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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-05-17, Page 21North Ashfield supports .......... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 20 Kemp's General Store was formerly the Lanesville General Store and the history of the store has been recorded in the book, A History of North-East Ashfield, compiled by the Trinity United Church Women of Ashfield in 1976. The history of the store includes a vivid description of the inside of the old country store as it looked when big barrels swung out from under the counter, and the' square glass case displayed licorce whips and bull's eye candies. "In 1873, William Lane deeded '/2 acre to his son, John, who built a store on the property which he operated" with his wife, Elizabeth Rutherford. A Post Office was opened in the store in 1874. John and his wife, Eliza- beth, went to Northern Ontario and John's brother, William, built an addition to the store while he operated it. ,He was Post Master from 1877-1885. Another brother, Richard, took over the store until 1894. John Lane returned from Northern Ontario and settled on a farm north of Kinlough. He looked after the Post Office in the store followed by Joseph O. Scott, Jim Durnin, Charles E. McDon- agh. Elizabeth sold the store . after her husband's death, to Sidney. Gibson in the early 1900's. Sidney's sister, Lottie, „ clerked the store. She majKied William McConnell and in 1909 Wendall Sanderson bought the store and sold it to Charlie Alton in 1912. Charlie built a dry goods section on the east side. The Post Office closed in 1918. In 1923 Ervin G. Zinn from Hanover bought the store. ' Cans of Cream were brought in, tested, weighed and a maximum of 15 cans picked up by the Co-op truck from Wingham twice a week. This phased out in the 1930's. The storekeeper lived in he attached living quarters to the west of the store. In 1942, Zinns moved to a farm and sold the store to William John Allin in 1946. In the main store the big barrels swung out from under the counter on casters and contained -brown sugar, white sugar, oat- meal and... raisins. 'Other -smaller' ones had prunes-and,currants and still others had smaller "compart- Kinlough CONTINUED FROM PAGE 14 Mrs. Ronald Thacker gave the _ minutes and the financial state- ment. An invitation was read regarding the Deanery meeting in June. Mrs. Walsh invited the ladies to her home for the June meeting. A quilt was quilted during the afternoon and refreshments were served. Mrs. Roy Collins gave the courtesy remarks. ' gal Your heart works CO harder when 6,4 you're not in the game. Get fit — and turn the Clij clock back'. / • Fitness is fun. `i/ Try some. rill a�aar7c�pacr�on b • ments with spices. A large square glass case displayed candies, chocolate bars, ring sticks, licorce whips, pipes and bull's eye candies. There was a, square glass case with a big knife on a wheel posed over a big round of cheese. And then there was the collection of patent medicines which included painkillers, salv- es, `ointments and pills for backaches and internal disorder. In the larger room were shelves stocked with overalls and smocks, work shirts and fine or Sunday shirts as they were called. Most overalls were the bib type. There were summer shirts, summer and winter underwear, men's mitts, yard goods of prints, ging'hams, bolts of cotton, and flannelette, linen table cloths by the yard, edgings and lace, children's black stockings, " yarns, thread and stationery. Water was carried in from a spring which overflowed on the side road. A small barn behind the store housed a few cows and they pastured on the roadside. The store was closed on Wednes- day afternoon and all day Sunday. During the forties the store was owned by"Marshall Gibson, 1946, Murray Beckner, 1947, Harlett Plester, 1947, Peter Wilson, 1947 a;.d Harvey and Hazel Steele, 1949. Claire Foster bought it in 1950 and sold it to Albert Johnston the same year. In 1952 James Don- aldson and his wife, Matilda, from Harriston area bought the store. After Jim's death, Matilda kept the store until 1971, whe she retired to Conn. . James Arnold who had been with the Lucknow District Co-op bought the store at the end of 1971. That winter when a gasoline -,truck was filling the retail tank, an explosion occurred and the old store and home were gutted with flames. A new store opened in June, 1972, set further back from the road with living quarters to the east. Gordon and Bernice Kemp bought the store in 1977 when Arnolds retired to Lucknow. It takes a certain kind ofperson to operate a general store. You are tied to the store from early morning until late at night and everything is so _ open about the business, you really have to be able ,to trust someone who operates the business while you are away. 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