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tottffiriue 2553 subscribers vol 59 no 6 the tribune stouffville oxt june 12 1947 fourteen pages 93yearold church s dear to many town assessment near three quarter million the total assessment for 8touff- ville is nearing the threequarter xew ikiihmit lv million mark it was revealled by ma15kham township the assessor at the court of revision pobablv an alltime peak in the on the assessment roil held on amount of building permits issued thursday evening total assessment in any month in the township of for liiil is 72210000 which is an markham is recorded by building resident all her life in the stouff- increase of 21490 over the 194c inspector archie fleming who ville district mrs martha boadway nnire issued permits totalling over 100- died at her home next the mbc 000 in one month tliis sorina church on main street on june 0 i wo appeals against the assess- wu wlc uu -io- ment were heard by the municipal ninety per cent of applicants are large funeral for mrs martha boadway 1917 in her 79th year the funeral altona cemetery for interment it the presbyterian church on the cemetery there was held the anc- amounted to 300 indicating that second concession of pickering a icnt little church retains exactly the i many people have a material as mile and a half north of dunbarton same furnishings that adorned it on well as a sentimental interest in the was opened in 1s54 over ninety sunday in june 1s54 at sundays years ago and last sunday the memorial service about 1000 people annual memorial service at the were present and the collection place miss isabella thompson bap tised in erskine church so yrs ago talks with caretaker frank mitchell costly altona fire has mysterious origin a fine circus truck being fitted up j for a toronto customer at fletcher where is that dkess goudie s altona was totally de stroyed bv fire early wednesday airs allison robinson of clare- morning as it stood close to the mont is puzzled over the disappear- south side of the goudie brick lance of a good white silk dress store and house from her place there one afternoon mrs h j malloy 11 jj friends will be sorry to learn that mrs howard malloy who was stricken with a severe stroke on saturday night and removed to the brierbush hospital has rallied some although her condition is still very critical a short time before the outbreak a strange car was seen cruising in the locality and strong suspicions are held that its occupants are re sponsible for the trouble wedding anniversary for gormley couple last week according to mrs rob inson the dress was placed on the clothes line outside before she went about forty telatlves and frlends to work and on her return around of mr and mrs v s wilson met 0 oclock the silk garment had disat their gormley home on saturday i appeared any possibility of it afternoon june 7 the occasion be- fhe superstructure was a fine blowing away is discounted by the ing their thirtieth wedding anni- piece of work mounted on a new fact lhat it was securely pinned versary wilson married get plumbing arid gadgets fori the only daughter of cooking it is said the owner oper- uoivg iakttlmk practice ates a chain of such circus wagons over the country br s s ball who has been in ra- onlv the fine work of iieiehbors ither poor health since a i i a i- v ui i eiup man mis une ai umi uau saved the goudie house in their motor accident is now doing part- even the lilacs were not in bioom successful efrorts to tow the flam- time office practice and is giving his r t ing mass away from the building paueius attention from one r a sfss ue cl0ct ome to u one son nelson woodrow and one council sitting as a court of revi- bent on erecting houses while the sion waller brillinger appealed i chief industrial development wih wakreuauonded uul the ser- against an assessment of 1700 on be the new powder plant at unionj wl in charge of rev us lands exclusive of those on which vale where six or seven small hallman assisted bv rev samuel he lives while mr edw lloyd i appealed against an assessment of 2000 on lands in the lloyd sub division at the foot of fair st mr brillingers assessment show- 1 ed an increase of 350 over that of last year and assessor blake san- buildings this work ders stated that he had arrived at the figure due to the fact that the land had been subdivided how ever mr brillinger contended that the land on the east side of the new subdivision street had not been made into lots and was still being worked as farm land council point- j ment day held at newmarket last ed out that farm lands within the wednesday and attended by an corporation would always be assess- 1 enthusiastic group of juniors ed higher than those outside par- fortyseven young men registered ticularly when they were of value in the boys section representing all will be constructed for goudie and rev s s shantz the pall bearers were fred raymer i isaac lehman jacob