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page two the tribune stouffville ont thursday may 29th 1941 ije tmiffiriu rthun established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association issued every thursday at stouffville ontario eight to twelve pages average circulation 1500 copies subscription rates per year in advance in canada 200 in usa 250 a v nolan jp editor and publisher editorial comment top or bottom the british are giving their lives for freedom wont you lend a few dollars buy victory bonds stouffville fills its bins almost daily at this time in town one can hear the noise of coal passing down the shoot into basements and cellars indicating that householders and business places are mindful of the fact that there will be another winter and now is the time to prepare the thrifty householder looks ahead and gets the coal bin filledhaving in mind a two fold object firstly by buying coal now it is procured at the lowest price of the year or at what is known as summer prices secondly there is always the possibility of strikes and other things holding up the supply and it is a comfort able feeling to have along in september when a serious coal strike is in the offing to know our bin is filled and you are independent of what happens this year especially such things as strikes and war may easily make coal difficult to obtain stouffville householders are doing well to attend to their coal needs at the first opportunity saying it with onions that anyone anywhere should go into raptures over an onion may sound strange to those in canada who are familiar with the broad expanses of muck and other soils devoted to the growth of this crop or to the housewife who buys these tasty bulbs at the corner store in britain where emphasis are now placed on the production of crops which yield most food per acre the onion has been relegated to a position of lesser importance in the national economy be sides the crop on the restricted areas was a failure last year and the onion has become as rare as the banana over there a letter from a home in glasgow describes the effects of the recent blitz on that city the family on emerging from the shelter discovered that their house was almost the only one left habitable on the street but all its windows were gone and an incendiary bomb that crashed through the roof had fortunately been extinguished without setting the house afire the samte letter went on to acknowledge receipt of a gift of onions from ontario they had to be shared with others some going to relatives in aberdeen while the man of the house took one choice specimen to the office and showed members of the staff what an onion looks and smells like saying it with onions sounds like something new the weeklies have it one of the most surprising lessons of the war in britain has come to advertising agencies according to the bulletin of the canadian weekly newspapers associa tion the ontario and quebec division of which met in hamilton last friday and saturday it was stated that the sharp decrease in the number of pages in daily newspapers caused by shortages of pulp has proved the greater value of advertising in small papers such as the weeklies in britain the advertising manager of an agency in england is quoted as saying that he was astounded at the results from advertising in the sixpage paper compared with the 24 pages of the dailies in the smaller sized papers he found that the small advertisement was far more prominent than in the big dailies and he concluded from the results tabulated regarding the whole experiment that as the final test of any advertising is whether the stuff is read the con clusion was that in the smallersized papers things were actually being read all of which was pleasing but by no means new news to the weekly editors from ontario and quebec assembled at the convention in hamilton or to the numbers of prominent members of advertising agencies also attending how damaged the mail damaged fruit broken glass jars which had contain ed maple syrup and cartons of fresh eggs all broken caus ing damage to the surrounding mails are being removed from parcels addressed to our overseas troops at the base post office ottawa canadian postal corps officials have reported to hon william p mulock kc postmaster general that last week 16 parcels in one bag of army mail missed a despatch be cause they required repacking as a result of the breakage of a glass jar of maple syrup in one parcel fresh eggs that had been enclosed without wrapping along with two tins of maple syrup in another parcel had also broken and spread five bananas with but a single paper cover and two thin cartons of eggs merely wrapped in paper were removed from other packages the above examples illustrate the folly of sending perishable or fragile articles through the mails to our troops especially in view of the long journey by land and sea under war time conditions parcels containing perish able goods likely to spoil within the time required for transportation and delivery or which contain articles like ly to become damaged in transit are not acceptable for mailing top rank plowmen leave on salada