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vol go no 12 authorized as second class mail post office department ottawa the tribune stouffville oxt july s 194s ten pages general rate up two mills for markham township taxpayers trophy presentation in keeping with the increased cost of almost everything includ ing high wages markham town ship council bowed to the inevit able and advanced the general township tax rate two mills for 1948 other rates run close to the 3i7 setup excepting schools and most of them it is predicted will show increased costs but the coun cil have no control over school taxes the taxpayer however will be assured in most instances of a two mill increase unless there has been reduction in assessment reeve griffin introduced a byj law to provide the funds totalling 15000 for extension to unionville public school the section has an assessment of 452631 and the del bentures will be spread over a period of 20 years j another bylaw was completed at mondays meeting confirming the appointment in legal form of v h clark as road superintendent as reported in last weeks paper mr maxwell who held the job jointly with mr clark will have charge of the bookkeeping which is a considerable undertaking in this case a consultation with the weed inspectors resulted in advising the officers to do the best they could this year in encouraging farmers to cut their weeds the regular meeting on monday f r elliot dies with all members of council pre sent was marked by its brevity reeve griffin said at 430 that business was completed and a motion for adjournment would be in order he quickly received one drowning fatality first in eight years at musselmans recover body tuesday night when his team mates on the stouffville hockey club named don campbell as the years most effective player on the lineup the club served a supper at the mayfair and presented him with the silver trophy the gift of the oha reeve a- v nolan presented the trophy and told campbell that any uncertainty as to his right to the trophy was removed since the judges were his competitors itoronto teacher goods made here on display this week the home manufacturing co dis play stouffville made wearing apparel at spofvoids store was sixth generation canadian horn on buttonville farm fred robert elliott toronto teacher at zion public school for the past five years and a former member of the stalf of tnt ontario college of pharmacy died satur day at his home in buttotlwlle he was in his isth year mr elliot was a member of the button family who gave their name to the village and was the sixth generation born on the farm there he received his education at markham high school central technical school toronto and the ontario college of pharmacy after teaching for several years in the kirkland lake district he joined the staff of the ontario college of pharmacy where he remained for five years surviving are his wife the former edna wolstenholme a son ross elliot his mother mrs elma a brother this week spoffords display window on main street will be especially interesting with an array of goods made in stouffville by the home manufacturing co who are taking this method to acquaint the people of town and district with the work of the local company who established themselves here two years ago and who give employ ment from 15 to 20 girls as machine elliot buttonville and operators on kitted goods ladies cecil elliot of toronto cotton blouses smocks childrens rompers pinafores also boys shirts may bo seen in the display it is a fact you will appreciate that the company have taken the trouble to acquaint the local people with their lines in this way all of which will be to the advantage of the con cern in the long run persons pur chasing these goods will feel proud to know their garments were made right here in town in fact they will shop around for home goods chris forsyth passed on an aged resident of uxbridge township christopher forsyth died in oshawa hospital on friday last in his s2nd year he is survived by his wife the former annie palmer and was widely known over the district during his active days the funeral service was held in fifth line church uxbridge on monday with interment takine place at uxbridge cemetery brothers exchange reunion presidency at the annual timbers reunion held in ratcliff park on dominion day councillor win timbers of markham stepped down from the presidency and the position was taken by brother councillor fred timbers of whitchurch there were 110 members of the clan present which was a slight decline from the usual attendance while none came from great dis tances letters were read from utah and in yakina us then another member sent regrets from winnipeg joseph timbers s3 years of age was the oldest member present but not the most frail by any means youngest timbers on the grounds was baby karon live months daughter of mr and mrs robt timbers baseball and other sports pied the afternoon which topped by a grand supper engagements baliburnham clan meet in scott twp the ballburnham clan picnic was held last week on the cliff elford farm near sandford in scott township with about 150 in atten dance mr o m madill of altona who was returned as president for several years retired and the position goes to roly ball of tor onto harry elford is the secretary the oldest man present was william ball of uxbridge and the eldest lady mrs benjamin ball next year the group plan to meat at the ray burnham