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mtfbvwt leadins weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twps vol 54 no 5 stouffville ont thursday june 3rd 1943 bight pages public school teachers get sal inc the school board held a special session on monday evening and ad vanced the teaching staff of the pub lic school from 1000 to 1100 for assistant teachers and increased the principal by a similar sum from 1500 to 1600 the increases granted amount to a little less than a mill on the tax rate nazis still shackle two local boys prisoners of war since the dieppe adventure bruce limner son of mr and mrs edw lintner and fred castle son of mr and mrs john castle are still wearing german shackles according to a letter re ceived by mrs castle which was written in a german prison camp about the middle of march fred said it was one of the happi est days of his life at time of writ ing since he jiad received his first parcel ironi home since he was a guest of mr hitler a liberal supply of cigarettes more than he ever possessed at any one time in his life before had reached him as well as other good things from home fred reports that he is receiving ample clothing from the canadian red cross but appreciates eats from home regarding the shackleing he says that he js wearing hitlers bracelets nine hours a day but there is a play of nine inches in the chain so he is not worried about the ordeal blackmarket in sugar said operating in this locality elephant sale interesting event the white elephant sale under auspices of the stouffville lions on tuesday evening drjew a great crowd of people the donated goods were sold by auctioneer a s farmer in front of the fire hall and realized within a lew cents of 80 it was the greatest exchange of goods one could recall taking place in a long time people rummaged the attic and the family trunk for things they didnt need but might be useful to some one else and then donated them to the lions to be sold by auction tbe proceeds will be used for cadet expenses there is evidence that a black market in sugar is operating in the local district and some of the farm ers are incensed at the very idea said one of our farm residents to us the othar day i was offered a bag of sugar for 15 but i de clined the farmer is annoyed to know that he is cut down to ten pounds for canning purposes which he says will mean they wont be able to pre serve more than half the fruit they normally put down since they are unable to market their fruit it will go to waste xotwithstanding the need for sugar this family just couldnt bring themselves to stoop to the buying of sugar in an illegal way and so advised their wouldbe bene factor the thing is being carried on in a stealthy manner the farmer wasnt told who the sugar would be sup plied by but merely received the in timation that if he wished the accommodation and would pay the price he would tell the farmer what steps to take to get the sugar the government is aware of this situation and is doing all possible it says to hunt for the illegal per petrators of the black market which has extended to almost everything that is being rationed we were in formed the other day by a toronto man that he had been approached to procure a beer permit for which he would have no use as he didnt drink beer but his informant promised to exchange it for a gaso line permit with the country ram pant with disloyalty on the part of so many it is a wonder we make the progress we do toward winning the war tribune news spans th ocea when the tribune reported in the middle of april last that fred pike 10th concession farmer living just north of no 7 highway had com pleted the sowing of 10 acres of oats on che 12th of april the keen eye of andy clark picked up the morsel he gave it over neighborly news on his sunday morning broadcast now away over in england there sat a chap by the name of bill easy who was listening in on short wave and did he prick up his ears when he heard about those oats well ima gine his interest since 25 years be fore he was here in canada and actu ally worked on the pike farm like the prodigal son mr easy sat right down and wrote home something he had neglected to do for years but he never had forgotten his old em ployer the whole story serves to indicate how news in your home town paper fairly circles the globe in a manner some people would never believe old resident of altona is dead mr john scott of claremont re ceived a telegram on wednesday morning announcing the death of mrs benj palmer who passen away at her home in vancouver on tues day in her ssth year she was a con stant reader of the tribune and through the weekly paper followed closely the events of each week in the old home district of altona where she spent her early life mrs palmer is survived by one sister miss mary jones and by two brothers abijah and rolph jones all of altona abijah is a patient at the brierbush hospital in town also surviving are two sons hewston and rolph palmer and by two daughters misses sarah and mary all in wes tern canada the daughters and mother lived together the funeral is being held this thursday afternoon and interment will be made in vancouver cemetery where mrs palmer wlflilnd her final resting place beside her late hus band who was laid away there a few years ago local businesses show affe of w owing to the gasoline restrictions mr truman eagleson is closing his music studio in the button block and will discontinue his weekly visits to stouffville which he has main tained continuously for some fifteen years the town lso lost the services of their band leader and united church choir leader mr a ridley all of which reminds us that the commun ity is out to suffer from the regula tions created by the war the gas regulation has put these men out of our reachwhile another regulation which forbids a new busi ness starting is causing vacancies along the main street and there may be others and more serious ones to follow the facts present a rather gloomy outlook for a thriving business town where the merchants are credited