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n w -xt- h- ft c leading weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twps volt 53 no 25 stouffville ont thursday november 5 1942 eight pages- electrician 17 years threatens to resign modern school for pickerings dil families never had a pay in crease at any time he tells council monday councillor a- v xolan told the municipal council on monday even ing that town electrician n w byer was about to hand in his resignation unless the council saw fit to advance his salary to 7500 per month mr byer is now draw ing 6000 for this part time job in favor of the electrician the councillor stated that mr byer said the electricians in markham ux bridge and other places were much bettor ipaid he was on call 24 hours the day and claimed that he had never failed to answerhny reason able demand one of the members said ho thought pir byers should resign and offered to make such a resolu tion i dont think that motion is necessary paid mr nolan if this council is unwilling to meet the demand of the electrician lie has intimated that lie will not carry on and will offer his resignation mr byer lias since placed his resignation m the hands of the committee on hydro to become effective one week from next satur day in the event the council do not take some steps to retain his ser vices this is unlikely nels byer has been town electrician for seven teen years he virtually grew up with the local system and has watch ed it grow from a service of 250 meters to nearly 500 meters this was one of the arguments made by mr byer for increased pay mr byer if he decides will find more lucra tive employment in the war plants where his technical knowledge will be valued dogs attack pltlze lambs for competition it was disclosed at markham council meeting on monday that muttoneating dogs had ravaged the sheep fold of mr william brodie west of stouffville causing some flock damage among his prize animals some of which would form apart of the prize car lot of lambs to be used for judging in connection with the chicago liive stock exposi tion the extent of the damage cannot easily bo estimated it was re vealed by the township valuator hugh boyd but he was hopeful that the fright through the flock be ing chased would not have any last ing effects markham sheep attacked by dogs the 200 bounty was ordered paid to three claimants who shot foxes in the township of markham when the council was in session at unionville on monday with reeve james rennie presiding those who received the two dollar 10111115 were messrs il chamhers f odell and l m milroy the yonge street railway which has been showing steady improve ment reported for the third quarter the sum of 1400 as markham townships share of the profits for the period william brodie visited the coun cil chambers and reported on three or four hunters who had disobeyed the no hunting signs placed around his property during the pheasant shoot council promised to report the matter to the game wardens for their next meeting with the reccommendatlon that the guilty ones be denied township lic ense in future in other words they will be placed on the black list relief for the last month totalled 0769 while the road pay roll totalled 123373 larger accounts going to make up the total included 3000 feet of snow fence costing 225 and hoover roberts 424 yards of gravel 57240 for selecting jurors the follow ing accounts was passed james rennle 590 r h forstcr 520 w craig 540 and charles hoover 500 a bylaw was passed for the sale of a lot opposite the jail farm at langstaff and acquired by the council through taxsalo to ethel blackburn for the sum of 125 council assembled at 2 oclock and adjourned for lunch to hold a short evening session the following monvhers were present deputy reeve charles hooper councillors w l clark harry burner and albert rcesor with iroeve rennie olldixatlox sbkvick today the ordination service for pastor norman rowan will be held in the second markham baptist church this thursday november 5 there will be two sessions beginning in the afternoon from 3 to 5 oclock and in the evening the service will commence at 7 oclock congregation marks fiftieth anniversary bloomington church fined for carrying guns in whitchurch finding them each giuilty of hav ing a gun in a locality where game is usually found contrary to sec tion 41 of the game and fisheries act magistrate woodliffe fined w hutchinson toronto 15 and costs of 225 or ten days and ir cassidy of toronto 10 and costs of 225 or ten days in newmarket police court last week according to percy pattenden 5tji concession whitchurch game warden on sunday oct 11 he had gone to the creek for a pail of water when he noticed two men get out of a car each with a rifle is this a game preserve asked the crown the witness replied that it was he went on to say that he saw mr cassidy discharge his gun once and mr hutchinson twice he said that the latter had gone into a bush