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tonffmue qteitmne leading weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twps vol 51 no22 stouffville ont thursday september 4 1941 eight pages developments near in 4000 robbery monkhouse tailoring establishment loses en clo stock thieves who cleaned out entire stock of ovei 3500 of cloth linings thread and supplies expected to be rounded up shortly believed to have stolen us car parked in town to carry away loot wednesday night stolen car is recovered ikesentment runs high locally against the robbers who last wed nesday night or early thursday morning stripped the entire stocof cloth in yard goods from the tailor ing shop of john monkhouse inci dentally last week marked mrjyionk- houses fiftieth year in business in this town and the manner in which it was celebrated wasnt very pleas ant the thieves gained entrance to his shop so well known on main street almost opposite obrien aven ue by forcing the front door when it would appear that several must have participated in carrying out all the bolts of cloth a couple of suits of clothes leaving behind only about six bolts including some valuable cotton and linings they took dozens of bolts of english cloth not obtain able today at the same time a car belonging to glenis parker of west roxbury a suburb of boston mass was stolen from his fathers home on church street and it is believed this and another car was used by the robbers to carry off the stock so far no trace whatever has been found of the stolen goods the parker car was recovered however on saturday morning be fore daybreak in toronto aban doned on a side street with no li cense plates on the us plates were in the back seat of the car either overlooked by the rob bers or they just didnt want them it is believed they were taken off and the car driven with canadian markers on from stouffville the car radio was removed and stolen also a second radio that the parkers had just brought from to ronto to stouffville after being re paired and which had not been un loaded twelve pairs of womens silk stockings were also taken and anything else in the car of any value the thieves even removed the mud guards hanging on the fenders and carried them off and the clock from the dash police suggested that two cars moved the slock from monkhouses to toronto where it may have been transferred to a truck and possibly shipped to montreal this is only a possibility and there is nothing to substantiate this suggestion the value of the tailoring stock is placed at between 3500 and 4000 by mr monkhouse who says the thieves even took his stock sheets off apprized of the theft on thursday morning constable al greenwood got into contact at onco with con stable barraclough who came to town at once to start an investiga tion which is still going on it was learned that rev robt young saw a car travelling north on church street past bis place around 2 am and in a few minutes two cars pass ed the other way police believe the street was combed for an extra car over the one the robbers came to town in and reaching parkers they found three cars standing out the us car happened to have the keys in the door where they had been left by mistake so that the car proved an easy theft it is just eleven years this spring that mr monkhouse was cleaned out in a similar manner but the thieves becamo bogged down west of stouff ville between the 4th and 5th con cessions on the townliiio and were seen hiding their loot in an unoccu pied house where it was recovered the question now is are the same people at work again why is monk- houses shop a prey for such a clean up one can only imagine how ever the shop stands rather alone and away from any sleeping quar ters and presents a fairly good tar get for thieves who are slick enough to size up a valuable stock that would not be difficult to move altoxa grower iuvaks premiers onions mr albert davis of altona thinks he is the equal of premier ilebburn or any other onion grower since his most recent achievement this year he planted a fairly large patch of ontario spanish that gave marvel ous results and a product equal to anything the premier might put up in fact they are as mild as anything that could be shipped in from the coast of spain the place we got the original socalled spanish onion however it is the size of ab davis onions that will take your eye he showed one in town a few days ago that weighed a pound and a half and said he could produce many of similar size jr band plays in c n e competition the comfort fund is growing do you know that the comfort fund sponsored by stouffville war veterans has sent over 15000 cigarettes to local boys serving with the can adian forces overseas so far each man has been receiving 300 a month but as the number of men on the local list increas es it becomes more difficult to keep up this ratio if you dont help coin jars have been placed in nearly a dozen stores in town- and you are asked to leave your loose change at every opportun ity there is nothing more appreciated than these smokes from home as is readily testi fied by the many letters from the boys which appear in these columns from time to time cigarettes are very scarce in england and your support is needed to send these small com forts of home enrolment high at continuation school high school attendance on the opening day was 116 and when all students are enrolled within the next couple of weeks the register will probably show about 130 which is most gratifying in view of the fact that there are many posi tions open for students of mature years as against the past few years when some went to school merely as a biding time ere a position