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famfftrillc unburn vi ee no 20 authorized as second class mall post office department ottawa the tribune stouffville ont september 2 194s twelve pages new entrance to stayner camp um church unionville will fight tax issue before county judge sept 9th ratepayers give their approval to fight the issue township council comes in for severe criticism at protest meeting an interesting view of the inviting entrance to the 21- acre pine grove stayner camp grounds of the united mission ary churches of ontario dur ing this summers camp the beautiful memorial gates were dedicated in memory of the late rev elgin brubacher son of rev and mrs isaac brubachdr of stouffville elgin gave his life serving on the african mission field just at the close of his first term abroad the dedi catory service conducted by rev j henry good of toronto was participated in by miss ueen sider returned mission ary from africa many were present from the stouffville markham district for this special sunday occasion storm twister strikes sandford in scott twp just as so many people predicted when the heat wave continued last week it might end with violent storm and that is just what happened in the township of scott northwest of uxbridge town mrs leonard blair who lives right in the little hamlet of sand- ford told the tribune over long distance telephone that their house shook the high wind was accom panied by rain and she said i fairly felt the house swaying with the velocity of the wind parts of the roofs were torn from barns on the farms of jack leek and albert davis but fortunately i no stock damage is reported grain fields escaped only because the grain is all cut the storm didnt last long but it was one to rememl her said another resident of scou township who said it seemed to come from lake simcoe and beaverton way plan to refuse tax bills fails in pickering twp the tribune holiday there will be no issue of the tribune on thursday next sept following the custom of many woekly papers wo will suspend publication for one issue and give the staff an opportuntiy to catch up witli work that has been behind schedule all sum mer with the installation of a second and more heavily equipped linotype to aid the one now in operation the tribune will be able in a few weeks to improve the standard of the newspaper to still greater efficiency subscribers and advertisers please keep in mind that there will be no tribune published on sept 9 pit es eb v ed peaches s3 veaks still excellent mrs henry steckley of gormley is the proud possessor of a jar of peaches which she preserved back in 1013 or 35 years ago friends have tried to persuade mrs steck ley to exhibit this remarkable jar at the cne because it has the same fine appearance as the best preserves just done down mrs steckley when querried by the tribune explained that tne peaches had been preserved by her when living in california and that she had on occasion kept fruit as long indicating that here is an expert in the preserving clajs similar jars clone down over 30 years were found excellent in flavor when opened mrs steckley explained robert rae one of the trustee- mem had been one of evasion the for unionville police village scorei expense account is built up to the markham township council mori- limit but not a single credit clay evening at a public meeting whereas there should be over 7000 caled in unionville to protest in credits he claimed the cred alleged unfair dealings by the on roads alone he explained was council in determining the tax rate5q for the village mr rae capitalized j after everybody was fully funeral in toronto on monday on the claim that while thornhill charged with the view point of mr our former businessman was is taxed only li mills the council rae v e lang a southern rate- highly respected and maintained a is trying to exact an equivalent of payer moved that the trustees pur- 1 high business rating by his fellow 9vi mills from unionville sue their course of applying for a citizens onmain street we have instructed our solicitor notice of motion and to accept no former business max lasses ix toronto a leading merchant in stouffville f y w bratliwaite who pur chased the silvester hardware here in 1027 died suddenly in toronto on saturday as a result of a stroke mr brathwaite never regained consciousness after he was o suddenly stricken mr j k agnew his successor in business here since 1912 and mrs agnew attended the extra money put to good use added local briefs staying with her daughter mr wm dougherty for a few weeks enjoying a holiday mr and mrs ross winterstein and mr and mrs s w hastings enjoyed a holiday last week at tallyho inn iluntsville mr and mrs j lehman recently spent a weekend at thunder bay beach with miss anne lehman mr and mrs herbert c hoover and wesley spent the weekend with mr and mrs john lehman recent weekend visitors with mrs w u shaw and miss l waters were mr and mrs darcy mahaffy of chicago 111 and mrs d grande of paris france mr and mrs r j fleury of welwyn sask are visiting at the home of her mother mrs s m warriner who is ill hut is now a move by miss violet swan secretary of a nowdefunct picker ing ratepayers association to have pickering taxbills collected for return to the court of revision was voted down tuesday night at a meeting of some 100 south picker ing citizens the meeting was called with the primary object of protest ing assessment increases but it branched out into many phases finally a motion by s a smith was adopted to form a pickering town ship ratepayers association the stormy meeting lasted almost four hours with questions being fired at the county assessor ralph wilson of whitby until a motion was put through confining questions to those of a general nature rather than personal complaints reeve w ii wesiney explained the factors which caused the cur rent high taxes and deputy reeve mcewen predicted taxes would even be still higher he addressed the rate payers as fellow suff erers and drew a smile councillor clare balsdori of pick ering supported the facts given by rapidly recovering the reeve and deputy but council lor frank disney of claremon launched an attack upon the coun tys equalized assessment poor up there many of our people up there retired with a little hit of money just 23000 or so mr disney said drawing an unexpected laugh from the audience he stated that thd current assessment is too hard on them he blamed his own township council for bringing on the tax collection three months earlier taxes are due now in september