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over 5000 readers copies this issue 1525 largest circulating weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twos vol 53 no45 stoupfville ont thursday march 27th1941 eight pgbs local ice harvesters have big year at almira pond 1200 blocks daily mail runs smoothly again markham farmers in the north part of the township find their chief ice supply at lehmans pond almira this winter the ice is from is to 20 inches thick cut 18 inches square by a power saw which is quite a contrast to the old method of hand cutting done only a few years ago the saw cuts a row of ice consisting of 70 mocks in two minutes in the neighborhood of 1200 blocks are loaded daily and some of the ice goes as far south as wexford sir george hoover of markham deliver ed 6000 blocks in isiarkham village but with the coming of mechanical refrigeration in the larger centres ice is chiefly used by the dairy farmers picture shows the blocks of ice floating in the water and the two loaders at work hauling the ice from the pond into waiting trncks dance fails to prove popular our citizen john gower may b excused for swaggering abont ihe town today march 27th in some thing of a festive mood he is cele brating his 75th birthday and feels the firemens ball held last fri- pretty good about it member of a day night in ratclifts hall couldnt large english family most of whom this is johns day be termed a roaring success financi ally whereas it took onethird of the proceeds to pay hall rent and still another for the orchestra and inci dental expenses leaving only a slen der sum for the brigade to hand over to the british war victims fund it seems that when the bat- came to canada john was born in kent county england one sister still lives in the homeland while an other is located at akron slich she married a brother of the late amos lehman five brothers in canada are all living excepting william who died in stouffville in 1932 there at ringwood bert and toronto ernest in tie cry of the fire siren sounds every survivies john of stouffville george member of the brigade if need be is expected to rally to the call in an allout effort to lick the fire demon but wlien the brigade issued a call to the folks at home for financial help there is something lacking when the tables are turned the shoe pinches to be frank probably it wasnt the kind of entertainment you like and just here the brigade is a little to blame for not offering tickets and a draw so many people who wouldnt attend a dance under any consideration would have been glad to subscribe a shilling or two to the boys in their effort to raise funds for so laudable a cause had the right opportunity presented it self a few people went out of their way to donate their admission fee by calling at the hall but it was not to be expected that many would do this smiths orchestra rendered plenty of music and many who do not dance were entertained at cards after all the great fund to which the proceeds are aimed to help is being made up of small donations and the fire fighters are to bo con gratulated on their sincere effort to do something toward licking hitler geo davies suffers second serious accident journeying from his home on the ninth concession north of mussel- mans lake to reach the highway over on the sth concession mr george davies was in a car that was stuck coming around the lake district he got out to assist his com panions and in some manner receiv ed a broken leg mr davies is still using a crutch from the serious accident he suffered a year ago when he was badly injured in a motor accident the same leg is broken now that was so badly injured in the first accident he was rushed to toronto hospital for treatment although the dust has been fly ing along the highway between stouffville and toronto for a whole week with never a shovelful of snow to pass over things were quite different on some of the sideroads over which our rural mail couriers must operate rural route no2 out of stoufiville into whitchurch was not served for a whole week from monday march 17 to march 24 like wise rural route no 1 which oper ates down the 10th of slarkham and up the 9th concession was unable to make the rounds from monday to saturday last week however with the allclear signal flying on slon- day farmers are expected from this time forward to receive their letters and papers daily without further interruption reti in t the david rusnell residence on iriupert avenue was sold this week to mr truman grove of ringwood who is retiring from the farm at ringwood immediately after their farm stock sale on april 2 the fine brick residence will make an ideal home for sir and sirs grove equipped as it is with all con veniences and well located the two building lots adjoining the residence are still for sale and interested buy ers seeking lots should get in touch with sir ira rusnell big days work for a saturday afternoon went fast for auctioneer alvin farmer when he disposed of two auction sales bet ween two oclock and 5 oclock he disposed of the brick clad house in town on slain st east having been built two years ago by fretz on the west part of the baptist church lot for 1800 mrs f v silverlhom was the purchaser at 215 he opened an auction sale on the farm of anthony nigh at gormley and rattled off 1600 in cash obtaining good prices through out the milk cooler realized 226 harold harper of unionville beinj the buyer the binder went at 67 50 for the best sale in implements orla hisey took the top priced cow at 90 while the young bull sld for 69 loose waste paper since it has been impossible to se cure the necessary assistance for the collection of paper and preparation for disposal of loose waste paper