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the tribune stouffville ontario thursday february 27th 1941 page three local general news john j lees big public auction today thursday at gormley he is siring up farming the sale opens at one sharp i easter the next holiday season ik considerably later this year than in 1940 ash wednesday the begin ning of lent fell on wednesday fobroary 26th with good friday ike conclusion of the fasting period n april 11th and easter sunday on fha 13th small boys on tho street offering the saturday evening post for sale would not carry the magazine at any price if they understood the un- british articles constantly published in that magazine lenten season commenced yester day dr herbert freel returned on saturday from two weeks spent in new york city the worlds day of prayer will be fittingly observed in stouffville this friday afternoon saturdays big shopping crowd wis not trustful of the weather man hence the majority came to town in the afternoon last week leaving the evening to those who ke on highways not likely to block tp on a moments notice james way electric hover la his new jamesway ventilated electric hover is found the nearest approach to eafare ever found in an electric hover a jaiall motor driven fan ventilating unit in fee top of the- hover draws in fresh- air circulating it across the heating element isd out under the edge of the hover riby chicks under this jamesway hover are provided with fresh warm air at just rfie right temperature to assure healthy kstdy chicks yhz jemriway ventilated electric hover is of iaibte shell type with heavy copper bearing gal- roztd metal covered on underside with- 23 inch tnufetion the hover is supported by six sturdy legs sope pulley and counterweight make it possible to wise or lower the hover easily and quickly when impended- from the ceiling thermostatic control yrlot light removable thermometer and small glass kkaoow ere conveniently located on instrument maeton- oubide of hover the heating element coniits of a 500 watt thcrmo controlled ring heater suspended from underside of hover stop irvsrid let ui show you this remarkable hover wc lso carry a complete line of jamesway baby diicfc equipment including the jamesway oil burn ing brooder stove the worlds best and fastest idling brooder sec your dealer okksons hill mills phone 263 hector pollard calls our attention to the fact that he was only in town two hours and not days last week enroute from toronto to fenelon falls not a serious matter but the formerkeeper of correct timeteels his old friends may wonder why he didnt look them up if he had been in town two days now they know k c ager and berkinshaw general man- treasurer of goodyear tire rubber co of canada has been drafted for the post of directorgen eral of the priorities branch of the department of munitions and sup ply mr berkinshaw has been with the goodyear company since 1920 when he joined the legal depart ment he is well known in stouff- viile in masonic circles where he has been a frequent visitor of recent years employers of labor before the last day of february 1941 are ex pected to obtain from their nearest income tax office post office or bank copies of returns t4 and t4 supplementary complete same in detail and have in the mail before february 28th these returns carry complete details of salaries wages bonuses paid each and every em ployee together with any subsistance allowance made them during 1940 penalty for late filing is 2 per day maximum fifty dollars this will be interesting to hundreds of our readers it entails no lay out i you attend to it but if you do not then there may be financial outlay norman baker of stouffville has been transferred from the chesley branch of the canadian bank of commerce to the branch at belle ville where he located on monday morning mr albert lehman former har ness maker who carried on a busi ness on main street until ill health forced him to give up last year is still very ill and shows little sign of improvement under careful nursing at his home in the westend aurora is to have a new shoo manufacturing industry it is shown by the sale of the old fleury plant transferred to a shoe manufacturer who is expected to employ about 50 men it will he some time before operations are underway as the fleury people are still removing machinery from the place for ship ment to their plant at elora markham and pickering township councils will hold their monthly meetings for march next monday mrs a s collins who has been very sick for several weeks is gradually getting about again hav ing mastered the flu successfully patrons of the betty beauty salon are asked to bear in mind that miss badgero will be in toronto over march 3 4 and 5 attending the hairdressers convention during that time her place of business will be closed maker the undersigned would like to have the address of local men who have already proceeded overseas be sure to give correct address as we wish to send a parcel to the boys as a gift from the people of stouffville leave address at my home or drop a post card to me b lickorish secy stouffville veterans the presence of only 7s people at a prelenten service in newmarket addressed by col hoggard of the salvation army led rev arthur greer former stouffville pastor to write the press of that town declar ing that god help us if the rest of the empires people arent more spiritual than newmarket mr greer wrote further saying the people of newmarket are