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the tribune siouffville ont thursday july 27 1950 pioneer homes mills and modern meet at unionville eighty- year olds still going strong in nearby unionville the telegram hole when the dams in that the people around unionville have a a not smog and that the the habit of beginning conversa- only notse is the hum of toe tion with there used to be machines down m the planing the for instance there used to be a woodworking and the chop mils distillery a brewery and a malt- fp g fa be- house in the district there used hind the s3000u vi 1 crosby mem- to be a tannrv a blacksmith shop la wnk hasnt blown up yet and a sawmill there used to be a a lsn t ever likely to flour mill and a cooperage but but the viuage veneer i thin as that was way back in the lsoos i the unsuspecting urbanite discovers there used to be good fflyg5 accommodation meals included j scots tln geraians for 0 corns a day plus mta cenu rl hopetodie in the for your horse it used to be u at hnancia seven smau pigs sold for 3o0 oats g for j cents a bushel a cow forj au they are on 2 miles fi back su a cow toronto where many of them i work where all visit and by which but nobody around unionville they set their living standards i ever suvs things aint what they not tneu tate used to be why should they frvinnhia iii tii i i iiiiih me citizens cneiimi tneu i hey like markham townships little police village the way it is and so do all those city people who have discovered that you cant see the houses for trees and you can shoot a cannon down main st wednesday afternoon and never hit a soul except maybe the friendly ghost of a berczy settler e independence and their peace and quiet more than a city man ever could thats why their forefathers came to markham from hamburg germany they setled first in the gene- v valley in xew york state but found they were only leaseholders there so they came to upper canada where city people have discovered too c n ouu that there s a real old swimming mme fml summoi boss dont you know that 85 of all bacteria in milk comes from un- sanitized utensils you can kill bacteria get lower counts with lobax noxsoil lobax chlorine rinse contains 50 available chlorine kills bacteria almost instantly on contact use lobax fust before milking noxsoil used just after milk ing cleans utensils thoroughly faster brighter easier at xottr nearest dealer feldt whose descendants still grow in the area fredric lived in a tent one winter in the fall he traded a sow for four bushels of wheat four bushels of corn and two bushels of potatoes and moved into york to look- for work he got it cutting cordwood at 1 bushel of turnips and no salt per cord now 1 was rich he wrote and had two loaves of bread homemade bread that lost com modity that alex bruce mourns he is chairman of the historical committee that included summer- feldts story in their historical sketch of markham township 100 at the township office in unionville nobody around here bakes their own bread now its a lost art he said busily tying a sack of feed for a local farmer the bruce mill is six mills north of union vide i dunno he shook his capped head theres something about the flavor of homemade bread the bakers cant duplicate it alex bruce s2 in december although si years old alex bruce of unionville here tying a bag of feed still operates the mill on his property his home is on land settled by his grand father who emigrated from scot land 10s vears ago both william albert noble and his wife becky were born anywhere else town has mush started migrating to homes in m0re0ushbspri more mom doesnt believe in the 10hour week and double pay because that isnt now this country was made daily except sunday he is in the mill his grandfather bought 108 years ago when the family came from scotland where every decent man comes from the mill is painted barnred and is full of field mice and dusty haze and shadows and the drowsy rush of the rouge washing through the great water wheel the pinkcheek ed whitemustached powdery miller likes to tell of the old map circa 1791 on which the rouge river is called the great river and is supposed to empty into lake ontario to the eastward of the highlands of york pioneers never got far enough away from home to really prove whether it did or not mill then it had been rented four hundred you say but in spite of his long absence neither he nor his visitors the last harrington had no trouble could quite figure that out because in taking up where his father left all below the tracks here where off i hadnt really worked in the we live now used to be pasture mill since i was a kid but i dont across the road and all around know it just seemed to be in myj were fine new houses shiny citi- hands and ive done all right im fied looking houses built by city perfectly happy here ive two people who have gone back to the children and 1 wouldnt take them country to a big city if it was the last place both mr and mrs noble remem- in the world and ive lived in most her the towns first telephone and of them including