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famffirille tane vol 61 no- 21 the tribune stouffv1lle ont september 8 1949 touched rim of arctic circle on 10000 mile trip mr and mrs eugene baker of whitchurch township are home again after 10000 mile motor trip which they commenced on july g in company with mr and mrs ed c way the two women in the party are sisters they motored as far north as whitehbrse in the yukon which 20 years ago had a population of only 300 but today is quite a sized town it is the home of the white- horse star weekly newspaper with the distinction of being published farther north than any other newspaper in the british empire route followed to this northern outpost was via north bay to winnipeg edmonton then due northwest 1100 miles above van couver gasoline sells for 67c a gallon in the yukon roads are gravel but very good yet hard on tires and the car required three new ones on the trip the famous alaska highway proved interesting and like most other roads is a gravel road with plenty of stopping places con verted mostly out of buildings erected during the course of road construction for use of the work men meals says mr baker are served thresher style no menus but heaping plates of everything and excellent vegetables seem available everywhere travelling over this famous road mr baker said they noted only one ontario car license but many united states cars were travelling that way flowers in alaska were magnificent and of such great dimensions as to completely outdo those grown in ontario they must necessarily grow fast since the season is very short in fact in the yukon there is frost in the ground all year round and only gets out about three feet in depth in the far north the party were within fifty miles of the arctic circle and found that there was no night there one could read a new spaper outside at midnight this miami home withstood this blow when hurricane winds of 150 miles an hour roared through sections of west palm beach and parts of miami florida the substantial cottage of mr bert pitman on 36th street miami withstood a stiff huri- cane undamaged mr and mrs pitman are spending the sum mer in ontario and are now up on the lakes with mr thos birkett of stouffville who has frequently visited the pitman home in miami mr bill pit man former merchant butcher in stouffville and now of miami is engaged in business by his brother bert while the pitman home was undamaged others did not fare so well as indicated in this picture the storm was called a multi- millionblow and marched through the georginas and j carolinas before it petered out lemoxviijle cows soli fairly stiff prices the farm stock sale on the nieghorn farm at lemonville last week attracted a good crowd and prices were well up with cows averaging 175 and some heifers sold at 130 the milking machine went for 210 and hay in the mow 2350 ton while mixed grain was bought for 250 cwt the nieghorn farm has been sold to mr chas ratcliff who resides across the road the peace river district proved from the property there were no exce offered in the sale auctioneer farmer told the press a revelation with its crops dawson creek is the end of the rail system and the alaska trail is 1523 miles long while flowers in alaska were beyond imagination so was the excellent alfalfa crop seen in peace river country mr baker thought this may be at least one of the main crops and is above average this year he was informed homeward bound the party drove through montana north dakota international falls etc and reached home without an accident or serious car trouble to complete one of the longest motor trip ever taken by a local party isaac burkholder buried at didsbury alberta a resident of western canada since 1906 isaac burkholder of didsbury alberta died on august 6 following a serious illness he was 77 years of age and was born in markham township on october 23 1872 the late mr burkholder migrat ed to western canada to take up homesteading and followed this life for 11 years and after some time in maton he located in didsbury in 1922 where he made his home until a years ago when through ill health both he and mrs burk holder were forced to give up the home mrs burkholder became a total invalid and was afflicted with blindness as well however she survives her husband prominent in the life of the united missionary church in alberta mr burkholder became travelling representative for the bible society and for 25 years covered a wide territory in this work mrs burkholder was the former ida heisey and the couple were frequently back to the home dis trict their last visit having been made in 1910 besides his wife four daughters survive while two sons who grew to maturity are dead a brother jos burkholder in west ern canada also survives square girls win softball trophy victoria square softball team won the girls championship for centre york county and carried off the silver cup on tuesday night when they eliminated their nearest opponent and final contender for the honor by defeating elgin mills in the second of tiomeandhome games by a score of 1314 in the first game last week the square girls defeated elgin mills by 107 coach ran musselman is naturally a bit puffed up over the success of his girls victoria square team pitcher kathleen mcarthur catcher june collard 1st base marie musselman 2nd base polly eade 3rd base joy mortson short stop edna sander son right fielder marg sanderson centre fielder marion reid left fielder eleanor reid subs marion hood edna steckley jean brum- well arrival of header pipes holding up artificial ice in conversation with the linde refrigeration engineer in charge of the artificial ice job in the stouff ville arena we were informed on tuesday that the reason for the delay in starting work was lack of