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2955 copies this issue mvifanm twelve pages this issue vol 61 no 11 the tribune stouffville ont june 30 1949 no wonder theyre smiling liberal candidate for north york in mondays election j e smith publisher of the rich mond hill newspaper won the riding for the second time and with an increased major ity mr smith is shown here with mrs smith and their youngest daughter eleanor they have two more daughters on election night mr smith was paraded over the riding given a great ovation and while almost exhausted he thanked his workers and sup porters sincerely for their great confidence which he said he would hold in high esteem her own housekeeper to the end elizabeth hill passed at 94 living alone in her tidy home at bloomington for the past sixty- seven years miss elizabeth hill passed peacefully away during the night of wednesday last week she was in her 91th year and was one of the most remarkable elderly people in the county miss hill was a tall carefully groomed person always stood erect despite her weight of years and this spirit of self preservation she sustained to her dying hour only the day before her death she had the paper hanger doing a couple of her rooms over and her niece mrs cliff lemonassisted her to rehang the pictures mrs lemon left for home about six oclock in the evening and that was the last any person saw miss hill alive she retired as usual and passed on in her sleepthus she was found next morning by her neighbor william fockler who made it a habit to check in on miss hill each morn ing he found her lifeless body in bed covered only by light clothing with the appearance that she was only asleep but she had slipped quietly away into the great be yond miss hill insisted on doing her own housework and kept her place second to none among good housekeepers only on special occasions would she accept the help of relatives or neighbors such as after papering or during house- cleaning lizzie as her neighbors called her was born in 1855 at mussel- mans lake just a few years after the turn of the century she being the eldest of eight sons and daugh ters born to william hill and his wife symantha fenton who located at the lake over a hundred years ago now they owned the farm that musselmans lake was named after and sold the acreage to jake musselman back in 18s3 when mr and mrs hill retired in blooming- ton miss hill is the last survivor of the family miss hill had a church record that few people ever attain she was a member of bloomington congregation of the christian church for 74 years and up to the time of her death was the oldest member of the conference family heirlooms were many in her home for she was mindful of caring for things odd dishes and furniture she always prized an old coin in her possession it was the first silver dollar her father earned when he came to canada from tyronne ireland with his parents when a lad of 11 years the coin is dated 1783 the funeral service for elizabeth last saturday morning was held in the bloomington church after which burial took place in the cemetery across the way rev gibson brown her pastor paid fitting tribute to the long and usual life of the departed and to her interest in the church even to the very end he knew of no record to equal that of miss elizabeth hills and the church is poorer for her passing unless those who are left strive to exemplify the spiritual attributes she possessed mr and mrs c stafford sang with miss nora stapleton at the organ the pall hearers were wm fock ler earl davis jos winterstein austin wagg percy brown and everet barnes seven nephews and nieces nearest relatives are clifford iemon bloomington clif ford mcfarlane napancee mrs ernest morgason goodwood mrs william mcintosh brampton mrs clifford winn toronto mrs harry holeman cannington mrs arthur howard oshawa strong vote out here and without coersion despite the fact there was scarcely a car noticeable devoted to drawing in voters on monday in stouffville the best vote in years was recorded seventyfive per cent of the electors went to the polls to mark 7gb ballots or 75 of the possible vote mondays vote was stronger than that polled in 1945 when only 544 people voted of course the popula tion is increased over the years but not in the same ratio as the increased number who voted the vote in 1945 and 1949 are as follows 1945 1949 liberal 382 472 cons 223 227 ccf 31 50 in 1945 stouffville voted in east york there was a social credit candidate who polled 5 and a labor candidate polling 3 local poll makes old age record when mr ira boyer stepped into a polling booth here on monday to cast a vote for jack smith liberal candidate he probably made local history he was the eldest person to vote here and one of the oldest to cast a vote in north york if indeed anyone surpassed him mr boyer boasts that he never votes any other than the liberal ticket and the fact his nephew fred madill was ccf candidate in east york for the second or third time didnt make any difference mr boyer lives with mr and mrs george lee another elderlv person to cast a ballot for jack smith is mrs helena iroidge