this work is being given up paper placed in the sibc sheds has been disposed of and the public are asked to leave no more there household ers and others are urged however to save and tie into bundles old newspapers and books have them ready for the next collection stouffville notice of which will be duly announced funeral of jesse cook attended by many county dignatories sacred band concert sunday night business men and lions club urge ort for a home reunion supp stouffville lions club at a meet ing held slonday evening pledged support to the promotion of a york county reunion next june 28 to july 6 as a means of helping to maintain the tourist trade for the country and incidentally aid our war effort by attracting american dollars the decision was made after mr a h wilford publicity coun sellor from toronto outlined tho advantages and the importance of maintaining us exchange at this time our tourist trade dropped over two hundred million dollars last year and we must do our part to regain this every tourist is a rolling in dustry said sir wilford and it is k pure business proposition to get every dollar back we can an 01db6ys reunion is a thing that attracts it is not to be trimmed up with callthumplan parades and all manner of foolery there is n time for that sort of thing said the speaker frankly only an honest effort would- bo made to induce our u s friends to visit here this sum mer and as far as possible to have them come during the week men tioned ment to till the soil for coming event he continued and that is the weekly newspapers of canada we have organized now from collingwood to picton from oakwood to norwood slerchants will be asked to buy space in the local paper to promote the scheme and thats all there is to it a group of business men will pay for a full page adv one week another group will look after some other week tliese advs will be full of appeal to our cousins across the line tlie names of the sponsors will appear on every advertisment the idea went over like magic and reeve weldon came to his feet supporting the proposal whole heartedly then other councillors said it was good business men subscribed their support and a strong committee was named to co operate with mr wilford in com pleting the job of lining up every business man and private citizen too who would support the effort the committee includes reeve weldon blake sanders t l button kc wcs boadway and ira rusnell all of whom were present and promised probably the largest funeral ever held in stouffville within a decade was accorded the late jesse cook here on tuesday afternoon large representation of york county council and county officials attend ed in a body while friends came from all over the surrounding dis trict to fill the united church beyond its seating capacity rev l e atkinson preached the funer al sermon using the familiar text in my fathers house are many slansions the speaker referred to the intimacy which he had enjoyed with deceased for more than forty years the news of sir cooks death fairly stunned his friends when it became generally known on sunday that he had passed away saturday evening march 22 he has been eon- fined to his home in town for weeks and had had pneumonia but was considered well on the way to re covery in fact the day of his death was one of his best he sat up much of tho time and in the evening had been sitting up listening to a hockey broadcast when a strange illness passed over him he was assisted from the chair to his bed when ho lapsed into unconsciousness and died within a few moments immediate cause of death was a thrombosis born in scarboro township 58 years ago a son of the late john this home cook he lived in whitchurch town ship for more than 40 years he had served on the whitchurch township council for seven years and was in his fifth year as deputy reeve he took a prominent part in tho life of the community and was a member of the ioof richardson masonic lodgeand the stouffville lion club he was also a director of the slark ham fair board and of stouffville brier bush hospital board and was a member of the subcommittee of the agriculture and reforestation of york county council mr cjook was a member of the united church he was married twice his first wife being esther stouffer a member of one of the pioneer families of whitchurch he is survived by his widow formerly marjorle stewart to whom he was married one year ago on monday and one sister sirs e gayman of stouffville the lat e jesse cook 20 for telegram war victims fund mike the big gray shows unusual interest in his young stable mate out at the morris farm on the townline just east of town there may be seen this colt reputed to be the smallest thing of its kind in all ontario the pony weighed only 26 pounds at one day old when the tribune snapped this picture but that is ten days ago and it now weighs 29 pounds the wee colt shown here fills the big farm gelding with mingled curi osity as sir morris lifted the new arrival onto the table to have its picture taken the pony frisks about like any other horse or colt has feet and hoofs resembling a sheep in size and slenderness the mother is a registered shet land real delight of linwood while sire is slidnight of pittsford the mother is blind and spends her time in a box stall the morning the colt arrived bill morris fed her and didnt see the young offspring which went unnoticed for a couple of hours until sir morris father happened to make his morning call looking over the stock and there stood the little fellow on all fours wobbly but determined today it is smart on foot a 5 auct farm stock sales have been more numerous this spring than for some seasons past one of the largest sold by a s farmer was held last