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1940 copies mm classified ads on back page leading weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twps vol 53 no 46 stouffville ont thursday march 18 1943 bight pages former pastor here dies suddenly for many years in the ministry rev thomas laidlaw retired unit ed church minister 72 died sud denly early sunday morning at his home 55 ravina crescent toronto he preached sunday march 7 in st lukes united church where he bad iheen supplying for the past year mr laidlaw apparently made a good recovery from the llu and seem ed quite himself again but on satur day night he sat listening to the radio when he commenced a violent coughing which continued as he went to ibed at four oclock sunday morning he died with shocking suddenness mr laidlaw was born in peel county and received his education at brampton high school and the university of toronto he later graduated in theology from victoria college and was ordained a minister in the methodist church among the charges served were churches at epsom thornloe heathcote stayner owen sound and stouffville mr laidlaw retired from stouffville six years ago last june and moved to toronto at that time he was a past chairman of grey county presbytery mr laidlaw had been a resident of toronto since his superanuation in 1936 surviving are his widow eliza beth williams laidlaw two sons winston overseas and gerald with the rcoc at kingston and two daughters jessie mrs john kin ross and mary laidlaw both of tor onto a large representation from the toronto east presbytery attended the funeral to mount pleasant ceme tery on tuesday afternoon the service was held atthetrull funeral home danforth ave and was conducted by rev clarke b lawsonbd chairman of the tor onto east presbytery assisted by rev c w watch 02yearold friend of the deceased rev john ferguson gave the address and rev george service said a personal word on his relationship with the late mr laid law mr laidlaw was one of christs free men living toy the word said mr ferguson in his address the pallbearers were reverends harold toye george service h mel low w wallace g b mclenan and j c cochrane among the stouffville people who attended the funeral were noticed rev d davis mr isaac barkey mr and mrs ho klinck mr roy grove miss isahel collard very kindly re ference was made to mr laidlaws ministry in this town his last charge before retirement mechanic with hoaf ivan goudic son of mr and mrs fletcher goudic stouffville who enlisted as a mechanic with the rcaf last july for some time now ivan has been station ed at st tliomns but i being transferred this week to dauph in manitoba give to russian relief the pupils of grades iv and v room iv of the stouffville public school have through their daily con tributions for two weeks donated the sum of five dollars to the canadian aid to russia fund miss gladys brooks and her scholars are to be congratulated goodwood loses aged resident mrs c fine used wniirmbxts sell cixse to prices for new goods evidence of the keen demand for good used farm implements was dem onstrated last week at the sale on the farm of george w hunt on the don mills rd when a purely farm implement sale saw 15 pieces sold in 45 minutes by clarke prentice auctioneer the 15 items realized s00 or just within 100 of present cost of new implements the death of mrs diaries fine at the home of her niece mrs edward taylor on tuesday removes one of the oldest residents of goodwood dis trict who was born there and ex cepting for a few years in toronto she spent her long life in the locality mrs fine was in lier slst year she was widely known as armanda hackney and for a good many years before marriage lived with mrs nelson wagg after giving up this employment the then armanda hack ney went to toronto where she met and married charles fine who prede ceased her they had no famliy mrs fine returned to goodwood and took up residence with her niece four years ago dropsy was the ultimate cause of her death the funeral will be held this thursday afternoon from the taylor home at garalbaldi at 230 pm to goodwood cemetery for interment calling blood donors while ii goodly number have offered their blood for the red cross clinic to be held here shortly there is still need for more donors if you are between 18 and 55 hand your name to any member of the lions club your act may save n life outstanding auction the big farm stock sale on wed nesday next week march 24th be longing to john w brumweil at cor ner of the don mills road and steeles ave promises to foe the big gest auction of the season hetween stouffville and toronto mr brum- well is now a patient in the san at gravenhurst while mrs brumwell is a patient in the hospital at whitiby consequently they are forced to retire from farming the big farm of 200 acres is nicely stocked and finely equipped with modern and heavy implements im plements will feature the sale as some machines being offered are practically unobtainable at present the farm has been rented to art denby clarke prentice auctioneer announces weekly press chief to ad farmers on friday night of this