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page two stouffville ontario thursday march 27th 1941 established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association issued every thursday at stouffville ontario eight to ten pages average circulation 1400 subscription rates per year in advance in canada 200 in usa 9250 a v nolan jp editor and publisher editorial comment dog owners must register the village clerk in cannington published a warning last week to the effect that all clog harbourers or owners who fail to come forward and register their animal and procure a tag will be summoned to court by april 1st this would be a good warning to issue by any municipality and it would save a lot of trouble with delinquent dog owners ontario appreciates provincial stand with a twelve million six hundred thousand surplus no new taxes and the one mill subsidy continued to municip alities the hepburn government is deserving of some praise the order of the day is more and more taxes but the ontario lads at queens park have given us something to be thankful for it would have been an easy matter to call for new taxation under the guise of war effort the hepburn government has taken the stand that the best way to help is to make things easier continuing the ser vices they are rendering this province with no increased taxation preaching for a call richmond hill like stouffville has a congregation engaged in the task of selecting a minister only the hill has two congregations engaged in the task both the united and presbyterian editor jack smith thinks it must be a pretty hard task for the minister must feel that all eyes are on him the way he slicks his hair his dress smile and even his family are checked up it doesnt sound very professional to have congregations engaged in the task of selecting a minister only the higher authority has decreed that it shall be so for they are oppos ed to a stated pastorate largely because the big fellow with the saso wants to stick to the city where liberal salaries are paid and he refuses to listen to the common demand of congregations everywhere weekly paper needs your assistance in a recent address at sherbrooke a well known eastern editor pointed out some interesting facts in the relation ship of the local paper to its readers and its community it has always been difficult to get the public to understand that the organization of a local paper is suciy as to encour age much freer type of intimacy with its readers than is possible on the more detached city papers remarks the huntsville forester in other words our contemporary says the local editor in his weekly survey of the happenings of his locality relies to a large extent upon the contact he has with his readers whose interest even though not wholly active has a noteworthy influence upon the character of the weekly issue and the extent of its news coverage readers can with very little effort observes the colling- wood bulletin materially help in the gathering of the weeks happenings for recording in their local paper with no or ganized news gathering staff the editor welcomes a phone call telling of this or that happening in the community which might be otherwise overlooked gravel wasteful without binder in seven years the county of ontario has built thirty miles of bituminous roads with county funds three miles of which is located in towns and villages built by county rebates this is the interesting information contained in the engineers annual report on county and oshawa sub urban roads in the county of ontario 1940 issued by j kean county engineer and road superintendent the observation made by the engineer is contained in a comment on the progress made in the construction of re tread or mulch roads on the county roads and connecting links in urban municipalities the first retread construction was built in 1934 and in the seven years following there has been built the 30 miles of bituminous roads the deterioration of gravel materials when used for road surfaces without a binder is so evident and wasteful that even the most skeptical must admit that bituminous retread or mulch is a good example of the con servation of materials paid for as built no debenture issue which also boosts their popularity says the report mr kean expresses the opinion that the construction of bituminous surface roads should not be neglected six months credit not for several years has there been an auction sale in these parts with the terms reading six months credit until last week a bill printed at dundalk and posted in the tribune office for a sale to be held at zephyr was seen farmers were startled to read the old familiar conditions of sale and they fairly smiled in this hub of the auction sale district with auctions advertised every day in march all sales are for cash only no discount allowed either and the strange thing is that they sell just as well as when credit terms were allowed five years ago local banks carried a hundred thousand dollars in sale notes on which farmers were paying inter est since the days of cash sales the farmers are relieved from this burden of debt and they are better for it one of the main reasons for the cash terms was the diffi culty in telling the farmers standing before the depres sion every farmer had financial rating but after the de pression men who were formerly taken as good risk were poor risk and the banks could scarcely guarantee anyones ability to pay cash terms started in afaultering way with credit to those who purchaseda large bill of goods soon this too was discarded for spot cash on all accounts and we expect it will now continue to be the order at a future sales at one auction last week in markham township buyers purchased a machine at 632 and another at over 300 both whipped out the cash so why have credit terms overseas mail letter received by mr wm green- bury of stouffville from the george kiloh family former residents of this town now living in scotland 5 55 urquhart rd aberdeen dear