will therefore be made in stouffville and the por tion of whitchurch under the juris diction of the local branch at that time in the meantime the sewing and knitting branches of the said red cross must depend on the voluntary donations of the citizens to carry on this very important work so keen are the members of these branches that they have made up and knitted the material already purchased from moneys on hand and have exhausted the supply and it has now been found necessary by the executive to borrow 20000 to purchase other necessary materials in order to keep the knitting and sewing workers going it is pointed cut by the executive that donations for the said purpose will be gladly accepted to carry on the work until funds are obtained in the september appeal part of which can be used for this work the treasurer wishes to acknowledge the following donations since the last publication thereof mrs hutchison and winnie 200 mrs j a heise 500 a friend 200 on torpedoed craft lost or wh edwin bell farmer on the 9th con cession of markhamabout live miles south of stouffville missed his team of dark horses from the pasture on saturday and when the tribune was communicated with on monday afternoon the animals had not been recovered an endless search has been made but no one seems to have seen any stray animals on the road and there was no indication as to how they left the field the team is a bay clydesdale and a hay general purpose stewart clarry german submarine men twenty others were picked up for the last week mrs clarry has been visiting toronto arranging for a passport and tickets for a trip to new york in july when she would have seen her son for the first time in a year a second son john 19 sails the great lakes on the steamer saracen mrs clarry is a widow and has four other children james david arthur and eflle mrs h s clarry of markj ham learned last week the ship on which her son stewart 21 had been an able seaman was torpedoed the press pub lished the news that the villa namur had been rfev gordon duncan minister ot sunk in the tne presbyterian congregation at atlantic by a warkwork for the past eleven years with loss of 59 has been called by the congregation rev g duncan moving to drayton water by 25 majority by a majority of 25 the ratepay ers of uxbridge declared themselves in favor of the installation of a domestic water system last week the town has miles of mains for fire protection filled by pond water when a fire occurs and these can he used in the domestic system the vote taken stood for the bylaw 179 against 154 the next step says the times of that town is to obtain the consent of the department of muni cipal affairs at drayton in wellington county ard will take up his new duties there about the middle of july rev mr duncan an old stouff ville hoy leaves his present charge with no little regrets as he has come to look on the place as home and is beloved by his people there who likewise are sorry to lose their minister who came to them from montreal district in 1929 drayton is a village of goo people and is situated about 30 miles north west of guelph in a very fine section of country on thursday mr dun can and his sister miss annie were in town and made known the change that is about to take place will not take road at the june session of ontario county council on recommenda tion of the county hoad committee they repealed bylaw 1370 which was passed on the 19th of january 1939 authorizing the north townline of scott township or the allowance for road between the townships ot scott and georgina a distance of 9 miles to be taken over as a county road in connection with the bylaw the committee reported the department of highways has not yet approved of this road as a county road your committee are of the opin ion that owing to the suite of the country at present that it would not be opportune to have his road approved as a county road by dominion day on effort of th smiles lions e days thk stork interposed when the reeve and several other members of whitchurch council failed to put in an appearance at a special meeting slated for monday of last week at least one member who arrived was looking pretty glum however when he learned that reeve toole had just been pre sented with a lovely baby daughter at the york county hospital new market he too was wreathed in theismiles the reeve is now the father province of ont at this time or for the duration of the war when it can be further considered fireside hour had a social interest storry wins supreme court appeal over cnr the widely publicised court action of so much local interest of edgar storry vs the cnr has taken a more favorahle turn for mr storry whose action for damages was taken from a jury by judge macfarlane and the case dismissed against the company major hac bruels re presenting storry appealed the brillin in his home the rev robert young officiated tuesday afternoon at the wedding of anne luella gay- man only daughter of mr and mrs jos gayman stouffville to bruce claude brillinger only son of mr and mrs harold brillinger stouff ville the bride wore queens blue sheer chiffon with white picture hat and corsage of red roses and gypsophilia miss eulah brillinger the brides only attendant wore a frock of beige flowered sheer with large white hat and corsage of talisman roaes and bouvardia the groom was attended by harry maynard of markham following a small reception at the home of the brides parents the happy couple left on a short motor trip to points east up we the e an aeroplane landed in town on dominion day and took up passen gers at one cent a pound of your weight two of the passengers prov ed to be none other than mr ah stouffer also his sister mrs jacob boadway did they like it just ask them the plane a twoseater took off with mrs boadway zoomed heavenward the lady waving to those on the ground delighted and unafraid induction at markham second church a meeting of more than ordinary interest and importance will take place this thursday at markham second baptist church when mr stanley medhurst will be inducted into the ministry the ordination services begins at 430 the ordina tion sermon being preached by rev j ii peer of gait the evening ser vice will begin at 730 when other outstanding speakers will be heard mr and mrs orval reynolds and family of belleville visited over the weekend at the home of his parents mr and mrs fred reynolds