housekeeper for mr john cleaver like mr boyer she never changes her political leanings and told the press that she always voted the liberal ticket and was anxious to get in her ballot on monday mrs hoidge is s3 years old old parties close at claremont there was little between the candidates in the two old parties as shown by the figures in mon days election in the two polls in claremont the ccf which had bounced up with a surprising num ber of votes in the village in 1945 election was not in the running at all here are mondays totals for claremont village thomson lib 169 mccallum cons 162 williams ccf 26 business site comes on market the municipal council of stouff ville decided last week to offer for sale the vacant lot adjacent to the cnr station yards and adjoining stouffville monument works the lot was purchased five years ago and held for building a public hall however now that the veterans hall is available for town use and for other reasons it is considered that the town will not require this valuable site on main street the council instructed the clerk to advertise the property forthwith so that it may be sold any time it was explained that this lot had been made good use of as a storage place for hydro poles and trans formers but with the acquisition of two acres to the park property room would be available at the park for hydro storage of this nature and councillors saw a chance to reimburse the bank account by disposing of the station lot which would provide an excel lent location for a building of some sort it was pointed out that the property is about the last available business site still vacant on main street on this property once stood a store and restaurant conducted by the late elijah pennock and later by hugh anderson during the latters occupancy the large frame structure was burned down the property has a frontage of seventy feet but tapers to a narrow rear end suffered heart attack while on holiday mr frank c rowbotham was brought home on tuesday after noon in an ambulance after spend ing about three weeks at the home of his son bruce in shawinigan falls mr and mrs rowbotham and daughter helen ipft shawin igan when mr rowbotham was not feeling well at quebec city he was placed in an ambulance since his condition grew worse he has a rather critical heart trouble and gave up municipal life on that account a year ago or more and the quiet life saemed to have improved his health until this attack setting tax rate next week 39 mills forecast if the stouffville municipal council decide at their regular meeting on july 7 to reduce the general tax rate for stouffville by fourtenths of a mill below the general rate imposed in 1948 the overall taxes will still be advanced by three mills higher than last year by reason of the public school demand soaring to new heights reeve nolan told the council on thursday evening that he could not see any way the council could absorb the increased school costs without depleting the village account which had built up a surplus now so as to avoid bank borrowing until tax time each year if this surplus is dissipated to meet the demands of the public school iie said it would only stave off for a short time the higher tax rate he maintained that the school must pay for their own borrowing which would be chargeable in their gen eral maintenance costs higher and higher salaries it was pointed out with some increases in other costs were responsible for the ta jump however it seemed everybody was boosting for more pay for school teachers and now they must pay for it the federation of teachers is a close union and if boards of trustees do not meet their demands teachers are advised to boycott the school this has been done reeve nolan says hence as the situation now stands the demands of the teachers must be heeded and the tax payer has got to dig down and meet the bill councillors john scott henry ogden and glen ratcliff said they were in favor of passing on the school demands since they could not see any other sensible way to meet the expense councillor clayt baker said he favored the 39 mill rate if it would be sufficient to meet the requirements reeve nolan said he was very sure the rate was ample pointing out that s1500 was included in expenses for the purchase of land for park extension while nothing was estimated as a return from the sale of the town lot at cnr station which council instructed the clerk to offer by tender somebody wanted to know if the station lot could be sold or must it be reserved for building a hall on reeve nolan said the covenant whereby it was bought for hall purposes had been removed and the council was free to sell the property to whom they wish it is likely the council will have regard to the kind of business that might locate when they choose a purchaser it is one of the few remaining business lots on main street aside from residential areas mr pete clendening is home from sudbury spending a couple of weeks at the old farm west of town writing high school entrance examinations nineteen pupils commenced on wednesday morning to write the entrance to high school examina tions at stouffville centre