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mm vol co xo 30 the tribune stouffville oxt november 11 ims fourteen p4ges markham farmer protests careless hunters on farm cutting com in the field on the farm of harmon jones just south of stouffville on the 9th of markham workmen were alarmed when they heard bullets whizz by shot otf by pheasant hunters on friday thej hunters persisted and walked right through the farm so mr jones hastened to town and purchased signs to post his property against trespassing another thing that justly annoy ed the farmer causing him to brand the hunters as poor sports was when they slaughtered about a dozen pheasants in a flock the birds had been fed more or less and became as tame as chickens they didnt flee from the hunters and were promptly shot down to a bird the fanner couldnt see much sportsmanship in that sort of hunter and many other people will think the same way masseyharris pony tractors ready for action this nearly 10000 worth of massey harris tractors shown here is the largest single order or shipment ever received by the stouftville agency ready to go to work immediately the stanley theatre notice box office opens week nights at 700 pm show begins at 730 xo change in saturday times these hours apply until further possible change in blackouts social event and special prices mark ratcliffs reopening this thursday friday and satur day ratcliir co will mark the change over to groceteria service when the ladies howling club will back to a new life after strong address delivered on remembrance day machines are being double- checked by the sales agent mr henry ogden before they leave the new premises of ogden son who two years ago built a modern sales room immedi ately south of stouffville post office serve tea in the newly remodelled premises of this well known firm from 2 to 5 pm on each of the three days it will be an opportunity to visit the store and enjoy the hospitality of this old established firm to further mark the reopening ratclilf co are offering special prices and thrifty buyers will have a chance to cash in on them while the store will be conducted as a groceteria clerks will be avail able for those who choose to be waited on in the former over-the- counter custom a fine new truck has recently been added to the ser vice and customers will find the daily deliveries convenient as always the firms announcement will be noted in a special page adv in this issue rev u davis preached an im pressive sermon at the remem brance day service in stouffville united church on sunday when members of the local legion and other veterans attended in a body the unknown soldier was the subject of the address when the speaker forcefully reminded the rather small gathering how easily we forget those whose lives had been sacrificed those who came an ab- are to forget which was exempli- bed by empty pews and gallery the choir of the church under i leadership of mr l c murphy rendered two selections and rev frank herman rector of the anglican church read the lesson i pheasants more plentiful rifles are confiscated the pheasant hunt in markham and whitchurch township last fri day and saturday saw hundreds of hunters roaming over the territory and from what could be learned prior to the service the legion theh a paraded to the cemetery and placed sence of years he recalled the so- called voluntary enlistment period which was really not voluntary since the lads had been groomed and forced into the grove by pub lic opinion he referred to their great sacrifice and how prone we a remembrance on the grave of all soldiers buried there after the service wreathes were laid at the memorial gates at the park en trance the provincial government wreath by mrs fairies and veter ans wreath by mrs nicholson rev mr herman offered prayer of birds two or three had their guns cotifiscated when it was dis covered they were using rifles or causing some breach- of the game laws however most of the hunters observed the rules hunters report ed birds more plentiful on friday than on saturday but that was due no doubt to the pheasants becoming assessor challenges courts right to hear ira rusnell appeal improperly filed stouffville municipal council house as compared to mr brill- sitting as a court of revision on ingers was 13 years old the up- the lyij assessment roll heard stairs was cut up the lot was thirteen appeals on thursday even- extremely shallow and the location ing and adjourned court for a very bad decision later j the rowbotham house is assessed reeve xolan chairman stated at for shoo the conclusion of the hearing that you raised my place 100 inside he believed the court would be of four weeks said mr brillinger well advised to go over the roll i six weeks mr good replied more carefully before giving a an assessment of 250 on the lot decision on the particular cases of reeve xolan was also appealed appealed j by mr brillinger our assessment in stouftville is lot has ft flonta very good compared with others in st and is double the width thecountv said mr xolan of nine mr brillinger told the court mr good replied that this lot assessment compared favorably with other lots in the same area of reeve nolan acted as chairman town of the court on all but two of the theres 700 difference between cases in which he was personally i dont think the assessor should go after new properties too heavily the reeve concluded connected and for which councillor henry ogden took the chair constable ira rusnell appealed a total assessment of 83050 of which 2000 is on his new residence baker ave and 330 on the land my assessment and chas nolans mr brillinger stated hes also got an upstairs i agree that this house should have a little more on it said the assessor but who wants to look out their front windows at those i ask this court to throw out this old church sheds the locations are appeal as no address or cause is greatly different given said assessor e r good he knew that when he built thats only a technicality said there contended mr brillinger man who trailed west with bronchos and mules back after 38 years the village council attended in fearfu wa not secure for jiil marched with thej ag u hw hem oyw recent months and naturally it took more hunting to dislodge them from their hiding places horse and driver escape eggs and vehicle suffer driving his ford car in the neighborhood of gravel hill on a recent afternoon bruce paisley ran