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fouffrille ftrtbirae vol to xo 46 the tribune stouffville oxt march 2s 1954 judge orders new pickering election cnltinesman has 37 years service last week mr geo hutch inson a resident on rupert st stouffville made his final inspection trip as cnr sec tion foreman between mark- ham and goodwood on mon day he was presented with a set of carpenters tools mr hutchinson started working on the section in 1017 with headquarters in mark- ham he later became section foreman at mount albert goodwood and finally at stouffville in 193s during his 37 years as a cxr em mr hutch inson had a number of thrill durin past 37 yeas and ties have construe- repair fiftysix have now ih ing experiences he tells how j heavier rail a few years ago the section- been used in track men thought nothing of walkjtion and ing to markham or goodwood pound rails in weather as cold as 35 deltepiaeed by rails weighing grees below zero he recalls 100 pounds and soft wood ties one cold winter night when a j weighing fifty pounds have torontobound passenger train j been replaced by 150 pound was marooned for six hours i ties in huge snow drifts between in commemen goodwood it was nearly 2 oclock in the this friday and stouffville and crossing on stoutlvilles main mr hutchinson replied stduffville high schools been i annual commencement exer cises will be held this friday evening march 26th in the veterans memorial hall at s pm there will be presenta tion of diplomas prizes and on the rough i awards and numbers by the morning before the train was need the snow tanks were so high that one could touch the telegraph wires juite easily mr hutchinson was involv ed in only one accident in his 37 years on the line one day his motordriven inspection car was hit by a freight before the men were able to remove it from the track xo one was injured although the car was damaged the motorcar was replaced by a handpumper and it took nearly two hours to travel the six mile route between markham and stouff ville that extensive repair work was almost impossible due to heavy traffic which continu ally passed through town he said however he believed that the crossing was to be fixed this summer in retiring from the rail road mr hutchinson regrets parting company with the other employees mr irwin holley and mr clarence la- geer although the new fore man has not been appointed mr mel newell of blackwater is filling in at the present time mr hutchinson has one daughter mrs albert jelly a resident in orillia george tran reached his 99th year on thursday march isth mr george tran wellknown and highly respected resident on the sth concession of pick ering passed away after a brief illness the late mr tran was born at cedar grove where he farm ed for a time before moving to his farm home in pickering he had resided there for over forty years there were always two ev ents during the year that mr tran seldom missed the one being markham fair and the other the international plow ing match mr tran served as president on the markham fair board a number of years ago he was also a prize plow man in his day while in good health he attended the united church at locust hill he leaves to mourn his pas sing two sons gardham of markham and david on the home farm there are also four daughters mrs w a i thompson and mrs wm max well both of markham mrs i geo cowie of stouffville and mrs e d sharpe of sheridan wyoming funeral service was held on monday afternoon at the loc ust hill united church at 2 oclock conducted by rev 1 molachlan assisted by rev king of locust hill and rev lunau of toronto with inter ment in the adjoining cemet ery the pall bearers were rus sell burkholder earl graham joe tran karl cowie giles tran and lome tran girl struck by car on way to school wendy yunkers 6 who re sides at the home of mr car son wideman mount joy was struck by a car while crossing the highway on her way to school on wednesday morn ing the auto a new cadillac was driven by mr anthony defalco operator of falco motors st clair ave w tor- more cases moved to newmarket court york county court at new market is being enlarged and court will now sit three days each week tuesday thurs day and friday this court will now handle cases from the wnole of york county and markham and vaughan township cases hitherto sent to willowdale court addi tional help for the magis trates office is being adver tised for onto the driver in attempt ing to avoid collusion swerved his car into the ditch and roll ed it over the vehicle was badly damaged but the driver was uninjured two other students shirley middleton and rita sherwood both age 12 attempted to warn the girl of the approaching car but their calls were not heard in time the injured girl was taken to dr rjm pilkey for first aid treatment and was then rushed to the sick child rens hospital toronto school choir and brass trio feature presentation will be a oneact play the gossip three local business places murpliy motors ltd harolds grill and the stouffville tri bune have presented the school with handsome plaques to be hung in the new high school building and these will be presented on friday even ing by the donors the pla ques which will receive new names each year are for both sport and academic recogni tion annexation bylaw okd by municipal board subject to receipt of a new description of the properly in o simplified form no opposition was voiced a gainst the annexation of ap proximately fifty acres of the timbers farm just west of town when application was heard before representatives of the ontario municipal board here on wednesday morning messrs rli yeates and c f nuiin represented the board at the conclusion of the hear ing chairman yeates stated that the