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sixteen pages t0ttfmlle imiitw 3000 copies vol co no 33 the tribune stouffville ont december 1 1919 prize of stouffville hunt club dawson hare wellknown member of the stouffville hunt club and markham township farmer is shown here with the 310 pound bear which he shot back north last week big bruin was having a nap behind a fallen tree when he was surprised by the local hunter but live shots were required to put him safely away the bear was in prime condition and his fine pelt will photo by caaieux possibly decorate someones hearth shortly there are twelve members in the stouffville club and they came home thursday with four deer and the bear members of the party were dawson hare stan thompson ken reesor walt ward joe ward geo todd walt todd lome wagg fred nighs- wander bill armstrong will birkett and will reesor new resident found dead in motor car looking forward to the arrival of his son from ottawa on friday evening charles e sisson who recently moved to stouffville from toronto to occupy the bungalow on main street west purchased from mr cliir salmon died suddenly and was found sitting up in his car with his left foot out the door as though he had expired as he was getting in or out of the car the car was standing in the garage with the lights on when his son arrived from ottawa and made the shocking discovery the son had just reached town and with his father planned to take in the rugby match in toronto on satur day mr sisson who was 70 resided in toronto for many years prior to retirement in stouffville a year ago he was an anglican and a deiightful acquaintance he had made extensive changes in his new home which was built by the late writ cook and was later owned by- harry brillinger only the day before his death a truck load of new furniture arrived which he had chosen in antique pieces mr sisson was an engineer with the canadian general electric co for many years he was a 33 degree mason surviving are his wite the former jane gillespie two sons howard of calgary and everett of ottawa and a daughter mrs don harwood peterboro full election slate presented to stouffville ratepayers santa cliaus coming to town the business men of stouffville have arranged to receive santa claus in town on saturday dec 17 at one oclock tie will go directly to the stanley theatre parading down main street sur rounded by floats and comics santa will have a gift for every boy and girl which he will distri bute in the theatre building the early start will afford the older people a time for shopping and looking over the tremendous christinas stocks being displayed henry v here add day dec 7th lawrence olivier in the famous production henry v will play at the stanley theatre here one day only next week wed dec 7th theres a matinee at 130 pm and continuous showing from 7 pm local appointment jim austin stouffville was ap pointed ontario minor hockey as sociation convener for this district on wednesday mr austin is assoc iated with the l e oneill busin ess establishment here and the en ergetic leader in local minor hockey oldest local businessman retiring after 57 years a business which has been out for himself mr monkhouse associated with stouffville con- came to stouffville and opened a tinuously for 57 years the tailor- j shop west of the railway he ing shop of mr john monkhouse settled down in the orthodox way is going into retirement at the end i taking unto himself a wife in the of the present year owing to person of blanche bartholomew declining health this veteran of the and to them a son was bovn now needle and cloth intends to close deceased also a daughter miss out the towns oldest business and helen monkhouse now of niagara go into retirement himself as our falls in the teaching profession j mrs monkhouse died 10 years ago j and the merchant tailor continued j on in their church street home to this day mr monkhouse intends to remain there for years to come he recalls that there is only one i person living on church st today j who was there when he took up residence and that is mrs sam i wan iner the village was only in its in- i fancy fifteen years old when john monkhouse first put out his shingle he moved from one place to another but was always right on main street in the business area handling mostly imported cloth his trade thrived and once a cus tomer always a customer became the rule for many to prove this mr monkhouse points to four generations in at least one family among his customers when he opened first he made the seventh tailoring shop in stouffville mc- callions was the oldest and he remained to see the last of them his longest contemporary frank rae still keeps his shop open in the spofford block and does just enough to keep himself off the retired list yet never missing a day at the shop in a reminiscent mood mr monkhouse recalls that in his early days he made threepiece suits for as low as 10 that today run from 00 to s0 he also says he must he easy to get along with because his lailor christie armstrong has been with him for 30 years another employee he once had remained for 11 years death takes oldest bethesda resident the death of mrs joseph curtis at her home in bethesda whit church township on sunday last removes probably the oldest living person in the locality from this sphere of life mrs curtis was in her s7th year but had been in ill health for several years although born on the present cliff burkholder farm at bethesda as a girl she lived on her fathers farm on the 3rd concession of markham south of gormley her maiden name was clarissa ann nigh daughter of ellas nigh and the family came from pennsyl vania and settled on their mark ham farm 140 years ago it is now occupied by her daughter mrs curtis had spent all her long life between gormley and bethesda besides her husband there sur vives a son frank and a daughter sadie mrs teanor canning she attended the bethesda church for many years both at the mbc and united services following the funeral service at the late home and at bethesda church interment was made in the heise hill cemetery many old friends were in attendance both the office of reeve and four council seats will be contested