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read the classified ads r aucto leading weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twps circulation 2065 copies vol54 no37 stouffville ont thursday jan 20th 1944 eight pages 1 bracken party seeks out former warden earl toole the progressive conservatives of north york riding will meet in convention at newmarket on saturday february 5 to choose a candidate for the federal election whenever that may be prominent among the names mentioned for choice of the convention is that of ear toole warden of york county in 1942 and for six years the popular reeve of whit church township jdsibbald associate president who announcej the convention will also allow his own name to go before the convention while others men- ioned are rev geo dix george elliot former reeve of north york township if the conservative party are fort unate enough to choose c k toole for their candidate it would shake the last root loose that the liberals hold in the constituency mr toole is not only a practical farmer bnt an able debater and a strong advocate of uiotjarin principles which the common farmer is in need of his formidable opponent of coursewill be col w p mulock while a jccf candidate will be chosen on saturday january 29th mr toole has been a known ad mirer of hon john bracken and his farm program and should he be per suaded to carry the battle for mr bracken he will certainly hold it high i dr g steele was born at lemonville dr gilmour j steele 56 a form er chairman of the toronto board of education died sunday at his resi dence castle frank drive toronto born at lemonville a son of the vill age merchant be graduated in dent istry from the university of toronto in 1908 later he went into busi- nessand at the time of his death was president of standard brick co ltdand steele coal co during the last war fldr steele was a registrar in the national registra tion organization he was also en gaged in the manufacture of muni tions dr steele was past president of the canadian congress club former pre sident of builders exchange and construction association former chairman canadian lumbermens creclt association and a member of rossiale cttced church riverdale lodgcjaf and am independent order of forester and the knights of pytintas surviving are his widow arid a son gordon on the staff of malvern collegiate huge lemon grown at ringwood ox display many are admiring the two lemon trees in roy groves store ring- wood with their 3 ripe and 2 green lemons also blossom buds forming the one ripe lemon measures 6 in ches long by 13 inches by 15 inches around this is the largest lemon that either of these trees has produc ed the oldest of these two trees was purchased from wm jrennie toronto seed house about 30 years ago and has been bearing fruit since that time school meeting convenes with shotgun on desk when they were unsuccessful in formulating a trustee board for the cashel school on the 6th concession of markham at the statutory meeting a second gathering was summoned last week and the ratepayers were mighty curious when as they assem bled to find a shot gun lying across the desk of the chairman the chairman of the meeting con fessed that he didnt anticipate any trouble wherein he would need the weapon placed on the table and the matter was only explained when the caretaker of the building mr herb spofford stepped in and claimed the shooting iron saying he had been out hunting and called around to get the school ready for the meeting not realizing how it would look he laid the weapon on the table and went about his work everybody felt better after the explanation after an unsuccessful attempt to get two trustees at the first meeting this second gathering secured hugh boyd and archie fleming ednigh who is moving to stouffville had re signed and george hoover declined to serve any longer since he had put in six years instructor with ijcak to observe golden wedding anniversary a delightful elderly couple living south of claremont mr and mis andrew pegg will observe their 30th wedding anniversary day on monday jan 24th when a number of relatives and friends will mark the occasion at the pegg home s the couple are enjoying good hea th although mr pegg will be so in march next he is a native of whit church township being born on the farm at church hill where his half brother herbert resides at school thursday mrs hennessey child died friday f guest week mrs v c terry toronto was the uest of mrs christie armstrong last with shocking suddenness death came to lois timbers 10yearold daughter of mr and mrs frank tim bers locust hill last friday she was in her normal health but was a diabetic patient she tooksuddenly ill on thursday enroute from school and was rushed to the sick childrens hospital toronto where she passed away friday evening born on the 0th of markham when the family lived south of stouffville lois is sur vived by her parents and by two bro thers murray now overseas and stanley at home also by baby joan the incident has cast quite a gloom over the neighborhood where the young child lived and among the children at locust hill school but the parents of course bear the great er burden only one pool license to be issued in future the municipal council on friday evening passed a bylaw forbidding the issuing or more tnan one billiard room license in town reeve weldon said he had the bylaw prepared by a solicitor and in answer to a ques tion concerning only- one license said it would not conflict with licenses now in force but would prevent any second license being issued in future the new bylaw also empowers the council to regulate the number of tables that may be operated the license fee was not changed from that previously in force which set the first table at 25 per year second table 15 and additional tables 10 each n councillor nolan asked