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oyer 5000 readers stibnnt copies this issue 1510 largest circulating weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twps vol 53 no 42 stouffville ontahio thursday march 13 1941 eight pages school entertainment has capacity crowd at each performance fifteen graduation diplomas and sixteen athletic trophies are presented to students the annual stouffville continua tion school commencement again proved itself the biggest entertain ment feature of the year as nearly six hundred people filled ratcliffs hall for this popular event on thursday and friday evenings despite depleted ranks caused hy sickness the students went through their various numbers in fine style each evenings program was opened with a grand chorus hy the senior choir fair land of freedom and softly fall the shades of evening bud sanderson president of this years literary society introduced the balance of fhe program with a few remarks and words of welcome for the audience songs drills and dances by grade 9 and 10 groups and a skit entitled safety razors first by gordon baker and bud sanderson were all warmly received one of the feature attractions of thursday nights performance was the presentation of field day trophies by dr h free chairman of the local school board sixteen cups were presented in the following classifica tion juvenile christine mulholland frances clarkson kenneth schell bill kellington junior gladys stover ruth gooding jim miller stanley ball intermediate lucille howsam mary williams douglas aldred ken klinck senior beth kellington joan baxter cameron aldred ted cadieux the new tro phy for the crosscountry run event won by cameron aldred was pre sented by its donor mr jos borin- sky while imir iralph haist member of the staff presented the inter- form pennant to grade 11 for the highest number of points by any grade in the crosscountry run mr ralph halst who guides the athletic endeavors of the school put the boys both junior and senior through some daring pyramid build ing and tumbling acts while clifford hollidge did a bit of clowning for the amusement of the large crowd this number reached a climax at its conclusion when both junior and senior groups formed one giant- tower and a huge scs pennant made up of many small union jacks was broken out in front of the stage the concluding number a short play campbell of kilmohr intro duced by joyce ball dealt with the hectic days of bonnie prince charlie in scotland 1745 and was excellent ly portrayed betty sanderson and russel prouse carrying the scotch dialect to a point where as one member in the audience put it you i could nearly smell the heather these two leading characters were most ably supported by beth kellington arnold schell jim abell eric cutler elgin hastings and fred williams on friday evening phyllss winn a graduate of last year and now attending macdonald institute guelph college gave the vale dictory address and dr h b freel presented the fifteen gradua tion diplomas those in the graduat ing class are robert abell irvin borinsky eric cutler mary davis leona forsythe dorothy fuller mi- guerlte jack muriel jones olive johnson jean pipher irvin raxlin donald rowbotham robert sander son gwen tranmer kathleen turner the entire school staff shared equally in the congratulations on the success of the evening miss wilson and miss miller for training in the dancing and drills mr bailey as director of the play mr ralph halst for coaching the athletics and principal l c murphy who led the various vocal numbers and gen eral arrangement of the program celebrate 35 years of married life on friday march 7 mr and mrs alonzo blizzard 5th concession of imarkham reached their 35th wed ding anniversary and marked the event hy having their two sons and their families at home together with a number of other friends married at mount albert the couple commenced farming in east gwill- imsbury later coming to whit church and finally to markham their family consists of two sons stewart in toronto and thomas in markham they have three grand children mrs blizzards maiden name was mary gibney and to her and mr blizzard hearty congratula tions are being extended at this time five hundred bushels buys a binder today local curling club in line to win the district trophy tied with unionville for first place in east york league the first hiproofed barn of large dimensions 62x112 ever built in whitchurch was erected at lot is concession 2 over 50 years ago mr elton armstrong told the mem bers of vandorf home makersgirls and the junior farmers groups at their meeting held at the home of mr herb wells last thursday even ing the structure was built by arm strongs father and the lumber cost s00 per thousand as against 4000 today the speaker revealed in com paring prices then and now mr armstrong said it took 60 bushels of wheat to buy a binder 50 years ago today it takes 500 he gave interest ing advice to the boys on buying seed grain and its proper selection officers were elected for both groups the junior farmer president being c rowe and president of the girls home makers being e wells make a drive for manufactures urges gold fish co head what stouffville needs is a strong energetic committee of busi ness men to place before the proper authorities or industrialists the advantages of this community in a real effort to attract some industry to our town attend convention in attendance at the annual meet ing of the canadian horticultural societies held in toronto last week were mr and mrs a h williams mr and mrs win timbers and miss marjorie mertens from this district two sets of stouffville curlers have won their last two league games in the east york schedule to place the local club in a tie for first place with unionville each having won six games and lost two on saturday evening the visitors here were from locust hill their two rinks going down 3112 on the round the local sweepers were henry slack orval drewery ira aldred harry brillingerskip win timbers l c murphy walter brillinger wm armstrong skip monday night stouffville paid the return visit to locust hill winning this round 3213 the home club sweepers who made this trip were j k agnew robert snowball sam armstrong f l button skip wes boadway charles nolan walter brillinger fred marshall skip no information is at hand yet as to how the winner will be decided between the top clubs the decision will either be reached by sudden death game on neutral ice or the club standing highest in points will take the cup the east york trophy which has been held by stouffville for the last two years