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ie touffwlk rilmtie the tribune stouffville ont june children and officials help with tree planting lccal women demand places on town jury list i communication from mrs n c baycroft and mrs geo dewsbury are seen here with cliff wall- work of hallamrae on the shovel setting out one of the new maples planted on coronation day at whitchurch twp com munity park opening all three are members of the community centre board in the picture on the right hc baycroft plan ning board member and former councillor is seen holding a new spruce while harold brown works the shovel and children of the vandorf school look on the trees were donated bv harold botham mr ranke and ceo richardson dur ing the afternoon the park was officially opened by exwarden c e toole ex- reeve lome evans was the master of cere monies and reeve ivan mclaughlin gave the ad dress of welcome f a lashley deputy minister of agriculture oke to the large gathering i oth ers participating in the op ening ceremonies were rev e c moddle rev mcginn and rev norman rowan the entertainment portion of the program was provided by the bake hill octette the stoiiffville quartette harvey evans clem ellas and two short playlets dancing followed in the hall in the evening tp- over hall million in markham building in month building in markham town ship was valued at well over the half million dollar mark the regular report of building inspector ross norton reveal ed at mondays council meet ing the exact figure for the month was 8613200 covering building for fortyfour permits largest permit was issued for the markham high school at a cost of 31750 a pjermit of in terest locally was islted to sti ver bros unionville for a new office and store valued at 10- 000 councillor lennie asked for a report on the new market building to be erected at thorn- hill stating that as yet no sod had been turned and rate payers were beginning to ask how long business was to be carried on in the tents reeve timbers reported that the blocks for the building would be on the site this week and the building would be commen ced within ten days and accord- ng to the builder would be completed by oct 1st alex ratcliff buys top price bull the markham twp cor onation day parade held at unionville on tuesday afternoon contained many colorful floats pictured a- bove are two of the eve- catching spectacles which formed part of the long procession the top float was entered bv button- ville w i headed by the president mrs charles hooper the queen was portrayed by miss ellen hooper another dazzling entry was presented by the cnionville horticultur al society standing on either side of the huge crown is miss elizabeth barker headford left and miss jean warren union- ville on the right a huge crowd turned out for the celebration and openair service which followed in the unionville memorial park the address was de livered by rev ws butt of the cnionville united church with rev e f fischer rev pr barley and rev f bournes also taking part various sport ing activities fireworks and other forms of enter tainment followed later in the day bowling alley proposed for musselmans lake it was revealed at the regul ar meeting of whitchurch township council on thursday evening that an application had been made to the town ship planning board by george villemere to erect a bowling alley eating establishment and living quarters combined near winsome corner east end of musselmans lake the pro- ik i building would be wxdo erected on two lots council discussed the matter a some length sjnd instructed the clerk to prepare a bylaw to license bowling alleys as it was be lieved that some definite con trol should be maintained over such businesses councillor sid legco spoke strongly in favour of the bus iness as good clean sport the question of a traffic hazard was raised by reeve mclaughlin stating that the heavy traffic to contend with would only be on saturday nights i dont think we should be come dictators about letting people start business declar er deputyreeve timbers if the building complies with our bylaws and we have power to license i cant see anything against it said coun cillor mccarron i miss ruby wideman passes in west word was received by local relative- on friday of last week that miss ruby wideman a resident of castor alberta had passed away at the age of 33 years she was the daughter of mr wilmot wideman and the late sarah moyer the de ceased has two sisters mrs w annett a resident of british columbia and frances at home five years aco miss wideman visited with the mover and wideman families in this dist rict and following her trip east he remained here with relatives for over two months funeral service were held on monday alex ratcliff stouffville rr paid the top price of s310 for a holstein bull at the annual of fering of heifers and bulls from the ontario hospital herds and from the ontario reformatory herd at guelph the sale was held in markham township at langstaff with s2 head bringing 22690 the bull purchased by mr ratcliff was an eleven month old animal consigned by the ontario hospital woodstock the ten head from the on tario reformatory at guelph averaged 3g7 nine head went to us buyers top price of the day was 500 paid by r j steele creemore