brother and all well it seems a long time since i have heard from you the boys got a letter the other day from fred pugh and they were sure pleased to get it we are all fine here aud have survived so far only one airraid last week we have been issued our ear plugs well the sun has just gone again but i am not stopping this letter for hitler george has received word to go into munitions one week we had to go to a shelter every night and one night we just got upstairs and had to go back a bomb fell one night as near as winns farm is to you and george was knocked on his face he said he felt the hotair from it and the floor seemed to rise and fall the children are saving bomb splinters for you we have received several tribunes but a lot of the mail has gone down in the sea we are certainly having very cold weather and plenty of snow it is terribly damp just last thursday night george said come on for a walk but we were only out of the house five min utes when a plane came over and let go his load and what damage it did i saw the flashes and turned and ran home though my legs could scarcely carry me they are still digging for the bodies what a worry it is they are warn ing us of the invasion what a loss of life and the booming how i dread it it seems every time i have started this letter the siren has gone george is in the ajrjp and lias to run when the siren goes to his post must get this to the post now was in plymouth raid fresh from a visit to the victori ous australian shock troops in libya r g menzies prime minister of australia smiled as he arrived in london after a 21000mile trip by air he was conferring with british officials on the prosecution of the war only last week he was in ply mouth when the germans loosed thousands of bombs on the city below is a communication receiv ed by mrs les wilson of stouffville from relatives in england written only a few weeks ago in part the letter reads this is the first sunday i have had at home for six months in fact the third free evening in all that period you can imagine it has been pretty hectic over here i know you must always be wondering how we are when you listen to the wireless and hear how the jerry fiends are trying to fetch us under their heel the fact is we are so well looked after by our royal air force and others of the service that altough german air visits are often and per sistent they cannot make so much mess of us or do such damage as they would wish i do not mean to say that we always escape queens rd has been well hit on two occas ions here where we live but thank goodness here at no 4 4 we have a sound roofand so far the two occu pants are still safe and sound you cant imagine what it is to live in the actual battle front as we are repeated sirens gunfire both day and night and when the jerry brings his load and drops them it maktes one get jittery wondeving what will happen next but against that repitition makes one treat it with some contempt especially when visits are often and nothing happens all i hope is that the frequency of the raf over germany and fiance will so let them see that it takes more than murder of women and children to pull the teeth of the british bulldog we cannot say how- proud we are in england of you im perialists in the colonies and also of the people of the united states we frequently see your lads in kaki and sailor bops i willingly raise my hat to them and indeed extremely grateful for having come to aid the old country thank goodness we have such fine chips off the old block so courageous and anxious to play their part on tuesday last i completed 26 years in the force of the special constabulary here at gosport and am proud that the chief constable has recognized my service i am al so as i think i told you chairman of the committee arranging the air raid precautions in the borough so you see i have plenty to engage my leisure time when i have such a thing grave digging up in the village of tata bruce county will now cost 7 instead of 6 as heretofore of course you can escape this by stay ing alive in days of yore caxajdlvx oil industry the canadian oil industry repre sented mainly by the province of alberta is beginning to assume pro portions of one of canadas major industries the industry entered 1941 with production at a rate never before equalled at the start of any previous year the turner valley crude oil field only came into being four and a half years ago succeeding some 30 years when mainly naptha productions was taken but has shown a phenom enal record out of 150 wells drilled some 140 have come into commer cial production and of the balance some are gas producers which in a few cases have produced consider able quantities of crude in the early stages before it was necessary to class them as gas wells in 1940 36 wells were drilled and 36 came into pro duction the increased development of crude oil in canada comes at a very opportune time as this country normally imports around 55000000 of gasoline and oil annually and anything that will tend to make canada selfsustaining and thereby reducing the strain on our foreign exchange contributes greatly to the war effort old country firms face paper shortage below is an interesting verse which appeared in a current issue of an old country newspaper the scarborough mercury though times are far from good we know on paper theres a ban but since were british to the core well do the best we can in spite of all well carry on well keep a cheerful grin- no matter what the days may bring well stick it- till we win dennis sons printing house bundles for britain is an or ganization in united states with 700 branches and 650000 members it gives real meaning to that old phrase about hands across the sea farmers kick horses snort as scien us it is not any wonder that farmers have a kick coming while the ou farm team fairly snort and sweat at conditions as they stand at this de lightful spring season to leave the home acres and reach the village with even half a load of grist re quires