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tffatne classified ads page fourteen vol 53 no 30 the tribune stoltfville thursday december 9 19c4 fourteen pages invention of the telephone no 2 of serif note to mr g l long historian for the be tele phone company of canada the writer is indebted for much of the information that is em bodied in the following cnap- ier alexander graham be was i the first person to dream itau a telephone a far spea ker but he was the person v ho made the dream become a tcality born in scotland graham bell came to canada with his parents and the family estab lished a home near brantford ont the son alexander gra ham bell obtained a position as iacher in a school for deaf mutes that was located in bos ton mass laving an inquisitive mind he wished to understand the physical defects which caused the alliiction from which his students suffered as he came to understand the delicate me- i nanism of the ear and how that mechanism reproduced as sound vibrations that iiad been transmitted through the air to the ear he became con vinced of the possibility of making an instrument that would in like manner trans mit speech apparently when he began his research his ob jective was the production of an instrument that would help the deaf to hear as his re search progressed his objective changed by the year 1st 1 he had de veloped his idea and when home during his summer vaca tion he gave his father a de tailed description of an instru ment that lie was endeavoring to make and which he hoped would transmit speech along en electrically charged wire on june 3rd 1s75 he succeed ed in transmitting inarticulate tpeeeh sounds from one room to another in his boarding jiouse in boston on march 10 jstj he transmitted articulate speech again within the limits of his boarding house he was certain that success was within each and when he came home for his summer vacation he set to work on preparations for making his great test approaching the dominion telegraph co lie received hear ty cooperation bell was not only given permission to con nect his newfangled instru ments to the telegraph wires men were assigned to assist tears later one of these men a t smith was to become the bell companys district superintendent for the toronto area the great test was made on august 10 1s7g when all was in readiness the inventor went to the receiver end of the line which was inparis his father prof a m bell was stationed at the transmitter which was in brantford four miles of wire stretched between prof bell was a teacher of elocution and english literature and with this background nothing was more natural than that as he pondered the possibilities associated with the test his thought would turn to the dra matic and as he waited for the climactic moment to arrive an apt quotation from hamlet popped into his brain to ue or not to be that is the ques tion those were the first words to be spoken over a long distance telephone line thisj test of two crude tele phones attached to a telegraph line that had been borrowed for the occasion was one of the most memorable incidents in the history of scientific ad vancement but we can safely ume that not one of those who were associated with the test had the faintest concep tion of the change that was to ik wrought by the invention that was represented by the two small instrument- we can trace evidence bells moderate expectations concerning the development of the telephone business in the pattern that that development lirst followed the inventor transferred to his father prof a m be 755s interest in his canadian patent rights and the remaining to mr charles williams jr of bos ton mass for which williams agreed to manufacture with out charge x telephones for the canadian market this contract having been ex ecuted a was in readiness for the development of the ca- iiadiail field and here is where the modesty of bells expecta tions becomes evident instead of erecting a complete tele phone plant and renting tele phone service the promoters tented telephone instruments only leaving to the subscribers the erection of their connecting hundreds of kiddies receive santas welcome here nearly two thousand kddies received santas welcome in stouffviue on saturday along with the favour of a bag of candy from this popular red- coated gentleman the annual parade headed by the queens own band moved through town from west to east and back and was given quite a welcome along die way while the crowd lining the route was not so large as in former years it was noticeable that dozens of cars from the countryside ar rived later in the afternoon in time for the small fry to join the long lineup to santas stand in the front of the municipal building it required several hours to handle the children at this point in the competition for floats the stouffville business pro fessional womens club took first horticultural second and mrs