for at the annual municipal election in stouffville on monday dec 12th herman kidd will oppose reeve a v nolan and harry ratcliff wellknown local businessman will seek a seat on the council and will run for office along with the four present members henry ogden clayt baker john scott glenn ratcliff all present members have served for two years while reeve nolan has served in his position for five years with two years as councillor stouffville will for the first time have a lady on the public school board mrs dr john button taking a seat by acclamation the other two new members on the board will be elmer daniels and dr s t bodendistel nominations were as follows for reeve a v nolan herman kidd henry ogden glen ratcliff for council henry ogden clayt baker glenn ratcliff john scott hugh boyd elmer daniels harold spofford harry ratcliff for school board norman baker mrs john button elmer daniels dr s t bodendistel for cemetery comm h o klinck oldest active business man mr monkhouse has passed by the 80 mark and thinks he is entitled to a real rest john monkhouse learned his trade in goodwood with richard watson business man there over go years ago when goodwood had five general stores and according to mr monkhouse surpassed stouffville at that time as a busi ness centre young john monk- house walked from his fathers home in altona to goodwood and home again weekly when he determined to launch five generations on same farm honor mrs tillman reesor 90 five generations remaining on the one farm is perhaps a record for even the settled farms of markham township but the fact was prominent on saturday when a family gathering was held at lot 26 concession 8 markham in honor of the 00th birthday of mrs tillman reesor here on the fine farm 2 is miles south of ringwood the then mary barkey was born and save for three and a half years spent in scarboro immediately following her marriage in march 1880 she has lived continuously mrs reesor is the third genera tion on the place and the present occupant lewis reesor with whom she shares the big residence is the fifth generation a widow for nearly 17 years mrs reesor is today a bed patient and while lacking physical vitality to get about her mind is still keen and she enjoys the visits made to her by old friends her two sons are albert reesor former deputyreeve of markham township joseph of vineland and until recently on the home farm with her also one daughter ida now mrs joseph hoover of dick son hill there are eleven grand children and two great grand children the substantial old stone house rang with the voices of her descen dants and of friends on saturday as they gathered to honor the aged lady who after 90 years of life still looks over the same acreage she recalls as a child but the land scape today is much changed she notes as a child much of the dis trict was virgin bush while now all too much of it is barren of trees to grow golden crops of grain death claims main street business man 111 with a heart condition for several years ormsby lehman shoe merchant in stouffville died at the brierbush hospital on thursday nov 24 in big 54th year the funeral on saturday after noon proceeded from the late home on church street to stouffville cemetery service being conducted by rev d davis his pastor masonic service was also conduct ed by members of richardson lodge of which the deceased was a pastmaster rt wor bro r pearse master of the lodge con ducted this part of the service mr lehman succeeded his father in the shoe store back in 1932 and in 1936 mr lehman sr passed away the lehman shoe store is one of the oldest busi nesses on main street having been started by amos lehman in 1896 or 53 years ago the founder was not only a shoe merchant but made shoes from the soles up his eldest son ormsby was a good repair man as well as merchant shoeman ormsby lehman married linda jones 29 years ago and who sur vives together with one son erie and two daughters ruth mrs bruce winterstein and helen mr lehman was a member of stouff ville united church and sang in the choir for years he served in the first great war and besides the family mentioned there are two sisters misses ida and ann lehman of stouffville and a brother arthur lehman north bay crowded out despite this sixteen page issue columns of news matter and dis play advs are crowded out due to lack of space remember display should be ordered by saturday of the preceding week the annual christmas horse show will be held this year on tuesday dec 20th no criticism voiced at local nominations by chn despite the opposition of various other functions in town a fair representation of ratepayers turn ed out for the annual nomination meeting in stouffville on friday night but there was little or no criticism of the conduct of the present years municipal council reeve a y nolan in his address covered the work of county council as it related itself particu larly to stouffville the reeve stated that he had served on three committies this term reforestation agriculture and a special hospital ization committee this special hospitalization com mittee was destined to spend 750000 in a period of five years as capital grants to toronto hospitals he revealed as an example that 41 of the hospital days recorded at the toronto east general were for york county patients and approximately 25 of hospital days at the sick child rens hospital were for local county patients the latters new hospital now under construction was going to cost 14000000 rather than the original 7000000 planned and it was expected that the county committee would recommend a grant here of 100000 the new health unit planned for the northern municipalities in the county including stouffville would cost this town one mill on the taxes but reeve nolan believed the scheme would stave off for some time at least an expensive sewage system here the reeve spoke of the move in county council under section 57a of the assessment act whereby a partially completed building is assessed but the municipality at present is not required to turn over any county taxes on revenue collected in this way reeve nolan contended that this move was definitely wrong but found great favour with the wealthy