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flr ceife leading weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twps v0l08n07 the tribune stouffville oxt june 13 1946 ten pages council prospects for numerous new homes on westend street a new subdivision in the west end was submitted to the village council on thursday evening b mr walter brillinger council said they welcomed the evidence of expansion in town and approved of i the subdivision subject to any modifications requested by the dept to whom all plans must now be submitted before being register ed council recommended that pro vision be made by mr- brillinger for bis new street which would run south from main between the former harry brillinger bftngalo and the hodgins home for an out let at the south end instead of just being a deadend street subdivided on one side only the new street will require houses to be built costing 0000 or more according to the terms of the deed mr brillinger said xine lots are shown on the plan and all but one or two have been promised to prospective buyers immediately after the plans are approved by the department the council voted 200 to the park commission for maintenance of park property which is looking extra well this summer no doubt when a heat wave strikes residents will be glad to take their evening meal in the park and enjoy its beauty and coolness a councillor suggested councillor brown reported that york organizes fifty bus grain club of the 50000000 bushels of winter wheat produced in ontario in a normal year york county a large producer of this cash crop grows approximately one million bushels and it is luting therefore that the county crop improvement association should announce a special contest amongst the grow ers they have set up what is known as a 50 bushe winter wheat club similar to the one organized in south simcoe last year soxne six or eight counties are organizing this year and it is expected entries will be selected in each club to complete at he royal winter fair which is reopening in november there must be at least 10 contestants with a minimum of 5 acres and w m coekburn who is secretary of the association says he will be disappointed if there are not at least 25 contestants the maple leaf milling company has offered 100 in prize money and almost a been secured to make a most attrac- live prize list as it is open to the whole county a canvass of growers cannot be made so it is hoped that through the cooperation of the press all interested growers with miss bessie taun buried on wednesday native of pickering township and member of a family well known in the claremont district miss bessie taun died at the family home in the east end of stoutville on monday following a very severe illness it was apparent for some time that her recovery was very unlikely miss taun was in her 77th year she was a daughter of the late mr and mrs george taun pioneer bickering farmer practic ally all her life was spent in that township or until the family moved to stouffville some years ago surviving is a sister miss tressie dwe tauri and a brother george both of j thin town another brother richard died only a few years ago the funeral this wednesday after noon proceeded to stouffville ceme tery for interment service being conducted by rev d davis of the united church new store starred mr leslie rowbotiuun i building a small store at the front of his re sidence one door west of he cana dian bank of commerce it was planned to build two stores but scarcity of materials and for other reasons mr rowbotham decided on erecting only one charlie atkin son is the contractor mr hugh bannermans new bun- galo immediately north of miss gertrude todds residence is making fine progress toward completion this prefabricated house is going up in record time with mr truman baxter head carpenter the speed with which this new readymade ing is taking shape is some- of a pleasing revelation nearly 200000 saplings planted in whitchurch new management j completes first year child ran into moving car sustains nasty head injury an unfortunate accident occurred on main street saturday afternoon when little hazel hostler grand daughter of mr and mrs george austin rushed out in front of a ii babies arrived at the brierbush parked car at schells butcher shop i right into the path of a passing car the bnerbush hospital has just driven by mrs geo fooe the much more has already completed us first year under new child only four and a half years apparently failed to keep a look out as the foote car had almost passed her when she rushed into the rear of it being struck down by 2200 gallons of dust layer oil was fields that have wintered well will placed on roads last week omitting write to w m coekburn new- those streets that are to have tarvia market to enrol or ask for further top laid by the jupp construction j particulars co this summer considerable patch work was done with gravel on the road the chairman stated which is only of a temporary nature as experience has shown reeve nolan presided and coun cillors present were re brown e a button hugh boyd and jack smits one set of prizes will be given on the field score another on yield and possibly another on a bushel exhi bit of threshed grain the contest will be repeated in 194647 with the use of registered