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o- j1 j f t 5vr j v f the tribune stouffville ont thursday nov 12th 1942 local and personal happenings quality service e a grubin ro optometrist will 1e at his office in stouffville on monday november 16th aiiss gertrude crossen of toron to spent sunday in stouffville with jier sister miss myrtle crossen mrs millie taylor of carlaw avenue toronto spent the weekend in stouffville with her aunt miss mary daley a destruction prank a riidpnt of main street mrs walls has justification for being indignant and lor seeking redress from the boys who on halloween might nulled the eavetroughing off one side of the walls bungalo a practically new property suspic ions are strong and the lads may be called on to pay for the damage caused mrs william taylor carlaw avenue toronto was the guest of her aunt miss mary daley for a couple of days mr vcrn atkinson son of rev and mrs levi atkinson formerly of stouffville has resigned his position as organist and choir leader of mark- ham united church to take over a jiew position in rhodes ave church toronto mr atkinsons place will be filled by mr and mrs a j woods stanl theatre phone 100 showing eacn night at 815 saturday and holidays 700 and 900 pilot officer navigator albert shank son of mr and mrs eli shank of markham is the third boy from that village to receive a com mission alberts brother oscar who is also with the rcap has been overseas now for some time news of this second sons good fortune reach ed the shank home on thursday to return from hospital mr william waddell who re cently underwent an operation in a city hospital is improving in health and is expected home on saturday the war llraucli the branch wishes to acknow ledge donations from burk ritchie of 200 gormley institute three quilts mrs smales a coat mrs cross gave material for a quilt and clothing the ballantrae group recently brought in a quilt and a friend gave s200 cash thank you all m davey secy thursday friday saturday november 12 13 14 sis hopkins jndy canova bob crosby musical and short subjects rumors in markham village to the effect that a petition would be placed before the village council on monday night to xoice the early closing plan for all stores were apparently un founded as no one appeared before the council regarding the issue a council representative told the tri bune that the agreement to close each evening but saturday still stood as a gentlemans agreement for those who would abide by it monday tuesday wednesday kovemer 10 17 18 sun valley serenade bonja henie john payne select short subjects thursday friday saturday nove mber 1 20 21 cowboy serenade gene autry mbc anniversary sunday stouffville mbc anniversary next sunday will be attended by large congregations morning and evening when rev c cullen returned missionary from rhodesia will speak in the evening at the 730 service and the gormley male quartette will sing for the morning service the kinsman quartette will sing and the address will be given by mr 0 iramer bought bluke street home squire dan hall of lemonville gordon birkett now located at montreal was home last week visit ing his father mr thomas birkett gordon is with the rcaf as a wireless operator he met lieut margaret ball passing through monti eal enroute to an eastern camp as the womens corps stopped in the city for a few hours mrs ross teel and family of woodvllle visited last weekend with her parents mr and mrs lou lownsborough stouffville feed feed feed miss jean brown of markham was a weekend guest of mrs norman baker belleville mrs baker is visiting at present at the home of her parents mr and mrs b a button obrien avenue mongolia sinns luck in a recent draw for an atten dance prize at the ajax dil works pickering mr dick george of mongolia held the lucky number and was awarded the 3000 prize for the two weeks draw lucky dick this week will have memories for mr and mrs bert lickorish it is not only their wedding anniver- saiy week but they are moving from the house next the mbc church to the residence vacated by rev mac- gregor almost opposite the presby terian chinch thats one way to celebrate a wedding occasion and perhaps an acceptable one in view of the great bouse shortage here at this time xante sounds familiar gen ike eisenhower commander of the american ifoices in europe is not a german although his ances tors came from there but the inter esting thing about his biography is that his mother was a stover re lationship to the folk we know here by that name if any is not record ed in the record we read lost baby roy deep sorrow is felt for mr and mrs percy brown and the grand parents mr and mrs obijah brown on the death of their baby son who passed away at the sick childrens hospital in toronto the funeral was held to stouffville cemetery on thursday besides the parents four little sisters survive we have supplies of all feeds on hand western feed oats western feed barley western wheat western grains are all cleaned before going into our elevators gluten feed oilcake meal bran cotton seed meal sov bean meal schumacher feed mixed chop 24 milk0 dairy ration 32 milk0 dairy ration quaker calf meal quaker pig starter quaker 34 hog concentrate also lime grit and shell coal coal coal red cross xotcs we acknowledge with thanks quilt 3 girls dresses 4 ladies dress es fiom excelsior class of ring- wood church knitters are still need ed for gloves and mitts christmas boxes have been shipped to fiftyone local boys on active service mrs roy giove miss gladys stover daughter of mr and mrs amhrose stover join- has purchased the former elijah e the canadian bank of commerce staff monday morning this is the third member of the staff to be chosen from the fair sex the other two being miss beryl brillinger and miss joan baxter total staff includ ing the manager at stouffville now numbers six pennock red brick house and lot with a small stable located on blake street from mrs morris the former maxtne anderson the pro perty is tenanted by mrs bell who will tetain possession until