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ist r- vj ts tf read the classified ads circulation 2175 copies leading weekly for whitchurch markhampickerins and uxbridse twps vol54no50 stouffville ont thursday april 20 1944 eight pages s christian men s fellowship group organized here an organization has recently been formed in the immediate district to town that promises to be a real benediction to the young people of the locality if leaders carry out their ambitions the stouffville christian mens fellowship as it is called has for its president earl grose of cedar val ley with reg stouffer and don ratcliff yicepresidents a program is being planned for the season and monthly meetings are set for the first- wednesday evening in the month to be topped off with a din ner before the gathering goes to work these set meetings will be held in ratcliff s hall and are ex pected to grow in interest other officers elected are secre tary harry stover treasurers paul boadwaymac clendenning art steckley chairman of attendance committee reg stouffer chairman of evangelistic committee alvin farmer chairman visitation com- mittee chas ratcliff we understand that open air meetings will be arranged for the summer season ccf choose former tribune editor as candidate v fred madill native of pickering township and former- editor of the tribune and prior to that prin cipal of claremont and stouffville continuation schools has been chosen ccf candidate for york east in the next federal election that means he will be the candi date for this party in stouffville and markham township as the rid ing now stands there are rumors however that hon wm mulock member for north york is anxious to bring markham and stouffville back into the riding of north york where they once stood c mr madill was chosen at a con- yenfion of morethan 100 delegates in thecooperative-hall-on- avenue last friday night there scenes from the cherrywood wreck on saturday when a cooksvillo family of 3 who have relatives around stouffville and markham was wiped out when their car was struck by a c pr through freight train clarke prentice auctioneer sold the last aiticle in an auction sale being held alongside the tracks to one of the victims a half hour or less before he was kill ed mr prentice was one of the first at the scene of the crash and telephoned four doc- 1tors before help arrived upper picture shows the up- turned car and the lower spot indicates the 150 feet the car was carried after being struck farm also house and lot sold by auction i auctioneer a s farmer made a clean sweep of not only the sale of furniture but the two parcels of real estate at the sale by the executors of the late john latcham in good wood on friday the house and lot ingoodwobdsold to bert staley for2050andtne 72 acre farm at glasgow went to the tenant mr ed 1 davis for 3000 nearly 300 was dear sir leahsed from the sale of furniture charges unfair reports in tribune hey there familiar hay bail is hot f c madill were no delegates from stouffville or markham we understand since this end of the riding is not organ- izedin a political way however the choice of an old stouffville boy as candidate will add zest and in terest to the forthcoming election whenever it may come it is 23 years since mr madill laid down the pen in the office of the tribune in favor of wm marr whose career was short lived here and was quickly followed by the present owner 22 years ago this coming october the candidate is a brother of our mrs george lee main street dont let the success of the ccf during the last provincial election go to your heads mr madill warn ed the audience we cant drift into a new social order we must organize every corner of our con stituency to win a seat during the next federal election he added a graduate in economics from mc- master university mr madill has served on party councils for a num ber of years seven other candi dates named at the meeting later moved to make his selection unani mous we must change both the nature and the purpose of the state con tended andrew brewin provincial vicepresident ho presided during the nomination the purpose must be changed from ruthless economic competition to a collective organ ization of society which will sub stitute service for that of profit 1 mr brewiri said rather than re gimentation we will extend the area cf freedom the nature of the state must be to represent the com mon man he added most of our readers are more or less familiar with a haycock hay fever hay tedder and hey there i3ut who ever heard ofia hay ball the editor was introduced to one this week by mr hugh michel the poultry king of pickering township the ball of hay is about the size of a football solid form of hay and strange to say such a ball is made 1y a hoi sc which in this instance was an aged mare on the michell poultry farm the ballwas made in the manger where she was putt ing in her last days since she was pensioned off hard as a good cab bage head the hay ball must have taken a lot of lip work and probably some saliva on enquiry we learn that hay bals are not altogether unknown since other horses have made them in the manger and usuaily from the short hay we have iu confess that we have travelled a long way in lifes journey before wo learned about this freak and so have a lot of our farmers who- viewed the cylindric form in the office of this paper only one in 20 would say oii theres a hay ball dr bodcndiste when consulted said he was familiar with them but never saw one of such large i size the editor l the stouffville- tribune- jfjq stouffville ontario a after consulting my solicitor i have decided to write you in connec tion with certain