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vol 59 no 39 the tribune stouffville oxt jan 29 194s twelve pages new farm account book issued by revenue department eyebrows prices for lift over varying fuel oil intended to seed l records l simplify keeping utd free rural farm canadian farmers will receive if you live in stouffvilie and buy your furnace oi from a local dealer with storage tanks here the price may be isc to lsic per gallon the ame dealer may have customers j south of xo 7 highway below copies of one of the most remarki markham or unionville and those able publications ever devised by a customers will be serviced from government it is a blank farm j stouffvilie one cent per gallon less account book to help canadian joh yes and before you say thats farmers keep track of their business preposterous we hasten to explain the whole year round and it will be forwarded to them free of charge that if a distributor at union ville is selling fuel oil to customers in council approves heise hill subdivision i when markham township coun cil approved of a subdivision plan for alvin winger at lot 34 con cession 3 markham it may have started a building program in the locality which could grow to imposing proportions the winger subdivision is close the new farm account book is j stouffvilie he will charge the lsejto the heise hill church where at a securely bound 14page volume to lsic per gallon whereas he can present several attractive and sub nine by twelve inches in size fol- service a customer leow unionville stantia homes have been erected lowing an introduction there are 15 j and to city limits for 17c per gallon mr wingers plan provides some pages of information on farmers the reason for this peculiar income tax and 23 lined and headed quirk in the sale price of fuel oil blank pages on which he can list his transactions from week to week the last section begins with receipts from the sale of crops and seeds and covers most other items handled by farmers livestock poultry honey hides and a dozen other sundry sales the next section deals with ex penses for seeds feeds livestock custom work rent supplies wages and tools there are blank columns for capital and revenue from stocks and bonds the foreword explains how the farmer can calculate his net worth and determine what progress or lack of progress he has made during the year in a few minutes the farmer can put down his days or weeks tran sactions with a minimum of trouble the new farm account book can is that the whole province is divid ed into zones furnace oil o city customers and a limited area out side the city obtain the lowest price 17c per gallon and this is stepped up to the zones farther located from the source of supply because stouffvilie is close to the border line storage tanks located here service two zones and that is the simple explanation why dealers cart furnace fuel oil out of town eight or ten miles and sell it for less than they charge stouffvilie customers it is recalled said one dealer that a similar situation prevailed in the distribution of milk a few years ago toronto dairies were selling milk from doortodoor at musselmans lake at one or two cents a quart less than they sold ave many farmers money in that i it in toronto the mlik for the 1 lake had to be trucked 33 miles it can take the place of an expert in fact to have a similar account ing system installed by an expert would be beyond the scope of most men on the land business men in towns and cities seek taxation and legal advice from the most highly qualified sources in order to assure exemptions due to them are claimed this of course is perfectly proper because the income war tax act being econo mically sound carefully states these exemptions to prevent the tax burden falling too oppressively at any one point on either individuals or business now farmers are given easilyunderstood official advice to enable them to take advantage of their tax rights features of the booklet the farmers income tax return is a sixpage form which at first glance looks fairly complicated the new farm account book helps in simplifying this by numbering its headings to agree with the numbers on the tax return itself for inst ance on one of the pages devoted to expenses tinder which the farmer lists his payments of wages and board for hired help he is referred directly to the exact spot where these items should be listed on his income tax return form similarly each column of sales expenses and other items is num bered to correspond with the items on the income tax return another feature is the schedule of depreciation rates on page 11 where some 75 different items on the farm are listed with their correct maximum rate of deprecia tion the barn is expected to last 40 years rate of m per annum but the farmers truck is given a 20 or a life of five years the three year average which commenced in 194g is explained in detail by this system the farmer gets a chance to match good and bad years from the city daily yet sold for less creating a ridiculous selling price either at the lake or in the city woman publisher dead husband had paper here margaret c- nicholson aged 70 who published the chinook advance for a quarter of a century is dead she