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i imtattt leading weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twps vol55 nol stouffville ont thursday may 11th 1944 eight pages proud of his naval daddy fouryear old james de wolf son of com harry de wolf of the canadian tribal destroyer haida who dn ected rescue of many of the sunken destroyer athabaskans survivors is shown with a picture of his father at his ottawa home james is very proud of his father who has figured in two heavy actions within a few days when 1 grow up he says im going to be in the navy like my father population reaches new peak assessor reports sought arrest of soldier holding discharge papers there was no little surprise and dismay when an army officer knock ed on the home of irvine hawley who lives on stouffer street in the former hattie sanders place and demanded to see charlie hawley last week the officer stated that he held a wanant for the arrest of the boy charged with deserting the army he was not at home and of course could not be taken the lad volunteered last decem ber and was immediately put in uniform although he was barely 18 but the army didnt know that he became ill and was discharged on april 27 according to discharge papers given him which is backed by a letter from christie street hospital and held by his father which says in part since you have been discharged from the army you aie still eligible for treatment in this hospital for another 18 months should your condition require treat ment mr hawley who is a section man on the cnr says that he went to exhibition park last sunday to in vestigate the matter and was assur ed that such investigation would be made they declared there says the father that they had nothing against the son since there is a good deal of talk about the lad who volunteered for service the father freely volunteer ed this information to the press income tax officers are interested in farm auctions valued high school teacher resign stouffville board of education met on monday evening and mem bers made a visit to the school build ing where they looked over the big knowledge works so that they would be in a better position to consider the needs of the building from firsthand knowledge with very sincere regrets the re signation of mis reg button from the high school staff was accepted to become effective in june municipalities will combine for paved road to goodwood the largest population ever re corded in stouffville since the vil lage was incorporated just three- quarters of a century ago is shown at the present time according to the town assessment just complet ed there are 1295 people in the com munity as against 1176 seven years ago last year there were 1274 so that we are slowly growing total assessment is 674735 which is an increase of just 1800 no new buildings were added last year which accounts for the rather stat ionary assessment returns the council accepted the assess ors roll at the regular meeting thursday evening and set the date for a court of revision to hear and determine any complaints for the first day of june three members of the park committee dr ball john smits and n m maclean appeared as a delegation to make formal request for funds to carry on the park a new power mower is bought and paid for which leaves the commit tee vith a bank deficit of 160 further funds are required for at tending the property this summer so a gran ti of 300 was made by the council boys had destroyed tables and benches in the park which cost con siderable to repair it was decided that this summer a closer watch would be maintained especially at halloween and the first lads caught destroying property will be severely dealt with as a warning it seems too bad that youngsters will have no regard for the splen did privileges of the park other than to destroy that which is put there for their pleasure the lions club was granted the privilege of conducting a street carnival on the evening of june 28 it was decided to purchase 2500 gallons of road oil at a cost of 12 and half cents gallon laid on the road the work will be done under the supervision of the road depart ment headed by councillors walter brillinger and councillor r e brown a majority of council fav ored oil in preference to calcium chloride which was used last year reeve weldon and councillor brown reported having visited the town dump and found things more or less in a mess persons taking the private loads to the grounds un loaded right in the roadway and ob- u trimming trees the branches of structed others the right of way i which were obstructing telephone so that some men will have to be wires in front of the united church sent to the place to clean up the situation was partly due to the delay sam mcmuilens death recalls his fathers fatality a strong movement has been started in muskokaontano riding designed to impress on the minis ter of highways the desireabihty and need for five miles of hardtop road between goodwood and stouffville it is the only dirt road owned by the province within many miles and as a consequence heavy machinery has to be moved here from great distances to main tain the road since the department of highways have no other use for such machinery in the locality the road bears very heavy truck and passenger traffic and is seldom in good condition we know of no other road in the country so much complained against the five miles from stouffville was omitted from being paved because of an unfort unate situation when the road from uxbridge to goodwood was hard- topped following the lead of a meeting in beaverton a week ago when a strong resolution was framed for presentation to the minister of highways stouffville whitchurch and uxbridge councils are being asked to pass resolutions support ing the demand for some improve ment on this short stretch of road that is expensive to maintain by the dept since they have nothing like it in the locality and because a dirt top is not good enough for the traffic it bears the stouffville council on thurs day night passed a resolution set ting ouf the facts and imploring the minister to make this one of the first pieces of work to be done samuel mcmullen died at st michaels hospital toronto on thursday may 4 following quite a severe illness he was a native of stouftville having been born on tenth street on the old