into a horsedrawn vehicle owned and driven by fred connor nobody was hurt but 20 dozen eggs were smashed in the connor buggy and the buggy itself as well as the har ness on the horse were badly dam aged fortunately the horse was not injured mr connor will be reimbursed from the liability insur ance carried on the paisley vehicle although he had been in town for a week it was not until saturday night the reporter met mr welling ton yake who is visiting among relatives and friends for the first time in 3s years it was in april 1010 with members of his family they set out for alberta in response to the call so strong in those days go west young man the yakes the three sisters who went along all married in the west annie the eldest girl is mrs thos nunn whose husband was a railroader with the hudson bay and now entering retirement hattie is mrs walter wright her husband is a brother of fred wright in picker- ng and gib wright the merchant hyro biggest problem at council meeting seven hundred and twenty seven horsepower largest months con sumption of electric power ever used in stouffville and a bill for s1ss011 confronted the local muni cipal council at their regular meet ing on thursday night power shutoffs in the morning hours were revealed to be creating a higher than usual peak one reason for this is the fact that once at ballantrae then there is muriel heeded that call hence wellington now mrs c smith of oyen alta and his brother john wesley and mr hiram yake father of the the power is turned on again near three sisters all sons and daugh- 1 family died here at stouffville ly 100 flat rate water heaters come ters of the late mr and mrs hiram but mrs yake followed her child- on all at once and remain on till yake found themselves among thouen to the west and there she died first settlers in that part of alberta some years ago the old yake home now well settled in fact the yakes on the northwest corner of tenth mrs wm burkholder funeral friday for resident in stouffville for sever al years mrs wm burkholder died early on wednesday morning following a period of ill health resident in whitchurch town ship most of her married life the late mrs burkholder moved were the first people to settle in the locality and john wesley built the first house in the village welling ton became its first and only post master hence just as the yakes were prominent in the early life of stouffville so were the yakes the and main streets stood for long years with the furniture in just as the family left it when they started their long treck to alberta in 1910 however age and decay set in odd pieces of furniture were given to relatives years later and finally the founders and closely allied to the house was torn down that was early development of the cappon within the last 20 years district of alberta j wellington yake tried to express we rather went out in the pro- his feelings on return to the home verbial covered wagon fashion back village after all those years he in 1010 wellington told us he said it just was hard to do the explained we drove in with a i place never seemed the same when heavy wagon powered by a team of j he rode down main street this bronchos i broke the first piece j week he imagined the long front of ground and my brother john i street was much longer than it weslev built the first shack in really is he thought the farm of cappon nelson byer stouffville came along with us on that memor- tojable trip and bore his share of the town about ten years ago mr burk holder predeceased his wife four years surviving are a son clifford on tiie home farm at bethesda and alma at home with the mother the funeral will be conducted from the late home on nov 12th at 2 pm to church at 230 and to heise hill cemetery for interment hardship he took up a homestead but later abandoned it i believe and returned to stouffville but he the experience of those early days explained mr yake mr friday i yako met mr byer on sauinia for bethesda lne firiit time in anout 35 years timbers opens new street at westend mr win timbers is opening a street on his premises at the corner of the oth concession of whitchurch and the county road to ringwood entrance to the new street will be immediately west of byers new block and will run behind the new legion hall- it is proposed to face houses east and west on the new avenue when lots are sold for that purpose two years after his arrival at cappon wellington was appointed postmaster a position he has held ever since or for 30 years his brother john wesley was a school teacher and just retired last june he lives in saskatoon his cousin wesley down the tenth was much farther from town and the place where he was born and known now as the cedric watson farm was far from town but we were there today and it is only three or four minutes from town he explained modern transporta tion is the answer while wellington yake is post master at cappon his main busi ness is farming this year the dis trict produced the poorest crops since he settled there they had their first rain this season on july the water is brought up to heat again latest report on the morning power shutoff revealed that thurs days titiota of 1700 was only over run by 200 kwh but on friday climbed to 5300 again it was agreed at the end of the week to extend the night shutoff to an hour g30 until 730 pm the reeve told council that it might be possible to give the local hospital a separate line from mark ham rural at the 10th con east mr e r good president of the horticultural society requested council to leave lights on for the annual horticultural banquet but was informed that his request could not be granted geo allison requested grading be done on lloyd ave and the matter was left in the hands of the street committee councillors john scott and henry ogden a request for armistice day to be proclaimed a holiday from the legion was not acted on council agreed that request was too late for any action council agreed to purchase a new table for the municipal hall the business mens association asked council to put up a christ mas tree in front of the municipal building councillor henry ogdei 20 a shower a week later but not chairman of the property commit i drop since tee agreed to look after the matter tribune circulation numbered 550 with first issue in march 1888 when the stouffville tribune this information is revealed in a letter written by one of the staff xkjht shop classes