continued on the paper after the death of her husband mrs nicholson was a sister of mr ramsey e sinclair who married into the baker family of stouffvilie before going west the late mr nicholson published the free press in stouffvilie at a time when the village had two newspapers fifty years ago he later founded the chinook weekly where he died in 1920 then when his wife took over she not only gathered the news but wrote it up and set the type a son s sinclair survives ideal building lots several of which are now sold the location is certainly attractive with a lovely view of one of the finest parts of the township commanding the site mrs martin tait buried wednesday miss dorothy fuller and friend of toronto spent sunday at the home of her brother gordon fuller main street library shows large circulation increase an increase of over one thou sand books for 1947 was reported at the annual meeting of the stouff vilie library board mrs grw thomas reported a circulation of s309 books and 117 magazines one hundred and fortyfour new books were added to the book stock dur ing the year and 120 books were on loan from the travelling library fluorescent lighting has been installed in the reading room and a bulletin board for the display of jackets of new books the librarian also reported hav ing attended a library school held for a month at uxbridge the stouffvilie public library is for the use of the local ratepayers and those of the surrounding dis trict and the board is to be com mended for keeping the place attractive and its facilities up-to- date rev douglas davis presided at the annual meeting members present being mrs h b freel mrs w f riches and mr h spofford mrs h b freel was reelected chairman for 194s and mrs w f riches secretary the book com mittee are mrs freel mrs riches and rev d davis the property committee mr h spofford and mr l c murphy due to the removal from town of mr las porter one new member is to bo appointed to the board kenneth thompson reeve of the town of weston is york countys 1948 warden who succeeds chas hooper reeve of markham warden for 1917 in private life warden thomp son is an insurance broker local homemakers urged to buy only what they need to use all they buy admonishes gathering sinners speaker at womens in interests of con- mrs marshall of agincourt and ottawa brought a challenge to women to maintain a high quality of living at the meeting held in the united church last friday after- funeral rites for mrs mary anna cook minnedosa man jan 22 fun eral services were held for mary anna cook 8 1 years 2 days who died at the home of her daughter mrs g crawford on january 15th noon under the auspices of the 194s the former resided at slilliori honour former minister onetime minister of st james presbvterian church stouffvilie rev john mutch dd and mrs mutch of melrose church hamilton were made extremely happy when a delegation from the congregation waited on them and presented them with a chevrolet touring sedan as a christmas gift the wods of ap preciation that accompanied the gift and the good spirit in which lvy2 fe il 5s vt smart to be thrifty canadian association of consumer of which she is president women found they could accomplish great things when they united their forces in wartime she stated and although the fighting is over the economic war is still with us she said she considered an adequate standard of living to include a decent place to live money enough to feed and clothe our families and a little left over for fun the speaker asserted that officials at ottawa are thankful the can adian association of consumers has been organized with the object of helping to keep canada on a sound economic footing she emphasized the power women wield by their united buying she said buy only what you need at reasonable prices use all that you of the most pleasant and hearten- ing the minister and his wife have ever experienced says a hamilton report rev john mutch was out standing as a young minister in stouffvilie for the leadership he ave in boys work sunday school assoc hears encouraging reports at convention mr ace davis of leroy sask who has been visiting friends here left for home monday morning of this week whitchurch reeve gets important county post reeve clive m sinclair etobi- coke township and reeve lome p evans whitchurch township were elected county commissioners for 194s at the second day of york county councils january session they along with reeve kenneth l thompson weston elected warden form the executive com mittee of the 51member county council representative of 20 muni cipalities roeve sinclair received an acclamation while reeve evans the death of mrs martin tait in her osth year on monday this week takes away another resident of many years standing mrs tait came to stouffvilie about 30 years ago with her husband who was a butcher on main street until his retirement from active life mr tait died only last april and since that time his wife steadily declined the shock having proven too much for her rorn near mill brook her maiden name was mary kinsman after her marriage to martin tait the couple lived in the northern part of the county here for several years be fore locating in stouffvilie they are survived by two