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-vf- the tribune stouffville ont thursday dec 17th 1942 v riv wjkt is toronto goodwood flashes valter davey 8 stanton ave toronto george todd is shipping lots of cars of vegetables these days we hear vegetables will he very scarce after christmas wood in goodwood is sold as soon as it can be cut the demand is keen sad news our good friend mrs myers fell and broke her hip mr and mrs s miller spent ai week with mrs adams in uxbridge mrs george brown spent an afternoon last week with mrs mantle mr and mrs george moore and daughter called on her parents mr and mrs t hardy last week mr and mrs geo jones visited their daughter mr and mrs hock ley on tuesday we all join in wishing teddy kidd a speedy recovery from his recent appendix operation ronnie faulkner has his second notice to appear for training buy your spare tribune at watsons store private elwood foskett also ayl- mer cooper and harvey feasby were homo for the weekend john foskett was home on leave for- two weeks also the library board expect the loan of a travelling library shortly pte robert dawson of the jica visited ills parents a short while on sunday fiftyone present a week ago sun day at the baptist church despite blocked roads and horse drawn vehicles three days last week our faithful mailman found the fourth line im possible for cutters in the snow mr and mrs reuben may spent wednesday with her parents on the third line only a handful attended ladies aid at mrs j mays but we enjoy- ed the christmas programme by mrs harry woodland threshing in our district came to end this week when they finished for mr h norton mrs william bryan called on mrs middleton who is staying at the home of her son mr and mrs reuben middleton the goodwood war workers met at mrs fosketts home to pack christmas boxes for the soldiers sailors and airmen from goodwood who are at present in canada mr and mrs ii norton were visiting her parents mr and mrs george brown on tuesday mrs reuben middleton is in stouffville helping to wait on her brother archie mike harding miss isabell hockley and friend were visiting in toronto mr and mrs g kennedy spent the weekend with her parents mr and mrs jones in goodwood rev mr mclaughlin is very busy these days with his examinations at college so busy he could not accept tickets for the hawk maple leaf game on thursday night mr mc laughlin enjoys a good game and hopes to sec one later fred middleton spent the week end at his home in goodwood and took mr and mrs freeman slack down to brougham to the home of her daughter mrs levi hopkins who has three children those present were- mr stanley slack mr and mrs edgar slack victoria corners mrs gordon taylor and son also william slack of claremont mrs ted mantle and two children mr artd mrs holtby of whitby her son and husband who is in military ser- vice there were three sots of four generations many pictures were taken of mr and mrs slack who are 50 years married also pictures of the cake which had white gold- en decoration thirty relatives and friends enjoyed a fowl dinner mr and mrs slack received many cards and good wishes and a sum of money a friendly gift a windbreaker leather or wool warm and hard wearing we have a fine selection well tailored for sports or strenuous work various shades various prices shirt satisfaction for personal use or for a mans gift we have shirts that satisfy from every angle 125 up scarfs with fringed edges- knit from the finest yarns 100 up pyjamas flannelette yama cloth and broadcloth socks goodlooking socks arid golf hose that would be appreciated by any men 50c up a e weldon stonftvillc ontario froni the family thanks the city guys for their fa km effort before york county council ad journed for the year a resolution was unanimously carried which issued thanks to the city men and those living in the towns and villages who turned out to help farmers with their harvest here is the wording of the resolution resolved that the council of tho corporation of tho county of york in regular session extend to the councils industrial companies and private individuals of the city of toronto and other urban muhicipali- ties the thanks of the farmers of the county of york for jhemost timely assistance rendered by employees and residents as farmcpjnmandos in harvesting the exceptionally heavy crop of 1942 which could not have been saved with the limited farm help available everyfarrnmachlne is a fight ing machlnc may be lost if atankbreaksdqwn so may a crop be lost wjjljolj a binder- is being re paired every farm machine must be inflghtlng trim when if gobs into action next year no inquest over markham drowning after thorough investigation and close examination dr s s ball has announced there will be no inquest over the death of threeyearold ross brennanof markham village tho child who strayed to the pond last week south of tho village and was found under tho ice several hours later in four feet of water scene of the tragedy was milnes pond at the foot of vinegar hill the baby was tho only child of mr and mrs george brennan for the first time in years the fire siren on the municipal hall sounded to organize a searching posse after the child was reported missing by his grandmother mrs j whiteoak mrs whiteoak reported that she gave the child permission to visit his aunt mrs jean nichols a short distance from his home shortly be fore noon and when it was dis covered that the lad had not shown up a search was begun throughout the district after close to three hours the searchers worked on the assumption that the child might have wandered down to the mill pond where he bad gone with his parents to watch them