friday on the crichton farm in the south end of scarboro on eglintor avenue the crowd was enormous and the sales mounted to a total of 5500 the farm is being disman tled by army workman for factory use horses improved in price over many other sales when a gelding sold for 135 and his mate 105 a black horse 11 years for 100 and a bay gelding for 9250 the high priced cow demanded 108 while the average for the fine herd of hol- steins was 81 the tractor was knocked down at 305 bell sons of scarboro bought the milking machine for 220 hay baled brought 1050 a ton and straw 6 oats 36 4c bus barley 57 the sale opened at 1215 and the last sale was made at 515 we have selected the best implc- 0 help sacked rand concert the junior brass bandwill ren der a sacred concert next sunday evening march 30 at 830 pm in the stanley tltlre there will be community singing and all are in vited to attend silver collection in aid of band funds now in need of help when a man who has been in the hospital on his back for two long years can start something that rais es 2000 for the telegram war victims fund what might a man in good health and on his feet be able to do well you figure it out but heres what elwood fisher patient in the gravenhurst san did he had been taught the art of glove making long before the war broke out and recently forwarded a pair to the editor of this paper re questing that we make some effort to sell them and pass the money over to the telegram or any fund wo thought worthy tho newspaper approached the stouffville lions club who were glad to help and sold tickets for a draw thus on monday night 2000 was turned over to the editor to be for warded to the telegram mrs blake sanders held the lucky ticket and as the gloves are for a lady she may treasure them as a tallormade pair from genuine doe skin the sale of tickets realized 1600 and business men chipped in a littlo to raise the sum to an even twenty elwood fisher son of thevlllage smithy at gormley has our sincere thanks for his thoughtful effort veteran mennonite pastor dead aged 87 an active clergyman of slennonite brethren in christ church for approximately 40 years prior to his retirement 18 years ago rev peter cober s7 died sunday at his home in kitchener his last surviving sister sirs abrani witmer died a few hours earlier at her home in victoria bc rev mr cober entered the min istry in 1881 and was ordained in 18s4 his early years as a clergy man were spent in slichigan and indiana in addition he served sev eral churches in ontario prior to his retirement rev mr cober was presiding elder of the mbc church for ten years a son of mr and mrs nicholas cober deceased was born on may 7 1853 in puslinch township in 1875 he married martha steinbacker who predeceased him in 1935 rev mr markham prepares to enter junior finals set back by palrry sound 75but win round 1210 await the winner of thoroldbolton scries packing all their power into a rally which carried them into a 75 victory over markham in the junior c semifinals parry sound still fell two short of winning the round and overcoming the 73 triumph slarkham had chalked up in their initial game parry sound opened up the first period with an assault which netted them two goals napp and horeck scoring laurie and rowe tied the score for slarkham in the second but then the sound threw their heavies punch raising their total to five with two by waldriff and one by napp and emerged from the second round in full command seeing victory within almost their grasp parry sound threw caution to the wind but while they attempted to keep up a concerted barrage on har per in the slarkham net lawrie and irowe sped away to raise their count by two once more making the score 54 however the northerners would not be held off and napp and russell found tlie mark twice more while bangay finished the scoring for slarkham cober was noted in the ministry or his cheerful disposition surviving are three sons vernon l of kitchener wilfred a of buffalo ny and milton s of kit chener- three daughters mrs allen good conestogo mrs harvey stauffer of kitchener and mrs wil liam g waldron of brantford may be an election in whitchurch township to fill deputys post war branch notes mrs george saunders mrs g kelllngton mrs e j davey attend ed- the directors meeting of the womens institute held at the parll- ment buildings toronto on wednes day the death of deputy jrleeve jesse cook leaves a vacancy in whitchurch township council which will have to be filled in the usual way as that followed for january elections at the proper time clerk john craw ford will issue a proclamation call ing for a nomination meeting wlth- outthe customary public meeting that follows nominations if more than the necessary candidate to fill the office is nominated and stands there will be a contest for the vacancy if one person can be decid ed on then an acclamation would be in order ft jg rather noteworthy that this council has sat continuously since january 1937 without a break in the personnel until now when the grim reaper has taken his toll fj in january 1937 reeve toole was elected and he had with him george leary herman kidd herb wells and deputy reeve cook in 1938 1939 and 1940 they received acclamations the council received a further acclamation in 1941 when reeve toole had a contest which returned him with tho tblggest majority recorded in many ai year- speculation is now going on as to what move will bo made by the rate payers to fill the vacancy which death alone has caused will one of the present councillors step forward to the deputy reeveship leaving a vacancy on the council for a now face or will the members elect to re main where they are and permit a new man to step in for deputy reeve