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the tribune stouffville ont thursday aug 26th 1943 page three local and personal happenings quality service hiss evelyn kusnell returned last week from a visit on manitoulin is land ilra nd mrs jos borinsky who hare been holidaying in muskoka for two weeks have returned the only time i ever heard my husband say well done is when he orders a steak in a restaurant said a woman the other day mr and mrs alfred atkinson have teen visiting mr and mrs chas atkinson in town and other relatives in the township of whitchurch where mr atkinson was born he left here with his parents 6s years ago when they located in the stayner district mr and mrs harry stouffer and mrs peter lehman spent a few days at woodland beach georgian bay they were staying with mr and mrs tom hargrave and family who have a cottage there mrs stouffer and mrs hargrave are sisters the entire household effects bedr ing linens rugs etc the accumula tion of a lifetime will be sold this thursday afternoon all the estate of the late mrs levi hoover the sale will be held at the home on main street near the cnk crossing and will commence at 130 oclock mr hugh bannerman has rented mrs d sniders attractive residence almost across from his store the five to a dollar man will move in this fall owing to delicate health mrs snider is compelled to give up housekeeping and relax in a way she has never done before all her life she will take up residence with mrs j h silverthorn since locating in stouffville mr bannerman and his sister have occupied the forsyth re sidence on church street charlie vanzant born and raised on the farm south of town on the 10th concession is in town after sev eral years absence since his last visit he is in the wholesale boot and shoe business since he sold his retail store at banff he might have almost slipped by some of his boyhood chums since the years have brought changes in all of us but he had only to stop his friends when they realized the personage mr vanzant is a reader of the tribune which finds its way to him in the rodeo city every week sonus own townsmen ed warm of markham with his rink gordon brown and john bayles came out on top at the recent mens tretjbles tournament on stouffville greens thereby wrestling the silver ware from a markham rink which held it last year it is regarded as quite an honor to win this stouffville old boys trophy presented by f l button and dr g richardson while it returns to markham it will adorn- a different home in the commun ity dr breretons rink from new market won second ed goodmans oshawa third and d dunsires rink irom uxbridge won the remaining prize there were 20 entries sui1 playing ball bill clark former pitcher and utility man for stouffville oba baseball teams of a few years back is still in the game and making quite a name for himself at that bill one of the most popular play ers to don a local uniform hailed from uxbridge where he operated a garage business hes still in the garage business now at brantford and is playing second base for the gait intermediate a team last year william coached a group of youngsters along in the junior series and went through to a championship and when this season rolled around he was himself picked off by the city nine stanley theatre phone 100 showing each night at 815 saturday and holidays 700 and 900 four nights wednesday thurs frl saturday august 25 io 38 in which we serve noel coward john mills news reel world in action moxday tuesday wedxesday aug 30 31 sept 1 the busses roar hidden hand thursday friday saturday skit 2 i invisible agent ilona mncy ivter iorrc local boys in sicilian campaign a letter written by gar chas davis son of mr and mrs daw son davis of stouffville ar rived from sicily only a couple of weeks after it was written even at that time charles states veryone felt the campaign would shortly draw to a close his letter in part was as follows havent received any mail now for over three months where we shall go from here no one seems to know boy it sure is hot down here and ill sure be glad to get home again we get lots of fresh fruit and vege tables lemons melons and lots of olives and almonds right off the trees gnr davis went overseas with an rca unit last year but no word has been received from him now for some time he en listed from stouffville and spent some months at an army trade school at cornwall before being moved to england we were just one month less three days on the water going from england to sicily writes morley pugh to his parents in a letter reaching here this week morley who is a sergeant said he found the island very primi tive but the fresh fruits were great oranges figs and ban anas were just ripening he said although the voyage was long there was plenty of pork and eggs something the soldiers were not getting in england be fore they left he said and of course it was a great treat jack sanders son of mr and mrs blake sanders of stouffville who is with the rca f in north africa and according to latest word received here has been taking part in the sicilian campaign just completed miss evelya rusnell has returned i