The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

leadins weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridse twps vol 54 no 2 stouffville ont thursday may 13th 1943 eight pages stouffville subscribes over 110000 horse falls and farmer is injured hiding horseback up the tenth concession from his farm to the mongolia store one evening last week albert brown son of mr obijah brown who just moved to stouffville received a broken shoul der when the animal stumbled and fell albert was riding bareback whereas every other evening on tlu same mission to the store he put on the saddle and because he had no saddle he was thrown completely free of the animal which turned right over on its back it is tough on a farmer to lose the use of even his left arm right now when the busy season is opening but the situation has to be faced albert is fortunate that he was no killed or injured for life the horse although landing right up on its back got up with only a badly rub bed nose attended funeral of brother mr and mrs e r good of the brierbush attended the funeral on saturday of liis brother josiah good who died in toronto on thursday in his 70th year the funeral service in the city was taken by rev s goudie and interment was made at cones- togo near kitchener josiah good is survived by his wife the former esther trafalet with the navy lieut margaret ball daugh ter or dr s s and mrs ball stouffville who is stationed with navy unit at debert nova scotia first place over the top first in north york to reach its loan objective of 90000 stouff ville was reported over the top last friday additional sales since then indicate that we have passed the 110000 mark a fine achievement there is still more to come up to monday night markham township had subscribed 206000 of its 270000 objective whitchurch s4000 of 100000 markham village 42900 on the way to s5- 000 woodbridge is next to stouffville in reaching its objective subscribing s2200 of 90000 asked for rich mond hill is at the half way mark to raise 100000 hoouwood boy with the royal navy local creamery robbed 250 in cash is taken summoned to gaijt owing tothe serious illness of her brother who was removed to the hospital rev herbert and mrs shantz and evelyn were called to gait this week and by one son rev henry good mbc pastor at zephyr in scott township besides mr good of stouffville one other brother and four sisters also survive two teachers resign their positions on school staff on monday evening the school iboard in regular session received the resignation of imr gordon bailey member of the high school staff for six years mr bailey has accepted a position on the collegiate staff at kitchener some of the members at least did not know of mr baileys intention and all ex pressed great regret mr murphy principal declared the board was losing a conscientious and reliable teacher one whose place it would be hard to fill miss margaret goodger resigned from the public school staff miss goodger has taught the primary for three years and met with a good measure of success both teachers expressed their appreciation of the treatment accorded them by the board throughout their term here the board then went on record establishing a yearly increase in salaries for high school teachers with a maximum for married high scnool assistants of 1900 and unmarried 1750 mr murphy told the board that an annual increase would help to stableize the staff and be the means of holding teachers that otherwise might leave the staff chairman ira aldred promised to call a special meeting friday even ing next week to receive applications for the two openings which will be advertised this week buys lincolnville property we understand that mr leonard black who has been associated with mr frank breuls in the poultry farm at ringwood has purchased the hammill place at lincolnville from mr walter talbot who pur chased it last year from the estate the property comprised some 20 acres in the gore running from lincolnville corner to the inter section of the 10th concession ana townline north of lincolnville mr black intends to occupy the house at the corner and develop the property into a modern ranch during tuesday night a gang of robbers broke into the stouffville creamery by forcing a rear door they carried off the heavy afe which was later found on fred winns farm up the 10th of whit church a creamery truck was used to carry away the safe and was found nearby abandoned but undamaged about 250 used for change was taken but a lot of papers were left strewn around the field when the thieves forced the door since a great many butter coupons were in the office untouched it was evident that cash was the chief thing sought two or three unused gasoline ration books for the trucks were taken since it required four or five men to move the safe it is evident that at least that many were in the gang cans were thrown off the truck to make room for the safe which was loaded from the cream ery platform at the front of the building constable rusnell early wednes day morning had county police on the job and finger printing may aid in tracing down the thieves presented with medal miss mary graham teacher at altona school was awarded the coveted bronze medal of the can adian humane society this week miss graham rescued four pupils from drowning on march 24 1942 when she was in charge of the bloomington school native of whitchurch buried at peterboro joseph hoover lived here83 years markham drover w merri dead william albert ferrier so a life long resident of markham village and district died monday at his home there in his younger years mr ferrier was acatle drover for the last 15 years he had been the proprietor of an antique shop he was keenly interested in ornithology collecting freak animals was also- a hobby and his miniature museum included a pig with eight legs 2nd two bodies a sevenlegged lamb and a twoheaded calf and other stuffed animals mr ferrier attended markham