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the tribune stouffville ont thursday august 25 1949 fertilizer for fall wheat cil free flowing swifts gromor order now while it is available seed fall wheat on hand garden plant food for fall vigoro bonemeal sheep manure for new lawn or old lawn top dressing of vigoro feeds feeds feeds porko hog feeds eggo poultry feeds local and personal happenings early cabbage are about finished according to local growers who are now cutting some of the late crop around stouffville big chain stores get touch of their supplies in stouffville locality the cxe opens tomorrow friday but this year farmers did not have to hurry the harvesting work in order to get a day off for the big show farm work is about two weeks ahead of normal years hospital costs almost tripled in last ten years the amazing high costs calls for wonderment about internal management of course everybody realizes costs could easily double but they are tripled and nearly all public hospitals run at a loss can costs be cut is a querry in the minds of very many stiver bros the obrien avenue folk are invited to spent wednesday after noon and evening with mr and mrs borinsky at their jacksons jjoint cottage mrs herbert lee is anticipating p holiday this week at the cottage of mr and mrs h w sanders jfacksons point nieghorns public auction sale near lemonville on tuesday next week will formally open the fall sale season in the immediate vicinity since it is the first farm auction of the 1949 season a reference to the sale register however will show a good number of sales within easy driving distance mrs david gray of toronto is a patient in toronto east general hospital this former 10th conces sion resident has the sympathy of her many friends here for an early recovery postmaster leavens has been on a holiday in haliburton for the past two weeks or ten days a name familiar with the busi ness life of our neighboring town of uxbridge was removed from the calendar this month when norman alexander sold his clothing store business and retired from active business mr alexanders father landed in uxbridge from peter borough some 40 years ago and while often in partnership he was always the leading merchant in his line he was succeeded by his son norman who was associated with his father for years but now the name passes off the list of active business places miss mary curtis and mrs chas nolan spent a couple of days in buffalo last week 1948 set a new high record for the manufacturers of motor cars but according to those who are in authority 1949 output will surpass anything on record former residents on mill street mr and mrs peter barrie were in town on monday running over from their home in myrtle watch for the big stock clear ance sale of radios washing machines and other electrical household appliances beginning next week at the stouffville radio electric store on main st see the display adv in next weeks issue from september 2nd to 10th the national horse show will be held at the cne in toronto promi nent horse owners of the united states and canada will send their finest animals to compete in the various classes at the coliseum maybe the draft horse is meeting some opposition from the tractor but admirers of the saddle horse profess to be not worried lasting beauty and protection coop paint manufactured aspecially for interprovincial coopera tives ltd for coop paints and sound advice on your painting problems mrs l m banks main street east received word last week of the death of her sisterinlaw mrs l c walders north bay mrs walders passed away wednesday last week and was taken to pine hill cemetery toronto for inter ment her husband who survives her lived in this district for some years and was a resident of stouff ville for a time about ten years ago besides mr walders a married daughter lives in detroit mr and mrs gar lehman and mr and mrs ora reaman have just returned from a motor trip to manitoba mr and mrs ted cadieux and michael and mr and mrs keith steckley claremont are holiday ing on manitoulin island this week spofford co direct your atten tion to their back to school dis play of goods and to the special announcement in this issue for those who wish to save on their fall purchases hydro engineers were in town last week designing a power unit for the new arena lighting and ice- making plantthe requirements will be 100 horsepower incidentally when hydro came to stouffville 22 years ago the town contracted for 75 hp to serve the whole com munity today the total demand hovers close to 700 hp altona cider mill is reopening on the first of september the earliest mr nighswander recalls opening it is in keeping with the season however with fruit matur ing two weeks earlier than the average year the altona mill is still able to operate on water power and if there is not enough water it is because the mill pond is filling with silt rather than any lessening in the springs altona mill is one of the few water powers left in the district as against numerous many mills that operat ed hereabout fifty and seventyfive years ago residents in the stouffville dis trict for many years mr and mrs peter ferguson have rented a small acreage with house in ux bridge township south and east of goodwood on the brock road on what is known as the redman place now owned by mrs norman feasby not too far away