farm mr and mrs joe winterstein accompanied by mr joe mertens and margery spent sunday at weston with mrs frank mertens and elva former gormley man honored on birthday on july the 1st a very happy time was enjoyed when 20 children took dickie barbers car jailed for one year sentence was handed out this week to ross cameron 17 toronto who pleaded guilty to stealing three cars along with his unidentified grandchildren andtdends gathered accomplices cameron admitted st mr and mrs geo bakers 4 l r n i oronto drove cottage at lake simcoe to celebrate t0 milhken stole dicky barber s mr bakers 72nd birthday those t home and crashed present were mr and mrs wm klees and family of lansing mr and mrs harvey houck and family of unionville mr and mrs lome baker and lloyd mr and mrs murray baker and family of new market mr and mrs baker have 11 grandchildren and one great grandchild little karon choppell of edmonton alta baby karon who was absent expects to spend august with grandparents mr and mrs klees also with the great grandparents an attractively decorated table was set in the cottage mr baker placed the knife in the birthday cake which was made by mrs klees gifts and wishes were into a bridge on highway xo the three walked half a mile to buttonville where they stole a third car cameron who suffered cuts on his neck had to go to hospital and this identified him later the last car was left in a ditch near musselmans lake police stated prominent canadian dead dh burton born at green river the death of dr eli burton obe one of the most distinguish ed instructors in toronto univers ity came within a month after his retirement having been a native of green river where he was born affectionately given the afternoon 1 09 years ago much local interest was spent boating and horse shoa is focused on his passing he was pitching la son of george burton and eliza a year ago mr baker suffered a barclay burton and a brother of slight stroke but has made a c l burton of the robt simpson remarkable recovery and as usual co he enjoyed the boating and even i among his scientific achieve- tried his luck at the horse shoes ments were his astonishing suc- two years ago this active couple cess with x the colloidal arsenic left gormley to remodel an old treatment for cancer which he home in newmarket their ambi developed in 1931 in collaboration tions are now realized and their with the toronto surgeon dr a newly appearing home is surely credit to them a bad predicament a c hendrick his invention in 1930 of a device to determine the amount of moisture in human and other bodies and his development in 1940 of a electron microscope capable of f 12700diameter magnification i cant eat with em in and cant eat with em out read letter received by markham town- stouffville ioof are attracting ship council on monday from an big interest with their coming elderly lady living in the munici- garden party to be held in memor- pality she was seeking aid andial park on wednesday july 14 in along this line asked the council addition to the johnston enter- what she might do to get some tamers they have secured art satisfaction out of a pair of poorly latcham magician with his bag of fitted dentures i tricks and fun for all richard heberlien 36yeardldl resident of buffalo xy met death by drowning in musselmans lakej on monday afternoon with a companion the pair went for a boat ride and when attempting to turn against a strong wind in the east end of the lake the boat capsized neither men could swim and davis norris who clung to the side of the upturned boat said that his com panion sank immediately norris calls for help went unheeded for ten minutes as the crowd on the beach and in the water did not realize there was anything wrong dragging operations were at once instituted with equipment kept by the municipality this was augmented by help from the tor onto life saving station but it was not until tuesday evening over a day until they recovered the body about 50 yards from where the boat upset constable watts of whitchurch and sergt barraclough of the county force brought the body to the surface with the drag net they were operating coroner dr s s ball ordered the body sent to toronto where it will be taken in charge by dr smirlie lawson and held for family indentification the two men were of a party of four who came over from the states to pay a visit to the diinlof observatory at richmond hill and later proceeded to musselmans heberlien and norris decided on a boat ride while cliff and jack stockman brothers stretched ovtt on the shore for a sun bath the drowned mans next of kin is a sister in buffalo this is the first drowning at musselmans in eight years mr george davies proprietor of cedar beach there said that only boats in perfect condition are kept for hire and a close watch is maintained on the water the record of only one fatality in s many years he considered as excellent having regard for the thousands who go there to boat ride and swim vern davies and jim pidgeon postmaster received norris in a boat he proved to be a big fellow over 300 lbs and was nearly exhausted when taken from the water he said ho seemed to float when the boat upset and this enabled him to grab the boat and so save himself from tne fate of his companion wins 200 gift mrs sam fockler well known local resident was fortunate in winning the 200 purse at the stanley theatre last week when her name was called at the thurs day foto night mrs