mr l c murphy is presiding those who are writing are students who did not pass on term work these students are gathered from various schools in whitchurch and district as well as stouffville school which contributed only two or three pupils mr and mrs joseph betz and mr and mrs bert lickorish motored to ottawa last weekend and spent a delightful few das at the home of mrs lee daughter of mr and mrs lickorish milton cambray port perry and stouffville will be among the participants in the baseball tour ney in stouffville on dominion day tomorrow there will a girls tourney as well structural work beginning on new arena is proceeding rapidly work stouffvilles big new artificia arena on the east side of memorial park structural work is beginning this week when huge bents will be raised skyward the concrete work has been completed on the basement and side allutments aiso the ice wall six artificial ice concerns are preparing tenders on their part of the job tenders to be in by july 5th one of the important firms tendering en the work will be the same company that installed artificial ice in maple leaf gardens hundreds of yards of gravel are being hauled into the ice enclosure and a bulldozer is con stantly levelling off the original east fence of the park has been removed and the newly acquired two acres of ground is now enclosed in the park grounds 123rd session of congregational christian churches one of the finest congregational christian church conferences on record was held in bloomington christian church this past week dr robert bruce of new york city and dr james lightbourne of providence ri were on hand to represent the new york state conference with which the con ference is affiliated rev c h way was elected to succeed rev gibson brown as president an item of unusual interest was presented thursday evening when dr lightbourne gave the history of the congregational and chris tian churches in america and their reasons for union the conference sessions were well attended especially the sun day services dr bruce spoke on the mountaintop experience which must precede mingling with the world as contained in the gospel of luke 6 1249 the remarks were centred in the theme stability in the christian life at the opening rally on wednes day evening sponsored by the christian endeavour union rev alex stein of niagara falls cautioned young people to go all- out for christ as the only means of being a successful christian in the large assembly several dedica tions were made for service rev douglas percy of beliri bible school sudan interin mission presented the missionary challenge at the friday night session a choir composed of young people from the various churches of the conference sang at the ser vices and was much appreciated special thanks was also due the ringwood male quartette who sang sunday morning officers elected for the new year are as follows past president rev gibson brown president rev c h way vice president mr alb art reesor clerk mr jacob grove treasurer mr william reesor ringwood teacher treats class to picnic called by death the next day mrs peter c connon was the former olive elliott hayes and was born on a farm near parkhill in middlesex county she attended public and high school there then graduated from london normal school entering the teaching profession she taught in middlesex county then at nipigon and white river in new ontario during the hectic days of railway expansion when all classes of people crowded into the canadian west later she was in the mccauley school in edmonton for some time returning to ontario mrs con non completed her household science course at macdonald in stitute guelph and joined the staff of the ontario womens institute for a short period resuming teaching she went to british columbia and even to prince rupert where she taught domestic science she found her self in charge for food controls in british columbia during the first war and director of womens institutes next district director of the home branch of the soldier settlement board she served with the national dairy council of can ada in charge of educational work when she married mr and mrs connon finally came back to ontario and located on the 9th concession of markham where they remained for 23 years during the teaching shortage mrs connon felt the urge to help out and resumed her old profession when she filled in one term at stouffville and then took the school at ringwood mr and mrs connon left the markham farm and located just south of bethesda where she passed away so suddenly surviving besides her husband peter c connon is a son peter fergie also one brother j milton hayes of parkhill after attending her school picnic thursdav afternoon mrs connon took ill at her home on the 5th concession of whitchurch that evening and died the next day at noon news of her sudden and unexpected death cast a gloom over the district where she was known the funeral from oneills chapel in stouffville on monday- afternoon proceeded to heise hill cemetery for interment service was conducted by revrt chapin brodie clan entertained at beautiful locust hill farm mr and mrs ross kennedy