homestead that stood just below the cemetery property sam as everybody call ed him was in his 52nd year and had lived in the city since he left stouffville as a young man more than 25 years ago he acted as a chauffeur for many years the passing of this former citizen recalls the shocking death which befel his father sinclair mcmullen who was killed by a shot gun while out hunting rabbits down in yakes bush south of town the incident is still lemembered by many of our elder readers the unfortunate man and two companions were digging out a rabbit hole when the bunnie suddenly emerged from another hole one of the trio up and fired at it just as sinclair mcmullen rais ed his head from behind a log just in time to receive the shot which fairly took the top off his head the son sam married a toronto girl maud moreau who survives him together with five children francis doris grace helen and jackie overseas there also sur vives the aged mother mrs w ginn one brother jack mcmullen stouffville and one sister pearl mis j underhill toronto 10 oclock mass was celebrated at st bngids church on saturday morning and interment was made in mount hope cemetery cadets plan church parade may 21st stouffville air cadet squadron no 94 will hold their first spring church parade on sundaymay 21st the cadets and their officers will form up and parade to the united church for the regular evening service it is expected that the members of the canadian girls in training group and the cubs jun ior members of the boys scouts will join in the parade barber forsythbuys new premises cut hair in picscnt stand long liefoie women thought of dis carding knobs for bobs that taxes could wipe out some estates of farmers is the claim of ottawa correspondent real estate changes continue to be active on mam street and last week harold red forsyth pur chased the building occupied by hugh andersons pool and billiard business and will move his barter ing shop now three doors west to the new location when he gains possession of the premises some time this summer or early fall red forsyth has been clipping and snipping hair in the present stand next the baptist church for close to 22 years and he has wit nessed the transition of the long curls once a mothers pride be cause we have known them to have preserved them between leaves of books being transformed into boy ish cuts and womens knobs into smart bobs he has seen the price range from 15 cents for a haircut to the present 35c shaves were 5c when red first mushed with a dobber since red started barbering he has seen the coming of the lip stick and has sold enough of the stuff to paint a barn red or set one on fire he has witnessed the introduction of wisp eyebrows or whatever you call the plucked style and the strange practice of painting the fin ger nails and some who want to go all monkey he admits even paint their toe nails what a transition in 22 years if the pace is to be maintained in the matter of adopt ing the old indian customs one may look for rings m the nose and painted bodies some girls have started painting the calves already the present forsyth barber shop building was recently purchased by bert bell the cockshutt agent who will enlarge his present pre mises to take m the tonsorial shop for the present no plans have been made for the future of the pool room but hugh anderson is looking about sharply in the hope of being able to make a turn that will enable him to carry on we understand that the grubin estate has also sold the small shop on mill street to the south of the post office and used by the massey- harris to mr david stouffer the tenant mr and mrs ross harper are m receipt of a letter from their son alen prisoner of war in tokyo camp japan with the very brief announcement that he is alive and apparently well which is certainly heartening news the last word leceived from alen reached his parents herein whitchurch last novem ber a letter that was something like seven months in transit the present brief message however was only five weeks in the mails farmers who aie alarmed lest the ccf in power will take their farms may well be more alarmed at the turn of events right under their noses especially if they are good farmeis and prospeious and have not rendered unto caesar according to j h fisher telegram reporter at ottawa fanners who have held auction sales and pocket ed the money from their accumula tion of a lifetime are leceivmg un expected callers in the persons of national revenue officials who frequently accompany their visits with an invitation to pay the gov ernment pai t of the proceeds of the sale as income taxes some of the sales held in stouff ville district we believe represent the savings of a lifetime and are barely enough to maintain the eld erly couple in decent comfort according to mr fisher this checking up on auction sales which is becoming a regular practice he says is part of the national reven ue depai tments policy of squeezing the last cent of taxes from every one farmer brown who never made an income tax return because he felt his annual income was so small the government would want none of it is probably in for a jolt when he holds an auction if he dies with a substantial bank account or bonds his executors may discover his es tate owes heavy income taxes as well as succession duties to the government s because people are more prosper ous today and the treasury is ur gently in need of the money the national revenue department is checking more closely into estates and farm sales than ever before contrary ta the general impres sion that the proceeds from farm auction sales of livestock and pro duce are a return of capital the na tional revenue department regards this money as cash income and lia ble to income tax unless the farmer has kept books and paid income taxes annually on the accrued basis if he has operated on the alterna tive cash basis that is has listed cash receipts and cash payments and made an income tax return on the net cash income it is quite pos sible that he will be assessed on the proceeds of his sale of stock at auction if the sale took place last year or this the rate of taxation will be very heavy most ontario farmers who make income tax returns do so on the cash basis the form they use con tains columns for the listing of cash payments and cash income and the wed in winnipeg