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lk pos s3 so zi xibnm classified ads on back page the tribune stocffy1lle thursday january g 195 ten pages birth of the bethesda stouffville telephone system no 5 of series by mr a d bruce the fame of dr langstaffs elephone system spread sug gesting to peojjle in other dis tricts similar enterprises in january 1892 the writer made inquiry of dr langstaff re- j garding cost of construction f method of upkeep etc dr langstaff immediately re plied giving information and offering to give any informa tion that he had at his disposal the undertaking appeared tot be formidable and no action was taken but the dream of tele- ohone service did not fade en tirely about 1s90 or 1897 a commu nication was sent to the bell telephone co making inquiry regarding the charge for tele phone lervice the letter was dated from gormley and doubt less the rate was based upon he distance from stouttville to jormley post office a distance f 691 miles apparently the jssumption was that only one station would be maintained at gormley and that it would be a pay telephone the offer of the bell company representative was if the peo ple who were interested would purchase the poles and plant j them the bell company would f complete the construction pro- vided we guaranteed to the company an annual income of sg000 the thought of furnish ing and planting the poles brought the correspondence to a close in those days mr d w heise was postmaster at be thesda and also operated a gen era store with mr heise tele phone service to the gtr sta- t tion at stouffville was some- j thing greatly to be desired about 1902 or 1903 mr heise made inquiry concerning the terms upon which the bell co 1 would give service at bethesda the terms that were quoted to mr heise are not known but they were not inviting the j correspondence closed but mr heise did not abandon the idea r of having telephone service he related to mr george bro- diethe story of his correspond ence with the bell telephone co i during the conversation the suggestion was made that it might be possible to interest local residents in the erection of a telephone line to stouff ville this was the beginning of the movement that was to result in the birth of the be- ihesda stouffville telephone co vvih mr heise to be con- vineed of a need and of the pos sibility of meeting the need meant action he addressed postcards to a number of peo ple announcing a meeting to be held in the bethesda school- house on january 2nd 1901 for the purpose of discussing a proposal to erect a telephone line to stouffville six men at tended the meeting they were d w heise postmaster and storekeeper george a brodie farmer robert miller farmer walter c renfrew farmer p p steele storekeeper at lem- onville a d bruce miller robert miller was called to the chair and david w heise was secretary a general dis cussion took place regarding the prospect of obtaining suffi cient support to venture upon the construction of a telephone system it was agreed that if we could enlist twelve sub scribers ive should proceed so certain were we that we could obtain this number that we pro ceeded to organize as the be thesda stouffville telephone association robert miller was elected president george a brodie vicepresident david w heise secretarytreasurer and p p steele and alex d bruce directors an initiation fee of 1000 was set a commit tee was appointed to draft a constitution and another com mittee to purchase material and the meeting adjourned in cidentally the first purchase of iterial was 00 telephone ys at 23 cents per pole on jstump h that stage there was no light of establishing our h telephone exchange the icctatlon was that we would ike arrangements with the ll telephone co of canada r exchange service and for ig distance connection on march loth the first gen- al meeting of members of ie b s tel assn wis l thirteen members are re- rded as having attended that ing this was one more tan the twelve that had been 5e hopedfor number the rincip3l business before the meeting was consideration of he conditions upon which we puld obtain connection with re bell cos system the letter christmas and new years babies stouffville municipal council meeting for their inaugural session on monday evening unanimously voted to sign a contract with the ontario provincial police for 1933 the contract price for the two full- time constables will be 0900 stouffville stores open sat night closed fridays stouffville business peaces will remain open on saturday nights but will be closed on friday nights this decision wis reached at a special meet ing of the retail merchants of stouffville chamber of com merce held on tuesday after noon early in november the retail merchants committee agreed to remain open on both fridav and saturday evenings until the new year in an effort to give the system a fair trial the merchants represented at the special meeting were unanimoush- opposed to satur day night closing thev also i plus gc ner mile for the cruiser felt that there was nothing to i this is an increase of 300 be gained bv remaining open over last years figure and represents an increase of 180 in salary to each constable total police costs in stouff ville for 1934 amounted to 779339 from this amount can be deducted stouffvilles share in fines which amounted to