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sflxi- zf z j- rj j r j leading weekly for whitchurch markham pickerinsfanduxbridge twps cc vol 52 no 46 stouffville ont thursday march 5th 1942 bight pagbs flghtsergt robson is reported missing employed on winlerstein farm before enlisting recently promoted to flight sergeant late saturday night mr and mrs ross winterstein received word that flightsergeant melvln robson of the 1r1caf in england was re ported missing sergeant robson a son of mr and mrs james robson of vernon- tille ontario was living at ross r wintersteins when he enlisted in june 1940 he trained in toronto montreal fingal and rockcilff just when he was about to leave foroverseas early in 1941 he was stricken with appendicitis and had to remain behind for several months a few weeks ago sergt robson j along with several other air men was pictured in the toronto evening papers these canadian airmen took part in devastating raids over germany france and norway only a fow weeks ago sergt rob son had a narrow escape he along with the other members of the crew were justentering anew wellington bomber to take it up for a- test jwhen some one called there was a message for rolbson at the mess he i ran back and the rest of the crew decided to go up without- him what happened the censor did not permit to be known but at lonoe sergt rob- sonwas granted leave and ina sub sequent letter stated that he had ibeen linked up with a new crew toronto papers reported that a pilot officer lefurgey and sergt allan robertson had been killed iltecent news despatches before this mentioned that pilot officer le furgey sergt robertson andsergt melvin robson had been together in numerous successful raids over germany and norway n in the account of the battle over the straits of dover in the globe and mail of saturday february 14th sergt robsons name was again mentioned as being one of the crew in fenwickwilsons squadron the first squadron to go into action to 3000 of town funds invested in wa loan at the monthly council meeting monday evening it was decided to invest 3000 of municipal funds in the present victory loan the treas urer was authorized to invest 2000 of cash assets in the water works in the present loan and 1000 of accumulated hydro funds when this purchase is completed the water works will have bonds totalling 5000 as the system now has 1000 in dominion of canada bonds the hydro system already has 13000 in bonds and neither utility has any indebtedness whatever her 80th birthday on tuesday evening this week a dozen or more neighbors combined to call on mrs james mowat to re mind her that tuesday was her 80th birthday and to spend a social even ing with her scores of cards and letters have been received oy mrs mowat indicating the many warm friends that are hers both in town and other communities farmers wife succumbs to stroke one hundred years and now under same roof one hundred years ago wednesday night of this week imarch 4 1s42 a little band of eight people formally met at the home of mr claus mertens just west of town and form ed themselves as the written re cords say into a church of jesus christ of the congregational order on wednesday night this week march 4 one hundred years later to a day another little band of people still met under the identical roof at the mertens home just west of town and held a meeting of the ten talent club of the congregationalchris tian church it was an historic occasion and is the first of what perhaps will be a series of events this year to mark the centenary of this the first chris tian congregation of any kind in stouffville born here eighty years ago ttios brownlee dead had liven in iii health for two years was noted horse fancier markham sextet ousts newmarket newmarket military camp dropped out of the oha intermediate b picture tuesday night when they dropped a 105 decision to markham markham captured trie twogame series 17 to 8 on the round three straight goals by callahan featured a fourgoal uprising in the second for newmarket but the rally was shortlived theywere held scoreless in the final session while markham rattled home jive goals commissioned following a second stroke suffered a few weeks ago mrs bert hopkius passed away at her home at lot 30 concession 10 on thursday febru ary 2g in her 68th year she had put up a valiant fight for life follow ing a stroke suffered a year or more ago and had made good progress until a 3econd seizure very recently left little or no hope born in markham township mrs hopkins was a daughter of the late mr amtmre abraham ihillor of the 6th concession at almira there sur vives three sisters and six brothers namely mrs f gregory bella mrs r long lonisa mrs p drake irose also samuel luiller of ringwood isaac of mazeta sask daniel bert job and mussel of toronto the funeral on saturday after noon proceeded to stouffville united church thence to stouffville cemetery rev douglas davis con ducted a private service at thehpme and later the public service in the church pall bearers were four brothers and two brotherinlaws there weremany deautlful floral pieces indicating the sympathy of j attempt to prevent the nazi ships ma ends and relatives from reaching their heligoland base because of the clouds and terrific rain they were unable to break through and were forced to return to their base no details were given as to what happened sergtrobson other than that he was reported missing on february v lie was a radio gunner and had recently been pro moted to the rank of flightsergeant pilot officer p e ckappee son of mrs wmcrapper of stouffville recently his wings and commission at no 16 service flying training school hagersville pilot crapper was born at goodwood he is now taking an instructors course at trenton ontario born in stouffville so years ago thomas brownlee died at his home in ottawa on wednesday last follow- jng an illness of two years duration as a young man here he was a com panion of the late rev james daley although mr brownlee was the elder of the two men when still in his teen age mr brownlee went to mount vernon ontario and there took employment in a flour mill fie followed the milling business at shawville que and quyon quebec here he met and married henrietta tapley who predeceased him 20 years mr brownlee was a membor of the united church i forty years ago