reesor har mon hoover reg stover levi forsyth i mrs boadway was twice married i her first husband being wilmot barkey a local preacher and farm- i or who died at the early age of 39 years in the year 1900 to this hignlights of the past week in union h were five children four agricultural circles was the york of whom survive the mother county junior farmer livestock j namely messrs charlie and wil- judging contest and girls achieve- ham barkey twins and two junior farmer judging competition the late mr and mrs simon nelson of the third line on june 6 in the year 1917 a year it is recalled with recent l more discouraging prospects of a crop than this one at that date away from the building stoufl ville fire brigade was summon ed bin arrived too late however the engine was saved it is believed n w byer recently completed the wiring and mr goudie was just putting on the finishing touches prior to completing the contract fire damages estimated at several thousand dollars resulted miss ann lever of richmond hill visited last week with w r and mrs dougherty brethren in christ travellers pay 1 for drink of water continuing our motor tripsouri and rain began to fall which through mountains and desert continued for hours and made driv- lands on the way to upland cali- ing difficult however we kept on fornia we paused at an ancient well i moving and arrived at hamlin dug by the indians 100 years ago and here we paid si per person for a drink of water relates mr ol heise from the conference head quarters to the tribune urged to send us a word picture of the trip south mr heise writes our trip had been contemplated six months ahead of starting on may 20 1 read articles on necessary preparation and observed carefully suggestions supplied by the oil company who provided maps and courtesy credit cards and we an ticipated the possibility of a new fan belt spark plug etc being needed kansas the home of my cousin that evening at s oclock we had notified them of our intended call so it was not entirely a surprise heises settled in this state sixty years ago obtaining land wheii it sold for much less i than it brings today mr arthur i heise has just recently purchased 210 acres for 3500o so land is not cheap another cousin milton byer is farming the easy way feeding so steers which he expects will bring in 20000 next fall he also raises alfalfa and they just commenced i cutting a field they put it in daughter muriel nelson has one son donald a bright threeyearold and the daughter mrs william stoeckel a charming little three- yearold daughter dianne mr wil son is a salesman for evans motors of birch cliff and is well versed in the qualities of ford products for some years mrs wilson has not enjoyed good health and this spring her life was hanging in the balance she took a miraculous turn for the better and is now enjoying better health than she had for years after a short meeting of the friends in the home on saturday they motored to the mayfair stouff vilie to enjoy a tasty wedding din ner in the attractive dining room of the restaurant served by courteous efficient and charming waitresses seated with the honored guests were woodrow and muriel rev e a and mrs curry the spiritual adviser of the family a few afterdinner speeches fol lowed the dinner with rev e a curry as toastmaster words from his cousin louis l nichols ex pressed his joy at rejoicing with them as did also his uncle ralph boynton the impressive addresses were made by william stoeckel his soninlaw and his son woodrow who in no uncertain words said as residential sites however they wished to check over mr brilling ers assessment against other farm lands within the town boundaries in order that a fair and equitable figure of assessment could be arriv ed at mr brillinger staled that al though he had sold off a nortioh of his land his assessment was raised mr lloyds assessment was an increase of 1000 over that of 191g however the assessor pointed out to mr lloyd that he subdivided his land into thirtyfive lots which according to the assessment act makes each individual lot liable for a separate tax bill and in the case of stouffville of an assessment of not less than 100 on each lot this would have brought mr lloyds assessment up to 3500 in view of the fact that only four of the lots had been sold and the greater part of the area was still being worked as farm land the assessor stated that he had only increased mr lloyds assessment 1000 rather than 3500 as the act allowed in addition to the two appeals fortytwo changes of ownership were also heard by the court which then stood adjourned until july 3 six local junior farmer clubs the girls section featuring the units cottons may be smart summer clothes for girls and dressing up home grown vegetables and presented in the parish hall con tained many very attractive ex- hibitsl the farms visited for the live stock classes this year were elton armstrong armitage draft