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oyer 5000 readers jhmfmie 3tei imite largest circulating weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twps copies this issue 1525 vol 53 so 40 stouffville ontario april 24th 1941 eight pages rev l e atkinson gets unanimous call from uxbridse rev l e atkinson of stouff- ville has accepted a call from the congregation of he uxbridge united church to become their pastor on and after july 1st next the call was made at a congre gational meeting held last sunday morning it was unanimously ex tended in the old days of method ism uxbridge was regarded as the top church in the district and the district chairman always resid ed there the big edifice in uxbridge built in 1sss by the late peter addison is one of the finest united churches outside of the larger cities and seats 1800 people it is the home of the widely known business mens bible class founded by its present leader mr t g gold over thirty years ago a successor has not yet been found to replace mr atkinson in stouffville who will leave a vacancy not easily filled at the congre gational meeting in january mr atkinson was invited to remain in stouffville for a sixth year but we have heard him say that after five years preacher and congregation are better for a change and so the in evitablo move is to be made another local- boy ix uniform sam anderson was in town for a short while over the week end in the uniform of a member of the royal canadian corps signallers sam who is a son of mr and mrs hugh anderson of stouffville was recently em ployed as an assistant lines man of the b s telephone co sells ranch farm oh 9th of ma mr hugh boyl has sold his 100 acre ranch farm on the 9th con cession of markham just south of stouffville to mr george rodanz who will operate the place in con- junction with his 950 acres at ringwood the 9 th concession pro perty is a famous ranch place well grassed and with plenty of water available in the running creek its proximity to the home acres at ringwood will enable ringwood farms limited under which mr rodanzs properties are consolidated to pasture any number of cattle all summer and late fall before moving them into stable the boyd farm originally belong ed to the mainland estate being bought by hugh boyd in 1913 just before the outbreak of the last war case dismissed in motor accident the charge against floyd forsyth arising out of an accident in stouff ville on march is when donna keeping 8 yearold daughter of leu keeping barber was injured by lmr forsyths car as she crossed the road in fronwif the school build ing was thrown out by magistrate keith in county court on monday the driver of the car was charged with careless driving and failure to return to the scene of an accident the bench scounted any attempt at failure to report the accident and dismissed the other charge of care less driving without calling the de fence to give evidence veteran campaigners fight for deputyreeve position in whitchurch over dozen local students prepare for farm work over a dozen students at the local high school are now available to help on farms according to principal l c murphy several have already secured positions for themselves while others will no doubt be placed as the spring work begins to break farmers who are interested in secur ing this help might communicate with the principal who will place some young war worker at their dis posal those who leave the school now have written their examinations and if successful they will have com pleted their academic year if not they will be required to write the departmental papers at a later date african missionaries a mbc church the missionary convention in the mbc church last weekend attract ed very good attendance especially on the sunday special speakers were missverna schade who had served in central africa and miss martha hood from the nigeria field m1ss schade daughter of a bap tist minister claims new dundee as her home town while miss hood conies from listowel both young ladies are forceful speakers and their interesting and instructive addresses wore hacked by lantern views taken on the far away fields american visitors rev f e and mrs hyde are in town for a tow days from their home at west milton ohio imr hyde was a popular preacher here a few years ago serving the congregational- christian church veterans of more than one elec tion campaign herman kidd and george leiry councillors of the township of whitchurch laid down the gauntlet monday afternoon when they both tendered their resig nation to the council in session to contest the vacancy for the chair of the deputy reeveship when both councillors offered their withdrawl in writing reeve earl toole said to the only council lor left i guess it is up to you and me mr wells to accept these resig nations which was done immediate ly and the meeting was over in a few minutes save for the passing of the nomination bylaw probably the shortest council session ever record ed in the township members with drew without any discussion it was the breaking up of a council that had been intact for five years and would be continuing today had it not been for the death of deputy reeve jesse cook reeve toole intimated that any member wishing to run for deputy reeve must resign at this time as he intended to issue his warrant so that the clerk could proceed with the nomination to fill any vacancies the nomination meeting will be held on monday april 2s from one to two pm and the election will be held one week later monday may 5th the polls will be open this time from 9 in the morning until s in the evening instead of closing at five as heretofore contrary to the usual nomination meeting in january this will be a purely formal affair with no public speaking after the nominations are closed at 2 oclock with george leary and herman kidd contesting the deputy reeve ship two vacancies on the council are to be filled the names of ed logan eugene baker harry rat- cliff and dan hall are prominently mentioned and all may stand another veteran called offering his services at the very outbreak of war george saunders care taker of the post office and