the family located in ottawa where they had lived ever since mr brownlee purchased a transfer business and owned many horses in fact he was a horse fancier and delighted in the racers he owned many famous racers and was an authority on this line it was brownlee who owned the famous grand opera billy b golden rex miss brownlee and others of high racing record in canada and the usa in recent years the tribune has putiiished letters contributed by the jate mr brownlee who always wrote in a happy reminiscent vein recall ing old timers who were associates of his in town 65 years agoto any of these who are still living his death jylll be learned with regret an only son roybrownlee of 654 gilmour st ottawa survives l funeral serviccwasheld in ottawa to pinecrest cemetery conducted by rov norman dowd 150000 is districts war loan so far overseas nearly two years stouffville and whitchurch well on way to objective of 175000 canada reaches 600000000 objective markham favors or wilmol warriner appointed t control whole municipality council in session on monday work by cop draws councillors complaint funeral for mrs a 0 bruce today following a loiig period of deli cate health mrs alexander b bruce died at the febrierbush hospital stouffville on tuesday ofthiswaek in her 83rd year she had ibeen re moved from her home on the 6th concession of markham only a day or two before the end came owing to uncertain road conditions the tiody will remain at oneills funeral parlors stouffville- until thursday morning the funeral will take place from the residence of who said there is plenty of complaint i want the ratepayers to know that i am not a party to pay ing a constable not doing the work ive want done declared councillor ira riusuell on monday evening be fore all members of the council and reeve weldbn in regular session mr rusnell said the constable was employed at the pickeringtvar plant and while he may attend some calls heoertainly isnt to be seen when the traffic is congested early saturday nights this council wriggle and twist long enough over whether somo fel low getting 35c an hour is charging them pr ten minutes too much but a monthly cheque is handed out to the constable without any question whatever continued mr rusnell recruits still wanted while over fifteen boys have al ready filled out forms for the stouff ville air cadet squadron more are wanted the local unit has received word of its affiliation with the osha- wa rcaf station and an open night is being arranged for parents and boys with the assistance of the air force former factory manager dead rev robert young church street thursday afternoon at 145 and pro ceed to melville united church for service at 230 oclock interment will be in the molvllle cemetery mrs ad bruce was a prominent member of the nursing profession for many years her maiden name was louise eastwood and she graduated from toronto general hospital in 1sss she was one time assistant superintendent in that institution and superintendent of training schools for nurses guelph general hospital and nichoiis memorial hospital peterborough since her marriage to mr a d bruce prominent citizen of mark ham township mrs bruce was an earnest worker in the melville church and her fine christian life was an inspiration to everyonowho came in contact with her she is survived by her husband and n silcriniaw miss nettle bruce about the situation he was prepared to ask for the resignation of the cop how areyougoing to better yourself and who can we get to take tho job countered reeve weldon who said further that he was willing to do anything possible to improve the situation councillor brown thought the cop did a good deal that the public is unaware of while councillor hugh boyd suggested the matter be left over a month so that members could look around the clerk announced that the hydro peak again struck for the second time just a few minutes before six oclock in the evening drawing a load of 258 horsepower councillor rusnell telephoned n w byer to see why the street lamps were burn ing at this tlmo when it was daylight and arranged to have them held off n short time to avoid adding to the peak onetime toronto representative of the tetley tea company john m b paterson of 20 gormley avenue died on sunday at the toronto general hospital an accountant he had been associated with several wellknown toronto firms mr paterson was a native of scot land and spent his early business life in london eng he came to toronto at the turn of the century as repre sentative of the tetley tea co for some years he was manager of the standard vinegar works at stouff ville and occupied the becbe resi dence where mr l c murphy now lives during his latter years in business he was with the george c oles ltd caterers and later the remlncton rand limited a past master jof north gate ma sonic lodge he had been a member since its institution in 1921 follow ing the death of his wife harrfet reeve paterson in 1931 he retired from active bnslncss there are no i immediate survivors markham township will have only one weed inspector for this year in stead of two previously employed mr wilmot warriner was the unani mous choice of the council in session on monday afternoon after thert was a division in committee on the question of appointing only ono man in committee stage deputy reeve hooper and councillor harry barber voted to make only one appointment and reeve rennie and councillor clark favored continuing the policy of having two inspectors council lor albert rcesor gave the casting vote for making it a oneman job inspector warriner was then appointed iie receivso 200 for his services mr warriner said the pay was too low for man car and gaso line constable b gayman was instruct ed to attend the police training school in toronto beginning feb 25 the township to pay 25 expenses in connection therewith special train ing first aid etc will be instilled in to the cops to enable them to be more efficient the federation of agriculture was granted 10 to help along their work on behalf of the farmer a representative of the a e wil son insurance co announced a re duction in rates making a saving of 30 in premium due or near due markhams nonaccident record en abled the new low rate to be effect ed council authorized renewal of road liability insurance on work men costing 23172 this premium is