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x- leading weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and oxbridge twps vol 53 no 28 stouffville ont thursday november 19 1942 eight pages town and church have lost staunch friend and worker in the- death of david john williamson at his home on church street last thursday afternoon the village of stouffville and particular ly the united church has lost a staunch friend and- worker the end came with shocking sudden ness despite the fact that mr williamson had a precarious heart condition and could not do very much work on the day of his death he went out to the garage in the morning and there he must have suffered a heart attach for he ivas seen lying on the ground by neigh bors wlio hastily summoned help and he was carried to the house hy messrs william ratcliff j k agnew and wesley boadway while he rallied slightly he passed away the same afternoon he was in his 77th year the funeral on saturday after noon following a private service at the home and a public service in the united churcli where he was one of the elders proceeded to peachs cemetery for interment rev douglas davis pastor conducted the service and the pall bearers were messrs- lloyd moyer clifford piph- er ormsby lehman frank itae isaac barkcy ana clayton stouffer blessed are the dead which die in the lord was the subject of the ministers address born on the sth concession of markham on april 16 186g the late d j frank williamson was a son or pioneer farmers his father was john williamson and his mothers maiden name was eliza- hefh hopper frank as he was familiarly called farmed as a young man in the melville district on the 6th concession of markham here lie married mary ellen naacko and 23 years ago the family moved to stouffville surviving are the bereaved wife and two sons leslie williamson of toronto and norman with the war times pvices trade board there are two grandchildren hetty and dorothy also surviving are two half- hrothers garnet williamson of markham and ormsby williamson living in sojithern saskatchewan there are three halfsisters namely miss elizabeth williamson also mrs c robinson ada and mrs arthur reynolds minnie all of toronto had the deceased been spared until the 7th of next month mr and mrs williamson would have cele brated their 50th wedding anniver sary the late frank williamson was looked on in the community as a man of sterling character and un swerving christian principles he was reared in a home where the word of god was cherished and as a youngman he became an ardent church worker for many years he was a imeraher of the methodist church and later the united church he was both teacher and servant and at the- time of tiis death an honorary elder from his home usually came the prepared elements of the sacrament partaken of quarterly in the united church his quiet unassuming manner won for him respect and reverence of a wide acquaintance friday 13th no sale mr james brodte s auction sale of wood lots at gbrmley in mark ham township has been post poned until tuesday november 24 the sale had been announced for friday november 13 and mr brodie said he was not at all super stitious he still says so yet the 13th was the stormiest day we have had in a long time at the hour set for the sale only a dozen people gathered and it was so stormy you couldnt see twenty feet the wood lots are located back of the summit golf club property on the second concession just south of tie townline and consist of ten acres of soft wood four acres of wood and two properties sold at gravel hill four acres of second growth wood together with 12 acres of land from which the wood will be cleared also another parcel of land which was all the property of the hamill estate at liucolnville was disposed of in short order by auct ioneer parmer last thursday after noon buyers were hungry for wood and lots up to 55 and which the trees were not too large the wood lots are just north of gravel hill and 12 acres of land there vas knocked down to ves pollard for 55 hell have to wait 55 years until there is anything again on the place worth cutting said a bystander at the sale but another farmer declared that there must be some mistake as the place is worth more than that after the wood sale the house at the corner of liucolnville together with 20 acres of land in the gore on which probably 35 big pine tiees stand was sold to walter talbot for 1900- many things could be done with this corner which has prospects of a portion of it being needed to complete a proper turn on the high way to uxbridge this wasa remark able sale in that not only the wood lots were all sold but every bit of land- on which the lots arelocated plus- another property that has been offered for sale foraiong time these are fortunes s that make auctioneers smile ration board named for the local district house at capital hard to locate iustur macgregor kolurii to local ci in roll when ottawa folk fail to provide accommodation functions are not fully defined yet boundaries probably unsatisfactory under new plan of ration boards operating all over the country in stead of from a central office there has now been named a board to cover stouffville markham vill age and township and richmond hill with reeve ob heisey of matkham village as its chairman sugar and tea rations will be the chief things handled by the board hut just how it will function is something not yet worked out the district that includes the markhams richmond hill and stoultville will be administered by its chairman reeve heisey and a p graham markham secretary charles reesor markham reeve weldon and george storey for stouffville mrs harvey moyer and miss ruby reesor charlie hoover and ireeve james rennie for markham township and unionville reeve thomas trench and russel lynett richmond hill when the machinery is put in motion these gentlemen will be handing out the tea and sugar ration books or at least they will be here and determine all appeals for special allowances for lost books etc their exact duties are not ifiully defined yet but will be announced shortly the claim of the war- limes price and trades board is that- local committees would be more conversant with the conditions the south end of whitchurch township it is argued should have been included in the area of stouff ville the largest handler of sugar in the district