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fonffwlk leadins weekly for whitchurch markham peering and uxbridge twps vol54 no32 stouffville ont thursday dec 16th 1943 5025 coiles eight pages how will hydro rate in claremont goodwood and gormley be affected service charge eliminated for far mers with government paying loss if any to the commission unification of the existing 20 rural power districts elimination of the service charge to farmers reduced service charge to all other hamlets such as claremont gormley good wood and unionville and a uniform kilowat hour rate for all rural elec trical service throughout ontario will become effective january 1st next the new rate structure will pro vide substantial benefits to many scores of users but in places we have mentioned very low rates are enjoyed now hence there will be little mater ial change most hamlets we have mentioned will enjoy only a slight downward revision farmer users may expect to benefit more notice ably according to the hydro com mission the new rate structure will provide substantial benefits to the majority of the 130000 rural con sumers in the province with 97 per cent of farm consumers and 9s per cent of consumers in hamlets receiv ing lower hydro bills based on the amount of power used during the month the new rate will be 4 cents per kilowatthour for the first kilo watthour block of energy used lg cents per killowatthour for the se cond killowatthour block and 075 cent for all remaining consumption while it is estimated the total annual revenue from rural consumers will be reduced by more than a half- million dollars the ontario govern ment has undertaken to reimburse the hydroelectric commission for any financial deficit resulting from adoption of the new rate schedules greater operating efficiency under the present system of rural operation each rural power district is operated as a separate unit and each has its own set of rates where as the amalgamation of all districts into a single provincial rural power district with one standard set of fates and one balance sheet permits wofmore efficient operating and ac- counting practice and more econo mical administration similarly the reclassification of the present eleven service customer classes into five clearly defined classes 2wire light ing 3wire lighting farm commerl cial and summer cottages greatly simplifies the problem of customer classification and billing only a very small percentage of farmers and hamlet consumers will receive no rate reductions these con sumers being in areas which already enjoy very low killowatthour rates summer cottagers will pay approxi- mately the same as at present but a new system of billing lias been ar ranged which will he more conveni ent for this class of consumer under the new rate structure ser vice to a standard or average farm will be supplied at 4 cents per kilo watthour for the first block of 60 kilowatthour 16 cents per kilowatt- hour for the second block of 18c kilowatthour with a third rate of 075 cent for all remaining monthly consumption the farm service charge lias been entirely removed a minimum bill of 225 gross will be adopted for the standard farm while for larger farms the commission has devised suitable blocks of power and minimum bills all subject to a discount of 10 per cent for prompt payment in the case of hamlet or small lighting consumers the service charge has been reduced to 55 cents per month the promotional rates will be 6 cents per kilowatthour for the first block of 40 kilowatthour 16 cents per kilowatthour for the second block of so kilowatthour and a third rate of 075 cent for all remaining monthly consumption the minimum bill for this type of service will be 150 gross suitable blocks of kilowatthours and mini mum bills have likewise been estab lished for larger lighting consumers in rural areas all subject to the 10 per cent prompt payment discount axy time is tea time fok canadian ix scotland kenneth david stewart son of mr adam stewart of goodwood gives a different slant on the canny scot to what a lot of people profess to have ken who recently arrived in england with the rcnvr ac cording to a cable received by his wife has been visiting in scotland and in his own words says any time is tea time when a canadian visits a scottish home ken was married last summer to eleanor con ner daughter of mr and mrs chas conner who live four miles west of stouffville visits chemical displays in tjsa mr bruce rowbotham of cornwall has just returned from a week in the usa bruce divided his time in attendance at the big chemical exposition in madison square gar dens new york city and the che mical convention at roanoke v virginia elect new officers the annual meeting or the south ontario plowmens association was held on monday evening at brook- lin when officers for next year were elected as follows hon frest john scott prest bert dobson reach tp vicepresidents herbert downs harold haynes secytreas w s croxall brook- lln auditors harold jones wm morrison in family 38 years moyer farm sold north york plowmen elect their officers w h smith gormley living on the third concession of whitchurch was elected president of the north york plowing match and r e rat- cliff was returned as secretary of the