and came out without the gun when he asked him for it he first said that he did not haveariy but later went back into the bush and got it avhon ho ask ed mr hutchinson for the gun the later refused to give it to him in his defence mr cassidy plead ed that he had taken three pot shots at crows and lhatmr hutch inson had not fired- his gun at all lie admitted dropping his gun into the weeds to hide it when he saw the warden in his defence mr hutchinson denied having shot his gun and said that he left it in the bush when he heard the game warden talking to mr cassidy to avoid trouble he said that he showed his sun to mr pattenden later and pointed out that its barrel was clean he denied cleaning it while in the bush foxes raid uxbridge turkey flocks 1 foxes have been making costly raids on the poultry flocks along the second of uxbridge and the men below is the list of prize win ners class 1 ed timbers floyd steckley norman jarvis gordon cain julian malton crown and finish e timbers class 2 b wylie woodville roy smith gormley irussel wat son woodbridge harold ncyers a featherstone clarcmont crown wylie finish smith class 3- jas lee creenoank bus line growing this week a fourth bus is being added to tho ajaxstouffville ser vice by e woodward to take care of the steady increased traffic between these two points the bus is arecently overhauled one and as it stood outside a tor onto station the other night it was stolen and found the next day un harmed several miles from toronto and west of yonge street markham moh declines to resign dr arthur hoare of markham village when asked by his muni cipal council to tender his resigna tion amoh on monday evening told the town fathers there that he would not give up the office until the end of 1942 when we will all go out together the moh and council have been at variance for some time and recently after council asked for his resignation and obtained the ap proval of the provincial dept of health to his dismissal dr hoare was reinstated until the end of this year however monday evening the council sought to shorten the term haines goodwood x steckley ringwood crown lee finish fer- giuson class 4 r livingstone wood- bridge d clubine woodbridge jack campbell churchill e jen nings king win holder manilla crown livingstone finish clubine class 5 a spang claremont w barry manilla crown and finish spang class 6 bruce timhors grant wells garnet irac crown timbers finish wells class 7 ivan mclaughlin cedar valley krnie evans maple a logan ringwood miurrny tim- bers stouffville g ilostrosser malton c mclaughlin f logan class s h pugh stourfville h henry campbellcroft allen wells lemonville murray mcmillan qiieensville geo timbers whit church crown and finish pugh class 9 robert timbers stou ffville david ratcliff melvin sed- ore keswick salada tea special for best land done with jointer plow f steckley allis chalmers special david ratcliff stouffville best team grooming and equipment winfred timbers stou ffville former markham official buried this fine new sroomed public 1 than iso pupils are enrolled they school in ontario entirely built and school just completed will serve are provided with free transportaf largely financed by the dominion the pupils in ajax at the southern ion for those coming anydistance government what will became of it end of pickering township more it is probably the only community after the war 1 prize winners at plowing match norman mcleod of gait and w l clark of gormley were the jud ges at the north york flowing mat ch held wednesday last week on i immediate neighborhood at least the farm of delos graham at ring- j twelve turkeys mostly hens have wood ideal weather conditions been killed and farmers are call- helped induce a good crowd to alt- ing for the township council to pay end despite very busy times on the j a bounty for foxes in an effort to farm ed timbers carried off the exterminate them ifrom the prize for best plowed land in the municipality match a prize he won here before one night last week foxes attack- stourfville senior institute proled the albert taylor farm in this vided the supper in rntcliffs hall neighborhood disturbing the house- in their usual efficient way and to hold before daylight with the noise the great satisfaction of the plow- 1 made by the turkeys mr taylor hurried to the barn but only at daylight could he see the damage the birds had scattered to the threes nevertheless three lovely big turkey hens had been killed two turkeys belonging to morgan degeer roosting with the taylor birds were also killed in a previous raid by foxes and at the degeer farm they killed a big gobbler also two weeks before that six nice pul lets disappeared so that the foxes rae- ferguson- -whitchurch- rrreliving on ghristmas fare right along i think it is time steps were taken to rid the district of these animals and the best thing to do is to pay a bounty for them said one farmer from the 2nd to the tribune this week