mrs wat griffith and myrtle are home after spending two weeks vaca- iu brantford for a weeks vacation tion visiting friends and relatives at manitoulin island and sudbury mrs robt ramsay of toronto is spending a holiday with her sister-in- law mrs e tarr east end folks on church street intend to do their part to keep the home fires burning this winter we hear that harry ratcliff has orders for 36 cords on that street alone the brierbush hospital has been treated to a few coats of golden brown paint that suits the woodwork of the phce admirably and leaves the premises spick and span mrs t w kiinck returned to town on saturday after spending ten days with her daughter near peter borough dr john button of stouffville who has been stationed for some time with the rcaf at winnipeg and returned there just recently from a holiday here has been transferred to a station at souris near brandon visiting relatives mrs robt young has returned to her home on church street after visiting friends at melville for a few- days hilda elson 4yearold daughter of mr and mrs harvey elson town- line west is carrying an arm in a sling as a result of a break when she tell from a teeter harvest is over for this year on a good many farms in this district but bumper crops of other years have not been reported the feed shortage for cattle and hogs may be critical enough next winter jack barkey engineer in the cana dian navy is home from halifax for a couple of weeks visiting his family jack says the yankees give the canadian navy lads a wonderful welcome when they dock at new- york mr and mrs dan gibner have re turned to town to take up residence here again and have secured half the double house on main street owned by mrs brownsberger the gibners have been living at dickson hill and mr gibner is working at ajax fit lieut jackie rae of toronto has been awarded the distinguished flying cross local folks may re call jackie who is a wellknown boy entertainer and delighted stouffville audiences on the xylophone at sever al dominion day concerts he is flying now with the rcaf and has several enemy planes to his record is your name printed there the voters lists for the village of stouffville has been issued for 1943 and a copy hangs in the post office and in the office of the municipal clerk a legal notice in this issue calls upon every ratepayer to exam ine the said list to see that his or her name is properly recorded this is a duty devolving upon us and it is well to look after it a new cbc news broadcast was inaugurated on tuesday evening of last week entitled news from occu pied europe the new series which goes on the air over cbl each tues day night at 1015 pm immediately following the national news bulletin is handled by gerald noxon who is a frequent visitor to stouffville his brother k f noxon occupying a farm on the 6th con of markham near cashel kctimis after 20 years friends in and around stouffville who have lived here over tlfirty years had extreme pleasure last week in renewing their acquaintances with john yake who used to live at the corner of tenth and main streets he started his teaching career at altona school then stepped along to an inspectorship in the western pro vince when the government chan ged some fifteen junior inspectors had to seek other jobs john be came principal of saskatoon high school and has stayed with it for twenty years he hasnt been back to stouffville for twentynine years but to look at him it seems hard to believe as the years have made no change in him his mother over eighty lives alone at oyen alberta and is a constant reader of the tri bune muriel a sister lives in the same town as her mother welling ton a brother farms about twenty miles away two other sisters anna and harriet mrs walter wright also live in the vicinity all the family are married rubberized tape and rubber pan ties for younsters are among the lat est articles banned from manufacture according to wartime prices and trade board it may be in order to now assume that rubber has stfuck bottom four nights this week the stirring british drama in which we serve is playing at the stanley theatre here written and portrayed by noel coward this is a topnotch pic ture of the year and is being held over for an extra night to give one and all an opportunity of seeing it we have received a fine response to our request of a few weeks ago for pictures of local boys in the arm ed services we would still like to receive some of the interesting let ters which must be arriving daily from our boys overseas since the beginning of time the apple tree somehow seems to have been connected with mans downfall and to continue the historic connec tion one of the more youthful town parsons fell from an npple tree last week and received quite a bump but received no broken bones we are glad to report recent visitors in town with their parents mr and mrs alf pugh were their daughters mrs stan thomp son brantford and mrs wilton dixon of bowmanville hardy thomp son soninlaw was also here from lethbridge alta where he is busy training recruits for bomber work please return that parcel a peculiar incident is revealed to