week mar 10th the holstein brecdors of york county will meet in the womens insitute hall at buttonville for their annual banquet the speaker will be mr c v charters of brampton manager of the canadian weekly newspapers association t mr charters was one of the mem bers of the press delegation that went to great britain last fall by bomber and the group became known as the bomber press his story of what they saw while in the old country should prove exceptionally interest ing and the directors of the holstein club report a keen demand for tickets anyone interested should get in touch with the nearest director at once as- no more tickets will be sold than the hall can accommodate local directors include lloyd tuesdays concert a real treat despite the bad weather on tues day night several hundred persons gathered in the stouffville united church for the joint choir and band concert proceeds to benefit the band those who did brave the elements were certainly not sorry and the fine entertainment they en joyed most certainly warrants repeat performance in addition to the numbers by the band and choir vocal solos were rendered by derrick chadwlck boy soprano who sang white cliffs of dover and johnny doughboy mrs d r chadwlck soprano for you alone and the world is waiting for the sunrise carl boad- way tenor irose of tralee and ive something sweet to tell you the band led by bandmaster alex ridley delightid the audience with several snappy march numbers and provided other duets and trios one of those which merited specific men tion by the leader was the trio com posed of stanley schmidt stanley burkholder and wilbur smalley who played an arrangement of flow gently sweet avon and wan- neita composed by themselves there were various other instru ment contributions by band members some 5000 will be turned over to the band fund rev douglas davis spoke briefly at the close of the concert and called upon all those present to do everything possible to keep stouffville band alive especially in view of that fact that many of those in larger centres were gradu ally disbanding due to war conditions and other difficulties county taxes down 700 in whitchurch county taxes will lie down by about 700 in the township or whit church it was revealed in a report read to the council at their march meeting last saturday but cost of snow plowing will greatly over shadow this item when once the accounts are all in after the roads are finally opened the council presided over by de puty reeve lome p evans in the absence through illness of reeve geo h leary received a petition signed by eight summer residents at lake wilcox protested against a continu ance of the summer garbage collec tion on the ground that the cost was excessive the petition filed some years ago by nearly 300 ratepayers prayed that a garbage collection be instituted and since that time the number of residents has greatly in creased acting reeve evans thought that the matter of health entered into the situation and it was decided to refer the petition to dr williams moh cost to the ratepayers is merely the amount paid to the garbage man the administration is borne by the township george dewitt gormley wrote council declaring he had shot a neighbors dog that was molesting his chickens as the offense had been committed before he deemed the only thing to do was to destroy the dog he asked for the 5 bounty but the clerk was instructed to advise mr dewitt that the bounty only applied to dogs killed for molesting sheep or cattle d ii hall was awarded 2000 for one sheep killed by dogs and george hunt was awarded 3 for one sheep killed by resolution introduced by councillor l j harper road liability insurance with f a lundy newmarket was renewed at a cost of 16060 same rate as last year relief forjanuary totalled only 115 mostly for fuel and groceries robins are back although spring is not legally here until thls coming sunday a flock of robins arrived in claremont last monday beat ing the gun by a week no less than sixteen robins appeared at one time on the lawn of mrs john spenceley where- they were welcomed with a good meal by the lady of the house this is the first report of returning feathered folk that wo have hud and it tortainly is a record began day as usual dies suddenly grand response to local red cross drive for 3700 those who refuse even a small donation may i counted on one hand total now 224373 one of the oldest men in town william crossen passed away on tuesday morning rather suddenly despite the fact he had been in delicate health for a number of years he had gone down stairs as usual the morning of his death and partook of breakfast when he suddenly collapsed and soon passed away he was in his soth year william crossen came from scot land when only a lad of eleven years as a young man he took a position on tlie well known renfrew farms andlsoon became manager there a position he held for 23 years later he operated the dr john storey farm and thence came to stouffville in 1913 thirty years ago he worked on thejdray for edward walls and later bought the ben birkett draw busi ness which he conducted until he re