horses walter woods aurora belgian horses geo rodanz ringwood hereford heifers and young bulls lloyd turner stouffville holstein cows ean walton newmarket continued on page 5 daughters mildred at home and mary mrs clarence hoover there are six grandchildren and three great grandchildren her second husband jacob boad way druggist passed away in december 1030 a devout member of the mbc church mrs boadway strove to live an exemplary life- and was keenly interested in both her home and church three gallons of rye liqure and as much butter as she standeth in need of lne na mother though before wilson conducted ihis feature whom they loved even they hadnt told ihem so we set out on a monday morn- j windrow fashion then through a ing from home around 0 oclock and cutter all chopped ready for the i believe reached london for a late mill where it is dried and used for breakfast via no 7 highway we mixing feeds for poultry crossed the border at detroit with from this point we headed west no difficulty as we have necessary to colorado springs and pikes permits and arrangements for funds peak not in whitchurch began s usual witty manner by thank- in advance we took no 112 high- to show up possibly 75 miles awavhng everyone for their good wishes wav across michigan weather vervi this peak is snow capped and is and recalling interesting events warm in afternoon and we were very beautiful to look at we had connected with many of the guests advised to change lire pressure by l now travelled 1500 miles and are lateral the home an hour or two ten pounds we reached south seeing points of interest as we con- j was spent in good fellowship with chicago at 7 oclock and as dark- tinue southward through the chocolates and other delicacies in nes- was falling we sought shelter mountains and across deserts i abundant supply for the night and look cabins at 5 sometimes sand was like snowj a pleasant feature of the anni- for a double after breakfast next storms we paused at the ancient versary was the fact that mr morning we travelled south on the well dug 100 years ago by indians- homer wilson the father of boulevard over a new highway it is 12 feet wide and thirty deep across chicago heights heading for with eight feet of water we had a mt caramel ophange where mr drink at 1 per person but were albert cober formerly of victoria shown the old relics without add square is manager of the institu- lionai charge tion finer farms are not to be we travelled the santa fe on to seen any place the grand canyon marble canyon from here we travelled south boulder dam and what an through illinois through the corn j engineering feat finally we reach- belt many acres are not planted on jed upland tuesday morning at 8 account of wet weather around oclock delighted and everybody sary occasions may noon we found ourselves in mi- feeling fine month part of remarkable will of one of the first mcnnonites to be horn in america hog meat and bcaff too must be made available to the widow when john heisey probably the first of the clan to arrive in amer ica provided among many other things two barrels of whiskey a year for his widow it provided the most amazing recital of a will one could ever read and reveals that those early emigrants to america were great providers and that at that early stage in this country they believed it was necessary to have their strong drink the will was drawn in the year isoo it is noted in the history of thei hisey family that the name has had no less than eighteen different spellings running through hayse heise heeze heisey hisev high- sy heisse highzy heistand hisly hissly hisy heisy highsly hisa heising john heise whose will we are about to recite was born in lebanon township pennsylvania in the year 1730 and is the forerunner of all the clan who later came to whitchurch sunday school executive a report in this issue omitted the newly elected officers of the ss association which are pres mr c h doner gormley rk2 vicepres mr lloyd grose mount albert rr3 secretary- treasurer mr jacob m grove ringwood assistant mr william paisley stbuffyille rri nursery roll and childrens division mrs geo smalley rr3 stouffville girls division mrs grant morlev stouffville rri boys division mr joe sheppard newmarket rr3 young peoples division mr arthur starr newmarket rr3 adult division mrs r j filyer stouffville rr2 missionary divi sion mrs allan hoover gormley rr2 total abstinence division elma m starr newmarket rr3 home and visitation mr william yake gormley rri assistant mr e eade gormley rri church vocation bible school rev e c moddle aurora religious educa tion in public schools rev norman rowan stouffville rr4 mrs a raymer buried at dicksons hill horticultural members are asked to keep in mind the june flower show to be held in the united church basement on tuesday june 17th see prize list in this issue a bed patient for more than a year mrs abraham raymer died on friday at the home of her daugh