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famfftriue btwnm leading weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twps vol 58 no 12 the tribune stouffville ont july is 1946 ten pages to rescind labor law on mennonites black mares have white colts the odds are high on the chances of a black mare giving birth to a white colt but this happened twice within three weeks on the farm of kenard s snider hr 2 kitchener two percheron mares almost jet black in color gave birth to purewhite colts father of the colts is a mottledwhite ara bian shown with the colts and mares are harold snider left and kenard snider owner of the farm hydro employee expires suddenly at markham member of the markham rural hydro gang at markham eric coulter died suddenly on monday morning while at work the young man who is single had just walked into the office in markham and was in the act of handing in some time sheets when he slumped over and expired in a few minutes death was due to a heart attack the remains were taken to his home in campbellford for burial there on wednesday soli halliburton farm former resident of stouffville edward baker son of mr noah baker of this town has sold his 100 acre farm near fenelon falls to a buver from nova scotia mr baker we understand will move into fenelon falls where he now has the foundation in for a new house the property which he sold is ideally located for a tourist camp which the new owner will develop local raspberry crop near failure local raspberries had not put in an appearance in a single stouff- ville store up to monday afternoon a few people report picking limited amounts from their gardens but all say the berries are next to a fail ure last weeks rain fall came too late to save them from being parch ed st lawrence market toronto had a few berries last saturday from the markham district and they sold at 10c a pint farmers how ever were only able to bring in half a dozen boxes to a stall and they went out in a few minutes berries may be more plentiful the end of this week it was predicted red currants promise a better crop than raspberries selling on the toronto market at 150 for a six quart basket black currants less plentiful went on sale saturday at 35c a quart yellow harvest apples may be seen on local trees forming up nice ly but fall or winter apples will not be a big crop although better than last year when apples were a com plete failure however half an apple crop will be better than none something greatly appreciated after the failure of the 1015 crop ontario farm in wagg family 100 years an uxbridge township farm that has been in the family name since the crown deed was issued 100 vears ago was sold last week the the family allowance even though ij j wagg mo acre place north they might have been a few dollars 0 goodwood in what is known as ahead by taking it family allow- the wagg settlement the pur- ances are not now considered in- 1 chaser is allan jefferson come for tax purposes but they cut mr waggs grandfather acquired down the exemption a tax payer the nroperty first then his father took over and finally j e wagi family allowances a number of family men in stouffville who had not availed themselves of the family allowance now find themselves practically forced to take out the family allow ance this class of individual was close to the 1200 exemption and rather than become involved with income tax waived their right to buried mid scenes of his youth rev v a raker passes in 83rd year dr william albert baker s2 medical practitioner in peterbor ough for the last 30 years died on sunday at his home after a brief ill ness he had received patients in his oflice and managed his own dis pensary until recently dr baker was horn at baker hill on the sth concession of whit church son of joel and rachel baker there were five boys and two girls in the family the sole sur- vivior now being rev j j baker of toronto in his 91st year last december seneca eldest of the family died at his home in whit church in his 96th year the other boys were morgan and alfred the latter passing away quite early in life the two sisters were mrs r e sinclair who died in 1931 and mrs john bundy in 1935 dr baker who died on sunday graduated in medicine from the change affects many in markhamstouffville area labor minister mitchell has informed l o- breithaupt liberal member for north waterloo that the government very shortly will rescind the compulsory labor transfer regulations as applied to mennonites this will permit mennonite youths from the marktiam gormlev stouflville area to return to their farms or pre- gets on account of his eligible child ren regardless of whether or not he applies for the allowance dragonwyck is story of early dutch settlers itlne rilihon award film coming to hie stanley next monday and tuesday even while it is still making a record run at one of torontos five leading theatres dragonwyck has been secured to play at the stanley theatre here next monday and tuesday this is the picture which was awarded the may blue ribbon award by the nation screen coun cil gene tierney is the star while walter huston portrays the stern biblequoting early american farm er there is much of historical interest in the picture and magni ficent settings this is a dramatic film well pro duced and handled with good taste so that the entire family can enjoy it together who will retire this fall in good wood where he owns a house and lot the new farm owner mr jefferson of whitby is reckoned a firstclass farmer the property has a fine brick house and new metal barn it also has a choice virgin hardwood bush of 15 acres one of the few groves of its kind left in the township anthony goralczyk of pickering township a market gardener of considerable experience purchased the jefferson farm of 100 acres at whitby and plans to turn the one time dairy farm into a general farm war jobs mr mitchell announced the gov ernments intention to lift the regu lations when he met elvin shantz of kitchener secretary of the men nonite organization throughout canada together with mr breith- mpt at an interview arranged by the north waterloo member mr shantz presented the case pointing out that the war had been over for more than a year and that the mennonite youths subject to compulsory labor transfers had established a good record of work donated generously from their pay