friends will hope to see them often the fergusons farmed for years just north of stouffville on the 9th concession but for a couple of years have been with one of their sons west of town they will now keep house on their own again a few days ago we called on mr and mrs h w sanders at lake- view house jacksons point this popular summer resort had just entertained the largest number of guests in one day which certainly taxed the resources of the spacious dining hall but it goes to indicate that lakeview house one of the first to do business at the point is as popular as ever and big business doesnt seem to disturb its experi enced head master whom we all know is a stouffville man and former reeve of this village mr and mrs e reichard are visiting with mrs j r barkey second street mr and mrs everton smith are on holidays camping at halls lake haliburton mrs ben nighswander is home again after spending the past few months at aurora mrs harold dixon and barbara and miss doreen ogden are holi daying at fenelon falls rev and mrs hallman and family are enjoying a couple of weeks holidays at fenelon falls mrs frank riches and daughter marion are spending a few days at baysville in the bracebridge dis trict otto mcmullen picked an eleven quart basket of peaches from one tree on his property last week this lifetime resident of the east end reports that he has seven or eight other peach trees in the grow ing stage owing to her recent motor accident miss ruth badgero an nounces in this issue that her beauty salon will be closed for a period of time stouffville coop association two phones for yonr contenlenee 200 nd 12b mr and mrs arthur lehman and three daughters are here from north bay holidaying at his old home on obrien avenue and in markham with mrs lehmans parents mr and mrs harvey wideman mr lehman is circula tion manager in the north country for the toronto daily star a position he has held now for more than ten years betty beauty salon my place of business will be closed for an indefinite time 1 re gret to announce to my patrons ruth badgero ickwasxsoesaesxssiaaasssjtsesmsstskws anadian national pivfap4i august 27th to september 10th except sunday reduced fare round trip children 105 includes exhibition admission and bus transfer direct into and from the grounds leave stouffville leave toronto 925 am u15 p- daylight time exhibition passengers travelling on regular buses will transfer at toronto bus terminal to buses running into the grounds tickets and information at stouffville motors phone 170 taxpayers in stouffville are a most fortunate group in that they are not being asked to foot the bill for a new arena in town as is the case in the majority of towns in stouffville a publicspirited group have gone ahead and organized that great asset on a company basis so that the undertaking is strictly on a freewill basis in gratitude for the work this group has done and is doing for the town the municipal council is seeing to it that the new arena will receive all the necessary services it requires such as water and hydro the cost of which is a mere pittance to that which would be put on taxes should the municipality have been asked to provide such an arena the municipal council is indebted to this company for bringing this grand project to town and the ratepayers in turn should feel indebted and invest in the under taking if they are at all able another couple of hundred share holders are required to complete the undertaking free of debt call at the company office today mc- cullough button and discuss purchase of a share with k treasurer its tax time again k r davis was on his annual tax errand last week handing out those inevitable slips that have been issued since doomsday this year the people of stouffville must have raised their eyebrows when they noticed that the tax rate was higher and therefore the amount of their tax increased as stated before the items on the tax bill showing any increase were those items beyond which the council have no direct control main increase was the public school taxes and a slight advance in county rate the council itself got by with the rate they imposed last year but it is inevitable that taxes will increase with everything else services cost more than they formerly did and the wonder is that the council got by without an increase in their part of the tax rate when collector davis was delivering the tax bills he gather ed in a substantial amount of cash received from persons who just looked at their bill and hauled out the money or sat down and wrote out a cheque they must have felt that the sooner the unpleasant task was settled the better after all it should not be unpleasant to pay our taxes we receive many benefits such as fire protection good roads police services street lights and other items we can cheer up in the knowledge that the increased tax v rate in stouffville this year was one of the smallest advances recorded by any munici pality in york county mr harry strong of chicago who was visiting his sister in town mrs mcgrogan next the post office was on a fishing trip to mea- ford accompanied by his sister and ronald who visited relatives in the northern town manouvreing his big truck at the pit of the stouffville sand gravel co jack watson narrowly escaped injury when he jumped as the big truck went backwards over the side of the pit the truck was