association and win timbers treas the annual meeting was held at the home of walter wood aurora frank marriot and edward logan are the vice presidents births carter at the brierbush hospit al stouffville on sumday dec 12 1943 to mr and mrs frank car ter brougham the gift of a daugh ter marshman at the brierbush hospital stouffville on sunday dec 12 1943 to mr and mrsfred marshman a son premature one of the most desirable homes in north markham was sold last week when mr harvey moyer disposed of his 91 acre place at dickson hill which was purchased by his father 3s years ago the previous owner was a kyler the new owner mr gerald gamble of lindsay will take possession the middle of march next while a re sident of lindsay mr gamble is chartered accountant and will reside on his farm going to and from tor onto to work according to a friend of the new owner the sale price of 15000 was paid since the property was just what he wanted and with its well appointed buildings was a rea sonable value thirty years ago mr harvey moyer married and settled in the substantial stone house built there in 1s61 since that time never a year passed but that some improve ment was added to the premises the fine stone residence with its sweeping entrance hall big open fire grate and spacious rooms with all the other improvements such as hydro for light ing and cooking running water bath and hot water heating brings to the place everything modern city homes possess but with an outward rural view that the city residence cannot give the stabling is hydro lighted too running water and other convenien ces are noted built up over this period of 30 years of active life of two young people with a vision who are compelled through lack of good health and labor shortage to part with the place the land is what is known as early and can be worked in the spring far ahead of many sur rounding properties we understand the new owner is a breeder of guernsey cattle and re gistered hogs and will bring some of his home bred animals with him mr and mrs moyer are expected to locate in stouffville where a wcrm welcome awaits them charge- of theft against local farm manager dismissed a general session jury under judge j b coleman at whitby last week returned a verdict of not guil ty in the charge of theft against glen flowers onetime manager on the farm of d g roy near clare mont the jury just took 15 minutes to arrive at a verdict flowers was defended by a w s gieer of oshawa and was charged with the theft of 9750 money re ceived from the sale of poultry roy and flowers recently were in divi sion court at brougham when roy was the defendant iu a case brought by john norton for the sale of gaso- ine etc to roy much of which was bought through the farm manager flowers roy denied that flowers had authority to buy supplies after a certain date most of the supplies had been purchased before the time and roy was required to pay the ac count sued for less the amount of one item in the present case several witness es were heard a w s greer of oshawa appearing for the accused while crown attorney a f annis prosecuted the alleged theft arose out of the sale by accused who was manager of a farm near claremont for roy of a number of chickens at the price of 9750 which was not turned over to roy but which accused claimed was spent on feed and other supplies j for the farm although it was alleg ed no proper bookkeeping recoid of it had been kept cheque was made out to flowers by the purchaser one gordon hodgson and cashed by flowers at a claremont bank the case is quite involved the first witness to be called was gordon hodgson who lives near claremont in addition to his usual farm work he dealt in the buying and selling of chickens he testified on or about the 20th of may he re ceived a telephone call from glen flowers asking him if he would be interested in buying some chickens the witness said that he was and shortly afterwards he went over to the roy farm and bought the chick ens for which he paid by cheque 9750 giving the cheque to mrs glen flowers as mr flowers was not in at that time he made the cheque payable to glen flowers on the canadian bank of commerce at claremont and two or three weeks later he bought another batch of chickens for which he paid 1s260 this time however the cheque was made out to mr roy the owner of the farm a w s greer defence counsel mr hodgson as you have explain ed to the jury and his honor you are in business and you do buy chick ens and hens and i put it to you this way there was nothing out of the ordinary in this transaction with mr flowers whatsoever and it was an ordinary business transaction there was no secrecy or underhand- edness and no hush policy was adopt ed to which the witness answered that everything had been handled in an ordinary business manner and there was no secrecy whatsoever about the sale and admitted the second batch of chickens which he puichased for 18260 was the same type of a transaction miss margaret wallace clerk at the canadian bank of commerce in claremont was next called crown attorney a f annis showed her a cheque as an exhibit which he ask ed herif she had cashed for the accused to which question she ans wered yes counsel for defence ask ed the witness why the cheque had