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r ii ix vjv vol- 55 no20 al lvr leading weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twps stouffville ontario thursday sept 28 1944 ten pages wife of dr neil smith back after two years overseas british children rush into streets and whoop with delight when a siren sounds a press reports mrs mcfarland smith wife of dr neil smith of stouftville and now in sirs neil smith italy as saying to reporters en her arrival back in toronto with several other canadian girls after spending more than two years in training schools in england i think the canadian children talk more about the germans and how awful they are than the british children do she is report ed to have said mrs smith was a member of the canadian childrens service which is 33 strong it was recruited when the british government asked the canadian government to help in caring for english children whose lives were being disrupted under the blitz only 17 are left in eng land now the reason some girls remained in england is- purely romantic they are marrying overseas mrs mcfarlandsmith married overseas hes a canadian she smiled major neil smith from stouffville i knew him before and i tracked him down in england before an english girl could get him she said jokingly increase in water rates no cause for alarm the intimation in the press last week disclosing the fact that a member of the municipal council had asked the reeve to call a special meeting to consider a slight change in water rates that would impose each 6 months a 50 cent increase for single tap users and 100 for full house pri vileges was sufficient to stir two or three ratepayers into calling a public meeting presumably in protest the fact that the meeting fizzled out may be taken to mean that the water users are not alarmed about such a trifling change in rates with the proposed slight increase the rates would be 300 per year for a single tap and 600 for all the taps you care to install in your home plus both room and lawn use these rates are below anything we can find in all on tario hence it is little wonder everybody ignored the notice stuck up in the post office inviting them to a meeting over such a trifle the proposed increase in rates is so small the system can operate without it but our margin of cash would be j below what we would like to have on hand during the last year or two we duginto the 6000 surplus piled up years ago when rates were double present rates to the ex tend of 1000 it is true a great deal of new work was done and it is equally true that a great deal more new work is yet to be done our 5000 surplus still on hand is none to large down in cornwall it will take 20000 to repair quake dam age and it could have happened here interest from our remaining 5000 reserve is added to the water receipts each year so the investment is always working for the system the property owners of stouffville who own the water system worth 60000 at a conservative estimate are sup plying water to transient tenants at a ridiculously low rate and the wonder is that more property owners do not demand that water rates be placed higher so the investment could return a profit this paper would fight against the council that would increase water rates similar or as high as those being paid in markham uxbridge or richmond hill but when our rates are less than half any of the places mentioned one can scarcely raise a protest against a 50c or 100 increase the tribune does not know what action the council will take in the matter we hope the members after due con sideration of the issue will support or oppose the idea on its merits attractive new office for t s the new office of the bethesda stouffville telephone co located in the building almost opposite of the tribune and which was built for the bank of nova scotia 30 years ago opened on sunday during the night skilled mechanics from the northern electric came to town and moved and connected all the mechanical equipment so that the general service was only shut cheerful spontaneous mm i x response to the salvation army appeal for funds objective of 350 reaches donations of over 50000 something of a record for prompt ssjss ontatux nlgc until sunday morning this created done jsi b tssjtiretf a nvsyhentf was a remarkable piece of work comm on behalf of the salva- v jj army home front appeal in addition to moving the two commencing about s pm 22 man- cabinets from the old office in the bers of the club divide into pairs ratcliff block one new cabinet was and being allotted sections to can- added and this will provide speed- vas commenced their rounds and ier service at stouffville where the in two and a half hours had collect- demands were becoming over- ed from this doortodoor effort whelming for the equipment over 150 to which later contribu- everybody who has tripped twns has brought the total to over through the new office express j c i r their approval and delight with the l is 3 ik officials may feel a real source of stouffville has excelled itself in this satisfaction m making the move to great cause their own building which will be come a permanent home for the telephone business stationed at halifax another markham farm changes hands gormley boy rates many french crops as excellent bdr e g jeffery writing to mrs lydia sproule of gormley tells of seeing french grain crops untouch ed by the war and that they are very heavy and orchards are load ed with apples hewrites im getting along fine today its raining and rather mis erable but we cant kick for the weather is really fine the crops that havent been ravaged by war over here are really great and very fine the soil is good and the apple orchards are loaded but the quality is very poor every house has two- of three hundred gallons of cider and its the vilest stuff you could drink however the french seem to like it and evidently prefer it to water the people dont ap pear to have fared too badly for food the people say the huns were very foolish in their commandeer ing if they saw a field of potatoes he would commandeer it however most of the time- he never came back and the potatoes would lay there the germans would slaugh ter a beast in the field take a quar ter and leave the rest to rot the main thing we lack up in the line is juices and canned fruits its been heavy going