united church surviving are his widow mary elizabeth ricketts fer rier three daughters gertrude and mrs ed ashby both of toronto mrs gordon brown of markham and three sons harry of toronto bh1 of montreal and gordon train ing with the rcaf lifeless body of former pastor is found in garden births white at the brierbush kos- pital stouffville on monday may 10th 1943 to mr and mrs james white markhapi the gift of a son murphy at the mountain ave hospital hamilton to sgt and rev ephriam sievenpiper mbc pastor at stouffville just 30 years ago dropped dead in his garden at kitchener on tuesday evening of last week he was 73 years of age and death was due to a heart attack he was a native of cayuga and a minister of the mennonita brethren in christ church for 40 years he was last noticed about 4 oclock workingbut during the even ing his lifeless form was found during his pastorate at stouffville mr sievenpiper occupied the parson- agc on main street east now the taun home opposite the east end grocery many townspeople remem ber him surviving are his wife four sons dr stanley sievenpiper vancouver rev harley cosmos minn roy kingston and reginald worth bay three daughters mrs henry home- yer detroit and mrs arthur baer and miss margaret kitchener three brothers abram gait melvin alden ny and frank kitchener three sisters mrs albert bearss vlneland mrs jacob honsberger jordan station and mrs howard chestnut brooklyn ny one- son frank died in september 1941 six teen grandchildren also survive funeral service was heldfrlday at 230 pm in bethany mennontte church with irev p g lehman officiating interment was in bres- 1au cemetery shower for coming bhide friends of miss jean talbot mrs r h murphy nee marion katnered a the ralph burkholder baxter a daughter sharon nom ringwood on saturday night lynnc both dolngwell may at goodwood on monday may 10th 1943 to mr and mrs reuben may nee kathleen baldwin the gift of a baby boy to tender this coming bride a linen shower in addition jean has recent ly been the recipient of a chest of sliver from a group of young people in toront in which she was a mem ber to have died on the very street on which he was born s3 years ago is the record established with the poultry i death of joseph hoover who passed away on friday morning may 7 1943 after an illness due to his great age son of pioneer parents who lived on the present harper farm at the extreme south end of obrien avenue joseph never roam ed very far from the home acres during his long career the late mr hoover was a son of jacob hoover who lived to be 90 and whose father came from switzer land to pennsylvania from which place he migrated to ontario and located on the hoover farm of which we speak it was largely bush in those days and to clear an acre or two extra for farm crop was an achievement and something all farmers strove to do a century ago there were three sons born to jacob hoover they being joseph who has just passed away samuel living with his daughter mrs percy brown and elias also a resident of obrien avenue joseph married miriam george a claremont girl and they would have celebrated their 60th wedding day next year as bride and groom they took up farming at mongolia but 54 years ago they came to stouffville located on the avenue where he was born and re mained there ever since he built the present house in which they lived 48 years ago mr hoover was just naturally a mechanic when it came to handling carpenter tools and for many years he worked in the plan ing mill in fact he started there way back in the days of the late jacob hcise eight years ago he laid down the hammer and sought to live a retired life he seldom left his own home and was not often seen about town while he is survived by his life partner and the two brothers previ ously mentioned also three sisters mrs ed lloyd stouffville mrs bishop toronto mrs maria hoover richmond hill formerly of town mr and mrs hoover had a daughter cora who married d j mccarthy but who passed away three years ago mr mccarthy toronto was in town the past few days owing to the death of his fatherinlaw lifelong members of the local baptist church mr hoover lived a careful exemplary life he was bap tised at the age of 18 years along with other candidates when- the church officials assembled at the altona pond for the immersion it george lemuel pattenden 190 charlotte street peterborough who had been ailing since august 1942 passed away on may 2nd at the age of 72 the late mr pattenden was an employee of the peterborough cereal company for more than 20 years and prior to that he had been a farmer born at gormley ontario he was the son of the late james pattenden and sarah hiltz and he iocatedat peterborough 33 years ago he was a member of the salva tion army he leaves to mourn his loss his wife formerly margaret blake three daughtersmrs paul chartrand ha of peterborough mrs stanley gra ham eva of detroit mich and thelma at hdme there are three brothers william of aurora colin of vandorf and roy of toronto the funeral service was held on wednesday at 2 pm from the nisbett funeral home 347 charlotte street major alfred dixon officiated and interment was in little lake cemetery peterboro pall bearers were colin patten den iroy pattenden two nephews walter pattenden and hmcfeeson- inlaw pte p j chartrand and robert lenord orde ken stewart rcnvr is servins sis ordinary seaman at decplirook nova scotia ken is a son of mr adam stewart and the late mrs stewart of good wood and is a grandson of mr david sjmes he enlisted with the royal navy a couple of months ago 6700 hew trees to be planted flans had been arranged for planting six thousand seven hundred trees on the reservoir property this wednesday afternoon but as the weather conditions were not very favorable the bee was postponed for a week the young saplings were secured from the forestry dept of the on tario government and comprise 6200 red pine and 500 white spruce reeve weldon undertook