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the tribune stouffvule ont thursday october 5 1950 meet 1rfl tfoiii fyiaendl at masjzuam tfato spofford co stouffville ontario 8 j miuleb 18 new clerk brock twp at the next meeting of brock township council the minutes of the last meeting will be read by stanley j miller who was appoint ed clerk and treasurer of the town ship last week mr miller is well qualified for the position having served as reeve deputyreeve and councillor of the township for several years and he has a wide knowledge of the township and its affairs molasses a good supply of feeding molasses now available get your requirements now and avoid disappointment bulk or in drums reesors marmill limited markham ont phone 9600 sunshine harvesting in saskatchewan sept 20 1950 hello stouffvule this is your roving reporter writing from stoughten sask where i have been harvesting the weather has changed quite a lot since last sunday when i wrote from moose jaw sask there was ice on the water tank yesterday morning and now snow is falling in stoughton as i am writing we finished threshing a small field of wheat last night at 745 pm it was dark but these prairie farmers seem to have exceptionally good eyesight the small field of wheat by the way was 120 acres i am sending a copy of the stoughton times which i hope you will enjoy reading reading is such a wonderful way in which to find almost complete relaxation it is about 90 miles to regina by rail here by the way was in 1904 the longest straight piece of track in the world since that time russia and usa have beaten that record from stoughton to areola a divisional point there is a slight decline in the track and about 20 years ago the longest train load ever hauled in the world by one engine was pulled over this track it was a load of wheat this information was given to me by the editor of the stoughtod times mr richard lobb sunshine oldest whitchurch resident passes in his 101st year member of one of whitchurch townships pioneer families silas webb armitage died thursday in his 101st year until recent months he had been active and mentally alert interested in reading the newspaper and in current events last february a few days before he celebrated his 100th birthday mr armitage was a volunteer in the first diabetic survey of a can adian community the oldest per son tested in the survey he was found to be free of diabetes for many years he farmed on the yonge st farm settled by his father for 14 years prior to his retirement 30 years ago mr armi tage was superintendent of the york county old peoples home newmarket his greatgrandfather settled in whitchurch township in 1894 he was a member of newmarket pres byterian church where he served for some years as an elder he was also a member of the york pioneers and historical society his wife died several years ago he leaves one brother dr clayton armitage harbour beach mich the barefoot boy with his sling shot is only emulating ancient syrian warriors they invented the weapon about 200 years bc don d of motor cars je hope youjj mk c and trucks tu a p to visit tl e hltrvrr h the e in u i er m perfonn an i ts cia 7 ant further il 4 itt a of in b eauty motors de mole motor sales stouffvill ontario writes interesting reminiscences dua continued from front page years my father seven brothers and two sisters received their primary education there two of his brothers wen to cobourg gram mar school s it was then called afterwards victoria college they were ordained in 1s6s now if you will bear with me a while longer 1 can imagine the wpb is yawning i shall try to tell you something about the school in the old log school house the name of the first teacher eludes my memory although i have often heard it he was from the old land father used to say he was good at sharpening the pens i suppose they used quills the new testament was used as a text book young men and young ladies attended the school anxious to receive instruction children under ten years of age were not allowed to go in winter time thus leaving more room for the grown ups keeping order was a difficult task never heard of the teacher having trouble to keep the girls in order no doubt they were always good when a boy was in need of chastening the teacher sent him into the bush for an armful of beech switches and then asked the culprit to drape himself over a bench and he would then proceed to administer a flogging the teacher wore a swallow tailed coat and everytime the switch was brought down the coat tails flew up over his back much to the amusement of the scholars another form of punishment was when the teacher drew a circle on the wall and the culprit was asked to stand on his toes and keep his nose in the centre of the circle there was an alternative they could walk out of school but as the older scholars could only go in winter they generally took the punishment meted out to them after the first teacher mr macey taught maxon jones jas dougherty who afterwards joined mr sylvester in the hardware business in stouffville there may have been others i have heard these spoken of as teachers in 1852 my mothers people moved from wilfred in brock twp to the place now owned by mr herbert simpson in ballantrae they also were wesleyan metho dists and joined the service in the old log school house my mother was eight years old she also went to the only school in the district for a number of years i think ballantrae school sec tion no 11 was built in the centre of the section about the time the methodist church was built at church hill in 1863 the church was built on the south east corner the christian church was built in 1872 we always had friendly relations with our neighbouring church a union ss union choir and a union yps i began school at section no 11 in 1878 the teachers were as follows mr mason miss almeda da foe joseph lemon of lemon- ville miss jennie mccall mr tay lor mr dowswell mr edwin pall mr edwin quantz and his brother john taught a short while john lemon from scott township geo e pegg marshall grant it was during his term the school house burned down school was held in the methodist church at church hill until a new one was built mr fatheringham is the only inspector i can recall my grandmother often told me of her good neighbours the var- neys who lived on the west side of the nineth just up the hill and a little ways to the west of them they had three grown up children asa pheobe and lydia there had been younger children but as with many others they had succumbed to a mild form of cholera asa was a fine young man of twentyfour years of age very anxious to acquire a little education at that time the year my father was born 1834 there was a man living where bloomington is now situated who took pupils into his home to teach them asa decided to go to him he went blithely off in the morn ing but never came home again it was believed he had been eaten by wolves they ran in packs in those days he was greatly mourned another strange thing about it is james and hannah varney turned out to be my late husbands grandparents my daughter came into posses sion of pheobe varneys leather bound bible in it is a record of births and deaths that had been neatly kept i turned to the death record and found asa varney age 24 years 1834 thus corroborating with grandmothers story what relation would asa be to my great grandchildren old subscriber mrs andrew pegg