been endorsed on the back twice to which miss wallace answered that the spelling had included two ns and that the first signature was ra ther ink blurred and that it was the usual bank custom to have it re signed if there was any doubt as to the correctness or visibility of the signature of the endorser robert g roy owner of the farm and chicken business was ihe next witness to be called to crown at torney annis mr roy stated that he was a retired business man from to ronto and was now in the farming and had owned this farm new classes for horse show here next tuesday the stouffville horse show on tuesday of next week dec 21st iu connection with the christmas mar ket day promises to bring out a string of animals never seen here before the committtee has rear ranged the classes so that there wili be a better distribution of prize money which in all totals over 130 there is no entry fee there will be a special class for best mare or gelding also two classes for heavy and light draught teams with four prizes in each class then there will be an amateur class for teams a class for 2yearold filly or gelding and a class for young sters animals a year or under it you refer to the market display adv you may read the details the committee in charge of this feature of the market is composed of harry paisley hugh boyd jos cooney george millard and lloyd turner secretarytreasurer any in formation asked for will be gladly furnished by the committee in charge the stouffville womens institute will furnish light lunch in ratcliffs hall where there is ample accom modaton for visitors to rest or pon der over the lunch table col j h laurie milk inspector dead native of agincourt and well known throughout the township of whit church ltcol joseph h laurie mc of the dairy farm inspection board of the dept of public health and assistant to the city director of food control died suddenly in his commissioner stringer investigates conduct of whitchurch police chief ted cadieux son of mrand mrs c cadieux of stouffville who was one of a group of airmen who received their pilots wings at graduation ceremonies held at no 16 sfts hagersville on friday stores open next week j the stores in stouffville will be open tuesday to friday even ings next week so christmas shoppers can take advantage of the evenings to shop if they find it more suitable than the daytime with ferry command bob lawrie son of mr and mrs robt lawrie of markham and popu- 55th year last week at his home in jar young hockey player in these toronto his inspection duties took pairts a few years back has graduat ed from a western canada rcaf training centre and will be attached to the ferry command two bro thers ernie and harold are also in service unionville farm sold mrs janet mauder of toronto last week purchased from ambrose c comiskey the 100 acres at unionville owned by him for 12500 the pro perty adjoins unionville and has a colonial style house and some valu able wooded land ltcol lawrie markhamfair board burns the mortgage charging that a member of the york county police force had ap proached him not to lay a charge against a certain individual possess ing slot machines constable robert windsor in court at newmarket on tuesday defended his own conduct before an investigation being carried on oy commissioner w h stringer the court was convened under commissioner stringer to investi gate into the conduct of constable robert windsor of policing the town ship of whitchurch it is under stood that the case arose over the failure of windsor to deliver to the court or some other official body cer tain slot machines seized at mussel- mans lake whitchurch township council had backed windsor in his stand and had appealed to the attorney generals dept the investigation lasted all day tuesday and was adjourned until thursday mr l r mactavish of the attorney generals dept ques tioned the witnesses first witness called was reeve george leary who testified that three slot machines had been seized at daveys last summer by constable windsor in the employ of whit church council they were- taken to windsors and locked up he stated and in later questioning said wind sor was an efficient officer and his policing of the township was ade quate n l matthews complained as a witness that he was not being con sulted by windsor in the cases he brought to court mr mathews- is the crown attorney but in this case was a witness i other witnesses were examined chief of which was constable wind sor who said he didnt consider the county force had any jurisdiction over him if heneeded outside help he calls on them he told of seizing 3 slot machines and seven pin balls games at daveys musselmans lake early last summer he laid a charge and obtained a conviction windsor then named a county con stable who onjuly llcame to see me he asked if windsor had any slot machines and received an affir- mative answer said windsor he asked me if i would not lay acharge because a friend of his has just start- ed in business and had only five or six machines windsors- answer was that he would consider it windsor didnt know who the friend was at that time but said he later learned it to be one hamet of new market the county constable also came to see me said the witness with one segil they had