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leading weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and oxbridge twps vol54 no6 stouffville ont thursday nov 4th 1943 2025 coiles eight pages abner baker buried lived 86 years at baker hill the death of abner baker on thursday october 2s removes a widely known resident of whitchurch township from this sphere of activity mr baker who was in his 86th year spent all his long life on the sth concession at baker hill and was horn on the next farm to where he jived at the time of his death active until the very last he was seized with hernia and went to the hospital in toiouto to undergo an operation he left his home only a week before his death in general good spirits and was even passing out some of his diy humor in his goodnature way as he prepared to leave the home place for the last time abner baker was a son of jacob baker who was of scotch descent abner is the last of a family of seven children born to this pioneer family of his native township successful farmer abner accumulated a goodly share of this worlds goods since he was a good farmer and a man of keen foresight despite his unusual reserve nature he came foreward to offer himself as a councillor in whit church and served in that capacity for several yeais some 25 years ago he also served as a school trustee at ringwood for several terms and was a deacon in baker hill church for many yeais in fact he spent all his manhood as a worker in this church as was testified at the funeral mr baker took it upon himself to do the menial chores as well as hold high office in gods house when he could have chosen others to do it twice married his first vife was isabella tyler who died in 1903 to this union two daughters survive namely mrs karl davis 8th con cession whitchurch and mrs earl nash eastend saskatchewan mr baker is survived by his second wife who is a total invalid and by two sons harry and jake both at home the late mr baker possessed an enterprising spirit he saw the pos sibility of northern ontario and dealt in its timber limits fifty years ago when the section around home was in need of a creamery to provide an outlet for the cream that was being produced in greater quantity here mr baker was one of the first to in vest in the plant that is now the stouffville creamery his money helped build the- plant and he was one of the first directors to serve on the board it was an uphill road to find an outlet for butter in those days and a representative was once sent to england to explore a market overseas mr baker was buried on sunday afternoon at baker hill cemetery where so many of his acquaintances have found a last resting place and overlooking the lands which the de ceased lined from the virgin forest more than half a century ago rev w s whitcombe pastor at baker hill 20 years ago preached the sermon and testified to the sterl- ing qualities of the deceased who was held up as a pillar of the church and a man whom the younger gener ation might well emulate pastor cox read the lesson and assisted in the service rev d macgregor par ticipated in the private service at the home the pall bearers were messrs lintner brothers in the service ted uiitner harry ijintner ted lintner rcaf son of mr and mrs edw lintner of stouff ville who is undergoing training at fingal ont ted is married and has three sons and a daughter his brother harry is training with a motorized infantry unit in nova scotia he is also married and has two daughters there are now four sons in the lintner fam ily represented in the armed forces in addition to the brothers above charles is with the army at debert ns having enlisted some two years ago bruce the first and youngest member of the fam ily is a prisoner of war in germany having been taken prisoner at dieppe photo by w r sanders see your banker friday throughout canada this friday is being marked as bank vic tory loan day when people are asked to go to their bank and pick up their bonds 50 and 100 bonds which the banks will be piepared to hand out at i that time legistered as to prin cipal before you visit your banker see that you look over your present bond holdings many people are holding dominion of canada bonds of 1945 which are now payable in full if you do not cash in on them you lose interest from october 15th this year if you hold 1945 bonds take them along to your banker friday while at the bank ask about the plan that will give you ano ther 50 or 100 bond by mak ing small monthly payments without interest you may be able to secure another bond this way thereby helping yourself and helping canada put over the sth victory loan local potato crop to be valuable next spring a large potato grower in the ball antrae district estimates that about onethird of the 1943 ciop in that district was in storage and if this is correct those who have a 1000 bags more or less should not lose eugene baker thos simpson merlin anything since theie is a potato baker gordon and harry ratcliff and bert baker two of the mourn ers in addition to all members of the family being present were mrs lemon baker sg sisterinlaw and mr seneca baker cousin the latter in his 93rd year all three were children in this section of the town ship when the municipality was being organized claims for 20 traversed to next court in division court at markham on monday the case of dr horo vs the village of markham wa3 traversed to the next sitting of the court in markham dr hore is suing for 26 alleged due him for toxoiding in 1942 when he was moh the case was set aside we understand be cause of the absence of the village reeve dr hore intended to conduct his own case while the village is de fended by mr j a cattanach survived his brother only six months shortage in ontario new brunswick is canadas best hope of averting a potato isliontage this year from coast to coast such as that which developed last winter of course ceiling price may prevent the farmer from reaping any other extra profit from his foresight in holding his crop yet most of us would not he adverse to seeing the agriculturalist score a hit in his own behalf new brunswick growers increased their potato acreage around 25 last spring nature took a hand and increased the yield per acre by an estimated 50 to 60 average yield in new brunswick is placed at 150 barrels to the acre and the quality of stock has never been so good anticipating a short supply in the central provinces buyers for the big food firms have been travelling through the nb potato belt placing orders for all they can get one man