larger header pipes into which the vast network of ice piping must be joined at the eastend of the arena the small piping arrived a week ago direct from the manufacturers at welland ont the largest of two electric motors a 75 horsepower giant arrived by railway this week and a large brine tank was also deliver ed the linde representative in formed your writer that there would be no delay in getting the job done immediately the header pipes arrive even if night work was required to complete the job by oct 1st malloys plumbing service stouffville was awarded the plumbing subcontract by the arena builders and this work got under way this week the campbellford electricians who are doing the electrical work are expected back this weekend to wind up the rough work and install the fixtures local high school enrolment reaches alltime high stouffville high school opened on tuesday morning to record an enrolment of 190 students highest in the history of the school first form according to principal l c murphy will have over 60 pupils and grade 10 or second form has 56 students another record made at the opening this year is in the number of teachers there are eight instructors and six of them are men which constitutes the largest staff in the history of the school in addition to principal murphy only miss b goodyear was a member of last years staff signifying a real upheaval in staff personnel in addition to miss goodyear miss s reeves will be the only lady while the half dozen men teachers are douglas bacon donald davis f y sher wood george a pearce and lloyd oliver principal murphy is lookin forward to another year of dis tinguished record since the school last term showed one of the best percentages of passing of any school in the province the markhamstoutfville school area combines the schools in the two villages and the markham school is specializing in commercial work while the stouffville school specializes in domestic science and shop work for which the equip ment and layout of the school is particularly adapted miss audrey jennings who has been engaged in dr neil smiths dental office for the past three years is about to join the hospital staff at orillia in training as a nurse fred coles markham goats won top honors at the cne last week markham engages architect to plot out townships world of tomorrow with deputyreeve win timbers ham he considered had turned the objecting markham township council down and mr timbers in engagements mr and mrs russell preston wish to announce the engagement of their eldest daughter thelma irene to cecil ernest kent son of mr and mrs walter kent sun- dridge marriage to take place the latter part of september mr and mrs daniel wagg of goodwood wish to announce the engagement of their only daughter grace evelyn to ronald lloyd james son of mrs nettie james of stouffville the marriage will take place on saturday sept 24 at 3 oclock in the goodwood baptist church council in special session last thursday agreed to engage mr gordon culham as a planning con sultant he will be expected to draw a detailed plan of markham township marking every building mr culham will also provide plan to divide the lands of mark ham into restricted areas one area for instance may be design ated farming lands another industrial and still others into degrees of residential localities when such a plan is approved by the council it can readily be enforced under the new land restriction bylaw now passing into the final stage of becoming law the council offered mr culham this job he is now appointed to two months ago and later received a communication stating that as mr culham had not had his appointment confirmed by letter he was not open for the position mr culham was to receive 1600 per annum for a two year period which length of time it is estimated will be required to produce the necessary maps and specifications any case wasnt too enthusiastic in spending this amount of money reeve griffin urged council to have this work done he pointed out as on other occasions that markham is a fast growing muni cipality and unless building was restricted and regimented the municipality would grow up like topy sort of in a hitandmiss form councillors rae barber and wicks agreed to overlook the suggestion that culham was now willing to come back and draft these plans after having sort of tossed the municipal offer over board mr timbers agreed in talking to the press later that if there was any value at all in what mr cul ham hopes to produce it would be a peep at the township of to morrow rather than a mere record of the township as it stands today if his plans are acceptable and become approved it will be the duty of future councils to enforce according to the layout so that this planned frasers guernseys top at ottawa show jack eraser concord was the major winner at the ottawa exhibition his herd won thirteen firsts and one grand championship winner of the other grand cham pion was the ronalllex herd of h j clark ottawa who was par ticularly strong in the mature female classes other exhibitors were janet currier billings bridge and keith w davidson billings dridge senior and grand champion bull was the twoyearold franchester free leader owned by fraser with the reserve senior and reserve grand also going to fraser on his three year old hominy hill admiral both these bulls were imported the junior champion ship was also taken by fraserdale by their senior calf fraserdale emperaldus who is a son of diamond nancy who holds the canadian record for fat production with 20631 lbs of milk and 1010 lbs of fat reserve junior cham pion owned by h j clark was tarbell romulus major an imported son of coldsrpings romulus anchor formerly herd sire at brooknill farms paris h j clark took the senior and grand championship in