the mem bers to give consideration to some postwar project such as a music hall or community jiall and to pro vide land for the purpose so such a scheme could be carried out when work would be hard to find he said contributions nonresistant group reported dies in 54th year the death of mrs jas hennessey at her home at vandorf occurred on tuesday morning last november she underwent a major operation but was believed to be growing in strength mrs hennessey was only in her 54th year and is survived by her husband three sons howard and lawrence at home and jack in the army and now stationed at pvince rupert there is one daughter velma also athome the late mrs hennessey whose maiden name was mary luella cooney was born in whitchurch and was a memwr of a well known fam ily her three brothers are joseph of stouffville jim in the army and brotherdanian of st johns school toronto five sisters are mrskenny newark mrs stoddard toronto mrs onsal montreal misses blanch and etoyl both in the city the funeral will proceed from the late home at vandorf on saturday to st johns rc church newmar ket for requimmass at 1030 in terment in st johns cemetery gordon r birkett son of mr thos birkett of stouffville is a corporal with the rcaf and having completed a course as wireless instructor is now sta tioned at montreal gordon was htprn in claremont enlisted in march 1942 he was associ ated with his father in the in surance business here prior to enlisting goodwood to get july 12 celebration at a special meeting of the execut ives of the loyal orange association for north ontario held at derryville last week an invitation from good wood was accepted to hold the annual 12th of july walk in that village it is probably 35 years since the orangemen last walked in old goodwood and at that time two hotels flourished in the community eating accommodation was not a problem then tor both hotels served large crowds while a special tent was dishing up all you could eat for 25c iii 1944 thesituationwillbc diff erent of course there will be no hotel iefreshments whatever and theie may no meals served at all you can at any price whatever it is planned to have the crowd faring their picnic lunch and it is likely the war workers or institute may serve some meals or light lunches on the grounds mr walter todd is worshipful master of goodwood orange lodge and will call the brethren together shortly in order to lay plans for the coming event real estate boom brings clamour for houses in town several business premises also change hands hou sing shortage acute never for a long time has there been such a scramble for houses in stouffville places that have been on the market for a long time are finding buyers and very good prices are being received since the sale of the john phillips house reported in our last issue three more homes have ifound new own ers mrs me watts has sold the brick residence on main street west and known as the boynton home to mr ed nigh of the sixth concession of markham who will rotire from the farm this spring the place is now tenanted by mr and mrs tom for syth who will have the legal period to find other premises the former john ratcliff home at corner of main and albert streets was sold a few days ago by the rat- cliff estate to george e pugh of pickering dr h b freel has sold his resi dence at the south end of obrien avenue to pilot officer reg button who has tenanted the place for more than a year mr henry heiseof the groceteria has purchased the william watson house one door east of bakers gar age miss hazel bacon on the pub lic school staff now occupies the place which belongs to her mother mr wellington lehman brother of the late mrs watson also made his home there it has been in the fam ily for 17 years some interesting business trans actions are also in the making or have been concluded mr clayt baker has purchased the building next the public library and owned and operated bymr ileise proprie tor of the groceteria ultimately the place will harry pennock son of mr and mrs edw pennock of stouff ville who enlisted with the r caf last spring and is at pre sent stationed at guelph having completed a course with the medical service prior to enlist ing he was employed for many years by the tribune made fact is the bethesda stouffville telephone co have been looking into some such proposition as the desire grows for a ground floor location the present dairy premises offers much of the facili ties which the officers of the b s co hope to incorporate inany found ing they buy another business change of inter est is the sale of the frank baker garage building to mr walter atk- inson distributor for the imperial oil co mr atkinson will move here from belleville about tht first of the bo modelled into a month or as soon as he can get poss- the mennonlte nonresistant group report recently made availahle for the current year shows some im presslve figures that should be made public this organization set up back in 1939 has raised a total cash sum of 11644021 which has been used to relieve suffering in the less fortunate parts of the world under allied control the group also contributed cloth ing to the value of 3611529 to make a grand total contribution of 154541 many of the mennonlte groups in this part of ontario are supporters of this fund and will be interested in the figures showing their united efforts ijeaveimlon gets avardenship ontario county dr c devine reeve of beaverton was elected warden of ontario coun ty on monday he was accorded an acclamation when reeve james blanchard of cannington dropped from the contest name warken york warden john warren reeve of east york the government would pay a liberal township for the past 10 years and share of such an undertaking mr for seven years before that a mem nolan quoted a price for which a ber of the high school board was which a ber of the