allowances to the red cross and invested considerable sums in interestfree victory bonds under the labor departments regulations covering objectors to military service such youths all across canada were compelled to work at government direction in lumber camps on highways and farms having presented the case mr shantz advised the labor minister that it was planned to assemble a large delegation with representa tives drawn from all mennonite districts in canada for presentation of a petition to ottawa that will not be necessary mr mitcnell informed him the gov- universiv of toronto in 1800 and ernmerit appreciates the situation was ma tied five vears lue told anci is giving sympathetic consider- uajnai 1 leojn e yeais latei to ida to lne proposal tnat g regu following three years m davis practice the pharmaceutical co of california as i salesman dr baker was a brother- inlaw of one of the members of the pharmaceutical firm three years later he opened a practice in lake- field where he remained for 10 years dr baker was a member of cor inthian lodge af am and mur ray st baptist church peterbor ough he was an enthusiastic irr i3i i ilations be rescinded you may ex- son of former mbc pastor dead w stanley cressman lay preach er and active worker in church young peoples groups and son of mr h taylor of bowmanville is f i relieving mr ken phillips at the dominion store while the latter is on holidays fear wolves attack sheep in whitchurch township knjoy annual outing on thursday july 11th the employees of the gold fish supply co were entertained by mr geo aston to a days outing at niagara falls via toronto and port dal- housie a most enjoyable day was spent by a party of sixteen fourteen or fifteen sheep have been killed over recent weeks on farms in central whitchurch in the vicinity or area between the van- dorf sideroad and the aurora road on the sixth concession wolves are believed to be the killers according to some informants familiar with the manner in which wolves destroy their prey not all the sheep killed in the area mentioned were destroyed by wolves however farmers who hastings elevator suffered loss were hugh canning i nn i klaw on the murphy farm j a clark a toori lire e neighbor and farther north on thej t hastings elevator nt the c dr devins farm where perhaps the xr underwent a face lifting this greatest destruction is recorded uvcek when hfcollard of victoria most of the sheep were found i square covered the big steel stmc dead in the held one or two at each ture w a guilt paint that makes killing with just a small hole in the h p stan out j ine sunlight neck of each animal usually the h a remarkable i way in addition to blood is taken the manner of kill- tjl appearance the paint job instead brushing animals attacked were lamb it islt on mr collard did a blow job said that usually sheep attacked by which would appear to be better dogs are ikuily torn and mutilated tn brush work and of course can in this section where the killing j be apolicd in less than half the occurred over recent weeks stanltfme the work was accomplished ley rowell trapped a wolf last year i without the need of scaffolding but no one reports seeing the wild even to reach the top part 60 fee animal recently there is excellent j up we understand the big elevator bush coverage close by where is on the market and will shortlv wrtves could operate from be advertied wind up schedule 64 win from hill stouffville juniors wound their regular junior baseball schedule on tuesday night with a neat 64 win over richmond hill the local nine were full value foi their win and only allowed four men a place at the plate in the final innings both pitchers turned in a fine display miller striking out eight for stouffville out of twenty- nine batters who faced him and charles having seven go down the strike out road out of thirtytwo local batters whom he faced while all the stouffvillites shared in the victory an extra big hand went to smith in left field who pulled down two beautiful shot- string catches stouffville swung their heaviest bats in the third innings the entire lineup batting around three men dying on the bases this game completes the regular schedule and whether or not there will be league playoffs is still in doubt however stouffville will definitely go into the oba junior playdowns and in the event of no local playoffs games may be arran- ed with toronto teams to keep the boys in trim until oba playoff time ifrlonov 11 ii- ii i young peoples groups ana son ot fvhilthetk oeauti- t late rev s cressman mbc enee wth f z i h i in stouffville from 1933 to other flower he j t ami 193i and who passed away 10 vears otnei t owe he was also an a riipfl r l g ardent deer hunter the funeral on ago died sunday night in st josephs hospital london ontario ilktleifwh s2sw natilllnplom m london and had charge ftyl of hcapped stt- mr cressman was born at elm- wood but came to london in 1012 during the first world war he was with a ymca unit working among troops at winnipeg he was a member of the staff of the great west life assurance co in london for 13 years for the past four years he had been on the local nes staff an active church worker he took particular interest in young people he was a member of wort- ley rd baptist church for two years during the late 30s he was lay pastor of hiawatha baptist church in st thomas he held membership in the london chris tian businessmens association surviving are his widow ethel- one daughter ruth training as a nurse at the kw hospital kitch ener two sons kenneth student at the university of western ontario and clare student at lon don south collegiate his mother mrs sarah cressman of kitchener who is s3 three brothers c w cressman and frank cressman both of kitchener and rev lloyd cressman of chicago two sisters mrs jessie lageer of stayner and mrs washington bricker of water loo mrs thos ratclitf passes suddenly resident of stouffville for 30 years mrs thos h ratcliff passed away at the brierbush hospital here on monday evening after only two days illness from a heart attack born on january 29 18g9 on the old farm at vineland which is now in the family for over a century her maiden name was sarah fretz daughter of joseph and elizabeth fretz following the death of her parents mrs ratcliff made her home in stouffville with mr and mrs joseph h hoover until her marriage to