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tflttffwlle ftibnm vol 01 no 32 the tribune stouffville ont november 30 1950 don lewis prepares fancy christmas piece reeve henry ogden acclaimed contest or four council seats winter wonderland effects created in stouffville for the christmas trade one of the most interesting businesses located in stouffville is also one of the least known that is largely because it is wholesale and seasonal and does not make any particular bid for local trade because of the pressure of whole sale demand as you approach don lewis home at the end of george st which runs north from duchess you see pine and spruce trees spread around and some limbs of a maple tree and on the lawn pine wreaths you little suspect how far these decorations are destined to travel almost all of the garlands trees boughs branches and creative effects evolved from stumps used in store and window displays at eatons college st store come from the workshop of don lewis at present at the yonge street entrance of the college st store there are two large vases filled with allgold branches approxi mately fifteen feet in height these were supplied by don lewis and were spray painted for two other vases in eatons specialty shop branches of a similar size and type were furnish ed only these are in bright red and turquoise all articles furnish ed to eatons are fireproofed eatons have a decorative dis play department which under takes to decorate and provide backgrounds for various affairs don lewis supplies them with whatever is required in his line through this medium his handi work appeared at the trade fair the camp site in eatons store and last spring at the toronto skating club carnival held in the maple leaf gardens he made up the trees for this latter affair of branches to achieve the desired pyramid effect workers in this decorative display department of eatons are busy from the tenth of december until christmas decorating hotels hospitals and now they have an order for street decoration mr lewis says you never know what they will ask for when they are engaged in decorating those last few hectic days before the holiday the firm of josephine dewitt of king st toronto do window displays right across canada in fact they are the only firm which carries a full supply and i fur nish raw materials for them mr lewis stated i sell both unfinished and finished wreaths and other work to retail florists don continued for finishing the wreaths cones ribbon artificial poinsettias red berries or other items are added whatever they want there are only three wholesale florists in toronto and i sell to all of them the lewis workshop turns out christmas trees garlands centre pieces doorknockers or drapes and wreaths for christmas the trees are spruce or pine and set on bases most are spraypainted white but the ones which have an enchanted look are flocked while the paint is being sprayed on the flock is also being applied by spray and sets the paint flock is a rayon powder which costs 2 per lb two fairsized trees require a couple of gallons of pain then some of these velvety fairylike white trees arc faintly tinted pink or blue red green or turquoise this painting and flocking makes the trees last they will keep until spring of course these trees cost more than bushrun trees theyve been to the beauty parlour mr lewis mixes his own colours in flock and paint around the first of november don takes on extra help this year he is employing seven fulltime helpers until christmas for the rest of the year he works alone most of the time i like scotch pine the best for my work it stands up the best and lasts the longest he stated some red pine for individual branch work was painted and flocked the flocking keeps the needles separ ated he pointed out dainty small white branches turned out to be hazelnut but for bare branches mostly maple is used you can use any kind of branches i clean ed up a fencerow for gar lehman and i used both branches and roots of the chokecherry for designs don informed us i hunt around farms up north to find the the particular kind of stump want some of these stump motifs are sprayed and flocked in colour the painting preserves them workers were turning out their wares in the basement of the lewis home a wasement filled with the fragrance of spicy pine one man was making garlands on i foundation of stout rope wiring and sparkled as they are several feet long one use for garlands is to twine around pillars centre pieces and doorknockers are made of pine boughs cones etc for the wreaths a metal form is used this being packed with damp moss with a backing of cedar the moss is firmly bound to the form with wire then short sprays of pine are firmly pushed into the moss the form of the largest wreath lewis makes is 3 feet in diameter and when finished this wreath measures 4 feet across up until two years ago there was no flocking done here in floral work but friends who had seen it at a los angeles convention recommended it and don has been doing it ever since included in this treatment are flower pots and tin containers in all colours for holding funeral bouquets don started in the christmas ever green business about ten years ago and his entire trade is unique a mrs schubert does something similar at bradford but on a smaller scale in the summer don grows flowers to sell in toronto flower shops and a partner sells them he also does landscape work the business is expanding and the lewis workshop becomes more and more cramped partic ularly for storage space so the proprietor is developing two ideas what he will originate for next on short branches of pine and i years trade and what type of these are sometimes spraypainted i larger place will suit his needs mother and son both pass away the same day death struck a double blow to year in vineland he was twice the jos b reesor family on satur- married in 191l to lydia ann day when doth mr reesor and weber who predeceased him in his mother mrs tillman reesor j ioss and in 1049 to lena fretz passed away within hours of each other mrs reesor was ninetyone years of age her son joseph had been taken to hospital to undergo hospital treatment and passed away there suddenly the tillman reesor farm is a family landmark on the 8th con of markham