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iv tj1r leading weekly for whitchurch markham pickering anduxbridge twps yol 55 no 22 v the tribune stouffville ont thursday oct 12 1944 ten pages home from world travels something new in potatoes a potato was brought to the office of this paper on tuesday that is a new kind of freak it consisted of four new pota toes the size of walnuts all en cased in the skin of an old po tato which had burst open in two places revealing the new tubers the four new potatoes have that new skin appearance re sembling the early summer variety that you associate with new potatoes and green peas i wto r l pierre who has been serving overseas for more than two years with the canadian merchant marine visiting india england and australia is now in stouffville visiting his parents who reside on the farm first place west of the villageand known as the jack davis farm he is shown here with his fiance miss betty bennett of hamilton the young couple will be married during his furlough v axglicans honor miss k foote i a life membership emblem the highest honor that can be bestowed by the womans auxiliary was pre sented to miss elizabeth foote on sunday last by the congregation of christ church anglican for faith ful service over a long period of years an interesting address was given by kathleen gingall of union- ville on the sunday school by post which told of her experiences in british columbia butchers cattle at the fair our local butcher wm pitman may justly lay claim to being able y to serve us prime beef and now he is gaining in prowess in the prize ring with some of his cattle at markham fair last week he car ried off one second and one third prize with his baby herefords eight months old j arthur williamson dies at roblin man the death occurring last week at roblin man of arthur william son a resident of western canada for over 30 years and a member of aurora districts best known fam ilies is announced here by the newmarket era and express mr williamson was in his 70th year he was born near vandorf and after farming for some years in the district he went west for some years he kept a livery at roblin but lately retired from business a year ago he attended brothers funeral at new market he is survived by his widow and two sons and two brothers daniel of aurora and edward of newmar ket the funeral service and inter ment were at roblin patrick murphy j succumbs to injury of a year ago j home place campment a battles once indian scene of en great markham fair still big lar evfcnt of the fall markham fair attracted probably the largest black and white show ever assembled in ontario accord ing to the best judges weather conditions last weekend were ideal for big crowds attending the fair too consequently on saturday 15000 people passed through the gates there were 201 entries from 23 exhibitors in the holstein show among the winners grand champ ion and senior champion joseph mcgriskin agincourt reserve senior champion william clark- son and son weston reserve grand champion and junior cham pion alex cameron and son wes ton other prizes in order g c jackson and son downsview t mcgriskin agincourt alex cam eron and son weston chapman bros weston j s watson and vson agincourtgeorge s henry todmorden lloyd turner stouff ville w clarkson arid son weston alex milne of toronto won the horseshoeing contest with j ross of toronto second and a clelland of barrie third eleanor thomson scarboro junction led the junior farmerette homemakers with mar- jorie hart of victoria square second and mrs barbara hart victoria square third junior farmer winners were jack cou- perthwaite agincourt and doug las miles tmilliken one of the principle features of- the closing day was the show spon sored by the toronto district ayr shire breeders club in which 151 head of cattle were exhibited cham- pion senior bull was won by w e lansdell son maltonand junior and grand champion went to chas c cook of aurora senior grand champion female went to w e phillips of oriole and junior to e l purdy son pickering chief prizewinners in other class es included fred colo of markham sheep fred bagg- unionville al fred bagg edgeley and arch lit- tic markham jersey cattle c s carruthers- markham j m gard- houseson weston and the misses whitson claremont short horn cattle h bellby stroud an gus cattle chas boynton gormley douglas miles milliken and leitch- croft farms gormley swine prizewinners inhorses were best gents turnout earmstrongorange- ville and g cochrane port perry best lady driver mrs rb russell toronto best clydesdalcteam geo francis mount forest g atkin- son richmond hill and h down brooklin best light teams t a married 30 years on sunday last mr and mrs roy andrew marked 30 years of mar ried life mr andrew located at ballantrae twelve years ago next april and established the shell oil station there for six years he has been associated with the hagersville asphalt paving limit ed and was promoted to superin tendent five years ago a position he still holds and which takes him from home most of the time mrs andrew was the former gladys clubine whose parents re sided on yonge street between aurora and newmarket in whit church township they were wedded in newmarket and when they first went to ballantrae mr andrew expected to hang his hat there for a year or two but finding the place a delightful one to live in has become a permanent fixture mr andrew has hold the position of township auditor for some years having gained wide book experience with the crr before he located in whitchurch on sunday thirty friends and relatives were present to mark the anniversary of this esteemed couple may soon be home native son of whitchurch town ship patrick murphy- died in st michaels hospital very early on tuesday morning he had under gone several operations following a fall from an apple tree in the orchard on his farm on the 6th concession of whitchurch at lot 14 mr murphy was 74 years old and put up a strong fight but complica tions aggravated his injury the first murphys came to whit church almost a hundred years ago from agincourt district and took up 50 acres of land which they ob- tained for practically nothing from the crown they were a progres sive family and added to their holdings as the years passed by umil today 300 acres of land stands in their name including a valuable piece of timber which the late ed