representing a national chain store has been trying to contract for de livery of 25 to 50 carloads of potat oes a week latest figures showed 2000 car loads of potatoes shipped west from this province so far a time when less than half of this quantity is nor mally shipped in coming months shipments will likely reach 10000 carloads meanwhile nova scotia is buying following tho death of his brother rev herbert lee little more than six months ago edgar r lee passed away in toronto on monday thisl week he had been in delicate heavily in new brunswick having health for some years and it was i had a crop failure in many sections generally conceded that he would buyers from ns seek hundreds of never survive his brother which he5 or p whch ar de- did mr lees home was at kil- hydrating- potatoci forthe armed worthy rr 1 and he had lived j ove are mpng uxbridge man plowed best land at sharon match i dnzzling rain all day failed to spoil the north york plowing match but the 41 entries recorded might easily have been much larger had weather conditions been better the match was held at sharon wednes day last week for best plowed land in the whole competition ronald marquis of ux bridge took the prize bestland using an allis chalmers tractor went to davld ratcliff stouffvillec while floyd steckley stouffville won the salada tea special 10 prize youngest boy plowman was jim hamilton of ravenshoe aged six and youngest with an allis chalmers ti actor was melvin sedor walter balsdon won first for hav ing the best groomed team while harris wright keswick took first for the best going team other piize winners open jointer ironald marquis sunderland floyd steckley stouff ville ross marquis sunderland norman jarvis unionville leslie smith gormley gard h tran whitevale ciown marquis finish smith green jointer roy smith gormley wylie barry manilla roy livingston woodbridge morley haines goodwood owan breathour uxbridge win holder manilla ciown livingston finish haines open stubble stewart ball uxbridge b wylie woodville jas lee greenbank gordon orr maple lloyd marquis sunderland ray ferguson stouffville ewart jenn ings king j s mclean streets- ville crown marquis finish orr green class donald mcmillan queensville harris wright keswick w c trent aurora crown arid finish mcmillan boys 14 years and under bruce timbers stouffville bernard fock- ler ringwood crown fockler fin ish timbers tractors in sod 2furrow ivan mclaughlin cedar valley a logan stouffville allan meyers claremont tractors in sod 3furrow allen wells stouffville murray mc millan queensville howard henry campbell croft crown and finish wells tractors robert timbers stouffville roy craig mono road lewis wells stouffville crown wells finish timbers tractors boys 15 and under geo timbers stouffville david rat cliff stouffville llelvin sedore kes wick jim hamilton ravenshoe jack hamilton sutton west crown and finish timbers loan objective i hard to reach on wednesday morning a rather gloomy picture was presented from out news gathering efforts on the local progress of the 5th victory loan not one municipality in the immediate district was anything like reaching its objective there must be a smartening of the effort on the part of salesmen and buyers alike while markham township is within leach of its 290000 objectivethere is still needed 75000 while whit church has only reached the three- quarter mark in its race to roll up 160000 stouftville has subscribed 70000 of its 100000 objective last time the village overscribed a 100 000 objective by 40 per cent everybody must do their best to leach the objectives set before sat urday night if we are to measure up to what was expected of us can vassers are traversing old ground in an effort to get investors to increase their purchases up to saturday night last 325 per sons subscribed through the sales men in markham township and 55 made purchases through the banks in whitchurch 125 people bought fiom the salesmen and only three through banks in markham village 142 subscrib ers bought through the salesmen and 27 tluough the bank stouffville sales made by the convassers stood at go as against 33 through the bank these figures are interesting especi ally the high rate of sales made by the banks nomination day here will be monday election day municipal council orders iijmcnt tor cement walks totalling over 2000 new union school hoard korseeu nov 29th with mon ded 6 comes to gohmle1 auction sale carried over loud speaker something new in the line of con ducting public auction sales was in troduced last week whena big sale at- stouffville was sold over a loud speaker system the sale was at the old mansion house of goods and effects belonging to d f holden sons and was one of the largest auctions conducted in stouffville for many a day big crowds held on all afternoon from one oclock until seven in the evening the loud speaker facilities en abled auctioneer clark prentice to be heard not only at the sale but all over town women working in the yards half a mile away were said to have hastened the completion of their tasks to hurry down to the sale it was clearly demonstrated that the loud speaker system is the real way to give service but no auctioneer so far has one mr holden had the equipment for this occasion set up by stewart beare while the total receipts probably topped any previous sale the nu ber of individual sales was just about half of those made in the re cent macleod sale but the nature of the goods of course naturally great ly affected the varying receipts and number of sales not carrying on a garage business any longer large quantities of gar age equipment was disposed ofwhile the sale was opened with a dispersal of dishes used in carrying on the village inn which too is being dis continued although the inn will cater to overnight guests as in the past new sidewalks laid in stouffville this summer cost the ratepayers 2- 000 or slightly more according to the accounts tabled at the council meeting on monday evening the jupp construction co who held the contract received the entiie payment members of council felt the charges were steep but found them accoid- ing to the contract entered into and since the work is guaranteed to stand up the walks should give service for 25 or 30 years the treasurer was authorized to invest 500 of cemetery funds in the victory loan this is money belong ing to the perpetual care investment fund the nomination bylaw was passed calling for a public meeting on the last monday in november and in case a poll is demanded it will be taken on the first