ont for a bred heifer consigned by the ontario reformatory she was org senapos reecho count ess dixon eraser brampton bought three bred heifers one at sit one at 100 and the other at 275 top price for a hospital an imal was 13o paid by h x weatherill son unionville for a bred heifer from the on tario hospital at woodstock weatherill son also bought another bred heifer at 320 mooredene farms breslau ont bought a bred heifer at 135 and another at 375 the highest price paid for an open heifer was 235 this am ount being bid bv o careiv cameron ont the womens institute receiv ed by stouffville municipal council on monday evening a demand was made that local women be given their chance t serve on jury a right which was given them in recent gov ernment legislation however up until now no stouffville la dies have been added to the local jury list which is made up each year by the clerk and reeve of the municipality commenting on the matter reeve ogden stated that he had checked with neighbour ing municipalities on the mat ter and it was not believed too mam women had either the time nor inclination to act in such capacity there was brief discussion on the subject but no policy was specified by council belfrey hamilton and mr fl button solicitor appeared jiefore council with a request that council waive the regula tions of the local subdivision bylaw in order that a twoacre parcel of land adjacent to the cxr tracks and owned by mrs o burkholder could be sold to mr hamilton mr but ton stated that the land would be purchased under the veter ans land act which forbade its transfer or dividing for a long term council dealt at some length with the matter and agreed that no action be taken until the planning board was established it seems too bad to set up a planning board and at the same time do away with one of their best industrial sites commen ted councillor ratcliff wed be starting something by breaking the bylaw said councillor daniels the walks and streets com mittee will shortly make an inspection of tiie walks in town in preparation for repair ing certain sections requests have also been received for an extension of the main st side walk on the north side to the 9th con corner and this is ex pected to be done municipal board authorizes sale of school bonds it was announced at the reg ular meeting of whitchurch township council on thurs day evening that the municip al board had given their final approval for the issuing of de bentures to cover the cast of the new stouffville district high school construction of which is expected to commence this month council agreed to call for bids on the 100000 bond issue to be received not later than june 12th due to the aurora horse show being held on the regular council meeting day saturday june 13th the meet ing will be held on the evening of june 12th and the matter of the issuing of the bonds will be settled at that time the stouffville district board last week engaged another new teacher to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of mr lloyd oliver mrs e m manson formerly of the dun- dalk staff and more recently engaged with the department of education in toronto will fill the position a x xou xcem ext mr and mrs john a nighs- wander will be at home to their friends on friday evening june 12th from 7 to 11 oclock on the occasion of their 35th wedding anniversary mr geo gunn is presently making his home with his daughter in belleville and is in very poor health friends will rearot to learn engagement mr and mrs vincent baker announce the engagement of their daughter lois georglna to howard eli budd on of mr and mrs levi budd the marriage will take place on saturday june 20th at 3 oclock at maple drive farm wcodville ontario five bible schools for whitchurch this summer lemonville united church was filled at the three sessions cf the whitchurch township sunday school convention which was held on thursday may 2sth the theme was crowing christ king of kings and lord of lords and this was divided into three addresses in the morning the subject how can the individual crown christ king was taken by rev norman rowan the afternoon the address how can the sun day school crown christ king was given by rev gibson brown and in the evening the address wastiow can the commonwealth of nations crown christ king given to rev c hunking all these speakers referred to the cor onation of our queen in keep ing with this celebration a discussion period in charge of rev e c moddle proved very helpful to the sunday school workers each sunday school was to send in a report asking questions or- problems which face them and also benefits that the teacher receives when teaching devotionals during the day were given by mr clarence doner rev a doggett and mr merton toole various reports were given and mrs f stecklev reported on home and visitation rev e c moddle and mr roy fockler reported on the two church vacation bible schools that were held at wesley unit ed church and vivian church last summer there are prospects though that the five bible schools will be held throughout the township this summer rev gibson brown reported on the religious education in public schools and said that there were only thee schools in the township that were not visited bv the ministers mrs clifford burkholder