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j vl-ksj- vjvf kk tzs- pcit read the classified ads vol 55 no 18 latest circulation 2210 leading weekly for whitchurch marmiam pickering and uxbridge twps stouffville ontario thursday sept 14 1944 scarboro man receives king and queen the king and queen and princess elizabeth are shown at a canadian rca f station in england next to the princess is captclare annis obe ofhighand creek who is a double cou sin to mr blake annis deputyreeve of pickering twp and his mother is a sister of mrs annis other canadians in the picture are montreal ottawa and bowmanville men joint open meeting a number of beautiful slides were shown and a talk was given by mrs sw hastings on life in the vill ages at the opening meeting of the fall season of the womans mis sionary society of the united chur ch held on thursday evening mem bers of the garrett evening auxili ary and the canadian girls in training were guests miss eva hoover led in the worship service and a social hour and lunch then followed good news for old aged pensioners recent legislation enacted in ontario out not generally known is the amendment to the old age pensions act where it is permiss ible for an old aged pensioner to leave an estate up to and including 2000 without the government laying claim to it as reimbursement for the pension money advanced where the estate is over this sum the first 2000 will be exemp ted from collection buys markham farm a finely equipped farm iust south of stouffville on the 9th con cession has changed hands mrsc harper having sold the 100 acres with its modern buildings and de- sireable home to mr harvey schell proprietor of the stouffville meat market the sale price is re ported to be 12000 mr schell has just sold 60 acres of his 135 acre farm in concession 4 uxbridge j township to clifford watson and is reported to be con sidering tlie sale of the remaining 75 acres there claremont bowlers to hear w h moore mp at the annual bowling tourna ment in claremont on wednesday next week sept 20 w h moore mp will address the gathering at 6 30 oclock elsie e brown bride of dale sallows a pretty wedding was solemniz ed at dentonia park united church in toronto on sept 2 when elsie e brown eldest daughter of mr and mrs lloyd brown of stouff ville was united in marriage to dale c sallows son of mr and mrs theodore sallows toronto rev mr dallas officiated the bride given in marriage by her father wore a satin floor length dress with floor length veil form ing a train she carried red roses and babys breath her attendants were her sister zella as brides- maid wearing light green crepe and theda the grooms sister as matronofhohor she wore a long mauve dress both carried lovely flowers v the grooms small sister aloha and a cousin doreen dart were junior bridesmaids both attrac tively attired victor williamson was best man miss sheath was at the organ and the grooms mother as soloist sang the sunshine of your smile ray warburton and fred chadwick were the ushers sixtyfive guests attended the reception at the home of the groom when the mothers of the contracting parties received and a delightful repast followed the happy couple left on a trip to vic toria harbour golden haired blondes unnoticed by canadian not fred clubine rcaf be fore enlisting popular well known lad from west of stouffville des patches an interesting report to the tribune from his station in far away iceland whose shores are washed by the chilled waters of the arctic ocean the report is dated in iceland as of sept 2 i thought i had better drop you a line to let you know that i am getting the tribune ok now and it sure is appreciated although the news in it is two months old when i get it we are getting along ok up here in iceland despite the fact that the people here have no use for service men they are not so hostile to wards us now as they used to be but they- still could stand being a lot friendlier this country is about 99 rock where nothing grows and really desolate but where we are station ed it is somewhat better there are no trees here except for a few highly prized shrubs which some people have growing around their houses in reykjavik the city of reykjavik has about forty thou sand people and is fairly modern good bus service plenty of cars and no gas rationing it took us a little while to get used to the money system here which is based on the kronur which is worth 17c to us it in turn is divided into 100 aura and one of these auras which is called an eyrie is worth about one seventh of a cent the afternoon the food here is not bad consid ering where we are but we get two much mutton to suit me i have been mountain climbing here and its too hard a work to do very much of the first day i went mountain climbing i wore leather soled boots and believe me i came rather close to losing my balance a couple of times the girls up here are the most beautiful blondes i have ever seen in my life their hair is really golden many have red hair but seldom any freckles and very few have dark hair the girls in reyk javik are very unfriendly but we find that in another town not far from here called hafnarfiord they are much more friendly i have sepn some hot springs up here and they certainly are worth going a long ways to see i had to walk quite a few miles up into the mountains to see the ones i saw the houses here are made out of cement or metal sheeting and are fixed up quite nice the city of reykjavik is heated by the hot water piped from a geyser near here perhaps you have heard about one of the fellows in our squadron here winning the victoria cross the first one to be awarded in the rcaf his name was hornell and he lived at mimico ot the weather here wasnt bad this summer but we felt quite com fortable with heavy flannel shirts on we had a few days when we could lie out on the rock or grass council pays claim for four calves injured by dogs since the sheep and dog act provides for an award being made when cattle as well as sheep are injured by dogs the whitchurch township council has just been called on this week to reimburse milton naylor of lot 33 con 2 the sum of 500 for injury caused to four calves by a large newfound land dog said to be owned in or around newmarket the calves were badly bitten by the dog ac cording to the report of the sheep valuator two additional claims for dam age done by dogs were filed where the marauders entered sheep folds on the farm of jack sheridan lot 26 con 2 5 sheep were killed and the award was 55 while on the farm of dr devens at lot 16 con 5 one sheep was killed and the award made was 10 reeve george leary presided over the