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second section w so 22 auuorized as secomi ctas mail post oific department ottawa the tribune stouffville oxt september 16 194s second section eight pages stouffville high school opened doors last week with record attendance tlie faculty back row mr k b robinson ba mr paul sherk ba mi thos pheriiu ba front row mrs john scott ba miss k goodyear ba mr l c murphy ba miss b davie ba 11111 domestic sriclici in session at no time since it was erectct in 1017 as the stouffville school building housed so many students both the public school and high school attendance is sharply increased in the high school the record number is 175 but the seven teacher stall will handle the problem when one they obtain additional seating which the board of education is requested to supply as promptly as possible principal l c murphy is commencing his 12th year as head master he has seen the school develop from an attendance of loss than half its present enrolment which is a tribute to him in no small measure elsewhere in this issue a statement indicates the atten dance as 170 but this figure was changed to 175 after the item got into type public school in the public school principal boys operate machinery in wellequipped shop hkainiv farmer thrives ox milk tea tomato soli drank lye when chili of 2 he hasnt eaten solid food for 7 years but arthur cooke 29-year- old bewdley district farmer starts work at 5 am does hard manual labor all day on his 200acre farm and thinks nothing of taking a threemile walk to bewdley in tiie evening since he was two and a half years old mr cooke has lived entirely on liquid food as a baby he drank a sauceful of lye injuring his throat and esophagus so badly that lie hasnt been able to eat since it is 27 years since he was in jured by the lye but mr cooks says he still remembers the accident mr cooke the reporter of nisi never gets hungry or weak but daily menu which remains the j even though he doesnt get hungry same day after day he starts with at dinner time he always brings his vividly he was rushed to the 11 os one quart of milk right from the team of horses down to the barn pital for sick children at toronto farm cow every morning that is to see that they are watered and by the local doctor at bewdley and his breakfast for dinner he nasi fed stayed in hospital for a year and a about a quart of fluid which is one- mo says he sleeps every night naif he emerged in all respects half milk and onehalf tea with like a log and feels fit every day but one a normal healthy young- some sugar added he also has ain the year he has never had any tin of tomato soup his supper is surgical operations and very little the same as the noonday meal sickness he did catch pneumonia then before going to bed the once and was laid up at home for watson has 200 watsons record is outstanding as principal he has been in charge for over 22 years with remarkably few entrance fail ures year after year none at all mr watson has urged the board as did mr murphy to make time in providing desks and seats for all up to saturday nothing had been done so far as the press could learn but it s expected that the property com mittee will swing into action this week desks are hard to obtain they say but just how hard will not be known until a real effort is put forth to get a supply the high school board will b finished in december as present ly constituted but by that time a new board should be in office with members from markham township and village whit church township and stouffville instructions are now being awaited from the department that will instruct the several municipal clerks in these munici palities on what steps they should take insetting up this new board nyork appoints two women delegates to pc convention two women are among the delegates who will represent north york riding at the progressive- conservative national convention in ottawa delegates and alternate ie i gates were appointed by the executive of the north york associ- i- oh meeting at the home of major lex mackenzie woodbridge pro vincial member the delegates are arthur wal- wyn green valley farm klein- burg mrs frank hope newmarket and john sibbald jr sutton alternate delegates are c a fathers vicepresident of the assoc iation mrs 11 geary president of the woodbridge women s associa tion and john perry woodbridge a delegate from north york to the last national convention at winnipeg mr walwyn is vice- president of the riding association and has acted as chairman of organization and finance mrs hope scholars mr has been president of the north york womens association for several years youth of the riding will be represented by john sibbald and john perry both active with youth organizations they are now plann ing a convention of young pro gressiveconservative members to jbe held late this month at briars golf club ster size of needle his esophagus leading from mouth to stomach had been prac tically closed as a result of the lye burns only an opening slightly larger than the diameter of a needle remained open as a result he hasnt been able to absorb solid food for 27 years yjytv my f w j bmutifulfleecy i a made from ijour own wtl mil yoo on avo otrfain from jtur wool uj nlj wool luwurd cooui blanxfts car robes 5kj cloth suitlnc cloth fincerinc yarn v iiitc can us txtra blankets soft fleecr kets in glowing jewel colors whipped edges or sin bound and these bunkeu ire made for voli from jour own wool or from tour jaluse wool knitted goods this service in great demand in the west is now available to eastern canada through the opening of our depot in brampton ontario let us send yoo full particulars young farmer has two or three glasses of cold milk the 20yearold man weighs around 110 pounds and apparently is in excellent heatlh he gets up every morning at five and goes to bed anywhere from 10 to 12 pm walks miles often at night after a hard days work on the farm he and other young farmers in his district walk into bewdley 3 miles distant and after sitting around or playing bil liards they walk back home again arthur is the only man left on his farm his father died several years ago there were 11 children in the family and the family still at home consists of arthur an older sister gladys a younger