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jkntffirillt futibnm leading weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twps vol 51 no 14 stouffville ont thursday july 10th 1941 eight pages no change in village tax rate this year council sets rate at 36 mills after record session of four hours councillors complain of the lack of 1olicc protection cites july 1 as example refused to extend wlitcr system to unprofitable section of town the village council presided over by acting reeve ross brown held the longest session on record for over a year last monday evening wheli they sat through from s until after midnight in fact just at mid night councillor ira rusnell induced members to adjourn long enough to visit the hospital locality where he contended more lights ought to lie put up by the village mr rus nell asked for three extra and after going over the situation the mem bers agreed to two extra lights being installed somewhere in the hospital zone the cost will be 26 per year to the street lighting bill the tax rate was struck at 36 mills same as prevailed last year despite the fact more money is re quired for schools where there has been increased salaries granted and a sharp drop in the county grant the money required and var ious rates struck appear at the end of this report councillor boyd said there were numerous complaints about the lack of policing on july 1st i noticed myself there was no cop all day to be seen said mr boyd councillor rusnell said he thought the pre sence of a man in uniform had good effect and one should be seen more acting reove brown said the cop was on duty in the evening and this ended the discussion r h gould who purchased a lot on stouffer street asked for a water service which council said they were not prepared to give the lot draws 5 taxes and it would cost 100 to reach it with water pipe unless a reasonably good type of house was built the service is mot iikely to be extended a bill for jl3 infavorofthefire brigade was ordered paid for call to an obrien ave blaze hospitalization for the month totalled 78 42 and was ordered paid also a long list of small litems for tho various departments a con fsignment of meters from the ferr- anti co was ordered and a stock of supplies for the water works system to guard against possible shortage when these goods are not being made next council meeting was set for friday aug 1st owing to the first monday of the month falling on civic holiday tax rate stricken saturday by stroke sitting quietly in the kitchen of his home on market street last saturday evening thos hardy was suddenly stricken with a stroke and has been in quite a critical condition since that time those who know bim will regret to leain mr hardy is 75 years of age and a lifelong resi dent of the district a quiet man he will be missed about the streets in his accustomed way his wife is giv ing him all the tender care possible markham twp lad to speak at cne childrens day at the canadian national exhibition this year is go ing to hear a lot of planning for the future on that day s5 children will speak for three minutes each on when i grow up one of the con testants will be master jim thomas whose parents live on rri stouff- ville south of town the youthful speakers are in pub lic schools will be judged by a group of excellent public speakers and will be awarded prizes varying from 15 to 3 the leaders of this conn- try might learn a lot by listening in on monday august 25th town barbers m council to regulate their hours motor caravan sets r out for mo on tuesday this week seven motor ists from stouffville enlisted to drive that many new ymca trucks from toronto to montreal that will some day be used in britain the boys each drove one of these big two ton vans fully equipped with loud speaker cots and blankets ready for field service the caravan was in charge of charlie ward and was driven by win timbers gordon hoover l e cneill telf rennie les wilson and walter holden despite the fact that the trucks are new they may be driven at fifty miles an hour hence normal time could be made on the journey stricken by stroke jesse tindall dead lions donate 100 j t0war victims at a meeting of stouffville lions club it was revealed that almost 100 was made exclusive of expenses from the july 1st celebration and this amount was voted to be sent to the lions british war victims fund in london the directors also requested the press to pass on their hearty applic ation to all those who in any way helped them on dominion day the cooperation of all was responsible for the days success oiling in whitchurch now b com after a delay of a couple of weeks work has been resumed on placing oil on the roads of whitchurch township around the lake areas and in various hamlets throughout the municipality several tons of calcium chloride will also be used for certain locations the delay in completing the work this year was due to an altercation between municipal authorities and the firm holding the contract for road oil now their troubles are adjusted the oil is being spread according to instructions given by road superintendent henry widdi- field mills county purposes 2849 rate 4s village rate 3800 rate 58 road debenture 3921 rate 6 con school debt 2584 4 public school debenture 919 14 public library 600 1 street lighting 1300 2 p s purposes 5055 77 c s purposes 2000 31 relief 320 5 36 the village council on monday evening received a petition signed by all the barbers in stouffville asking the council to pass a bylaw compel ling them to close their tonsorial parlors even monday at 7 pm and every wednesday at 1230 noon excepting when these days precede a holiday sec s2 of the factory act says that council shall within 30 days pass such bylaw if signed by three- fourth of the trades asking to be regulated so if nothing happens in the meantime