severely knocked about and was brought into stouffville motors but fortunately for the driver he leaped from the cab just as the truck started to hurtle from solid ground a dead skunk proved as great an offense to the people in the neigh borhood of william and harold streets last thursday as any live animal of the name all morning the fumes were almost strangling some of the neighbors but it never occurred to anybody to throw a couple of shovelsful of earth over the animal and promptly end the trouble at one oclock a female resident appealed to the reeve to do something about the trouble so the street department promptly removed the offensive fellow to a burying place where his presence would not be noticed the out dated draw tickets no fraud whang whang went the knocker on the front door at the home of the reeve on sunday morning on being answered from within the stranger was admitted and quickly made known his mission said the visitor im from unionville and last night on visiting stouffville i was accosted by two lads selling yellow colored tickets on a car sponsored by your athletic association both i and my wife bought one despite the fact we are decidedly scotch imagine our chagrin later to find the tickets we bought were drawn for on august 17 this is a fraud and i hastened here to inform you of what is going on in your town in the interest of the good name of the athletic association i hope you will do something to catch up with this racket after pouring out this informa tion the informer from the neighboring village was advised that there really was nothing wrong with the tickets that the draw had been cancelled on account of rain and would take place on august 31st it was explained that the athletic associ ation has authorized the selling of any tickets on hand when the post ponement was made because of rain and that regardless of the date on them they would rank just the same as new tickets printed since the postponement the visitor went away feeling much relieved if a little disappoint ed that he had not figured in un earthing some fraudulent racket that he imagined was being carried on the reeve thanked his caller for promptly bringing the matter to light when he felt he had been jlpped for now he could feel at ease again and enjoy sun day in a peaceful and contented frame of mind five ribs broken in car accident everybody regretted the serious accident which befel miss ruth badgero on wednesday afternoon last week as she was proceeding along no 7 highway motoring to toronto driving alone miss bad gero ran into the rear of a truck loaded with cement the truck owned by r h brillinger of mark- ham village was turning into cosbruns lane near the 7th con cession on south side of the high way it was said to have almost gotten off the road when the colli sion occurred the pavement was wet miss badgeros car was com pletely wrecked and she sustained severe cuts about the head five fractured ribs but up to yesterday no further broken bones were indi cated although there will be further xrays miss badgero has regained consciousness after a long time and is said to be improving as the weight of the great shock is leaving her so far as the press cpuld learn miss badgero could not recall the accident and may never be able to do so the driver of the truck was ed stewart of markham and while he was not injured the truck did not come out so fortunate birthday recalls past years mrs judith m bennett who lives with her daughter mrs miller on north church street celebrated her birthday last week enjoying excellent health and that is something to be grateful for because mrs bennett while not announcing the number of years she has been on this earth smiles and merely says that she is no longer young forty years ago and more her husband the late odie bennett was connected with other members of his family operating the mansion house in uxbridge those who recall the popular hotel under bennett management recall the popularity of the dining hall and the busy horse stables that went with the business in those days it was not uncommon to have a line of horses stabled for over night while the travellers did their business and made it a point to reach the mansion house as an overnight stopping place after the bennett family retired from business mr and mrs o bennett located on the farm at claremont where his friendly countenance will always remain a memory in their wide circle of friendships they farmed until mr bennett died there mrs bennett on reach ing another milestone in life has the congratulations of her many friends back in the claremont dis trict and here in stouffville an interesting and pleasing incident marked the occasion when a cable arrived from somewhere at sea sent by daughter jean mrs hugh mccoll who was travelling across the atlantic to england on the queen elizabeth u youth or christ saturday 8 pm presbyterian church stouffville 800 pm educational films you will all enjoy 820 song time led by howard baker miss joe stevens will be singing and giving he experiences with the belgian underground army barbara hastings at the piano solo numbers by garfield brown local young people will lead in witness in prayer in song by our yfc choir a message in a minute by the leader contests and other surprises 920 film the kindled flame the tragic yet wonderful story of christianity in the 1st centory