with being well to do and enjoy a wide patronage creamery personnel 25th anniversary irs j o totten is in town visit ing her mother mrs s m warriner mr totten is attending the hamilton united church conference in session ifblis week at least 50 years ago a company of men banded together in stouff ville to establish a creamery and mr seneca baker who is still with us although over 90 was the first pre sident the concern built the pre sent stouffville creamery co main building and their first output of hutter found a market in england half a century ago the rank and file of people preferred farmers made butter and a creamery had to go far afield to find a market this week the stouffville cream ery co marks its 25 th anniversary under present management it was back in 1918 when the late isaac borinsky purchased the plant and equipment which at the time was actually closed up by perseverance and thrift he built up an increased patronage and steadily improved the plant at the same time later his son joseph came into partnership with the father and he is today the guiding light of the thriving creamery concern modern churning machinery and appliances with competent help holds the stouff ville butter among the best makes and the demand for this butter is far greater than the supply which is curtailed only by the ability of the company to buy cream more and more cream is the constant call stouffville creamery is a real asset to stouffville it brings many farm ers to the village weekly and it gives employment to a numiber of menthe year round the concern is one of our biggest customers for both water and light we congratulate the company its management and its threel chicken charlie brown on the 10th con cession of markham has a leg horn chick that embibed the in- stints of the automobile world since it carries a spare the bird was hatched with a third or spare leg to its frame near the stern end but makes use of its normal two legs for getting around and doing the scratching that chicks soon believe it is necessary to do since the freak chick is over a week old mr brown has expectation that some day somebody is going to be able to serve three legs from the platter where only one frame is to be carved one of bluest residents gives up home mrs lemon baker west end stouffville is giving up housekeep ing and no other explanation need be offered other than that mrsbaker is in her 87th year even after she was eighty mrs baker delighted to do her own work entertaining many friends it never flustered her to prepare for 15 or 20- guests on spe cial occasions for some time now mrs baker has been living with her nephew floyd ratcliff and intends to remain there so that she is calling an auction sale for friday of next week when the en tire household goods in her west end home will be sold by auction the house will then be for rent nurse becomes patient miss jean pipher daughter of mr and mrs cliff pipher underwent an operation for appendicitis at the oshawa hospital at which institu tion she is a nurse in training fav orable report on her condition comes in the latest word received by the parents lions hear oi rubber development jjlion don chadwick of the stouff- viile works address ed the stouffville lions club at their supper meeting on monday evening he told them about rubber the na tural product and the synthetic and he produced samples of the raw ma terial and the different synthetics involved to meet the war demands in fact every kind of rubber ex cepting rubber necks was explain ed by mr chadwick whose engineer ing knowledge gives him a deep in sight on the development and manu facture of rubber the whole talk and the samples displayed proved instructive and entertaining and the members are going to ihave a greater respect for the great rubber com panies because of their accomplish ments not only during tie war but before war days in bringing the manufactured rubber to the service of mankind as they have done lived 90 years on tenth st jos mcmullen laid to rest windbreaker made here se un sea a windbreaker made by miss janet brodie is doing service witn a member of a submarine crew the maker has been informed through a letter received from overseas and reading as follows dear miss brodie i expect you will wonder just who i am and why im writing this let ter its to say thank you for a very welcome addition to my kit s monday after to have been born and raised and to have lived for more than 91 years within a few rods of where he began his long life is the record made by joseph mcmullen who died at his late home on tenth street on satur day may 29 1943 he had passed his 91st birthday three weeks ago when a great grandson was born ibaby of mr and mrs joe mcmul len the fact was recorded that both the eldest and youngest resident of stouffville was a mcmullen mr mcmullen was laid to rest in which was presented to me when all our crew were given a similar gar ment at in the orkney islands it was a windbreaker made un doubtedly by yourself bearing the maple leaf and also your address it was a trifle oversize but in a brief spell atjiome i soon had it slightly reduced in girth i might add its a fine thing to keep a person warm and easily the finest garment issued to our crew once again let me say thank you maybe you know its none too warm in a submarine and warm clothes and hard wearing ones at that are necessary your effort cer tainly fills all requirements i should add i received this gift in september last year but have not had an oppor tunity to write this before we have been so very busy doing our part of the job in winning the war taking care of axis ships that do venture to put to sea what do you think of the news from over here now i hope you find it quite cheering and rest assured the countrymen of yours are doing fine so i will close now with a final word of thanks to you and your society the very best of health happiness and may you have peace again soon avorkmax injured injured while working at the re servoir property for the village of stouffville last week john castle was