order would be effect ive 2s clays from the date of receipt of a new description of the property being annexed in more simplified form walter smith auction one of largest walter smith cashel who will move to the home on the 10th con formerly the es tate of the late henry dyck held one of the largest farm i auctions last week of this pring season the total re ceipts ran close to 10000 and the great crowd milled about from noon until nearly 530 the high cow realized 365 and the average for the fine dairy herd was 200 a case tractor sold for s990 a side de livery rake for 235 and mixed grain for 235 a cwt a sow and pigs brought 235 and pigs just weaned about 20 each young sows found ready buy ers at 90 each next to the tractor the larg est single implement sale was the threshing machine at s00 township may be without a council for several months clerk believes couple wed twextiafive years a large group of friends gathered at the home of mr and mrs wes wideman at dicksons hill on saturday evening when thus couple marked their 25th wedding an niversary a buffet supper was enjoyed followed by a program under the leadership of pastor rev h- shantz mr eldon jr and miss merla lehman de lighted the group with music on the violin cornet and the piano mr and mrs wideman were presented with a number of gifts befitting the silver an- niversary among the guests were mr and mrs geo war- kentin of dunnvilie mr wes ley sherrick of toronto mrs gunn of toronto mr and mrs eldon lehman eldon jr and miss merla all of toronto mr and mrs henry johnson who celebrated their golden wedding an niversary at their home in iemonville the occasion vas marked by the extend ing of good wishes by their nyny friends and relativ es the couple have spent the greater part of their lives jiear lemonville markham contracts for 100000 gals of road oil the beamish and miller construction companies were the successful tenderers for the annual markham town ship road oil contract which was let on monday night the price will be 22sc per gallon and the large order of approx imately 100000 gallons will be divided between these two wellknown firms markham council received a request from thornhili police village for a detailed list of the services which were being provided by te township tax rate a recommendation was re ceived from the planning board favoring the sale of a small park lot to the north york market farmers the money from such sale accord ing to law mast he placed in a trust fund to be used for larger park development else where in the municipality while council favored the sale it was thought that the solicit or snould be contacted as to proper procedure 300 a bushel for prize oats while the seed entries in york countys 18th annual seed fair were down slightly from last year in the seed grain classes the balance of the show made up for this and there was a full comple ment of eight townships each with three carcasses in the bacon show the latter section of the event is sponsored by the york county hog produc ers association in cooperat ion with the canada depart ment of agricultures live stock and marketing services in the seed section keenest competition was in the regis tered and certified oat class with these ten bushel lots of seeds being sold by auction highest price paid was 300 by w j brodie of stouffville for the new variety of simcoe oats grown by yorks wheat king chas casey of aurora in the bacon show mark ham township carried off not only the intertownship special but also had the champion carcass from leitchcroft farm thornhili the other hogs were supplied by s b watson and howard cosburn both of mark ham the reserve champion carcass was shown by henry- thomas of maple in the vaughan group the afternoon programme presided over by president eu gene lemon of stouffville op ened with the presentation by fred timbers of stouffville chairman of the county agri cultural committee of the trophy for the 75 bushel corn club to allan hoover of gorm- ley w s mcmullen of the mar keting service urged greater use of advanced registry breed ing stock as a means of im proving our bacon hogs the fact that at the testing station litters from sows on test are grading os to 71 on an aver age in recent years shows what can be accomplished from good breeding these hogs are grown and developed on bal anced rations and for the past two years on self feeding which has only slightly reduc ed the grade as compared with hand feeding but a consider able saving of labour more than offset this in a judgment handed down on friday afternoon his honor judge j e prit- chard ruled that the munici pal election held in pickering township in december last was invalid and directed that the township clerk take steps to hold a new election during the sixday hearing held about a month ago evidence relat ing to 29 alleged irregularities in the election were cited his honor said having regard to the other irregular ities which i find have been established by the evidence 1 have come to the conclusion that the applicant has satisfied the onus cast upon him and that these findings establish numerous and important vio lations of the provision of the act relating to the taking of the vote and that these departures from the statutory requirements are of such a character that it seems impos sible to say that the election has been conducted in accord ance with the principals of the act and that the results of the election nas not been effected bylaw xot considered the allegations of irregular ities were brought by gerald allman of claremont his honor in a 21page judgment held that the water bylaw which was voted upon at the election and which was favor ed by the electors was not brought into issue and con sequently i have no jurisdic