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oyer 5000 readers copies this issue 1525 largest circulating weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twps vol 53 xo 42 stouffville ontario thursday february 27 1941 eight pages oshawa barrister sues pickering township on two counts back in stouffville after 25 years an interesting court case is scheduled for hearing at division court in brougham next week when imr ha newman kcis suing the township of pickering for damages totalling 4627 newman ownes a farm in the township and on item no 1 lie alleges the municipality felled two trees in front of liis property without his permission or consent for this he asks 15 damages item no2 on the lisfis a charge of 31 which mr newman is asking from the council for allegedly hav ing assessed his farm this amount as arrearages on hydro power supplied his cottage in rural sections arrears are liable to be assessed against the property and collected in the same manner as general taxes this it is reported was done but mr new man claims it was not in regular manner and thus the matter will he threshed out before the division court judge bac on the job mr james ridout is assisting in the kitchens at the dig munitions plant at nobel northern ontario although one of our retired citizens jim couldnt sit around when he knew there was work to be done and a scarcity of the right kind of help to do it thousands of meals are prepared daily at the nohel works mr ridout was at this kind of work during the last war hut of course he has been an experienced man in tile culinary department for many many years more petty thieving at gormley several cases of theft in a small way has been reported from gorm ley over a period of years the latest occurrence heing t last saturday morning when a thief entered the general store of s n doner around 2 oclock and got away with 900 in money and possibly a few small articles entrance was gained through the coal chute then by the removal of a glass to get into the mafil cellar after which a door was forced to the new egg grading standards to r get into the store be invoked next month advises the when the cat locked in the cellar press that they intend to be ready was freed by the robber it made directly up to the living quarters and aroused a member of the fam ily who while never suspecting any thing wrong probably frightened egggrading station to be established ratcliff co one of the first firms to apply for a license under although born in stouffville and raised in this district oscar yake never returned to his native abode for 25 years until he arrived in town on sunday and went direct to the home of his parents mr and mrs harmon yake east of town oscar has been living in the mather dis trict of manitoba where he is farm ing mr yake married mable gould daughter of mr and mrs james gould of itingwood and now retired in aurora mr and mrs yake have a family of eight or nine children one son murray now being in the army and strtioned in toronto naturally they both couldnt leave home at the one time during his few weeks visit at the old home with his parents sisters and brother oscar yake hopes to meet scores of old friends free avar stamps carswells store in stouffville is helping to promote the sale of war stamps through an idea to be carried out in the big store during the month of march with every pur chase of 5c or over the customer will be given a coupon and for every 5 in coupons a war saving stamp will be given absolutely free you are in vited to read the display adv in this issue put out by the carsweli firm former pastor and his wife celebrate golden wedding at their home in toronto neighbors rally to restore village smithy shop i with a fully equipped department in the ratcliff block to handle eggs under the government standard this calls for a separate room kept at a stated coolness at all times said the thief off when getting up to put room must have its entrance from the cat away the outside and not form part of any other business in order to comply with these re- investigators tracked the lone gent but not quite to his lair this is one of several pilfering quirements irtttcliffs will equip acts around gormley over a period their egg station in the basement of of years on more than one occasion the building with an entrance off small change lias been stolen from mill street the mbc church councillors wife is recovering mrs herman kidd wife of a whitchurch township councillor is convalesing following an operation in a toronto hospital since leaving the hospital mrs kidd is staying at the home of her son edgar in rich mond hill prior to returning to her home north of ballantrae 18sm 1041 rev and mrs robert barbour who celebrated their golden wed ding anniversary at their home 14 grey and haldimand counties before taking the prineipalship of petrolia public schools after six years there he left for knox college his first cwts members in manoeuvre on markham hills work for munitions plant gets underway shellfilling factory will be or frame construction mi 2000 acres to be finished by fall with the navy actual construction work on the s 000 000 shellfilling plant located pickering township started on monday morning of this week by carterilallaidinged co of toron- wliom the general contract has een awarded by the department of munitions and supply men on the grounds at the present ime are erecting office buildings and started excavating this week there las been no completion date set as et but it is expected that the plant vill be finished by early fall the new plant will consist mostly if frame type buildings