supervising assessor ralph wil son gave a short outline of the re assessment system which had been begun two years ago many jieopic were not assessed fairly and many were not assessed at all this work ha been done by a manual whichlconfereree mr wilson compiled giving classi fications of houses a reason for certain evaluations as a result the eountv assesment has increased im s262s3151 to 31369637 this year former warden mac forsyth made a lengthy speech in which he this will prove to be a record year for the laying of new water mains in stouffville small pipe had been laid in past years which have been taken up and replaced with permanent mains while a new line is being laid from mill to church streets at the rear of the stores on uie north side of main under present circumstances a break in the small pipe feeding ths north side stores would entail aa mrs david russel of markham is almost impossible task to lay or repair a pipe line under the busi ness area having served these stores for many years small pipes leading from the big main on tiie south side of the street may be getting at the end of its days and when a break occurs it will now bo possible to service these stores from the rear the new water rate- instituted two years ago is provid ing the funds to do this work which was not possible to do heretofore on the meagre income from the water system with the work being accomplished without the necessity of borrowing money it is certain that water rates in stouffville need never be increased above the present level which is one of the very lowest in the whole province to apply for a notice of motion before a county judge by the trustees to determine the deduc tion the village may receive from the township rates said mr rae the hearing he said would be o thursday sept 8 mr holls beckett has been engaged to look after the interest of unionville mr rae told the gathering of some 75 ratepayers half of whom were women visibly agitated that the only way out in order to get a little consideration and less stub bornness by the reeve is this notice of motion he charged that the clerk chas hoover mis represents the issue he tells rate payers s1000 was spent on our roads doesnt say that half this is recoverable from the dept of highways he stops short of that continued mr rae ken watson and writ bradley other two trustees were at the head table supporting the speaker mr rae outlined dealing with various councils beginning back in 1911 when unionvilles net rate was 3 mills the speaker proceeded to tell of a meeting trustees had with mark ham council last april to discuss the rate they were asking us ti pay full township rate whereas before we paid 1 mills to the general rate a second meeting was held in june he said when we thought we had reached agreement with the village agreeing to a rate of 2 mills council right then retired discussed the issue came back and said they must have 3 mills and we agreed to that there were other issues involved such as the 6th concession but the three mills were agreed to by all six weeks later mr rae said he was called again by the township and attended a meeting thinking it was merely to iron out the actual word ing of what had been previously agreed on to my surprise i was informed council wanted hi mills and we flatly refused we learned councils word wasnt as good as its bond mr rae told his audience union ville had paid in between l0oj and 5000 taxes in recent year- more than their share but that th3 loss is not recoverable only immediate redress can be hoped r by appealing to the judge holding up a sheet of township expenditures mr rae said the list of expenses submitted on the state- offer of settlement in the meantime unless it lie entirely to the satisfac tion of the trustees councillor harry barber defend ed his position over the alleged dis crepancy or discrimination between the rate given thornhill and union ville by saying that he had moved in council to deal with thornhill at the same time as unionville but this since early in the year mr rae called on deputy reeve d rumney for information on certain work the deputy said he could not answer offhand and mr udell of stouflville he was born jn rae retorted you cant answer mv stouffville and was in his late 80s question it appears township i he attended public school in ux- councillors have a ring in their bridge and was married in toronto noses and are being led around i 190g to miss beatrice a cox- councillor timbers was not he was widely known for his present and it was announced tliat great interest in and knowledge of reeve griflin was on holidays and horses he acted as judge at many knew nothing about the meeting fairs in ontario and surrounding 1 think some of the councillors counties and was best known as an want to be fair mr rae said later expert judge of clydesdale he was but they do nothing and at the manager of the repository of burns once markham hotel a- man dies in brooklin john wellington graham passed away at his home in brooklin mon- dav afternoon after a long illness coutdnofbe he explained he has been in failing health for e thornhill rate is struck very the past five years and became seriously ill last february the late mr graham was the last member of the family of the late robert graham and margaret meeting i attended they said noth ing wm latimer from the audience said the clerk scares them to death with his knowledge it is up to the three councillors to call a special meeting and override the reeve and clerk j w perkins a former trustee told the meeting unionville hau itself to blame for the present situa tion because nobody became interested in the village in past years while frank roberts charged trustees of a few years ago sok the unionville ratepayers down the river in the deal they made r fire protection engagements rev and mrs russell j pike of sundridge ont announce the engagement of their daughter n marie to robert douglas mans- bridge of richmond hill ont son of mr and mrs robert mans- bridge richmond hill the mar riage will take place on saturday sept 1th at gormley united mis sionary church mr and mrs maurice eby unionville announce the engage ment of their daughter normt caroline barkey to mr bruce arthur clarke eldest son of mr and mrs j almour clarke whit church the marriage will take place on saturday sept 25 at 3 pm in the dickson hill church and sheppard in toronto for many years in 1913 mr graham pur chased tremont house in mark ham selling this business in 1917 he returned to toronto and resum ed his duties as manager of the repository