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vol 00 xo 29 the tribune stouffville ont xovember i 11ms twelve rages president truman returned truman president harry truman has been conceded victory by gov thomas e dewev in the presidential race in the united states preelection predictions of a republican landslide were shatt ered as the democratic party saw their president returned and the republican majority overthrown in both the house of representatives and the senate judging of swine vkle uat pearson uxbridge made onh oshawa canadian lserv at present ont county judges live stock on farms the annual ontario county live stock judging competition was held in the uxbridge district on saturday october 30th with 32 boys in attendance classes of live stock were provided for the judg ing competition by the following petition won by ross hill ux farmers norman hogg uxbridge j bridge holsteins sandoon farms good- wood shorthorns douglas hall uxbridge southdown sheep howard harper goodwood york- sits toniqht the village council will meet this thursday night to hear the filed against the 1919 judges direction given in tax dispute markham township vs unionville village little light thrown on differences between council and village trustees only specific reduction pointed out bv judge is for fire services hospital patient six application brought by both the township of markham and the village of unionville for determin ing what deduction if any is to be yrs addie atkinson made from the general tax rates in p favor of the police village of unionj rqs5es ville heard recently before his a resident of stouifville for many honor judge james parker brought v miss addie atkinson died at forth a judgment this week read i brierbush hospital stouffville before markham council on monj friday october 29 she was i won by jack pearson uxbridge dunrobin trophy donated by majorgeneral john a gunn for the contestant winning the highest in my opinion is to pro mon day threw little light on the differ ences existing between the council and the village trustees if the contending parties antici pated that the judgment would set out precisely the tax rate for the village witli accompanying deduc tions the applicants were dis appointed the judgment directed the legal procedure but did not apply it in figures his honors written words said inl part the net result of the reason for marks for the won bv jack and bob flett xational exhibition shield thisj shield is donated annually to the contestant winning the highest number of points at his first county live stock judging com- i reduction in respect should be to the fire assessment court i shire hogs vince baker stouff- ville horses the following judges were in r charge of the various classes roy a ormiston brooklin holsteins e assessment recently completed by a summers bowmanville short- e r good mr walter horns doug miles lindsay sheep bnllmger has appealed his own o assessment and that of a number of other citizens on the ground that his residence is too highly assessed and those of numerous other owners too low in compari son leroy brown lindsay swine john batty brooklin horses the trophies were won by the following boys horse trophy donated by mr a s ross repre- sentative of the sun life insurance company won by maur property in union ville is taxed at the same rate as all township property but it has been the custom of the township to return to the village i assume the cost of certain operations from which the township has been relieved and which the trustees of the village have assumed my interpretation of the meaning and intent of the act set out in sec 531 1 and subsec 53g therein his honour quoted the sectiori is that such functions or operations authorized by the municipal act and assumed by the trustees of the police village and which are paid by the village thus relieving the township from defraying them that the assessment of the village property should not include any other mill rate for similar func tions or operations carried on in ice jebsonl the move by mr at least directed ated by elmcroft farms oshawa interest to the meeting brillinger has parts of the township and considerable i to that extent should receive cor- the blame thieves for fire when till robbed wallet stolen outoftown thieves are blamed for starting a fire here on hallo ween night which destroyed a barn on the premises of brown and reesor main street where many tons of hay are stored in bales during the excitement the till in mr walter atkinsons premises next door was relieved of about 200 and ken wagg local jeweler lost his wallet containing s100 mr wagg is a member of the fire brigade and ran in his shirt sleeves east to the scene of the blaze which is next the old todd carriage shop as former residents know the locality assisting with the hose ken said his wallet stuck out of his hip pocket and would probably be easy picking for a sneak thief the pea soup fog made it almost impossible to identify one stand ing next to you when walter atkinson ran from his internation al otfice he first locked the front door mrs atkinson heard someone downstairs butdid not think any thing of it at the time iater it was discovered that the thief must have entered by a rear door and left by way of the front door which was left unlatched by the thief police suspect that the thieves set the fire to distract attention although the theory is not held by all the reesor and brown premises was once the property of the late william watson and the new barn at the rear was used for storing baled hay and straw which is trans- ported in great quantity by the i responding deductions from general rate at the hearing some weeks ago before his honor judge parker the township was represented by mr j b lucas and the village by mr hollis beckett reeve griffin said it would still be for the council and the trustees to determine where overlapping occurs if any but an amicable settlement is hoped for it was anticipated in some quarters that the judgment would specifically set out the actual deduc tion if any that the village might expect in repect to the tax rate the rate for 1919 must be struck by the council