of forest hill entertained approxi mately 70 members of the brodie clan in the picturesque setting of their cedar valley farm at locust hill on saturday june 25th the youngest member present was the infant son of mr and mrs harold steckley of toronto dr jessie bruce brodie of the staff of the university of toronto and mrs edward hill also of toronto were in charge of arrangements john steckley of the ridgetown experimental farm acted as chair man and dr brodie edmonds ed pooler harvey webster arthur brodie alfred brodie and byron brodie kennedy contributed speeches among those also present were mr and mrs a a kennedy and miss olive steckley of toronto miss nellie steckley of the staff of henry ford hospital of detroit dr and mrs arthur james of toledo ohio mrs george and miss lillian t brodie of willow- dale miss coral m brodie former ly a missionary nurse to china and now on the staff of the toronto hospital at weston the websters of st marys mr and mrs alfred e brodie of gamesbridge donald kennedy formerly of grimsby who has been appointed organist of trinity united church in peter boro mr and mrs e f allport of london as well as local members of the clan of specific interest was the speech of j arthur brodie of the ontario department of lands and forests who together with his sister dr jessie b brodie is on the board of governors of the university of toronto arthur brodie is a member of the brodie club and gave a resume of its origin and purpose and an apprec iation of dr william brodie in honour of whom the club was named and whom he rated one of canadas outstanding biologists dr brodie was born in 1831 a son of george and jean milne brodie and was raised at the old home stead on the 5th of whitchurch just north of the markham townline by vocation he was a dentist by avocation he was a biologist students from toronto university accompanied him on early morning walks along the don river snakes frogs turtles bees tree diseases hirds soil crops all were approached with the inquiring and appraising mind of the student he gathered around him men of scientific mind and their regular meetings advanced the cause of continued on back page reception in honour of the fiftieth wedding anniversary of the rev and mrs a g doner on july 6th 1949 the home of mr and mrs chas hoover will be open to their friends from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 pm l c murphynew president of local service club lion l c murphy principal of stouffville high school was installed on monday evening as president of the local lions club for the year 194950 mr murphy has heen active in the service organization almost since his arrival in town some years ago and has served as various com mittees chairman and passed through the vice presidents chairs lion rev douglas davis conducted the installation with retiring president jack smits in- the chair the following members will com prise the balance of the executive- 1st vice pres harold spofford 2nd vice pres ted edwards 3rd vice pres dr neil smith secretary walter pipher treasurer ray fleury tail twister ken wagg lion tamer earl lehman directors harry ratcliff norm farr bill ball bill ford elizabeth hill 93 of whit church township who did her own house work up to the day of her death local masonic order makes historical record coming for three days the best years of our lives an academy award film is coming to the stanley theatre for three days july 456 owing to the length of this extra fine film the theatre will open each evening at 6 pm all stores will be closed to morrow friday for the domin ion day holiday richardson masonic lodge made history last friday evening when mr austin pearse master of brougham union lodge installed his father as master of richardson lodge hefore a large assembly despite the intense heat of the evening mr o m madill past master and now historian of richardson lodge told the press tnat this unique occasion possibly could not be duplicated anywhere in ontario both claremont and stouffville lodges are in toronto district b he pointed out and said mr madill i believe this to be the first time a master of a lodge in any district in canada was installed by his son the installation ceremonies were in charge of rt wor bro h c tugwell of georgina lodge here again mr madill shows his keen ness of historial fact when he says mrtugwell has just celebrated his 55th wedding anniversary and i believe him to be the oldest living past district deputy grand master in canada serving this office to which he aspired in 1916 mr tug- well has been installing officer at richardson lodge for 33 years another remarkable record and further history made on this occasion mr madill declares that the records set on friday evening have never been equalled in masonic history in this country the officers installed toy rt wor bro tugwell and his assistants were as follows wm rueben pearse lmp lcmurphy sw dean wagg jw norman wagg sd henry ogden jd walt todd ig ken wagg ss bruce mclean jjs jack epworth tyler ed logan asst tyler ell- wood baston chaplainj reid treas dr n smith historian o madill director of ceremonies h moyer sccy a e weldon