mole third the prize for the best school float went to hillcrest ss no g whitchurch second to bloo- mington and third to aliona commercial first prize went to the stouffville lions club and second stouffville fruit mar ket best decorated bicycle was that of linda mathewson sec ond joanne hendricks and 3rd warren hendricks while not a prize winner an added feature of the parade was the clown band provided by hendricks wardware and the youth for christ band which entertained the crowds with music from a stand by the bank of commerce business was brisk during the afternoon and several store keepers told the tribune that while the crowd seemed small er on the street people were doing more shopping than last year judges for the parade were reeves alf lemasurier of mar- kham twp ivan mclaughlin whitchurch and geo todd pickering santa claus takes over town square for the children fire truck rerouted to unionville blaze the stouffville fire brigade were hampered in their efforts to reach a fire on the farm of mr harold harper gth con of markhani north of unionville on friday when they discovered the road barricaded due to a bridge washout at cashel it was necessary to reroute the truck nearly four miles in order to reach the blaze the implement shed was burned to the ground unionville fire bri gade was also called it is re ported that the fire started when sparks from a blowtorch ignited gasoline on the tractor a nearby metal barn was saved hundreds of children crowd ed around santa clans in front of the municipal bidg as nearly two thousand bags of candy were handed out a the street towards the theatre long lineup stretched down building dogs again ravage brodie flock in the early hours of satur day morning dogs attacked the sheep flock of mr wm brodie west of stouffville three sheep were killed and thirtytwo in jured two dogs were shot mr brodie had only recently purchased 210 western lambs which he intended to feed over the winter and market in the spring it marked the 3rd such attack on the brodie flock this year some ten sheep were kill ed or damaged earlier in the summer approve ward system in pickering township stouffville area hunters return prize bucks midgets edge brooklin 43 on tuesday night the stouff ville flyers midget entry in a four team group journeyed to brooklin and edged their rivals 13 in a close game messrs don davis and derek chadwick handled the club the stouff ville goalscorers were ross ma- dill don haynes wayne red- shaw and steve wideman bar ry wilkes guarded the nets for the flyers it was one of the rare occasions that a local team has been able to defeat the wellorganized brooklin squad trucker killed by live wires near goodwood man free the truck was not badly damaged whitby pro vincial police investigated mr ardmrs clifford weston td yvonne and mr and mrs goo weston of creemore were guests sunday with mr ard mrs jess cobcr 1000 jackpot for deputyreeve bill newman pickering townships new deputyreeve struck the 81000 jackpot on friday of last week in the to ronto telegram lucky dollar his good fortune was continued on monday when he- was elected to the pickering twp depreeveship with a more than s00 majority mr lome james of uxbridge a gravel truck operator was instantly killed on tuesday night when he stepped from the cab of his ditched vehicle onto a live hydro power line the accident occurred on no 17 highway 2 miles east of goodwood james was apparently return ing home when his truck went out of control on a curve and snapped off a hydro pole when jgame the driver finally halted his vehicle and stepped to the ground he was instantly elec- tricuted hydro linemen re moved the victim from the line and rushed him by ambulance to uxbridge where attempts unionville trustees were made to revive him he three candidates were elected leaves a wife and two children j to the unionville trustee board mr arthur pratt a farm res- on monday they were messrs dent east of goodwood was one gordon kerswill harold dukes of the first to reach the accident i and myrl smith jas bacon and scene due to the power in the i frank roberts were also in the line he was unable to pull the running dont be asleep on election day residents in stouftville would not want to be called slackers or to be told that they were undemo cratic vet those are terms that could well apply to those who do not turn out to cast their ballot on election day next monday dec 13th true there are no burning issues at stake but regardless of this fact the candidates those who have offered jtheir services for council duty deserve your support there are sufficient candidates in the field to make the contest an interesting one both for reeve and for council polling places are open from 10 in the morning until 8 in the evening which gives ample time for everyone to cast a ballot he is a very busy man indeed who in the course of a full day cannot find five minutes to choose