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2900 copies this issue vol co no 51 umfmlk ttiu single copies for sale at lemonville goodwood brougham claremont the tribune stouffville ont january 1949 twelve pages first train through town recalled by eye witness edward obrien ho has made 250000 lies for cape cod visit ors recalls early days in stouit ville reveals marvelous memory at ks probably no other living person could relate the story told by ed obrien now ss who recalls busi ness in stouffville over to years ago member of one of the villages pioneer families prominent in their day mr obrien is still oper ating his famous chicken pie shop at cape cod one of americas greatest summer resorts with but a small beginning his pie shop is now renowned and his record show that he has sold 250000 pies over the years at the request of the tribune hehas penned an interesting letter written in a hand writing that would put many of us to shame for legibility indeed few persons at his great age would attempt to describe a village and recall names of persons who carried on business here that far back but lets hear from mr obrien dinnisport cape cod editor nolan in requesting a recollection article for your paper i will attempt same but no dates will be given as thats beyond me and just how far back you want me to start is a guess i left stouffville 71 years ago in the first place the hotels were mansion house just west of the railway and queens hotel corner near church stat the east end of town takes on the corner of the tenth and one just across the street of which i have forgotten the name the stores were those of bill sanders archie leaney whites bake shop at the eastend either laws or laidlaws the doctors t recall were dr sil freeland dr loycl- blacksmith shops were oper ated by german and dan obrien pumpmaker was i boadway down the other way there were no pipes at that time all pumps were made of wood outside of having the best farms and farmers we had mr lead wheelers flour mill and saw mill this was where i had my first employment my job at that time was hauling logs from the pond across the street with a yoke of oxen and 1 got ahead of the sawer my father i would take old jimmy the whites horse and dump cart and haul sawdust to the fire at other times 1 worked in the barrel shop and then the flour mill then there was geo flints sash and door factory where my father and 1 worked there was the cheese factory armstrongs plant and jack sanders near the coal yard there was mccullums tailor shop daleys shoe store dan mcmurchies tannery grahams tin shop grants jewellery store rod rick and bruels wagon shop burk holders furniture phil dans furni lure eastend when 1 left stouff ville there was only one building west of tlie railway and that was occupied by mrs barkey after ward mrs thos williamson there was only one street running north and south that was church street stouffville fair was held just north of the methodist church there were only two houses on the east side of the street and burkholders furniture shop 1 went through the exciting times when the old toronto and nippissing railway was being built i remember walking half way to markham to see old no 1 with all its brass bands around the boiler shining so you see your face in it this was my first sight of a locomotive then there was the first doubleheader here which afterwards exploded 1 was almost the first person there and was the boy who found the body of one of the two firemen blown almost up to s stouffers farm the other fireman was blown into the station agents second storey window his house was across tlie yard the engineer was blown into the end of a pile of cordwood the brakeman went the length of the train with the engine bell into the caboose the boiler went clean over the top of the station onto a pile of wood at that time they fired the locomo tives with wood all four people were killed outright a peculiar happening in connection with the explosion was the old expressman tommy toze and horse which stood just across the platform and was not hurt in the least this story may be entertaining for the younger generation as so my school days and teach ers my first days at school were in the old hall on fodders lane whitchurch farm sold mr adam young has sold his i3j acre farm on the 9th conces sion of whitchurch for sij000 according to filing records just made the properly is lot 1 1 and is three and a half miles north of stouffville and a short distance auth of musselmans lake the new owner hails from suburban toronto this property is known as the oki forsyth farm and has a large square design cement block house mr young located there little more than three years ago he is calling a public auction sale for feb 1 1th when prentice prentice will sell the dairy cattle and other live stock also implements hay grain new year robin at ballantrae and caught ix unionville excitment was high at union ville on monday when two police cars raced into the village chasing a fleeing car carrying three toron to youths in a stolen car police raced up kennedy road touching 90 fired shots at the runaway car until they reached unionville here the three lads abandoned the stolen car and ran to escape but were captured in short order on a side street paying hospitalization for man with 2600 salary crime disney why this township should be saddled with hospitalization for a man getting over s2500 a year salary is an absolute crime stated deputyreeve frank disney at special session of council on mon day this statement was the result of the revelation that a pickering resident reputed by the relief officer to be drawing more than s2500 a year in salary was charg ing his hospital account of some 300 on the township and county reeve westney told members that the county had repudicated the hos