based on the pay roll of employees on road work in case they are hurt in any way the municipality is pro tectcd from damage claims fox bounties were paid to peter connor wm calvert arid walter byer the latter killing two foxes the road accounts presented for payment consisted of 90 separate items for which cheques will have to be issued for varying sums as small as a dollar snow shovelling accounts totalled nearly 400 while snow plowing by hooverroberts totalled 660 for 220 hours operation relief amounted to only 12378 there was no hospitalization account which constituted a record clerk chas hobversald 200 had recently been recovered on hospital ization paid by the township richmond hill council presented a bill for 210 charges for answering five fire calls counci authorized payment of tho account if found correct and made formal request for a bill immediately following each fire infntnrc robert sibley right and lloyd sibley are whitchurch boys sons of mr jerry sibley who have been overseas with the royal regiment a year and a half the brothers went to iceland from canada in july 1940 and returned to england in novem- ber they are both married both the mrs sibleys living in toronto lloyd is father of three children cur wn fred marshalls rink of w wad- del frank irowbotham and walter brillinger carried off first prizenifty white shirts in the local curling tournament here on wednesday winning their three 12 end games against rinks skipped iby ii w sandj ers thos birkett and m e watts the second place spot was taken by m e watts rink of gordon lemon winn timbers and chris armstrong the prize was a pair of fine lined gloves harry brillingers foursome of harvey moyer everton smith and bill slack took third neckties de feating thomas birkett in the conso- lation round by the score of 103 tho village of stouffville and the township of whitchurch com bined into one area for purposes of the present victory loan campaign have well passed the threequarter mark in their objective but the showing in other immediate terri- tory is not so good the village of stouffville and township of whitchurch combined have an objective of 175000 and haye subscribed the sum of 131000 markham village with an bbjec- tive of 60000 has subscribed 36- 000 or6400 more than half markham townships objective is set at 200000 and has reached the amount of 94000 fallingshort of the half way mark there was a week to go when these figures were compiled and it can be seen that there must be some fine work done if this part of the north york district is to main tain traditional good standing in all its war efforts the district of northern york county has a total objective of 1600000 and up to monday night had reported subscriptions of 1120500 the original objective for all canada of six hundred millions was reached on tuesday but a new objec tive of nine hundred million has since been announced miss dorothy wells of london oht and mrs e wells of agincourt were visiting tuesday with their uncle and aunt mr and mrs k g tarr berths brown on saturday february 21 1942 to mr andimrs percy brown orijlia thegift ofa daughter- davis at the albany hospital toronto on march 4 1942 to mr and mrs roy davis a daughter stoitffer mrandmrs reginald stouffer nee maryleisstouffj ville are happy to announce the birth of a son david abraham at the brierbush hospital oil- tuesday march 3rd 1942 reformatory terms fpr dangerous driving rmgwoofe airman takes a bride at a quiet ceremony on saturday february 28th loreen doris elliott daughter v mr james a elliott and the late mrs gladys elliott became the bride of albert george edward myland rcaf son of mr and mrs geo myland ringwood ontario the marriage was solemnized bp- dr hardy ander son at the home of the brides aunt the bride wore a blue crepe dress with wine accessories and a corsage of red roses miss bernlce elliott sister ofthe bride was the brides maid wearing wine crepe with match ing accessories and a corsage of pink carnations the groom was attended by gladstone myland after the ceremony a reception was held at the home of the brides aunt off for sunny south earl cook local basobal product left this week for lakeland florida for spring training with- his home team now the detroit tigers earl has completed about ten years with the big tlmo league becoming the property of the tigers last season in a deal from cincinnati in a verdict brought in by an as sizecqurt jury last week harry muir and thomas wright were both found guilty of dangerous driving the jury found the two not guilfy of the charge of manslaughter under which they were tried the jurors deliber- ated five hours tom wright who is a shipyard worker anil who was driver of the car in which jim thomas was killed rounding the corner at church hill enroute to musselmans lake from ballantrae- was sentenced to six months in the ontario reformatory harry imillercompanlon and whols employed 1iy an auto dealer was given a term of three months t commenting on the finding his lordship said im glad you did not find the accused guilty of man slaughter i dont very well seo how you could have done other than you have j c on july 5 at about 815 p m tho two accused with mrs muir miss adelaide palmer and james thomas left toronto in mulrs automobile for the purpose of spending a week end at the mulrs cottage atmussel mans lakeshortly after midnight- as they were close to the turn- from the aurora road to the musselmans lake road the car left the paved way crossed a ditch smashed through a- fence and turned 6vevn its side thomas an elderly man referred to by members of theparty as uncle jim was crushed under thocar ho died shortly after at the time of the accident wright was driving theear he was charged with manslaughter and muir was included in thetcharge on the ground that being in the car at the time and having legal control of the vehicle he should not have allowed wright to drive if he was not in a fit condition to do so dr s s ball who examined wright after the accident said he was under the influence of liquor and not in a fit condition to drive york county constable fleury said that both muir and wright wore under the influence of liqnor both aconsed denied the liquor evidence presented by thecrown and while admitting that they- had drunk some beer before icavingthea city claimed they were not affected oy it v