the government which touches him and his family the most closely or more likely a very lazy man the standards of this community are set by those ratepayers who really care if you are among those who dont care you cannot wonder vhy the community is no better than it is democracy begins at home you can make it work at home by turning out to vote for the candidates of your choice at next mondays municipal election voting on the question of wards for pickering township residents voiced their approval of such an electoral system with a 1369 to 60s in the affir mative the 1955 council will deal with the question during their next term of office in no polling division in the munici pality was the question voted down the south pickering water question received a negative acclaim the three districts casting a ballot on the ques tion turned it down 1s2 to 151 liverpool voted in favor of water 90 to 61 but this major ity was overcome by- the other two returns north markham property sold a portion of the property be longing to mr clifford raymer xorth markhani has been re ported sold the imperial oil company the purchasers in tend to erect a service station on the corner of the mount joy sideroad and no is highway the raymer home is to be moved west of the present site mr raymer has retained a number of lots new anglican rector for unionville and stouffville form new school boards dec 29th more than forty ratepayers attended a special meeting call ed by uxbridge twp council on tuesday evening to discuss the setting up of separate school section boards within the municipaity they will re place the present public school area board system which is now being used one man was apxinted to represent each of the twelve proposed boards in the township each section will hold an organization meet ing on wednesday dec 29th at 10 am the boards will each elect three trustees if in any section a separate board can not le formed the present area board will carry on until the necessary members are elected milk bottle pilferers at work milk bottle pilferers are at work again in the eastend of town and residents are warned against leaving sums of money in bottles on wednesday of this week one main st lady left 210 in a bottle in broad day light and bottle and money as well were both snatched with in an hour local police are investigat ing the petty stealing as other cases have been reported on baker ave as well hev james donglns tiller tlie new parish of unionville and stouffville held its first services on advent sunday the new rector the rev james douglas tiller conducted both servicer- mr tiller was born in niagara falls ont and was educated at the collegiate there lie gradu ated from university of bishops college lennoxrille quebec with an honor degree in philo sophy be then spent a year doing potgraduate work at the college during the last war he served for three years in the rcaf mr tiller is married and has three children during the preparation of a new- rectory in lnionviile mr melville resident for 22 years on friday evening dec 3rd mr kipling arthur grant a resident of melville for the past 22 years passed away in the toronto east general hos pital the late mr grant suf fered a stroke a week previous to his death and failed to re cover his wife the former mary ethel tyndall predeceas ed him more than two years ago he us survived by one son william in calgary alia and two daughters mrs billiard miller and mrs j d hadcock both of melville there are also two surviving sisters margar et and fay grant of cooksville funeral service was held at the l e oneill parlors on monday afternoon conducted by rev h d moddle of mel ville united church with inter ment in the adjoining cemetery the pallbearers were messrs jack neate harold neate dick howies norm goddard jack church and geo moore previous to the opening of tile deer hunting season wel- dons mens wear announced the first in a series of annual contests at deer hunting sea son this year as advertised in the coumas of this paper the con test was based on the number of points on the antlers high est number of points being the winner mr wm over of stouffville rr2 came out on top with a fine set of antlers having 12 points wm was hunting at edwards camp near burleigh falls along with messrs alf rose howard edwards bill nesbitt john elson clark hood runnerup was mr lee fretz of claremont rr 3 who brought in a fine rack wth 11 points lee was hunting at commanda along with messrs walt smith harry cruse floyd perkins earl wideman john burnett don giffin earl bone gord brumwell don harper and ernie smith the winners have received the following prizes with the compliments of weldons mens wear first prize was a hand some pure wool hunting coat by carss mackinaw second prize a smart allwool plaid sport shirt by buck skein joe markham twp returns reeve alf lemasurier by a large majority reeve alf lemasurier was turned to