session which made a grant of 25 to the markham fair on the ground that many exhibit- ors are from whitchurch and a fair director also is located in this township it was decided to notify the con stables that they would be no longer required on regular lake duty since the holiday season is now closed and crowds at wilcox and musselmans greatly reduced constables wells and foote how ever are subject to call any time clerk j crawford was instructed to have public assembly bylaw prepared by the solicitor along the lines set out in the model bylaw issued by the fire marshal under the new act safety of public halls is now a local matter for municipal councils to handle the shutz construction co was paid the sum of 7055 for 5902 yards of gravel crushed and de livered on the roads of the town ship this is said to be the largest single gravel item to ever be pass ed in the township in the matter of small expendi tures still another record was es tablished for recent years when there was not a single cent of hospitalization expenditure in fact the month previous only 87c of a balance was due for hospitalization indicating the people of the muni cipality are very healthy just now or at least able to meet their own accounts in this behalf there was however 37 expended for relief groceries reeve geo leary presided and members present also included deputy reeve lome evans and councillors eugene baker l j harper edw logan ten pages morley pugh home after five years service abroad saw heavy fighting on italian front says raf was fine partner sergt morley pugh princess louise dragoon guards arrived home in stouffville on sunday after nearly five years service overseas morley who is a son of mrand mrs alf pugh of this place left for eng land five years ago this december as a member of the 4sth highlander regiment in which uniform he is pictured here donmorrison dfc liberal candidate acclaimed recently as one of lea- sides most famous sons fltlieut don morrison dfc and dfm was un animously chosen as lib eral candidate for york east in the forthcom i ng federal elec tion at the n o mination meeting last week three other candi dates coun cillor archie blake of east york robert brown of scarboro and william watson president of york east liberal association withdrew their names i have not learned to fight with words the spitfire pilot who has been credited with 15 enemy planes told the convention at danforth park school but i would like to represent in the commons those boys who are overseas and cant talk and express the last wishes of those men who will talk no more high school adds a sixth teacher when we came here early in if you are lucky enough to find june we were having 21 hours a any and have our shirts off- but day of daylight but we are getting needless to say nobody got a good plenty of night now and quite soon tan now it gets dark most of the day well i guess id better buzz off even as early as three pclock in now fred clubine stouffville high school board has just engaged a sixth teacher for the staff in the person of miss jean farley of hamilton who taught at oakville collegiate miss farley is a specialist in arts and has been engaged to relieve the situation here because of the ever increasing attendance from year to year an important change also made by the board this week was in transferring teaching of shop work of grades 8 and 9 to principal murphy of the high school this instruction was previously given by principal watson who is carry ing an unprecedented heavy class this year it is customary for the high school to teach the shop work in these two upper public school grades in any case for the past year he has bsen in the thick of the fighting in italy and was slightly wounded only a few months ago at that time he had a miraculous escape when a bullet penetrated his cheek mor ley has two brothers in the service price still in italy and hilliard sta tioned m toronto its certainly wonderful to be back he told the tribune when visited at his home here on his arrival reeve weldon and coun cillors hugh boyd walter brillin- ger and ross brown were on hand to give official welcome to this first army lad returning from the battle- front bert lickorish representing the stouffville veterans also called at the home during the family get- together on sunday its really been tough in italy morley told the welcoming commit tee and we had to move pretty slow for a time italian towns seemed to all be built on the tops of mountains and kills and each one had to be taken separately with infantry ascending in a zigzag course and army vehicles crawling ahead in low gear morley paid particular tribute to the raf whom he said were chiefly responsible for making the first advances into italy possible hitler- just couldnt get the stuff in to stop us the raf made such a mess of his supply lines he stated morley was with the troops who crashed the vaunted hitler line and then he said i took a day off and went to see rome what about the italians he was asked not too much help and not too dependable was the way he de scribed them the boys ate well and had every kind of fruit except bananas i havent seen a banana in five years morley told us morley was a despatch rider for much of his time overseas but has been attached to the infantry for some months now we had good news service he continued i had my own radio and our newspapers came up in the line with our rations each day speaking to mr lichorish who heads the veterans comfort fund morley said that the service rend ered by this organization had been wonderful i was only once with out smokes and that was in sicily for two weeks of the prisoners now coming in to allied hands morley told us that they are rather a poor sample occupation troops are being used with the odd welltrained soldier thrown in here and there he told of seeing four germans who could not have been more than fourteen years old at least he didnt believe theyd have to shave for another two or three years italy was described as in a bad state economically and for the odd things the boys did want to buy they would ask fabulous prices morley said that morale was high among the troops and they felt that the end of the struggle was very near the men think that the civilians have done a good job on this side of the water and are de pending on them to provide a good deal in civilian life- for which theyve been fighting prior to enlisting morley was employed by the cockshutt co toronto hes married and father of two children sergt morley pugh goodwood wants light residents of goodwood have peti tioned the township council for a show of street lights in the village