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oyer 5000 readers tibttne copies this issue 1500 larsest circulating weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twps vol 53 no 18 stouffville ont thursday august 29th 1940 eight pages domestic hydro rate will be reduced street lamps also cut from 13 to 11 per lamp the charge for street lamps is to be reduced to 1100 per lamp per year instead of the present rate of 13 if the recommendation of the on tario hydro is carried out there are about 100 street lamps in addition the council on monday evening refunded 532 from the hydro account to the general account of the village this was an accummulated surplus made by the hydro last year the commission also advised a reduction in rates- to be effective with the next billing the domestic rate will be cut from 3c per kw for the first 60 hours to 28 and the second rate from 21 to 11 the commercial rate shows a slight down trend from 26 to 25 while power rates are shad ed up just a fraction no issue of the tr s 3 in accordance with our usual custom and the prac tice of most weekly papers the tribune will take a holiday next week and there will be no issue of the paper on september 3rd the office will be open for urgent job printing but the next paper will not be published until thursday september 10 continues record earl cook local baseball pro duct now with buffalo bisons has really carved for himself a nitch in baseballs hall of fame this season on tuesday night earl pitched his 8th successive win defeating montreal 54 this is also his fourteenth win of the year fragments of german bombers litter england interest growing for flower show sept 5 o the directors are hoping that i annual drumhead every householder will get be- ccdwit cum ccdt jfckykb jun jfcrl1 hind the coming horticultural society show to be held in the arena on thursday sept 5 one day only instead of two as in other years first of all if you have any thing to exhibit at all do not fail to make an entry it all adds so much to the general display winning a prize in one thing supporting the show is quite another get hold of a prize list at once and plan your entries early the evening program this year is outstanding for there has been secured the lyric male choir and youre going to en joy them in the arena says president andy williams with the fair confined to one day it is hoped everybody will set aside the date and the second annual drum head service will be held on sunday september 1 at 2 pm st all veterans of the dis trict are asked to attend meet at the westend at 115 parade will move off at 130 all veter ans not with their own units will march with the york coun ty veterans lt col sydney e lambert will be the speaker the public is also cordially in vited to attend this service at 2 pm col sydney e lam bert padre of christie street hospital will be the speaker a collection will be taken to help side sheered from gray coach bus in midnight collision about midnight on satur day a gray coach lines bus with our regular stouffville-to- toronto driver harry bridges at the wheel sideswipped a standing truck belonging to roy tindall the truck was parked in front of the residence of miss gertrude todd facing west and the driver of the bus coming from the east struck the rearend of the big rack it was said that his vision had been obscured by the head lights of a car that passed him just before the impact the bus one of the old style had the entire side completely sheered off leaving a big gap ing opening to the seats fortunately there were no passengers aboard no one was in the truck which escaped be ing smashed up and apparent ly suffered little damage this is the scene after one raid by german bombers had passed over a southeast coast town in britain the wreckage p of one dormer of goerings air battleships i the rest of which is fend a british tommy stands guard over the nacelle and pro- bomber littered strews the english countryside and blazing fragments british pilots had to fight their wuy through swarms of protecting fighters to get this bomber one of the hundreds who have ended their mission of destruction by being themselves destroyed defray expenses of this service co i all over expenses will be given along and enjoy the flowers and j to the local branch of the red the extra program cross village and township clerks register guns clock has marked time in markham twp since 1804 the necessary license papers are expected to be in the hands of all village and township constables this week for regis tering guns and other firearms for long enough it has been compulsory to register revol vers which was done by local abiiah jones stricken following a stroke suffered last saturday abijah jones 84yearold resident of altona was admitted to the brierbush hospital on monday enquiry wednesday noon elicited the j fact that his condition is not police officers the new ruling j regarded as serfousand gives the authority to the mun icipal clerks covering shot guns and rifles over 1000 officials in ontario have been authorized by attor neygeneral conant to accept registration of shotguns and rifles which under a dominion government ruling must be registered before sept 15 the queens park move is designed to inconvenience gun owners as little as possible in many townships and vill ages mr conant said police officials designated would not be conveniently available so clerks of townships and villages have been empowered to accept reg istration the officials includ 175 chief constables 716 township and village clerks two high county constables chief constables of certain villages forest hill long branch swansea hum- berstone delhi and fergus 101 members of the provincial police in the 12 unorganized dis- provement has been shown the last day or two do not neglect school registering all students for stouffville public and continuation schools are expected to report next tuesday sept 3 for registra tion after which school will be dismissed for one week open ing for regular classes on mon day sept 9 do not think that because there will only be registration the first day it does not matter whether you report or not this is incorrect it is urgently im pressed on parents that the children be on hand to register and in the continuation school the necessity is even more apparent if it is really impossible to attend on sept trie of zrmb and renfrew time and see that he hf name recorded in haliburton counties an auction sale which holds more than ordinary interest will be held on thursday sept 12 on the farm of henry hoov er at corner of the 6th con cession of markham and whit church townline the executors of his fathers estate are arranging for the sale of the property and mr hoover in tends to give up housekeeping which means that many antiques on this place for a century or more will pass over the auction block interviewed by the tribune mr hoover said i hesitate to leave the old home where i was born nearly 82 years ago yes