office in mondays election in markham town- hip by a large majority mr lemasurier polled a total of 1661 votes against his oppon ent mr hoopers k7 for the office of deputyreeve w l clark was also returned to office defeating art lennie 1327 to 1149 mrs kathleen ames first woman to ever sit on markham township council t year lost a close contest in ward 1 to vern griffin one time reeve of the twp the defeat was a heartbreaker for the lady candidate who had polled an exceptionally good vote in her initial year and had hoped to return for a second term mr masters third cand idate in ward 1 polled only s6 votes ward ii received an accla mation for don deacon while in ward iii archie little was returned by quite a majority 119 to mr kings 142 the vote was not large estimated by the returning officer at about forty percent the fact that there was an acclamation for ward ii for council may have had some bearing on the percentage it is thought reeve lemasurier in return ing by a large majority bore out the predictions of his sup porters he was only headed in two polls out of the nineteen those being hagerman and victoria square mr hooper alfred lemasurier polled a strong 110 votes in highland park but the sitting reeve did equally well with 252 mr lemasuriers strongest polls were doncaster lang- staff his home poll unionville where he ran up 23s votes and cedar grove with an even hundred art lennie making his bid for deputyreeve ran strong but lost out to mr clark in cedar grove buttonville unionville and other east sida polls sew s50000 registry office the d r emery engineering construction co barrie was awarded the contract this week poll by poll vote in markham twp reeve depkcev toll subdiv ward no i highland park doncaeter tliornhlll a thornhill b langstall hunts lane elgin mills hooper liemasurier clnrk lennie ward no a green lane hagerman buttonville unionville victoria square a victoria square b avard no 3 llagermail mrs b madsen mount joy dicksons hill cedar grove mongolia 110 54 16 21 j2 301 48 cs s7 5s ss s5 38 10 31 25 3l 43 s07 252 ufl so 59 j 45 62 28 764 52 61 i2 23s 31 ia 75 7 57 4 6 100 44 1661 79 50 34 27 93 38 20 34l 35 91 104 174 4 4 46 514 75 75 66 64 126 66 1327 2s7 123 90 i 6s 5i 34 is i 669 42 39 75 110 46 54 266 36 17 20 10 13 is 1148 for the new county registry office at newmarket the ten der price was 52890 six firms entered bids for the job suggest meetings for next years local election to date the forthcoming cillors glenn ratclifl and milt 1olt council ix wahi i pst highland park ooncastcr thornhill n thornhill h langstaff hunts lane elgin mills 134 121 116 49 45 36 5 205 74 13 on 105 39 24 injured in corn picker car timbers son of fred timbers 7th conce of whitchurch suffered a tic land mr tiller and family will jy cut eft hand larl friday reside in north toronto when it was caught in a corn we jrlve them hearty wel- picker one finger was broken come to our community and are and another quite badly crush- he new rrlfh win ed he was treated by dr b municipal election in stouft ville has been anything but a boistrous one however the fact that eight candidates are in the field two for reeve and six for council cause many to predict a considerable vote next monday reeve ogden who has served nearly four years as chief executive in addition to several council terms is being opposed by councillor elmer daniels and in this contest a close race is being predicted councillor d elbe rt booth moved from stouffville near the end of the term causing one vacancy and for this seat and the one left by mr daniels are several new names coun- 508 481 psi hagerman mrs b madsen burk are seeking reelection and win timbers ken laush- way len buckland and elgin wagg are also seeking seats on the 1055 council it has been suggested by mount joy some candidates and several dicksons hill members of the chamber of i cedar drove commerce that it would have mongolia been a good move if the cham ber had called an election meet ing where the ratepayers could come to hear what new legisla tion the aspiring councillors had in mind and where ques tions could be asked about the present administration the general feeling was to call a meeting this year would be too short notice but the idea will definitely be brought forward next year for council ix ward 24 8 8 32 6 3 5 86 king 28 12 20 25 10 44 utile 80 80 70 45 131 43 449 reelected how they voted in whitchurch twp polling subdlv cnndldites for council oak ridges 5 19 11 wilcox lake a r 10 12 6 wilcox lake b 14 14 8 7 s3 6 1 i 1 40 56 4 22 tt 58 55 is 40 4 musrelmans lake 5 1 7 ss s3 1 7 38 15 14 14s 65 cedar valley 50 ss 44 50 10s 55 44 7 that sourih under his leadership jr mitchell of stoulfvic 451 s3s 24 10 7 21 28 25 12 17 47 1x8 50 21 400 mr ceo t todd was re turned a- reeve of bickering township in mondays elec tion with a more than 200 vote majority over his clos est rival mr stephen ste phenson