oyer 5000 readers towffittlle ctttame largest circulating weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twps copies this issue 1475 vol 53 no 37 stouffville ont thursday january 16 1941 eight pages vand con s orf church demns skiers unday specials o the annual congregational meet- ins of tlie wesley united church at vandorf was held last thursday evening reports were heard from the different secretaries and treasur ers and everything was found to be in very good shape the old officers were returned for another year with very few changes for the first time there was ap pointed two ladies to the session mrs james oliver and mrs b dike the secretary was instructed to send a letter of congratulations to the iu hon sir william mulock on approaching his ninetyseventh birthday he having assisted with opening services of the church sixty years ago and again in lj31 at the fiftieth anniversary the meeting also discussed the action the government is taking in allowing the running of special trains on sunday to accommodate skiiers also the movement which is underway to have the sabbath thrown open for professional ball and theatres one has only to look at the present european catastrophe which is just the natural out come of the sabbath being neglected gods law is being ignored and principals set forth in christs teaching being renounced by the aggressor countries said a spokes man in moving the resolution moh advises the council to engage a milk inspector at the first meeting of the village council for this year dr h b freel on monday evening strongly urged council tc consider the advisa bility of engaging an inspector on a yearly basis to inspect the cattle herds and stables of the farmers who are engaged in supplying milk for consumption in stouffville he pointed out that toronto milk con sumers have their inspectors through here and stables not up to a certain standard of cleanliness were promp tly forbidden from shipping milk to toronto but stouffville people have no protection of this kind he said the board of health had engaged dr hodendistel to carry out preliminary investigation of the farms soiling to stouffville and it rc- vxalled that there was a wide need of improvement in some places ho demanded that this improvement must be brought about he said the local dairy would cooperate in this effort v at another point in his report dr freel said there were too many pigs in town last summer and as a re sult there were many complaints next summer ho promised the law- would be more rigidly enforced re specting the housing of porkers he made a splendid report on the water supply in that no adverse laboratory tests had been received in two years 1ltol kkaxk ixdkuhill who because of his philosophy now in the limelight is a nephew of sophia monkhouse who died stouffville on tuesday boy fatally injured in fall fr car a twelveyearold boy who in some unaccountable manner fell out of a car that was taking him to the hospital for sick children toronto died early last thursday in the tor onto bast general hospital the boy frank schofield failed to recover from the injuries lie re ceived on tuesday afternoon the accident was reported to north york police who are to probe the circum stances coroner dr christie is al so conducting an investigation schofield was the ward of mrs clendenning of buttonville and was on his way to have his tonsils re moved when the accident occurred bed ross annual the annual meeting of the stouff ville branch of the canadian bed i cross society will be held in the i council chambers upstairs on fri- day january 24th 19 11 at s pm election of officers and the executive committee for the ensuing year will lake place at this meeting all per sons who donated 5100 or more to tit recent canvas of the society members of this branch and both privileged and requested itiend the said meeting are a re to january w00dchuck tast like chicken we are indebted to mrs george oscar neal of welland- port ru2 for an interesting bit ot news which she was inspir ed to send to this paper after reading in our gormley news about a groundhog seen sun ning himself one day recently mrs neal says well we can go one better than the gormley writer when it comes to seeing ground hogs out in the sun in mill- winter just a few days ago a ground hog was caught in one of our traps on the farm and the old fellow weigiied 7 pounds we served it dressed like rabbit ground hogs are only good to eat in the late fall and early spring a little advice we pass on to the editor for fear he may start out next summer and pick one oly for supper too mrs neal is the daughter of mrs elijah lageer of church street stouffville and mr neal week of prayer gives war victims 108 up to wednesday this week 10s had come in to secretary kev d maegregor for the week of prayer tiid which is to he turned over at k of this week to the telegram war victims fund during the meetings last week the collection totalled s0 less some small expens es and this has now grown to the above amount if you wish to add to the amount for this worthy cause make your donation at once to your minister or