liquor and an effort was made to make a deal presumably for the release of the i slot machines in possession of wind- an interesting chapter was written sol j wouldnt make adeal said into the records of the markham and windsor he further stated that he east york aeripnhiirnl hrtmrtv nnl him many times to whitchurch where he became acquainted with so many of the milk shippers in the district ltcol laurie was a brother of mrs d j tran of atha widely known in veteran circles he was chief officer of the civic em ployers war veterans association and other similar organizations he had a distinguished military career from 1911 to 1914 he served in the brant dragoons and was an officer for 2i years and s ward treas in france- and germany before and facts re east york agricultural society on j tuesday evening when the officers members and friends witnessed the burning of the mortgage that stood around 3500 at one time the ceremony was held in the tremont house markham president john scott called on the veteran peter reesor to touch the match while m f cockburn regulated the draft on the vessel that held the ashes and r h crosby the efficient secretary was offered 75 for the release of the machines windsor had been ordered by the chief of york county force to return the machines to the courtbut ignor- ed the order contending the chief constable had no authority to issue the order business situated about one mile from the vill age of claremont for some six years he further stated that in february he found himself without any help at the farm and he advertised for a farm manager who was experienced in running a chicken farm which advertisement glen flowers answer ed and after being interviewed by him he started to work on the farm glen flowers he said was given the authority to purchase feed grain etc for the feeding of the animals and on weekends or at a time when mr roy was at the farm he would make a settlement with mr flowers with regard to any accounts how ever it was brought out that no proper bookkeepng was carried out continued on page 7 after the armistice he served as a lieutcol and as a major in the ggbg col laurie was a past master in the masonic order besides his wife and daughter mrs richard white jeanne three brothers and four sisters survive these brothers are herbert of lon don william of kingsville gordon of montreal and four sisters miss anne laurie of london mrs james barclay of belleville mrs robert fleming of markham and mrsdavid tran east of stouffville honorary pall bearers at the fun eral on monday which gave full mili tary and civic honors were ltcol g dudley thomas officer command ing ggg res col r y eaton col the hon t l kennedy col j e l strelght ltcol r f locke col w w dennison ltcol w w forsyth ltcol william e ogden and ltcol a e s thompson last post and reveille were soun ded at the graveside by trumpet major j macdonald lative to early history of the society hon g s henry led the proces- lai examines explosives tost parts of two fingers loses a mother mr leslie wilson westend gar- ageman was summoned to toronto last weekend owing to the death of his mother mrs florence e wilson who passed away at the western hos pital following a severe illness sur vivors are two sons leslie and george the funeral on monday afj ternoon proceeded to prospect ceme tery for interment the sympathy of his town friends is extended to mr wilson in the passing of one so dear to him president john scott of the markham and east york agri cultural society popular clare mont farmer who presided at the burning ofthe mortgage on tuesday evening slon of speech makers which included many past presidents president john scott made an excellent toast master and was himself the object of many congratulatory remarks be cause of the successful year he is just completing at the head of the big rural fair organization mrs frank latter proprietress of the tremont served an excellent foul dinner that added additional pleas ure to a pleasing affair eldon yake 15yearold son of mr bert yake bethesda lost part of the first finger and thumb both at knuc kle joint on his left hand one day last week when a detonation cap ex ploded the lad found the cap around the home premisesand was making an examination orsomethlng it was said to see what the cap would do it exploded alrifost in his face and while he received a crack in the fore-v- head the serious damage was done to his hand he was taken to the newmarket hospital for treatment the explosives were purchased by the father of the boy a long time ago asks tor pool room license a request from the village inn for a pool room license was received by the municipal council last week at the final meeting of the year but since there was just a mere quorum on hand the matter was left over for the new council to deal with mr holden asked for a license for ono table which is 25 in response to a request from a business mens meeting council ask ed the reeve to issue a proclamation proclaiming monday dec 27th as boxing day and a public holiday thus giving a really long weekend over christmas councillor walter briliinger coun cillor a v nolan and reeve weldon were the only members present and this just made the quorum a num ber of year end accounts were passed for payment