and will ake in over 2000 acres it is csti- nated 4000 omployes will bo need- d and registrations aro now being aken at the oshawa government mpioynient bureau other employ- nent offices will be opened at pick- ring later survey of the district for labor urposes is being made by the iovernment and immediate roquire- lents will include 150 carpenters nd 200 laborers demolition of irm buildings is to he started as oon as they are vacated with own- rs heing given to march 31 to get ut contract has been let for fencing surround the 3000 acres and rrangements have been made to ipply 6000 hp from an eastern ydro point high tension lines to shawa have been prepared for the ddltionil load and building of the tenon line to the plant will be ar 1 in the near future the plant will be known as the hied war supplies corporation and vi dave jack of stouffville son of lmrs maude jack who is now in training with the royal canadian navy ditche on 8t con mr andy forsyth who with his mother moved from his place of resi dence on the loth concession recent ly escaped with only a good shaking up when his light roadster left the sth concession of markham on wed nesday night and landed up against the east fence the accident occurred just opposite harvey moyers gate where a big snow drift had partially blocked the road and apparently threw andys car out of control the forsyths wore returning to the city after an evenings skating in town two below zero with a high wind 111 111 shells made in other ontario made tuesday morning one of the jams and fit them with fuses i severest of the winter young women of the canadian womens transport service invaded the snowcovered hills of markham township friday to test their theoretical knowledge of mapread ing in a practical way the girls who drive for the ired cross were dressed for the army manoeuvres in ski outfits and were equipped with compasses maps and protractors thus armed they set out to spot imaginary enemy mach ine gun nests caches of ammunition and enemy forces they went about their work with all the enthusiasm of a fighting army they divided into two groups with ellen cope instructor in mapread ing in charge of one and lance- corpora i f mcdermott in charge of the other the girls have been tak ing lectures on mapreading for several weeks past but this was the first time they had an opportunity to put their knowledge to a practical test some of the young ladies w on skis prepared to utilize them as stretchers should the emergency arise by proper use of their com passes they were able to determine a position to which they were or dered to advance blythwood road toronto on 16 mr and imrs barbour are widely known throughout ontario mr barbour came from ardrossan ayrshire scotland at the age of twelve and entirely by his own work and energy he carved his car eer his mother died the first year after coming to canada mrs bar bour is a native of huron county her parents had two pioneer exper iences first as children when her grandfather was given a grant of land in peterborough county in 1s32 by the crown for military ser vice done in the old land and second when as young people they went to the huron bush in 1s55 mrs barbour is very proud of this back ground which developed in genuity independence and solidity feb j pastoral charge was at stouffville where he laboured eight years he then took charge of meaford presby terian church where they sfpent ten years then followed pastorates at gores landing and in eastern ontario mr barbour was especially successful in inspiring and develop ing struggling boys no labour was too great for him he was in the active ministry until he reached the age of seventy three and has spent the last eight years of his life in toronto mrs barbour was active in all branches of church and neighbor hood work especially the missionary and young peoples societies she was president of owen sjbund wms presbyterial but resigned when she was elected vice president of the ontario provincial wms which of character fifty years ago nearly office she held for ten years this all schools were manned by men office took her to all the cities and who for the most part made school- most of the towns in ontario where teaching a stepping stone to other her platform and organizing ability vocations when they earned and was in demand she was vice presi- saved the money for further study dent of bay of quinte conference mr barbour taught school in bruce branch after union the ring of the blacksmiths anvil j may be heard once more around the hamlet of gormley following the disastrous fire which destroyed the shop and contents of george fishers sensing the terrific loss of a mans lifetime accumulation the neigh bors gathered at the charred site of the old smithy shop and within live days restored the premises so that an even better shop than heretofore stands as a memorial to the fine class of people who live in the neighborhood norman brown was overseas and the twenty or more willing workers toiled faithfully un der his direction since the shop is put hack in new form mr fisher is gathering a kit of new tools for everything was al most a total loss and the fire insur ance was pitifully small this week as a result of this pion eer help and his own endeavour the old shop is going full steam and patrons may expect the old time service from the village smithy at the corner of gorniley and third conces sion of whitchurch mr and mrs fisher are deeply grateful for the wonderful help ex tended to them and have asked this paper to make their appreciation known to the friends in the district markham farmer wins carnival