the female classes with willow nonpareils mabel a mature cow in milk bred by frank mccutcheon kleinburg fraser took the reserve senior and reserve grand on kelmar pris- cillas doris a dry cow bred by irven kelley and son vinemount junior champion female was fraserdale admirals helen first prize junior yearling the reserve junior champion female was ron- alda f h daisy a senior yearling main st business block stores apartments sold an important business transac tion in real estate is now quite completed on main street embody ing the largest real estate transac tion here for some years the widely known silvester block has changed hands and for the first time in over fifty years the sil vester name is no longer part of the ownership name plate mr john mathewson proprietor of carload groceteria has pur chased that part of the business block which his grocery business occupies together with the apart ments above of which there are two the large part of the block form ing the agnew hardware has been sold to mr reg stouffer who is identified with the hardware business that has been carried on in the block for many years prior to the turn of the 19th century the hardware store there was owned by silvester dougherty and later it became the hardware of silvester bros after the death of william silvester the real estate has lacked anyone to personally supervise the undertaking as a member of this long established family and now the owner fred silvester toronto and the heir of william silvester and his wife decided to sell the accommodation over the hardware provides three or four living apartments which are heated for tenants as have been the two apartments over the grocery now taken over by mr mathewson both new owners are young energetic men who will undoubt edly maintain modern properties in keeping with the prominent busi ness site the block occupies on main street almost opposite the clock tower noted dutch artist staying on farm here mr and mrs archie nesbitt gravel hill are entertaining her brother and his wife and child who arrived from holland a few days ago they are mr and mrs albert oudandag and young son from amsterdam an artist of outstand ing note oudandag jumped into public prominence when the daily press got him on the front pages this week as a pupil of van meegeren who hoaxed the art world in his time and was dis credited by the big wigs one fooled was the eminent hermann goering who bought pictures supposed to be old masters but actually painted by audandags teacher seeking a fresh start in life this 35 yearold artist from armsterdam hopes to get it in canada and will probably find something in his line in toronto for a time the visitors arc staying on the farm just north of stouffville the mothcrcraft advice room will be open in the united church basement from 1130 am to 5 pm on tuesday sept 13 all mothers and babies welcome markham buys anothergrader this week the township of markham through its council has placed into operation a second road maintainer machine one of the big caterpillar grader type same as was bought recently by the township of whitchurch reeve vern griffin told the press that the latest addition to the family of township machines cost very close to 20000 with snow removal equipment this is the last word in efficiency said mr griffin and the council look for ward almost with eagerness to next winter because there will be four pieces of township equipment on the township roads ready to battle the snow the latest grader has a hundred horse power engine funeral for the late james s cook who died in weston on sat urday took place to stouffville cemetery on monday afternoon deceased was a former resident here his father being a farmer residing on the sideroad north of town the late james cook married ida stouffer who survives him sutton lady winner of athletic club car the new ford sedan given away as a lucky draw prize at the annual carnival and street dance of the stouffville athletic club was won on wednesday evening by mrs elsie laye of sutton west presi dent bert bell of the club officiated at the draw and was assisted by little donna ferguson daughter of mr and mrs wilfrid ferguson who pulled out the winning ticket youll never know what a thrill this really is when you havent got a car mr laye told a repre sentative of the athletic club mr laye is a driver for a local bread company and the couple with their three children were preparing to enjoy a brief holiday this week at some nearby resort now with their new car theyre off to ottawa to visit relatives they havent seen since they were married and that was over thirteen years ago the affair postponed from august 17th on account of rain nearly came to grief again on wed nesday night when rain began to fall around ten oclock however a quick decision was made to move the entire show to the veterans hall where the dance and games carried on until the wee small hours the net proceeds from the affair will be used for the promotion of sports here and for the purchase of shares in the new stouffville arena the arena will certainly be an asset to such organizations par ticularly when it is once floored since such functions as the annual carnival can be held there on the spacious ice area regardless of the weather grain that won top honors at cne farm show deputyreeve timbers opposed township of tomorrow for mark- the appointment now because cul- ham might gradually take form this fine display of grain being admired by margaret hill of mimico ont won top honors at the grain show at canadian national exhibition currently being held in tor onto barley was grown by alphonse schmidt of mildmay ont and the wheat was raised by norman schmidt also of mildmay despite the drought this year judges said entries in grain show were of finest