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iouffuille nbnme i vol 05 no the tribune stouffville ont july 30 1953 first store here over 75 years ago council moves to ban sunday dancing in whitchurch twp -fioi-s- vv mr doner stands before store he has operated for over 30 years x doner family gives up storekeeping at gormley jn 1923 mr samuel n doner purchased the gormley store a landmark which had served the hamlet for over seventyfive years now after thirty years of ownership the business has been sold to mr and mrs charles milsted of queensville the new owners will take over on saturday august 1st although there are no definite records to relate the exact origin of the store it is known that in the year 1s90 the business was operated by mr colin mclcenzie he later moved to toronto and robert johnston took over other pro prietors have been john v wilson cecil keyes and e j webb in 1935 a disastrous fire swept through the store and adjoining house destroying practically everything follow ing the outbreak contractor mr clarence steckley and four carpenters stuart duncan geo lyons walter beynen and harvey bond commenced work on the new structure which was erected in four months at a cost of 8500 the new establishment is some what larger than the former place of business and two years ago the interim was completely modernized in 1915 the business was taken over by mr allan b doner mr samuel doner has oper ated the post office in gormley for the past thirty years and expects to continue in this iiie of work when he first took over the mail back in the early 1900s distribution was made by horse and buggy in the summer and by sleigh in the winter now the two routes are covered by truck the corner where the store is sit uated was often a very busy centre as the 4th concession read did not veer to the east as it does now but passed directly in front of mr doners house and store mr sb doner has always been a regular attendant at the gormley united mission ary church where he has served as deacon for the past thirty years there are two sons and one daughter in the doner family earl on the 10th concession of markham near mongolia allan and grace although mr samuel doner expects to continue on the mail routes mr and mrs allan doner will leave for the african mission field in september mr and mrs alex heather- wick of toronto visited on sunday with their cousin miss a duncan mrs heatherwick is remaining for a week mr and mrs donald moyer karen helen and iai visited on saturday at the home of mr and mrs lloyd moyer church street progconservative picnic in the stouffville park next wed nesday new school is proposed for the vivian section at a meeting of the rate payers of whitchurch school section no 5 vivian last week it was agreed by a vote of fourteen to twelve that a new school should be erected there clerk jack crawford who attended the meeting made this announcement to council on thursday evening there was considerable debate on the advisability of adding to the present school or erect ing a new structure but residents of cherry st were said to strongly favour the latter proposal fifty six pupils lire presently attending the school it is estimated that a new tworoom school will cost from 5s000 to 510000 and would he erected on a fouracre site much closer to the sth con the expenditure is considered quite considerable for the section which has but 92531 assessment it was further pointed out that public school inspector hallman s of the opinion that whitchurch twp may stand to lose 10000 to 12000 n school grants under the newlyconstituted county of york in connection with she vivian school the con struction grant would be reduced from s1 o 70 for rjn whijohuich recent ly joined with other munici- polities in making representa tion to the department of education for a more equitable school grant arrangement than that set forth in bill so some mention was made during the school discussion of the sth concession becoming a fourlane highway since it has been assumed by the pro vincial road system however reeve mclaughlin believed this was looking considerably into the future a deputation from fergus ave wilcox lake waited on ccuncil with a petition for road improvement and ditch ing the street is not in the township system and would toe paid for directly by the ratepayers concerned council cgreed to provide an estimate on the work required and a representative of the group was asked to return at the next meeting an estimate of 1000 was presented to council as the probable cost of lowering the large cuhert crossing yonge st at oak ridges and which is backing up the water on the whitchurch side as it is presently located this long standing job is to be proceeded with shortly welknown painter and decorator dead funeral service will be con ducted from the le oineill funeral chapel this thursday afternoon at 2 oclock for the late harmon hoover baker ave stouffville although in precarious health for some time mr hoovers death late monday afternoon july 27th came quite sudden ly he had suffered a coronary thrombosis on sunday and al though he rallied slightly for a time he passed away the fol lowing day harmon hoover was in his 65th year deceased had been a resident of stouffville for the past thir ty years and has been engaged in the painting and decorating for the past quarter century prior to coming to town mr hoover farmed on the 7th con of markham he has been a most active worker in the stouffville united church and served several terms on the church board mr hoover was also serving his second term as cemetery comissioner arid was chairman of this body while not participating in any sports deceased was an ard ent follower of the various stcuffville teams in baseball and hockey resides his wife the former edith mcmullen deceased is survived by one daughter blanche imrs archie stover of milverton and two grand children there also survive three brothers tilman jacob and albert and three sisters mrs ab smith markham twp mrs jake wideman bethesda and mrs john grove sth con the funeral on thursday af ternoon will be conducted by rev douglas davis and inter ment will be made in the stouffville cemetery because of various com plaints and councils desire to maintain what still remains of the sabbath day whitchurch council