the resources of something more than science has evolved lor the job what with snow banks to surmount and finally dust roads to pass over the farmer is rudely re minded that good sleighing like true love never runs smooth leaving the stables it requires some manouvering to surmount the depths of snow before reaching the end of the lane then the sideroad might be expected to provide just the right kind of slipping to permit a bit of smooth going that delights man and team however when they reach the highway roads are bare dust is flying and so are the auto mobiles its bad enough to be left behind in the lurch as it were with a buggy as the cars race by but to be stranded with the sweating team broken harness strained beyond its ability and a load of chop or some thing is enough to exasperate m job of bible days this experience ha3 been common around stouffville for ten days and theres no denying it seems as though science hadnt kept abreast of the farmers need is this matter for what it wanted ac cording to one tiller of the soil is a vehicle that could be quickly con verted from wheels to runners fcy means of a leaver so that whatever is needed be it runners or wheels it would be available at the proper moment down but not out not even a four goal deficit conld dampen the ardour of parry sound junior hockey fans who arrived in markham for last weeks game 308 strong by special train and thf wasnt all they brought along the town bugle band too the evening crowd of 1300 was a record for markham arena business directory a c kennedy chiropractor church street stouffville monday wednesday fridays 9 to 12 am medical dr s s ball physician and surgeon xray office cor obrien and main phone 196 coroner for york county insurance see h o klinck obrien avenue for your insurance needs in fire life automobile burglar and all casualty lines thomas bffikett general insurance agency representing reliable companies including lloyds of london england- phone stouffville 25902 dental from the stouffville free press nov 0 1800 the congregational church have engaged j w bengough canadas great cartoonist to give one ot his popular programs in daleys hall on nov 24th miss a brown who has been a teacher in our public school for a number of years has resigned the many friends of mr allan guthrie will be pleased to learn that he is around again after a severo attack of typhoid fever mr r j daley has a large staff of workmen engaged this week get ting his mammoth skating ring in shape for the coming season miss blanche obrien is visiting her brotherinlaw mr a stouffer at newmarket this week the jessie alexander entertainers were in daleys hall on friday even ing mr jacob burkholder has return ed after a three months sojourn in chicago and other places mr john monkhouse tailor has opened up for business again in mrs f wilsons block on the south side main street a syndicate composed of mnrk- ham and scarboro farmers have pur chased from messrs graham bros claremont the wellknown trotting stallion vrowsky for the sum of 2800 dr smith dentist has lately re turned from chicago where he took a postgraduate course mr charlie urquhart who has been relieving at the colbourne branch of the standard bank for the past few months was home over fri day beforo going to brussels on saturday afternoon last while mr and mrs john g martin the popular host and hostess of the queens hotel were driving along returning from goodwood their horse became frightened at a big dog and jumped into the opposite ditch upsetting the buggy and throwing the occupants out from the stouffville tribune january 7 1004 the gtr water tank froze here for the first time on monday rev geo washington ma of lomonville will preach in the meth odist church here on sunday smir j w shankel spent the holi day at lockport and was accompan ied homo by mrs shankel who has been visiting friends there for a few weeks mr geo dixon of toronto spent new years at the old home mr frank davis of toronto visit ed at home over the holiday last thursday night claremont juniors came hero to try conclus ions with the stouffville swifts and won by a score of 31 monday morning was the coldest in six the dawn was clear while the mercury hovered around 24 only 10 times in the last thirty years has it been colder not in 35 years have we had such a persis tent and cold season at the election here on monday the following was the result for reeve r underhill iso j b wurts 95 for council w a sangster 201 j c bundy 184 c armstrong 173 r p coulson 169 h widdiflcld 114 therefore the council for 1904 are reeve underhill and councill ors armstrong bundy sangster and coulson the good roads bylaw was defeated by a majority of 75 e s barker lds dds honor graduate of royal college of dental surgeons and of the university of toronto office in grublns block phone 8201 markham every tuesday office in wear block a c burkholder insurance canada life assurance oj -ajso- automobile and fire dr j f weatherill office over bank of commerce office hours 9 to 12 noon and 130 to 530 pm phone office phone residence 180 18002 claremont every tuesday office over bakers store phone claremont 1401 brierbush hospital government licensed main street east stouffville maternity medical and surgical cases taken ambulance service registered nurses and 24 hour service mrs e r good phone 191 harry m spang representative mutual life insurance co also mutual automobile insurance telephone 6616 stouffville ontario barristers office phone 3160 residence phone 3511 arthur w s greer barrister solicitor notary publfc 6 king street east oshawa ontario resident partner branch office wcpollardkc port perry uxbrldge ontario phone 2s r g clendening funeral director ambulance service l e oneill stouffville funeral director anu embalmer continuous telephone service day and night business phone residence phone stouffville marble granite works phone markham 9000 orders promptly executed p tarr proprietor phone 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