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rr t s a leading weekly- for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twps vol 57 no 9 the tribune stouffville ont june 28 1945 eight pages town tax rate reduced i tvci t canadian girls hitchhike 3365 miles barbara green and joan smith vancouver carried the wrench and needles as weapons on a 3365mile hitchhike totoronto but never needed them their report on the 30day trip is truck driv ers know the best eating spots canadian motorists are gentlemen trip cost 5600 council guards against undesireable shacks no hew house may now be erect ed- in stouffville without the pro posed owner obtaining a building permit nor shall any- extensive alternations to existing buildings be made without a permit according to a bylaw passed last week by the municipal council there has been more demand fora building bylaw than any other piece of legislation said the reeve in introducing the matter i as building inspector will be appointed and it will be his duty to see that theprovisions of the by law- are observed they are not onerous and probably constitute one of the shortest building bylaw in use throughout york county no residence shall be erected costing less than 1500 unless it be in such a location as not to be detrimental to the district all materials used and worksmanship must be that in common use or as good material and the workman ship shall be good common practice chimneys must be constructed so as not to present a fire hazard where dwellings are erected on streets presently built on such dwellings shall be in line and not closer to the street allowance than existing houses s one of the main objects of the by law is to safeguard present dwell ings against someone desiring to erect a shack in the locality that would tend to lower the standard of dwellings and the assessment in the area there has been a persistent de mand such a bylaw for years and successive councils have given more or less consideration to enact ing one but because of the volume of material usually attempted to be placed in such a document it was usually dropped the present by- law cuts through a lot of the clauses about the kind of materials and how they shall be put up to the point that reasonable good material and workmanship are required while shacks are forbidden applications for permits must be filed with the village clerk- accom panied by a fee of m junior hardball heke wednksday stoudmhc junior hardball teamvill meet aurora juniors in memorial park next wednes day night game is scheduled to start at 7 pm this thurs- daynight this team will go to markham for their first game 500 moving county to huron soon lived 82 years in immediate district an illness borne with great pati ence and fortitude proved fatal for mrs john cleaver who passed away at the late home on albert street south on friday evening june 22 slie would liave reached her 82nd birthday had she lived until this september mrs cleaver suffered a stroke three years agor the funeral service on monday afternoon was conducted by rev d davis assisted by an old friend of the family rev chas fockler of maple pall bearers were all nep hews namely harvey r jones j earl jones toronto arthur clea ver tara wilfrid lazenby her bert pegg wilfrid burnett there were many lovely floral pieces from relatives and sympathetic friends mrs cleavers maiden name was ida jones she being a daughter of maxon jones and his wife lydia wideman she was born in whit church on the 9th concession where now lives mr audrey bartholomew and her long lifewas all spent in the immediate locality where she was born the jones came to whit church from new york state at the beginning of the century it was often recalled by mrs cleaver that her grandfather was killed in the rebellion of 1812 he was not a participant in the uprising but had a brother in the army whose child ren were ill with the fever one lying dead when the brother went to bring home the father of the children but was shot by the oppos ing forces as he sought to bear the rews through the danger zone in 1896 john cleaver and ida jones were united in marriage and took up farming north musselmans lake on lot 27 later they lived in markham and for 14 years farmed at bloomington then retired in 1921 in stouffville to them an only daughter meeda mrs oliver harding was born and together with the husband and four grand children survives the mother also king may be ofteredi north york seat although glengarry constituency near ottawa is regardedas a likely seat for premier mackenzie king to accept following his defeat in prince albert there is a growing rumor that the premier is to be offered north york and that the member elect jack smith of rich mond hill is ready to retire in favor of the premier who is so fami liar with this historic riding in which he previously ran of course if mr smith gives his consent thenthe riding executive would have to be consulted in the event of mr king deciding to seek a place in parliament through north york it is believed that he would not be opposed by the pro gressiveconservatives or the ccf stanley theatre installs la test sound a squad of engineers this