have occurred at the dominion stores on friday morning when a parcel of groceries just purchased by george brown of glasgow were carried off by a lady who was accompanied by two little girls in mr browns par cel was butter sugar tea lemons etc mostly rationed goods which makes the loss harder after paying for the groceries he had the clerk write his name on the parcel and left it on the counter to be picked up by him later when he came back it was gone and it is said the lady was the only customer in the store dur ing the short period mr brown left the parcel there probably it was only a mistake and could easily be in which case restitution will be promptly made holidaying in muskoka mr and mrs robert ratcliff and howard motored to camp at cana dian keswick where that great ga thering of people has been holding forth for so long owing to the crowd the ratcliffs had to find sleeping accommodation at port carling some miles from canadian keswick mr ratcliff sensed a deep and sincere undertone among the peo ple and noted that in the whole throng there was never a cigarette or pipe to be seen one man it was said who came with a pipe put it away as no one else used one in the place enroute to muskoka mr ratcliff who would be expected to take careful note of the forest lands and timber was shocked to see a great blight starting everywhere in the stands of white pine he report ed the condition to the forestry dept to learn that they are alive to the situation and are taking steps to combat it grow big capable pullets for more egg profits prepare now for a 6teady production of big soundshelled eggs next fall and winter feed fulopep developer it will please you to watchhow well your pullet chicks develop those big wellfeathered bodies so essential to pullets intended for the laying flock idevelopera a lowprotein highfibre feed that bal ances the needs of birds grown on range it grows better pullets at less cost pul lets that pay you well in egg sales and profits start now to feed fidopep de veloper the fulopep way stiver bros jos austin rcn is up from hali fax for a few days visiting with his parents here mr and mrs geo aus tin joe has been receiving training aboard a new canadian corvette misses bertha stouffer evelyn rusnell and vera tarr spent a week end recently in toronto and enjoyed a boat trip to niagara falls on sat urday accompanied by miss dorothy bean of toronto ronald warriner is recovering from a nasty case of blood poisoning in one hand the result of a cut he is the son- of- mr and mrs harold warriner works for the westend butcher shop and carries a paper route sam anderson son of mr and mrs hugh anderson of stouffville who is serving with the army service corps completed a tenday leave here dur ing the weekend and on his return to his nova scotia posu expects to be ordered to cape breton for fur ther training horse dead from iockjaw a heavy gelding owned by earl keith who occupies the former sandy jones farm in town is dead as a re sult of lockjaw it is believed the trouble developed from a foot injury which however is not quite clear the poor beast after the seizure was so famished for water that it would stick its head right down into the pail of water but couldnt take a drop fortunately it soon fell dead wed ix exglaxd dvr and mrs douglas sheridan were married in st johns chur ch bethel green london eng on march 28 dvr sheridan is a son of mr and mrs milton sheridan whitchurch twp and his bride was the former eileen mcghee of london eng now showing the greatest human drama of our time sufflslsk cr noel coward stanley theatre stouffville wednsday thursday and friday at 815 saturday at 7 and 9 pm gee ot laaifut amemlirients to the unemployment insurance act notice to interested employers and employees at its 1943 session the parliament of canada ns amended the unemployment insurance act 1940 the effect of these amendments is to require that additional workers he covered under unemployment insurance on and after september 1st 1943 employers must make contributions in respect of the following employees k 1 all persons engaged in employment hitherto insurable regardless of the amount of earnings who may he paid on an hourly rate ona daily rate on a weekly rate or a piece rate including a mile age rate k 2 all employees paid on a monthly or annual salary basis whose salary including any cost of living bonus which may be received docs not exceed 2400 a year ah employees as above described must pay their contributions as required by law the combined contribution for each employee earn ing 26 or more a week will be in class 7 63e a week to employers obtain unemployment insurance books from the nearest local office of the unemployment insurance commission as soon as possible for employees above described who will become insurable on september 1st 1943 to employees it is in your interest to sec that your employer makes contributions on your behalf from sep tember 1st 1943 if you become insurable through this amendment unemployment insurance commission humphrey mitchell minister of labour wio l j trottier chairman r j taliox commitsioncr allan m mitchell committioncr