monday in december if there is an election the polls will be manned by morley barker and lud hoover for the south side and k r davis and george baker north side the early election was so popular last year that no one raised the issue of going back to the christmas elec tion time reeve weldon said he was greatly in favor of the early elec tion period dr freel came before the council to discuss the formation of the school board that would be instituted next year by reason of stouffville having a high school instead of a continua tion school it was decided that a union board would meet our purpose best and this calls for the election of the same number of trustees for next year as in the past the union board would be enlarged by appoint ments to the high school end these appointments come from the munici pal councils and county council while there was no desire to create additional personnel on the board this cannot be avoided since the act must be followed reeve weldon presided over the meeting with members present being councillors hugh boyd walter bril- linger a v nolan evangelist rev m t sellers of lockport new york is book ed for special revival services at mennonite brethren in christ church at gormley from no 8 to nov 21st he is known to many as an outstanding evange list and soul winner to dedicate flags at memorial service four new flags the union jack the rcaf flag the canadian navy flag and the christian flag will be dedicated at a special service to be held in the stouffville united church this sunday afternoon at 300 pm the flags havebeen donated to the church by mrs jas mccullough mr andmrs norman baker and ea and f l button it will be the occasion of the an nual armistice day service and mem bers of the stouffville branch of the york county veterans association will parade to the church in com pany with the stouffville air cadet squadron and the canadian girls in training rev capt allen ferry will be the guest speaker and there will be special music following the church service the parade will move to the memorial park gates where the wreaths will be placed curfew bylaw is ordered for unionville village destroy more foxes retired life for a good many years funeral on wednesday was to the toronto crematorium in the market with buyers fromxew brunswicks two dehydration planu and only the rigid application of cell ing holds prices down to the present mrs harold sanders criti- oaixy hi friends in stouffville will be sorry to learn that mrs harold sanders of weston has been seriously 111 in tor onto general hospitalandfor some days her condition wascrltical how ever this week she had so far recov ered as to be able to return to her home where it is hoped steady im provement will be made at markham township council on saturday the idea was advanced that the bounty for shooting foxes should be increased from 2 to 5 per fox although nothing definite was done in the matter bonuses were order ed paid for five foxes killed by as many different people during the month ti the stealthy fox is reported to be committing an outrage all the township entering hen houses and grabbing off fowl from the fields then it was realized that the fox nad killed off so many pheasants that the recent hunt was almost a flop since the pheasants were so few one thing the department of game and fisheries should noj go putting costly pheasant in the surrounding townships if something is not done to keep them from the foxes markham council will confer with game wadens on theimatter per haps this meeting will tecommend an increase in the bonus on fox pelts and at the same time organize a num ber of fox hunts ttv t i mrs- frank miller patient at the brlerbush for aiong time has been able to leave the hospital and has secured accommodation at the home of mrs george watson councillor reuben stiver introduc ed a resolution at markham council meeting on saturday ordering the in troduction of a bylaw requiring chil dren to be home at a stated hour in the evenings the resolution follow ed the reading of requests from unionville united church wms the w institute lutheran lad ies aid and the wa of the united church some of the organizations suggest ed the hour be 930 and the age 14 years but this will be decided when the bylaw is introduced at a later date council also passed nomination bylaw calling for the statutory meet ing on the last monday in december and if an election is demanded it will be held one week later as in previous years three more boun daries were named in the bylaw since the township added three more booths to total 14 following are the polling places and the deputy returning officers no 1 findlays hall thornhlll- n j smellie no 2 j e francis no 3 mrs e townsends lang- staff w c t john no 4 emmerson reesors rich mond hill g topper no 5 community hall button- ville c burr i no 6 hall victoria square jas smith no 7 hagermans corners jas mulrhead no 8 unionville wm noble no 9 powells cashel herbert spofford no 10 geo cowies con 8 geo cowie no 11 menno raymer alvln wide- man r no 12 wm grovesj dickson hill edw brownsberger no ramers con 8 d kainer no h james cowans jas cowie a number of road accounts were ordered paid including an item of child collides with motor car running across the road at the west end of the town on saturday evening 11yearold elaine rae daughter of mr and mrs stewart rae west of town collided with a car driven by a gormley man the little girl suffered a slight concus sion as well as a fracture of both bones of the left leg jusubelow the knee she was rushed to dr balls office and later was removed to to ronto constablebusnell investi gated the accidentr come on stouffville lets main tain our good record put this loan over before saturday mrs david russell of markham is spending a couple of weeks with her daughter mrs w r dougherty of stouffville some practical jokers on hallo ween hung a sign in the window of bill hardings barber shop reading thus hardings butcher shop 194850 to mr roberts for 1299 y of gravel at 150 yard a pleasant announcement was read showing a profit for markham town ship from the yonge street radial of 185889 for the third quarterwho said the road should be scrapped asked one of the councillors tho radlal made a total net profit of 16- 86262 for the three months period which is divided between markham york township richmond hill vau- ghan township reeve chas hooper presided and wound up the session in two hours deputy reeve w l clark and councillors albert reesor- rl il stiver and dalton rumney wereall dresent ja present i hi