week made a complete change of the sound and mechanical equipment at the stanley theatre the northern electric machines newly installed are the last word in sound and will give the patrons of our local theatre the advantage of the finest enter tainment mr barnes manager stated that some delay in the installation of this sound equipment was experi enced owing to the fact that this machinery has come from the u s a the theatre floors are to be graced with new carpets shortly and light ing facilities further improved engagement mr and mrs j archie fleming unionville announce the engage ment of their only daughter marion isobel to mr john harold nigh elder son of mr and mrs edgar h- nigh stouffville the wedding to take place saturday july 14 at 2 pm in melville united church miss klth badgero sustains fractured arm there are sure to be some disap pointed girls and women with ap pointments at the betty beauty salon in the very near future since the proprietress miss ruth badgcro was unfortunate in taking a tumble in the garden on tuesday morning sustaining a broken left arm which will leave her quite incapable of carrying on the hair dressing busi ness for some weeks at least miss badgero is endeavouring to contact patrons with set dates in order to make a cancellation of them borden middleton awarded dfc declaring that rationing is even more severe in england since the war days than during the heat of the battle borden middletonyoung- est son of mrs middleton and the late luther middleton of broug ham writes his mother to say that he hopes soon to bo enroutehome borden is i pilot officer he led a spitfire plane and won the flying cross but doesnt say much about the achievement he simply states the airforce headquarters called me to london to have my photo graph taken because i have been decorated i have received three prints but they are not good mrs middleton as her son points out in his letter occupies a unique posi tion since she has her son in this war and had one in the first war i idont think that many mothers have had that experience writes borden governments 50 percent school subsidy big help down aurora by 2 score stouffville senior hardballers pulled out their first win of the current season on monday night in quite decisive fashion downing aurora 92 the local nine were never in trouble and opened the game with three runs adding to their total in every- other innings the schell brothers stouffville battery were in top form and struck out nine opposing batters gormley farmer hams and butts includes i in sausage ignored prices board order his porkers die happy and are dressed by a pretty young girl but farmer sent to jail after city hall trial before the present year is out two highly respected families of the district intend to move to huron county to make their future homes only this week mr norman reaman south of stouffville- com- oul1y pleted the purchase of 1w acres of vivi j a sister mrs joseph land in the township of howick burnett vho nas reached the re- and intends to locate on his new markawe a 95 and who lives premises this fall r u also of interest is the movingof rev c and his wife and familvof gormley to huron county a change that is to be mademnthe near future- mr cullen will take charge of the pastoral wprkof maple grove church and i at the same time relinqush his pastoral duties at heiseshiu church in connection with this changemr cullen will assume a farm in huron county in the vicinity of his work there since it is the custom of the tunker brethren to engage part time ministers l to support themselvesbyother than through i thxmeaium j of salary charged with selling pork sau sage above the ceiling price on the farmers city market fwhicks gormley farmer was sentenced to a fine of 100 or two months in jail following the trial at city hall hicks was removed to the don jail where he commenced his term but was freed the following afternoon when his wife reached the city with the 100 the alternative to serving time the farmers defence for break ing the ceiling was that he sells a special brand of sausage that has no cheap filler concoction and that he even puts in the hams and butts and had cultivated a special trade for his product he does his own killing on his whitchurch farm just north of gormley on the 4th concession it was through the kindness of a neighbor that i was jihie to go to the city and get mv ii me uprising out naa husband freed said mrs hicks the army whose child- wh0 pointed t0 the conditio ffi farm weeds and tall grass every where you see- she continued he is the only man about the place pnd he is badly needed here mrs hicks was busy with a pan of- hot biscuits in the oven the reporter called at the farm after hicks returned to obtain the inside storyihe found the farmer busy killing a couple of hogs and believe it or not his sole helpmate right on the job was his daughter jean an attractive young miss who is doing all she can to help out the labor shortage on their farm jean was washing off the carcasses with hot water as they hung from the gallows tell us mr hicks do you claim to sell sausage made from pigs that die happy- or whyi should you charge a price