unless there is some adjustment a strenuous opposition should be registered against the pre sent setup a farmer living a mile north or slouftville would not want to travel ito t aurora or new market for a ration book to buy sugar in stouffville he shouldbe ahle to get his book if the district properly defined ix aikfokck blue gsfk ted cadieux son of mr and mrs cyriel cadieux of stouffville who is one of this towns latest sons to enlist in canadas air ted is monster cabbage j when mrs william redshaw presented the office of this paper with a fourteen pound cabbage she started a contest that promises to grow foe we have since received a i cabbage head from merlin baker hat tipped the scales at 1s pounds when you realize that only a few over a hundred such heads would make a ton of cabbage its proportions or weight is wonderful so far as we can recall the mpp never produced such cabbage as the elder son has left with this paper- and if he were a more frequent visitorto this old home town he would see something displayed in the office window that would fill him with pride xow oveitseas new township offices will soon be taking form the announcement recently made in this paper that the township of markham was likely to have new township offices in which to carry on its municipal business has be come a definite fact the old loinau brick residence in unionville has now been acquired by the coun cil plans for a vault have been iinade and margison balicock will at present stationed at manning incorporrte thcse illto the changes v to be made to the building reeve rennie stated to the tri- imne today that it was not intended to spend a lot of money on the building which he said would serve the townships purpose with but slight changes now the 1943 comcil he believed would occupy the new quarters very early in the new year it will pro vide a clerks office council cham bers and offices for the road superintendent and the police de partment councillor opposes compulsory sanding of town sidewalks thirtyfive deer for local hunt clubs a totai of 35dcer two bears a wolf and two foxes was the bag chalked up by the local deer hunters this year the stouffville hunt club com prised of eleven brought out nine deer b a button bagging a bear and a fox and william burkott get ting a second fox mr button and lome wagg fired volleys at the big bruin which got away after the first attack but was located later dead as a door nail bloated and unfit for use the twelve man party forming the markham club and with whom several local businessmen travelled north carried out ten deer a bartholomew tumbled a 150 ibbcar owing to a misunderstanding on the part of the church officials in westboro rev d macgregor and his family found on their arrival in ottawa that the house which was being held for them had been rent ed after trying for a week to find a suitable place and being unable to locate anyting mi macgregor and his family returned to this dis trict they are at present living on the 9th line markham on his return the church officials liere interviewed him and mr macgregor has agreed to continue to minister to the two churches which he has served for the past five years namely stouffville and the 9th line baptist churches ki citizex sttilckex with illness mr joseph cadieux one of our highly raspected oldest citizens suffered a weak spell a few days ago and is still in a rather pre carious condition mr cadieux is in his s2nd year but looks no more than a man of 70 he has been en joying very good health for one of his great age he is at the home of his daughter mrs everton smith queens court where he has been living for some time at local lads side at dieppe tell how bruce lintiicr of slouilville bound his wounds in dieppe battle wilfred chummed with two local boys in royal regiment garage entered twice in month it is believed that a robbery gang were highly active last sunday night or early monday morning breakins were reported at stouff ville markham and richmond hill for the second time within month the garge of lewis bros at the extrome westend of stouffville was broken into in this present foray entrance being made by breaking a glass chocolate bars and a few supplies were missing at markham village hiseys groc ery was robbed and a garage at richmond hill was relieved of con- and art irussell came home 2500 j boot n automobile tire and parts constable fleury- and constable rusncll are working on the case- on monday an abandoned car was reported at wilcox lake but it is not known whether it was left by the thieves who were in town the richer for bagging a wolf l e oneill and walter holden each shot a deer in the fourman hunt club that also included harry holden and- bui armstrong the quartette spread out from ardbeg into a district infested with lakes and rivers one night during their stay a terrific storm blew over and in the morning the boys said the bush was full of deer track the lucky hunters got their game on the shores of snake skin lake the stouffville and sutton club of twelve members had a deer each two of them big bucks tipping the scales at 225 pounds ralph flintl was again dishing up heman nave nannted the deer country each meals for this outfit wljose members i eemon for ovciya score of years ftp clifford morgason son of mr and mrs leslie morgason board cd the train here last sunday even ing on the long treck back to port albernle bc a coastal industrial centre on the tip of canadas wes tern shores hello folks well im still- kicking which i guess you already know by now this is my sixth day of capture although it doesnt seem it now i didnt come off too badly i am up and about this is the first chance i have had to write a letter they havent got an address for me yet so i guess yau wont be able to write back for a while there does not seem much i can say my par cels will have to come through the red cross now i guess the cigar ettes will also maybe i wont- he using them then there are quite a few of the fellows who joined with me- both the stouffvine fellows lintner fixed me up when i got hit castle travel led here with me in the train it would have been better if i wrote to brother les in england when he got it he could wire you saying i was okay it would be quicker i dont think there will be many letters written so i wont be able to write to everyone you can do that for me one is the girl