pital claim two years ago but now the institution was threatening to sue the county had then paid 150 of the account of which amount pickering will have to pay 50 air westney said that the only alternative to paying that the council would have would be to sue the man who received the serl vice 1 then id sue said councillor burk its getting to be a racket stated councillor geo todd relief officer johnston pointed out that there was little need of investigating cases if anyone regardless of income could enter a hospital claim to be indigent and make the municipality pay people who stoop to a thing like that might feel pretty small if their names were revealed in the press and the ratepayers could see just who was saddling all the hospitalization costs on them suggested councillor todd reports of having seen a robin are mentioned frequently in the daily press either the red breasted summer bird has returned very early or never left for the south this winter at all in any event robin red breast has been around ballantrae all winter for mr fred w jaynes reported having seen one at ballantrae on january 2nd this year mr jaynes said the bird was sitting up in a maple tree chirping like a good fellow as he approached the tree the bird turned and faced him displaying its red breast in no mistaken fashion musselmans lake ice harvest on next week ice cutting in dead earnest will begin next week at musselmans lake when the thousands of cakes that go to fill the ice houses of farmers and butchers will find their way into the empty storage carl rose declared this week that the quality of ice on the lake right now is probably the best in three years 12 inches in depth but nice and clear mr rose predicted that weather conditions between now and monday will not spoil the ice even if it failed to get very cold he explains that the absence of snow on the ice makes for an improved product and there is no snow on the lake now in a normal winter ice cuttin begins about january 15 but at that date this month there was only four inches of- ice and the situation didnt look very good however one or two cold snaps lasting only over night enabled jack frost to do his work until the 12inch blocks are now avail able if we get a cold weekend another three inches may easily be added to the depth of ice uxbridge twp farmer stands on attempted murder charge high school choir wins shield stouffville high school mixed choir under the leadership of l c murphy was awarded the champ ionship shield at the toronto east musical festival held in glen- mount united church on tuesday the local school singers scored eighty points and were highly complimented by the adjudicator the local united church choir also competed in a class for over twentyfive voices and stood second a toronto choir from the church of the nativity won first in this competition thumb cut off at rixowood work shop adam ruhl employee of the toronto spindle carving co ringwood lost the thumb from his right hand while engaged in work sj5 convention is opposed to open sun enrichment and enlargement through evangelism was the theme for the 80th annual sunday school convention of markham township association held at victoria square on wednesday last week for which the ladies of the united church there prepared excellent meals for the delegates who came in great numbers indi cating that while attendance at sunday school is not all that could be hoped for there is a sizeable band of faithful workers between session mr don ratcliff showed a temperance film while much credit for the success of the day was given to president win timbers he was returned for another year the morning session was enthused by a prayer offered by rev mr curry resident pastor reports were filled by all the in the shop there he was cutting departments and rev w butt with a power saw when he struck j gave a knot causing his hand to slip and my first teacher was miss tilly leaper and my first male teacher mckinnley then came adam ross mr mann and jim hand i mixed the mortar and carried the hod to build the first fourroom school for stouffville opposite the old town hall just a word or two about sports stouffville always was in front in all kinds of games especially baseball there was great rivalry between stouffville and markham whenever we went to markham or they came to stouffville the visitors always brought the best fighting talent they had as invari ably it ended up that way two of our best men as i remember them were jim dowsley and flash brooks the above are from my recollection as a boy stouffville of course was considerably built up when i left at 17 years of age monkhouse was the tailor at that time old uncle flint was the mail courier who always carried the mail in the oldfashioned buck- board the postoffice was located on the hill half way to the east then there was gibneys foundry and widemans tombstone shop these existed at the time i left town i am in my ssth year and have had to do a little scratching to remember all i have written a lengthy talk on how a sun day school should be conducted with only a few minutes at his disposal rev x rowan led a worthwhile discussion on the con vention theme he offered some creative ideas mr r perkins led the afternoon singing and mr oliver raymer gave an address on enlargement through evangelism a temper ance talk was given by mrs j h peacock of the wctu mrs don ratcliff and mrs rowan conducted a childrens service devotional was conducted in the evening by rev c berry and the resolution committee submitted that whereas there is a move ment on foot to create sunday a wideopen day this convention goes on record as urging those in authority to preserve the sancititv of the lords day by refusing such legislation the evening service heard a grand address by dr gallagher secretary of the