opened up for them there were 30 registered in first form while one of the biggest upper school classes on record here is shown in the upper school the high standard of the school is attracting more and more pupils from the outlying district all of which is a financial help to the school section mrs isaac shaver was in 81st year one of goodwoods very oldest residents mrs isaac shaver died on friday last in her slst year she was a member of the baston family pioneers in the district and one bro ther thos bastton is the last sur vivor mrs shaver is also survived iby her husband but there are no children the funeral on monday- was in charge of rev w e smalley junior band makes good showing in keen competition standing in fourth place stouff ville junior bandsmen distinguished themselves in their debout in can adian national exhibition competi tion last week there were six en tries in the juvenile competition and the local musicians came up against strong contenders from much larger centres eighteen members were pre sent from here and did their stuff in the north bandstand just inside the dufferin gates windsor band stood in first place with kitchener second leamington third stouffville fourth victoria county fifth and dunnville sixth the first two of these groups had 3s and 34 members stouffville counted s3 points while the top band scored ss local motorist is involved in headon collision at dunbarton appointed princ1pai i8ilray ms childrens horticulture on thursday evening sept 11 the public school children who re ceived seeds from the horticultural society will be given an opportun ity of exhibiting their flowers mi- leon van cleemput of the univer sity of toronto will be here to judge the flowers and also give an address on some phase of horticul ture the public are invited to at tend and jencourage khe children further particulars will be given next week markham publisher injured travelling to port hope with a party of friends last saturday john whetter of markham was serious ly injured when a truck skidded into the car turning a corner mr whetter received a broken ankle and other severe injuries to his leg while the entire party of five toronto and perth people were badly bruised and all were sent to the hospital the car was a total wreck i iii jill markham farm sold the edwin jewitt 50 acres at lot 32 con 5 markham advertised for sale under mortgage has been dis posed off to george yake of beth- esda who paid 4100 the place hnlrinn otiflt t sai1 l0 1e in 1a1 slate ot repair ullucmllh icdlal 0l wi squire considerable over- j haul it is ideally located a bliz- mother and child zard tenant place is looking for another more pheasants for pickering one hundred and fifty young pheasants were released in picker ing twp on tuesday of this week the birds arrived at the township office in the morning under the su pervision of mr sutherland of the department of games and fisheries sins of mrs douglas 11 and hrr first horn occasion of mourning the whole district about cedar grove is grieved over the shocking death of mrs douglas hammil on sunday afternoon widely known and greatly beloved in the district friends could scarcely credit the distressing news one hour after she passed away her baby son was born and the child also passed away within a short space of time both in a nursing home in mark ham village mrs hammil was the former heva gladys dlmma and was in he 39th year she was a daughter of the late mr and mrs andrew dlmma and is survived by her hus band and one sister mrs lela burkjholder two brothers lome in cedar grove and one in toronto the funeral took place on tues day afternoon from the late home at lot g concession 10 markham to elwood cemetery markham where mother and habe were laid away a scene of great sadness wit nessed by a large concourse of sym pathetic friends and relatives canadian air patrol only three hours from siberian army resident from ohio enjoys stoiffvi lle turnips at his southern- home j c abell of canton ohio who with his family have been visiting his parents mr and mrs j l abell at wingwood says that they enjoy turnips from stouffville which sell in ohio a surprising- low prices pectcd to develop news of the re covery of at least part of the goods the next day or two is fully ex- and possibilly the robbers too sergt hardy of the rcaf along with mrs hardy and children have been spending a week or so with mrs hardys parents mr and mrs alt pugh sergt hardy is station ed at prince rupert which he says is just three hours flying time from the russian siberian frontier this northern outpost has important ship ping facilities which canadian forces have presumably been sent north to guard our east end visitor tolls us that it is a very barren section of country inhabited mostly by indians and eskimos such is the nature of the rock surroundings that even radio reception is very intermittent sergt hardy is himself a toronto boy while his wife was the former mildred pugh he certainly has seen canadas great northland and expects lo return to prince rupert for an other 6 months vigil the place has a population of 5000 hut there is nothing around the harbor hut forest and rocks fishing is the main occti- tion of the people one day he said the catch was 234000 tons of hali but and it was all canned the next day indicating the capacity of the canning factory there the air force patrols several hun dred miles out to sea occasionally doubtful freighters are sighted when their presence is made know to the patrol boats who overhaul them and examine their papers and cargo popular young girl wed this week a quiet wedding was solemnized at the united church parsonage stouffville on tuesday