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the old home town by stanley sarahyou knew traffic vws bad befoiee and now you have to brns out thathot rod- with a woif whistt here comes a new spring tiearpic problem roe the local police- dismiss charges in pugh beckett mishap the charges against the driver of the car which struck gordon ginger pugh and thomas beckett on jan 31 were dismissed in newmarket court thursday magistrate earl hand said in dis missing the charges that there was no case against the driver a campbell mclntyre of toronto witnesses said that the garbage truck under control of ginger pugh and thomas beckett was parked double one witness referr ed to the truck as being parked in the middle of the road photo graphs taken immediately after the accident were introduced as evidence and showed that a car was parked between the garbage truck and the curb mclntyre was proceeding south when he lost control of his car on the slippery road his car hit pugh then beckett and swung complete ly around before coming to rest against the side of a post on the east side of the street mclntyre was charged with careless driving the injured men are both in hospital in toronto special item for wives a hus band in ohio broke his collarbone while beating rugs volclxol lje btout futile tribune the tribune stouffville ont april 20 1950 second section price peeking at 30 years ago holds surprises a robin seen hopping on the city hall steps was probably consider ing applying for a building permit awftrrp nvtittv we buy your eggs cases supplied prompt returns pickup service f g baker at ratcliffs- grocery stouffville ontario ttjgsaaassgcsssagsggccbccasgsb youth for christ stouffville st james presbyterian church april 15 22 1950 third annual sacred musical festival sessions 200 pm and 730 pm 0 come let us sing unto the lord n rowan director markham township centennnial 9tlfvuncdioi wanted the subcommittee charged with collecting historical data hereby makes appeal to the public for assistance by making available to the committee facts concerning the early history of the township information is especially required concerning a early churches denominational connection data of founding etc b properties still in possession of descendents of settlers who received same from the crown c properties that have been in possession of same family for not less than one hundred years d business firms with record of not less than one hun dred years of service e prices of farm produce and other commodities f taxes g wages or salaries h plank roads and tollgates i any schools or school records previous to 1818 or 1820 j any other information that may be considered historic ally interesting time is short therefore this appeal is urgent please do not delay give all information in writing together with name of sender and mail or deliver to either of the undersigned despite nostalgic sighs for the good old days when prices werent so high a new item from a 1920 paper shows the span of years hasnt made an appreciable difference in the situation in fact news from the st law rence market in toronto in march 1920 indicates that the situation on some market products is better today than it was then butter 72 cents the news item- quotes butter prices soared this morn ing one man with a sign reading united farmers association tacked over his stand made this announcement dairy butter for 02 cents a pound and creamery for 72 cents a pound while another was selling creamery for is cents and still another for 64 cents compare with today recent market quotations list the price of creamery butter at 61 to 66 cents a pound or just about the same as march 1920 but nowadays butter has a stiff competitor in margarine listed at 32 to 31 cents a pound on the market thus giving todays house wife an edge on her 1920 counter part eggs hit si mark on another front todays house wife can count her eggs a blessing at current prices compared with the 1920 situation the same news item said shoppers received a pleasant surprise this morning when a drop in the price of newlaid eggs was recognized the price this morning ranged from 75 to so cents com pared with 90 cents and 1 last week indeed one farmer selling new- laid eggs at 75 cents a dozen impressed upon a buyer that they had only been in the market 15 minutes and naturally must be at their best buyers groaned not many months ago when egg prices crept up to unprecedented heights around 60 cents a dozen now cur rent quotations list eggs at 45 to is cents a dozen for grade a large alex d bruce rri unionville convener of committee w c gohn rr2 gormley secretary of committee simcoe councils consider resolution to initiate municipal forests program town township and village councils in north simcoe are currently considering resolutions which ask for a provincial land use survey prior to the establishment of a district municipal forests cor poration drafted by the reeves of tiny tay medonte and victoria har bour the sample resolution calls for the individual councils to go on record as favoring- a major expan sion of reforestation in the area provided the municipal tax posi tion is protected each council is also asked to name a municipal representative with power to act in the preliminary steps toward the corporation certain of the municipalities have indicated that they may select some one outside their councils so that greater continuity may be ensured the names of bruce eplett former reeve of victoria harbour and exreeve george ban- of medonte