frank w porter and preserved in all men in the communitv the keeping of miss evangeline s interested in enrolling in the night martin of portage ta prairie who classes a the stouffville high i has been good enough to pass on school contact the principal i tithe information to the editor murphy or meet at the school on unfortunately no fiies are avail- monday evening xov loth at sjabe from those early days thus pm valuable records of the doings sixty commenced publication sixty years ago the first paper came from the press dated march 1sss and the circulation started with 550 copies permanent record such as the news years ago are lost forever here and there copies of the paper have been preserved in families but no paper maintains today in book form of every issue printed miss martin quotes the letter of frank porter written on feb 24 1sss as follows our new stouft- vilie paper is to be dubbed the stouffville tribune the first num ber to be issued on the sth march 1sss 1 will send you a copy we are very busy with job printing our i reeve xolan i recommend this appeal be heard im only asking for equality said mr rusnell there are a number of houses the same as mine such as morley symes and truman baxter which are assessed much lower continu ed mr rusnell mr symes assessment on his new property on lloyd ave is 2150 i still think this case should be laid over said the assessor assessor good stated that coun cillor john scott would bear out his contention that the assessing dept would not approve of appeal forms not being filled out correctly mr walter brillinger appealed his assessment of 2000 on house and 250 on lot and also appealed a number of other properties first of which brought before the court was the brown property 9th con former alfred thomas residence browns house would sell for as much or more than mine stated mr brillinger 1 raised this place 300 said assessor good also appealed by mr brillinger was the dr thomas house 9th con which is assessed for 1700 this is an unfinished house mr good told the court the ken betz house assessed for 1250 was also classed as unfinish ed by the assessor truman baxters house is assessed 700 less than mine and its a bigger house contended mr brillinger speaking on behalf of her pro perty on church st occupied by her son mrs d f holden told the court that the place had only hot- air heating as compared with mr brillingers hotwater and oil and the location was not nearly as good the holden house is assessed for 1700 in speaking of the appeal against the house tenanted by mr j k agnew church st the assessor said the place was 20 years old only brought 20 a month rent and the cheapest of plumbing it has an upstairs and i havent returned mr brillinger the appeal against mr john leh man was dismissed when it was pointed out that mr lehman did not own the property mr brillinger appealed against mr goods assessment of 200 on his own lot corner of baker ave he has more frontage than i have said mr brillinger 1 believe this is only a piece of a lot said reeve xolan your lots in an aristocratic location said assessor good get off that stutr retorted mr brillinger in speaking of the appeal on the frank rowbotham house church st south mr good stated that the that has nothing to do with it said mr good it still hurts the value of this house lemonville girl wins bus trip phyliss wells daughter of mr and mrs elmer wells of lemon ville who won the york county junior farmers plowing competi tion for girls repeated her splen did performance of a year ago when she also was the winner she was presented with a cream and sugar set in 1917 and this year will be given a 25 bus trip not one appeal on uxbridge twp assessment the uxbridge township council met on monday and as a court of revision xo appeals had been filed against the assessment roll for 1919 which was rather an unexpected sit uation in view of the changes made under the new assessment for 191s by which the assessment of the township had been increased by over 00 this increase did not affect the amount of taxes to be raised but it does increase the in dividual tax in many instances hydro down to quota on monday the full hour blackout beginning last monday is having the desired results on the stouffville hydro quota on monday the village got below its quota by 80 kilowatts provided everybody including industry and commercial users are most careful with the electric ity every day it is possible that further cuts will not be ordered until further notice the day and evening cutoffs will be maintained as was establishel on monday this week morning at 10 to 1015 and evening 030 to 730 of course these hours are subject to change or to be lengthened without notice subscription already number 550 and will constantly increase i like the good people of stouffville they are so very friendly this man frank porter miss martin explains had been acquaint ed with her father w b martin a teacher and farmer at almira for many years or until 1902 when he with his family moved to maniyears to the point of being an out- toba standing publication among the mr martin died in 1032 and is neivpapers published in ontario buried at roland man his wife villages and towns the press run was a curtis daughter of the late of the paper is now close to 3000 robert curtis of mongolia andeopies stouffville through the kindness of an aunt miss ruth curtis miss martin says she sees the occasional copy of the tribune and the paper is now greatly indebted to her for passing along the information in her possession relative to the first publication of the paper that has continued to flourish over the church basement could be firetrap warns local fire chief in carrying out his duties of fire chief mr del jennings has issued a warning to the officials of the stouffvillt united church that the basement of the church presents dangers in the case of fire should the buildings be utilized as a nursery school where numerous small children would be congregat ed daily the doors swing the wrong way there should be first aid equipment fire extinguishers and numerous changes made said fire chief jennings which become imperative if it is to be utilized for day school purposes mr jennings said the changes should ultimately be made in any ease for the protection of the children who attend sunday school although this is just one hour in the week and is not quite as seri ous as daily classes assemblies present i