seer- rev eric larsen presbyterian pastor phizes on display a display of the fortyone prizes being given away as lucky draws by the stoulfville lions club on their big night here june 2gh are to be displayed in the window of riches hardware have a look at them and see that you get a ticket at a meeting of the presbytery of kingston held last week rev eric larsen pastor of st andrews church tweed was granted per mission to leave the presbytery mr larsen has received a call to markhamstouilville charge in the toronto presbytery and expects to take up his duties here at the end of this month rev larsen will conclude his pastorate in tweed on june 16th he has also been pastor of st- peters church madoc and has resided in that village since leaving trail bc in november 1912 mr larsen conducted a summer school for younger children last year at st andrews church tweed at which there was a fine attend ance he has been invited to take charge of a similar school at knox presbyterion church toronto this summer the tweed news since coming to this district he has been most rirfruc active in presbytery activities both wiitiia mr and mis larson will be missed emmerson at the bnerbush bv st andrews congregaton they hospital stouffville on wednes- will make their new home at marki day june 5 1946 to mr and mrs ham a successor has not yet been melbourne emmerson nee mar honeymoon in muskoka at the baptist parsonage ux bridge on saturday evening june 8th in a quiet ceremony lean slack daughter of mrs willard slack of goodwood became the bride of robert dawson son of mr and mrs thos dawson of goodwood rev mr taylor of uxbridge officiating the bride was charmingly attired in a turquoise blue english wool crepe suit with white accessories and corsage of sweetheart roses and white sweet peas miss marjorie foreman of pos- sean and toronto in wine flowered silk jersey with black accessories and corsage of yellow roses attend ed the bride mr clarence hallet of oshawa attended the groom the happy young couple left im mediately following the ceremony for a honeymoon in muskoka management since mr and mrs e r good disposed of the institution i in june 1915 which they founded in this town some 15 years ago mrs malcolm the obliging and efficient superintendent confided in the tribune that it had been a most successful year and a very busy one almost continuously the hospital has been filled to capacity and another interesting fact is thin during the hospital year under her direction sixtysix babies were ushered into the world a group which if gathered in one place would make quite an imposing picture the growing popularity of the brierbush with its needed service in the district will undoubtedly call for still further expansion in the years to come fortunately the hospital is amply supplied with spacious grounds which will take care of future expansion and which is a further great coivenience fresh garden products are available on the premises while ample lawn space is appreciated by the elderly people who are able to get outdoors in warm weather patients at the hospital are quick to make known their appreciation of the faithfulness of the super intendent and her staff in attending their many needs the rear bumper she sustained a nasty head wound and was rushed by dr bo- dendistel vs who was standing nearby to the office of dr freel and was later taken by a motorist from langstaff to the sick childrens hospital where we understand she was detained for a day or two who poisoned pal aged orangeman dies at glasgow named for the local charge mrs esther tarr east end very ill friends will egret learn caret mccowan a daughter i hood at the brierbush hospital is stouffville on saturday june sth to 1910 to mr and mrs clarence hood a son tribune again awarded clark newspaper trophy winners in competitions conduct ed among the weekly newspapers of ontarioquebec division of the canadian weekly newspaper asso ciation were announced it the con vention held in london last week when it was found that the joseph clark memorial cup was again awarded to the stouitvile tribune being adjudged the best allround weekly newspaper in the two pro- vinces published in towns of 1500 or less the cup a near duplicate of the famous stanley cup was donated by mr jos atkinson of the toronto daily star tack in 1939 v hen the tribune was the first paper to capture it on that oca- ion it was presented to his paper a ottawa by mr greg clark and last week it was presented in lon don by jos clark brother of the famous greg whose gsacous re marks on making the presentation were most impressive to he repre sentative of this nevspaper the tribune is the first paper to over win the cup three times hon paul martin secretary of state was perhaps the outstanding speaker at she convention when he addressed a banquet gathering in the hotel london on the occasion of the presentation of ti e cup to the tribune as well as the award of the stephenson trophy which went to the huntington gleaner for best front page in town of 4500 or less and the legge editoi ml trophy being won by the fort erie times- review trounce markham lose to newmarket after being edged out in then- first game with markharr stouff ville midget and junior ball teams came back last week to trounce the southerners twice the