september 2nd when kathleen mary kelling- ton eldest daughter of mr and mrs garfield kellington was unit ed in marriage to john kudelka of toronto they were attended by elizabeth kellington sister of the bride and alexander kovacs a friend of the groom john kudelka is a graduate of ontario agricul tural college guelph and kath leen kellington was attending mac- donald college the happy couple are making their home in toronto the community in which kath leen has been very popular as a leader in girls activities particularly the cgit extend to both hearti est congratulations and best wishes mr morley c sanders b a school teacher at lemonville for the past seven years has taken the principal- ship of hensall continuation school hensall is in the lake huron dis trict near stratford mr sanders mother has recently moved from lemonville to take up residence with a married daughter at clare- mont prominent markham farmer is wed the marriage was solemnized in i a quiet service on thursday of last week of marion reesor daughter of mr and mrs f e ireesor of lo cust hill and frank robb of the 8th concession of markham the nuptial knot was tied by rev sayles of welland ontario who is a bro therinlaw of the ibrides the cou ple will make their home on the 8th john cassel allowed out on s2000 rail after crash near diiiibuiton a motor crash said to have been the worst in the district over the holiday and dense traffic of exhibi tion people occurred saturday after noon on no 2 highway one mile west of dunbarton when a car driven by john cassel of stouffville crashed into another car going in the oppos ite direction resulting in serious in jury to several passengers police said that the car driven by cassel veered for some unexplained reason from the north to the south side of the highway crashing into the car driven by robert gray of london cassel was arrested and later allowed out on bail of 2000 those hurt in the headon crash are robert gray 65 31 mount pleasant ave london out severe head injuries and fractured pelvis ernest young 56 same address severe head and back injuries and fractured ribs his wife zilpha 5s severe head injuries fractured ribs and fractured right ankle and an thony fasolino 27 scarborough junction head and back injuries stouffville horticultural society entered a bouquet of seasonal flow ers in the competitions at the cn ses e occupying a space two by three the feet while it did not come within the prize awards the members were not at all ashamed of their exhibit which attracted a good deal of at tention from the general public markham defaulters are paying up the township of markham adver tised nearly twenty properties for tax sale this fall and we understand that nearly all of them have come forward and paid up taxes and pen alty indicating that times are im proving and people have more money to spend when once your property is listed for tax sale and advertised it cannot be withdrawn from sale unless the entire indebtedness is paid off in cluding penalties and tax sale expen- markham is very fortunato and officials naturally very pleased ds visitor here gets added thrill to have these defaulters come for ward and make settlement in this way thus saving their properties from possibly passing into other hands married at oakwood church edythe macgregor and gordon mccowan whose wedding took place last saturday at oakwood presbyterian church toronto miss macgreg or is a daughter of mr and mrs george e macgregor norton ave toronto and her fiances parents are mr and mrs william j mccowan malvern ontario the groom is a grandson of mrs a s collins of stouffville and brother of margaret at the stouffville bakery mr glenis parker who hails from near boston mass and with his wife and two children are staying at the home of his parents mr and mrs w d parker church street had an interesting experience in tor onto last saturday having gone to tho city to reclaim his car from police headquarters which had been stolen from town thursday morning early and recovered on a city street abandoned mr parker proceeded to the cne once in the grounds he recalled that gas was needed in the car before seven oclock other wise he would be stranded for the night he appealed to a policeman who looked at the car and suddenly decided that ho would be pleased to escort mr parker out the gates where he could obtain gas thinking he was being given spe cial attention because he was a us visitor mr parker willingly took the cop along but on getting outsido the police ordered him along until they reached the ipolice station where ho was taken inside and at the desk was presented as a man with a sto len car it was some minutes before every thing could bo explained but when tho cop discovered that mr parker was the real owner and that the force had not yet been notified of the recovery of tho car he must have looked crest fallen nevertheless mr parker took it all in good part and attached no blame to the police man who he said was sharp enough and was really doing his duty thrown from plow leg smashed operating the riding plow on his farm on monday afternoon mr ar thur dowswell 2nd concession ux bridge and former resident of stouff ville was pitched off and badly in jured by the machine his right leg was so severely mauled and broken that he was rushed to tho general hospital in toronto by the brier- bush ambulance mr dowswell sinco leaving town to take up farming again only a few- years ago seems to have met in with a chapter of accidents or misfor tunes his barn was burned down two years ago and his one daughter lost her life when she was trapped in the flames mr dowswell too it will be recalled was severely burn ed at thai time