veteran of the last war was order ed to report at monteih new on tario this week where a considerable force is on active service on guard duty township veterans earn 50 for war victim fund j a todd the arch bridge which caved in over a week ago on main street run ning across the street in front of imonkhouses tailor shop was built in 1902 when joe todd was our reeve members of the council that yen vivian native died in vancouver the death occurred at north van couver on monday morning april 22 of edith milliard widow of the late william edward card sr formerly of vivian the late mrs card is being brought to her native province for burial the remains will be resting at the funeral parlors of theaker sons lmount albert after the arrival of the saturday morning train april 26 until the funeral service on monday afternoon which will be followed by interment at st johns norway toronto bowlers executive to stand for 1941 a fair attendance of local bowlers turned out for the annual reorgan ization meeting on thursday even- vp i1viiiiivio j l iiiu ltiujhll tlull r were j a trull dr sangster aui tho sam list of officers d forsyth and richard underbill the bridge cost 950 band program interest is steadily growing on tuesday the fourteenth of fa monologue entitled the maid vpril tho stouffville junior band ntertained the troops in training at sewmarket soloists for the hand vere master earl lehman and mas r george wilkinson who were very ell received feature artist on the programme is miss patricia bailey who has ust returned from hollywood where he was guest artist on al pierces rogiamme miss bailey is a pupil of iandmaster ridleys master clair losmer also made a great impression n the troops singing and dancing rish eyes are smiling mr bob ogue song some fine old irish songs nil miss lean innes sang a group of ar songs especially arranged for her y mr ridley who was at the piano ilss dproth suzanne dodgson gave turnout is expected reverend harry s dodgson acted as master of ceremonies and did a wonderful job it is seldom that one meets a member of the cloth who is able to relax and enter into the spirit of things as mr dodgson does his work in leading the soldiers in alouette and old french canadian folk song was a work of art on sunday the twentieth the band played well for the services in st enochs united church toronto where rev dodgson is minister and bandmaster ridley is organist and cholrleader on sunday the twenty seventh tho band is giving a concert in the stanley theatre stouffville many new numbers will be performed by the band at this concert and a largo carried last year were unanimously returned for another season they are hon pies blake sanders pres a h williams vice pres ross ratcliff secytreas thomas rae grounds comni messrs m e watts jas itatclift ira aldrcd games committee robert johnston m e watts and fred marshall membership coram f l button jas ratclirf it was decided to charge a fee of 4 this year in an effort to clear the club of some of its financial burdens outsiders and beginners will pay 300 despite the fact that a num ber of large repair bills cut into last years funds the club showed a slight balance on the current fin ancial sheet and it is hoped that with these expenses over and the increase of 100 in the fee better financial progress can be made george saunders was engaged as caretaker at the usual salary of 150 the markham township veterans held a euchre and draw in the town ship hall on thursday evening which was well attended the prize winners for the euchre were ladies mrs hunt miss olive martin miss e empringham mrs w boyington men r lowrie r briliinger w summerfelt l couperthwaite for the draw the lucky winners were o mcquay l middleton mrs duftield mrs h smith charles maynard mrs grant and mrs r briliinger a handsome cushion donated by mrs w latimer was auctioned off and helped consider ably with the net proceeds of the evening which amounted to 5000 this was donated to the telegram war victims fund i this euchre brought to a close the course of the veterans activities for the season of 194041 for ten years they have held a series of euchres each fall and winter to provide funds to be used for the benefit of the veterans families each year at the christmas season a fine entertain ment was arranged with pictures etc and a large tree containing gifts for each and everyone of the children was provided causing much enjoy ment every summer a picnic and field day is held with games and races for everybody during the season just closed the veterans have put forth every effort to help with- patriotic work and the sum of 44010 was realised which was spent as follows welfare assistance coal clothing etc red cross markham twp branch war savings stamps british war victims fund one war bond cost of euchres prizes christmas concert etc cash on hand to be used for picnic imaking a total expenditure of 44010 the veterans have proved them selves a power of good in this com munity in a social way their euchres bringing people for many miles to enjoy their hospitality and spend evening of friendly good fellowship beating the stork not far north of the mark- hamwhitchurch townline early monday morning stood a prattling farm tractor just beyond a bad bog hole with draw chain poised ready for action of some kind if one could have watched the event there would have been seen a car looming up in high speed with dr hore of markham aboard once at the bottomless hole the tractor went into action and hauled the car through the mire so that the physician reached the farm home two minutes ahead of the stork to the delight of a rather worried household going on act service g r covey one of is dental graduates univer sity of toronto who have signed up with the canadian army dental corps ho is a grandson of mr and imrs william morley 6th concession whitchurch strange nvo in oxi we cannot explain or imagine how it could have happened but a trap set on ratcliffs pond west of town in the hope of catching musk- rats actually trapped a weasel and a mouse at the one spring the farmers son brought in the trap to enquire what strange things he had caught and there