above the ceiling generally accepted by others well said the farmer it is this way then he sat down wiped his brow and proceeded i refuse to put any niler inmy pbrksausage and they simply couldntfbe sold below the price i get when all the hams and butts go right into the casing my sausage are the pure thing ji mr hicks said- his price was 35 with her daughter mrs chester brumwellin manitoba j relatives and friends at the fun eral v from as far as tara orono lindsay toronto and sut ton v the servicemens wives and mo thers club will meet on- tuesday evening next july 3rd please note the change indate k j- fiomthechurchp9n aifa ijnuuhistsuccessbpis appointed uiwowafhelsehilliwiinargely be- on the shoulders of vbish0p winger and revuvsteckley j vj seuby the wartime prices fcotade board ceiling is 28 cents iri pork casings- or 31 in sheep casings hicks admitted bein warned last fall to drop his price but said he couldnt later he was told to con tinue on then this spring he re ceived another order to obey the ceiling his failure to do so resulted in a summons served on him at his stall on the market he protested that 28 cent sausage has filler cost ing around 12 cents or 13 cents a pound and he was told by wptb officials to use it when he consult ed his customers they wanted the all pork sausage and no filler and said they would rather pay 40c than have him serve filler in his sausage he admitted receiving a warning letter before the summons but kept on going hicks first consulted his customers then ignored the order and this brought on the summons he explained mr hicks said he had given up making sausage since the incident so that what it all amounts to is that his customers will have to get their sausage elsewhere or do with out he works 100 acres and has been on the same farm for 20 years or since he moved to gormley from the beaverton district last year hicks had trouble with the- wartime prices and trade board when he was found guilty of killing more pork than he was supposed to sell under the restric tions again he was fined and given the alternative of a jail term but he never paid the fine nor did he serve the term due largely because pub lic opinion was so sympathetic in behalf- of the farmer the matter was allowed to drop and friends are now wondering if the present charge is something along the line of settling old scores if that is the case the enforcement officers scored this time since they did succeed in having the sentence carried out officers will say no doubt that if we ere to continue the ceiling on things then the law has got to be obeyedrbut somehow there is a lot of sympathy goes out to a farmer under such circum stances i we left the hicks farm behind with the idea that after all hicks sausageshould sell for jnore money than the- common run which car- rffiya filler substance with much the same flavor as sawdust and glue mixed on top of that hicks pigs have- a nice young miss to it is a long time since the rate payers of stouffville have experi enced a real cut in taxes due to the unavoidable steadily increasing costs of maintenance and an always conservative tax rate how ever for 1945 things are different and a tax rate three mills below that paid last year has been set for the current year the net rate is 31 mills and the thanks is largely due to the government for assum ing something like 50 per cent of the cost of education in our schools the tax bylaw was duly passed by the municipal council a few nights ago showing the following rates adopted county purposes 38 mills village purposes r 67 mills road debenture 58 mills high school debenture 27 mills public school debenture 13 mills public library 1 mill street lighting 17 mills public school maintenance 4 mills high school maintenance 35 mills relief 5 mills 310 mills the board of education has set aside the sum of 2250 for post war development or building program at tne school the money being de- posited with the dept of education drawing 3 per cent per annum until such times as it is used this will guard against higher taxes later on when perhaps money is harder to earn the amount of 2250 is equal to another 3 mills had it been handedback but the department now permit and working in kitchen as bullet whizzes by to hear a bullet whizzing through the air right over her head as she was draining potatoes for the noon meal was the startling experience of mrs vincent baker at altona the bullet lodged in the shoulder of a milch cow pasturing nearby it was later discovered this is but one incident where irresponsible parties have been shooting off fire arms in the altona district since kjen reesor had a similar experience when he heard shots and then thewhizz of bullets the offenders escaped in a carand apparently had been out doing careless shooting policearc inves tigating because trie farmers in the altona area are incensed over the matter it will be recalled that- last year that cattle on the baker farm were shot by these wayfaring hunters and an attempt to catch up with them this season is to be made in earnest funds be raised ahead of the pro- ject a thing most people will recog nize as a wise way to finance reeve nolan