next april when we look forward to mr and mrs hall moving into town the reported sale of the pro- lperty is 2000 a lad was charged before magis trate mcnish in toronto court last friday with stealing his fathers watch and one egg charge dis missed the lad wsnt even asked to file a defense had he been re quired to do so he might have sworn the egg was rotten then what bad for the trousers at tne school board monday evening dr freel laid emphasis on the poor condition of the office furn iture used in the school building when he related that he nearly tore his trousers on it a few days ago that would be good for the tailor observed trustee macleod it was decided to look into the possibility of leplacing the table two chairs and a couch that is tequired when any pupil becomes ill two young men before the war two young graduates in chemistry faced the- future with no assets but technical train ing and unbounded faith in themselves they planned to capitalize on their years in college by manufacturing a certain chemical product but well need some money to get started they said lets put it up to the bank their banker decided that their faith was well founded in character ability energy well finance you to start in a small way he said make a test on the local market first presendy the product was being sold all over canada and exported to the united states and overseas now it fills a wartime demand the n enterprise employs a large number of people this actual example illustrates how this countrys chartered banks help creditworthy people to benefit themselves their fellows and their country under the democratic system of free enterprise we were handed a fairly sharp criticism about the condition of main street pavement last week charging that the council has neglected their duty for many weeks in keeping the road v clean then we ran acioss a similar item in a back file almost identical to the complaint we heard last week at that time the late a j ward offer ed a reply to the critics and as a lemedy for the situation suggested that there should be two cleaners one for each end of the town he thought they would vie with each other in doing a good job and at least if one end of- the town were cleaner than the other there would surely be some harsh complaintthe road man this year has been loaded down with too much work comfort fund parcels going regularly to egypt jack sanders of stouffville writ ing to mr bert lickorish secretary of the soldiers comfort fund states that the local monthly parcels are now arriving regularly in egypt jack says that up till now their only smokes have been coming from india in small quantities and of very poor quality im getting used to the weather here now and am tanned like a native but would have to wear a nightgown to look like one he continued another card to the fund from percy pipher tells of the sneak german raider bombing a small english school house near a mili tary camp and described toy an other local lad last week some of the canadians acted as pallbearers for the 29 little victims a large car over 50 tons pea coal a large car over 50 tons stove coal to arrive this week these two fuels mixed half and half make an excellent fuel for furnaces twoinone stoves quebec heaters and cook stoves with large fire boxes trv a ton of this mixture and your heating worries will be over order early to avoid disappointment stiver bros stouffville ont phone 4501 would any party in town or out of town who bought an electrox vacuum cleaner in the last week leave their names at the tribune veterans will meet at 2 pm next sunday afternoon at the tire hall for parade to the united church to take part in the memorial service at that time dress parade arm bands and medals the evening service in the united church next sunday is being with drawn in favor of the presbyterian and mbc anniversary services mrs elva thompson of new york has been spending several days vis iting at the home of mr and mrs w h eby series of bingos for comfort fund the first of a series of bingos proceeds for the veterans comfort fund will be held in the oddfellows rooms stouffville on monday evening november 23 the odd fellows lodge ate providing good prizes and everyone is invited to join in the fun and in so doing give the comfort fund a financial boost sanies like any other business exist because they provide mr- vie which a community needs and is willing to pay for at a ate which will yield a reasonable profit chartered bank profits average less than onehalf of one per cent a year on total assets fiw if any other businesses operate on at small a margin chartered banks o f c a n a d a bank of montreal the bank of nora scotia the bank of toronto lie provincial bank of canada the canadian bank of commerce the royal bank of canada the dominion bank banque canadicnne nanooale t imperial bank of cacada i barclays bank canada keep away from the tracks if the deer in the northern woods could read the above heading and take heed they would be very wise this week three hunters have gone to ardbeg for a shoot and they will do most of their hunting along the railway right of way we refer to tim oneill walter holden and harry holden who are now on the beat at this moment with their rifles charged for action just like as though they were guarding a bunch of german prisoners the locals intend to make their head quarters athhe ardbeg hostelry and cover part of the hunting grounds in that neighborhood if they are fortunate in meeting up with any thing that would make exciting reading we hope to continue this report next week over one thousand tickets have already been sold for the soldiers comfort fund lucky draw on the leather windbreaker donated to the ifund by the harry golden store get yours today you may win your self a fine windbreaker for this winter and in addition and what is most important youll be helping the comfort fund the only local organization sending monthly par cels to our boys overseas it requir es nearly 40 a month since the number of local lads in the old country has increased