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tottfftrille britmite vol 60 no 48 the tribune stouffville ont march 16 1950 brought skating laurels to stouffville failure to form ps area means loss of 3600 in whitchurch tp union of whitchurch and king stouffville skaters carried off a flock of honors at the recent silver skates derby in toronto some of the happy local winners are pictured here ross jladill is examining the silver skates won by clarence fockler marion atkinson far right girls silver skates winner holds the trophy that goes with them helen snowball also shown won two events uxbridge and pickering big winners at seed fair preservation of a rich topsoil is the greatest need in farming today professor f w morwick of the ontario agricultural college guelph told a group of ontario county farmers at the annual seed fair held in brooklin saturday the fair was sponsored by the ontario county crop improvement assoc iation the meeting was opened by the president and chairman heber down of brooklin warden rae ferguson of uxbridge extended a welcome on behalf of the county and noted with approval the grow ing interest in production of good seed by local farmers he said that the seed fair will greatly assist in maintaining a high standard of quality of seed the judges for the day were kenneth fallis toronto and w t brenriahd dominion department of agriculture their remarks were signifierint for local agricul ture they said that the samples as a whole showed that some good seed is growa in the county one outstanding example shown was of bockston oats which although a new game preserve soon to be declared the long awaited announcement that the vivian forest property belonging to the county of york is to be a game preserve within the meaning of the act may lie made very shortly according to information sent out by w j k harkness of the fish and wildlife division three years ago york county council set in motion the machin ery for this setup when the coun cil on recommendation of the reforestation committee requested the forest to be declared a game preserve pressure of other work according to mr harkness has delayed the matter being attended to but he now reports that steps are proceeding and within a few weeks perhaps the forest will be under this type of restriction for unters no firearms may be carried on the properly and wild animals may not be killed therein announced once good walker suffers leg amputation eighty years of age this month mrs dan wideman mount joy is waging a successful fight for her life down at toronto east general hospital where despite her great age one leg has been amputated yet the patient is recovering the surgical operation became neces sary because of gangrene mrs wideman is widely known about mount loy and dickson hill district it was her custom over the years and indeed until recently to walk from her home in the former place to attend divine worship at wideman church every sunday this being mrs widemans birthday month one and all her friends will consider it a good omen for her safe return after her serious illness under the payment of public school grants by the dept of education the township of whit church stands to lose 3600 be cause it continues to adhere to the smaller school section system rather than form into a township school area last year the pro vincial grant averaged 150 per section and this year they will receive the same however if the township adopted the township school area plan they would receive 3600 in public school grants this year or equal to 300 per section the loss is equal to more than a mill on the tax rate mrs a h vannostrand secre tary of yandorf section declares that the trustees just do not under stand otherwise they would never stick out against the area system which would place the whole twelve schools in whitchurch excluding the union schools under one board of trustees who would be responsible for the oper ation and conduct the whole dozen schools in the municipality i think that when they study the new grants and how they are paid out many trustees and other rate payers will see the wisdom of a township board mrs vannostrand said mrs nanxostrand a most capahie secretary has it worked out to show that for a farmer with a 5000 assessment the saving if the township kpz an area board would be ss5 on a 10000 assess ment the saving is s177 not very long ago the township council petitioned the ratepayers never competed before sunday train service communication was sent on to the board of health since it came from the dept of health at queens park following certain disclosures which forced the department toll t t 1 investigate the matter jflas bccfi kesumefl council approved a resolution sent from long branch asking the users of the canadian national provincial and federal govern- railways sunday night train to merits to assume total cost of toronto running through stouff- relief ville from lindsay may consider a letter from mrs troyerl themselves in luck again last enclosed two petitions one asking sunday the passenger train resum- for a township school aiea and if led service and while at stouffville this is not approved then a second few knew about its return it was petition asked that a section patronized farther north very well around wilcox lake be made a especially out of lindsay where eparate section from the present formal announcement had been markham champion county bacon show over 100 farmers attended the annual seed fair and bacon show at newmarket on tuesday and wit nessed some of the finest exhibits ever assembled markham town ship with its leitcncroft exhibit of wiltshire bacon sides carried off first honors richard frisby of the same township came second and clark young stood third last year whitchurch township farmers held this first position while the grain exhibits were down from