sister betty and their widowed mother mrs mary cooke there are 12 cows two pigs five horses and some poultry to be attended to besides all the other work on a 200acre farm arthur puts in the crop and looks after it just as any other farmer who can eat solid energygiving foods but apparently he gets all the energ he needs from his diet of liquids oddly enough about three days but he soon recovered another time he broke his wrist when a colt ran away and he tried to halt it some years ago he picked up some kernels of wheat and was chewing them when one of the kernels slipped down his gullet as a result he later had some discom fort and was taken to hospital where he was xrayed somehow or other the seed was passed through to the stomach or drawn back out through the mouth because the farmer got well quickly and was allowed to go back home this was the only trouble he has ever experienced in connection with his eating habits he explain ed that he can chew meat if he wishes and can get the juices from it into his system however he very seldom bothers with this procedure and sticks pretty well to the milk tea and soup arthur bought him self a new tractor a few weeks ago and he is now looking forward ii attending the provincial plowing match at lindsay the most comfortable tempera ture for the kitchen is about 00 rthur claims he degrees f during the winter just a coincidence when school opened across ontario last week the attendance at uxbridge and stouffville high schools proved to be identical each school had an enrolment of 170 students uxbridge last term won six scholarships out of the ten offered ontario county by the studentaid scholarship which certainly was a proud effort on the part of our neighboring school i saskatche w a h wool products owned end operated by the people of saskatchewan oniaiio dooi brampton ontario cream for best results ship your cream to stouffville creamery we pay two cents more per pound butterfat for cream delivered to the creamery cold storage lockers and fast freezing facilities stouffville creamery co to have our truck call phone 18601 water being tested after cattle dog die near borcaygeox bakes farmers bordering on sturgeon lake and pigeon lake are keeping their cattle away from the lakes water the reason being a number of cattle have died and a number are sick presumebly from drink ing the water dr mckinnan of bobcaygeon has been attending many of the animals and reports that he and a number of farmers have been along the shores to see whether any poison ous weeds could have been the cause of- the animals dying but none were to be found and as many animals had died from various parts of the shores a sample of water has been taken by toronto health officials for testing in tor onto laboratories three cattle belonging to mr don stinson one to mr henry ward two to mr h kelly and two to mr frank xieholls were cattle reports dead over friday and saturday dr mckinnon said and these were only the sturgeon lake casualties not including the pigeon lake ones he went on to say that a little dog that drank some of the water on saturday died after 20 minutes but the cattle took longer some of them dying after about two or three hours some people were swimming while dr mckinnon was investigat ing the shoreline and he asked them whether they had seen any dead fish or any other dead animals in the vicinity but they said they hadnt seen anything of the kind the swimmers are said to be still in good shape so it has not so far effected human beings the doctor said junior farmer boys and girls do well at peterborough pair in the junior live stock judging competition for boys and in the homemaking section for girls at peterborough fair ontario county made a good showing the sandford girls homemaking club won with their skit company for supper the girls in this skt were ona meek dorothy oliver doris risebrough ruth risebrough and xorene risebrough the club leader is mrs w carruthers the altona homemaking girl3 were second with their exhibit tea biscuits with variations lois baker r3 stouffville made tlc comments on this exhibit mrs d crosier is the leader of the altona group the uxbridge girls garden club under the leadership of mrs robert clarke set up a splendid exhibit of vegetables geraldine gregg bar bara rand and kay crosby were in charge of the display the following is the results of the judging 1 group a 80 1st prize- lois baker r3 stouffville doris baker r3 stouffville nellie becz rl stouffville ruth risebrough r1 uxbridge geraldine gregg r3 uxbridge 2 group b 70 2nd prize- florence betz stouffville 3 group c 00 3rd prize ernestine cooper r3 stouffville doris risebrough rl uxbridge xorene risebrough rl uxbridge jean miller rl sunderland markham max started it according to records it was alexander w wright of markham who put labor day on the map for canadians very much a holiday in most countries around the world wright determined that it should be observed by canadians and through his zeal printed records state a bill was put through parlia ment in 1891 though the holiday was originally set for the first day of september it later was fixed for the first monday to provide a longer weekend in stouffville and district it has become very much a day to attend the cne and this year was no exception xi ptos roasted in barx eire flames killed 200 pigs caused 20000 damage as and fire miss macphail sells ceylon residence a deal was completed aug 30th whereby miss agnes c macphai mpp for fast york sold her residence at ceylon in grey county to henry d tyler who has been residing at chequers england mr tyler has a wife and one son the latter being employed- by the t eaton co mr tyler who formerly resided in canada is a chartered accoun tant and writes books on the sub ject at the present lime he has a book on simple accounting and bookkeeping in the hands of the printers he and his wife expect to take early possession of their new home miss macphail who has resided in ceylon for several years has purchased an apartment house in rctrthroughthebuiidingron vhejher hmne riding of east york pig farm of oscar karn near gueiph the guelph brigade re sponded but were hampered for lack of watr which she represents as ccf member she held an auction sale of her furniture saturday sept 5th