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page two the tribune stouftville ont thursday december 5 1940 sty tmrfftrilh sjribim established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association issued every thursday at stouffville ontario eight to ten pages average circulation 1400 subscription rates per year in advance in canada 200 in usa 250 a v nolan jp- editor and publisher editorial comment digging too deep is no help to crop have you ever argued about the proper depth plowing should be done the writer has done so on more than one occasion but we were always beaten out because the argu ment with our better half now comes a bit of information that will be of interest to many of our readers because most of them are interested in plowing the publicity dept of the dominion department of agriculture had this to say last week concerning this question little or no difference in yield of crops following different depths of ploughing has been observed in an ex periment carried out over a long period of years by the field husbandry division central experimental farm ottawa comparing the yield of crops from land ploughed 7 inches and 4 inches deep respectively ploughing at the two depths has been done following corn and timothy in a rotation of corn oats clover and timothy tax the merchants and remove the snow the unhearalded snow storm which made motor traffic very bad on our main street business section recalls the fact that every winter there is more or less trouble about keeping the roadway free for motor cars in the busi ness section indeed the councils are cussed and condemned because they do not remove the snow on the other hand the councils frequently rebel because they do not want to spent the tax payers money and so there is a deadlock some consideration should be given to doing a better job over business section of the street and to meet the cost a special frontage tax might be levied against the business firms who would likely willingly pay a reasonable share of the cost we hope the new council for 1941 whoever they may be will not longer delay solving this issue yea it might well be done by the present incumbents of the office apple juice now popular beverage apple juice has made tremendous gains in popularity as a canadian beverage this is due in part to advertising and also to the improved quality of the juice being offered for sale this quality has been enhanced by improvements in methods of processing and containers so that now apple juice is conveniently available in attractive bottles as well as in several sizes of cans people are drinking more apple juice not only because they are told that it is nutritious but because they like it considerable research by several agencies and in vestigators has contributed to the production of better quality juice improved methods of selecting and handling the fruit deaeration and flash pasteurizing of the juice have all assisted in producing a fine flavoured apple juice of good keeping qualities advancements in the treatment of tin can for use with apple juice have also been beneficial while it is now possible to give the public a really good apple drink additional research is still desirable pres ent methods of manufacture may be further improved with a view to producing not only a uniformly attractive and appetizing apple juice but one in which the maximum nutritive properties have been retained the government gives and takes away the ontario government is gradually withdrawing its otherwise splendid support given the municipalities in help ing them pay their annual local taxes everybody hailed with satisfaction the announcement a few years ago when mr hepburn decided to rebate a mill and a half of the tax rate of every municipality then this was dropped a year ago to one mill and it will be the same for this current year of 1940 however it is worth noting that the government this year has scaled down the public school grants to the extent of about one half a mill so that in the case of stouffville we are not receiving very much from queens park less than 350 to be exact it works out this way the government is rebating us one mill on the general tax rate amounting to around 630 at the same time the government reduced our public school grant by 309 which must be passed on to the tax payers if secondary school grants should be reduced correspondingly with public school grants then stouffville would be deprived completely of any benefit from the gasoline tax rebate the government had aimed at giving us a buyalhomc christmas christmas is just four weeks away and already stouffville store keepers are preparing to eater to the gift needs of the people of this town and district stouffville has some of the finest stores you would wish to shop in and prices are well down to those offered in larger places it is vital to the progress of any community that its citizens buy the bulk of their purchases at home so that they may eventually find their way from one to the other watch for the advertising of your local merchant and if he offers suitable ideas then patronize him after all it is really up to the merchant to hold the business at home for the majority of people will not go elsewhere if the home merchant offers equally attractive goods as the city stores that recruit from out west is awful stubborn estate of h w fleury almost a half million many generous bequests miule the probated value of the estate of exmayor herbert w fleury aurora manufacturer who died last month was 42070289 mr pleury who was a son of the founder of the fleurybissel co of elora and aurora was a director of the com pany until a few years ago when ho retired from active life in the busi ness world the estate is made up of 31s6- 50 ol personal effects book debts and promissary notes total 67554- 45 life insurance is 20000 stocks and bonds 20173775 securities 8044825 cash on hand cash in banks 1491028 miscellaneous is valued at 2000096 his daughter miss marguerite pleury resident in prance who last visted aurora in 1939 is bequested an income of 5000 per year a house here house furnishings and other personal effects william e pleury and elinor m pleury a nieco and nephew are left certain stocks and bonds imrs blanche e macdonnell housekeep er to receive the income on 20000 certain other friends and employees receive cheques of varying amounts on the death of miss marguerite pleury s0000 is to be divided equally among several nieces and nephews and onehalf of the resi due goes to his brother william j pleury while the other half goes to the persons entitled under the de- voutions of estates act as if i had died intestate always noted for his charity in death mr fleury made notable charitaple bequests the royal on- taric museum receives his french inlaid secretary a notable piece of unique furniture the salvation army social service department muskoka hospital for consumptives and york county hospital each re ceive 1000 the aurora war mem orial association ot which