so consider ably war conditions restore oldtime pudding cloth the oldfashioned pudding cloth has come into its own again chefs of the canadian national railways have begun the preparation of 4500 pounds of war time christ mas plum pudding the puddings are being made in a dining car kitchen measuring 18 feet by 6 feet 10 inches over all the recipe for the plum pudding which will be served on the dining cars of the canadian national system during the holiday season has been varied to conform to pre sentday conditions while ingred ients will be fewer the amount of pudding to be prepared will be twentyfive per cent greater than last year to provide for an antici pated increase in the number of patrons last year canadian nation al chefs prepared two tons of christmas pudding for twentyfour thousand patrons this year two and quarter tons will be made for i approximately thirty thousand pat rons many of whom will be mem bers of the armed forces forked the reclaimed lard not many farmers have ever had the experience of using a pitch fork to handle lard but such a thing was going on last week up at owen sound 3250 pounds of lard was re moved from the ss hibou re cently raised from the waters of the bay there it was shipped to tor onto and will be used in making explosives the lard had been stor ed in buckets which had fallen to pieces and so it had to be handled with pitch forks and finally loaded into a truck the whole undertak ing was a new experience for those who undertook the job institute to hear of early days hero the senior womens institute will meet at the home of miss t taun on wednesday november 25 in stead of november 19 at 230 pm motto for this gathering is fortune never helps the man whose courage fails and the roll call will be answered by naming a boy or girl from this place who has gained prominence there will be papers read by miss vera tarr and mrs e j davey on the early history of stouffville while a reading will be given by mrs walsh and an heir loom should be brought by each member also hring a visitor if you can the usual social half hour will be enjoyed mrs g kellington president miss sadie stewart secretary bank robbery twenty years ago it is 20 years this last october 24 since the big bank robberyln stouffville when cash and securities totalling over a hundred thousand dollars were stolen from the local canadian bank of commerce much of the stolen paper was nonnegoti able but the misfortune was with those people who in the light of things at that time believed that any securities left with the bank were the responsibility of that institution this didnt work outfor thousands of dollars in securities were lost by customers who never got them back and the bank never reimbursed the owners only registration can really safe guard your finances of this sort as no bank holds itself liable for securities left in safety deposit box es if they are stolen papers or securities left with a bank as colla teral are different the bank would fully be responsible for their safe return to the customer the robbers who broke into the local bank 20 years ago were suhse- quently tried on another charge of robbing the mt forest bank but having been brought back from the usa to face the charge they could not be tried on the stouff ville robbery they were given long terms on the other charge messrs a c burkholder and edwin lloyd both identified one of the men held on the mt forest charge as having been seen stand ing around the main st of stouff- ville prior to the robbery here flying radio wren xnvy league concert the children and young people of stouffville are doing their bit to give the lads in the navy as merry a christmas as possible as a re sult of the concert to be given on friday november 20 in ratellffs hall they hope to fill many ditty bags the concert youths sal ute to the navy will have more than a hundred school child ren taking part ranging in age from the tiny tots in miss goodyers rhythm rand to the students of the upper school be sure to give the children support in their worth while undertaking wood lots bring good prices eight acres of timber from which the large trees had been previously cut were sold by public auction on saturday on the farm of albert king at ringwood it was staked in to quarter acre lots the best price obtained was j47 for a single lot which was considered a good price the total sale was well up to the expectations of the owner a large crowd attended and auctioneer farmer reminded them that every ton of coal saved was a crack at hitler more threshing sugar this week only farmers who have not completed thelr threshing because of the lateness of this years harvesting may obtain sugar to feed their har vest crews until november 15 the ration division of the wartime prices and trade board points out early in october it was announced that farmers would be unable to obtain extra sugar after octoher 31 but the period was extended be cause the lateness of the harvest season would have resulted in hardship farmers may obtain sugar to feed harvest crews by signing the invoices when they obtain supplies from their dealer the invoice must show the amount of sugar sold the number ot persons for which it is required the number of meals for which it is being supplied and the signature and address of the pur chaser the ration division emphasized that the amount of isugar supplied for this special purpose must not ex ceed one ounce per meal including household baking requirements flying is all in the days work for wrens who specialize as radio mechanics because of a more delicate touch they are considered bettor than men for the job of test ing the radio equipment while a plane is in flight this leading wren holds her wireless equipment after completing a flight crea we want more of it you want the best market for it have our truck call or make your own deliveries to the creamery and get two cents extra per pound of butterfat cold storage meat lockers for rent stouffville creamery co open satubdav stouffville ont evenings phone 18601 4 vihi