HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1981-12-02, Page 3TINDELL STORE — About 1908, William Gill
started a store in half of his house at Tindell.
The house is now the residence of Alvin
McLellan.
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Neil and Donna Heming-
way's new naturally ventilat-
ed hog finishing and manure
storage and handling facil-
ities.
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very pleased with the positive
intersection at 9:50 a.m. interest expressed from
Both men were rushed to guests who had travelled
Wingham and Distrcit Hospi- from different points in
tal
Police estimate the acci-
dent resulted in $5,000 darn--
age to Mr. Broughton's truck
and $3,000 damage to Mr.
Stevenson's truck.
Approximately 500
people attended an Open
House held Wednesday, No-
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at RR2, Brussels.
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— THE BRUSSELS POST, DECEMBER 2, 1981 — A3
Who remembers
the hamlet of
Tindell?
(Photo courtesy Mildred Gill)
BY DEBBIE RANNEY
Welcome to Tindell. There's no sign that
A. would indicate there ever was such a place
in Grey Township, but there are still a
couple of houses located where it used to
be.
From information provided by Marilyn
Engel who supervised the Grey Township
students working on the history of Grey
Township, Grey's former tax assessor
George Wesenberg and Mildred Gill of
Ethel, the following has been ascertained
about Tindell.
On June 20, 1874, John Slemman bought
lots 22 and 23 on Con. 9 of Grey Township,
consisting of 198 acres from the Crown.
Tindell was located on lot 22. The W.G.
and B. Railway passed through Tindell in
1875. There was one house southwest
where the men boarded when building the
railway. Frances Coates and Hugh Mc-
Cracken lived in Tindel about this time.
Five or six houses and a grain elevator
were built. Beside the grain elevator there
were stockyards and a weigh scale. Isaac
Gill, and Englishman, built a three storey
frame building known as the Station Hotel
where his family of George, William, Enos
(Ian), Mary Ellen and Grover were born.
When the hotel was burned, a house was
built where Isaac's son Grover lived and
raised his family. The home is now the
residence of Mrs. Cecil Eckmier and her
son Bill.
About 1908, William Gill started a store
in half of his house at Tindel. He purchased
the house from Wm. Simpson. In 1918, he
bought the Royal Hotel in Ethel which the
Gills owned until 1945, then sold to George
Rowland. It is now the residence of Otto
Pfiefer and family.
The former Gill store at Tindell was
turned into a garage. The King brothers
lived there for a number of years.
People living in Tindell in 1919 included
Samuel Cantelon, Wellington Fogal,
William Pawson and Isaac Gill.
On one side of the road, there were
houses including the hotel and store and
also the station agent's house currently
occupied by Alvin McLellan. The station
agent in the 1920's was Jim Murray.
Between 1918 and 1924, Alfred Cress
lived in the house west of Gills. The house
where Cresses lived on Lot 20, Con 14 of
Grey was picked up about 1954 and used
for a henhouse by the McNair girls.
I A newspaper item form 1918 states that
R.J. Murray has bought the Gill store from
Thomas Vodden and has moved." Al-
though Harold Vodden of Blyth (whose
father was Thomas Vodden) didn't re-
member about Tindell, he did remember
some things about Ethel -- that there were
two large stores at the corner, two smaller
ones west of that and a little barber shop
back around 1910.
J.K. Halls had the store (where Webers
is located now). Before that it was owned
by John McDonald. In 1919. or 1920, the
store, burned and Harold's father rebuilt it
in 1921.
WILLIAM GILL AND SON — William Gill who
started a store in Tindell poses in front of his
residence with his son Edward. Mr. Gill started
the store in one half of his house.
(Photo courtesy Mildred Gill)
Brussels ladies help raise funds for Hospital
At it Nov. 23rd meeting
the Wingham and District
Hospital Auxiliary members
had the privilege of deciding
how to best use the total
proceeds of $5004.06 from the
October canvass.
Apart from purchasing a
"Pegg-O-Stat," a piece of
equipment for taking x-rays
of children at 899.00-1-the
following was decided upon--
a "hot pack" system for
physio-therapy at the cost of
$1,070 and an "Infusion
Pump" which is used to
administer medication intra-
venenously for $1800.
The remaining money was
ear-marked for purchasing
equipment specifically for
children-to be spent when th.-:
hospital presents a request.
The auxiliary thanks the
following canvassers: Lois
Two injured
Continued from page 1
Wingham OPP said a 1978
Chevrolet pickup, driven
north on the sideroad, by Jack
Broughton, of R. R . 2 Atwood,
and a 1970 GMC stake truck,
driven west on the concession
by William Stevenson, of
R.R. 2 Brussels collided in the
McCall, Judy Rice, Ida
Evans. Barb Knight, Donna
Sanderson, Judy Summers,
Joan Jacobs, Esther Mc-
Cutcheon. Marg Ditlow Ethel
Long, Jeanne Ireland, Nor-
een Eder, Delores Wheeler,
Mrs. Harold Bridge. Ruth
Hinton, Wilma Hemingway.
southwestern Ontario, with
the majority from within a 30
mile radius of Brussels.
The open house was held to
enlighten people on new
technology in the hog indust
ry and to alleviate any doubt
in the public's mind as to the
environmental safety of the
operation. It was also an
attempt to bring the consum-
er closer to the "roots" of the
industry.
The winner of the draw for
the ham was Wm. Thornton
of Gorrie.
_About 500 attend open house at Hemingways