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oyer 5000 readers titanic copies this issue 1510 largest circulating weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twps vol 53 no 42 stouffville ontario thursday march 20th 1941 kght jam clifford barkey spots holdup pair in city a quick glance by clifford barkey 130 strachan avenue saved him trom being slugged with a piece of iron bar in a holdup attempt mon day night in a service station at ront and bay streets toronto according to a news despatch cliff is a son of charles barkey of altona aubrey staley 27 a soldier from chippawa was arrested on a charge of attempted robbery and purse snatching staleys 14yearold brother who was with him in the service station was arrested later he is held jointly with his brother on the purse snatching charge barkey was working in the serv ice station when lie noticed the soldier and the boy loitering around the front of the place he kept a close eye on them and when they entered staley was seen by barkey to raise the piece of iron bar as if to strike him on the head with it barkey without rousing staleys suspicion moved away and a second later got to the telephone and noti fied police staley and the boy are charged with snatching a purse on beverley street sunday night the soldier is alleged to have snatched a purse containing 219 from mrs bertha agar 27 sullivan street britains man of steel reviews his mechanized forces wearing his customary bulldog during a tank demonstration some- tion with him are high army the man of the hour st smile prime minister winston where in england a symbol of officials who watched with interest match in hand to light churchill pauses beside a heavily britains indomitable courage is as tanks and mechanized units went the little islands great a armored car inscribed churchill this man of iron will and deterinina- to town on an imaginary enemy army if and when the ands ready the fuse of ntiinvasion zero hour arrives war will not be endless struggle as some beo says noted newscaster only gives hitler year and a half at most believes the menace of invasion passed this war will not go on and on mfl oil as jnanyipeople think but l predict that it will be over in a year and a half at the most stated john coffingwood reade authoritative news commentator in addressing a gathering of two hundred at the annual york county holstein breeders banquet held at agincourt on monday evening mr reade took for his subject democracy at war what are we fight in for we are not fighting to preserve the democracy as we have known it in the past said the speaker mr churchill realizes that and we must all be struck with the similarity and sincereness of thought between our two great leaders churchill and roosevelt we are fighting for our right to change our way of life in our own way and in our own time wo are fighting against a perverted morality against a system which has lost all understanding of what truth means this latter fact is com pletely illustrated in the official communiques of the axis powers mr reade continued that in re cent leaselend debate across the border when members asked but if hitler should win the question was not whether hitler would make a direct assult upon the united slates but that america could never hope to enter into any contract with hit ler anymore than hitler could en ter into any contract with america it has been more difficult for us to figure out what the enemy will do next purely because ordin ary men could never even contem plate their fellowmen doing such barefaced devilish acts as those perpetrated by the nazis the late mr chamberlain who was a personal friend of mine said tho speaker could never imagine anyone smiling and shaking hands ik such apparent sincerity and in the next instant committing such callous acts as were committed now we have accustomed ourselves to the ruthlessness of the enemy and are better able to deal with him how are wc getting along hitler u not a great military genius stated our newscaster cm- contjng1 nn page s local rinks in honspeil two home club rinks are repre senting stouffville in the royal canadian curling bonspeil which opened on tuesday thirtythree rinks are in the contest for the ae walton trophy h w sanders rink of orval drewory harry brillinger and chris armstrong dropped their first game to oshawa 117 the second local rink of ira aldred thos birkett sam armstrong and m b watts s were scheduled to play on wednesday elaine dale married to g laws0n the home or dr and mrs s a milburn toronto was the setting for a pretty ceremony when miss blaine dale daughter of imr and mrs r roberts of vancouver was married to mr george w lawson brownsburg quebec son of mrs lawson of stouffville and the late george lawson adjutant a dale of windsor brother of the bride officiated the bride given in marriage by dr milburn wore a frock of water fall blue with black accessories and corsage of orchids the wedding music was played by miss eva tolo- way and the soloist was mrs c h mcdougall mrs milburn wore a gown of navy blue and dusky rose with corsage of token roses and mrs lawson was gowned in navy blue with corsage of pink roses after the reception the couple left on a short trip and will live in lachute uxbridge twp tax col m the marriage was quietly solem nized at the baptist manse in ux bridge on saturday afternoon of miss florence leaf adopted sister of mr melville merrick to mr dis till mcdonald of goodwood rev mr ostrum performed the ceremony following a quiet luncheon mr and lives mcdonald motored to tor onto with mr and mrs merrick and will shortly locate at the grooms cottage in goodwood mr mcdonald is tax collector for uxbridge township and is widely known in the district second accident on 8th of whitchurch run into by a truck as he was making his way in his ear along the sth concession on monday afternoon during the blinding snow storm wm sedore of whitchurch was severely shaken up it required 14 stitches to close up his wounds the accident followed closely on the ratcliff one the same afternoon on this concession line in the winters worst storm markham holds a formidable lead for second game accident in school zonk little donna keeping was struck by a car driven by floyd forsyth as the child syearold crossed the road in front of the school house on tues day afternoon she was severely bruised but at time of gong to press markham oha junior c team stepped into a commanding lead over parry sound in the first game of their home and home series mon day night walking away from the home team in the last period to win 73 the return game in markham is scheduled for tonight thursday a thirdperiod scoring spree on the part of markham broke up a close thrilling game of hockey the northern team led for the first two periods and had a comfortable margin in the play during this time the score was 20 for parry sound at the end of the first period aval- driff scoring on a pass from cope- dog while horeck soloed for no2 baiter scored the only goal of the second period taking a