last year due to the poor crop harvested last fall there were still 66 entries from 33 exhibitors eight of whom had made early in the week that the train would be resumed in this service it was suspended during the coal shortage or during the period that john l lewis took to demonstrate to the united states government who was boss over there station master mowat announces that all suspended services on cnr lines are being resumed at once little green was plump and exceli lent n the small seed class there ssit was an excellent example of red vi clover other classes were not com- i peted for prize list registered oats late w h j tlle department of jgatrie and fisheries will start new 5 life in the forest both animal and l bird species ould occur in case certain animals became too plentiful another feature of the w h west westney pickering registered barley ney 1 and 2 pall wheat howard malcolm loct hill bruce boyhigton ux- jj f late oats any variety h malljrirti colm wilmott croxall uxbridge- lllllrfl alinivprsjitv heber down brooklin john batty luul tthlliyciu jf brooklin everson norton locust o monday evening at unionville hill j a public meeting undertook to early oats any variety frank i appoint committees to handle the wonnacott pickering e norton promised celebration of 100 years h malcolm f m chapman rusjf the township of markham sell morrison beaverton i norton reeve win timbers urged that barley olrowed h malcolm i i responsible machinery be set up norton ii down spring wheat 11 malcolm rye i norton ii norton soybeans tom seelev ux bridge w ii westney field peas h malcolm buckwheat h malcolm bed clover ii malcolm e norton timothy ii malcolm alfalfa harvey roberts whit by william ross beaverton h malcolm table potatoes i norton h norton ii m harper goodwood f a early potatoes h r norton late potatoes i norton h r norton ii m harper oats early any variety f won nacott d norton h roberts i norton oats late any variety b boy- ington d norton barley any variety i norton potatoes late or early i nor ton special 50 bushel winter wheat ciub george mclaughlin osh- awa heber down j batty in order to make the event one of lasting remembrance in addition to various working committees who will gather infor mation for a historical record pro gram and other committees were named the reeves of richmond hill markham and stouffville villages together with reeve tim bers will form the reception com mittee when markham township was incorporated in 1850 all of markham village and parts of the two other villages were in the township the 100th anniversary will be celebrated on dominion day sat urday july 1st in the fair grounds at markham with a mammoth church service held in unionville on sunday julv 2 coop annual meeting the annual meeting of the stouffville cooperative associa tion will be held on monday march 27th at s pm in the veterans memorial hall mr a musgrove will be the guest speaker refresh- j men is will be served whitchurch saves over 4000 on 1950 county levy whitchurch township council in session last saturday with reeve ed logan presiding decided against giving approval for a deer hunt in the municipality this year i wouldnt like to see it and i dont think the farmers want it said reeve logan and councillor timbers said i feel the same councillor richard baycroft said he hadnt heard any complaint about deer doing damage and wouldnt approve a hum deputy- reeve ivan mclaughlin was of the same opinion councillor sid legge was absent from the meet ing i guess there are not so many crazy people in the township whimsically commented clerk crawford when he announced the receipt of 1625 railway tax dis tribution usually this refund is consumed for care of township patients in mental institutions mr crawford said most townships never receive any refund for this reason and this is the first rebate he can recall since ho had been clerk the report gave the town ship population as 3294 another bit of favorable news was the announcement that the county tax rate had dropped from 1889311 in 1019 to 11092 for 1950 a saving of 480101 acknowledgment that the road subsidy for last year would be paid at 2532033 on a basis of 50 of the amount of over 50000 spent on roads and machinery advance payment has been received and balance will be forthcoming short ly this is close to the amount hoped for w j buchanan downsview requested a grant for the feder ation of agriculture last year 250 were given and mr buchanan said he hoped the township would make an assessment on the farmers instead of a grant council promised favorable consideration in some form there will be an old time box social euchre and old time dance in the veterans memorial hall on friday march 21th at 8 pm i through the school trustees for show of opinion on a township area board and so many were skep tical feared it was a step like high school area boards hence they nearly all voted it down with two or three sections only voting for the area scheme however the new system of grants just announced make it more attractive to be one large area some of those interested have promised to approach sur rounding school trustees and explain the advantage of larger areas in getting departmental grants many areas are formed now over the province and all will be fore very long said one township authority it just remains how long can trustees boards hold off before they are forced in if too long they will have lost a lot of money through grants whitchurch township council through reeve ed logan has declared that just as soon as sufficient sections show their willingness to form a town ship area then council will take action in the meantime they await that request from at least a majority of the sections it is pointed out that the twelve sections in the township pay a school mill rate of 801 mills and this divided by twelve equals 0675 mills