my father was born here early in the 18th century mr hoovers father died on the farm about 12 years ago and he was in his 96th year among the antiques to be offered and sold is a grand father clock that henry hoov ers grandfather brought to this very farm in the year 1804 when he came over from pennsylvania it may be cen turies old for it was orginally brought in a sailing vessel from the old land by the pilgrims who sought a home in the new world as an escape from mili tary oppression and for the right to worship as the dictates of conscience directed this grandfather clock is a key wind and keeps excellent time it is known as an eight- day clock but will run ten days with one winding such relics as this are very scarce and should attract more than ordin ary interest the tribune reaches iceland pte clarence wideman writes to friends in markham from iceland to say that since his arrival there he has not recived any letters although the tribune sent by friends had reached there many of his court dismisses accident case the case against john bruce of stouffville charged with dangerous driving and bad friends we learn have written brakes as a result of an accident him so that letters should ulti mately arrive satisfactory glad to receive a report from clar ence some time telling of life in the north atlantic one hundred acre farm is sold this week frank bruels sold his 100 acre farm at lot 35 concession 6 whitchurch to milton gilham of ringwood who will take possession this fall mr bruels purchased the place from archie mitchell 18 months ago the sale is also re ported of the gilham farm at ringwood to a mr heise of toronto and formerly of gormley on april 20 when george davies of musselmans lake was injured was dismissed by court at newmarket on tues day the evidence was all taken a week before and magistrate woodliff reserved judgment one week mr davies is in the hos pital again for further treat- 1 ment this week and could not be present when judgment was j the new wheat arrives at local elevators no 1 wheat must tip scales at 60 pounds to bushel new wheat is arriving at the elevator of stiver bros and up to yesterday the firm had re- shipped two car loads out un der consignment by the can adian wheat board only about one third of the new crop so far sold has graded no 1 most of it going no 2 and some even no 3 which weighs only 55 pounds to the bushel no 1 grade must tip the scales at 60 pounds this standard which is two pounds per bushel over a year ago is set by the wheat board the price of wheat is also set by the board at 55c per bushel for best grade it is not expect ed that prices will soar very high for grain this fall while no barley has reached elevator so far here it is eightyone years on same farm rendered j anticipated that the quality will at the previous hearing mr be very poor but on the other davies testified that about hand oats will be excellent twenty minutes to two on the there has been none offered for morning of april 20th he desale to the local elevator yet continued on page s stiver bros report tabernacle meetings continue to be popular ias your i i0ne o win the ladies mixed bowling tournament in stouffville last friday night was greeted with weather so cool that men went for their woollens and then complained of the cold it had a bad effect on the number of entries too for only one out side rink turned up and that came from agincourt it was rewarded by taking home first prize gordon lemons rink won second and besides its skip was composed of l c murphy mrs george storey and mrs carl boadway third prize to cliff piphers rink andy williams mrs las ratcliff mrs w i griffiths in failing health for several years although always about his farm at baker hill sylvanus baker passed away on wednes day in his 81st year it is an interesting fact to learn that mr baker was born on the place and spent all hjs life there he was a son of the late jonathan baker pioneer farmer of whit church mr baker was a suc cessful farmer and married mary ann mcdowell who sur vives him two sons passed away in recent years also an only brother gideon there sur vives besides his wife one grandchild miss jean baker mr baker was widely known and took an active interest in lawn bowling being a member of the stouffville club for some years two years ago the large barn on the homestead was burned down and mr baker had a new one erected actively working about the job during its construction the funeral on friday after noon was largely attended rev c e mcleod and rev e morton conducting the service the remains were laid to rest in the baker hill cemetery on the farm pall bearers were messrs oliver harding bert baker eugene baker walter gray alex ratcliff harry j baker great crowds nightly c tinue to flock to the tabernacle meetings in the arena with of course the sunday services surpassing all others in point of numbers last sunday afternoon by a show of hands it was found that no less than thirtyone outside places were represented and these as far away as orangeville woodbridge stay- ner kitchener collingwood owen sound and dundalk all here especially for this meeting the messages delivered by rev mr beery are very effec tive he is a pleasing speaker his sermons convincing and entirely free from the sen sational emotional type of evangelist some of us have listened to the effort put forth by mr beery will live long in the lives of many people who nightly listen to his voice the cleveland colored quar tette retains their old popular ity as a great musical aggre gation and the way the crowds throng to hear them and the speaker must be very gratify ing to the visitors perhaps bro lacey has be come a little more proficient in his ability to convince the folk down in the seats that it is their duty to give liberally at collection time in fact his appeals are most interesting and effective why about the second or third night he had people all over the place holding up a hand signifying their willingness to give a dollar in one slap to help along the laudable work that must of necessity have liberal financial support in order to progress we have it on good authority that one of the chaps from up in the township who held up his hand is a well known in veterate tobacco chewer who is in the habit of taking the squid from his mouth and sticking it in the rim of his hat just like the boys used to stick their gum on the bottom of the desk at school when the tobacco is thoroughly dry this fellow reclaims it from his hat and smokes it in his pipe and thats not all for he afterwards uses the ashes for snuff for a man with such a miserable habit to give bro lacey a dol lar must have felt something strangely stirring in his inner conscience the tabernacle meetings con tinue every night this week and three meetings next sunday then on monday night as a clos ing farewell there will be what is known as quintette night the singers promise something very special and all the request numbers you ask for