moved on thursday to ban any further public dancing on sunday throughout the township the action stems principally from the poor type clientele which brought into the local summer resorts of wilcox lake and mussulmans lake clerk crawford reported to council that one hall proprietor who had promised to shut down his jute box at supper time continued to operate on into the night and such actions made it undesireable for those who were endeavouring to conduct their business proper ly do you approve of this type of thing on sunday asked reeve mclaughlin well i for one dont leplied councillor graham it only draws the riff raff remarked councillor mccarron you know ive always been against it said deputyreeve timbers i dont see anything wrong in playing the jute tx but not the dancing said councillor legge after further discussion and reports on the situation coun- til instructed clerk crawford to advise all proprietors of public places that there shall le no further dancing on sun day such places are licensed by the municipality and can be governed as to conduct new beach at mussclinuns council was informed by communication on thursday evening of the organization of c new ratepayers organization conservatives active with political activities beginning to warm up as august 10th voting day for the federal election approach es candidates and their work ers are stepping up the tempo ef votegetting besides attending an execu tive meeting at newmarket last monday progressive con servative candidate c a tiny gathers attended a house meeting at the home of lah baxter pine grove num erous other house meetings were attended during the week during which mr gathers also attended the st anthonys church carnival at sutton and the field day at keswick a visit to the redel- meir farm at richmond hill was among the many direct calls made by candidate cath- ers who also met many of the ridings electors at a garden meeting at the home of dick edmunds richmond hill other events included the party staged at schomberg on satur day night when many young- sers were entertained and a weiner roast at the county prk on wednesday he was surprised at the large number ho had turned out to meet ings especially in view of the ho weather said mr gathers fred carruthers spent lifetime on 6th con markham fred james carruthers life long resident of the 6th con of markham passed away on fri day july 24th after being in failing health for some two years the late fred carruth ers was born 62 years ago on the carruthers homestead lot 2 con 6 markham where he died he was a son of william and nancy carruthers mr carruthers has farmed his picturesque markham acre age for over forty years he was identified with the church of christ deceased was well- known in stouffville where he was for many years an enthu siastic member of the lawn bowling club the late mr carruthers was never married surviving are two sisters jennie and mary and a brother harold the funeral on mon day afternoon was conducted by rev geo robins pallbear ers were leslie zimmerman harvey houck peter stickley edgar steckley telfer wagg and alf smith interment was made in the melville cemetery the church hill dr rate payers association at mussel- mans lake mr eric hadfield is the president of the new body and mrs r brown the secretary the group petition ed council for the use of fifty ft of lake frontage opposite the pidgeon establishment at the east end of the lake for use as a beach th land at this end of the lake is owned by the municipality the group agreed to bring in sand and put the beach in order for bathing as soon as permission was given and council agreed need more dust layer wilcox lake golf and coun try club has asked council for additional dust layer for the road from ashs pavilion east load si pt davis reported that two applications of calcium had already been made there and that the township only had five tons left which would not go very far the road bud get which had been reduced this year by the dept of high ways was going down we cant buy dust layer without the money no matter how badly its needed we might have to get more and cut the budget somewhere else we could write the department for more money the roads need more work every year and the department gives us less money to do it with commented councillor legge the road supt revealed that 207050 had been spent in bulldozer work this year and he believed that this was all the budget would stand weed and brush spraying was com pleted jack smith speaks to aurora ladies there is good sense and sound reason behind the slogan for the best years of your life vote liberal said jack smith to an enthusiastic meeting sponsored by the aurora ladies liberal assoc iation monday afternoon it isnt just a catch phrase nor just an election slogan its just a plain statement of fact said the north york member under liberal government policy he said canada has soared to new heights in pop ulation employment produc tion trade and prosperity we have risen to world eminence as the third leading nation in production an ambitious height for a country of less than 15 million people there is no reason why we should not aspire to new heights o progress and prosperity as long as wisdom courage and good government prevail at ottawa canadians everywhere must admit regardless of party that the liberal governments record is an outstanding one this fact said mr smith is reflected in our daily life and everywhere evident through- public meeting for new school dep reeve alf lemasurier and councillor wl clark of markham twp introduced a re solution at a combined meet ing of representatives from markham and vaughan town ships richmond hill wood- bridge and richmond hill high school area board on tuesday evening which stated that due to the high expendi ture involved in the building of a new high school at thorn- hill and the varied opinions presented concerning the type of school required it was there fore desired that the richmond hill high school area board approach the ontario dept of education and request a com plete survey concerning the educational needs of the dis trict the resolution furthei stated that when a recommen dation was received lrom the department a public meeting recommendations with the tax payers reeve marshall mcmur- should be called