said that four large telephone poles on the north side of main street between spoff or ds corner and boadwaysarug store would be taken down this summer when the additional new lights arrive modern new standards would be erected but the style or kind of pole is not decided on until hydro lighting experts report on the matter councillor e a button promised to investigate one or two requests for new water services and report two will draw only 2 per year each for water service hence it will take 25 years to get back the orig inal investment which is a situa tion that causes councillors a con stant headache it was reported that the jupp co would lay the new road on obrien avenue in july and that nearly all roads had been gravelled or repair ed during the last few days those that were not done were omitted because of the constant rains pre venting the full completion of the contract these will be done just as soon as possible under super vision of the road committee councillor brown stated sentence in fatal accident handed out mr lew mordeu paid 100 and costs as the fine imposed on him following the recent accident re ported in this paper last week the mail courier was defended by f l button kc who sought success fully not to have mr mofdens drivers license cancelled since it encourage that would have seriously interferred with his courier employment- as a mail cents per pound whereas the priceldressthenvarid what other butcher sftkm in canichoasuthat smactiwho for mstancejrln thevsausage business can honestiyrsay they -put- in the hams and butts- i- whitchurch votes 1000 tj spray roadside weeds the council of whitchurch took a forward step last week at a special meeting when 1000 was voted for the killing of roadside weeds and brush by means of a spraying outfit the contract was given- to a tor onto man who will come into the municipality with a spraying mach ine the cost runs 6c per gallon of liquid applied plus 7c per gallon for material ora total price of 13c per gallon it is roughly estimated that fully onehalf the roads in the township can be covered by this contract- council presided over by reeve george leary also accepted a peti tion from the cottagers at mussel- mans lake offering to pay one half the cost of oil- to do two miles of roads in and around the lake total estimated cost is 950 for a good grade oil that is calculated to allay the terrible dust nuisance -that- is plaguing the cottagers- and all others who have occasion to use the lake roads the cost per cot tage will run about 1 and will be collected irithe tegular waythat municipal taxes are gathered the item appearing on each tax bill in the area affected- a decision was reached topaint all- the buildings on township pro perty atvandprf including the municipal hall community hall and other buildings f v- ii-l- camp tor girls t i- v ashunyoongcan accommodate girls for junior- imtermediateand lost two brothers in war j prentice dies near markham john alexander prentice died at his home at browns corners scar- boro on sunday june24that the early age ot 33 years son of garry p prentice deceased was a mem ber of a well known family of this part of york county his grand father john h being the original prentice auctioneer of the family john a who just passed away married winnifred stonehouse of markham and whose father edward stonehouse it will be remembered died from injuries received when robbers moved against hisgasoline station at markham some years ago besides his wife the late john frentice is survived by eight children john james gordon david marion- shirley june and j barbara one sister margaret sur- vives while two r halfbrothers robert and william prentice were both lost over enemy territory in 1943 interment on wednesday after noon was made at melville ceme- tery teh of family tv i h u v also wife and 25 grandchildren revere ijato jacob smith senior jjcamp girjsr interested should contact theirilocal minister or write- missmarion wameunion- vllle s w 2 vsif v a native of vwedgeley vaughan- township and a- long-time- resident of markham living orithe 5thconr cession jacob smith died at his home there following an illness which extended through last win ter mr smith j farmer and a member of themenhonlte faith old order hewat75years of age born of parents whose forebears lived in pennsylvania and migrated to- canada withithe church move- menuof their time jacob when he grew to youngtmanhood married ella lehman and thecouple located in markham besides the mother there survives ten of a family five sons and five daughters also 25 grandchildren the five daughters are misses clare eva elizabeth almaaftd ella mrs josiah steck- ley ofzurichont- the five sons are joseph abram john levkarid jacob the latter being the stouffc- ville jeweller thefunerai on tuesday morning this week at 930 proceeded from the old homertothewldeman church for divine service and -inter- ment mrthomasreesor mark- ham and amseymartlnof u loo old frtendsof the deceased and church leadersintheoidorder of mennohites cohductedthe services while the pall bearers were messrs willis lehman allan ywideman roylwideman george icotiercarl j reesor pete steckl i- v 1