fockler was naturally delighted with the hand some donation another substantial purse of over 200 awaits someone this thursday evening who is fortunate enough to be on hand when their name is called mr and mrs herb stewart of fort warren manitoba are visit ing his sister sadie and brother archie stewart this week whitchurch strawberry festival gets big patronage occu- was mr and mrs h r cockburn announce the engagement of their only daughter gweneth w to clifford m schell son of mrs a rarkey markham and the late w schell the marriage to take place the middle of july in church of the open bible peterborough mr and mrs gordon hodgson of claremont announce the engage- men of their daughter helen blanche to alexander robinson son of mr and mrs jack robinson of hamilton the marriage to take olaee on julv 31st 194s mount pisgah church may not be as well known in whit church township as some churches but when the ladies reumed the oldlime straw berry festival last week crowds came from all directions the mt pisgah church on the third concession was built in 170 here the ladies prepare the berries which were served from heavily laden tables in the church shed more than five crates of berries along with cakes pies jellies and other sweets were consuried new methods of haying tried by local farmers drive four or five miles any direction out of stouffville and you will see fields ot hay cut and in bales square shaped or conical or perhaps just up in the accustomed way we read that they are using a couple of forage harvesters over in duffering county but so fai we have not witnessed this operation here different types of machines for luying are coming in fast mr cockburn york agricultural repre sentative told the press last week end one local dealer he said sold three new hay balers which he believed fairly representative of sales for dealers in york others sold a number of harvesters and he roughlv estimated that there are 10 to 50 harvesters and 100 balers at work this year in the county drying is speeded we have two new machines of another type called haymakers continued mr cockburn steel rollers behind the cutting bar crush the stems after the hay is cut a process which speeds drying par ticularly with clovers apparently the machines are stimulating considerable thought and discussion among farmers experimenting with them speak ing to one man with a forage harvester mr cockburn found him more enthusiastic about his neigh bors hay-maker- because it dried hay more quickly in this instance of course the harvester was used for storing dried hay only the common practice in york mr cockburn also described the performance of a new steel silo for storing dry chopped hay york possesses two of them one on leitchcroft farms and a newer and larger one on the farm of col phil lips near oriole who has been observing leitchcroft results an electric motor in the bottom of the silo draws air through the perfor ations through the hay and expels it through a centrally located venti lator shaft little spoilage mr cockburn found little spoil age in the leitchcroft silo what there was had been caused by water that ran in from the barn and not by faulty performance of the silo however it is expensive and mr cockburn feels it will not reduce labor one of the foremost problems to be solved by small farmers lincoln grows less hay than the other counties but e f neff said that machinery was still difficult to buy however he described a new venture in lincoln which is more commonly practiced in the united states one of the milling com panies buys alfalfa from the farm ers and hauls it to a plant where it is dried and ground field drying in wet weather is eliminated and the farmers work ends with cutt ing pay for alfalfa although prices differ here some estimate of the distribution of costs for the process can be made from those given by a 75000 dehydrating plant in the us last year the company paid farmers 17 a dry ton for alfalfa they average two to three dry tons per acre cutting chopping hauling and dehydrating enough alfalfa all done by the company to produce a dry ton two or three tons freshly cut cost approximately s15 at the time alfalfa meal sold for nearly 100 a ton retail so far as mr cockburn is aware no portable dehydrators have been used yet in ontario one type now in use in the us can be hauled into the fields a sixton machine will dry over 2000 pounds of freshly cut hay an hour operating costs are about 15 an hour and the machine can be used to dry a great many other products besides hay such as soybean vines distillers grains and even peat more vitamin a the machine is expensive at 7895 american nevertheless according to us findings dried alfalfa hay has ten times as much vitamin a as field cured hay and in protein content the alfalfa meal ranks with concentrate feeds a few farmers in the us are using portable machines to cure alfalfa foi feeding to cattle one source estimates that animals require 10 per cent less than ordinary hay but there are not enough feeding facts established to know whether the machine can be used economically for that purpose five new polling subdivisions in pickering at the regular meeting of pick- ering township council monday a bylaw was passed creating five new polling subdivisions for the township all the new polls with the exception of one on the brock rd are at the lakefront this brings to a total of seventeen the number of polling subdivision in pickiring