removed to the general hospital believed to be suffering from broken ribs or possible spinal injury mr castle was injured when one leg of a tripod used for lifting broke al lowing the weight of a heavy pipe to fall on him to take obrien home avenue employees on this the 25th anniver sary occasion it is reported on good authority that mr chas atkinson is buying the jos hoover home on obrien avenue stouffville if the sale is completed it will mean that mr and mrs atkinson will move to town in which case they will be more than welcome scene at the planting of 5000 trees at reservoir property 100 acres without man farme in ho well known farmer just east of town ross kester was removed to the toronto general hospital on friday for observation to ascertain what his trouble was sinco he had been very ill and some inward deve lopment was fcaed the 100 acre kester farm known as the old freel place was without a man on it monday morning as a result of the misfortune that over came the owner but good neighbors are doing what they can to got in the seeding thot is so long retarded on monday mrs kester informed the tribune that the tremble had not yet been diagnosed mr and mrs testers only son lome is overseas and their only daughter lois is at tending mcmastor university noon the service being in charge of rev h shantz of the mbc church the pall bearers were all grandsons josimcmullen was the eldest child born to william mcmullen and his wife jane scott the father being the second generation on the then mcmullen farm just below the vill age on the 10th concession west side joe was one of a family of seven the surviving sisters and bro thers being jane frampton of nee- pawa western canada malinda snodden toronto miss martha mc mullen and henry of stouffville two brothers sinclair and william pre deceased joe after his marriage to margaret pipher of uxbridge township 60 or more years ago the population was mostly on 10th street and it was be lieved tenth street would be ithe main business thoroughfare but the coming of the railway altered all that joe mcmullen attended school in a frame building that stood west of the present school and which is now part of the play grounds he may have started school on church street since he was 11 when it closed there in about 1s62 he recalled the old tannery operating on tenth st but it closed when he was a small boy he was a young man around 21 when he heard the first train whistle in stouffville it was a thril ler and everybody was down to see the passenger go through they called it the nippissing narrow gage joe was in great demand as a thresher for years but later years helped his son jacob on the farm then he worked a large garden and certainly knew how to grow good crops of vegetables even when he was 90 years old he is survived byhis life partner who waited on him during his final illness despite her own advancing years and by two sons jacob and theopholus another son robert died not so long ago in toronto joseph mcmullen recalled only a couple of weeks ago to the reporter that he well remembered the obrien avenue section of the town when it was well wooded and he thought it as wet and boggy at that time dickson htll resident works uxbridge farm william grove of dickson hill who rented the wm johnston farm on the 6th of uxbridge has about completed putting in the crop this spring he has more than six acres in potatoes and with his one son the couple batch it on the farm while mrs grove looks after the family and the home place at the hill the 100 acre farm was the property of mrs groves uncle to conserve the moisture and to prevent stouffville water supply from being polluted from the surrounding fields the corporation last year pur chased un additional five acres of land and within recent weeks over 5000 trees spruce and red pines were planted on the area the plant ing was done by voluntary labor on the part of business men and other itizens tbe biggest dara planting attracted about 15 workers above is shown in the first picture reg slouffer with the shovel in hand and roy e curtis holding up one of the small saplings about to be put in the ground picture to the right is frank riches hardware merchant handling the spade is wm f r- cllff councillor planting the young tree which will grow to a- height of 50 feet in 25 or 30 years tfhe reservoirs on the ratcliff farm 8th concession of whitchurch are about two and a half miles from town and the two reservoirs with a capacity of 600000 gallons will bave the supply augmented this summer by the installation of a dam across a spring creek on the proper ty the water will be pumped from the dam into the reservoirs so far work on the projeet is slow due to priorities and the great scarcity of help john castle who was about to undertake the building of the dam was injured last week and this may cause a further delay it- was hoped to obtain the new supply of water for use this july and august the period during which the present supply is hardly enough to meet the general demands grocery business changes hands the grocery business carried on for the past twelve years by mr bert wilkinson in the collard block has been closed up and the stock on hand taken oyer by the stouffville groceteria next the public library and owned by mr henry heise mr wilkinson bought out mr alex scott who is now in northern ontario and the stand has for halt a century been a good one located as it is right in the heart of the business activity mr wilkinson stated that the increasing difficulty in procuring goods induced him to retire from the business and take a holiday he pointed out that he en joyed a large fresh fruit trade hi the summer and since the sugar situa tion is what it is this end of the business did not look too promising for the coming summer he said his great regret in giving up is parting with a line of farm customers who have been with him continuously since the first week he was in busi ness stocktaking took plaec on mon day and the goods vere then moved to the groccria premises the wilkinson premises are mow vacant