calf high costs cutting into baking profits incrrjisc moan in processing tax woulrt higlui ijrcjul prices honor longservice secretary in recognition of her many years of service as secretary of the womans association of the united church mrs i h cook was pre sented with an address and presen tation at the home of mrs w h shaw on tuesday evening mrs h w sanders made the presentation on behalf of the gathering convey ing to mrs cook the appreciation of her long service and the esteem in which she is held the gift was a lovely table lamp mrs cook was visibly taken by rpriso il said she could scarcely find word to express her feeling under s circumstances she said that while her term as secretary had ended she being succeeded by mrs ted cadleux she hoped to always continue to work as heretofore for the advancement of the w a increase in the wheat processing tax at the present session of-parlia- ment reported in prospect would inevitably bring a rise of at least one cent a loaf in bread prices through out canada is the opinion of the fin ancial post proposals now before the govern ment at ottawa contemplate a fur ther 35cent increase in the pro cessing tax there is also the pros pect that the base wheat price will rise to s5 cents the bakers point out that since the original 15 cent processing tax was imposed the price of wheat has risen approximately s cents a bushel addition of a further 7cent increase in wheat prices plus a further 35 cents processing tax means 50 cents a bushel over and above the level at the time the original processing tax was introduced in terms of a barrel of flour this means an increase of approximately j230 per barrel since standard practice nets about iso loaves from each barrel a price increase of more than l cent per loaf would he justi fied mr ambrose stover proprietor of stouffville bakery has for many months realized the steady en croachments of increased costs on the fractional profit per loaf he has told the press that very soon the in crease of one cent per loaf would be inevitable the margin of profit he says is gone in the case of a large baking establishment such as canada bread figures presented last year by presi dent c h carlisle showed that at that time actual profit on a loaf of bread was approximately one quar ter of a cent a loaf this profit has now been more than wiped out it is claimed by the fact that bakers i have been forced to hear the present 15 per cent processing tax actually there is now no prohibi tion against an increase in bread prices if an increase in price can be shown to be justified there is nothing to prevent the wartime prices and trade control board from granting the increase ballantrae and reach qualify for finals reach hockey team having defeated uxbridge in a whirlwind game of the intercounty league at uxbridge on tuesday night by a score of 7 to s will now meet ballantrae in the finals best three out of five first game this friday night at uxbridge rink ballantrae look for fast hockey and recognize their opponents are travelling full speed on tuesday the score that won reach the right to meet ballantrae was 44 76 and s7 at the end of each stanza a pair ofjwooden skates over 100 years old and the draw for a jersey calf and a holstein calf featured thj big carnival in markham villajge last friday night for which event over 1000 tickets were sold pro fits were all devoted to the telegram war victims fund the live stock was donated for lucky draws in which every ticket holder had a stake the lucky win ners were jim maynard 7th con cession markham whose tickets took the jersey while allen winder of weston drew the holstein being a town man and therefore not know ing the difference between a holstein and a black minorca the lad from weston elected to take 5 in lieu of the calf there was a long list of prizes offered by the merchants of mark ham village for winners in the various entries in costume for which mrs cumen of markham miss mar- go wilson of green river and mr a v nolan of stouffville acted as judges reeve o b hisey officiated as announcer mr j w warriner was award ed the prize for the oldest man skating he wore a pair of old rockers made by his father long years ago and used by him in his day the steel runners were made from two common files both the man and the skates drew the inter est of the crowd mr jim hunter your talking re porter reached the scone of the carnival about 10 oclock and took up a ifew minutes before the micro phone in behalf of the war victims fund births iv on at hamilton on february 21 1941 to mr and mrs victor paxton a son bunker at goodwood on thurs day february 20th to mr and mrs harvey e bunker nee vorna maye a daughter mcciillougli at the briorbush hospital stouffville on sunday february 23rd 1941 to mr and mrs donald mcculiough rr3 claremont a baby sister frances and jimmy soldikhs cojifort fund have you secured your ticket on now on show in the window of carswells store tickets 10c each or 3 for 25c all money raised for this quilt goes to provide comforts for local boys on active service and is sponsored by stouffville war veterans worlds day of prayer the annual worlds day of pray er to be observed this friday feb 28 should have a real meaning this year with the great titanic struggle at its furry in stouffville the women will convene in the united church at 3 pm the speaker will be mrs decourcy rayner and mrs claude brillinger will render special solo numbers dorset horn sheep were recently shipped by jos betz of clover leaf farm mongolia to buyers in far away saskatchewan and to a btiy- for or at desbarates in the lake superior district