new york becky remembers the first car or take the oldest man in the well i do remember it she says village william albert noble 90 j it was right after we were mar- he was born on hagerman hill a ried and we were going up the mile and a quarter from the vil- eighth to ringwood and along lage lived in this same house 41 came one of the stivers in this years ever since we been married new car first id ever seen or the havent we becky my wife used ponies either and you had to get to be a miss size born in the vil- out and hold them until the cal lage she was the former becky i went by she told her husband i size said she believed the populai mafjorie latimer and teresa the bruce mill stopped making tion of the village in her day was smith young and pretty and full flour durin the war and the miil 10 or you want to of beans dont find their home- get bigger yields of lopgrade potatoes by protecting your crop against insects ami blights with cil 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insecticidefungicide ultramicron particle size gives exceptionally uniform coverage also superior suspensioa and adhesion other cil potato fungicides trox a 7 fixed copper dust with special carriersticker tricop for blight waterdispcrsible powder containing 52 copper atk your dcofar for cll potato duilt and spray materials canadian industries limited agricultural chemicals division halifax montreal toronto chatham oat winnipeg vancouver down in unionville has not made it for years the unionville mill is run by electricity and the stiver brothers ewart and howard whose forefathers came with summerfeldt and the rest of the berczy settlers ewart stiver lives in the oldest house in town it looks like a red brick cottage but under the brick facing is adobe clay from the cellar and plaster on top of that there used to be a school north of unionville up past the lutheran church explains mr stiver and another one down in the village south of where the railroad track runs now then when egertori ryerson was reorganizing educa tion in the province a new school was built halfway between the other two and called unionville that was about 1ssg i think at the last stiver reunion there were 250 family members des cendants of the two sons frank and john continued mr stiver and then theres the descendants of six stiver daughters who dont have the name but are just as much stivers as the rest of us theyre all over the place seotts smiths hemingways milgans theres a comfortable continuity a deeply rooted security around unionville that comes only from people staying in one spot you can scoff all you like but its some thing the itinerant city apartment- dweller with a his advantages like streetcar crowds restaurant cream pie and pop concert culture can never attain take arthur kingston harring ton in the planing mill he tried to get away from his birthright hanging around in old toronto houses now are thousands of fine pine shutters open only for wed dings and funerals for fear of fad ing the carpet out of which his grandfather made a living and his father did well in the family planing mill but a k harrington went overseas in the first war and didnt come back not for a long time i went to tile states theyd pay me sco a week to start there 30 a week here finally i got into a traveling job where i never hung my hat twice in the came place in the same month so i decided the best place for me was right back where i started i came back my uncle had been running the know what it is now william town dull theres swimming hole xoble hopped to the phone gave and the skating rink and the ball it a good crank and said gimme games and the show in markham the township office say whats our and theres the infinite relief every population hey cant hear you evening at five of leaving the telegram photo s9 oldest man in unionville nearby and have never lived roomed since city workers unionville smoke and the tension and the clacking typewriters of toronto far behind short kills calf charges taps ix farm house a chance visit by a scrap iron dealer is credited with averting a disaster at the home of mr and mrs norman durrer carrtck township when the scrap dealer and mr durrer went to the barn they found the cattle in a frenzy and one animal electrocuted durrer touched the calf with the toe of his boot and received a violent shock but he was warned by the scrap dealer to leave the barn a veterinary was summoned and he found the watering system connected for both the barn and the house charged with electricity it is believed the short circuit occurred when mr durrer insert ed a new fuse in a stove after their hydro transformer was struck by lightning siouffville hockey club adds life and sparkle to any occasion street dance and carnival stouffville on wed- aug 2 bingo games refreshments music by stouffville legionaires baseball at 630 pm hockey allstars vs stouffville intermediates your chance to own a fine boat johnson motor fully equipped with steering wheel windshield etc tickets 25c 6 for 100- gar lehman president telf rennie secretary