skate last sunday w ii le blanc an employee of the ifepc discovered a break in the ice which was quite thin at that particular spot a few minutes lat er he found the childs body near the flume of the dam owing to the condition of the childs body it was found impossible to attempt to revive him by arti ficial respiration anaemia and iron the presence of anaemia through want of iron in young pigs is usually first recognized toy sudden whiten ing of the ears this is particularly striking in the yorkshire or other white ibreeds even when the sow is fed large doses of iron there is not sufficient of it in her milk to satisfy the requirements of nursing pigs therefore unless the young pigs can obtain iron from other sources their ability to form normal blood is lost i conservatives select new leader last week the conservative party in canada chose a new leader when they brought out john bracken chosen from another party because of his qualifications for leadership the great conservative party also added the word progressive to their title so that it will be the progres sive conservative party spelled with out a hyphen most everyone knows that john bracken has been manitobas pre mier for 20 years but it is news to most that his whole political career arose from a propitious accident of fate while he was still a lad mr bracken tells that he was born on a farm in leeds county ontario where he graduated from public school and went to attend high school in brockville at the end of his last term the local newspaper bv error did not print his name among the successful candidates at final examinations as a result mr bracken instead of heading out to become a doctor or a lawyer went back to manage his fathers farm at high school ho said i wasnt much of a student i played rugby and hockey and didnt study very much it was no surprise when we didnt find my name among tho graduates so for four years from the time i was 15 until i was 19 i managed my fathers farm there were 40 milking cows i used to haul out the manure and play nursemaid to the cows it was during these years that his youthful ambition crystallized on the farm he read books and bulle tins on agriculture and made up his mind to become the ibest farmer in leeds county the bulletins convinc ed him that to realize this desire he should attend the ontario agricul- ural college at guelph his attendance at oac was post poned a year because his parents felt he couldnt learn to ibecome a good farmer by going to college he took the twoyear farmers course open tb nonmatriculants the first year he won all four scholarships available and the second the gover norgenerals medal then his parents wanted him to continue for the degree course which required matriculation standing to find out what additional subjects he would require he went back to the office of the brockville high school there he found that he had passed the final examinations after all but that he hadnt been listed in the newspaper due to a mistake buttressed iby the academic stand ing which had he known of it soon er would have turned him toward law or medicine young jack bracken went back and got his degree from oac it was there he met the girl he later married mrs bracken was a stenographer at oac upon graduation- the dominion government offered him the post of western representative of the fed eral seed branch at 75 a month which he accepted for a year be fore the year was up die was invit ed to become secretary of the live stock association and farmers insti tutes of saskatchewan he took the job moving to regina after three years of this work he was offered the- post of professor of field husbandry at the university of saskatchewan before he took over this work he spent a year viewing 16 agricultural colleges and experi mental farms in the united states for 10 years he was on the staff of the university of saskatchewan and then came to winnipeg as president of the manitoba agricultural college at the height of the agrarian movement in 1922 a number of farmer candidates ran for the mani toba legislature there were 2g of them elected the biggest group in a ghampion producer marmill big 33 dairy concentrate when other concentrates have failed to give the satisfactory results try marmill big 33 dairy con centrate- this feed has proven its quality with championship records of milk and butterfat note the extra milk producing ingredeints this feed contains special price on this feed fob our store flour feed lime blue coal salt central feed store free delivery phone 277 the manitoba assembly they met in a basement in winnipeg and cast about for a leader after looking over a few prospects they picked on john bracken stouffville christmas fair horse show next tuesday and food and wait it was said many times in the last war that food would win it and the records show that food was a telling factor in the enemies defeat it is said in this war that food will win the war and the peace food alone will do neither but without the necessary food no other combina tion can do it either gift suggestions cards our usual good value in boxed and loose christmas cards our economy box is 40c this year others 50c and 100 many unobtainable lines still in stock- low prices gifts we have a new and larger stock of childrens books and gifts also permastone plaques exclusively canadian study and reference biography books novelties good tidings book nook j l smiths by official order beginning wednesday december 16th when sold as fluid milk for human consumption ust be sold for 2c a jujtf le5 than the legal retail price now prevailing l be sure you get the full benefit of this reduction the wartime prices and trade board cl a