leave at the office of tins paper for mr macgregor will not remit the total until the end of the week in anticipation of more receipts curling club has record membership is a son of mr ciaremont william neal of chaslee resigns as road supt charlie lee of goodwood has stepped out of public otiice after twenty years of service first as a councilman then deputy ileeve and reeve then eleven years ago lie took over the oltiee of road super intendent for his services in this latter position and for use of his car he received 650 according to mr lees statement his resignation was received and accepted by the council at the open ing of 1941 meeting last imonday of the uxbridge council at goodwood arthur brown was appointed to succeed mr lee other appointments included fred johnston and mussel feasby as auditors ernest morganson a mem ber of the board of health w g cassie as weed inspector members o the community park board of goodwood are r e ashenhurst john m uae john ashenhurst j f rein dr r e darling j e kidd and mrs 11 u harper school stouffville curling club has an active membership this season of about fifty players the first local b uispeil was completed this week with a c burkholders rink finish ing in top position twelve rinks participated on monday evening m 13 watts and f l button were delegated as tankard skips for this ear while thos birkett and harry ijriilinger will head the local rinks playing in the district cup competi tion engagement jos norton ciaremont announces the engagement of their youngest daughter ethel edna to kenneth loy dopking toronto youngest son of mr and mrs i dopking ciare mont marriage to take place on january isth 1341 attendance officer cecil wallace the standing committees for the year are roads and bridges reeve ashenhurst and ail members of council finance johnson beach and rap relief johnson ball contin gent h ball beach and rae print ing beach johnson and ball the road appropriation bylaw was passed setting the estimated expen diture for this year at 9200 irobert ashenhurst reeve presid ed all members present being deputy heeve johnson councillor rae councillor beach and councillor stewart bali george storey is appointed town clerk and treasurer whsp7 1 jgficabvv b itftiti tifi hs v wm w 9 isffip- f l j fvwv 0m r- jack sanders son of mr and mrs blake sanders of stouffville is now in training with the rcaf markham men display only fox bagged during big shoot find shooting of farmer accidental births outshine the deaths in past year for the past number of years it seemed a problem for the stork to keep even a jump ahead of the hearse in the vital statistics report for stouffville but in 1940 the stork took a definite lead and bids fair to hold it for the year just closed there were 49 births in stouffville 29 marriage and 2 deaths the fig ures are greatly enhanced birth and death because of the presence of n hospital in town but they prove interesting data to ponder over a coroners jury investigating the deatli of harold cottrelle found shot in a barn on the farm where he was employed a week before christmas returned a verdict of accidental death at unlonville no blame was attached to mur ray walton companion of cattrelles who admitted that he held the gun and fired the shot that entered cot- t olios body and caused almost in stant death walton in the witness box stated that he and cottrelle were playing in the barn on the farm of a d newson on the fourth concession of ivarkham township cottrelle started to climb a ladder and then turned and started to come down again when i saw a gun standing near a box containing some rab bits said walton i picked up the gun and put it to my shoulder i didnt rock the gun it already had been done and then i fired cottrelle slumped to the moor and asked me to take him to the house walton then said that he took a vhtelbarrow am pushed the lad to tro newson home but he was dead before medical aid could he reach ed the bullet had entered his left side and pierced his lungs the inquest was held under the direction of coroner dr ball of stouffville oldest mennonite in canada marks 90th birthday here rev henry goudie who is living with one of his daughters mrs arthur clendenning at cedar grove will observe his 90th birthday this thursday enjoying very good health and able to go to church at least once every sunday however last sunday when he did not feel quite equal to the journey to mount joy his regular place of worship he vis ited the old mennonite church near where he lives imr goudie is one of the two eld est preachers of this denomination in canada for many years he serv ed in western canada as a presid ing elder as well as being pastor on numerous appointments in on tario twice married his both wives have passed on seven of a family two sons and five daughters were oorn to this veteran preacher and servant to commemorate his birthday friends united to tender him a birth day shower at the inaugural meeting of stouffville council on monday mr george storey was appointed clerk and treasurer pro torn in succes sion to mr j s dougherty who was relieved of his duties owing to a