midgets took monday nights game 104with wells doing the bulk of the pitch ing for the locals with schell reliev ing last friday the hometown juniors blanked the markhamites 20 with miller turning in a stellar performance on the mound al though in difficulty on a couple of occasions the local field gave him good support at newmarket on tuesday night the junior team dropped their first encounter with newmarket 102 this yonge st team is said to be the classiest in the league and will visit memorial park this friday night believed to be the oldest orange man in the county of ontario john davis died at his home at glasgow just east of stouffville on monday he was in his 91st year and was a member of lol 572 goodwood for half a century born in the mount albert district his parents died when he was very small and he grew up in the home of mrs stephen lawr resident of the 3rd of uxbridge the family be came more or less separated but he is believed to be the last excepting for a half brother in orillia john who farmed all his life mar ried susan faulker who prede ceased him two years surviving are two daughters mrs annie noble of toronto and mrs andrew mitchell of uxbridge also two sons edward and hilliard despite his great age mr davis was active until the last and did a good deal of gardening this spring he was ill in bed only a few days before his death the funeral will be held from the late home this thursday afternoon nearly 200000 trees have been planted out this spring nearly all in the township of whitchurch the reeve of stouffville chairman of the reforestation committee told york county council last week already the county have over 1000 acres in this township re forested and the new planting mostly in the ballantrae area will bring the total acreage to over 1500 tlie chairman asked the council to approve of two purchases of land in whitchurch 50 acres belonging to the clark brothers sons of aylmer clark and located on the ah concession just north of the aurora road also 200 acres at lot 22 con 5 owned by i porrett of belleville this latter property runs from the sth to the 0th con cession being a complete township block he said while moot of the land is of the blow sand type the place has 15 acres of soft and hard- pal a beautiful newfoundland wood bush and several acres of low dog owned by w g spenceley cedar claremont was given a dose of reeve mitchell of york asked strychnine which proved fatal and why the committee should pay 21 the owners have posted a reward per acre for some land while a few for the apprehension of the culprit years ago this was obtained for pal is shown here with four and a from 6 to s the explanation said half year old betty ann booth the chairman of reforestation was daughter of mr and mr delbert in the fact that the poriett place booth of stouffville as she plays had a very good bush a house and at the home of her uncle barn and s300 in hydro wiring installed he recommended that minor repairs be made to the house so that it could be used for housing one of the families employed on the ijeforestation housing was a prob lem in obtaining help on the big project he said tlie kind of trees planted this year are 50 per cent pines said the chairman including red scotch austrian pines also douglas fir silver maple red oak white spruce white cedar white ash and a few other varieties the reforestation committee was commended by reeve hearst one of the county commissioners for having done one of the best jobs in years the reforestation committee is composed of reeve nolan of stouff ville chairman deputy reeve e logan of whitchurch frank burk- holder markham secretary v r scott jdsibbald georgina jl spillett aurora and w s taylor north york markham lp in the council air members of markham township council and road supts were the guests of gilies ah port at button- ville on saturday evening when they were taken for a ride in one of their planes it was a thrilling experience for all which will be re membered for a long time reeve hooper says the plane he was in went so high that it was above the clouds and deputyreeve reesor de clared flying over toronto the royal york and the bank of com merce building had the appearance of passing over house flies plowmen meet friday a meeting of the north york plowmens association is called for this friday evening at sharon the annual match this year will be held near stouffville but the location is not vet determined london romance fnds in new york 1 1 for stouffville girl no school areas before 1948 in york or ontario it would appear that thre will be no high school areas estabished in this part of york county nor in ontario county to become effective before 194s if at that date neither york or ontario county are pressing for the larger areas at the moment and the first wave of enthusiasm in their favor is passing off farmers want to know something more about the costs of the new setup if it comes into opeiation in one area of york county where a public school area is operating over a whole township the transportation are equal to the cost of education and that would be bad for the taxpayers of the counties concerned if the same thing happened with secondary educa tion there is a general feelintj that the mr and mrs warren anderson of education have sent out of