las suuda much regret is felt throughout the ruttonville district on the passing of robert james cunningham whose death came as a result of a fall from an apple tree he died in the toronto east general hospital on thursday mr cunningham was in his s2nd year and was well known over the eastern side of markham township where he was a lifelong resident he was the son of robert cunning ham who came from scotland early in the last century taking up land on the hagerman sideroad near the 4 th concessionof markham the deceased whose life partner was euphemia daughter of nicholas hagerman another pioneer spent his early life farming but in his late years was employed as road foreman in markham township a position he held till august 1942 notwithstanding his groat age funeral service raas held at the home of his son harold near lang- staff and interment was made at hagerman- cemetery the pall bear ers were messrs george kelley tftriz aubrey stephenson douglas hood l tivort po tit ri j oi oi ule organ y the bloomington christian church celebrated its fiftieth anniversary when it was re called at the morning service that at the laying of the corner stone in july 1s92 the hon william mulock officiated also pastor c hainor elder w m percy and rev mr willougaby last sundays services marked the 109th anniversary of the founding of the church and the fiftieth year of the present church building the services were well attended both morning and evening and the pastor rev g w brown welcomed many old friends and former mem- the speaker in the morning was rev c e fockler of maple former member of the church and music was rendered by a choir of former members under the leader ship of mr john dougherty of stouffville in the evening the ser mon was preached by mr bramwell ireed toronto and music was contributed by the baker hill quar tette a historical sketch read in the morning by mr earl davis a deacon in the church reyealed- the following information on september 23 1s91 a mr elijah johnson offered to build the now house of worship provided the other members would agree to furnish the land and do all haul ing of materials and all- team work in connection with the building mr johnson was also to be allowed to use any suitable material from the old building in the new one at a business meeting in may 1s92 bros jacob fockler samuel hoover and jonathan baker were appointed a committee to go to newmarket to the registry office and search the records there in reference to the title of the land in question and that 5000 was to be paid down and the balance paid by note it was to be regretted that mr john son passed away in- july 1892 so was not spared to see the i edifice com pleted bfutitwas recordedthat hik ice johnson was the don- fred tennyson deputy reeve which was placed commend constable on his good work local breeders in common with those in the rest of the province report that there is a hnsk demand for any surplus dairy cattle that they have on hand for export to the united states a shipment of 32 head of federally listed holstoim has just been made to cs krb co mlddleton pa those con tributing animals included p c connon stouffvllli js i baptist pastor moved to ottawa five years pastor of the stouff ville baptist church rev d macgregor preached his farewell sermon last sunday evening many of his admirers outside his own congregation missed his final ora tion as the decision to accept the now charge offered him at ottawa left no time to make any newspaper announcement of his farewell the local congregation would liked to hare retained mr macgreg or who was persuaded to ask for his release from westboro baptist mr church ottawa with whom he had loan drive in north york lagging but victory assured if you havent invested in victory bonds until you feel the pinch you really havent done your share in this victory loan campaign have you all stouffville subscribed up to saturday night the sum of 43- 500 markham village 42s00 and richmond hill 30s00 markham township has passed the half way mark of 200000 to sub scribe so far 124650 and whit church has just gotten over the half way mark to invest 65000 notwithstanding north yorks failure the total objective for all canada reached 715205s00 by wednesday four days to go yot only a few items of routine busi ness were dealt with monday even ing when the council was in session reeve weldon presided and con gratulated the constable on his good work saturday evening in keeping the boys in line holding the hal loween damage to a minimum the reeve said he had driven north on sunday through uxbridge to lind say and every hamlet was decorat ed with buildings shoved ahout and old implements stouffville he said received the least mauling of them all councillor nolan said there should be more time spent on the pavement as the accumulation was unsightly councillor ratcliff rwas request ed to look after drainage on north church street in an effort to solve a water problem there