next year and if the 33 con 9 pickering to mr sam village disagrees they can fight the yake farm in family 95 years is sold mr ray yake has sold his 100 acre farm east of stouffville at lot 71 years of age and had been hospital patient for six years born in the township of mark ham only daughter of mr and mrs john atkinson she came to stouff ville with her parents over 30 years ago since their death the daughter gradually declined in health and became a hospital case in 1912 her father was widely known as a drover for all his long residence in town the nearest relatives are three cousins one of whom is mrs wil son of lemonville the funeral on monday to victoria square ceme tery was in charge of l e oxeills funeral home and rev d davis of stouifville conducted the ser vice more hydro cuts here stouffville has failed to reduce electric consumption to the quota given us hence further blackouts must be made in addition to the 645 to 715 night cut there will be a morning cut from 10 to 1015 this thursday and friday and from monday to friday thereafter until consumption drops below our quota by order the municipal council halloween pranksters present two business places with farm horses fretz the property has been in the yake family for 95 years be ing acquired by rays grandfather the late hiram yake who bought the place from james and john udell pioneers in the district it is said that mrs miller of brown hill was born on this place she is now 107 years of age and was a udell before her marriage the farm a little over half a mile east of the markham-picker- ing townline is a wellknown acreage mr yake announces a public auction sale in this issue to dispose of his stock implements and grain since the passing in recent years of both his parents mr and mrs harmon yake rae rate applied at that time said one authority finds that the life of a bachelor not to his liking on a farm engagement mr and mrs a h cleverdon markham announce the engage ment of their daughter dorothy funeral for mrs f h walker thursday mrs f h walker an east end resident for some years passed away early tuesday morning after a long illness born in markham in 1sg6 the only daughter of mr and mrs lyman anderson the deceased spent the part of her life in markham and later moved to markdale where she met and married frederick walker five children one son and four daughters were born to the couple laura mrs t a brit- is tain milliken ada mrs garfield jennings maple myrtle mrs ralph horton toronto mabel mrs j williamson stouftville and elmer toronto mrs walker is also survived bv one brother fire damages claremont creamery fire of unknown origin was dis covered about seven oclock on tuesday evening in the boiler room of the claremont creamery children playing on the street and several nearby residents spotted the flames at about the same time and turned in the alarm through the fine efforts of the brougham brigade and the local firemen damage was confined to the rear of the creamery building at one time the east wind fanned the flames dangerously close to the geo scott house nearby and water had to be brought into play to safeguard the home the local brigade emptied their chemical tank on the blaze and pumped several nearby wells dry then kept the brougham outfit supplied with water from the creek the community feels par ticularly indebted to brougham for their prompt response to the call for help claremont creamery is owned by roy olmstead who purchased the place only a few months ago from jos farr xo estimate of damage was obtainable overshadowing their efforts of recent years and aided by a dense fog which enabled them to move town about without fear of police detec tion the halloween crowd went all out in stouffville to have a big time unfortunately too much of the fun caused damage and loss of dollars to some property owners xew railings at the two entrances to the presbyterian church were torn away from the steps and littered about a barbering pole newly installed in front of snow balls nifty emporium was torn down and broken and the sign at red forsythes was torn away another house sold mr gar lehman has sold his house located on the street north of spouords store to mr lou slack who intends to move from his farm east of town shortly mr and mrs lehman and family frill move to their newly acquired farm the ab stoufter place on the 10th concession just north of wins junior farmers plowing award lewis wells of lemonville was named first prize winner in the annual junior farmers competi tion at the big banquet in elora on friday night he will be entitled to the extended bus trip and 25 prize home from the old country mrs bert lickerish and beatrice western visitors mr and mrs george lamb from margaret manitoba are visiting relatives and friends here mr lamb is a brother of mrs frank wagg and mr arthur lamb entertains workers on tuesday evening mr and mrs l c murphy entertained the group of ladies and their men folk who were employed on their onion plantation this summer it was a grand supper and we were not served onions either said one of the guests explaining how every body enjoyed the hospitality of mr and mrs murphy c j davidson dies at sandford home j frederick j anderson havward xureen to robert alexander milne jcalif tnere are i2 grandchildren son of mr and mrs a j milne anti 12 greal grandchildren unionville the marriage will take place in november deaths i turner mrs ezra turner at church supper reedley cal on oct 29 19 is a light supper will be served in i adeline holden wife of ezra the united church nov 5th from and eldest daughter of the wh larm sounded aal jj- si tho1 late truman f holden stouffville firm when tne alarm sounueu a cgit choice of hot or cold plate i fl h tuesdav round nine oclock the place was a j hring the mue wls tnev jj be burning inferno and threatened to cami for and fed while vou are carry up to the business area a cn vour supper huge building recently erected byi mr atkinson on the former todd place stood within a foot of the torn yet the splendid work of the mr and mrs dan hall enjoyed firemen saved the atkinson place a dish of raspberries picked from which suffered 1000 damage