council promised to obtain infor mation on the cost and make a report mrs dan yake suffered fatal stroke aged 83 born in the claremont district 83 years ago mrs daniel yake second daughter of the late mr and mrs william walker claremont district died at the home of her daughter in oyeri alta on august 30 1944 as a result of a stroke many readers will recall the walker family several of the girls for long years conducting a candy store in uxbridge while a son william red walker was a wide ly known horseman information concerning the death of mrs yake was received here by mr wesley yake whose father was a brother of the late daniel yake daniel yake died in 1902 and his widow moved to cappon and later to oyen alberta all the children followed westward or went with her at the time where they are now settled and married surviving are one sister mrs matthew middleton of uxbridge a sisterinlaw mrs wm walker of unionville and three daughters mrs carl smith of oyen alta mrs walter wright of hemsdale alta and mrs thos nunn of le pas man and two sons welling ton yake of cappon alta and john w yake of saskatoon sask dean kester kc dies suddenly at timmins stouffville boy was outstanding criminal lawyer in northern ontario goodwood boy promoted former stouffville high school student harvey maye has been promoted from the position of cloth ing salesman which he has held with the white bros in toronto to be manager of their danforth cloth ing store harvey is a son of mr and mrs geo maye of goodwood and his school chums and other friends will be delighted to learn of his promotion lifted the painters spare sneak thieves broke into frank mowders garage and stole a spare tire oh another occasion they tried to snoop into the rear of the car and left a broken key in the lock engagement mr and mrs william wallace claremont ontario announce the engagement of their only daughter margaret mcfarlene to lloyd stan ley pugh only son of mr and mrs fred c pugh claremont the wed ding to take place quietly septem ber 30th old friends of the kester family in this town and district were shocked to learn of the death of dean kester kc at his home in timmins on friday morning in good health until quite recently when he carried on a successful legal business he passed away in his sleep after dismissing his nurse for the night saying he was quite all right dean kester was the son of the late mr and mrs george kester his father being a stone mason by trade and after his death dean built his widowed mother a com fortable small home here that she might enjoy to the end of her days which showed the depth of heart of the man who made such a name for himself in northern ontario he was attended twice by- a physician the day before his death and was being cared for by a train ed nurse when he passed away gifted with a brilliant legal mind that made him an outstand ing defence counsel in many im portant cases mr kester figured in most of the leading criminal trials in northern ontario for many years his rigid cross- examination of witnesses and im pressive summation before mag istrate or judge and jury provided the highlights in many of the most important hearings both at police court in timmins and in the high er court at cochrane many per sons charged with serious crimes owe their acquittal on these charges to mr kesters brilliant defence with the fall assizes scheduled to open in cochrane september 18 mr kester had been retained as defence counsel in several of the most important cases among them a manslaughter hearing in which he was to defend the accused man the noted lawyer appeared in police court last week to represent a client who elected summary trial before magistrate atkinson on a serious charge this hearing also was scheduled to go forward at the fall assizes with mr kester to act as defence counsel he was born at stouffville and received his early education here he attended osgoode hall gradu ating as a barrister in 1924 mr kester was married in 1924 to the former aurore beaudry of buckingham quebec who was public health nurse in timmins at that time mrs kester who has been in ill health for some time and is now in st marys hospital survives him along with their son billy and a brother lome of the canadian line materials scarboro an outstanding member of the liberal party mr kester always took a prominent part in federal mennonite pastor on india commission rev j harold sherk former mbc pastor on the mt joy and dickson hill circuit has been com missioned to go to india in the in terests of the mennonite central relief work his duties in the east will be for a period of two years definite mr sherk is now living in kitchener and expects to leave for india any time after october 1st large barn is demolished by fire cause of the fire which complete ly destroyed the large steel clad barn on the james barry farm adjoining stouffville to the west on tuesday morning about 10 oclock still is a strange mystery no one was supposed to be about thejbuild- ings for quite some time beforerthe fire was seen yet it was fired in broad daylight the large barn was a total loss together with the seasons hay crop ten to 16 pigs were destroy ed but four horses several cattle were gotten out and saved by those first to reach the- scene being a vegetable grower the amount of grain on hand was comparatively small roy clark of churchill saw the fire in the upper part of the- buildingand released the horses the loss is partly covered by in surance 1800 on building and stock fully covered thirteen years ago a large frame barn on this same site was blown down by a strange freak wind twis ter and mr and mrs barry had just nicely got settled on the farm at that time ten years ago mr barry met with an accident in which he received a broken back and made a miraculous recovery this weeks fire is the third really serious disaster and may it be the last bune congratulations whenever this paper won distinction in its field indicating his interest in his home town the whole of timmins turned out for a public funeral service there on monday afternoon few people ever being accorded more honor in the home community than mr kester on this occasion later the body was shipped to stouffville for burial on tuesday afternoon following service in the local baptist church conducted by rev d macgregor who knew the de ceased personally a masonic ser vice was also conducted mr kester being a member of richard son lodge here the pall bearers messrs sam j 4 fit were messrs sam armstrong wesley boadway fred crossen and provincial election campaigns ormsby lehman f e raew he never failed to send the tri- j griffiths t jjlvjii