stouff ville supply appointed rev t courtney ryner of lachene quebec has been named as judgment and the case after being stated supply minister for markham heard by the supreme court of canada the highest tribunal in the country has won the appeal and is granted a new trial the costs of the appeal will he borne by the cnr edgar storry lost part of his arm it will be remembered when a cnr rain passing over the crossing in stouffville threw storrys car from he track and jammed him against a xst and stouffville circuit of the presby terian church which has been with out a minister since the retirement from the charge of rev w h full er over a year ago mr ryner has been sent to the charge for a period of one year since the time of union he has been with the presbyterian chnrch but prior to that he was a congregation al minister the stanley will put on a free show monday july 15 for which the admission is paid in war stamps bought from the theatre and which will come back to you with interest the management of the theatre gives his house free read next week full details of the plan on sunday evening at a fire side meeting held in the basement of the united church the officials and members seized the opportunity to officially say farewell to mr and mrs e m still who left on tuesday for their old home in orangeville after nearly eleven years in stouff- vilte an appropriate address read by garfield kellington and the presentation of a handsome floor lamp by harvey mover on behalf of the people were feelingly received in a few words by both mr and mrs still who were visibly affected by the show of love and esteem held for them the occasion was also seized up on to present miss luella gayman with a splendid purse of money the gift of the congregation and the womens association a v nolan read the address congratulating miss gayman on the eve of her marriage while mr clayton stouffer formally handed over the gold or that which is said to represent gold luella made a fit ting reply expressing her surprise and deep delight and appreciation at the splendid gesture made toward her and lier husbandto be claude brillinger who was also present rev l e atkinson acted as chairman and invited everybody to enjoy a cup of tea and a social half- hour before retiring of two daughters and one son popular canadian family i york countys 27000 war gift york county council granted 27000 to war charities at its closing june session and gave a committee power to grant further funds to the york county childrens aid society if that organization is called on to look after refugee children from britain the society reorganized about ten years ago spent over 50000 the past year raised by taxation over the whole county it was said a few years ago that this organization is plotting to expand to a 100000 organization the quality of their work is of the highest type and the blessing ex tended to motherless children is worthy belie in s this paper was shown some young barley stalks on monday which when closely examined revealled the letter b quite distinctly on the leaf bar ley with this letter on was noticed at malvern and when shown to a local man he went out and found the same thing in his own patch the b is said to stand for bri tain and to mean that britain will win it has not appeared on grain stalks since the last war when the same significance was attached to it right or wrong concerning its meaning the b was quite discern able on the stalk all right new masonic master the salvation army will make a canvas for clothing old furniture waste paper and other discarded articles for the relief of the distress ed and unemployed on friday this week passed ix piano miss ruth clark was successful in passing her grade v piano exam ination with the toronto conserva tory of music riuth was a pupil of miss doris baker col mulocic president colonel v p mulock mp on saturday was elected president of the york county veterans association for his ninth consecutive term at its sixteenth annual general meeting dan f cox of toronto was re elected to his eighth consecutive term ns secretary and james butler richmond hill was returned as treasurer more called to arms charlie lintner son of the local smithy has been ordered to report for duty with the casf on fri day of this week he passed his test examination some time ago the garageman arthur swift has also been accepted in the army service corps and was ordered to report wednesday this week mr swift did not know whether he would be nllowed time to wind up his affairs rfter going down on wednesday or not but this was the expectation they honored the dead at dickson hill gathering the annual decoration day ser- ice last sunday at dicksons hill cas largely attended in remein- irance of those who are buried in he adjoining cemetery this bury- ug place under an efficient manage ment has been neatly kept and took n new beauty as friends decorated he graves this service is eagerly loked for annually not only as a icmoriil but it affords those from ear and far an opportunity to re- ew acquaintance and is a clear ex- resslon of goodwill as the time of lowsbip is enjoyed the speaker r this occasion was mr s ii ockburn pastor of the christian hiirch ringwood in a stirring and loqucnt appeal the true realities of uman existence were enumerated namely life death god and the human individual a proper under standing from the heart of these facts result in a personal decision for christ and a readiness for what ever experience which may come the speaker urged the hearers to secure a personal experience of sal vation stating that jesus is the way the truth and the life a quartette from the stouffville mbc church rendered two musical numbers very effectively which added to the inspiration of the service the liberal ottering received which will be used for the upkeep of the cemetery was appreciated the pastor rev p g lehman was in charge of the service important sale opens this satur cnrswells big store successors to w h shaw in stouffville is not satisfied with the slow movement of funimer goods caused by the un precedented wot and cool weather and so this modern merchandising firm has planned a way to unload their big stock a gigantic sale is the result on friday of this week the store will close for the day so that the augmented staff may prepare for the big sain to open this satur day morning and continue for two weeks pages