to discuss the phy of vaughan twp suppos ed the resolution but felt that the motion should be referred back to markham twp for ap proval and separate copies should be forwarded to the o- ther municipalities concerned the amendment carried local plowing match judges readying for show plowing judges fred tin bers wl clark and win tim bers have been making indivi dual tours of eastern counties in preparation for the big in ternational match this fall which is slated for cobourg the judges of ontario hive been meeting for the first time since 1ms in an effort to agre on a more uniform system of scoring the three local men have been visiting counties where coaching classes are startin they report considerable en thusiasm among the farmers with as many as eighteen and twenty out to some classes stouffville kink wins district bowling championship a stouffville bowling rink comprising tom rae murray lord bert lickorish and wr sanders skip captured the district bowling championship on tuesday night at allandale the local rink defeated stay- ner to win the honors f wt rennie was the successful applicant for the position of manager of the stouffville arena and was engaged at a meeting of the company directors on monday night mr ren nie will continue to oper ate the rennie transport business as before native stouffvillite passes in usa the death occurred in mia mi florida on july 25 of fred spofford who was born in stouffville sixty years ago he was stricken suddenly with a heart attack the deceased made his home in the united states for the past thirtytwo years he stud ied at the roya college w dental surgery in toronto and was in guelph during the first world war moving to florida he engaged in the real estate business in st peters burg tampa and finally in mi ami in february 1015 he mar ried barbara schmidt of jeffer son city missouri who sur- ives him there remains one member of the family the youngest margaret mrs rs baker sebring fla which is 165 miles north of miami funeral service for the late cmr spofford was conducted at philbrick chapel miami fol lowing which the deceased was taken to imissouri where services were conducted in the church dr angel of central baptist church miami conduc ted the service the late mr spofford visited briefly in stouffville about three years ago and friends and elder folk will regret to learn that another of the towns old boys has passed away remand youth in fatal shooting charged with the murder of his brother roger coribett 18 of uxbridge was remanded until aug 5 when he appeared ibefore magistrate ebbs in whitby tuesday he was rep resented by aws greer of oshawa corbctt was arrested last week after his brother ted 26 was shot to death in their ux bridge home acting crown at torney george boychyn told the court police still are inves tigating the shooting and that a further remand will ho asked for next week miss dorothy moyer is holi daying in kitchener for the week with relatives- bylaw completed banning garbage from highway fred redshaw dead redshaw richard frederick at oshawa general hos pital on tuesday july 28 1953 richard frederick red shaw husband of cora man tle and father of harold of claremont percy of ashburn daughters alma mrs d coates brooklin phyllis mrs v ellicott lillian mrs lloyd mcgregor joyce mrs melville norrish of brougham marion omrs al lan taylor goodwood rest ing at mceachnies funeral home pickering service in claremont united church 230 pm friday burial claremont union cemetery out north york and canada the meeting was addressed by mrs angus gordon presi dent of the ontario womens liberal association mrs f f greenwood past president and miss laura naughton secretary an interesting film on the life of prime minister st laurent canadas great leader was shown the eppley sisters quin tette from york pa will be at the united missionary church here aug 3rd a bylaw which prohibits the transporting of swill and garbage from other municipal ities into markham township was given the required three readings and passed by coun cil on monday evening the bylaw provides a penalty of 50 for each infraction passing of the bylaw was brought about by the insistence of a large delegation from the 8th con south of markham that something be done to prohibit a swill feeder in thnt vicinity from operating due to the stench being created council had previously attempted to ban pig swill feeders by bylaw and had held a public hearing on the matter but without avail the largo sth con delegation led by elmer fairly and frank robb returned on monday evening tout did not come before coun cil on being informed that the bylaw banning transporting of swill had been parsed mr coslmfn protests mr howard cosburn who keeps what is declared to be one of the cleanest and most- uptodate piggeries anywhere appeared before ouncil and protested vigorously councils action you men dont realize the scope of what youre doing he told council youre putting a man out of business he declared there are other things you can feed pigs or you could get the garbage in markham town ship replied the reeve mr cosburn explained that any good outlets for garbage in markham township were already contracted for the new pigfeeder on the sth concession was a detriment to the business and it would have been better if hed never moved in it was said mr cosburns right de clared deputyreeve lemasur ier you can smell that pace on the 8th con a half a mile away i wouldnt have believed it could be so bad if i hadnt toeen there if all the feeders carried on business as well as you do wed have no complaints said councillor clark we have a dominion government license to do busi ness and were inspected our place doesnt smell said mr coriburn what about your peaviners if you want smell ive worked hard all my life at this business its all i know ive put my life into it why should i be penalized toecause this other man doesnt keep a decent place con tinued mr cosburn mr cosburns solution for the problem was to appeal mast strongly to the health authorities to either clean up such a place as is said to be operating on the 8th con or cut off the license the sth con proprietor appeared in court on monday for contravening the bylaw which requires pigs to be kept at least 400 from the highway the case was adjourned for several weeks