of late but as i write weve got a nice little jackpot of huns cornered they are stubborn though and hate to give in but they must either give in or be obliterated and i really mean- obliterated its terrible to see the carnage and disolation its hard pushing but we are slpwing advancing toward victory every mile being paid for with good canadian blood wo dont see very many french civilians asthey are kept well back from the lines partly for their own safety and partly for fear of trai tors the dust here is terrible and you only drive down the roads a short distance before you- look like a darky ernie jeffery shadow lake mistresshflome from england just back from england and the robot bombs is lady divisional supt elizabeth pitt of- the st john ambulance brigade and who before enlisting might have been seen any weekday on the streets of stouffville for miss pitt was in charge- of the girls at shadow lake every summer and became well known to many in town overseas she worked in conva lescent hospitals first aid posts and medical aid posts and is high ww makkham twp man honored by military cpl j l harris who worked oh markham township farms along thesthconcession before enlisting has been awarded the military medal for gallantry in the field good enthusiasm tor revival meetings births perrin mr and mrs sydney frederick perrin of weston wish to announce the birth of their daughter linda charlotte at burnslde general hospital on sept 14 1941 elizabeth pitt in her praise for the british people by only an hour did she miss the bombing of a hospital in which she was working arriving there just in time to help with the evacuation and the cleaning up it was also by just an hour that she missed a baby being born in the shelter where she was stationed but through her efforts and that- of a doctor an ambulance arrived in time to take the prospective mother to the hos pital it is in the first aid posts that casualties nd bomb victims are received and the medical aid posts arc situated in the tubes where hundreds of londoners sleep and have slept during the war years one ofher smallest charges iwas a- three weeks old baby who with youthful evangelist rev m t sellers who is conducting a series of special meetings in town on be half of a group of churches in the district is being listened to nightly in the baptist church with increas ed interest and attendance he is a fluent easy speaker void of the flare of many in his calling mr sellers delivers profound messages that are most effective a native of northern carolinathis 27yearold preacher is a baptist but that has no connection with him preaching in a baptist church at this time the local church was secured as a means of a convenient place for the services which are un denominational air sellers lives in lockpprt ny but spends a great deal of time in special work the group responsible for the meetings here urge everyone who can to attend the week night ser vices or any of the next sunday services at 11 am- and 730 pm loud speaker facilities will be placed in the basement for sunday evening we understand the meetings will continue every evening next week until friday it was a grand response on the part of the citizens and a job well done by the lions none of whom relished the task set before them the result again emphasizes the high esteem and the value placed upon the work of the salvation army by the people of stouffville this week mr edgar bateman t eft p by the club is sold his 12g acre farm at lots 3031 a commendable since witnout concession 5 east markham to mr j the campaign would not donald hunter of scarboro a prae- llk nave been p on at all tical farmer who intends to occuny pn to starting the drive the and further modernize this fine members held their club supper farm which is now equipped with wel addressed by major wat- hydro and ca mccorquodale who the sale price is not disclosed i spoke on army work with the idea but it is understood to be a sub- of enthusing the canvassers in the stantial sum mr bateman bought the place almost 12 years ago from mr percy spofford as yet he has not determined what he will do or where he will move to we are not ready for retirement said mrs bateman when questioned by the tribune on the matter wounded in italy mr and mrs win fockler bal- lantrae received word this week that their son philip had been wounded on active servicehe is vwith the troops in italy but the telegram said that his injury is hot serious task they were about to do one gratifying thing about it all said a canvasser was the very very few people would did not re spond in any way at all almost everybody seemed willing to con tribute something large or small and many handed in their contri bution in advance others who were not at home that evening saw to it that they got in a donation tuesday morning the announcement in the press last week concerning the drive found many peopleready avith their gift they had the money set aside ready for the canvassers the lions who did the canvass- eggs and potato chips are 1 a plate in rome son of former pastor missing word has been received by rev and mrs h stevens that their son wo ralph stephens raf is missing after air operations in the eastern war theatre ralph was a navigator with an raf squadron operating from bases in india the stephens family resided in stouffville some years ago when the father was pastor of the clare- mont baptist church ralph attended school in stouff ville as did his brother- gordon who is also overseas it is just five years to the month since ralph left for england mr and mrs james h ratcliff are spending a week at the home its parents had been bombed outi nis sister in london ont of their home that afternoon miss pitt visited deep shelters in which it takes more than five min utes to walk down to wherethe hundreds of cots stretch side by side for great distances they are scrupulously clean have their own canteens and telephone and loud speaker service fcver which news andconcerts are given only those who have been bombed out of their homes are given tickets for these shelters people in the shelters are so grateful for anything that is done for them she explained on var ious occasions they brought her an egg or a plum a bunch of flowers or a cake- veryfew- cases of- infectious diseases were noticed among the children during the