neat pass from lawrie two quick goals at the start of the third period started imarkham on the winning road orr tied it up for the sound on a pass out from waldriff r bangay who had been held well in cheek for two periods came through with two quick goals the first on a pass from lawrie and the second from lawrie and baker the locals played well up for the rest of the period and left them- taught at altona age teach dead robert t andrew former teacher of languages in several ontario schools died saturday in his 87th year at 26 oswald crescent toronto he had been retired since 1923 born in scotland he taught school at several points in ontario before entering university one of his places was altona and several of our present residents recall going to school to him mr andrew was a member of the queens own rifles and a member of the masonic lodge at richmond hill ballantrae loses third game to give reach uxbridge cup in a wideopen hockey spree be fore 900 fans on friday night reach downed the ballantrae shellmcn 97 for the third straight win and one which gave them the championship and uxbridge intercommunity league trophy having won the last two games in the best out of five series and tied the first reach was in the drivers seat on friday night and even though balhintvae managed to pile up seven goals the smoother com bination of the northern club gave them an edge goalgetters for ballantrae were ken reesor herb simpson and everett mcnclly sunday march 23 day of prayer victoria square sale reaches 6300 one of the big sales for this dis trict came off last thursday on the edgerton avison farm on the 4th of markham when the gross proceeds of the days selling totalled 6300 a s farmer was the best man of the hour and did a good job in a hurry for one has to move lively to knock off that amount of goods be tween noon and six oclock the auction had several features to the selling first we mention the sale of the threshing outfit which went to a man from vaughan town ship for 63250 the big outfit was well sold onlookers said then knocked down was the tractor to stan boynton of the square for the sum of 375 thus the two items totalled over a thousand dollars top price for cows was 91 while the farm bull brought an even one hundred dollars horses did better than at some sales the best animal realizing 120 grain sold easily urban oats at 60c barley 53c wheat 81c and hay 12 per ton the avisons are moving to vic toria square the farm being taken over by reid brunvwell no pronouncement had been made i selves open for breakaways rowe regarding what the xray plates may and murray each scored in this manner reveal prominent lumberman is seriously injured richard taun buried on monday struck by his own truck in lilindinc snowstorm on tile 8th concession monday on goodwood people in motor crash returning from uxbridge on mon day evening during the blinding storm harvey feasbys car in which with him rode his sister audrey and two other school students met headon with johnstons truck as they neared the centre road break ing the feasby car almost beyond repair harvey and audrey both received cuts and bruises the girls fore head requiring four stitches while the brethour lad received a broken arm they were attended by dr mccllntock and dr wilson of ux bridge follows in fathers steps in business established half century established 50 years ago the personnel of iratcliff co stouff- vllles oldest business concern is slightly changed with the retire ment of lmtessrs jas h ratcliff and john w ratcliff from the firm mr glenn ratcliff becomes the new own er and the towns youngest business proprietor supported by such a family background and a concern of so many years standing the youthful owner has an unusual start and we predict he will con tinue to hold the big grocery in the very front rank of local business to messrs john and james rat cliff we join the business community in extending our best wishes for their continued good health and may they both enjoy many more years of life stripped of the busi ness earn that attaches itself to all live business concerns in the dissolution of partnership big ratcliff block in which the existing for so many years between bethesda stouffville telephone messrs james and john ratcliff the co the eastern star and the latter now become solo owner of the leola food shop are tonants struck by his own truck loaded with logs as he was helping to push a passenger car out of the snow dur ing a blinding snow storm on mon day afternoon mr william ratcliff suffered a badly broken leg in fact his foot was twisted right around and the nature of the break was such that his doctor ordered him removed to toronto the accident happened in mid- afternoon about opposite the talbot farm on the 8th concession mr ratcliff was riding with walter vague whose car got stuck mr rat cliff and wm grove got out to push when ratclifts big truck driven by philip fockler loaded with logs overtook them no one could see in the blinding storm and just what happened none of the men can really tell no blame is attached to anyone the injured man was removed to the office of dr ball where xray re vealed the serious nature of the trouble on being removed to the operat ing room at the hospital the case coming out was none other than that of dr t t shields who had received a broken arm bethesda sale runs lsoo although regarded as one of the smaller sales in the immediate dis trict gordon tidsburys auction last friday afternoon totalled around 1500 top price paid for cows was 85 and her calf 3 grain sold at one cent per pound with fairly good bidding for implements throughout fmv tfdsbury has only been fanning a few years and is forced to give up owing to his health he wll locate in stouffville richard k taun who died at his home in stouffville on friday of last week was laid to rest in stouff ville cemetery on monday the fun eral service being taken by itev le atkinson deceased was in his 78th year and died following a stroke suffered a few weeks ago pall bear ers were messrs james coates morgan pugh w p jones wm wilson wm waddell and edw walls richard taun with his brother george and two sisters misses thressa and besslelocated in stouff ville 15 years ago when they pur chased the brick residence in the east end which for some years serv ed as the mbc manse the family of sisters and brothers at that time left the old taun homestead now owned by albert slack south and east of claremont where their 50 acre farm was a model of neatness and in a high state of cultivation besides the sisters and brother mentioned above one other sister passed away long years ago mr taun was highly regarded and en- joyed a wide circle of personal friends he took no active part in public affairs although ho kept him self well informed 10 tons a month mr jim barry vegetable dealer has been delivering about 60 tons a month of mixed vegetables to camp borden all winter cabbage carrots turnips parsnips make up the great er part of this monthly consump tion mostly produced in stouffville area