tea transcontinental trip ouemeoa mail the international plowing match held at st thomas last year set a new record in the number of entries and attendance the most coveted prize offered was that for the special class sponsored by the salada tea company and open to all horse plowmen in jointer plow sod classes who had qualified at branch matches a six weeks motor trip to the west coast and back it is a coincidence that the trip along with the gold and silver medals for first and second prizes in this class was won by two neighbour plowmen john lister left and harold picket right both of hornby ontario their journey was planned under the guiding hand of j a carroll manager of the ontario plowmens association and will take them to areas of agricultural interest in the united states and canada from toronto to vancouver gordon mcgavin centre another wellknown plowman of walton will accompany the winners as guide companion and manager the trip should prove intensely interesting and of great educational value to these three lucky plowmen 91 the ziltojil mail toronto may 24th 1941 editor stouffville tribune dear mr editor here is your old friend canadian back again but not in a critical frame of mind this time you were a good sport to publish that other letter i sent along in fact i got a surprise when i saw it in print possibly it was harsh in tone as you suggested but in times like these with our emotions stirred as they are we all are apt to become irritable at times 1 enjoy looking through your fine paper even though i recognize very few names appearing in it the letters that appear from time to time are often very interesting and that one from mr burnham was particularly so if mr burnham is conducting a campaign to hring home some of these facts he is a real patriot may i humbly suggest that he made a very serious omission the liquor traffic is more responsible for the debauching of our soldiers and the undermining of their health thaa anything that he referred to what trainer in the field of athletics would take on the job of putting a man in shape for a trial of endurance unless liquor was entirely banned we democratic countries seem slow in grasping the fact that wo are facing not only a ruthless dictat or but an extremely clever one a man who realizes the necessity for physically perfect army as mr burnham states we are in clined to pamper our men and to do otherwise seems almost hard heart ed but if we are out to win how can our soldiers meet hitler on even terms if we continue our present policy hitlers army is trained strictly along the lines laid down iby athletic trainers no liquor allowed canadian a farmers protest claremont may 27 1941 dear sir on saturday evening we drove from east of claremont to attend the picture theatre in your town and may i say we enjoyed the evening there was one thing however which rather spoiled the fun and that was a scorch on the side of our motor car running board may i explain that when we left the show place there was a terrible din of fire crackers on the front street they were being thrown everywhere under cars and under folks feet i did not mind it but when we saw the car sunday morn ing there was a nice smudge right through the rubber mat of the run ning board and i blame it on your fire cracking gang who really frightened the women bad enough if your town lads think it smart we dont if the editor will publish this without giving my namo i think it would serve them right no signature these letters were received from the boys overseas by the local veterans association the boys are in receipt of parcels sent to them by the veterans comfort association april 25th 1941 dear mr lickorish and fellow members of veterans association mny thanks for your most wel come box which i received today and felt very proud to be remembered by your association cigarettes are the most welcome gift one can receive in this country as you cant buy them in three quar ters of the cigar stores over here i havent been to london since jerry started bombing it last august but from what i hear some parts are levelled flat we had about 40 canadians kill ed up here on the loth of the month the victoria league club was bombed one of our lads came home in a pair of pyjamas and a blanket minus a few teeth im going to weston super mere at the first of may on seven days leave so will likely see a qmite a change in the country i was down through that country last summer but from what i hear they have had a few exciting times down that way will close for now yours cpl morley pugh april 25th england dear comrades i received your box today it sure was swell i thank you from the bottom of my heart i will treasure tho membership card and really do appreciate the fact that i am one of you who has done his duty im try ing to do mine things are not as bad as they seem but we do need planes and men i think it the duty of every canadian man if fit to join up come on fellows keep the hun from your own shores if we do not then all that is dear to you will be lost the army is good and it will make men out of spineless jellyfish it is the duty of everyone with money to stanley theatre