sons bert of stouffvilie and leonard of ajax and by seven grandchildren mrs tail was a wonderful mother and made her home a defeated deputy reeve nelson shrine with few outside interests j boylen ward 3 north york the funeral this wednesday deputy reeve dalton rumnev afternoon proceeded from her late t township and reeve home on mill street to mouffvi le a a cook aurora wcre eecled cemetery a member of itouffvtlle nf united church the service was conducted by her pastor rev d davis reeve lome evans the municipality with the greatest assessment broke the tie an un usual feature of the voting was the fact that reeve cook voted for his opponent while reeve mcmaster voted for reeve crockford when he cast his first vote but voted for reeve cook in breaking the tie he gave as his reason the fact that reeve cook had voted for reeve crockford reeve harold glover north gwillimbury township and deputy reeve jack hostrawser vaughan township were chosen as repre sentatives on the old age pensions board while deputy reeve mrs hilda murray scarboro and mrs- stanley osborne wife of a former warden were appointed to the mothers allowance board deputy reeve alex hissett etobicoke reeve lawrence lies long branch and reeve wilfred scott- woodbridge were all return ed as county representatives on york county childrens aid society reeve a d evans new market was named to the york county hospital board reeve william morgan leaside and deputy reeve william w breithaupt forest hill village were appointed to the cne board and reeve walter proctor east gwillimbury to the royal winter fair board- reeve vern griffin of markham she pointed out that an official at ottawa said women have them selves very largely to blame for this present situation in which they find themselves the reason is that many bought in panic and panic buying raises prices it was felt when the wartime prices and trade board with its consumers branch was disbanding that a womens organization could do further good work and the national council of women which represents various church denom inations and a crosssection of womens interests across the dominion was asked to sponsor such an undertaking last april a preliminary meeting was held but in september a representative gathering of protestant and catho lic women english and french schools responded and rural housewives and business women all came together in a common purpose that purpose was to unite our strength to improve our standards of living to study consumer problems to form ulate opinions and constructive suggestions and then bring these to the attention of the government and to the trade and industry in return we would receive informa tion from the same quarters the money still in the consumers branch was granted by the cabinet ministers to launch the new organization but the whole setup of the association from then on depends on membership fees in return for the fee a member receives a monthly bulletin telling of the progress of the association and has the privilege of sending in mr win timbers succeeds mr frank reesor as president of the markham township sunday school association which held its 79th annual meeting in markham last week with allday sessions featur ing varying departments of the work ten sunday with excellent reports despite the inroads being made by varying elements that tend to detract from sabbath observance the officers elected for the en suing year are past president frank reesor president win timbers 1st vice- president mr archie little 2nd vicepresident bruce clarke secy- treas carl james assistant ewart stiver departments beg inners mrs donald ratcliff mrs ben gayman girls work mrs r t chapin miss marion warne boys work donald ratcliff ben gavman young peoples dept miss elva kirk mr n r reid adult dept herb stover louis nichols home dept mrs alfred miller mrs albert batt missions 1 mrs freeman barker miss edith suggestions to the staff at ottawa raymer temperance herb smith association sets out to combat east bav and magnet since 1913 born at ballantrae out in 1s64 she lived in ontario till 190s mov ing to kenton man later to mil lion man in 1913 where they took up homesteading in 1ss2 alary anna helmkay married jacob h cook mr cook died 19 years ago she is survived bv four daughters delta mrs a jsehmaus minne dosa man elza mrs j mckin- non magnet man floss mrs geo crawford east bav man rubv mrs j dyer agassiz bc two sons clifford of new dale man and orville of agassiz bc one sister mrs fred flath san diego cal thirtyfive grandchild ren and thirty five great grandchild ren following the funeral service held sunday jan 18th the body was taken to the family plot at million local choir wiwjat musical festival honor and distinction were brought to stouffvilie on monday evening when the local united church choir under the leadership of l c murphy carried off top honors in their class at the toronto east musical festival woodbine heights baptist church choir placed second in the class the selections used for com petition were break forth o beauteous heavenly light by bach and a hymn tune the king of love unaccompanied the adjudicator w h bishop frco arcm of sherbrooke que awarded the stouffvilie choir a mark of eighty five and stated in