on saturday april 29 1944 the quiet wedding of margaret lavenia martin youngest daughter of mrs agnes martin of toronto to aci arthur rusnell son of mr and mrs ira rusnell of stouffville took place seriously injured in fall from tree merchants may reconsider closing in holding a tin can clean up they told the council when one of the members urged that some action be taken to organize a clean up for the town councillor nolan said the clean up is so late it was losing its value mr and mrs alex mustard and children of dawes rd spent the weekend with mr and mrs arthur lewis of glasgow parsonage in goodwood mr thos jennings fell 20 feet to the hard ground beneath he landed on his back and was rushed to the hospital in toronto after receiving first aid by dr ball examination reveals a broken bone in the spine and sev eral fractured ribs mr jennings will be laid up for a long time the misfortune also presents a serious situation for thebethesda stouff ville telephone co of whicluhe was line foreman ihe company are preparing to move into their i in view of a growing desire on the part of the farming community for the stores in stouffville to open one evening a week throughout the summer season we understand that the merchants will shortly be called together again to reconsider the stand they recently took to remain closed every night but saturday in the event that any change is made it will likely be effective from the first of june last year the stores remained open every tues day evening and growing disap pointment was evidenced whenit was decided to discontinue the courtesy extended the farmers for the summer season maple leaf dairy since it is so difficult to secure competent men for this work moving plans may newpremises to be vacated by the have to be postponed at broadway i first baptist church in winnipeg manitoba with the rev s a westcott officiating the son harry at th farm bride wore a twopiece rose sheer dress with matching half hat of artificial roses and veil and corsage of lavender sweet peas and white narcissus miss eileen bur of winnipeg attended the bride dress ed in soldier blue suit and black tops in sight just another seven thousand dol lars is wanted to put the victory loan over the top in stouffville up to tuesday evening 93000 of the one hundred thousand was sold and it is confidently expected that we will go over the top with something to spare well done stouffville the township of whitchurch has rounded the corner with sales of 100000 to reach an objective of 160000 markham village with an objec tive of 85000 reported m last sat urday night sales totalling 40000 and will have to work hard also markham township with an objec tive of 290000 had sales totalling 200000 up to monday night mrsjw warriner called by death attesting the love v and respect held for a bereaved family and for one who had been called yonder before her active days had been spent a large concourse of friends assembled for the funeral of the late mrs john wilmot warriner at the l hom at 22 con 7 1s paid on th netbut this form does not take into account the na tural accretion in the value of herds consequently there is no tax paid on their annual appreciation in value the day of reckoning on in come tax in these cases comes when an auction sale is held and the far mer at one stroke garners in the in creased value of his herds over sev eral years it is income on which tax has not previously been paid and the income tax officials make their levy on ltjin the year it be comes cash ah alternative to the cash basis for estimating income tax is the ac crual basis a much more complicat ed system which is generally used by large farmers and ranchers if necessitates the keeping of full and accurate records what is shown as income is not only the cash receiv ed during the year but the value of all sales and production of the year whether cash was actually received or not on the expense side is shown not only the cash he paid out but all costs and expenses ap plicable to the operations of the year whether bills have been paid or not inventoried must be pre pared each and income tax is estimated on the increase the best assurance citizen john doe can have ithat income tax in spectors will not paw through the financial records of his estate when he dies are duplicates of hfs annual returns and if he owed taxes re ceipts for the same from the tax in spector of his district otherwise if he leaves an estate of 20000 or 50000 the department is likely to ask his executors how he made it and what taxes he paid if he did not pay taxes the estate may be assessed right back to 1917wlien canadas first income tax came into forces r j a accrued income tax and penalties plus succession duties could wipe out ian estate entirely it- s said this has happened in a few cases markham on saturday afternoon mrs warriner passed rather sud denly on wednesday may 3rd from a malicious illness which overtook her only last february she was in her 69th year born near keswick mrs warri ner was the former ina viola mor ten she united in marriage with j w warriner 42 years ago and after a few years m the store busi ness in markham the couple set tled on the 7th of markham just below peachs of a bright and cheery disposition mrs warriner enjoyed a wide cir cle of friends she was a member of and active in the organizations of the united church at markham she also belonged to the womens institute and in the eastern star at markham held the office of electa at the time of her death the spacious family home was filled to capacity for the funeral service conducted by rev b e newnham assisted by rev a j orr mrs i walker of toronto a cousin rendered a very beautiful solo and the pall bearers were all relatives being fergus taylor of newmarket carman pollock of is land grove harold pollock percy winch and francis morten all of keswick and wilbur watt of mark ham the bier was banked with lovely wreaths and sprays representing the silent testimony of love from many friends and organizations who mourn the loss of a dear friend and valued worker surviving are the bereaved hus band one daughter ella mrs l a brown of markham and one accessories with corsage of pink sweet peas and narcissus mr bill ward of toronto wasbest man the bride and groom have taken up residence in winnipeg where the groom is now stationed a j szsj