The Huron Expositor, 1978-06-29, Page 38f.
---ttfiti—died here in 1869. Dr. • Edward
Hornibrook graduated and settled in
Mitchell in 1861, and: from then and
especially in the 70's, he had a . large
practise in this community. but his office
was always in his home town. Dr. James
King, a bachelor, who came from Athlone.
Ont.; followed Ct.ernin in -the village and
was killed when his spirited team of horses
ran away 7 rat 15, on Concesion 4, in
McKillop Towi'.ship: Dr. O'Rourke was
here at the ,time of the fire in 1879. Dr.
William 'fowl had not been in the village
long when he took something like a
sunstroke on the beach at Bayfield, and
was not able to practise again. Others who
practised here in later years were Dr.
Albert Vonholt Michell, Dr. H.R.Simpkins,
Dr. Victor Trainor, Dr. D.E.Stargis, Dr.
Stewhrt "Sandy" McGregor, Dr: Keith
McGregor, Dr. Martin W. Stapleton, also
Dr. H:C.McDonald (dentist). Since Dr.
Stapleton left in 1940 there has been no
doctor here.
The veterinaries have been Cyrus Beale,
Sam Murray, Alvin Houze and Tom
Melady. Dr. Murray, a gold medalist at
college, was veterinary here for fifty years.
EltIpassed away in June, 1953. Since Tom
Melady was given a Health Unit appoint-
ment in 1956, and is now stationed in
Goderich., the village has had no veterin-
ary.
Matthew Williams, in 1901, built the
first cement block house.in the community,
just north-of the railroad' tra_Ckt,This was.his .
home till he moved to Seaforth in 1906. It
was built on the same site on which had
been a two-storey frame building and
Jog:oph K. idd in- -istrumetttar in. name.
(Front A Hibbert RevIety Part 2, 19S9) It was : used by George Hambly for a lbe villagers became rather panicky'. wnen, home •from Dublin, about these new
Joseph Kidd was the one who was : ha tit ers and.lohn Howard fora tailor not long after their arrival, they : -noticed people; became very curious about 'them . -. . •
-.Astral-in:Mal in bringing abaft • the change shop after the 1879 fire, and,ou -Sundays it clouds of smoke belching from the'.upstair .: She,. not knOwing What an Immigrant was,
in the name • of the village, mod zilso Of ' ‘AinS the boys' boxing arena. .Ititt and Jack. windows'. .These hild -been used . to ' but feeling very sure they must be queer
httVing the hamlet in ide a.pollee village, at -• Mottre.. from -Kirkton,, later had. their • fireplaces in the homeland and were not people, wondered if she would ever get to
-cast that part which is. ill Bibbed .tin-shop in it till they moved to Staffa in the- familiar with Canadian ways of 1A. When Dublin to see' what immigrants looked like..
•-roWnShip7 This is somethiag very rare-in h,i,.. I 89(t.., the ettuse.of the smoke Was investigated, it Trips for Children, of even' IC. few miles
Ontario. On July 1, 1878., these changes. . , wosibit-nd that they, instead of putting the distances in those days, were few and far
officially came into effect. The first In the early 8(1's a bunch of rather rough stood in the stove, had piled it on top and between. • -- .
trustees were Joseph Kidd, 'Monne.. 'King immigrants arrived in the village. These set fire to it 'there. • • After Matthew Williams left this house. it •
old Alexander Ross. .1:11e present trustees were given krinission to live in the upper .. Was used as a bank. dentist Office, private •
.tre Gerald Holland, Joseph lAmby and storey of this building, .
y o
:mud • svere also .
A little girl, a few miles aWay, hearing home, 'Burke Funeral Home,. and now th, provided with a a stove, su ppl y fuel. Charles Friend. . her daddy tell her Mum, when he canie "Holland Apartments,"..
Timothy Careoll, who \+w-, later clerk of
•• .
tile 'township.. was. the.: first • silt( ion agent'
fron, the time the BuItzdo and Lake' Huron Dub in a-b-usy. ivestock sittpping centre
d
i . . W •. • • .
,
brooch of the Gram! Trunk Railway-opened . . • • - . ... . . .