high school board suitable hall site could be purchas- chosen warden of york county by ed arid councillor boyd said the price unanimous vote of his fellow-coun- shculd be whittled by 100 council thereupon left the matter with mr boyd until next meeting and in the meantime he will obtain the best possible prlceactlng through solicitor f l button cillors in county chambers yester day he succeeds j s osborne ida stanbury daughter of thos stanbury formerly of claremont i died in peterboro monday attempted robbery at markham firm robbers attempted to steal the big safe in the marmill plant in mark ham on tuesday night it was push ed from its moorings to a place near the outer door but the thieves could get it no farther and gave up the effort the safe was not opened papers valuable only to the com pany and a small amount of cash is all it contained the papers are formulas and would not benefit the sneaks that broke into the office while the robbers were at work employees of the plant on the night shift on the second floor were all unaware of what was happening in the office below investigate charge of shoeing deer in markham twp mrs alex grubln has gone to a rest home in toronto to- recuperate falling health and it is expected that such a holiday will restore her to good health again farmers in the cashel district of markham were quite resentful this week when a report was circulated that a deer had been shot when the animal took haven on the farm of mr fred carruthers the story was that the deer was shot by a toronto hunter within 20 rods of the carr- uthersdoorstep the deputy minister of game and fisheries was notified by the town ship authorities and he came out immediately and ordered the animal taken to the cityjwherc examin ation was made to determine wheth er the animal was actually shot or injured itself while escaping from dogs no one heard any shot fired whereas had a gun been fired that close to a farm home it should have been heard however censure of the hunters who are known to be out tltat day should be withheld until the facts are ascertained the animal had beenin the local ity for some time andmore than one farmer tells of getting very close to it since it was inclined to herd up with stock around the barns another story that a second deer had been shot on the 4th of mark ham near the patterson farm could not be confirmed and probably is not true modern dairy with a basement added at the rear the groceteria in turn will move nearer the centre of the business section and become a renter instead of an owner the present dairy building which will he available for new owners is rumored to likely become a tele phone office but we have no author ity for saying that a deal has been ossion of the residence over the gar age for living quarters he has pur chased the building and the imple ment business from mr baker but not the garage which mr haley will carry on as heretofore mr atkin son is well known here through his imperial oil connection mr baker will retire from active business he says ton of stolen butter is recovered in toronto engagement mr and mrs marshall lotton claremont wish to announce the en gagement of their youngest daughter marlon violet to francis ellwood badgero son of mr and mrs charles badgero of stouffville the marri age will take place quietly on janu ary 29th following the theft of nearly a ton of butter from the stouffville creamery early last friday morning three arrests were made in toronto over the weekend and most of the butter recovered two brothers giv ing the name of taylor and a man named quinn were taken into cus tody and remanded until january 24 th one of the taylors is a young fel low and he made a confession in which he unfolded the whole robbery but the two older men will not talk and admit no part in the affair police are inclined to believe the story by the taylor boy since it fits into other facts they possessed the lad said the trio stole a car from a private home in the city drove to stouffvillo intending to roh the creamery office but after forcing an entry through a window they ifound nothing of valuo in the creamery office going down stairs they saw the butter decided to force the creamery garage and after taking out a truck and filling the tank with gasoline from the creamery pumps they loaded the hoxed butter and droveit to toronto it was hidden in a garage and the truck taken out into the country and left the stolen car was even returned to its rightful owner imagine the perplexity of the car owner who found his car with wires crossed had been out dur ing the night but the gas tank was fuller than he had left it the tay lor boy said they filled it at the creamery police came upon the whole dis covery by accident mr borlnsky proprietor of the creamery was told arresting young taylor in connection with another robbery he up and dis closed the creamery affalrwhlch led the police to the garage where the butter was stored by the thieves since the creamery was robbed here is a verygood picture of flying officer alhert shank son of mr and mrs eli shank i markham whose death was re ported in detail in our last issue miss margaret jennings daughter of mr and mrs del jennings has joined the local post office staff to make up the shortage caused by the resignation mrs w slack an oblig ing clerk for the past few years v lastmay no money has been left in the office and- it was fortunate that the night the robbers broke in last week the amount of butter was not large barely a ton whereas much greater tonnage is often on hand value of the butter stolen is placed at about 700 which is covered by insurance vas a result of this final robbery stouffvillo will bo asked to call a meeting of the business men to discuss the advisability of hotter night protection for the merchants some advocate a night patrol others a burglary alarm system i s-