ward murphy brother of patrick who died three years ago dedicated to loretta abbey he being a bache lor and having no dependents pat murphy was also a bachelor and surviving are two aged sisters mrs sarah canning and miss mary ann murphy who is 87 mrs canning took ill last week and was taken to the home of her son joseph in toronto patrick murphy was a man of very sound judgment and was handicap ped with defective hearing for many years he was oneof those congenial individuals whom friends liked to meet andpass the time of day with he took a great interest in the roman catholic church and in municipal politics the murphy farm is one of the historic spots in ontario situated as it is in one of the rugged parts of the country midst high hills and heavy bush land one of the few remaining spots of its kind so near the more settled parts of the coun try the place gives every evidence of being an old indian encampment and many skulls have been foraged from the earth round about also battle weapons indicating that the place was the scene of many bat tles the old indian fort stood north from the murphy home and the late mr murphy toku of once cutting the skull from the form of an indian body as he plowed there indians were prone to bury their dead feet down when the mur phies landed north in the bush to this home place they cleared up the bush and heaped the trees into piles for burning it was some ac complishment in those days to clear an acre of land for grain growing the funeral this thursday morn ing will take place to the rc church at newmarket mass at 1030 oclock private citizens asked to aid ssirifcil in handling new hall building scheme will work with town council to formulate plans for new hall stouffville finds itself without public hall accommodation which is proving a great hardship since undertakings are passing our door and going to other places and with this in mind theniunicipal council has set up a committee whose duty it will be to examine into the re quirements of a hall to be built some time in the future in addit ion to all members of the council being on the committee messrs f l button kc hugh banner- man and lcmurphy have been asked to act in an advisory capac ity and they have accepted the res ponsibility reeve weldon and councillors walter brillinger re brown hugh boyd and avnolan form the remainder of the com mittee one of the duties of the com mittee will be to visit other towns where modern halls have been built and to formulate tentative plans for a hall here this may prove slow work but as materials are not available at present for building there will be ample time to exhaust the subject and possibly determine the type of building best suited to our needs snooze cost 1000 and damaged car as an aftermath to an accident in which his car collided with a hydro pole on yonge street in whitchurch township on septem ber 23rd george cullingham rr 3 mount albert had to face a charge of careless driving in mag istrate court newmarket last fri day pleadingguilty to the charge magistrate w f woodliffe fined the accused 10 and costs with an alternative of ten days in jail provincial constable william a melbourne who investigated the accident at 7 am- told his worship that mr cullingham had given as his excuse that he had fallenasleep at the wheel the car he said was badly damaged and the defendant and his passenger taken to the york county hospital attend to your ration books next week see announcement of places and dates on page 5 english bride arrives- tire first english bride to reach stouffville arrived from overseas during the weekend the wife of al fred thomas one of our fliers who fought over the english channel during those dark days when the allies suffered from lack of prepar edness in the sky as well as on land mrs thomas had an un eventful voyage across the atlantic and we hope she will find stouff ville and its people entirely up to her expectations gormley son missing in italy official word has been received by rev and mrs a t gooding of gormley that their son lance corporal vernon gooding was list- gallant soldier of ed as missing in action on sept 28th l-cpl- gooding- enlisted in the municipal council held its monthly session thursday evening and passed a long list of routine accounts also a resolution of con dolence directed to mrs gordon hoover wife of the late corporal gordon hooverand to his parents mi and mrs jacob hoover the resolution read whereas the death of lc corp gordon hoover has been officially reported while on active service therefore lie it resolved that this council of the village of stouffville instruct the clerk to forward to mrs hoover and family and to mr mrs jacob hoover their express ion of sincere sympathy on behalf of the citizens in general in the loss of a gallant husband father and son while on active servicein the cause of liberty and fieedom the resolution of course was unanimously endorsed- k g tan ardent church worker probably few people knew that keightley george tarr who died at his home in stouffvilleon wednes day afternon last week was once a united states citizen but such is the fact mr tarr was born in philadelphia 83 yearsago last 28th of april but when a few weeks old his parents came to ontario settl ing in the claremont district there were five children who grew to maturity the sole survivor now be ing the youngest child mr nathan tarr also a retired resident of this town k g as his friends familiarly- called him attended cedar creek school on the 9th of pickering as a lad and in 1897 sought the hand of a cherrywood girl mary e cox- worth and the couple were married word was receivedathis home here this veek that fltjlieutjim thomas has arrived in england from switzerland and will shortly be coming to canada his wife and young son are still in switzer- lanu r when his plane came downfhe was reported missing and consider- wilson cannington and nshantz able anxiety was felt here but-fin- plattsville percheron team leitch- ally the joyful news came through croft farms gormley lloydbrbbk i that he- was safe in switzerland farm claremont and lloyd turner i after escaping from enemy terrl stouflville i wry- z sb6tficiriv v irttlri wife survjyfes her husband for only four months mr and mrsh w sanders left on friday afternoon for chicago to attendthe funeral of her sister the wife- of the late dr burkholder who died there following an