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oyer 5000 readers largest circulating weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twps copies this issue 1460 vol 53 no 26 the tribune stouffville ont thursday nov 7th 1940 ten pages record entry list for local plowing match although rain fell throughout much or the day the entry list for the north york plowing match held on the farms of edw logan and w w jacobs just north of hingwood saw almost a record entry list for any of the 17 years the association has functioned there were 60 com petitors the banquet served by the womens institute of stouffville was well patronized and constituted an other record crowd for this affair silver cup for the best plowed land in the match went to ed tim- bes of milliken and was presented by reeve james rennie of markham and the prize for the youngest plow men was won by garnet gray a lad of 10 years the salada tea special entitling the holder to enter a special competition at next years provincial contest near peterborough went to wilfred ferguson the allischalmers special went to bob timbers and two massey harris specials to e evans of maple and e timbers milliken other prize winners openclass jointer in sod ed timbers milliken ross marquis sunderland d j trail atha sorman jarvis agincourt e gray rock wood best crown timbers finish marquis jointer sod green class ray ferguson stouffville l mclnnis ben tapscott milliken b wylie oakvvood m emmerson stouffville grown ferguson finish mclnnis open class stubble no handling m haines goodwood floyd steckley stouffville ron imarquis sunderland jim lee greenback crown steckley finish haines stubble class for those neves- winning a prize in this class l smith gormley howard thaxter uxbridge roy smith gormley r livingstone woodbridge howard haines goodwood crown smith stubble boys 14 and under gar net wells lemonville dan hall lemonville h timbers unionville garnet ftae stouffville crown wells finish hall tractor in sod 2 furrow plovs e evans maple alex logan stouffville j eccles brampton j trail atha crown and finish evans tractor in stubble 3 furrow h jarvis donalda farms r grafton brampton h pugh stouffville john hall stouffville earl hoover markham crown and finish jarvis boys tractor class in stubble under 15 years robert timbers stouffville allen wells lemonville carl mix sharon rae kennedy uxbridge a fleming turkeys lifted from markham farm cleaning up after the show frank stiver reports the theft on i sunday night of four plump turkeys j from his farm on the 6th concession of markham the thieves were uu- wittingly watched during the whole procedure by mr e stivjr who tells of seeing a car near the place i around daybreak and a man ap parently looking for something he had dropped in the road sensing nothing amiss he did not put in any alarm and not till later did he connect the incident with the theft mr bert carpenter on the staff at rateliffs store for five years is giving up his position there next saturday clerk presents two year term bvlaw on monday evening clerk j s dougherty presented to the village council the necessary bylaw to be voted on at the coming january election if the village is to reject the twoyear term for councils council read over the document and reeve weldon said it could be given two readings at the december meet ing on the first monday in the month when it would then be sub mitted to the ratepayers to vote on i think it is the fairest way said the reeve to let the people de cide the issue personally he said it did not matter to him which way it went but he said that if the rate payers voted on it there could be no dissatisfaction councillor ira rus- nell said he was definitely in favor of taking this course of letting the people decide while councillor brown also declared again in favor of taking the vote councillor delbert holden at the last meeting favored submitting the question and so stated his stand but through illness was not present monday evening councillor silver- thorn didnt offer any comment but wanted to know if submitting the bylaw would mean that we have to take a vote should there be no run mrs ben hare dies at lincolnville lifelong resident of the stouff ville district mrs benjamin hare passed away at her home north of stoufiville at lincolnville in her 7 7th year she had been in declining health for some time and her end was feared to b at hand for some weeks ago death came on sunday november 3rd born on the 9th of whitchurch a daughter of patrick and rachael handrehen early settlers in that locality mrs hare lived with her parents until she was married to mr hare who predeceased her in 192s they had no family but one bother survives airs hare being win handrehen of toronto the late mrs hare was a quiet unassuming woman beloved by those who knew her and respected by all a public service in bloomington cemetery this wednesday after noon preceded the burial ceremony at bloomington cemetery gets councillors goat pte charles limner of the royal canadian regiment who was one of the first boys to enlist from stouff ville councillor harry barber of mark ham township was forced to shoot a billy goat which he keeps on his farm on the 4th concession when the goat and his dog engaged in such a battle that it was necessary to re sort to a load of lead to restore or der the dog while attempting to protect a small child on the verandah was viciously charged by the goat and in the ensuing scuffle was hurled completely through a screen both child and