articles which were improperly and incorrectly published in your newspaper in connection with the civil case of i mowder vs roy in which 1 was the defendant and to request you to publish this letter in your newspap er to clear up these incorrect state ments made by you your articles throughout wereof insiduous partiality and the whole colouring that you have given the articles is most improper and harm- menced before that tune the ques tion is open whether or not these series of actions caused the parting or whether the parting caused the series of actions this is all invol ved in the alienation of affections action and your publication makes an improper implication of aliena tion of affections even after the de cision ofthejcourtofappeal to the contrary had beendelivered- i will consider the publication of this letter a measure of retraction of these improper statements and the harm done to me in this regard yours very truly r g roy april 11 10 m the foregoing letter from mr r g roy is published so that our readers may know the facts the tribune gave considerable space to the case in question not because we held any ill will toward mr roy but rather because the issue was of more than ordinary interest to the people of the district since it in volved local parties since mr roy feels that our re ful and i have suffered great dam age to my reputation and standing i in the community thereby these ports were unfair and unjust we civil proceedings have been mis- trust that his explanation will be leadingly referred to more in the carefully read and accepted by our nature of criminal proceedings readers and we regret that he has mentioning as you have i was found cause to complain in any way charged found unanimously from anything reported in this guilty by the jury newspaper after the conclusionof the trial you stated that the chaiges of alien- ation of affections had been sus- tained whereas the fact is and you should have stated that the jir unanimously failed or refused to make such a finding while the matter was pending in the court of appeal you again on february 24th 1914 falsely stated that i had been found guilty of alienation of affections notwithstanding that no such finding was ever made by the jury family of three killed in railway crossing crash victims had relatives at stouffville and were attending auction sale at cherrywood a level crossing accident during a snow storm on saturday afternoon at cherrywood 12 miles south of stouffville took the lives of three people the victims were edward watkms of cooksville his wife ethel and their young son barry mrs watkins was a sister of mrs leonard ham formerly on the 10th concession just north of stouffville and now living east of altona other sisters of the unfortunate woman were mrs geo brown of glasgow mrs porter and mrs underwood of markham and mrs underwood of armadale also a brother john jar- yis apparently blinded by the heavy snow watkjins drove his car into the path of a cpr freight train from toronto the unfortunate people were at tending the public auction sale ad vertised in the tribune last week of household goods belonging to a ham at cherrywood and had just started for home and had left cherrywood station and were turn ing around the tracks when the car was struck by the passing freight mr and mrs watkins and their young son were in the front seat the parents were killed instantly and the lad rushed to the oshawa hospital where he died later satur day evening passengers in the rear seat escap ed death they were mrs hugh ormond and her daughter mar garet of oakville both were taken to the st michaels hospital tor onto suffering bruises and shock mrs ormonds condition was re ported as serious on tuesday the victims who were dragged 122 feet along the right of way uicolnu- crew member lac jini miller son ofmr and mrs walter miller of stouffville is undergoing ground crew training with ther c a fat gimli jim received his schooling- in stouffville andvenlisted- about a vear ago prior to which hewas em- ployed by the b s telephoneco ilereceived instruction atlachine and da foe sask before taking up his present post photo by sanders were treated by dr cartwright of pickering anddr pearson of dun- barton the funeral from clendenings funeral home markham for hus band wife and son to box grove cemetery was held on wednesday afternoon country quiet impresses royal navy personnel jlrsllburkholder laid to rest grief came to a markham twp home fast friday april 14 when a beloved mother mrs louis j burk- holder nassed away from a heart on an appeal being taken in thisi a three weeks ill- fine large home at gormley sold engagement mr and mrs xt gooding an- nduhce the marriage of their daugh ter mable dorine to pte allan bruce doner the marriage to take place on april 29th at three oclock in gormley mcnnonitc wchurch the imposing residence at gorm ley known as the clara wideman property once a bible school and latterly a rest home has just chang ed hands the estate having dispos ed of the structure to mr clarence doner en whose farm the house stands the large residence was advertised to sell at 1000 and while the sale price was not dis closed it is understood that a lower figure purchased the place built about 27 years ago by mr alfred brillinger the place did not take on anything like its present proportions after it was acquired by mrs wideman enlargements were made to take care of the re quirements of the bible school con ducted there but later when the school moved to fort erie the pro perty was used as a rest home today the building is on three floors with bath- room facilities on all levels we understand mr doner will reduce it to