approximately 300 which brought the police costs down to s729s39 reeve elmer daniels stated that while the figure seemed high he felt that the two men were necessary to do a full job councillor wagg commented on the advisability of having one local man and stated that he was given to understand much of the constables time was taken up in making out lengthy reports councillor rat- cliff commented that most constables are not too anxious to spend time in making out reports and that actually little time is required for this duty in the overall picture councillor timbers stated council sign k fridav and saturday it only spilt the bust on both night ness the acting chairman of the meeting mr lloyd weldon re quested the merchants to de cide definitely one way or an other on the question he asked for an opinion on the subject from each member present mr c h bel was definitely opposed to the stores shutting down on saturday nights stouffville is still a farmers town and the farmers expect us to remain open on saturday nights stated mr bell the merchant agreed that a change from saturday night to fridav night opening was premature friday night opening is more popular in cities and in dustrial centres pointed out mr norm o boyle mr cec hendricks informed the meet ing that the town of newmar ket had switched over to fri day nights but report no in crease in business we must retain our satur day night opening said mr harold spofford when the vote was iken the decision to remain open on saturday nights and closed on friday nights was unanimous two celebrated babies were born at the stouffville brier- bush hospital last week the first baby of the new year was born to mrs lloyd el- son of ballantrae upper on sunday jan 2nd it weighed 7 lbs 10 ounces the mother received a silver cup a gift from mrs e malcolm the hospital superintendent the baby girls name and date of birth is engraved on the cup mrs elson has three other children cheryl hi clinton 2i and lori ig months on saturday dec 25th christmas day a 7 lb 2 oz baby toy robert william was born to mr and mrs bill walls of ballantrae the mother the former doris taun and baby are pictured in the lower photo giant pipe line from west passes near here continued on pase 3 the new 2000 mile gas pipe line extending from edmonton to toronto will cut across farms in pickering and mark- ham townships surveyors working on the project have notified the farmers who will ik effected by the large scale scheme they have obtained permission from the property owners to tresspass on their land the line will cut through some of the larger centres in northern ontario and will extend down to orillia from there it will cut in a south easterly direction to hit rrook- lin then west between mark- ham and stouffville to high way 100 it will then proceed south into toronto where it will bo linked up with a simi lar line extending up from the united states the huge mains will measure twentyfour inches in width and will be buried five feet in the ground workmen will construct the line in sections using heavy equipment to do he job a few hundred miles of pipe has already been laid from edmonton in an eastery direction united church minister addresses mens fellowship the monthly meeting of the stouffville mens fellowship was held monday night in stouffville baptist church rev gordon c hunter min ister of asbury and west i communication buzzer and first aid kit for the truck was sanc tioned by council a request council divided on building inspector appointment stouffville municipal council was divided on monday night at their first- 1955 session when the question of the appointment of a building inspector came up for decision henry ogden former reeve received the appointment but the passing of the bylaw necessitated a vote with councillors burk ratcliff and timbers favoring mr ogden for the position and councillor wagg and rceve daniels voting in opposition councillor timbers said that the position was not the most desireable one and if mr ogden was willing to accept the appointment he certainly favored the move reeve daniels and councillor wagg favored calling for applications for the position the appointment of the building inspector was one of a number covered by the local bylaw appointing town officers for 1955 the remaining officers named are as follows library board 3year term george foord community centre board glen ratcliff and win timbers road supt harry vanenno weed inspector harry vanennoo pound- keeper wm miller planning board henry ogden 3-ycar- term new fire chief after twenty years service as fire chief for stouffville del jennings has asked to be re lieved of the position though he will remain as a member of the brigade the new chief is william malloy who was ap pointed by bylaw at a salary of 100 per year don lehman was named deputy chief at a salary of 50 and he will also receive 100 for care of the trucks a request from the brigade for a heater directional signals that in the present day much more policing was demanded than a few years ago and one man certainly wouldnt be enough he said that as far as he could see the policing was much better here now than ever before i wouldnt want to be with out the provincial police said councillor ratcliff reeve daniels said ho thought that on the whole the men were giving good service and that they