per section the government grant to each section amounts to only l777 mills under the new grants and only providing the township became a school area the government grant would be 1sss mills members of township council indicate they would not be sur prised if more sections appealed for a township school board right away since it is so clear that this is soon to be forced on the few remaining townships standing out side the new setup at present over 70 per cent of the townships across ontario have adopted the town ship area system a request from york county hospital at newmarket for a grant to assist in wiping out a deficit on operating costs was refused the council felt that they had contri buted through the county grant five patients as indigents from whitchurch had been treated with 110 hospital days and the request claimed the government per day charge was not enough that it totalled 315 and the cost was 823 hospital charges are amazing the rate of 8 per day being reckoned as necessary for indigent patients aurora school area costs are advancing due partly to county assessment being unfavorable for this year total cost this year will be close to si 00000 the increase in costs over the area of whit church aurora and king township will be 30000 whitchurch does not bear nearly anything like the cost to aurora and king with larger assessment in the area council decided to ask east gwillimbury to approve of engag ing the firm of margison bab- ccck engineers to give estimate on cost of building the road on the road townline between cons 78 a letter of complaint against the choice cutup chicken plant on yonge street charged the firm with polluting a stream indicated that the nuisance must be abaitcd the perhaps the largest class was late oats with 13 entries and the winner was eldred king of mark ham while frank marrott county weed inspector carried off first for registered oats grown on his farm there were ten entries in corn and rae ingleton of agin- court was top winner prize registered barley sold 3 a bushel st patricks day tea mrs wright will read your tea cup at a st patricks day tea party on wednesday march 22nd between 3 and 5 pm at the may- fair restaurant your hostesses will be members of the business and professional womens club of stouffville goodwood committee promised improved highway the reeve and deputy reeve of uxbridge township along with a goodly delegation from goodwood waited on hon arthur welsh at his home in sunderland last satur day in an effort to get some relief from the bad road condition which exists between goodwood and stouffville our goodwood corres pondent informed the tribune the committee was assured that something would be done tnis year without fail to improve this stretch of road known as no 47 highway at present the road is rough and because of sharp grades is danger ous ever increasing traffic is add ing to the danger and the bad con dition generally hon mr welsh left no doubt in the minds of the visitors that he would put his shoulder to the wheel right away in putting pressure on the dept of highways public skating at the arena on saturday night sr hockey friday celebrated her 106th birthday on tuesday mrs andrew miller of hill six miles north of mount albert celebrated her 106th birth day on tuesday march 14th queen victoria was just in the eighth year of her reign when mrs miller was born in pickering township near brougham on the 5th concession her maiden name was elizabeth udell but today she is known to old and young where she lives as granny she has been a widow 25 or more years mrs miller is quite active and insisted on running upstairs to fuss up a bit for having her picture taken for her birthday she helps with the dishes and insists on doing her own ironing she resides in the home with her daughterinlaw mrs john miller and a grandson mr miller died years ago her twelve children arc- all dead the eldest john died three years ago in his s5th year brown all she recalls about her father is that he died when she was very young when he went to the gold fields somewhere and died of the fever scourge i had a good stepfather though said mrs miller and when a slip of a girl she worked out in markham town ship for the burkholders barkeys and other prominent families since my eldest son john died i have lived here with his wife and their married son and his children she explained she con fessed to wearing felt boots but observed they are clumsy and she insisted on changing them before her picture was taken her husband the late andrew miller was a brother of the late dan miller of stouffville who lived to a great age occupying his own home on the school hill and still well remembered by many of our readers mr and mrs andrew miller farmed in markham town ship mrs miller said perhaps folks will remember my brother henry hank they called him and my sister hattie the centenarian lady doesnt like the now way of life especially for girls she dislikes them smoking at the tender age of three years she was taken by a family around zephyr they wanted to adopt her but when her stepfather and mother visited the home they were not satisfied with conditions there and took her home my mother insisted on that said the elderly lady who is looking forward to spring and an opportunity of visit ing stouffville this summer with a sense of humor mrs miller said once that she had an offer of marriage when she was 90 but she wasnt interested the young whippersnapper 70 years of age was a drinker and she couldnt tolerate that even though he was a good man otherwise one of her lookfor visitor- around birthday time is dan gib- ner of stouffville little danny she calls him because she recalls him as such when a very small undersized lad and a distant relative of mrs miller mrs miller baked bread and buns up until she was over 100 or to be exact when she was 103