a bungalo in due time to make a home for himself when the time comes to i retire action the court of appeal held that the jury had not made a find ing of alienation of affections and that there was a mistrial of the whole action notwithstanding such decision you again falsely stated in your publication that the jury unanimously awarded damages against me for alienation of affec tions notwithstanding your widespread ness in her 60th year at the late home lot 10 con 9 markham the funeral on monday proceed ed to the wideman church and cemetery the service at the church was conducted by mr a d grove assisted by mr s f coffman from vineland the pall bearers were messrs j p gould george hoover allen mcdowell es reesor albert wideman and herbert stover the publicity to me regarding the alien- church was filled to capacity by old ation of affections action you care- fiends who gathered to pay their fully refrained and omitted from rcspeetsto a very dear friend publishing anything regarding the fact that the other party to the ac tion mr mowder was one of the defendants in a divorce action three members of the royal navy were guests of mrs milton harris and jim over sunday these men in toronto on a special mission can besttell their own story oftheir approbation on being able toyisit the quiet countryside for a few hours and so in a note to the tri bune petty officer f lemage petty officer s meadows and petty officer a mayor voice their im pressions thus just like a scene from the films as we see them in the old country that is what we thought as the bus that carried us from toronto came to rest on main street stouffville i could not hep comparing this quiet but somehow dignified little ontario town with london eng land i felt that this is where i would like to bring my mother and all the mothers of londonbecause here was perfect peace i shall remember for a long time to come the real canadian welcome afforded us by our hostess for the weekend mrs milton harris the farm was just how we expected a canadian farm to be and dont let anyone tell you that british sailors dont like fritters and maple syrup sunday morning- we attended divine service and i think that somehow we all felt that though we were thousands of miles from home we were among our own folks maybe seeing us there made many of the good citizens of stouffville especially those whose boys are overseas feel that they were just a little closer to their loved ones we sincerely hope so anyway for that was the feeling we had and so we say thank you stouff ville you are a great little town we liked you tractor r cultivator soars at 278 -xsw- j r8y at clark denbys sale on fndayxv- brougham farmer- denbys 300 jl acre farm was heavily stockedtwo ttf tractors one selling for 1000 and tis one for 760 and a tractorglow for- 17 200 were among the big pricesob tained a combine brought 750 a buyer from north whitchurch bought all the feeder cattle at stiff prices sekexaders gather 2800 cash generosity of four recent grooms netted a gang ofserenaders from west of stouffville the splendid total of 28 one evening last week as they descended on the homes or stopping places of one after another of the newly weds r those whom the band honored in charge of fred timbers and arthur paisley were jos green- field keith hutchinson walter brown and don cadieux it was -c- reported that the various grooms after being called on joined merrymakers to add to the crowd for the next visit now the problem is what to do v with the money and to solve this matter another roundup of the chivaree band may be necessary mrs j o tottenms in town this week visiting her mbthermrs s m wawiner recognize him 7 mrs burkholders maiden name was emma meyer she being a daughter of william henry and annie hoover meyer she was born brought by mr somerville on the i at peaches corners on the 7th cpn grounds of mr mowders adultery cession of markham and attended with mr somervilles wife true dickson hill schoo as a girl later the allegations of adultery against she became a graduate of toronto him were not proven nor evidence bl t presented to connect him with the j 192o she vas married to louis paternity of the child with the re- burkholder and to this union was suit that the divorce action against orn a son paul herbert mr him was dismissed in court but burkholder was prominent in the similarly the jury failed or refused work of the wideman church as a to bring in a verdict against me in preacher and leader but in recent the alienation of affections action years was stricken- with failing eye- in your publication of march 23 sight so that his dependence be- 1944 you state mr and mrs mow- fame more and more on his faith- der lived together on a rented farm ful wife and her demise will be a east of claremont until they parted source of great trial to him besides company some time before a series the husband and son there survives of court actions- were participated a stepdaughter mrs ea reesor in by both parties thispublicaalso a brother reuben h meyer tion implies that i caused mr and and six sisters matilda mrs a l mrs mowder to part company after reesor eva airs o williamson which a series of court actions were ruth mrs e a byer mae mrs participated in by both of thorn dn reesor sarah mrs j g some of these actions were com- gable mary mrs w e strong this picture was sent to the fa ther of gunner a macfadyen of toronto showing a group men attached to the 77thficid p tterv 3rd field regt aftholr station somewhere in italy friends will- recognize tothe loftof thepicture a stouffville boy in the person of murray nendick rtl j i vj cfsii -s- 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