canadian council of churches and the thanks of all went to the ladies for their work in looking after the needs with splendid meals besidespresident timbers those elected were 1st vicepresident archie little 2nd vicepresident bruce clark secytreas c r james assistant secretary e x sliver come to the skating party being conducted by the stouffville high school on the spacious openair rink on fridav ev jan 28th earl hopkins pleaded not guilty to the murder charge of his brother marlin whom he shot last november in the home of george matthews on the 5th concession after an alleged altercation said to have dated back to the winding up of the fathers estate and finally over a girl staying at the matthews home hopkins walked to his home some rods away from the matt hews place at the foot of the bootjack hill and brought back a gun which he levelled at his brother through a window former evidence indicated dr d bean toronto general hospital said marlin was in an extremely serious condition when brought to the hospital with little chance of recovery however the miraculous happened and he is out of danger now the case is proceeding at whitby george matthews first crown witness said that earl had been living at his home for two days preceding the shooting on mon day nov 22 he went to toronto accompanied by earl and marlin the witness said marlin had a cheque for 500 which he cashed in uxbridge after going to toronto earl and mattews delivered a load of scrap iron and returned to matthews home leaving marlin in toronto to look for a job on november 21 witness con tinued he and earl went to toron to with another load of scrap and on their way home stopped off at the national hotel in toronto for sandwiches and beer marlin came into the dining room matthews stated and had a beer with them when the beverage room reopened at s pm he and earl went to it but the waiter refused to serve them any more beer driving back matthews said earl had complained that marlin had got it in for him and also had stated that the older hopkins brother had not paid him for a harvesting trip to western canada that both had made earlier in the year matthews testified that on november 25 the day of the shoot ing earl left the house in the morning and returned in the evening he was in a sober con dition later in the evening marlin arrived at the matthews home in a taxi from toronto accompanied by marion 0brienmary tanakand leonard bulloch the party from toronto brought with them 34 pints of beer earl left while the others were still there saying he would be back in the morning matthews said there was no argument be fore he left about 1130 pm while bulloch mary tanak and i were in the bed room talking and marlin marion obrien and marcia harris my housekeeper were in the living room 1 heard a noise like a glass chimney of a lamp breaking 1 ran out of the bedroom to the living- room and saw earl standing on the verandah at the window with a gun in his hand the living room window had a hole about six to eight inches in diameter in it i saw marlin slumped on a couch in the living room i ran out and grabbed the gun by its stock and barrel 1 said give me that gun earl said no i wont i got im wheres the other guy i said what other uy and he replied the guy that came with marlin bulloch i told earl that bulloch had done no harm then i asked him if there were any more shells in the gun and he said there was i asked him as a favour to unload it and lie worked the ejector and the shell came out i kicked the shell under a couch on the verandah he work ed the ejector again but no more shells came out matthews said 1 matthews stated that he strug gled with earl but the later broke away and left the premises still in possession of the gun fearing that the accused might return matt hews said he hustled the rest of the toronto party through a trap door into the cellar while marlin lay bleeding on the couch crown attorney alec c hall kc introduced marlins blood stained shirt and undershirt as exhibits matthews said that he had then summoned a doctor and the police under crossexamination by a ws greer kc defense counsel matthews said that except for marlin he had never met any of the party from toronto before that night lie added that marlin and earl had always seemed to get along well together after earl and marlin returned from their western trip earl seemed to be dull and listless witness stated marlin told me to mv face that ear was crazy and that was why he had to bring him back from the west matthews said al he heard was the tinkling of glass he did not hear a shot wit- i ness declared he admitted that he was not sober at the time of the c b boyxtox heads markham fair board chas b boynton was elected president of the markham agrieul tural society at the annual meeting on saturday lloyd turner of stouffville is second vice and roy h crosby is the efficient secretary again the meeting was conducted by fred baggs former president and the attendance was large showing high interest in this big annual fall fair whitchurch feels benefit of dominion railway tax according to tlie most recent report issued to the township of whitchurch respecting the munici palities liability for patients eared for in ontario mental hospitals there are six such persons who are the responsibility of the township under a very old arrangement and dominion statute there is what is known as the dominion railway tax directly payable to the government at ottawa who in turn hands the money over for maintenance of mental cases in the public hospitals thus it comes that no municipality has to pay out of their annual income any money for this purpose nor do they ever receive any share of the goodwoods dr darling died on monday just five weeks from the date the tribune published the life history of dr r e darling of goodwood