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rhmnt ol vol 72 so n the tribune stouff ontario thursday september 29 i960 twelve pages richardson masonic lodge had early beginnings at cashe ha richardson masonic lodge temple built in 1351 on wednesday evening of this week richardson masonic lodge stouffville is celebrating its one hundredth anniversary the centennial program in the lodge hall included a reception to the grand master most wor shipful bio clarence m pitts and presentation of a life mem bership as well as a life mem bership to rt wor bro s s crouch pddgm the history of the stouffville masonic lodge was given by wor bro neil smith and the prayer of re- dedication was given bv ri wor bro mgb williams the grand chaplain in the banquet hall following the lodge ceremony the head table guests were introduced by rt wor bro a e weldoii pddgm the cutting of the birthday cake was presided over by vw bro o m madill p- cs the toast to the grand mas ter and the grand lodge of canada in the province of on tario was proposed by vw bro k r davis pgs and responded to by m wor bro c m bills grand master the toast to richardson lodge was proposed by rt wor bro t john arthur pddgm and responded to by iv m wallace the first master of richard son lodge was lames bowman and the first meeting was hold at cashe on ihe fith concession of markham the meeting place was an inn the building later used as a barn and still stand ing immediately east of the ca- shel corner the name richardson was de rived from right worshipful bro francis richardson a past grand senior warden grand secretary of the grand lodge of canada west bro samuel mighter was innkeeper where the lodge meeting was held and he was ihe first candidate ini tiated the initial slate of offi cers were james bowman jas gibson win trudgen william summerfelt geo gibson john bowman thomas bowman jos cook thos jennings fred d bridgeford david hopkins and john burr four hundred and twelve ma sons have been initiated in rich ardson lodge in its one hund red years and one hundred and two masons have affiliated the present membership is one hun dred and sixtythree with nine life members travelling was often difficult and initiations few in the first few years at cashcl and in i860 the lodge moved to knills hall in stouffville this building was located on the present site of the queens court apartment house meetings were held here for ion years when the building burned down a lease was then secured from daleys hall which was centrally located and had ample accommodation meetings were held in this present lehman block until 193s when the large front room on the same floor was converted into a lodge room and suitable ceremonies were conducted by most wor bro w g dunlop grand mas ter wor bro ray lake was master of the lodge at the time in 1935 when it was necessary that the lodge vacate the leh man block it was agreed that a new building should be erect ed and the lot was purchased at the corner of second st and the 9th concession the first sod was turned on june 35th 1951 wor bro morley symes drew the plans and gave most valu able help and advice in the con struction the first meeting was held in the present masonic temple on april 15th 1955 with wor bro ken wagg as master the lodge room was formally dedicated by rt wor bro donald j gunn on may 30th 3955 among the oldest living mem bers of the lodge are bro ches ter cook of detroit initiated in 1901 wor bro k s barker wor bro sam armstrong bro howard malloy bro frank rac who has been a member of the sick and relief committee for over thirty years v wor bro k r davis was initialed in 1911 and was secretary for fifteen years markham tvp cemeteries desecrated juveniles held three thornhill juvenile s were arrested on friday in con nection with the desecration last night of 13 cemetery monu ments markham township po lice said the arrests were made as a result of a housetohouse inquiry the tombstones were either toppled or completely smashed sgt harvey cox directing the investigation described the incident as one of the worst acts of its kind in many years a number of plot markers were close lo 100 years old they were broken beyond repair wilfred dean deputy reeve ot markham township and a cemetery committee member said the board had spent 6000 this summer to improve the site he suggested earlier that police efforts to arrest those re sponsible were being hampered by lack of cooperation by the public i feel they know who is re sponsible but theyre afraid to tell he said he noted that the cemetery damage was only one of many similar incidents that had occurred in the police vil lage during the past year he said numerous arrests had been made in connection with broken church windows and street lights in recent months campaign successful as a result of the every member canvass of christ church anglican stouffville on september 18th 3500000 was pledged toward the new parish hall to be constructed on the property site on sunset blvd plans are now underway so that construction may start in the near future k w betz con struction co has the contract appeal quashed again former stouffville police chief frank edwards had still another appeal dismissed in high court last week the appeal one of several launched by the former chief was an ap peal from the order of mr jus tice stewart which dismissed with costs mr edwards appli cation to quash the order of county judge forsyth resulting in his dismissal from ihe stouff ville force the latest appeal was heard before justices aylesworth mackay and lebel r x starr qc appeared on behalf of mr edwards and p a lee respond ed the appeal was dismissed with costs the regular meetings of both stouffville and whitchurch cou ncils will be held this coming thursday evening oct 0th wilcox lake ratepayers vote against proposed water system breakins at coop thieves entered the stouff ville coop store in stouffville both sunday and monday even ings but left practically empty handed on sunday evening assessment up re much smaller than in small amount of change was taken and on monday night several cans of oil entry was gained through the rear door of the building and a window was broken police are investigating and county finger- j recent years the official print experts have been on the lation figure as of last scene inaugurate rebekah