breakdown in his health mr dougherty succeeded the late john urquhart who resigned in 1925 be cause of bis great age and pre carious health at that time mr dougherty took very ill at christmas just after lie finished get ting out his copy tor the annual financial statement since then he lias been confined to bed but is somewhat better than he was the importance of his work necessitated the securing of some one to carry on without delay and council has chosen wisely in secur ing mr storey town assessor whose ability for the work seems to be beyond question mr storey was duly installed in office with the approval and pre sence of reeve weldon and all the members he is expected to establish a new system of bookkeeping for town accounts which is now being demanded by the dept of municipal affairs at queens park william bartlett wright pictured nbovi lam township farmers and thomas both mark- combined to kill the sole fox bagged during the session of a fivehour foxhunting expedition staged in the township one day last week this small red fox and 20 jackrabbits were the bag of nearly fifty sportsmen who par ticipated in the shoot either the foxes lived up to their reputation for cunning or reports of their prevalence were greatly exaggerated huntsmen said at any rate flic large party troked through pasture land bush land org securing two of the animals the hunt first of its kind in markham township was organized i v the ontario department of game and fisheries after township officials eomplaincd of the number of foxes in their municipality they wanted o fix a bounty on the animals which have been killing pheasants jack- rabbits and raiding the occasional henhouse hunters said the day was per fect tor the sport of catching foxes on foot it was bright and clear and light covering of hardpacked snow was on the fields the i lassi- cal picture of foxhunters riding lowed land without catching ai karie1 pink cjas wag sizht of more than three foxes i wlndhrcakers hunting the less astute or more plentiful j and olcl wraps w hc jkralbis ere bowled over with attire of the mc who were fool continued on page s comparative ease some of the hunt markham sunday school workers 72nd convention the 72nd annual convention of the markham township religious educational council will open its doors to the teachers and officers of the sunday schools within the municipality on thursday jan 23 in the victoria square united church sessions will continue throughout the day with the various committee reports and election of oflicers dur ing the forenoon feature of the afternoon will be an address by rev r vickers christian youth and worship while in the evening rev a e owen will speak to the gathering on christian youth at seivice entertainment for the outoftown delegates at dinner and tea will be provided by the ladies of victoria square capt roy brown talks to lions on aircraft progress capt roy brown who a year ago acquired the fred march property at bethesda and is fast developing it into a model country estate ad dressed the stouffville lions club on monday evening at the village inn during the monthly supper meeting he traversed the pioneer days in airplane flying when war planes were of a primitive type and young fliers were sent into battle as soon lis they learned to steer a machine at all in an interesting manner the captain traversed the steady im provement in these machines to the present highly efficient fighter and pilot many questions were piled at the speaker at the conclusion of the address which brought forth fur ther interesting and instructive information the speaker was introduced by president m e watts who extended a hearty welcome on behalf of the iliage who were proud to have capt brown locating in our outskirts carl boadway one of the lions sang and a donation was made to the war victims fund and sick childrens hospital daughter of pioneer family dead miss sophia monkhouse taught school many years before retiring in town junior band at the aren next week on wednesday evening january 12nd the junior band will furnish a full program of music at the arena the numbers specially suited for skating aro being prepared under the leadership of bandmaster ridley of toronto keep this skating night open also remember the coming concert by the band on february 6 in ratcliffs hall miss sophia monkhouse who was housekeeper for her brother mr john monkhouse in stouffville pass ed away early monday morning after being in declining health for a con siderable time born at altona miss monkhouse as a young lady entered the teaching profession and taught at maple and honeywood and other places before she came to keep house for her brother she was a daughter of the late thomas and isabell monkhouso who kept store at altona prior to 1886 the family also occupied the oboyle farm just east of stouffville for a long time of the family of brothers and sisters john local tailor hero and mrs r underbill survive the funeral for miss monkhouso lakes place this thursday afternoon from the late home on church street to stouffville cemetery rev t decourcy rayner will conduct the service