gave an account of two girls rallies that were held during the past year and the increased inter est here mrs wm empring- ham gave an interesting ac count of the missionary work done in the various sunday scroola miionarv sunday school is a successful one the president mr lloyd grose reported visitations made to all twelve sunday schools those taking part in this visit ation were mr harrv west mr fred vake and mr roy fockler the secretary mrs g mot ley reported a definite increase in the enrolment in the schools of the township vivian show ed the largest increase rev e morton of stouff- ville conducted the election of officers as follows president lloyd grose viv ian vice fred yake bethesda nursery roll- and childrens aiv mrs earl grose vivian girls div mrs clifford burk holder bethesda boys div murray pipher ringwood y pu miss rita rae vivian assist yp miss dorothy wagg bloomington adult div mrs chester pattenden assist adult iv mrs alan doner conn- ley total abstinence div mrs wm kingdom wesley assist total abstinance lack baber of wesley miss div mrs wm empringham bethesda home and visitation mrs fred steck- ley ringwood assist claren ce doner gormley church va cation bible school rev e c i markham township considers pensions a representative of the xortn american life assurance co appeared before markham twp council on monday afternoon and will prepare a suggested pension plan for township em ployees such plans are contri buted to by both the township and the employee a communication from the york county health unit in formed council that of all the municipalities from whom a request wis made for a 25c per capita additional health unit levy was made only markham had failed to remit a resolution to c igage j howard as township engineer at a salary of 4100 was tabled until the reeve and deputy teeve consult with margison and babcock who have been handling township engineer ing problems for some years mr howard is a resident of box grove and is presently em ployed by searboro township it was announced that a pub lic hearing on the opposed by law prohibiting the swillfeed ing of hogs in markham town ship will be held at unionville on june 11th at 930 am deputyreeve lemasurier questioned thi reason why an agreement passed on feb kith with markham village for a fire area had no been signed the cierk was instructed to have the agreement signed on feb 16ti with one small change to be made declared the deputyreeve the agreement was produc ed forthwith the changa made and signed mrs c carruthers buried thursday on monday june 1st mrs charles carruthers of mark ham the former beatrice mid- dleton passed away in the toronto east general hospit al funeral services were con ducted on thursday afternoon with interment in park lawn cemetery she is survived by four brothers fred gus a1- bert and armour recent visitors at the home of mr and mrs lloyd moyer church st were mr and mrs fred kirktown and kathleen of blaekfolds alberta mr and mrs fred mcquarrie and lloyd mcquarrie of dundalk mi and mrs des rosiers and piicilla pipher also mr and moddle wesley and mt pis- 1 mrs m bricker and mr and gah and roy fockler vivian mrs bill kitching of toronto t whitchurch passes bylaw to control setting of fires whitchurch township coun cil gave three readings and final passage on thursday ev ening to a bylaw setting forth the times at which a fire may be set in the open air and the controls which must be taken to see that the fire is kept within bounds the bylaw provides that ratepayers may set out grass fires only between the hours of six in the morning and nine atnight when such fires are set the police chief must be not ified an adult must be in at tendance at the fire at all times and must have proper equipment at hand for exting uishing it a 50 penalty is provided for any breach of the bylaw tenders were opened for gar bage collection at the three township lakes with ken ash the successful bidder three tenders were received for the contract and prices to be paid are for wilcox lake 2100 for musselmans lake 800 and for prestons lake 200 council asks minister to establish stouffville as a planning area stouffville municipal coun cil took the first step on mon evening towards the setting up of a planning board by unan imous resolution council re quested the minister of plan ning and development to do- fine stouffville as a planning area once this request has been granted council can pro ceed with the establishment of ine board having either four six or eight members its certainly a step in the right direction commented councillor booth reeve ogden asked for coun cil action in connection with the proposed sewer survey and it was agreed that the matter should be left for final deci- budget was will be june siori when the drawn up which 22nd geek brown drew to councils attention some laxities in their building restrictions and reeve ogden reported that he did not believe that building inspect or chas atkinson was anxious to continue the job council discussed action in having the bylaw regulations more string ently enforced but no decision was reached under recommendation by the property committee two new street lights will be in stalled one on somerhlll ave near the park and the other at the rear of the nortnside business section