southern municipalities which collected considerable taxes on uncompleted buildings reeve nolan revealed that an offer of 250 per year rent had been received by council for the town lot adjacent to the cnr and believed it was good business to i accept i mr nolan was asked by council- 1 lor john scott to mention the present road building program he j stated that another mile of hard- top had been completed on town streets this summer he said that only a small amount remained to be done and the annual summer roadoiling bill would be cut to a minimum j herman kidd nominated for the reeveship stated that he didnt wish to step ahead of the present councillors he pointed out that he had had seventeen years exper ience in council work in whit church twp he contended that reeve nolan failed to mention the new building the county had erected in the city to cost 450000 if the county were divided in future years as was suggested the building would be a white elephant reeve nolan in reply stated that more people entitled to vote than in any previous election the largest number of voters ever to be able to go to the polls on a municipal election for the village of stouffville is recorded in the voters list to be used in the election that will be held here for reeve and council on monday dec 12 with over a thousand rate- pavers entitled to vote this is the first time in the history of the village that anything approaching 1000 names appeared for a munici pal election the exact number appearing on the list is 1009 of which 676 vote on the north side of main street with a full slate for council and a contest for reeveship one would think that twothirds of the people enjoying the franchise would make use of it many will be sick and unable to vote and othevs are absent from town but folks who are able to vote have a duty to perform the building was costing much less that the figure mr kidd had stated but regardless of this was desperately needed since the county had offices rented here and there in downtown toronto at a terriffic outlay because of the shortage of space the old county seat was no more than large enough to handle the court house needs which would still occupy the old building reeve nolan contended that mr kidd was the one man in whit church who spoke against the present fire area agreement with the local fire dept i didnt say there was anything wrong with it only you took in too much territory said mr kidd you criticized it replied reeve nolan whitchurch farmers are delighted with the setup and so are our firemen continued the reeve you wont get your mill sub sidy with this setup said mr kidd i have a letter from the pro vincial secretary that we will receive our mill subsidy in full replied reeve nolan councillor ogden nominated for the reeveship and council told the gathering that he wanted more experience before standing for reeveship councillor ogden stated that he had been a prime advocate of the site of the new arena as purchased by the town rather than having the huge building on the park grounds as at first suggested councillor ratcliff stated that there had been considerable capi tal expenditure for new water works extensions and that some work still remained to be done to complete present plans councillor baker also touched on- the water works dept and stated that increased revenue would gradually come from the new extensions laid down councillor john scott told the gathering that there had not been sufficient revenue to do all the gravelling on the streets that his dept wished he stated that snow removal was only 33400 last year much lower than usual if you havent got that winter coat odd pair of trousers or ready- towear suit yet see f e rae tailor spofford blk stouffville toronto staffords vs markham at the arena this friday night sixtythree students receive academic certificates at high school commencement a total of sixtythree students received academic certificates and diplomas at the annual commence ment exercises of stouffville high school on friday evening another two dozen students were presented with field day awards and st johns ambulance certificates the honour graduation diplomas were presented by mr don chad- wick vice chairman of the area board they were received by the following betty black louie bolender roy dowswell lloyd frcel mary grove mary harper murray miller marion murphy phyllis pugh loreen talbot mar ion vaughan jack wallace anna- bell watson luella wideman graduation diplomas were pre sented to alice barkey margaret barry keith clarke phyllis clark- son margaret hisey erla holden patsy lehman connie lewis murray mcmulien fay oneill donna stouffer george timbers murray wagg lois weldon intermediate certificates were presented to allan anderson marion atkinson ruth atkinson pauline barkey grace barry rodger black arlene bolender robert bruce helen campbell douglas card ernestine cooper barbara dixon floyd doner clif ford dunkeld lome emmerson gerald heath james hewlett helen hisey donna keeping isobel keffer isobel mccreight douglas mcwhirter clifton mor ris doreen ogden helen paisley murray pipher jean rae edna sanderson ronald smith phyllis spofford june steckley keith steckley margaret steckley marie stover ronald walsh principal murphy presented certificates for the st johns ambulance association to paul barry lome boadway john davis norman fairies clarence fockler roy heise charles hill vernon hoover wallace james bud lehman barry mackay mur ray mcmulien williard moyer murray redshaw ronald smith murray wagg dean watson allan winn miss goodyear and mr davis two staff members presented the athletic awards to local field day winners junior joan haynes george lintner intermediate shirley schell stewart wideman senior phyllis clarkson murray wagg agindourt-markham-stouff- ville field day champion junior girl margarej reid the valedictory address wa3 given by mary grove with murray wagg president of the literary society acting as chairman a oneact play birds eye view of mabel highlighted the enter taining program of dances and gym work cast of the play included erla holden margaret hisey donna stouffer murray mcmulien paul barry phyllis clarkson margaret barry and carolyn logan