extremely hard to arouse to the importance of spiritual matters what mr greer says about newmarket as a people may justly be said of most every town or village growing indiffer ence to matters spiritual is evident by the empty churches on the sab bath day winter and summer owing to the bad state of the roads last wednesday the skating party sponsored by the stouffville veterans was not too good so an other one will be held on wednes day march 5th come one come all enjoy yourselves by doing so you will help the soldiers comfort fund we are more convinced than ever that the editor of this paper is a really hard working man doing with out many of the things which some editors consider real necessities the other day the writer dropped in on the genial and friendly proprietor of the newmarket expressherald to find him in his sanctum that little inner chamber where editors do their stuff with pencil and typewriter scissors etc a place furnished with hardback chairs and broken boxes but not so in the editorial room of angus west be lieve it or not we saw an inviting lounge or couch cushion seats something that looked like a dicta phone and of course a beautiful young girl at the books and ready to take your 2 subscription money special value masseyharris cream separators the new mnsscyharris no 9 cream separator is one of the greatest values ever offered it is priced with the lowest yet it has masseyharris quality throughout you get good close skimming with the famous masseyharris sixpoint film flow method of distribution a real money saer at the new low price now low pried convenient forms arrangod 5675 400450 lbs sgs75 550600 lbs s7s75 s50900 lbs d l stouffer masseyharris dealer stouffville ontario for best results ship your cream to us j for the safest and most convenient way to store your meats and other eatables rent a cold storage locker the savings derived thereby are such that you really cannot afford to be without one stouffville creamery co phone 18601 when a man like attorneygener al conant can twist existing laws to suit himself is that the kjnd of democracy were fighting for said rev l b atkinson in his shnday morning address in the stouffville united church at the last meeting of the privy council in london the laxity of the authorities in enforcing the liquor control act particularly in several ontario counties came in for decided criticism what did our attorneygeneral do to better the situation said mr atkinson nothing mr atkinson charged that mr conant has admitted the illegality of sunday ski specials but says that at the first opportunity in the house lie will bring in legisla tion to make them legal we are asked to go easy on butter but not on boose mr atkinson continued the speaker concluded that to make democracy worthy of the battle be ing waged for it it must be cleansed of such abuses a former townsman mr joe mortens was down from new lisk- eard for a few days last week stay ing at the home of his uncle joe just west of town our former citizen was accompanied by his son george 15 years of age they report a tempera ture of 19 below just before they left home with some five feet of snow on the level when mr mertens lived here he was an active member of stouffville fire brigade and pioneered for the purchase of a gasoline fire engine when the council of that day did not look with favor on such an equipment for vill age use joe lmertens got out with a subscription list and raised half the funds forcing the hand of the coun cil today the- idea of being with out equipment for our fire depart ment would be considered the height of insanity thus does our ideas change quickly it is not more than 15 or 111 years since mr mertens moved from stouffville two neighboring women from the sixth concession of whitchurch mrs harry pugh and imrs earl hisey are both in st michaels hospital toronto where they have been patients for more than two weeksi it is expected that both mis pugh and mrs hisey will be sufficiently im proved in another week as to bo able to return to their homes in the country mrs e j davey was stricken with a severe heart attack last saturday and while her condition was critical enough for a time we are glad to report her rapid im provement public- spirited mrs davey has been most active in many undertakings for community wel fare but she is being strongly nrged to go very carefully in future v two rinks of local curlers defeat ed malvern 2319 in a regular scheduled game of the east york cup series on monday night the one local group made up of win tim bers charles nolan robt burnett and wm armstrong skip lost out in the last couple of ends 107 the second stouffville contingent of roy curtis wes boadway l e murphy with sam armstrong skip came out with a 169 score to clinch the round theres a quaker feed for every need i2s fulopep egg mash values 250 per cwt m tl kcbidtfaioirtt stiver bes the days are growing longer and the extra daylight is much appreci ated the recent days of bright sun shine are cheering- locust hill curlers who were scheduled to visit the local ice for a league match on monday night failed to show up jones little boy sprung this one last night pop why wont the british put the lion on a postage stamp i dunno son why cause it cant be licked mrs floyd forsyth who went to toronto for an operation two weeks ago but had to postpone the ordeal owing to being threatened with the flu has since entered the newmarket hospital and is at present in that institution the