illness of some duration dr burkholder passed away only four months ago and both he and mrs burkholder were natives of this place mrs burkholder was the former amelia barkey daughter of the late joseph barkey who establish ed the first furniture business in stouffville as well as the first hard ware store the family were pioneer settlers and active com munity workers in the early days besides her sister mrs sanders and a brother mr walter barkey of toronto also a halfsister mrs wscook there survives two sons mr fred burkholder and dr chas burkholder eye nose and throat specialist in chicago and one daughter mrs r e humphrey although long removed from the home town dr and mrs burk holder- were always interested in its activities and were constant readers of the tribune they had a summer home at jacksons point where they spent so many happy summers j writing to his mother from his station in india ted cadieux re lates how he and his navigator were fairly surrounded by acclaim ing natives so glad to greet them that police had to direct the traffic while places are not revealed in the letter it is apparent that ted who is a flier in the rafis pro bably in egypt here is the con tent of his letter ive just come back from a 3day trip and i had a wonderful time when i arrived there were 12 letters waiting for me and a box from you my friends certainly enjoyed the gum and chocolates i had a letter from chuck pipher and he seems quite happy over his forthcoming marri age i am in very good health and living a fairly good life glad you finally received my box sent from cairo the weather is much the same here as in canada at present but we have more rain i am expecting to move shortly to another station i bought post cards of the city i was in but will not send them be cause they would get dirty and they are actual pictures this par ticular city was marvellous and the people were even kissing us they were happy to see us my navigator and myself were walking down one of the main streets and an elderly woman called to us so we stopped we talked to her in french and inside two min utes there were so many people around that a policeman had to direct the automobile- traffic when we were leaving we shook hands with the lady when about 200 hands shot out immediately for us to shake they were throwing perfume at my wag when he entered a big departmental store wo live like kings all the time we were there in a luxurious frenchhbtel peo ple were buying us drinks all day long i believe that most of the people had never seen a canadian before ive met some very important people the past month ambassad ors scientists and others well never get over the manner jn which the people treated us- january 1943 and weritoverseas in cherry wood on the 13th of janu- may of that year he arrived inl tnev took up farming italy last december as a member of at mongolia and- remained there the irish reeiment i untl1 nm years ago when they vernon sawseveraf days action ffired a have since enjoyed after his arrival following which tn r finehome on obrien avenue he was hospitalized for some hthe exception of one year months after coming out- of hospf m markham village their pltal- he began ta- special army oldfarmmvassold torussel -cow- course which he had just complet- ed on the 14th of sept kg tarr was a keen church- recentfront line despatches have j worker- he sang in the choir at spoken of the irish being involved claremont and for long years was in heavy fighting in northern italy sunday- school superintendent at and it is believed that vernon fail- mongolia later when he located in stouffville he became a member of the session of the united churcfl here a mark of honor- justly due him he was a man of generous im pulse and was kindly disposed to all who were indebted to him besides mrs tarr an only son clayton is left to revere the mem ory of a good father and- husband the funeral on friday afternoon from the late home to stouffville cemetery was largely attended- the pall bearers were messrs levi forsyth hoklinck clayt stouffer e a button harvey moyer chas atkinson rev d davis and rev- l e atkinson conducted the ser vice ed to return from one of these en gagements we live like kings writes local lad from middle east training over lac walter smith rcaf is a son of mr and mrseverton smith stouffville he received his training in canada in tor onto and st thomas prior to enlisting walterwas engaged in the woodstock district as an electric welder councillor worked overlooked birthday not until the shades of night were falling was the fact mentioned that councillor albert reesorwas 63 on friday he was day and if he realized the historic occasion he secretly allowed it to pass unnoticed until members of the family recalled the date that evening if its not loo late con gratulations mr reesor births housser at the brierbush hos pital stouffville on oct 5 1944 to mr and mrs joseph housser 10th conj- whitchurch a son drudge- at markham on oct 2nd 1044 to mr and mrs- fred l drudge stouffville rrsl a son s -l- jijfcifiwmws bert hopkins spent entire lite in district a large funeral was accorded the late bert hopkins who- died last thursday at his home near monv golia 10th concession of markham- he being 74 this month he had been in ill health for quite a long time v son of the late mr and mrs james hopkins who came from england if was often recalled that- his father was born at sea as the parents were migrating to canada bert isthelast survivor of the famlty buttnere are three nep1 hews and eleven nieces the late mr hopkins married ida miller of markham township and- they had no family mrs hopkins died one year and seven mbnths ago their whole married life was spent farming in the neighborhood of stouffville the funeral on sunday afternoon took place from the home of john barkey main- street stouffville who livedwithuhe late mr and mrs hopkinsy from young child- hood until- he became a man rev d davis conducted the services and the pall bearers were all rela tives mostly brothers of mrs hop- kins interment was made at stouffville cemetery mrs forsyth passes at goodwood mrs f a forsyth died at her home ingoodwoodon wednesday morning of this week she being in her- 76th year j deceased i was zillah miller a member of jan old township family funeralj service on friday afternoon- oct 13atthe late home at 230 interment good- je wood cemetery vaw siawi2csi