could always be changed if found otherwise he reported that an effort to have the annual cost reduced through the queens park had failed although if was believed mileage for any outoftown calls would not be charged to stouffville councillor burk said that the estimated cost for one local man and a car was approxi mately 5000 you couldnt get mileage for gc a mile from a private individual it was pointed out that the 1013 for mileage by the constables represented ten daily trips up and down through town which did not seem overly great a resolution to sign tile con tract for 1935 was voted on unanimously by all members of council ratepayers vote for ringwood school addition markham building last year was near 3 million mark the value of building in markham township in the year just ended was close to three million dollars for an alltime high there were 371 permits issued with an exact value of 2s87g2 while dwellings led the field in total dollar value commercial and industrial was up from former years amount ing to nearly half a million there were 191 new houses erected plus numerous altera tions to old buildings and resi dential construction was val ued at s21591s7 the value of accessory buildings was 30- s75 and commercial and indus trial 1s1900 value of permits for public buildings amounted to 191500 these wore made up of one church and four schools with a total of 13 classrooms this report was submitted to coun cil this week by walter craig building inspector mrs lloyd turner is recup erating from a nasty tumble which she sustained down the cellar steps in their home on lloyd ave mr and mrs geo hughes spent the holiday week with their daughter mr and mrs larry ewer lcaside united church toronto and on of the well known dr crossley hunter was the speaker in his message mr hunter stated that a great many people failed to recognize their need of god and that the cross of calvary shows the depth to which humanity can sink however he pointed out be cause of the cross god can meet mans need music was rendered by the wideman male quartette mr dave greer vice president of the fellowship presided and reminded all of the february meeting when the superinten dent of the leper mission would be the speaker and that music would be supplied by mr cyril redford and the ambassador msle choir mr and mrs bob madill and family of ciareraont and mr and mrs grant turner markham were new year visi tors at a family gatheting at the lloyd turner home for new fibreglass helmets wa left for consultation with the new fire chief there was some discussion on the leasing of the town pro perty presently occupied by chas wards used car lot council agreed to a new lease on the property at 230 a year for a oneyear period rather than three as formerly the suggestion was voiced that the lot might be required for mun icipal purposes in the future the 1935 standing commit tees will be composed of streets walks councillors burk and wagg town proper ty police councillors tim bers and ratcliff the first named in each case will be chairman stewart reburn to be guest speaker the wellknown skating star mr stewart reburn is to be the guest speaker at the annual meeting of the ontario and york counties film coun- mr clare keevil president of the council was fortunate in having mr reburn accept he invitation mr reburn as you will recall twice represented canada at the olympic games for two years he starred as sonja henies partner in coast to coast tours and appeared with her in a 20th century fox feature film entitled second fiddle he is now toronto manager of crawley film limited mr fred wicks chairman of the annual dinner meeting has arranged for the meeting to be held at st andrews united church hall markham on wednesday january 19th at 730 pm this hall is one block north of no 7 highway and 14 block west of the main street new implement headquarters to be erected here mr charles richards of a st intburl will erect a new imple ment building west of stouff ville on ih timbers propertv mr richards will take over the internationa harvester agency formerly handled by mr cy bellman mr richards ivhose head quarters is present iv located in agincourt has already sub mitted his application and is awaiting a building permit the womens missionary so- ciety of the stouffville united i riches will review the study church will be held in the book and rev douglas davis church parlour on thursday wril conduct the devotional and jan 13th at 230 pm mrs i irtaliation of officers for 1933 markham council seeks control over gravel pits markham township council will shortly take steps to con trol gravel pits within the mu nicipality and discussed the matter at some length with so licitor j d lucas when they met for their j initial 1055 ses- sion on monday afternoon members pointed out that while they had no desire to create any hardships on present pit operators many roads in the township had been completely ruined through the establish ing of gravel pits some of them operating only for short per iods and then pulling out councillor vern griffin sug gested that rigid weight restric tions be imposed on the roads near the pits but deputyreeve clark pointed out that they couldnt be satisfactorily con trolled without necessitating 21hour police patrol the matter of roads being pounded to pieces by the trucks was only part