tribune is advised of a valu able 50 acre farm adjacent to stouff ville that the owner wishes to sell this spring who wants to buy a good 50 with comfortable house and suitable barns the john clark homestead has been sold an announcement of inter est to local readers because john clark was father of the late w h clark of stouffville and clork of whitchurch township the old clark farm- was sold some years ago but two acres and the old georgian brick residence remained separately the surrounding land is a 241 aero parcel situated on the east side of kennedy road just south of agin- court village this was the original homestead of the john clark farm from which clarks corners takes its name this property is known for its beautiful pine trees and cedar and spruce hedges the old homo was bnllt by john clark around 1860 and contains nine rooms with a large living room with oldfashioned fireplace diningroom kitchen and den downstairs and three bedrooms upstairs the home has been com pletely equipped with all city con veniences and there is in addition a large barn and playhouse on the property there was a fair attendance at the concert in the united church- last thursday night given by the ux- bridge choral society under the dir ection of an old friend of a stouff ville audience mr h m fletcher of toronto the various numbers were well rendered the program be ing divided into three parts namely religious and festive miscellaneous and patriotic miss n fisher imrs wm vessey and mr- william king took the solo parts in convincing and pleasing manner the program clos ed with three choruses intended to arouse the audience to a proper pitch of enthusiasm these numbers given were land of hope and glory therell always be an england and mrule britannia the war branch of stouffville womens institute under whose auspices the group appeared were able to net a few dollars for their work while at the same time treating the music lovers of the district to an unusually fine program of choral numbers the chorus was assisted hy 13year old teddy williams of stouffville who received an ovation for his cornet solo dear land of home accompanied by miss ann lehman uxbridge can go one better than woodbrldge or fenelon falls who have been making claims when it comes to the age of its residents clerk w e remion maintains after reading stories about the age of residents of those towns he checked over his own records and announces that uxbridge is without a doubt the place to go if you want to live a long time out of a population of approxi mately 1500 there are in uxbridge 201 persons 70 years of age and over declares imr remion of these 109 are 75 and over and 53 are more than so years old these figures are from the latest assess ment roll completed last october soldiers comfort fund have you secured your tickets on the quilt yet the quilt is on display in carswells store window all money raised is for the purpose of sending small comforts to our local boys now overseas canadian red cross volunteer blood service the local branch has been reques ted to furnish a number of blood donors for the above service don ors must be in good health and be tween the ages of 21 and 50 donors will be required to donate once every eight weeks for at least three donations the branches in close proximity to toronto hare therefore been asked to arrange for donors parties wishing to become donors will please apply to f l button or thomas b rae stouffville hospital insurance windsor promises to be the first city in ontario to inaugurate the plan for hospital care sponsored by the ontario hospital association and announced in toronto a few days ago j under the terms of the plan pay ment of 50 cents a month will en title the subscriber to standard hos pital accommodation and treatment for 21 days in any one year a pay- men of 1 month will secure a sim ilar privilege for all members of the subscribers family groups will be drawn from among the employees of factories large stores offices etc 10 probably being the minimum number for a group the plan specifies that a definite proportion of workers em ployed in any plant or shop partici pating shall become subscribers to the plan ofidehowt minimum jsete place your bray chick order through us no writing no money orders no bother per sonal attention prompt de livery stiver bros stouffville ontario markkas are junior oha league champions markham captured oha junior c group no 7 championship for the second successive year by downing newmarket 73 en their home ice monday night for their second straight win of the series markham got off to a flying start with the only two goals of the first period they outscored the visitors 32 in the second and 21 in the third for a convincing victory b bangay scored three goals for the winners while dickson counted twice for newmarket bruce harper of stouffville was a bulwark on the imarkham dfefense and chalked himself up with two assists during the evening the sevoral teams still in the junior c race include caledonia with bolton as the big threat bolton captured their group cham pionship on monday night defeating orangevillo 94 pastry that nourishes try it now theres nothing like a daily quota of rich finest grade bread and pastry to keep one in health and strength and with bread and pie that taste as good as ours its no hardship to keep your child in regular eating habits- order a pie or one of our fancy bread loaves to-day- the stouffville bakery bakers for two generations 1