mr ratcliff in august 1919 mr ratclift died in march 1931 mrs ratcliffs only brother jacob fretz died in 1916 and his wife in 1939 leaving a foster son harmon eeker who still operates the old homestead mrs ratcliff was a chiropractor and carried on a practice here at the residence on albert street right up to the time of her death she was a member of the united church and an adherent of the baptist church as well the funeral service this thursday afternoon will be held in the baptist church at 230 pm with interment in stouffville cemetery rev d davis and rev d macgregor will conduct the ser vice and the pall bearers will be messrs stewart stouffer christie armstrong john oxendale walter pipher arthur farthing and jos cayman mt albert accident jng in most instances was identical w be a great preservative in thse attacked at the neck all f ln slower method of b tribune adv brings results for sale ok threshing machine the adv brought buyers from all over some from away out of the territory said wm eckardt in reference to the advertisement offer ing his threshing machine for sale mr eckardt said he could easily have disposed of it to wouldle pur chasers from out of the district but he old to mr sam barkey who un dertook to carrv on the same route that mr eckardt worked for some 30 vears there will be a meeting of the stouffville tennis club on thurs day evening at 715 at the tennis courts- earl cook on mound friday night here an intermediate ball team com prised of numerous members of stouffville teams of former oi j a vears marched into newmarket on six persons were injured when cars driven by bruce a foote broadview avenue toronto and arthur toole of mount albert collided on the centre road a mile and half south of mount albert on sunday foote suffered leg injuries also cuts and bruises about the head bruce jr and gail foote children were cut and bruised and two other passengers in he foote car arthur hurd and grace scott toronto suffered head injuries dr carruthers of mount albert treated the injuries constable j e jardine reported on the accident tuesday night and defeated the uip highflying junior club there l3 ij 7 kvkstixr on sunday thnir first defeit f the seison j forms the subject for an interesting thesme tsm wiif hsfup in h rov john mclaughlin of an hibmonh in mental pirk i jxst thic frfrlav nieht uame called at i hunuav tnresning oi pear in s th s tnisjfiidji fe a sunday threshing of peas in ust hill district has aroused tvenos ible x onof reg button he interest of the miister whose lew morden ike harper c cookp next weeit olirliwslv mr mew7s store will be xcho iloldemcfha closed after july 20th until further barkey rf notice general business occupies time of whitchurch council townships have no power to pass bylaws regulating riding schools in the municipality but counties have such autnoiity solicitor j d lucas reported to whitchurch township council on saturday the county of york passed such a bylaw prohibiting the keeping of riding schools and livery barns unless a license is granted when an application is received the county clerk refers the matter to the municipality in which the school or livery is to be located if the municipality does not object a license is issued but the county authority acts according to the wishes of the municipality in the matter hugh hamilton and ivan pat- tenden have been duly sworn in as county constables in pursuance of having been made township con- tables and are now in a position to act in any part of the county eric craddock protested the establishment of a chicken killing place at the corner of yonge street and old yonge st and writes further 1 am a substantial rate payer and conclude you would be interested in my views air craddock said fumes from burning feathers were a serious interference with a house nearby it was stated that there is no by law forbidding the establishment of such a premises and that such places operate in towns indicating that they can be conducted with out annoyance to properties near by if an offense is found it can be remedied through the board of health in such cases the reeve pointed out a mild smile passed over the faces of reeve and councillors when a similar protest was read by the clerk from a second ratepayer who was probably prompted to add his objection when it was found that his taxes were less than 2 a year he did add however that he pro posed to erect a house in due course council agreed to pay township constables 500 per month for use of cars until sept 1st it was deem ed a more satisfactory method ol payment than making up a mileage account constable hamilton was present and made the suggestion which council concurred in and passed a resolution confirming the arrangement moved by deputy reeve logan and councillor fred timbers james prior shrigley street was compensated 1200 for one sheep killed by dogs or dog unknown a subdivision plan at mussel- mans lake was approved for mr edavies who reported legal width roads of 66 feet established he will give an undertaking required by council to gravel the said road or roads under supervision of the road superintendent henry widdi- field the sutton rural hydro reported receipts of 121 hydro arrears on lot 22 con 5 recently purchased by the county of york for reforesta tion purposes reeve l p evans made fitting reference to the continued ill health of his predecessor in office exreeve george leary who has been confined to his home at gorm- ley for some weeks deputy reeve logan and coun cillor l j harper then moved the following which was unanimously carried that the clerk be in structed to write mr leary express ing regret of the council because of the continued illness of a former colleague and that our sincere wish is for his early recovery the county tax rate for whh- ehurch is reduced by one and a quarter mills according to an intimation from the county clerk the reduction 326006 is largely due to the reduction in school taxes for secondary education by reason of the government taking over a more liberal proportion of the cost before council adjourned road accounts totalling 399550 and general accounts 100 including 10 to aurora fire brigade for attend ing fire at peloguins july 7 were approved for payment reeve evans presided and all other members wore present being deputy reeve logan and council lors harper mclaughlin and fred timbers