tired a few years ago that was the last dray business in town carried on by la horse drawn vehicle excepting the express wagon still in operation by j c cadieux in january 1942 mr crossen lost his life partner whose maiden name was mary mckinnon sister of the late robert and john mckinnon surviving are three daughters mrs george heslin of new jersey miss gertrude crossen toronto and miss myrtleof stouffville also three sons albert j a crossen of lindsay ernest in hamilton and fred in while hospitalization was down to i town and with whom the father lived 7147 a large number of road ac- one brother living in london survives counts mostly for shovelling snow t crossen aiso three sisters in were ordered paid after being scru- oakville and one in toronto tinized i the funeral on friday afternoon the vandorf community hall will take place to stouffville ceme- board was reappointed as follows tery dr thomas mitchell who united g h leary l j harper mrs h dewsbury mrs j hennessey j a clarke mrs a h vannostrand w d richardson mr and mrs crossen in marriage many years ago and rev d davis will conduct the service at the late home at 2 oclock municipal election likely in markham township owing to the death of reeve jas rennie there will be a municipal nomination meeting held in mark- iham township and there is very indication that it will ibe followed by an election contest nominations will be held on monday march 29 from 1 to 2 pm deputy reeve charlie hooper has resigned and is likely to receive an acclamation for the reeveship coun cillor w l clark and councillor harry barber have also resigned from the council so that they may contest the deputy reeveship vacated by charlie hooper this means there will be room for two new men on the council of course either clark or barber could change their mind and ask for a return to the council but it is not likely either of them would take this step after having resigned with the avowed intention of contest ing a higher office with the nomination meeting on march 29 at unionville the election if demanded will ibe held one week later or on monday april 5th little porkers bring 850 a john sale one more recordselling auction sale has been recorded at goodwood when on tuesday afternoon auction eer a s farmer sold the farm stock and implements on the farm of for est johnston which totalled 2700 fancy prices for swine featured the selling pigs only nine weeks old sold for s50 while a sow and eight youngsters brought s700 cows also sold well one critter bringing 110 and her calf only a day old 2000 it teemed rain tjhroughout the sale but this didnt dampen the ardour of the buyers who were there in good numbers returns to hospital mrs john ayres of claremont was removed to brierbush hospital on tuesday mrs yres had only been back home for two weeks from the hospital when her ill health forced her to eturn daughter of air ace serying hikths hennessey at windsor hospital on saturday march 13th 1943 to mr and mrs arnold hennessey gertrude boyd a daughter turner stouffville jos darlington and george w henry todmorden and stanley b watson of agincourt daughter of an nir nee of the inst war is alrwoninn margaret brown of stoiiffville climbing oiit of a plane after a familiari zation flight her father cnpt ttoy lirown shot down the german air arc itiehtofen stouffville is responding nobly to reach the ired cross objective for this village and that section of whit church lying east of the 5th con cession and south of the ballantrae road up to tuesday night there has been reported in the handsome sum of 224375 the objective is 3700 which is very high in comparison to many other places but the canvass ers helieve they can reach it because the people are responding so generously below we give a list of the doners reported in some days ago and next week we will follow up with a larger and more complete list of the remain ing donations if your name does not appear in the givlngs helow they will be reported later it is interesting to note that scarce ly a business man in stouffville has failed to rally to the cause indeed it is said that when the campaign is closed the givings of the business men will be registered one hundred per cent they are not mean gifts either alter the campaign closes this paper will publish a summary of the canvassers with the totals each group collected this will be in addition to the individual givings reported the canvassers for the vllage are j ii ratcliff a c burkholder h bann- erman a g thompson a v nolan ira aldred walter brillinger e a button jos borinsky hw sanders mrs george storey mrs robert johnston mrs j b sanders mrs james turner miss gertrude todd mrs reg button mrs j h ratcliff mrs del jennings mrs charles ward mrs r l barker mrs f l button miss myrtle watson for the most part these collectors have been placed in pairs and we intend to give the result of the canvass made by each group canadians everywhere are grate ful that the horrors of war such as air raid invasion has been kept away from our country it is to be hoped that it will always remain so should such a condition arise the red cross would be ready