six and seven of this pap er tell something of the slaughter made in prices at a time when everything is being taxed everything going up in price mr carswell feels that one of the best ways to maintain the moral of the people is to carry on in a normal way and while sales of this kind are few stouffville and district is one place to benefit from this patriotic viev- of this big store what s in a n ame some folks call it providence baptist church others name it 6th line church and still others label the baptist edifice on the markham- whitchurch townline as markham second church but the officii name henceforth is to he markham second church according to a vote taken of the congregation at a recent meet ing we are unable to say whore the name providence originated with this congregation appropriate as it may be hut to label it 6th line church in only natural because it designates just what baptist church is referred to in markham it being close to that concession markham second church is a name given be cause this was the second church of that denomination to he organized in the township and hearing this in mind the congregation voted to re tain this name for this very good reason howeverparties coming from the city frequently are bewildered and only recently a group of people coming out made enquiry when they reached markham village and wore directed over to the second concession and finally arrived very late and somewhat confused out siders will probably continue to re fer to the second church as the 6th line church to avoid mistakes harold a sanders installed wm of richardson lodge stouffville barkey sciiemi on saturday june 29th at dicksons hill the marriage of arthur c barkey and mrs mabel schell was solemnized by rev p g lehman their many friends extend to them their best wishes for many years of happiness together huckster at richmond hill 50 years o after 30 days ot continuous cloudy weather the sun shone brightly all day monday to the lik ing of holiday makers and especially the lions club of stouffville who had gone to considerable expense to provide a holiday program of sports at memorial park plus a big even ing concert that is yearly becoming an outstanding event despite the fact farmers were behind with hay making folks were worrying about the war and numerous other ex cuses there was a crowd of over 600 people at the park for the open- ing baseball events while many more were present at six oclock for the football games and then 700 people passed through the doors in to the arena at s oclock for the fin al program of the day in mens softball unionville won first playing their final game against musselmans lake stouffville was a contender in this but failed to be a winner in the girls softball stouff ville defeated unionville in a popu lar game and won the prize with out further competition indicating that there was a shortage of girls teams mrs ormsby hornsby the former blanche slack was on the mound for the local girls who while not playing ot late mustered up a good team claremont and toronto ulsters played football at six oclock ending in a tie and big excitement in fact the crowd milled around as though there was a prize fight on and were sorry to learn the rubber was not to be broken these teams promise to meet again shortly football is still very popular and drew hundreds of farmers to see the game who had worked in the hay fields all day the evening concert was hardly up to the standard of other years due to a variety of circumstances the popular reva sheevers could not come and she was the star artist last year reva is absent on an important assignment that could not be broken then another member of the cast was called to the army while still a third artist only a few- nights ago got so drenched in the rain on an outside program that she fell ill and so the mcleods were at wits end to secure fillins however the public must have en joyed the performance as scarcely a person left the arena during the program of two hours or more the lions club hope to net around 100 with which to carry on their child welfare work and are grate ful for the splendid support given them by townspeople and outsiders alike folks had a day of enjoyment for which in these days of strain they are the better while at the same time they have done a service for democrac few pupils write on entrance exams fourteen pupils wrote on the en trance examination at stouffville centre last thursday and friday and sixteen others wrote at lemonville principal c e watson presided at the latter place while the local classes were under the eye of prin cipal l c murphy of the high school staff the number who write the en trance since there is a chance to get through on term work is so small that some of these centres could he discontinued thirty pupils could easily he accommodated in most any school which is the total of these two centres this year the funeral of mrs isaac j walder to heise hill cemetery on friday afternoon completed the last act in a life that had been lived in an interesting way for s2 years for over 50 years the late mrs walder and her husband who died a number of years ago did a huck stering business at richmond hill and it was a hard task with remun eration small mrs walder before her marriage was matilda ann shirk daughter of pioneer parents to richmond hill district mr and mrs adam shirk to her marriage were horn four children of whom two survive the aged mother being mrs fred banks on the sth concession of markham and a son lnverne walder at red- ridge ontario imrs walder died at the brier- hush in stouffville following a long illness the remains were taken to the home of her daughter mrs banks from which place the funer al took place russel and henry captains at raising nearly 175 men gathored for the barn raising last week on the farm of harvey burkholder on no 7 highway when the seven bents were rushed up in record time with no serious accidents or incidents to report russel grove and henry miller were the two captains of which the grove workers got their side up first and were able to rush to the fine supper prepared by the ladies just a little ahead of the miller group it is expected that a similar event will be held shortly when the frame will he raised on the joe gould farm right across from lliirkholders and which building was flattened by the same storm that demolished tho rturkholdcr superstructure