have been sug gested under the proposed plan which would be developed in conjunction with reeve cliff loqkharts county reforestation committee it is hoped to give a big impetus to the reforestation of 5 to 25 acre plots on individual farms with a farmer retaining ownership of the land where he so wishes planting and management operations would lie carried on by the municipal cor poration under a long term con tract in this way not only would the private property owner receive assistance to increase his forest cover and at the same time retain his personal interest in the project but the danger of lire would be restricted by reason of the separa tion of the wood lots commendation of the plan has been voiced by agricultural and forestry leaders through simcoe county latest to add his support is deputyreeve roy hickling chairman of the county soils com mittee e c drury former premier of the province has also gone on record as favoring the municipal forests corporation when provincial reforestation units were initiated three decades ago i thought it was the beginning of a new era for agriculture in southern ontario he stated the expansion of reforestation has however been disappointingly slow i believe that the north simcoe municipal forests corpor- tliere was an air of sadness among children who attended oood friday rally held at church in scarboro ont for one of their members johnny harding 13 was one of six children who religious group mix christianity and farming waterloo county mennonites discussed various matters involv ing wellbeing of the soil when they assembled to deal with farm problems the meeting was the first of its kind by mennonites those present were informed that purpose of the gathering was to find out what is being done to improve farming methods it was explained that farming ideas of years ago are a menace to continued farming pros perity the meeting was opened by the chairman i m hurst of bloom- ingdale and the devotional period was taken by rev c c grossman of new hamburg the first speaker was howard kauffman instructor in rural sociology and accounting at goshen college goshen ind in his topic the intrigue of soil study and improvement lie point ed out that 150 yeais ago the sur plus production of nine farm families was required to feed one city family while in 1937 the situ ation was reversed and it took only one farm to supply seven city families with food mr kauffman brought out that it takes 500 years to make one inch of soil think of how many thousands of years of soil building work by nature can be destroyed by one good rain storm on a poorly kept farm he said he also pointed out that in a period of years a farmer may lose as much in soil washing away as though his barn had burned down and still the farmer may not be aware of it in 1913 it was shown that a survey brought out the fact that the farmer following conser vation methods had an increase in crops of over 35 per cent and 200 in income e i mcloughry waterloo countys agricultural representa tive from gait gave the last talk of the afternoon on practical approaches to saving our soils he pointed out that waterloo county is fast reaching the point where the farmers are going to have to do something about barren hills he pointed out that in driving through wilmot township last fail he got into a dust storm of such severity that he was forced to turn on the lights of his car he also pointed out that water loo county is down eight per cent in what is considered the normal amount of woodland necessary in a community he also explained that by keeping eroding hiiis in green grass and the steeper slope covered with trees much can be tlone to combat soil washoff good grass land holds 10 times the amount of water plain ground is capable of holding the meeting ended with a question box on soil and crop management the question being answered by mr mcloughry the night session was opened by h d groh of preston the devotional exercises were taken by ation plan if put into action can give to agriculture a new lease of life in this district lost their lives when fire con sumed their home in scarboro the fire started in the back porch from a pail of live coal left outside by mr harding in a few minutes the house was an inferno reducing the family from 10 to four with collection plate at rally are j gilmour and p brown donations have poured in for the stricken family and are fast mounting to the 9000 mark rev j b martin of erb st men- nonite church waterloo rev j h hess of first mennonitt church kitchener gave a talk on voluntary service units helping to rebuild rural communities this was followed by a talk by the secretary on the local volun tary service units committed a leonard snider of waterloo the main speaker of the evening was norman high instructor in rural sociology and farm economics at the oac guelph his talk on social life vital to the ruial community was interesting as he pointed out that the church pro vides the rural family with the greatest number of opportunities for social friendship rural families today are much different than rural families when our parents were young mechan ization has done much to change home life he said it was found in a recent survey that the farm families which took their social life as a unit rated the highest when it came to family solidarity and unity isolation of some rural families can retard progress in general for where there is no association there is continued on page 5 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