to succor those who are bombed out in gratefulness for the position we are in your gift is a silent prayer robert snowball a c burkholder a e carswell c h bell harvey sohell miss ha rose harry golden j k agnew ira aldred boy curtis a e weldon norman oboyle e r daniels a w wilkinson william harding david l stouffer dr s t bodendistel truman baxter h love delbert holden percy brillinger george j storey a e thompson f h sangster estate of dr w a sangster mr and mrs e r good walter brillinger milton smith george aston wesley schell mrs mary doten mr and mrs fred crossen mrs alex grubin miss a silversides miss violet hoover mr and mrs del jennings a v and charles h nolan miss irene foster miss gladys brooks miss anne lehman r l barker mrs noah stouffer miss edna hoover mr d m hoover mr and mrs ellas hoover mrs mabel taylor mr and mrs c stouffer miss mary daley mrs george watson mrs fanny lehman mrs mmcgrogan mrs s b hoover miss clara sherrlck mrs david snider miss jane burkitt mrs thomas klinck mrs j eddingtop mr frank rowbotham mrs robert stevens wilbert j gower mrs robert burnett mr and mrs e c pennock mr john dyck mrs george h saunders mr and mrs harry lintner mrs erie miller mrs henry vanzant mrs carman morris mr and mrs wm malloy mrs levi forsyth miss ethel goudic mrs a steckley mr and mrs keith tarr 10 00 25 00 20 00 10 00 10 00 5 00 10 00 50 00 50 00 25 00 25 00 10 00 5 00 25 00 1 00 5 00 25 00 5 00 25 00 10 00 prisoner goes to jail victims lose th cash james martin convicted of steal ing over 50000 in cash from boad- ways service station unionville and 1s2 from masous drug store in markham village was sentenced to 24 months imprisonment on monday martin is already serving a similar term for thefts at uxbridge and other places unfortunately none of the people victimized got any of their cash back martin did away with it all death ends long illness of uxbridge township mother following a long illness of at least one year in bed mrs leslie morgason passed away at her home on lot 13 concession 2 uxbridge last thurs day in her 54th year she bore her affliction with patience and fortitude and her death came as a welcome relief to the suffering mother the late mrs morjason was form erly violet nesbitt daughter of the late george nesbitt and ellen lock- heart she was born at proton on tario and came with her parents to uxbridge 40 years ago where she met and married leslie morgason 30 years ago february 19 they located on the second concession of the same township and to them were born four sons and two daughters all of whom survive the beloved mother to gether with the bereaved husband also one brother in toronto the surviving children are george clif ford in the armed forces lome harold gertrude and grace the funeral on sunday from the late home just south of garabaldi proceeded to stouffville cemetery for interment the servicewas taken iby rev g w brown of the christian church at ringwood where mrs morganson attended when a girl the stafford trio sang the old rugged cross very effectively the pall bearers were messrs jos cooper ed taylor irobert hope arthur dows- well arthur baker w nesbitt word has been received that pte clifford morganson one of the sons will arrive home next tuesday for a vacation he is stationed at port alberni british columbia officers daughter killed by truck on her way to a motion picture show ibeing given for boy scouts and girl guides in the anglican church at agincourt irose mary kenzie 5 daughter of fit lt w a kenzie of the rcafwas killed on saturday afternoon when she ran into the path of a truck on main street in that village chief constable thomas draycott 10 00 and constable bert laycoe saw the 25 00 accident and the chief carried the 10 00 girl into st timothys church dr 25 00 c d farquarson coroner for scar- 50 00 j boro township investigated and said an inquest would be held driver of the truck was wilfred oster of milliken the child waited for an automobile to pass then ran out into the path of the oncoming truck load ed with hay 25 00 15 00 10 00 50 00 25 00 2 00 2 00 2 00 2 00 3 00 3 00 50 00 5 00 5 00 5 00 5 00 5 00 12 00 1 00 10 00 10 00 10 00 25 50 1 00 2 00 10 00 1 00 1 00 2 00 5 00 1 00 50 00 20 00 1 00 1 00 5 00 25 1 00 1 00 5 00 2 00 1 00 1 00 2 00 2 00 1 00 10 00 ask 25 to fight uxbridge twp fires at uxbridge township council last saturday messrs john m rae and walter beach were appointed to interview claremont fire brigade re specting their suggested charge of 25 per fire fought in uxbridge town ship by the claremont brigade council discussed the matter before appointing a committee the motion to appoint the two members named was made by reeve johnson and councillor dickinson flying officer elmer winw movki to new brunswick flying officer elmer winn who has been stationed at brandon man has btfen transferred to a large camp in new brunswick where he expects to be stationed for some time eva percy- fred cockerill mrs d woodburn margaret goodyer mrs ralph hamilton mr thos jennings mrs henry hodgson miss ida lehman mrs w vanzant charc3 ward william morris 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00