this regulation will be made law in stouffville in august council will take its 30 days to in vestigate its position why cant the barbers run their own business without asking the council to help them obrved one member while another saw in his compulsion business a lot of trouble the onus will be on the police to enforce the bylaw if once passed only recently the barbers increas ed their rates for haircuts from 5c to 35c by mutual agreement spending a pleasant afternoon at the home of their daughter mrs arthur dowswell on the 2nd con cession of uxbridge on monday the visit was tragically ended for mr and mrs jesse tindall of stouff ville when mr tindall shortly after the tea hour was overcome with a stroke which quickly render ed him helpless and which proved fatal the next day tuesday around the noon hour although more or less incapaci tated and unable to work now for several years mr tindall was able to get about his home in a feeble way and was feeling well enough the first of the week to make the visit which ended so tragically bom in the township of scott 77 years ago jesse tindall spent his young manhood in that district and later lived in haliburton district in j910 the family moved to ux bridge township where they resid ed until mr and mrs tindall moved into town some four or five years ago mrs tindall who survives her will be received with the rank of husband was the former mabel rose lieutenant in the dental corps dr weatherill called to arms i this week dr j f weatherill who came to stouffville a year ago to take over the dental practise of dr neil smith now in the canadian army dental corps has himself been called into the army and mjist report for duty on july 18 dr weatherill had offered his services more than a year ago but being a married man he was not acceptable at that time his appli cation was shelved until recently when he was called for medical ex amination and found fit he is now to report at camp borden where he of markham and with the mother there survives four daughters and three sons namely mrs arthur dowswell mrs f woodland mrs nixon and mrs lockie the latter having been on the stouffville school staff a few years ago the sons are berton earl and lome tindall funeral on thursday afternoon from the late home in queens court for interment in the goodwood cem etery undb1went operation edna lintner young daughter of mr and imrs ed lintner was rushed to the sick childrens hospital on tuesday where she underwent an operation for peritonitis mrs snider suffered quite a severe heart attack on monday around the noon hour but we are pleased to report she is resting nicely at her home on main street ballantrae merchant now reco removed to the toronto general hospital ten days ago the popular ballantrae merchant mr gilbert wright was found to be suffering from double pneumonia and was in highly critical conltjon however the past few days a marked change was shown and mr wright is mak ing rapid recovery it was expected that he would be removed to his home again hy ambulance on wed nesday or thursday this week where he will be confined to bed for some time stouffville will be reduced to one dental office already heavily taxed dr l s klinck and bride to vi here quietly solemnized on june 27 at the west vancouver home of the brides parents was the marriage of elizabeth barclay daughter of mr and mrs robert barclay to dr leonard sylvanus klinck president of the university of british colum bia the ceremony was described by vancouver press as of wide interest throughout the dominion the bride was a member of the university administration staff since her gradu ation in arts 20 for a number of years she has been secretary to the i president immediately following the nuptial rites dr and mrs klinck left for eastern canada and will viist the formers mother mrs thos klinck at stouffville torpedoed at sea adrift three days a letter received from a stouff ville boy wallace george byer a nephew of miss may bowers now of peterboro and formerly of stouff ville has been received by miss bow ers telling in modest fashion how he was aboard a greek ship as a wire less operator early this year and al though he reached new york safely he experienced being shelled byjorry on more than one occasion when their boat escaped with a few holes he was then transferred to a nor wegian oil tanker and made several successful trips across the ocean but was finally torpedoed off the green land coast here are a few words from his second last letter home to miss bowers which friends and rela tives will be interested to read dear aunt may had a bit of trouble but am safe in england now the ship was tor pedoed near greenland all got safely into lifeboats we were in them for three and a half days he- fore being picked up by a dutch hosital ship we were taken to- ice land and kept in an army camp for several days then brought down herej to liverpool i intend to leave for glasgow tomorrow to attend to my pay then will take a holiday a second letter received by miss bowers shortly after the above was written on june 11 said here i am in glasgow a lovely city my hotel is the best in scotland am only staying here as long as the norwegian consul pays the bills as the expense is over five pounds a day the officers are here and the men are at another hotel i am holi daying here before signing on with another ship that is if i can am well and happy wallace rev douglas davis is inducted here attended by between 75 and 100 members and adherents of the stouffville united church the in duction service on friday evening proved a very impressive ceremony wherein fftev douglas davis was formally installed into the pastorate of the church rev c m curtis of hope united church toronto presided and con ducted the ordination ceremony and rev stewart ferguson of the sand- fordzephyr circuit preached the