from their garden on blake street thi nov 2nd lev cal with interment at reed- fresh raspberries the heat three lines of hose were week not an unheard of thing played on the flames and quickly is nevertheless nice to be able to subdued them when once the fire- j enjoy this men got going effectively fog and long after the season dampness hampered operations j berries is over a corrected report 1 it was morgan degeer who sold his farm in pickering to marshal conner and not frank row- jbotham as reported last week the property was owned by mr row- botham at one time but mr degeer has held it recently the deal to j mr- conner was arranged by harvey mover through the wh- it came as a great shock to the community to hear of the death of colin james davidson who passed away on saturday morning october 23rd in his 70th year at his late residence on lot 2 con 3 scott twp after a lengthy illness a short service was held at his late residence and then at sandford united church a further service was held conducted by his minister rev a bam ford interment was made in sandford cemetery the late colin davidson was the youngest son of the late colin davidson and annie keir he was born and lived on the farm his grandfather cleared in 1ss2 the farm now has the fifth generation living on it he was a staunch con servative and a member of the united church sandford in 1003 he married zella bain of mt albert left to mourn his lost is his sorrowing wife and four sons and one daughter earnscliff and morley at home kenneth and stuart of toronto and mrs earl irene i of goodwood one daughter marian predeceased him at an early age two sisters also survive steps were torn away at dr balls j arrived home on monday evening residence and cecil waggs and from an extended holiday in eng- several other of the private homes land where they spent the sum- through the town in most cases mer the owners were able to replace them since they were not too badly damaged a trade mark on main street in the business area known to any body familiar with the town at all is the photo show window which for sixty years has stood at the entrance to the galley of wm sanders in the collard or mertens block was torn away the wonder is that for sixty years pranksters had not molested the show place for local photography before it was not a problem to remove the spofford store and the tri bune office both found themselves in possession of a real live horse on sunday morning however before messrs spofford and anything about swapping horses or selling their steed the real owner came in the person of earl keith on the former sandy jones farm and claimed ownership if these animals spent the foggy night tethered to the respective door handles spoffords pacer had the best of the deal since it had a cover over its back in the sheltered doorway as against the open front at the tribune at the tribune office the groceteria and the five to a dollar store fronts walks were dobbed with old motor oil if the for special target practise by the decorating artists a useless prank at the united missionary church opposite the school was committed by tearing off a liberal length of eavetrough- ing the lads held no special respect for church property as indicated by this destruction and the removal or breaking of railings nolan did at tlie presbyterian church at l c murphys home in the westend lovely lattice work was torn down some smashed upcoop employees lost several hours work while their trucks were put back in running order after being tampered with by pranksters one business man said the time had arrived when the business men should put on a couple of night men for this particular evening of the year in fact one of the stores did have a private guard engaged and the premises were not touched best money i ever spent said the store owner who usually had con- hoodlums provided the oil as a tip siderable cleaning up to do after for the respective business places halloween to move a little faster probably the businesses concerned will accept the suggestion in good faith shiners goldens snowballs and boadways store fronts also came in constable rusnell had extra help but in a pea soup fog the lads had it very much their own way if they were bent on doing damage or committing innocent pranks new school area board beyond reach of electorate it will be the duty of the muni- cipal councils of markham and whitchurch townships and of mark ham and stouffville school boards to make appointments to the new high school board that will come into existence the first of january to manage the affairs of loughby agency mrs margaret hockley victoria corners mrs annie lemon detroit and two brothers alex of young sask and albert of clarksboro sask should they wish to force any measure on the people that would prove unpopular this is a poor feature to introduce and is not democratic the people who will have to pay for the expenditures made by this ward should have more voice in its personnel if the new board decided to em- the new high school district com- ark on an extensive building pro- prising the two villages and large gram at some time it may be im- portions of the two townships i possible for the ratepayers to have by reason of its population with- a voice in the matter since schools in the new school area the town- are often built without a money ship of markham will have two bylaw being submitted to a vote representatives on the board and all the best way to keep democracy other municipalities one each alive is to give the electorates a this will make provision for five chance to voice their opinion tindall members but there are other mem- through the ballon the high bers that may be added to the school area act was devised by men board through county council apjwho have lofty ideas about larger pointment and by the retiring schools and we imagine they would boards of education devise the present act so that the when the high school board is average ratepayer would be sort of inaugurated all members will be squeezed out of having his sayso by appointment and therefore be- in any matter that pertained to an yond the reach of the electorate important expenditure i