• . • • .
for business in •1858..Ambrose . 0. Pa ttisen . (Fmni A 'Hiltheri Review Part 2,1959) Mr. . McIntosh.' of Tavistock.• was in • ;tnd paroid-covered frame building south of
lelloWe'd in 1875, and went to Clinton in Dublin, heftwe the days of trucking, was tharztge during the organisation of the new ' Fergus Stapleton's new broiler plant.This
September, • 1882: . While in •• Dublin .he • for mains yelivs a busy livestock shipping Western B:.aneh, Frank McConnell was the building is now owned and used by ...
received a salary of $32 :50 per month with crotch, Perhaps the buyer., best known first permanent manager. first, with the Stapleton- it was here they canned the corn •
free house. cordwood, coal pit lights;. etc. sevre John McGrath. (horses), Peter Vyestern, and then the Standard, from 1907 andpeas, but this industry • continued in
Other station agents have 'been Joe Rose. YStillieap ,and .Jim Shea (hogs and e ill le). until he retired in 1924. Other managers . 'Operation for only two Or three seasons'.
Mr. Ireland, Willi:lin Simons.; Mr, CoscY, Frank McConnell and Jim Cronin (eitttle). NIVe been P. F.BC1111 (SUtnditrd Bank), William Smith was. tilt:. manager. • -
Mr. Clark.' Fred Foprester. Cecil • . Van Cronin duktig war time shipped as many as. 1925-1928:.B.E7Dowicey Wanad izni. Bank of ' ' ,r,
Horn, - Wilbur Mathers, Norman . Ohm. konieen carloads in 011C day. • . Commerce), 1919-1934; A. Sutherland,. In 1940. Libby,. MCNeil & Libby of
-,
Canada Ltd. -started the growing of. Rh\ f.ird •Arnold and H ne,h .I . Kelly. Shortly' after the turn of the century, 41 1935-.1942:. H.M.0 or in a n • • 1943 - 1946.: • •
A nio-ober of ph•ysicians practised he
cucumbers in tilts • community.. wnicn toes
heck proposal 1vtIs . Made to the Dominion Bank William' 1,Stetyart .' 1947,:1958. E.J.Dean.
dutirn, . ye„,,, a low,„1.a, .o.„:„.: i',,,cre to open a branch here for the convenience- took over his new duties as Manager here • found to be one of the most suitable for this
lapses to . time wit en the village littd no
_ltd ivick_-"- purpose. Several wooden va t s. were_plaeed__ of buyers' lour shippers. As the bank • in February, 1958.The new
doctor. The first wits Dr ....1)_tmiel. Crciatim.---
a short disitince reast of ilie -C.NTI:f. station, officials_felt_the-dep"-ik-wottldrnot-rx-rectl---bilitilin'g to was built just north of
$40,000 in any one year, and this would not .the other in 1920. . , .
where the cucumbers are put in brine and
Louis-Looby openedthe first creamery in
later trucked to -their main factory ill
I91-5 . on the site of the present on e.
Chathani. The first year they contracted for
Timothy • O'Flyan. then—Edward Tyers,
64.acres: in 1.957, they had a contract for
from Stratford. and William J. Hanley good.
100 acres, In a year when the' yield is. •
owned it later. - Tom acre contracted around $100. During the
Butters and William
good. the grower receives • for' a quarter-
Hanley. Jr.. were the buttcrmarkers.
During this time. it was known as the
first five years Albert Rock was their'
Dublin Creamery. Early in 1947, H.
manager. Albert Kraemer followed Rock .
and. is still in charge.
Rubenstein, "rof - Toronto. purchased the
business and operated it under the name-of
Dublin Creamery and Poultry Packers Ltd. t‘
owned by Joseph Kidd from an early date.
be enough to meet expenses. noitetibit wasp
taken.- It was Pelf' that even a 'branch
Iterating two days a 'Week would not pay.
However, in the latter part of apri1,1906,
the Western Bank made the venture. and
(vetted a branch. first. in what was known
as the "tin" house, earlier Straube's home
at the west side of Main Street. That same
month the Dominion Bank opened, for a
short time, a sub-agency in part- of Mrs.