sinclairville new york are in fef wno have g w f in their honeymoon t t0 promote such large jj area- as they are trying to induce the people to consent to m ennonites may enlarge school serious consideration to the erection of an addition to the rock- way monnonite school was given at the threeday sessions of the mennonite conference of ontario held at markham wideman church which concluded on thursday decision was made to call a special session of the conference to consider the new building the conference will also discuss the costs of organization of a mennonite mutual benefit society for the assistance of the needy at this time rev j b martin was appointed moderator of the conference for the new year assistant moderator is rev moses roth new jamburg secretary rev harold g- groh 1 town on bride is the former grace daughter of mr and mrs bert bell mill street mr and mrs anderson had an in teresting romance which started away back when grace was with the cwacs in england and her husband a sergeant in the us mar ines they planned to be married two years ago in london but be fore they could get the knot tied he was whisked away on a mission to the pacific and the marriage was off after that grace had a long illness on arrival in caiada but fully recovered she recently visited sinclairville and the knot was then tied by a j p krknd here will he wishing the young couple many years of happi- hess regardless of how the areas are set up it should be kept in mind that the same people are doing the paying as are called on to pay the secondary school costs today the main change is that you are adding to the present expense a system of free transportation for rural stu- dent- at a cost nobody knows what reasonably sized are would seem to be the workable hm to talk about areas the ize of which the dept of education promoters are advocating is preposteous and may result in finallv inducing the rejection of the whole scheme school areas must be anproved by county councils not l3ter than june 30 in any year to become effective the following jaiuary pte john lageer son of mr and mrs edgar lageer arrived home from germany on tuesday he crossed on the acquatania and dock ed at halifax john crossed to england in may 1915 wed in queens court mrs mabel tindail and mr geo patton two local residents of our town were quietly marrie i last sat urday afternoon june sth at the home of the bride in queens court rev d davis spoke the words that irrde them man and wife and friends join us in extending con gratulations and wishes for much happiness the couple motored to uxbridge for the wedding supper and left for points north on a short honey moon trip- can it be our cemetery is popular 1 what may be shown as a record for the local cemetery in the matter of the number of burials made in a given time has just been establish ed from january 1 to may 30 no less than thirty graves were opened for burials and this is believed to be the largest number on record interred in such a time the popularity of the local ceme tery if such a place can be termed popular is steadily growing and old friends from far and near are buying up plots they have been selling at a very low price and the cemetery commission s being urged to increase the price at once since the returns are not enough to maintain the grounds in the fine state in which they have been kept in the past next year die new grounds to the west of the old cemetery will be opened and made available to in tending purchasers but the cost of lots therein has not been deter mined yet all lots sold are at a price to include perpetual care it is expected that next season the little chapel to be erected at the north end of the old grounds will be proceeded with out of funds provided by the will of the late thos williamson when this hap pens the right of way into the grounds off main street will be improved and made more fitting than they are at the moment at the rate cemetery demands here are growing it will not be long ere there is something like one hundred burials a year being made some people estimate court of revision turns down appeal total assessment increased 10000 population slightly changed the appeal of robert burnett from an assessment of 1800 on two houses owned by him immediately north of the riches hardware store was unsuccessful when heard by the court of revision on thursday evening the court presided over by the reeve found the pair of houses are assessed lower than any other properties in the neighborhood and cited instances where individual houses are assessed higher yet the rental derived was much less than the revenue received from the pair of houses appealed on mr burnett said his houses were without sidewalks and oi a street used as a flumping ground the return of the assessment roll by blake sanders indicated that the population had remained almost stationery at 1300 last yiar it was 30 more assessment of rateable property is now at an alltime peak of 099770 an increase of 10000 partly due to new structures and partly increased values the court confirmed the assess ment and adjourned members be side the reeve are councillors r e brown hugh boyd e a- button and jack smits mr hugh bannerman and miss bannerman acompanied by mrs rev l e atkinson of uxbridge are on a motor trip this week to windsor