has been competed for for thirty years and was donated at that time by the clubs which then comprised the league free seeds for school chtddren owing to the discontinuance of the- school fairs the horticultural society are coming forward with a plan to keep up the interest of the children with the growing of flowers four rooms in the public school and nine of the surrounding rural schools are being offered seeds the pupils are to cultivate and exhibit flowers at the local flower show in august the society are hopeful that a large number of children will avail them selves of this educational program whitchurch yields six red foxes while not out definitely gunning for fox oliver yakely of island lake thus spoke mr george district at church hill has shot six foxes this winter and would like to have come across more for the pelts are bringing a little revenue when cash is rather hard to raise in sufficient amount mir yakely has joined in many a rabbit hunt in past months chasing those big fellows which yield a full pot of stew although he says the meat is a little strong as compared to the cotton tail it can best be eaten in rabbit pie says oliver who wear a big hunting badge on his hat to show that he is in full possession of a license to carry on most of the fox were taken in the home district in whitchurch and on the border of uxbridge township just a few miles north of stouffville bed patient two years aids lions lions club takes up challenge of elwood fisher to sell his gloves in aid of british war victims fund asten proprietor of the stouffville gold fish plant the only industry of its kind in all of canada mr asten was addressing the lions club at the village inn on monday evening he stressed the desire and advantage of making some effort in these days of industrial development to get something for this town mr asten warned to strike while the iron is hot manufacture of small arms he pointed out is being spread to the smaller factories and his on building could accommodate some- thing of the sort which he said could be arranged without financial bene fit to himself several thousand feet of floor space is unoccupied at pre sent since the gold fish plant was established in this town back in 1929 the firm have spent some 72000 in stouffville we have had taxes regularly from the plant and hun dreds of dollars in arrears when the firm took over here lion m e watts welcomed the speaker and was given the assur ance that the business men of the club would give his address serious thought and consideration a com mittee is being named to act in conjunction with mr asten as a lookout committee fire insurance on school learned inadequate aged squash makes a good pie mr s ii fretz told us something about a russian squash that most farmers would not credit as being possible after being in the house for two winters now one of these ornamental squash was cut up and found to make good pie last week it was juicy and perfectly good said mr fretz who admitted that he never thought it would be fit to eat the body of the russian squash is yellow like our pumpkin but it produces a colorful crown that make it quite a fancy looking vegetable this particular squash lay under the kitchen lounge for a whole year and was up on a shelf the year before that yet it is considered that a squash normally is no use after the first winter turkey dinner marks anniversary farewell to couple on ro farm friends numbering over 90 gathered at the home of mr and mrs mac patterson on the 7th con cession of pickering near brougham to bid them farewell as they leave the frank rowbotham farm there where they have spent so many years they are moving down to the highway with john scott of claremont as chairman who also read the presen tation address the pattersons were given an aladdin lamp and a card table fred riddle and floyd white assisted in making the presentation for two long years elwood fisher of gormley has been a bed patient at the san gravenhurst but the ordeal hasnt lessened his loyality to his country and his desire to do his part accordingly he has donated a pair of beautiful doeskin gloves hand made to be sold for the telegram british war victims fund he en trusted the job and the details to the editor of the tribune who secured the help of the stouffville lions club each of some 15 members will sell ten tickets at 10c each this week and the draw will be made at the lions supper on march 24 if any gormley folk wish a ticket contact the tribune me watts at stiver bros or hugh bannerman stouffville five to a dollar store no one will begrude this fund 10c and who is there that does not ad mire the spirit of that gormley boy who though incapacitated to such an extent has endeavoured to do his part your 10c will enable him to realize his full goal cost of the tickets are donated for the sale every cent counts for the fund and someone is going to get a 350 pair of handmade gloves for 10c call for a ticket todai turkey dinners may be a rarity at this season and something to be had at highclass hotels only but for some people that is not the ex perience last saturday mir and mrs win timbers and mr and mrs john timbers enjoyed one of these repasts at the latters home on the 6th con cession of markham in honor of a dual wedding anniversary mr and mrs win timbers were celebrating their 25th and mr and mrs john timbers their 19th wedding day highly regarded by a wide circle of friends now the cat is out of the bag therell be plenty of congratu lations newscaster to speak at unionville uxbridge mother passes age fifty a native of palmerston mrs victor smith aged 50 years passed away on thursday at the toronto general hospital tho funeral to goodwood cemetery on sunday was from the late home on the 3rd con cession of uxbridge south of good wood the family had lived on the third for 12 years coming over from glasgow and prior to this they lived in toronto mrs smith is survived by her husband who has been work- kxgagemext mr and mrs lemon paisley wish to announce the engagement of their daughter luella edith to mr allan jlng in toronto this winter and by edward arthur johnson eldest son four sons edward ross william of mr and mrs merle c joflnson of and gordon a daughter greta and brampton rr the wedding to take four brothers mrs smith3 maiden leaves for home dr l s klinck of vancouver bc left for home on wednesday evening via the tca after spend ing about ten days in eastern can adn mr and mrs m clark of peter borough and imr and mrs r f klinck of victoria square together with the local members of the family enjoyed a happy weekend with their s7yearold