and the elderly mothers counsel and christian home are wellknown to many throughout tae district she had been bedfast for two years born in the township where she passed away the late mrs reesor married tillman reesor in 1ss0 the couple farmed in mark- ham for more than half a century with the exception of three years spent in scarborough township death separated the couple sn march 1033 deceased was a staunch member of the mennonito faith surviving is one son albert reesor and a daughter ida mrs jos hoover eleven grand children and three great grand children the funeral was conducted from the late home on monday nov 27th with public service in the wideman mcnnonite church aaron grove and elmer burk- holder conducted the service and the pallbearers were edwin byer walter byer wesley wideman russell grove clifford king and jacob shank joseph b reesor was born in markham twp fiftyeight years ago and has spent his entire life time there with the exception of a reeve henry ogden of stouff ville was returned to oltice by acclamation at the annual nomin ation meeting held in the munici pal hall on friday evening all members of his council harry ratelift glenn ratelift harold spofford and reg stouffer were re nominated along with john scott an excouncillor who will contest a seat when the annual election is held on monday dec uth mrs neil smith and len wilkes were reelected to the stoulfville public school board by acclama tion and the vacancy caused by the withdrawal of frank riches who has served for a number of years was filled by robt bone l e oneill was reelected to the cemetery commission by acclamation only a very small handful of rate payers turned out for the nomina tion meeting partly due to the snow storm that raged about that time and also due to the fact that the 1950 council had turned iri a good job and residents appeared satisfied with their administration reeve henry ogden told his audience that the work of council was growing along with the growth of the town he touched briefly on county matters and stated that the county road com mission had now promised to pave 500 feet of roadway on main st from the 10th east next spring the commission has been prom ising to do this job all through 1950 in speaking of roads he reveal ed that the county will bring two large portable scale outfits into service in the spring to handle the increased truck traffic and keep it within the load limit councillor glenn rateliff stated that there had been a heavy expenditure in his department the town waterworks he mentioned the new secondary line brought into town in the northwest residential section he stated that this line would be ultimately com pleted to edward st and thence it runs south to main st giving an alternate water line into town and a great saving in time of shut- offs he also cited the installation of the new heavyduty pump at the reservoirs to handle the new addi tional services and the large quantities of water used at the arena in connection with the local hydro department the matter of the 60cycle changeover was mentioned and a surplus of 17000 shown in the financial statement was said to be ample to cover the cost of this changeover in stoulf ville councillor harry rateliff spoke briefly on the town walks and revealed that the contractor who placed the new asphalt surface on some of the sidewalks will be back in the spring to apply another and smoother coating to these walks there had been some dissatisfaction concerning the work done in connection with the find mans death was accidental reeve henry odgen streets some 1500 yards of gravel had been used in bringing the roadways up to their present good condition councillor reg stouffer stated that there was little he could add to that already covered by the previous speaker in his depart ment councillor spofford stated that lie had taken part in the establish ment of the new community centre board under which plan the municipality received a grant for park purposes in regard to the new county health unit mr spofford voiced the opinion that additional municipalities would no doubt join once the unit was oper ating and he believed it would prove a valuable asset to the community john scott nominated for the office of councillor stated that he would be a candidate for office he told the audience that he believed he had been unjustly dealt with last year in the matter of receiving a nomination hoover who survives him he was a school trustee at dicksons hill and a member of the mcnnonite church surviving are nine children three sons lewis david and john reesor and six daughters mary martha annie mrs harold mcdonald eva mrs paul burk- holder esther and ruth a brother albert reesor a sister ida mrs jos hoover and three grandchildren the funeral on tuesday was conducted from the wideman church by aaron grove and elmer burkholder pallbearers were a brain stouffer walter byer wesley wideman russell grove clifford king and jacob shank and interment in the wide- man cemetery ratepayers turn down school site the proposed new public school site for school section no 1 whit church township was turned down 22s on tuesday evening in a vote of the eligible ratepayers of the section the proposed site for the 100000 public school was the copenan property on the south wilcox lake road better known as the old wm smith place the price was 1500 the matter will now go to a board of arbitration with geo gourley representing the rate payers fred lynn the school trustees and mr mckillop public school inspector office staff asks more money shelved whitchurch township office staff- including clerk john craw ford assistant clerk les harper and assessor fred cummings appealed to council for a boost in salary at the last regular council meeting on thursday evening council recently granted pay increases to all members of the road staff council suggested that the matter be turned over to the finance committee for study and the setting up of a definite wage scale mr cummings objected to this procedure on the grounds that this move was too late in view of the fact all other members of the township staff had already received increase no action was taken jj w f kincaid of unionville dead funeral service was conducted at central united church on tues day