to round up enough business men to do the planting clerks office now issues s c a grievance frequently heard against the local ration board for this village as set up in markham was that it proved most inconvenient not to be able to obtain special ration coupons for soldiers when on leave for a couple of weeks or more without having to visit the southern town to make formal application well all this is now changed and people who are more convenient to stouffville than they are to mark ham may obtain their special ration coupons by applying to village clerk george storey mr alex smith from the war times price and trade board visited town a few days ago and made the necessary arrangement he is an old newspaper man and was a most wel come caller at the office of this paper victory bond draw to aid child welfare stouffville lions club have pur chased a 100 victory bond which will go to the lucky holder of one of the tickets which are now being sold in addition to boosting the present victory loan campaign each pur chaser of a 25c ticket is aiding the child welfare work of the stouff ville lions this is the finest work of the lions club and many are the local testimonies which could sub stantiate this claim the draw will be made at the annual grand concert to be staged in the arena on july 5th the tickets which are now being sold are not admission tickets but are in support of this special effort to raise funds for the welfare work rev mr rowan 6th line pastor has returned home after holding a series of special meetings at humber bay baptist church cadets and cgit to observe empire youth sunday british empire youth sunday to he marked by cadet church dower appeal dismissed at osgoode hall wednesday parade to stoiiftville church on may lotli united stouffville air cadet squadron no 9 4 along with the canadian girls in training will parade to the stouff ville united church on sunday even ing may 16 in addition to the local air cadet committee various civic bodies in town have been in vited to attend the service rev douglas davis will be the speaker an interesting ceremony during the service will be the dedication of the united church honour roll of members in the active forces next sunday will be youth sun day celebrated throughout the brit ish empire as an integral part of the empire youth movement under special patronage of his majesty the king the purpose of the movement is to assist the churches of all de nominations to imbue youth with a profound loyalty to things of the spirit just as nazi youth have been fired with adherence to the prin ciples of evil the appeal case brought by mrs thomas williamson against the de cision of mi- justice roach who found that she is not entitled to dower under the terms of the will and other documents executed by her late husband was dismissed on wednesday morning at osgoode hall before all the argument was pre sented the three judges were un animous in their decision the estate must bear the costs of the appeal since the village of stouffville is residuary legatees of the estate the case was followed- with more than average interest by people of the community and district the amount involved is said to be a sum totaling around 4000 and if awarded to the widow would have been in addition to gifts of 24500 received in the testators lifetime and a legacy of 1000 per year for life as well as the use of the home with taxes and upkeep maintained by the estate government war pictures showing here canadian government war pic tures will be shown in stouffville at iratcliffs hall next thursday even ing may 20th in aid of the veter ans comfort fund this is a mobile picture unit the property of military dist no 2 banks open for last day op loan all branch banks across canada will remain open on saturday after noon of this week may 15th in order that all last minute subscrip tions to the fourth victory loan may be gathered in a h williams new lion president home on navy leave was 65 years ago and miss martha mcmullen recalls the occasion for she too was baptized at that time she was 13 years of agermr hoov ers death removes the oldest mem ber and the longest standing 01 the church records the service on monday afternoon was conducted by rev d macgreg- or and interment was made at stouffville cemetery pall bearers were olevi forsyth william harper h o kllnck c stouffer b a button morlcy barker lieut allen raker is en joying a well merited holiday visiting tho old home on the 8th concession of whitchurch anil with his father morgan baker mpp in king town ship allen has been chasing submarines and seeking out enemy ships and planes on the pacific const which isntnlways n pleasant job especially in the northern pacific where the weather is almost constantly orky and dreary- at a well attended meeting of the stouffville lions club on monday evening a h williams was un animously chosen as president for the coming year mr williams the genial manager of the shadow lake farm has held numerous other offices in the club and has more than- proved his ability to fill the position not only by his effoits within the lions club but by his work in the community as a whole this was the annual election of officers and the following complete slate was chosen president a h i williams 1st vice l e oineill 2nd vice frank riches 3rd vice hugh bannerman secretary russel barker treasurer elmer daniels tail twister fred campbell lion tamer 0 lehman directors blake sanders walter brillinger robert bone m e watts clayt baker attendance reg button albert nolan programme l c murphy bert love d davis puwicity chas nolan frank riches finance ea button l e oneill health welfare p l button dr ball a v nolan c baker o lehman membership m e watts dr s t bodendlstel boys work elmer daniels milt smith carl boadway auditors f l button l c murphy the remainder of- the meeting dealt with routine business and the welcoming of two new members into the club messrs d chadwlck and j sms