sermon this was followed by a charge to the congregation given by rev albert e owen of unionville mrs w verner of houston texas is visiting at the home of her brother dr h b freel plowing match goes to n gwillimsbury the annual plowing match of the north york branch is being shifted this year to the northern end of the county and will be held on the farm of mr grant sedore right in the heart of north gwillimsbury town ship on tuesday november 4th the sedore farm is large and of sandy loam soil ideal for plowing the place is near belhaven and the farm of our former citizen robert hare heretofore this match has always been in whitchurch or markham townships and the venture of intro ducing it in the northern areas will be watched with interest farmers in tho north are said to be enthusi astic about the undertaking military proclamation read before clock tower by acting reeve brown ceremony unique in the were aware of the undertaking a little history of stouffville was enacted which was being carried out here in here last thursday nfternoon when like manner toall towns and villages acting reeve ross brown received an officer courier bearing a call to arms issued by hon j l iroiston the acting reeve received the military escort in front of the muni cipal building where after receiving into his own hands the proclamation he was requested to read it aloud to all and sundry within hearing and this mr brown did unfortunately there were only a few present as no one excepting the acting reeve and one or two others has been in business here for fifty years mr and mrs r j fleury arrived in town last saturday from their i home in wellwyn sask to visit her mother mrs s im warrlner and other friends later they will go to tlmmins to visit their son there man killed as car fails to make turn both the driver and the owner of the car sitting with him in the front seat were arrested by police late saturday night on a charge of man slaughter after one man had been killed the owner harry muir con cord avenue toronto and the driv er thomas wright afton avenue were released on 2000 bail each the dead man james thomas of victoria street died ten minutes after the accident which occurred around midnight as the car was turning off the ballantrae road south to musselmans lake down the 9th concession according to chief robert wind sor the car failed to make the wide turn at this point known as church hill and went over the ditch into a field upside down the body of the dead man was brought to oneills mortuary in stouffville where a post mortunt was conducted by dr ball when the body was later released to relatives an inquest will be held we under stand thomas death was partly due to the handle of the car door piercing his heart others in the car besides thomas were mr and mrs muir june palm er the driver and owner street squabble court ends in over 500 population throughout canada a small detachment of soldiers accompanied the bearer of the proclamation and they paraded up and down town a few times gather- ins together those who happened to he on the street the proclamation calls upon all sloutheartcd canadians to volunteer for service in the canadian army after sotting out that liberty and freedom is at stake no other man on our main street has been in business as long as the merchant tailor john monkhouse who has been going continuously for fifty years in fact in point of years of service none can approach him since james ratcliff retired somo months ago and at that time mr ratcliff was junior to mr monk- house by several months although they started in the same year john monkhouse established himself first in the new block of that day just erected west of the mansion house he learned the tailoring with the late dick watson at goodwood in a day when the northern village vied with stouffvillc as a business centre he has seen his chosen trade trans formed but he has long enjoyed customers scattered vast distances mr john monkhouse over canada and the united states who still come back for their clothes indeed many are too far away to come back but they order by mall from their last measure bert jtfaskell east end resident has received word that his son albert is in england jack brignall claremont was assessed 1000 and costs in police court at whitby on tuesday as a result of an altercation on the street in claremont when brignall was cnarged with assaulting earl beare the charge was laid by constable jack norton and was heard before magistrate ebbs herbert lageer of fforonto was in town visiting his mother last sunday domestic water users urged to go easy as supply extremely low last saturday morning the dom estic water users were issued a re quest that they discontinue the use of watering their gardens from the domestic system some folks in the past when an order was issued to discontinue the use of hose filled up barrels and anything they could get so that they continued to water their gardens while neighbors all about were honorable enough to carry out the letter of the order for somo time tho water in the reservoirs has been down to a point where should a fire occur a serious situation might be presented like wise if tho drought continued it was estimated the use of water for purely house purposes would be a drain on the system users who stop to consider how serious it would be to havo to close the whole town off for hours at a time decided to conserve the water right away the situation is there and must be met if your neighbor refuses to do his part tip off the constable or some town officials and their case will be dealt with without bringing you into the picture the water shortage should goad the council into doing something about providing a storage place for the millions of gallons of water that run to waste over the greater part of the year yet is not available when it is needed