afternoon for william frede rick kincaid who passed away at his residence in unionville on saturday nov 25th he was in his 86th year mr kincaid farmed for many years on lot 9 con 5 markham twp moving to this district from madoc in 1933 mr and mrs kin caid the former rebecca jane staubury purchased a residence in the village of upionville where they have resided until the pre sent time they were both active members of central united disposes of farm will go to states a finding of accidental death with a rider that no blame was attached to anyone was made last week by a coroners jury at pick ering inquiring into the death of william james petty 35 farmer petty was killed in a freak accident on the morning of novem ber 11 as he dug in a shallow gravel pit on the farm of joe amos rouge hills an overhang ing chunk of earth fell on his head killing him instantly dr f a cuddy of whitby pre sided at the inquest and crown attorney r d humphreys kc conducted the examination first witness was dr houghton of markham he found that the mans head had been badly crush ed by a chunk of packed earth about three and a half feet long and 15 inches deep this earth was part of a former roadway above where petty was digging gravel the excavation was less than six feet deep and the undermine wis only about two feet but the man must have been in a bending position when the earth fell working close by were douglas alves and grant burkholdir these men told the jury that they had not actually seen the earth- fall with difficulty they extricated petty we didnt hear a sound except a small fall of earth said alves the inquest was called at the request of the dept of mines which has technical jurisdiction over gravel pits the witnesses were shown a sign which is sup posed to be posted in all gravel pits warning of the danger of earth falls owner of the pit joe amos said i bought the place last spring i didnt know that the department of mines existed as far as gravel pits are concerned how is a man supposed to know these things the coroner agreed that most of us would tend to disregard such signs in doing work we thought was routine chief of police l w trinnell investigated in the chiefs opin ion the man may have been killed by the handle of his shovel which struck his head when the chunk of earth fell on it while he was lift ing a load members of the jury panel com prised john quigg edward smith roy degeer reginald john ston and joseph houston the sale was negotiated this week by ken campbell represent ative of w j warren real estate of the bruce johnson farm just north of ringwood in whitchurch township the new owner is jan falkowski of gormley who recent ly disposed of a farm at the rear of the a s farmer property the farm of approximately 90 acres was the original johnson place and the solid brick dwelling was erected bv mr johnsons grandfather the house has modern conveniences there is a stream on the property and two flowing wells mr johnson is giving up farming for health reasons and will locate in the united states mr falkowski was a member of the polish airforce during the last war only four running in markham township four candidates are seeking election for the three council seats in markham township chas hooper w l clark alf james and w j lennox robt rae did not qualify to stand as reported elsewhere in this issue in the ac count of the nomination meeting morning aiatinee at the stanley owing to the santa claus par ade in stouffville on saturday dec 9th the matinee at the stan ley theatre will be held in the morning at 10 oclock rather than the usual afternoon hour the hour is being changed so the child ren will not miss the fine abbott and costello comedy foreign legion nearly 500 in sheep claims paid at whitchurch council the largest sheep claim placed before the council of whitchurch township was tabled on thursday evening at the regular meeting and passed for payment the total church and were interested in all amount of claims was 49400 w municipal affairs mr kincaid served on the board of health up until his illness surviving besides his wife are one daughter mrs e h hump hrey freda toronto and three grandchildren one son frank predeceased his father several years ago pallbearers were messrs w j spears b hurrell percy stiver jos bond gordon ogden and r j thomson interment was made in aurora cemetery someone to get new cab dec 0 some lucky person is going to win a new 1950 pontiac at the annual stouffville lions club carnival in the arena next wed nesday night dec gth in addition to the big draw therell be skating races for the youngsters costume prizes figure skating by members of toronto skating bantam hockey it anderson lot 22 con 4 claim ed payment to the amount of 419 made up of five ewes 105 nine lambs 141 four sheep injured 100 twenty sheep injured 20 thirty sheep injured 30 and flock damage 20 the balance of the large account was for three sheep killed at lot 9 con g the property of miss g neighorn a delegation from bethesda united church waited on council concerning a new culvert which is needed in front of the church and which council intends to extend across the sideroad to the south cost of the new culvert pipe is 220 per foot council suggested that the church men take the job of installing the entire pipe and the price of their labor would be deducted from the price of the 30 club and i feet of pipe which they are exp led to pay for in front of the this figure church property clarence atkinson a member of the delegation stated that the gen eral public really had more use from the culvert than the church people i must agree with that stated councillor timbers but if we start doing it for one we might have to put one in free for some one else we pay taxes and well have to pay for it in the end anyway commented fred allen after some further discussion the councils suggestion for the installation of the pipeline was agreed on clerk john crawford read to council the latest figures from the current equalized assessment appeal case wnich has been up for hearing in toronto the latest equalized assessment figure for whitchurch township is 1600000 approximately and would bring a county levy in 1951 of 9000 as agaiast 14000 in 1950 council believed the settlement favorable and agreed to accept