hung the weasel and the mouse how the trap could have sprung on them at the same instance is a puzzler but it really did the theory is advanced that the weasel was chasing the mouse when they were both trapped stouffville stands high in war service campaign summary most north york municipalities have far exceeded expectations in contributions to the war services campaign stouffville topped the villages and gave more per capita than aurora final figures from the following centres available show amounts raised as follows stouff ville 1200 sutton village 3s4 mount albert 290 aurora 1s9s richmond hill 1100 holland landing and district 350 other municipalities not yet completed all report a favorable figure new market which set a quota of 4500 had gone over 90 per cent of the way chairmen- in the various divisions include newmarket f h hewson aurora b e hambley richmond hill reeve thomas trench sutton john crozier schomberg e g lloyd sharon and district w stevens pefferlaw and georgina mis r h corner holland landing g d thompson markham reeve o h reise mount albert j a til- ley stouffville j borinsky chair man m e watts treasurer uuion- ville ewqrt stiver kettleby ed williams keswick n r sliortreed king victor hall woodbridge a kearney labor shortage forces dairy stock sale this week there will be issued a public auction sale bill offering for sale the fine herd of jersey cattle belonging to mr bert silverthorn on tho 10th concession of markham due to the inability of the owner to carry on with the present farm labor shortage mr silverthorn has some 21 head of registered and grade cows in pink of condition chosen for their high- producing qualities and every last one is going without reserve accord ing to the owner the milking machine will also be sold sale day is friday may 2nd at 130 standard time 45 00 35 00 40 00 100 00 100 00 100 00 20 10 young max passes clarence pattenden son of alfred pattenden of vandorf died in new market on tuesday in his 31st year his death comes as a great shock to a wide circle of friends for some years he was employed by dr wes ley of newmarket he leaves a wife but no family the funeral on wed nesday was to queensville cemetery daughter of former farmer dead made amazing display ratcliffs hall fairly bulged with the amazing display of goods made by the stouffville war branch placed on display tuesday afternoon just before being packed for shipment many people called to admire the work and enjoy afternoon tea prominent citizen deaj prominent citizen of uxbridge walter s lapp is dead in his 81st year he was a native of scott town ship but for many years lived in uxbridge and conducted a feed store purebred jerseys for local farm new barn started a large new structure was com menced this week on the farm of arthur lapp cedar grove to re place the barn destroyed by fire last fall g l williamson is the con tractor and n bunker is in charge of the masonry reuben pearce sons stouffville 10th con markham have pur chased several pure bred jersey cows from bokar farms whitby ontario from glen alden jersey farm markham they have purchased the wellknown show bull brampton forward scorcher whose offspring have won many prizes at the can adian national exhibition and local fairs scorcher has several daugh ters on test that are making splen did records mrs s b hoover arrived home from east orange nj where she spent the winter with her daughter and may we say it appears to have agreed with her the passing of mary rengol in toronto on friday recalls the death of her father the late henry rengel who was killed by lightning on the farm of henry hoover a good many years ago at that time the family lived on the sixth concession of markham but mary later as a child went to bethesda to live with the late mr and mrs david pretty where sho became their adopted daughter deceased was in her 60th year and was burled from toronto on monday rev a c hill of earls- court united church conducting the service mr and mrs lou brllllngor of bethesda were in attendance from here miss rongel is survived by one brother jacob while a sister mrs charlie dennle victoria square pre deceased her constable demands a showdown with council removed to hospital miss violet hoover obrien ave was removed in ambulance to the womens college hospital toronto on tuesday where she may undergo an operation births wage at stouffville on april 10 1941 to mr and mrs roy wagg a daughter mcrelyn imabel wilson to mr and 5irs roy wil son clarcmont rr 2 on mon day april 21 1941 a son town constable al greenwood has made a formal request to the reeve for a meeting of council when he is prepared to stand or fall on a sort of want of confidence vote the limb of the law feels that such a show down is due and wants immediate action the flare came about when coun cillor ira irnsnell charged the con stable with giving unfair testimony or something of the sort down in court last monday and mr green wood deeply resented the attitude of the councillor which he feels tends to obstruct his official duties just what stand council will take has not been decided but a state ment will he forthcoming from the reeve after he has investigated the complaint of his councillor councillor rusnells complaint came after the court had dismissed a charge against floyd forsyth of fall ing to report an accident whereas in court the constable had admitted that forsyth had driven to his storo after the accident heajid district rrbsident tmrs maynard district president paid an official visit to the stouffville womens institute last week when she delivered an effective and stir ring address on democracy mrs e j davey reported on the recent convention in toronto and aftor the program was concluded the members enjoyed a social time the affair was held at the home of mrs goorge lee sunday evening band c next sunday evening april 27 the junior band will render another of their popular sacred programs in tho stanley theatre beginning at s15 people from town and district aro urged to join in this service there will be special solo duet and quartette numbers no admission charge but a collection will be lift ed in aid of the band