lodge with opening ceremonies on saturday afternoon stouffvilles newest lodge the rebekahs to be known as welcome lodge was inaugurated by grand lodge assembly the induction was atlended by the assembly president and district deputy and 150 members from neigh boring lodges a turkey supper concluded the afternoon pro gram the evening ceremonies were directed by joy lodge of broug ham kinonen lodge of brook- lin initiated new members and sunshine lodge of oshawa in stalled the new stouffville offi cers a number of lodge gifts were presented to the new or ganization including three brief cases a gavel bible bible mar ker plates serving trays and two fine flags the union jack and the rebekah flag the next meeting is oct 31th members have been invited to sunshine lodge oshawa for in stallation contact secretary carolvn williams geo w allison real estate recently completed the sale of the price home at 122 edward st to mr james mckean of the stouffville tribune mr mc kean will be moving into his new home on october 15th stouffville assessment roil for this year shows an increase and population figures are up as well but the gains are smaller than have been experienced in popu- week stood at 3100 which is an in crease of 172 over last year but falls a few short of giving the municipality their added govern ment grant for a 7 increase it is interesting to note that no 1 polling subdivision which is the east end of town has taken a decided jump in popula tion and now stands about 200 more than each of the other three divisions number of per sons living in what is known as the east end is 9s1 largest age category is the 20 to 59 group with 1339 persons there are 309 residents over seventy years of age and 369 under 3 years old total assessment in town is 5376 065 an increase of only 111000 of this total farm and residential assessment amounts to 3018110 with commercial and industrial at s715925 building as reported earlier in the summer is far down from recent years with less than a dozen new homes hav ing been erected few new homes are unoccupied now in the west end but a couple of dozen are still without owners in other parts of town this slowdown story is being repeat ed in all neighboring towns with empij homes in richmond hill aurora and newmarket running into the hundreds in present home fifty years ago an enjoyable evening was spent at the home of mr and mrs daniel wagg goodwood ontario on september 21 1960 when they celebrated their got- den wedding anniversary dur ing the evening about one hund red friends and relatives called to offer mr and mrs wagg their congratulations on this happy occasion the tea table was decorated with a dainty wedding cake goldenhued flow ers and candles during the eve ning mrs john mayc of good wood twin sister of the groom and mrs george cain of west hill cousin of the bride poured tea many lovely gifts flowers and cards were received as well as congratulatory messages from mr and mrs a hemmings of beamsville and the ontario and dominion governments this well known and respect ed goodwood couple were mar ried 50 years ago in the house where they are presently resid ing by rev gray minister of the baptist church and have lived all their life in or around goodwood they have been faithful members and workers in the gooinvood baptist church and sunday school for many years they have one son lloyd of brampton and one daughter grace mrs ronald james of markham out of town guests were pres ent from brampton toronto dundas agincourt west hill uxbridge and stouffville eleven persons injured in crash at ringwood eleven persons four of them from stouffville were injured on sunday in a two car crash at ringwoods nightmare corner the intersection of hjgbwavs 17 and 4s charles vanzant mrs van- zant and daughter catherine were passengers in a westbound car driven by ray fleurv of church st stouffville mrs ray floury was also a passen ger colliding with the fleurv car was a northbound vehicle with seven occupants all of whom were taken to hospital injured in the toronto car were mr and mrs angelo raeippo sons joe and peter an aunt and uncle mr and mrs john de- mareo and their son john mr vanzant is in newmarket hospital having suffered a crushed chest and other internal injuries mrs vanzant and her daughter s u s t a i n e d broken bones and mr floury received a severe head cut but returned home to stouffville after treat mem the accident occurred about 3 pm on sunday afternoon when traffic was extremely heavy at this intersection both cars were badly damaged the floury car being thrown to the northwest corner ditch and- the other vehicle skidding sideways lo come to rest in the centre of the crossing dr smith of stouffville at tended the injured and local police officer harry heathering- ton gave assistance calling am bulances and directing heavy traffic around the crash scene until ihe provincial police ar rived from vandorf police nab gas red handed whitchurch township voters in the lake wilcoxoak ridges area turned down the vote toi municipal water system by a considerable majority op satw- diy about 33 of the eligible volet s vent to the polls at no 1 poll like wilcox where there were 137 eligible voters 2 cast ballots in favor of the scheme and 122 opposed at no 2 poll oak ridges with 5 eligible voters there were ji in favor and 12 opposed it appeared that while the mult up area of wilcox lake ihovved some desire for the sen oe the more rural part of the irea wis opposed i whitchurch township coun cil will now have a definite opin ion of ihe people and the pro gram will no doubt be dropped for the time being those op posed have voiced the opinion that while they are not opposed to having water the already high tax for education make- it difficult for ratepayers to meet the present tax demand without adding extra charges cost of the project which was to be several hundred thousand j dollars was to be split by king and whitchurch townships j the plan would have served 2500 residents in kir township and 173 homes in whitchurch j open new store here the back page of this issue carries a fullpage ad announc ing the opening of the new ka- gan furniture store in she pre mises fo merry she davis clo thing store the kagcn firm also operates a furniture store on bloor st west in toronto the announcement carries a number of