mother on obrien ave the annual banquet of the york county holstein club is being held at agincourt this year on st patricks night monday march 17th and according to the directors there promises to bo a record crowd president roy barker of wood- bridge advises us that the committee has secured a guest speaker the popular radio commentator and newscaster john collingwood readej who will speak on democracy at war entertainment will be provided by a popular comedian of toronto playing to this group for the first time and north yorks own marie draper lyons as the speaker must be back to the studio well in advance principal c e watson told mem bers of the school board on monday evening that he was convinced this school did not obtain all the grants due us as a school last year and suggested that a checkup be made he referred to manual training and household science in particular chairman dr freel promises a swift investigation of the matter the question of fire insurance again came in for a long discussion by members of the board several improvements have been pointed out by the underwriters that would enable the board to obtain lower rates such as having the electric wiring inspected a v nolan moved that the hepc be asked to makel the necessary inspection at once we ought to have it inspected even k we did not receive any insurance benefits observed the mover later additional insurance may be added it is felt by many people that the school is far underinsured there is 40000 on the building and contents that could not be re placed short of double this amount at the lowest estimate salary of the clerk and treasurer was set at 125 payable in ten pay ments trustee macleod favored a salary of 100 but the larger amount was favored by trustees aldred turner stover and nolan they held that mr dougherty was paid 125 last year 100 salary and 25 honorarium and if imirdougher- ty ever returns he would be paid according to the motion now sub mitted he has been on the sick list since january 1st with w e smal- ley doing the work under village clerk george storey new pastor called from little britain the christian church congrega tions of what is known as the centre field have extended a call to bev gibson brown of little britain to become pastor of the ringwood bloomington and altona churches tho call has been accepted and mr brown will enter on his new duties on april 1st ending a 4-year- pastorate at little britain during the interval mr mclaughlin of toronto will supply until mr browns arrival rev mr brown a married man is not an entire stranger to his new congregations having preeched in all three churches on some occasion the pastorate has been without a minister since the resignation of mr coekburn last fall mrs allen closson laid to rest here after a long period of trying sick ness mrs allen clossen passed from her sufferings on monday of this week and was laid to rest this wed nesday afternoon in stouffville ceme tery public service was held later at the christian church where the de ceased had long been a member going to miami this winter proved to be of no benefit to mrs clossen and when it was realized that she could not survive her illness mr and mrs clossen returned home only a few weeks ago in their motor trailer she was in her 53rd year and was a daughter of robert winterstein besides ner husband and only son donald two brothers ross and joseph winterstein and her parents survive her mrs clossen was born in scott township near zephyr and was held as a very dear friend in a wide circle of acquaintances townships county taxes slightly down goodnight everybody broadcast the banquet is called for 615 stand ard or 715 daylight time in of his heather hall agincourt dr thos mitchell will address the congregation at baker hill baptist church sunday march 16th at 1030 oclock stouffville christian church enters looih year of service to the congregationalists belong jr institute meeting on thursday march 20 at 230 pm at home of mrs h klinck mrs v morris and m mertens in charge of the porgram place quietly in april i name was florence evelyn stevens whom sho endeared herself she married victor smith in 1910 and enjoyed many warm friends to tho honor of forming the first church organization in the village a fact brought to our attention because this present march tho church now the congregationalchristian body completes its 99th year hence a year from now it will be entitled to cele brate 100 years of organized church work it was on march i 99 years ago that rev ludwlg kribbs first graduate of the congregational college of british north america gathered his people together at the home of clans mertens west of tho village tho eight persons who were tho constituent members werol irev ludwlg kribbs hagar kribbs hallowed meirories claus mertens mrs elizabeth mer tens jemima mertens gerrard sebeck mrs hannah breuls mrs elizabeth white for five years ser vices were held in frame school which stood on the site of tho methodist church in 1847 the first church was built but the congregation grew so that in 1875 tho present church replaced tho smaller structure rev mr kribbs was both architect and builder no doubt that next year this im portant epoch in our local history will fittingly be observed in somo manner by the present congrega- whitchurch townships county taxes for 1941 are down about 1000 reeve toole pointed out at the monthly meeting on saturday when the county tax bill was re ceived this tax bill is issued much earlier in the year than the muni cipalities issue theirs to the tax pay er so that they may know amount to levy for county purposes as usual the whitchurch bill showed school taxes looming high high and con tinuation school costs alone run 7681 of the total taxes to be paid the county of 19157 when pubic school taxes are added to the secon dary school tax it would appear that almost half the taxes paid by farm ers are for school purposes the secondary school tax of 7681 is based on the number of pupils from the township taking high school work the townships share of tho county patriotic grant is only 465 when the question of renewing the road insurance guarding the township against court action for damages it was decided to make a change for somo time the a e wilson co hold the insurance but this year it was turned over to tho norwich union at a saving of 32 the premium is 160 members pointed out that tho company of past years scorned to bo a little small in tlon of this church still functioning their treatment of minor claims and in the old building with such refused some compensation that tho continued on page 8