the de ceased was chairman also receives a like amount bequests of 500 go to the hospital for sick children the home for incurables toronto the orange true blue and orange homo elgin mills and uie aurora cemetery company executors named are his brother william j fleury harold l steele and the national trust company so licitors for the executors are mcjmas- ter montgomery and fleury ooenaeal mall somewhere in england october 21 1940 dear mom dad i in your letter you said septem ber was nearly gone and now i can safely say october is nearly gone how are you all feeling i hope the very best as 1 sure am myself yes i see all kinds of airlights and have heard all kinds of bombs in fact i hear one whistling right now i had one drop about 10 feet from me en saturday night i went up to epsom to a show and missed the last bus it left at 10 pm and i had to walk s miles back to camp there are no cars running at night during airraids and they last all night when i reached epsom race track i heard this shrill whistle so i flopped down in the middle of the road i thought it was never going to land and i didnt think it was going to land so close to me as luck would have it it was a da delay ed action or time bomb well if you ever wanted to see anyone run a mile in nothing flat you should have seen me some friends i known in london had their office bombed the other night and they had to move to croydon on last tuesday night that office was flattened to the ground and all the records and everything lost three weeks ago we had a german plane brought down almost in our back yard but it was burned so badly i could not get any souvenirs from it the tribune arrives every week and i read every word from back to front yes you can send me socks any time you like for if i cant use them some of the other lads can must close now for i have to gel up at am imorley pugh 4sth highlanders forsyths marionettes in stouffville dec 23rl halifax chronicle nova scolln it is a breathtaking sidetickling business into which is packed an in finite variety of fun if you havent seen forsyths imarionettes you havens seen the nova scotia pro vincial exhibition send the tribune to absent friends old soldi kit learns new trick hon 1 i ralston minister of national defence is shown hero as he tried a bren machine gun during a recent training camp visit col ralston a veteran of the last war took a delight in try ing the new weapon farmers should be o baco board york county council tells mac- kenzii kinji packers have un fair itacket on horned cattle york county council has appeal ed to prime minister mackenzie king and his cabinet to give farm ers of this country adequate repre sentation on the federal bacon board reeve leslie cockburu who moved the resolution declared the board was cluttered with represen tatives from meat packing houses farmers he said had received a bad deal in the bacon trade and there was increasing dissatisfaction throughout the country farmers are as patriotic as any other true britisher he said in fact we would gladly give all our produce to great britain free of cost if the government would assure us of a fair living but we wont tolerate unfair treatment from packing industries council appointed mr cockburn to investigate insurance and other charges to farmers shipping stock to large stock yards there are plenty of injustices in the present system of charges de clared reeve cockburn take for instance the charge on horns if an animal has horns the farmer is docked one dollar per head this extra charge is made on the ground the animal might injure other ani mals but it other animals are in jured the stockyards immediately collect insurance they collect twice at the expense of the farmer reeve cockburn contended that approximately 80000 was collected from horn fees in toronto within the past year in western canada that money is used in the interest of farmers but not in ontario we get nothing in return reeve f j macrae wondered if it would be possible to operate a customs killing of beef in toronto some place a farmer could have his beef killed and sold directly to the retailer this might break the combine reeve wright thought it would be a losing proposition agricultural representatives wa cockburn reported that farms throughout york county had been given the tb test and the area was tb restricted a test was made in 1936 and 155 pc of the animals showed positive reaction he said in 1938 only one per cent showed positive reaction and the county now is al most free from the disease we are very proud of this accomplishment reeve vogelman of new toronto wanted to know whether there was a labor shortage on county farms and whether relief labor was of any use there is a decided shortage of labor on the farms replied mr cockburn the department of edu cation however is considering plans to line up youths under mili tary age for farm work this will be a great help well have you singing e like you to leave our station with a smile on your lips a song in your heart and we think weve got what it takes we work awful fast yet we fuss over your radiator oil tires windshield as if they were our own weve got those satis faction giving shell products too and that with us on the job means happier driving for you try us and see 5r service station business directory medical dr s s ball physician and surgeon xray office cor obrien and mela phone 196 coroner for york county dental e s barker lds ddls honor graduate of royal college of dental surgeons and of tia university of toronto office in grublns block phone 8201 markham every tuesdr office in wear block dr j f weatherill office over bank of commcm office hours 9 to 12 noon and 130 to 530 fja phone office phone reeldtoe 180 18002 claremont every tuesdcgr office over bakers store phone claremont 1401 a c kennedy chiropractor church street stouffr monday wednesday frldayi 9 to 12 am insurance see h o klinck obrien avei t your insurance needs in- fire life automobile bjrrtfcrs and all casualty lines thomas birkett general insurance ageacy representing reliable companies includtaf lloyds of london englaai phone stouffville 25902 a c burkholder insurance canada life assurance os -also- automobile and fire harry m spang representative empire wee insurance oo also mutual automobile insurance telephone 6616 stouffville ontario barristers office phone residence pfcon 3160 3514 arthur w s greer barrister solicitor notary pontic 6 king street east oshawa ontario resident partner branch office wcpollardkc port perry uxbrldge ontario phone is r g clendening funeral director ambulance service phone markham 9000 l e oneill stouppvoilie funeral dntector and embalmer continuous telephone service day and night business phone residence pass stouffville marble granite works orders promptly executed p tarr proprietor phone 4303 brierbush hospital government licensed main street east stouffville maternity medical and surgical cases taken ambulance service registered nurses and 24 hour service mrs e r good phone 191