special sale feature- including mattresses and three- piece living room furniture an eighteen year old rich mond hill youth was caught red handed in the act of steal ing gasoline from a truck on the property of the k j beam ish construction co bayview ave recently by an alert mark ham township police officer pc john mccague during a routine inspection of the prem ises wayne large crosby ave richmond hill was scheduled to appear liofore magistrate o s hollinrake in newmarket court this week to face the charge in addition the youth has also been charged with the theft of a battery from a cat- on the beamish lot the owner was notified of the theft before he himself had discovered the loss constable mccague noticed the accused loitering in the area while on patrol sept 31th his clothing smelled of gasoline a can and a hose were found in his auto he broke down during questioning and admitted the theft large was a former beam ish employee but had been dis missed from ihe company the markham township depart ment have in the past received a number of calls concerning gas thefts from the property driver pays double fine a toronto driver aid a dou ble fine in uutonvile traffic court on friday on two charges filed by pc hairy hoathoring- ton of the slouftvfll ponce de partment demetre strathakos was fined 15 00 and costs by magistrate a d barron of kit chener for failing to stop his car at the intersection of cone 0 north and main street he was fined an additional 1500 for exceeding the speed limit while travelling in westerly direction the defendant did not appear and catered a plea of guilty altogether four drivers paid a total of 5500 in fines on sum monses issued in stouffville wm byer was fined 1000 and costs for travelling at 10 miles per hour in a 30 mile zone john carson wideman was fined 15 and costs for speeding on main street iady lawyer wins miss daphne byers a toronto lady lawyer requested and gain ed a dismissal for her client john archibald of richmond hill the defendant was charged by markham tup police with failing to stop at an intersec tion the solicitor argued thai the summons was incomplete magistrate barron agreed that the charge had been improperly laid he dismissed the case ud cap brings arrest the theft of two hub caps from a car in unionville brought the quick arrest of two teen agers on friday morning mark ham township police received the initial call they in turn radioed to markham village within a matter oi minutes john howard clapham 38 of concord and allister j gordon 38 of markham ware appre hended police located the hub caps on the back seat of their vehicle the two youths will appear in magistrate court newmar ket on oct 3 jerseys average 39850 the jersey dispersal auction at george sproxtons farm last week proved that buyers are still willing to pay good prices for top quality stock the top ten cows averaged s39850 each bred heifers sold at s300 each and a large number of young heifers were picked up quickly at prices ranging from 125 to 210 buyers atlended the sale from a distance coming from shaw- ville que atwood minesing welland and perth the herd was made up of 88 head and the sale was completed by w d atkinson and frank i bennett doing the selling i markham mew entry in community hockey league starts oct 21 markham has been accepted as the new entry in the stouff ville community hockey lea gue an organization meeting was held on sunday afternoon the league schedule will open on oct 21st a pieschedule practise session will be held on oct 34th all games will be played on friday evenings markham will replace clare- mont in the group for the 1960- 61 season other entries were filed from ringwood stouffville greenwoodmt zion ballantrae and peachs each club may sign a total of 18 players a completed list must be submitted to the lea gue chairman by nov 33th the admission fee of 50c will in clude all playoff games child ren will be admitted without charge orha players will be permitted to play in the league but oha players will be in eligible after the november 11th deadline former clipper per formers have been ruled as free agents there will be no bound ary restrictions the top four teams will be eligible for playoff competition the schedule will end on feb 241h each player must com pete in five games of the regu lar schedule lo qualify for the plavoffs each club will deposit a 2500 bond which will be forfeited in case of a midseason default on completion of the season the fee will le returned any ineligible player who per forms in the community lea gue will be automatically ban- and for the ned from future contests the previous game will lie foiled the first game of weekly tripleheader will begin at eight oclock club representatives present at the meeting were as follows markham ten henderson stpultviue alex wilkins don gibson ringwood jake har- man clare fockler ballantrae lou mortimer doug forfar peachs don thomas green wood lcs wilson road budget exhausted markham townships budget for road maintenance has been completely exhausted clerk crisp advised council on mon day evening council agreed that further rebuilding work on some roads would be halted for the balance of ihe year permission will be sought from the dept of highways lo divert some leftover funds from several captial works pro jects to the maintenance fund to complete lie year next public holiday will be thanksgiving monday october lolh home for aged under construction above is pictured the prog ress on the now york manor york countys new million dol lar home for the aged the home is located on the west side of yonge st at newmar ket on saturday afternoon york county warden william clark h laid the cornerstone for the new building which is slated for completion in 1061 the plans were prepared by architect ir ving d boigon associates to ronto the new home will accommo date up to 100 of the countys elder ctizens and has been de- t signed lo provide the most plea sant sunoundings said the war den reeve william hodgson pre sented reeve clark the silver trowel with which he performed the ceremony on behalf of the county officials the present home for the aged was built in 1881 and it will no longer be used it was also announced at th ceremony that the york man or womens auxiliary has raid ed money to purchase an organ which will be installed in tho building i