ter mrs fred pilkey altona in her sth year a stroke suffered a few days before her death was the culmination of a long sickness born in whitchurch township mrs raymer was the former ma tilda steckley and was married from her parental home at gormley over 05 years ago to an enthusiastic young farmer and the couple set tled at lemonville where they farmed for 40 years or until their retirement in stouffville in 1925 mr raymer died at the late home on baker avenue in october 1936 leaving besides his wife a son al bert and a daughter mrs fred pilkey both of whom survive the mother mrs raymer is also sur vived by a sister mrs fred coak- well living at box grove a faithful member of the men- nonite faith mis raymer possessed a very charitable disposition and was a kindly disposed woman and faithful helpmate until late in life she possessed excellent health and took an effective place during the pioneering years on the old farm at lemonville the funeral on sunday afternoon was largely attended from the re sidence of her daughter at altona where she was tenderly nursed during this last prolonged illness service was conducted by the pas tor rev s s shantz assisted by rev hs hallman the interment was made in the family plot at dicksons hill h- mull ijv khii wdlllc iw d an excellent father and ontario and are today among our obrien ave residents petition for storm sewer best citizens john evidently possessed consid erable of ihis worlds goods and intended that his widow should be- well provided for here is the con tents of his will as published in a family record issued in 1930 at lan caster pennsylvania the will of john heisey will shortly begin the laying of new mains on the lloyd subdivision and along the north side of main st east of church st a ditching machine is expected here to handle the digging it was said a communication was tabled from the association of industrial de- draining their properties pariicu- signers whose small building is on larly those on the west side of the the town lot adjacent to the cnr avenue many cellars had water asking permission to erect further in all this spring buildings on the property how- council agreed that the county ever council did not favor permitt- a well signed petition was receiv ed from residents of obrien ave and fair st asking council to look into the matter of a storm sewer to service properties in that area at the june meeting held last week considerable difficulty has been ex perienced by these ratepayers in engineer should look over the situa tion and report on xssible cost of such a project his findings will then be given to the ratepayers for consideration the principal por tion of the cost would be borne by in the name of god amen this those ratepayers involved while second day of december in the year- any share paid by the municipality william was able to enjoy the occasion with son daughter grand children and great grandchildren from toronto came mr and mrs gordon britnell mrs lome per kins from edgeley mr and mrs clarence stong from unionville mr and mrs b wagg and miss ger trude wagg dame rumour savs ether anniver- follow this of our lord one thousand seven hundred ninetyseven i john heisey of lebanon township daup hin county and state of pennsy ivania yeoman being at present of bodily health and of sound and dis posing mind memory and under standing thanks be to god never theless calling unto mind the mor tality of my body and knowing that it isappointed for al men once to die do make and ordain ihis my last will and testament that is to say principality and first of all 1 recom mend my soul in the hand of god continued on page 9 would be decided by the engineer who would be called on to estimate to what percentage the entire mun icipality would benefit the reeve stated such undertakings are handled in this way under the local improvement act councillor jack smiis staled that he had been receiving a number of complaints about flooded ditches and inadequate crossing pipes in the west end and it was agreed that along with councillor frank row ing more buildings on the site and the clerk was instructed to inform the owners of their decision the present building was placed there under agreement by which it can be removed in sixty days if notice is given from the municipality to vacate council felt that if the company wishes an industrial site such lands are available elsewhere a water rate charge of 10 per annum was placed on restaurants ihe rate being established by resol ution as provided for in the water rate bylaw and is below the rate of other towns in the district and the same as barber shop rates there wa some discussion re garding the laying of a concrete floor in the fire hall and it was agreed that the matter should be botham he should investigate the dealt with when the new truck ax- complaints i rives as other work may be necess- the veteran construction firm ary at that time due to larger truck