about 27 years ago he purchased brooklin house and be came very actively interested in the oshawa fair t surviving are his wife and one niece mrs e keith graham stouffville flowers win second place the local horticultural society are well pleased with the results of their efforts at the cne their garden plot although not in a competition was given an award of merit despite the very dry hot weather of the past week the large basket of cut flowers won second award baskets will be placed on thurs day of this week and monday and thursday of next week if flowers are available local mink raisers suffered loss during hot weather mr and mrs bert noble of tor onto were in town on wednesday former residents on stouffer street they had many friends to call on new maintainer for whitchurch next week an editorial in last weeks tri bune was quoted by neighborly news broadcast last sunday and the editorial itself has been reprinted in a dozen newspapers coming n our attention rev and mrs d c percy mis sionaries from africa will speak at ringwood christian church sun day sept 5th at 230 pm and a after eighteen months waiting the municipality of whitchurch is to receive delivery of a new roai maintainer so that the munici pality will have two such machines in operation this fall and winter it is estimated that it will no longer bo necessary to engage outside help to remove snow from the township roads since one machine workin from either side ol the township can handle the most formidable plowing the new outfit will be equipped trtntin altona chukhmraji jj tlti mrs percy are supported bv the cost will be 0o90 in round congregationalchristian church sus of which the highway recent visitors with mr and mrs claimed the people had been fright- family after having r encd from moving into clarernonta few weeks with relatives and and pickering on account of high friend at kitchener new dundee taxes land galt- dept will pay half when the order for this machine was placed the price was sl2500 m shupe stouffville were mr and it was only after consultation mrs ernest steckley and mr wesiwith the department because of the ley steckley also mr and mrs roy sharp upswing in price that accept- karcner daughter jean and son ance of delivery was deeded on ct0 have died bruce of kitchener mrs g reist however the oiion reviled f f ioiffviie returned with theii l u p prevailed mr asmvell said mink are ncni such machinery would not be creatures of the snow and giory cheaper for a few years and it was j ztro temperatures in ho ontarios chief heat wave victims are the mink the shy little animals unable to shed their fur joots as easily as the girls they glorify markham mink raisers did not escape the loss john snowball is reported to have lost 21 markham dairy 16 eli shank 5 j l byer sons 5 a s farmer 8 and powells at cashel reported a loss of several mr walter byer said tey gave their mink close attention other wise the loss would have been serious fresh water every hour was supplied to all the pens he said charles ashwell vicepresident of the toronto district mink breeders association estimated on thursday the heat would kill 500 of the little members of the otter family on ontarios scattered ranches around toronto and hamilton alone 200 died on thurs day and friday he told of one farmer who water ed 56 mink in the morning and came back at night to find 21 of them dead the average pelt is worth si0 he said but on another ranch eight aleutian blue mink worth s500 apiece as breeding stock died so far none of ontarios nine sapphire mink worth between wild life pictures and entertainment the whitchurch township wild life cqnservation club are arrang ing a grand evening of entertain ment on tuesday sept 14 in the community hall vandorf the dept of lands and forests will show moving pictures and an entertainer will bring along a live program of music and fun a printed program will be issued each person with a number to provide a lucky draw for a worth-while- prize there is no admission so come along with the whole family for this evening of pictures and entertainment of another nature presented with purse on 50th anniversary beautiful flowers and a well filled purse the gift of relatives and friends brought joy and thankful ness to the hearts of mr and mrs w h burnett of bloomington oi the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary observed last sunday for which about co people assembled still enjoying good health ths couple were married in stouffville by rev g h hainer and two years after their wedding the ballanthae parents lose infant of two months the baby girl born to bruce and sadie hood only two months ago died at the brierbush hospital last week and was buried at churchill with rev norman rowan conduct ing the service at the late home north of ballantrae and at the graveside the babe had been ailing from birth besides the parents two young brothers mourn the loss to gether with all their friends settled on the farm where thev slid 8000 and 10000 each as breeding live on the 9th concession of whit church mrs burnetts maiden name was ella maud mary morris not considered advisable to hold off weather thev sprawl breathless inlsons living namely melvin john buying 1 their cages i burnett and eimcr herbert bur- member of a well east of stouffville known famiiy there are tw new land bylaw in markham approved i the bylaw to prohibit the use of lands for the certain purposes and to regulate the location space character and use of buildings to be erected and altered in the town ship of markham was finally passed by the township council on saturday at unionville lots must have 12000 square feet with a frontage of not less than 70 feet where there is no water sjipplied to houses by pipes the minimum sized house one storey must be at least 650 square feet 1 a storey 800 and two storey houses 950 square feet no trailer bus or street car will lie allowed excepting trailers for 30 days only in any one year no privy vault or cess pool or septic tank shall be constructed without the approval in writing from the medical officer of health the byaw having been approved by the municipal board is now law and in full operation births harper bruce and mabel harper obrien avenue stouff ville are happy to announce the arrival of a son and brother for joan marie at the brierbush hospital stouffville on monday august 30 1918 metcalfe mr and mrs austin metcalfe kitchener nee flor ence mitchell claremont are happy to announce the birth of their daughter evelyn lorraine at the kw hospital on friday augut 27 19is