dog were only rescued when mr barber appeared on the scene with a shotgun struck by car leg broken in two places struck by a motor car and suffer ing a fractured leg in two plans as well as nasty facial wounds was the fate of little tttonny mcgrugan on snturday afternoon when he attempted to cross the street it is thought he may have failed to see the oncoming car driven by mr gib merrick of uxbridge who was proceeding cautiously and was able to stop in a car length when he felt the impact the accident happened on main street near obrien avenue ronny is a particularly cautious child but was lurred across the street by the presence of other children on the other side he was given first aid at dr balls then taken to his home at w e mordens where he is bravely bear ing his troubles it can be said for the car driver that had he been travelling at 30 miles an hour the child might easily have been killed and so again the wisdom of cautious driving bears good fruit constable al greenwood investigated the accident but found no reason to lay any charge perhaps you wouldnt recognize him but this is a picture of fred timbers as he cleans his plow after winning the first u s plowing match at davenport iowa he scored 9295 of a possible 110 points to nose out his sixteen other contenders each of whom was a state champion which gave them title to enter the national competition fred timbers won the right to enter by winning the international championship at st thomas which gave him an all- expense free trip to iowa the u s prize was 50 cash 64 years a resident celebrates birthday for council it was explained that the machinery set up to take the annual vote would handle the bylaw as well and should there ne an acclamation ifor council then there would still be the bylaw to vote on mennonites hope to jwo out service approach government regarding nonmilitary service in canada men of young mennonife faith in ontario will likely take on a project of govern ment assistance in the near futuro that will not conflict with their religious views commenting on the decision of a group of alberta mennonites to take training in first aid and ambulance work a member of the military problems committee of the con ference of historic peace churches told the tribune plans have not progressed quite that far in this district means sacrifice however the spokesman said the local nonresistant churches are cooperatlsg with their brethren in the west in placing before the min ister of national war services a plan through which mennonite boys of military age can be called upon to perform service under civilian con- military age of nonresistant faith the project will be designed along such lines that it will involve a sacrifice commensur ate with that which others are call cd upon to make at the present wo are informed that the type of service stipulated by the department will no doubt be in the interest of the general public and perhaps ar rangements can be made whereby such services can he performed without remuneration for the time being admits responsibilities our military problems com mittee the spokesman said is sincere in its desire to recognize the responsibilities of citizenship and it is confident that the depart ment will be able to decide upon some form of service that can ha many local entries at yonge st match win timbers of stouffville judge at many a plowing match this fall in various sections of the province took a turn behind the wheel on his own account at the king vaughan match last friday and although out of practise he carried off first prize in the fancy high cut class unfavorable weather failed to stem the entries which stood at 46 very good for it rained heavy most of the day and the crowd was accordingly small the match was held on the farm of a l mcneil two miles north of highway no 7 at vellore the t eaton co prize and the plowmens trophywent to douglas clublne of woodbridge youngest contestant was george crane 11 of woodbridge who al though failing to win a prize was given honorable mention the only girl in the test was annie walking- ton of king township who captur ed second place in the class for both girls and boys tinder 16 years of age other results were class 1 high cut winfred timbers stouffville lloyd marquis sunderland norman jarvis unionville cless 2 sod ed timbers milliken ross marquis sunderland david tran claremont class 3 joint sod ron marquis sunderland andrew imcclure woodbridge morloy haynes good wood class 4 open stubble roy ferguson stouffville roy smith gormley wilbert welch uxbridge continued on page 2 get chance to petition for long term vote markham kki cross drive xkars objkctive total monies so far received in performed conscientiously be a ben- the latest red cross drive in mark- efit to humanity and at the saniejliani township time uphold the doctrines of on trol that will not conflict with their nonresistant faith now total 1s75 according to a latest report the objective for the township is 2000 if the ratepayers of markham township fail to circulate a petition or petitions to force the council to submit the twoyear term to a vote of the electors on january 6 next that township will automatically be carried into the twoyear term council in session on monday intim ated they would not likely submit the issue to the electors unless such a petition called on them to do so when it becomes mandatory reeve rennie and councillors took the stand that if the ratepayers were interested enough they should get out and obtain