of the control needed it was said but re striction was necessary to keep pit back from roadways so that there was no danger of caveins at a later date the solicitor stated that such a clause could easily be included in the bylaw council agreed to further consultation with present pit operators before fi nal action x hazel debris township engineer jack how ard reported that the estimated cost of removing the debris left strewn along the streams in the municipality was 13- 000 it was feared that this debris might cause further flooding next spring queens park he said had agreed to pay 50 of the cost of remov ing these obstacles from the streams property owners on whose lands such refuse was resting had been asked to con tact the local road dopt and to date two had done so councillor griffin suggested that the property owner who had a stream dammed by de bris should be asked to pay the other fifty percent of the cost and council agreed that the engineer should proceed along this line more pay a request was received from the members of the township court of revision for an in crease in daily pay the rate is presently 7 with 8 cents mileage reeve lemasurier ex plained to council that the members are appointed by by- iaw as well as the rate of pay and could not be changed for the present new committees the standing committees for 1955 were named as follows property griffin and clarke roads and bridges clark and griffin police little and dea con fire deacon and little water and sanitation deacon and griffin finance and assess ment little and deacon com munity centre board clark and lcvjsirier inaugural irfres reeve alf lemasurier in ad- tile annual ratepayers meet ing for ringwood school sec tion meeting on wednesday afternoon was unanimous in its decision to proceed with the erection of an addition to the present building the meeting was well attended and return ed gordon ratcliff walter lee and ed ferguson to the trus tee board the present school while more than fifty years old is in good state of repair and plans are to build an addition to the east there are presently is pupils attending the school and it is estimated that this num ber will be increased by lifty percent within the next three years last week mrs edna clojt- dening was engaged as a sec- end teacher for the school and a system of staggered hours will be instituted mr carl grove who has been handling the entire school for the past three years is the other teacher hydro shutdown next wednesday providing weather condi tions are not unfavorable hydro throughout this en tile urea will be shut down for two hours next wed jan 12 commencing at 130 in the afternoon until 330 the interruption will co ver stoulvville mnrklinni clnrcmont it r o u g h a m green river and all inter mediate rural districts ma jor repairs arc to lie com pleted by markham rural staff during tho shutdown such shutdowns cause considerable inconvenience to business particularly manufacturers anil it is hoped that in future such long delays will be confined to suudays over fifty years of barbering coast to coast indecember 1s97 mr ralph are today a customer could ob- kirby now a resident on the 7th concession of whitchurch decided to become a barber and started his twoyear apprentice ship in a shop on the corner of kay and adelaide streets in toronto now at 80 years of age mr kirby continues to barber with cam meabry at the west end of stouffville the eightyyearold tonsorial artist was born near good wood and worked for a number of years for farmers around the district he commenced his trade in toronto but later journeyed to western canada where he was employed both in vancouver and winnipe he came to stouffville in the early 20s and harbored with ben doten before once again returning to toronto he has been a permanent resident of the stouffville district for the past ten years when mr kirby started his practice back in 1s97 times were much different than they dressing council in his inaug ural remarks stated that har mony and teamwork had been predominant in the 1931 coun cil the coming year he said would be a decisive one he recommended an increase in planning board activity and plans for water installations in the township tain both a shave and a haircut for thirtylive cents while to day such a service would cost 150 in the city of toronto a good meal could be purchased for twentyfive cents and a suit of clothes cost 1500 his hours were long extending from 8 oclock in the morning until 9 oclock at night during the late 1800s elec tric clippers were unknown hand clippers were used for the job and mr kirby contin ues to use them to a great ex tent electric clippers dont speed up the operation claims mr kirby they just keep the bar bers hand from becoming- too weary mr kirby recalls shaving a number of celebrated gentle men while practising in toron to he had the honour of shav ing sir robert borden and president shaughnessy of the canadian pacific railway in spite of his eighty years mr kirby doesnt find it necessary to wear glasses except when reading he thinks nothing of walking from his home on the 7th of whitchurch out to stou ffville mr kirby is a real horse fancier and a keen fol lower of the trotters stouffvilles octogenarian bar ber has five sons ken at home gordon in markham alex at long branch and russel and howard in toronto