the aged physician died at the brierbush hospital in stouff ville on monday this week in his soth year thus the village of goodwood is without a resident dominion railway lax not even physician for the first time in f tne had no mental cases in the nearly 50 years institutions it is just a book- dr darlings wife whose maiden keeping item to notify those mun- name was helen hostrausser diedicipalities who have such patients six years ago and surviving are they are being maintained m i s through tlie railway tax imposed by dominion laws ter mrs arthur baker stouffville the funeral this thursday after noon will be from oneills chapel in stouffville to goodwood ceme tery service in the chapel at 2 pm unionville comes from behind to win over aurora in a snappy oha junior hockey game at unionville thus when it so happens that a municipality like whitchurch has the responsibility of six mental cases perhaps for a lifetime this tax comes in very handy in the financial picture veterans hall to reopen this saturday stouffville veterans memorial tuesday night unionville mutuals will hold a gala reopening overcame a three goal lead to down 1 this saturday night jan aurora meteors 54 over five 29th the newly erected hall has hundred fans crowded the crosby bee cl0sgd for several weeks memorial rink while more interior work was be- aurora swept to a threegoal leading d a tne c placed in the first period ron simmons and doug ross being the snipers unionville bounced right back to tie in the count in the middle frame and went on to win in tlie last period lyall petch boychoff and min- ton were the unionville scorers two former stouffville goalies are opposing each other doug moore in the aurora net and norm stunden in the the legionaires will play for the dance and the admission will be the regular 50c ask attorneygenerals dept for police survey school t a al ue umc oi tne on hvr shooting but denied he was drunk ening wa halfandhalf he said as the spectators laughed at a special meeting on monday unionville cage i pickering township council went both netminders were kept on the i into consultation with inspector jump throughout the sixty hand of the provincial police minutes and both came up with regarding the new setup for polic- some sparkling stops the win ran ing the township at the present unionvilles winning streak up to time the provincial police force six games with one tie and was is handling the municipality north their second win over the aurora of the 3rd concession at no club the mutuals were without expense to the ratepayers while the services of bun sellers j the township maintains two i officers south of the 3rd the cost announcement of which up to now has been mr and mrs geo gower ring- charged against the entire town- wood will be at home to their ship friends- on the occasion of their the suggestion has been made golden wedding anniversary on that the provincial force take over feb 1st from 2 to 1 and from 7 to the entire municipality according 0 pm their daughter and soninuo figures given council on mon- law mr and mrs aimer fockler day the cost of handling the job stouffville will receive with them this way would be cheaper than on the occasion of their silver wed- maintaining the present local ding anniversary force and in addition the service would be greater principally marguerite hodgixs and through the use of the radio sys- haroli masox united tern ix wedlock the question also arose as to a marriage of real local interest whether or not the ratepayers was performed at stouffville on south of the 3rd con who are saturday last when macguerite receiving the entire services of the peplow daughter of mrs hodginsi local force should not pay the and the late john hodgins was entire cost of this force married to harold mason son of after considerable discussion it the late mr and mrs henry was agreed that the attorney gen- mason leeds yorkshire england erals dept should be asked to the ceremony was performed by make a survey of the situation and rev d davis give advice as to their findings old age pension boards are disbanded ten new applicants in stouitville in 1948 ham will continue in office to receive applications in this field york county council in session on friday were told that 834 applications for old ago pensions were received in 1918 10 additional for part pension and 40 more were refused for various reasons there are 53 persons receiving full pen sion on account of being blind six of seven blind persons were grant ed pensions in 1918 below we give the number of old age pensions by municipalities within the county of york applied for in 1918 aurora 13 east gwillimbury 10 east york 85 etobicoke 40 forest hill i georgina 11 king 24 lea- side 15 long branch 28 markham township 22 markham village 9 mimico 17 newmarket 21 new toronto 19 north gwillimbury 12 north york 05 richmond hill 5 scarborough 89 stouffville 11 sutton 5 swansea 18 vaughan 18 weston 25 whitchurch 8 wood- bridge 1 york 250 total 82s the old age pension boards throughout the province have been disbanded by a provincial amend ment in administration for nearly years likewise mothers allowance boards mr herman kidd of whitchurch was chairman of the york county old age pension board mothers allowance boards have been in effect since 1925 and old age pension boards since 1929 the duty of the boards was to receive appplications carry out certain investigation and pass on the information to the department at queens park in york county mr holtis beckett for the old age pension board has been retained to write- up applications which will clear once a month and hurry them on to the department mr beckett was secretary of the old board for years he is a solicitor well grati fied and conversant with the act for the mothers allowance board mr w c oohn of mark-