councillor silverthorn promised there would be a little more gravel ling done to fill some of the holes on the roadways councillor hugh boyd was unavoidably absent oonstable rusnell told the coun cil that six out of seven summonses issued drew fines the latter part of october the constable was in court w baker andj the cilurch and whlcn a been sorrowing are two haal t ts l ft trustees of 1892 were jacob fock- langstaff and rcaf in england exgagkm kxis the engagement is announced of lois- marie youngest daughter of mrs hoover and the late louis w hoover of claremont to thomas kenneth walters son of mrs wal ters and the late john walters of toronto ontario the marriage will take place in westmoreland united church saturday november 14 at 3 oclock s mr and- mrs lemon clarke goodwood ontario wish to an nounce the engagement of their only daughter maud pauline to samuel david fockler bnlyson of mr and mrs milton fockler stouffville the marriage to take place november the 14th mr and mrs fred mortson an nounce the engagement of theii daughter blanche edna to willis taylor son of mr and mrs albert taylor stouffville marriage to take place the latter part of november dr s s ball has forsaken his medical practice for a few days to have a look over the deer hunting grounds up north myron anderson went along and the couple are in hopes of meeting up with at least one of those fleetfooted animals all speeders tho issue between council and town electrician is reported in an other item and concluded the busi- three times with cases ifrom here ness of the evening parents wait long year to hear that son is prisoner at hong kong eleven hunters from this dis trict will leave on monday for the parry sound district to make their headquarters while in search of deer at a place called rye near near south river despite its name jack silverthorn says it is really a dry place those in this party are herbert hlsey clare bolender fred allen leonard brilllnger reg stouffer elmer fockler john burnett walter piphcr william greenbury jack silverthorn and i engaged but it was not forthcoming walter tompkins uxbridge after one long anxious year mr and mrs ross harper of whit church received a message from ottawa on saturday announcing that their son allen harper was a prisoner of war in hong kong camp as revealed by the japanese through the geneva red cross allen harper has been missing since last christmas but hope for his safety was never abandoned- his mother who only recently sent a parcel to him in tho expectation that it would reach their son whom hey are now definitely assurred is alive and uninjured allen har per was the first of three brothers to join up from this sixth con cession home elmo with the ler jonn stapleton burnett and to these were added arthur stapleton and samuel hoover as the building committee the latter samuel hoover being the only sur viving member today the deacons were jacob fockler and arthur stapleton and in 1926 mr earl davis was appointed deacon in the place of arthur staple- ton deceased and likewise in 193s w a- fockler succeeded his father elder c h hainer served the church as pastor eleven con- secutive years each year adding new members to the church rev orland hathaway follcfwed elder hainer in 1909 then rev b a willougtiby then a group of students from mcmaster university rev c k duncan rev a t mercier and alex chisour who gave his life inj the first great war rev d vj vannorman was the next pastor and following him rev ie morton was- the next resident minister serving with him were rev llewellyon c fletcher olev stanley paisley and robert hamilton rev cocwbarn i icame next and today rev gibson- brown is the pastor of the chu another part of the church organ ization that has played a valiant- place in the worship services was the choir and in the choir last sun day morning were four anon who had lead the singing throughout the fifty years tlieirnamesin- order of their services were j s dougherty hilllard fockler robt johnson- and w a fockler organists throughout this same iperiod were as follows miss margaret stark jdeceasod mts bertie forsythe focklor mrs lou williams mrs estella davis wagg miss nora stapletonarid the pre- sent organist mrs w afockler the work of the sunday school organized in 1833 has been a real factor in the building up of the church- likewise the christian endeavor which was organized february 2 1892 and is still the training school for new converts who will be the leaders of the church in the future c lkavixg santa glaus ik the dark the customary cheery christmas tree that annually stands in front of the municipal hall will not be put up this year because of the wartime restrictions against christ mas trees merchants are forbidden to decorate their stores with trees ha are lighted and homes may not display trees in the yard but may light christmas trees in the house dont let your municipality down in going over the top buy more victory bonds this week