James Canning's store. A few months later
the Western Bank was moved to Williams'
cement block house hear the tracks, now
the Holland Apartments. in 1909 the
Western was taken over by the Standard
.Bank, and the depOsits in 1918 amounted
to over one million dollars Prom 1919- until
July, 1928. a Staffa branch was also in
operation on Wednesday of each week for
the convenience of the farmers in the
southern part of the township. On
• November 3, 1928, the Standard and the
Canadian Bank of Commerce amalga-
mated, and ever since the Commerce has
carried on buSiness here.
B &.K TIRE & BATTERY
,Birodhagen ' 345-224:8
On Your
100th Anniversary
Best Wishes
DUBLIN
Poultry is delivered here from a large area
in every direction. The plant capacity is
1750, but during a rush period as many, as
2000 fowl have been dressed in one day. A
branch is also operated in Seaforth. Hugh
Pugh, who was Rubenstein's manager,
became the owner in 1957. On April 1,
1958. the bitsinesswas taken over by Peter
Hutton Limited, with John Wells as
manager.
'In 1929 a branch of the Exeter Canning
Factory known as The Dublin Canning
Faetory Ltd., opened in the large cement
R.R.81,Staffa Phone 345-2708-
Best Wishes
to the Village of
On Your
100th Birthday
John Miller
Electrical Service
DUBLIN
ts.
Histork log cabin
emolished in 1961
14 THE HURON EXPOSITOR, JUNE 29, 1978
WAITING FOR THE GROCERY TRUCK — Mrs. James Atkinson,
baskets of eggs in hand, waits for the arrival of the grocery man,
who purchased the eggs from farms along his route. The little girl
with Mrs. Atkinson became Sister Theodore Doyle.
Byy. Belle Campbell
1,1•,,y((m, I. he Huron rspositor. 1961,)
-11 Was die In's! Molding tt hen the bight\ :it
opened' lima', II said I ()Ms McGrath,
fongtimc Dublin rcsidc in, in •commenting 011
demoluton iota log building in that \illage,
he old building located on northeAt
tomer of du: intersection (il the count- road
and flight, as 8 at Dublin, is icing rcmot ed In
make woe for progress. The properit has been
sold to ;he 1)epai intent of Highat as s as part'of
the high" n\ era II program "'Pros ide clear
sision at main intersecting roads,
-rvItne a time I heard me grandmotlwr and
grmidlother Jordan comment about Mt'
bonding.- continued the )ear-old mint.
lies said-when they bought it. about 1-8"0. it
sins in'int2. used pa)•Ils as a store and partly as
a residence,,.
Prior.histors„up -v-ere-s-k-erche,
The. Perth Atlas referring to 1.tig;pi 1055 nship,
"Fruncis Siebert located .1 he southeast
corner of lift ton nship as earls as 1837.
accOrding to the reckoning of some. of theold
sollers, hut ss e conk' 1101 WW1:111110 the precise
dale front reliable :tinhorn). As carte as 1844
, one Jenkins hail taken.u.p.the lot' of
1111.' tins ;Ishii) al C:11.1.00kmok...
Patrick Jordan and his fa Mil). bought use
pmp(Tty about 1870 and it was -held by
descendants of the lamils until 1948. ‘S. hen
Garfield and William Smith purchased it.'
'Ibus Nisi' held thelan,t1 until the recent .at`
to the Department of Rights as s.
The Jordan. familt conducted a sho. maker
shop, sass tlw Hilthert Rut less.. at this
location. -The making of boots and shoes bc
liand up to the earl', 000'; teas a thriving
business. Some of the shoemakers and
repairers names inae hose been forgotten. but
a lest ran still he .recalled. Patrik Jordan and
his son. John. also Tom, esho tsas deaf and
dumb, carried on this ,business for many years
in the old cosine huilding on the Logan corner
nn No. 8 Flights a y. While in business, -Patrick's
stile ts as the business manager. She looked,
oiler the in:Cienius and ordered supplies,
Jose ph McGrath, a nephett of the Jordan
'boys. in the stable litre, did his slaughtering
kind .sold-Mcrat-tribrItt2n::-ri'odrils_lielle=:-
Complicit in her book.
lie Jordans also had a daughter. who
married Peter McGrath, and menibers of her
family held the deed to the• property until it
was Sold.
Mrs. Winnifred Ritteland, niece of John
Jordan. seas the last coccupant or the house.
She .and lie) family lived It ere until' about
1943. S•ince'that time the builditsg• has stool]
vacant.