time she was in britain miss pitt said claire bell son of mr and mrs c h bell of stouffville was one of a group of canadian soldiers who recently were privileged to take an extensive sightseeing tour through the city of rome and in his letter written on the 10th of this month he writes rome is a very interesting modern city clean and smart with the relics of the ancient world nice ly blended in the whole the oldest ruins those of the colosseum the palatine palaces forums etc occupy a small area right behind the victor emmanuel monument which overlooks the heart of the uptodate business district five or ten strolls takes you from today back to the years before christ as you see from some of the pictures in the parcels a modern avenue via dell impero imperial street has been built to give access to the roman forum area in the coloss eum which bulks up at the far end of course these are ruins but other monuments exist which are still in fair condition the pantheon was built before christ but still stands much as it was originally there are no windows in this place which inside is an empty great dome affair with a round opening at the very top through which the sun affords the only light as with most of the pagan temples modern sculptures of saints are set in the niches once occupied i suppose by pagan effigies the same applies to the castle of st angelo the early christian church certainly did not intend to have too many relics of heathen days about the place st peters is not so old in its present building though older churches occupied the same site it is mag nificent both inside and out with its great rsquare columns and its vast basilica the ceilings of the crossing hall are over 200 feet above the floor and were beauti fully designed by michelangelo the great dome rises 500 feet above the floor in the centre of the cathe dral under the dome is a magnifi cent canopy covering the reputed tomb of st petor himself which is below the floor and down a flight of steps the mosaics sculptures altarsjchapels ceilings etc are priceless- we climbed the dome a longhard climb and were reward ed by a grand view of the entire more cold storage lockers now ready an announcement in this issue made by the stouffville creamery co makes known the fact that the new addition to the creamery for lockers is now completed and the cold storage compartments are ready for use beginning oct 2nd the fine new addition is fire proof and the new lockers are of steel construction and fills a de mand for storage room that could not heretofore be met the lockers are 7 a year a moderate sum for the service rendered claude brillinger petty officer claude brillinger rcnvr son of mr and mrs harold brillinger stouffville who is at present stationed at hmcs stadacbna ii halifax ing are andy williams presi dent f l button hugh banner- man a v nolan dr s s ball kred campbell m e watts l e oneill frank riches elmer dan iels robt bone rev d davis chasnolan harold spofford blake sanders donchadwick jack smits walter brillinger r snowball e a button ormsby lehman l c murphy the canvassers are anxious that the press should convey to the giv ers their unqualified- appreciation for the spontaneous manner in- which the people of stouffville re sponded to the occasion moving to his new property in east end following his public auction sale at the farm south of town on tues day oct 10 mr chas brillinger will move to the east end of stouff ville where he acquired the ten acre place next to his sister missbertha brillinger on main street last spring the property was formerly held by mr j bird of toronto auxiliary marks silver anniversary the garrett evening auxiliary of the united church held their 25th anniversary on wednesday evening sept 20 when 100 persons including former members and friends of the- wms and wa group were entertained at the sup per hour the theme for the even ing was advance and was stress ed by miss gladys brooks who con- ducted the worship service t dr helen crow mitchell a mis sionary recently returned from free china was the guest speaker musical numbers were rendered by mrs harold spofford mrs lewis and mrs bone an interesting feature- was an historical outline of the garrett auxiliary presented by mrs her bert lee one of the present honor ary presidents rev herbert lee was the resident methodist minis ter at the time the auxiliary was organized in july 1919 by the late miss minnie garrett then on fur lough from china mrs lee was the first honorary president mrs j m storey was presented with a life membership by the mem bers an impressive memorial service in memory of nine members who had passed away during the years was conducted by rev d davis among the guests was tlie first president miss e knapp a former teacher in our high school and who is now on the staff of port dover high school i fighting in france city close beside is vatican city with its palace and gardens from that height there is no impression of an ancient city rather a view of modern apartments and other buildings and the many low stone bridges crossing the tiber the river is fairly swift but not very wide one of the original roman bridges is still in use joining the island with the rest of the- town three of us stayed in a civilian boarding house somewhat like a hotel near the central railroad station canada club gives the canadians two free meals ad ay and provide a restful convenient place to foregather a meal of two eggs and a few chips cost 100 lire so it is fortunate the canadian auxiliary services set up such a fine centre for us liquor isexpen- sive costing800 lire about 880 a bottle the city is well served with streetcars and some of the newest buses which operate from an electric wire but can pullover to the curb to handle passengers all in all i was much taken with rome and can highly recommend itas a place tovisit when you make your oldworld tour after the war iv- sam ianderson mr hugh anderson received a letter from his son sam who is now in france with an engineering group in which he says that it is pitcable to encounter the french people going along the roadway with all their belongings with them still he says they seem glad to see the canadians- sam also noted that every allied grave had stones around and flowers they dont do this 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