phone 100 showing each night at 815 t saturday and holidays 700 and 9tt- thursday friday saturday may 293031 howards of virginia cary grant martha scott color cartoon monday tuesday wednesday june 234 tin nobodys sweetheart now n also the outsider thursday friday saturday june 567 out west with the peppers and two fisted rangers decoration day plot holders and others are kind ly asked to keep in mind the annnal decoration day at dickson hih cemetery on sunday june 29 further details later give and give or else what is the nse of us fighting we are giving car lives again thanks a million your comrade spr w g lehman business directory a c kennedy chiropractor church street stouffvill monday wednesday fridays 9 to 12 am medical dr s s ball physician and surgeon xray office cor obrien and main phone 196 coroner for york county dental in days of yore 5b years ago from the tribune april 188 tile cellar of imiv john bakers new house at tho corner of albert street is excavated and as the material is nearly all on the ground it may be expected that the westend will he beautiful by a fine new home houses of courso are also being erected on the lots recently sold by mr wm somerville mr jacob helsey on or our west- end citizens tapped a small maple maple tree on his lot on rupert st tho result was two pails of excellent sap miss wismcr of the public school staff spent saturday and sunday in toronto mr george flint sr has again taken up house keeping miss allie rae is dangerously ill with inflammation of the lungs a meeting will be held in mertens photo fiallery on monday evening next for the purpose of organizing a bicycle club in stouffville parties having wheels and those who intend purchasing are requested to attend thieves entered the premises of mr shank on the sth of markham one night last week and captured threo geese two turkeys and a rooster mrs obrien and son from buffalo and miss breckon from orillia are visiting at james obriens a large congregation attended the church service in the baptist church on sunday evening tho service being of special interest owing to the fact that four young ladies were received by the ordinance of baptism the names are as follows imisses lydla george edith baker katie miller and hattie barker mr james daley jr of montreal was in town on easter sunday and occupied the pulpit of the congrega tional church on sunday evening he goes to take charge of a church in winnipeg miss barker has opened an infant school over mr don galls store george flint and a s leaney moved at the last council meeting that 41 sangster f wilson a s leaney and the mover he a com mlttee to enquire the cost of main tenance of lamps for main street 3 years ago from the tribune june 1005 mr thomas smith was thrown from a colt on sunday and has his collar bone broken mr j b wurts announces that having attached a freezer to a gasoline engine he is prepared to make icecream wholesale miss ida mae forsyth spent tues day in the city accompanied by miss imaud kemp graham bros claremont have sold their hackney stallion white wall fashion and ho has been shipped to new york chicken thieves on tuesday even ing visited mrs lcadleys premises and took all her fowl butter sold this thursday at 14 and lac and eggs at 15 cents mr robert mcmnllen started for melita man on tuesday and ex pects to play football at brandon on saturday mr lud hoover has secured a cement mixer by the aid of which he will be able to save the work of several mon hurrah for musselmans lake the annual union school picnic will be held at the lake on june 24th mr f burgess bought the small building west of tho mennonlte church and has removed it e s barker lds dds honor graduate of royal college of dental surgeons and of the university of toronto office in grublns block phone 274 markham every tuesday office in wear block dr j f weatherill office over bank of commerce office hours 9 to 12 noon and 130 to 530 pm phone office phone residence 180 18002 claremont every tuesday office over bakers store phone claremont 1401 insurance see h o klinck obrien avenue for your insurance needs in- fire life automobile burglar and all casualty lines thomas birkett general insurance agency representing reliable companies including lloyds of london england phone stouffville 25902 a c burkholder insurance canada life assurance o -also- automobile and fire brierbush hospital government licensed main street ensv stonffvillc maternity medical and surgical cases taken ambulance service registered nurses and 24 hour service mrs e r good phone 191 r g clendening funeral director ambulance service harry m spang representative mutual life insurance co also mutual automobile insuranca telephone 6616 stouffville ontario barristers office phone residence pnobo 3160 3514 arthur w s greer barrister solicitor notary public o king street east osnawa ontario resident partner branch oheo wcpollardkc port perry uxbrldge ontario phone 25 le oneill stouffville funeral director anb embalmer continuous telephone service day and night business phone residonce phone stouffville marble granite works phone markham 9000 orders promptly executed p tarr proprietor phone 4303