his remarks that the local choir was one of which any church could be proud the award carries with it a cash prize and a shield a mark of eighty must be attained in order to win the shield no entry reached this mark in the 1947 competition mr murphy will take the united church choir and the high school choir to the kiwanis musical festi val next month paul boadway religious educa tion hugh boyd charles hoover teacher training rev r t chapin rev s s shantz permission granted for increased telephone rates the ontario municipal board has granted the request of the bethesdastouffville telephone co for permission to increase its rates as of february 1st this year the company complied with the act respecting sending notification to eveiy subscriber of the intended palilv in the coun with the change and such notice informed exception of woodbridge during according profiteering and inflation mrs marshall was introduced by mrs arthur w who pointed out that our work was to help our menfolk by making the best pos sible home in 1948 and for that purpose mrs marshall was giving of her time and leadership mrs kenneth campbell presided and mrs stanley ball thanked the speaker for coming to tell us how we might help in this canadian association of consumers mrs charles nolan presided at the organ old age pensions applications for old age pensions wore received by the york county pension board from every munici the subscribers that they had the right to enter any protest they considered advisable with the municipal board none was entered it would appear that telephone subscribers expected to pay higher rates especially in view of the promised new equipment that the local company have placed an order for when installed there is every expectation that the service will be speeded up town phones will contact central by merely lifting down the receiver and rural subscribers will have less phones on one circuit because of willserve on the market committee the difficulty in obtaining materials and on special committee re hospi- the new installation has been talization reeve nolan of stouff- delayed and in the country every 1 1947 according to a report sub mitted to the county council last week five applications came from stouffvilie for whole or part pen sions two of which were not granted eight applications from whitchurch and one not granted while markham village and town ship which were incorrectly includ ed as one municipality showed 27 applications received of which one- was refused the price of bread has beer ad vanced o lc a loaf in stouffvilie as commissioners to the board of management of the house of refuge reeve cook was elected over reeve o e crockford of scarboro when charles mcmaster as reeve of warden f gardiner ville who asked to be relieved from the chairmanship of the reforesta tion after three years was left on the committee to act as its secre tary he was also made a member of the agricultural committee and will serve on the special hospitaliz ation committee headed by ex- line has been overloaded in order to give farmers a phone this situa tion will be remedied to a great extent in preparation for the new phones in town preliminary work has now started but it is too early to forecast when the big turn over will be accomplished weddings lehman burton mr howard c lehman delhi and mrs ixvina burton formerly of toronto were married by rev mr hilton of brantford recently they spent their honeymoon with her daughter mr and mrs edward wahl in buffalo new york and with her son alfred of east aurora new york mrs wm simpson mourned by friends in wellesley hospital toronto on friday jan 23 1948 ella mary spence beloved wife of william e simpson of ballantrae entered into rest after a short illness the daughter of the late adam spence and margaret jane wilkin she was born near newbridge in howick township huron county where she attended public school after graduating from harriston high school she attended north boy normal she taught school at new liskeard molesworth monk- ton and alliston prior to her mar riage on june i 1929 she taught at ballantrae she was a devout member of baker hill baptist church and taught in the sunday school for several years she was active in the work of the vivian red cross her bright cheerful disposition and sterling christian character won for her many friends who will regret her sudden passing she leaves to mourn her loss her husband and son ronald a son and daughter predeceased her in in fancy as well as five sisters hazel mrs m c ruttan calgary myrtle mrs russell bell at- iwood miss margaret spence tor onto elizabeth mrs r l molli- son guelph alice mrs carman bride fordwich a sister adelene predeceased her in dec 1922 oa sunday a private service was held at her late residence at 2 oclock followed by a service in baker hill baptist church at 230 conducted by rev norman rowan and assisted by rev w s whit- combe of toronto baptist semi nary and by her pastor robert mailey the many floral tributes were expressions of the very high esteem in which she was held the pall bearers were messrs alex ratcliff gordon ratcliff merlin baker mrs horace walsh church st oidham bruce johnson and is taking an enforced rest through ill health ilfarrv baker