the necessary number of signatures or at least some signatures council wouldnt quibble if it was reasonably signed even if not bearing the 5 pc to make a compulsory vote there is still time for a petition to be filed reeve rennie stated and it was decided that a public notice would 12 placed in the local papers stating the wording of the act seven or eight miles of snow fence will be purchased this year by the township amounting to approxim ately 4500 on which the depart ment will pay 50 pm one thousand feet of fence will be placed on the markhamscarboro townline the cost of which will be shared jointly with the ratepayers in addition mr watford has donated the sum of 250 for fence to be placed on his sideroad between the 3rd and the 4 th concessions mr mcquarrie of langstaff inter viewed council regarding the un desirable appearance of some pro perty near the langstaff railway crossing the complainant took exception to some patches of weeds he had seen throughout the muni cipality and took the opportunity to charge the council with some negli gence in their weed inspecting de partment to those complainants reeve rennie replied the department claims markham is one of the clean est municipalities in the province and unless the government sees fit to enact some further legislation re garding the matter nothing further can be done the root of the trouble is lack of cooperation by the landowners stated councillor albert ireesor building in the township during the past month was valued at 6235 according to a report of building in spector walter craig this amount i included a new residence by w b continued on page 8 los an eye j l grove had one of his eyes removed at the womens college hospital in toronto oh monday following an accident about three weeks aigo when his sight was seriously injured mr grove was spraying the hen house on his farm on the 7th concession of markham just north of the dickson hill side- road when the tube broke and the spray material flew with great force into his face damaging his eye so badly that it had to be removed engagemext mr and mrs e w baker of rosedale announce the engagement of their second daughter evelyn rose to alvin buster courte- manche son of mr and mrs a e courtemanche norland the marri age to take place quietly in november a continuous resident of stouff ville for sixtyfour years now imrs henry vanzant last saturday reach ed her soth birthday although not in the best of health she is able to be about her home each day and has with her all the time a daughter mrs kidd friends and neighbors showered mrs vanzant with cards and good wishes last saturday while a number of outoftown friends were here to extend personal greet ings and congratulations they were mr and mrs sam wilson toron to and mrs menzie a daughter al so from the city mr and mrs eby east end were guests for the day mrs eby being a niece of the late henry vanzant this wellknown lady of our town was almost over come with appreciation on being remembered in such a kindly way by so many people and wishes us on her behalf to publicly thank them ail at this time markham dog tax evader m court charles hart of the 4th conces sion of markham appeared in coun ty court on monday where he was charged with failing to pay the township dog tax fined 1 and costs tax collector walter craig an nounced that out of some thirtyfive summonses he had served to delin quent dog owners mr harts was only case not settled out of court scholarly sermons at 99th anniversary two outstanding speakers featur ed the services in stouffville united church last sunday on the occasion of its 48th anniversary of this pre sent edifice but which actually marks the 99th anniversary of the found ing of the congregation it was as far back as 1841 that rev edward sallows a young methodist itiner ant first preached in the old school house and that year he came only on occasions but he did gather together the first congrega tion after twelve years of occasion al services a regular mission was organized with rev cornelius flumerfelt as minister the first building dedicated as a church was the old school house later replaced by a brick building costing 4000 which gave way in 1s92 to present building thus next year the united church in stouffville may well cele brate its 100th congregational anni- verfary last sunday morning rev dr thomas mitchell chose an appro priate subject when he reviewed fome of the historic events of the first church at antloch particularly the missionaries sent out from that ideal church he wondered how things would have gone had paul never heeded the call come over into massedonia and help us dr mitchell said that the church today would have no financial prob lem for all its needs if people learned to give according to their conscience especially in light of the fact that threefourths of the wealth of america is in the hands of the so- called christian people rev john coburn president ot the toronto conference at the evening service again favored the gathering with an instructive and impressive sermon he declared that sickness of modern society or the modern world stood as a challenge to the christian church the world he said is sick politically economic ally and morally the challenge to the church is strong and its oppor tunity great special collection for the day totalled 333 with about 20 givers still to make their donations the choir under direction of miss anne lehman rendered special music the junior band also assist ed at the evening service