in scotland she probably thinks i have for gotten her her address is on the back well i will close for now dont worry im okay cheerio wilf tunney the council of stouffville in session on friday evening decided to defer until its next meeting the final enactment of a bylaw that would compel householders to not only clean snow and ice from walks abuting their premises but to sand the walks should they become slip pery councillor nolan said that if the clause compelling sanding was made law it meant that house holders would have to keep a sand box handy and where are they to get the sand he wanted to know tf sanding is to he introduced council should do it he thought councillor boyd thought there was no use going half way with the bylaw lets show that we imean business and compel them to sand the walks when it is necessary if they know they must sand they will keep the ice off better jle noted that the bit of snow the other day was neglected until it be came deep slush on many walks the bylaw has been held up all summer on this issue and reeve weldon said it was up to council to decide but he consented to postpone ment aintil the tjecemher meeting that part of the bylaw compel ling occupants of property to keep the walks free of ice and- snow was generally approved and will pro vide a penalty up to 50 for failure to live up to the bylaw the bylaw will get its final sergt pilot herbert orr son of rev and mrs a j orr melville who has just arrived overseas with another contingent of the royal canadian air force herbert enter ed the service last november and trained at manning pool jarvls oshawa and belleville and received his wings at camp borden whitchurch twp declines aurora fire fighting agreement two items on which there will be shown substantial savings in whit church township this year were revealed on saturday at the regular monthly session of the council pre sided over by warden earl toole as neither of the items are con trollable- the council is not taking when the change- is accomplish- any 0 t credit sheep claims have ed the danger of fire hazardto the ueen exceedingly light also hospital- township records win be completely removed mrs gam davison at the dost office has up to this time provided the township with comfortable quarters for acjerksofficepiu in the new arrangements everything will be under one roof and any re cord called for at a council meeting may be obtained ibythe clerk forth with the step taken in buying a prem ises for municipal offices will eliminate the constant fear that the ization shows a sharp decline on saturday watson- fairies was compensated to the extent of 1800 being for one sheep killed and flock damage by dogs only a few i claims have been laidtliis year and none- were heavy likewise on saturday hospital care for indigent patients for october dropped to 3g59 a record low month for the year councillor ed logan called at- tention to what lie considered a dangerous situation at gravel hill public hall in unionville would be on the uxbridge townline a danger- cnt up for municipal chambers as the hall is wanted for public func tions and there was always a possi bility that the township might con vert the lower part at least into a clerks office thus making it no longer available for public functions second sox kxlrsts ronald james younger son of mrs nettie james main street who moved to stouffville from goodwood reported for duty with the rcaf this week ronalds elder 1rother wesley is a pilot officer and so this makes the second son serving in the air force for mrs james reading at the december meeting of the council and the constable will likely be asked to enforce it pactice makes good shooting kxgaof3iext engagement- has the engagement- has been announced in england of- barbara daughter of mr and mrs evoratt manor house little fenton yorkshire to warrant officer alfred e thomas son of mr and mrs g r w thomas- stonffville the wedding to take place decem ber first practice practice thats pilot officer buzz beiirlings advice to youngsters who are about to jllmb into spitfires and fire their dead ly guns which can be seen in the picture from a plane like this beurling bagged 2s 13 nazis ous deep gulley paralles the road way by the old gravel pit caused by the removal of gravel a motion was passed calling upon uxbridge township to investigate as they are in charge of that section of the townline complaint about the condition of a couple of needy folk in theballan trae section was referred to the relief officer robert windsor criticism was made because the needy people had not been attended to before we must not neglect such people said ireeve toole after hearing a report from council lor logan who had taken two loads of kindling to one helpless man who was very cold and had nothing but green wood that would not start a fire he said the reeve said this sort of person would be so much anore comfortable in the home on yonge street and strongly urged councillor logan to use his influence in this behalf percy pattenden was ordered paid 1000 for securing twoconvictlons against sunday shooting each de- putygame warden was ordered paid 500 for his services at thepheas- ant hunt the committee of council june- honing with aurora council over a rate for attending flres in a specified section of whitchurch was ordered to carry on underthe old agreement rather than slgtfthe agreement call ing oh whitchurch to pay 30 per cent for a new engine which not like jy could be bought at present owing to war conditions councillor lome evans and deputy reeve leary re presented the township in these negotiations councillor eugene baker piloted the annual bylaw providing for nomination and election day polling places and officers if such should be required at the end- of the year vthe same polling places as have customarily been used were named in the bylaw and the officers to handle the polls will bo 1st named is dro second poll clerk div 1 ben langley reg woods div 2 maurice pike jas gibson dlv 3 frcd timbers alex ratcllff div 4 art storry dawson burnett dlv 5 harry hllli roy mlddlebrook div 6 chas hunt herb oliver dlv 7 fred rcld charles wright dlv 8 wm simpson percy cutler a special meeting of whitchurch council will be held on saturday december 5 to clean up the bus- ness of the year as far as possible before december 15th navy league concert friday night i viji