tion to deal with the matter ballots burned judge pritchard said that he couldnt draw inferences sur rounding the burning of bal lots but added that in his opinion clerk johnston acted most unwisely in destroy ing the ballots while the pos sibility of an attack on the election remained commented his honor i heard considerable evidence regarding the circumstances surrounding the burning of the contents of the ballot boxes which were destroyed on january 19 105 as appears by exhibit 17 as stated during the inquiry t am not prepared to draw any inferences from this fact ad verse to the respondents par ticularly since 1 rind on the evidence that none of the respondents directly or indi rectly authorized their des truction i am satisfied that the clerk acting on the advice of the township auditor riehl destroyed the contents of his own volition in my opinion he acted most unwisely in doing so while the possibility of an attack upon the election still remained notwithstand ing the provisions of section 15s section 13s states that the clerk after he has re ceived the ballot papers and statements of the number of votes given at each polling place without opening any of the sealed packets of ballot papers shall cast up from the statements the number of votes for each candidate and he shall also put up in some conspicuous place a statement under his hand showing the number of votes for each candidate the judgment stated that the allegation that a raffle on a doll was carried on in a polling booth was proved he also agreed that persons were present in a polling booth during the taking of tha vote and at the counting of the ballots without being sworn contrary to the provi sions of the municipal vet i am satisfied on the evid ence that the ballot boxes were all locked when they were returned to the clerk and remained locked until the contents of the respecitive boxes were destroyed on jan 10 1951 1 am equally satisfied the clerk failed to seal any of the ballot boxes with his own seal after they were returned to him as required by section 130 of the municipal act i therefore find the allegation proved in part his honor found there was no evidence of improper instructions given to any deputy returning officer as to how voters should vote or that any poll clerks were not sworn however he found that certain agents were not sworn the evidence his honor continued does not satisfy me that any eligible voters were prevented from voting because of any failure to com ply with the act ho found on the evidence that voting cards were used by one or two individual voters but on the whole the allegation that this practice was used by many voters was not proven his honor stated in the judgment that the allegation that several voters marked their ballots together was proven with respect to poll no 11 only councillors meanwhile are undecided whether to appeal the decision most of them be lieve the simplest and less costly way round it would be to hold another election and let the people decide reeve todd expressed sur prise on hearing the election was invalid and questioned the integrity of the accusers in view of the way things have gone he said 1 cant help but think that the group continued on page g be sure to read the page and a half of classified advs in this weeks issue mrs lc parkinson from digby pines ns visited with mr and mrs telf rennie on tuesday bob corbett son of mr bert corbett local station agent suffered it broken leg while playing in the grounds of the stouffville public school bob is a grade 8 student thos reesor farmer and mennonite minister dead the 2nd annual conference of the ontario nursery educat ion association was held at hamilton on friday and sat urday march is and 19 as delegates from stouffville helen dewitt represented the staff and mary siapley the parents of our local nursery school john bradshaw farm rad io commentator over cfrb was the special speaker at the regular meeting of the mark ham township federation of agriculture at victoria square hall cecil belyea of the on tario federation also spoke born 87 years ago on the family farm near the scarboro- markham townline thomas reesor passed away quietly in his sleep last weekend in the same house in which he has spent his entire lifetime he- had been in good health prac tically all his life although he suffered a stroke a few years back but had apparently re covered he was an only son his father being a mennonite bishop before him mr reesor preached at the reesor mennonite church in markham township until a couple of years ago being or dained in 1911 he was excep tionally wellknown all through this district and was very prominent in the mennonite group where he founded the re lief organization mr reesor also helped with the coloniza tion work of the sect and in 192i was instrumental in set tling a group of russian men- noniies near kapuskasing a community here still bears his name he is survived by a son amos of scarboro township three daughters mrs esther weber of elmira mrs allan wide- man of stouffville mrs isaac baker of maple 13 grandchild ren and two great grandchild ren the fun ral on tuesday morning was largely attended by the ministerial body of the district as well as other con ferences services were con ducted at the house and at the reesor church presiding minister was fred nighswan- dor of altona and assisting were abram smith and cecil reesor visiting ministers who took part in the services were paul hoover indianna amsey martin waterloo district mos es hurst ohio and banks horning pennsylvania pall bearers were all grandsons of the deceased john and george reesor and alvin baker of markham township and nor man edwin and melvln we ber elmira interment was made in the reesor cemetery