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istoric landmark falls to wreckin
One of •Exeter's oldest land- Hatter's wheal and seed owned" The property was originally rt On December -13, . 1892 the' by the Exeter Times Steam Simpson said ,"some guys' are
marks is quicklydissa g by P y g e Stephen +t furnitu rice boxes, clocks and pine'
.and will be eplaed by a modern ' In October J 1973 Cann's. Mill t wf nship comp t 22 ising 100 a r s. Hoopperwash purchased at `public ' presently Printing Company.
I ving n in . Exeter to get looking .No one truforck load of matains. erial Tar furniture.
commercial, Complex. Simpson said he still hada good.
P Lithited sold the company shares The farm Was sold on May 31, auction by Rollins atad Williams remembers this printing com- $2. They won't - get any bargains amount -,,of timber, bricks; -pine
Workmen are expected to to E:xeter. District Co Operative 1$30 by The Crown to the Canada for $950. pany. Historian Joe .Wooden here but 'our prices arae com-- lumber.and assorted lumber for
'complete demolition of the for- . includingsihe'grain elevators and Oempany. Cart Cann has a' copy of the sdkgests it was part �! the Exeterpelitive
most of .
Times. He Wed wooden pulleys, which..are hand hewn.
d and - Trgant Patrick • Since purchasing the entire windows, doors and pine lumber ; 'The going price for -bricks in a
• montliirnd Liaiser-Kneale Realty The Exeter Co -Op in turn sold Smith, Robert Haskett . and of the property as "one rood and Cann's Mill property Gaiser- from the mill's'bins and chutes as clean condition are $10 per
and Insurance will be con-, the 'Main street feed mill Thomas Gidley. On September 1, foul -fifths perches, more or less Kneale is in the process of selling the most popular items. Wooden thousand. Simpson said labour
.structing an office building. ...p'roperty to - Gaiser-Kneale . 1856 Gidley sold the west half of . and included a good one and 'a ,, back half 90 the Exeter pulleys can be used, as- chap-. , costs of cleaning brick; was about
The mill served Exeter and Realty: The local•realtors then the.property to Wm. Kelly and - half storey frame house and a Legion for parking purposes. deliers, tables, windows and _ Vie 'per thousand:
area 4'armers for more than 575_ Said the feed mill building to Don -established the ' Gidiey. survey - good orchard.!'• Mel Gaiser tbld • the T -A , various antique articles,' added hand hewn beams are selling
years.. It was built,,in 1894 by Simpson of-Thedford to be and set up lots on the easterly Carf Cann saidr!'-lie can ••Wednesday afternoon that 'his'Simpson. . ''ltu up to 8600 per thousand board
- Rolleits and Williams and was • disinantled"and reii%ved. • portign. remember picking plums from a firm' had tentative plans .for a. :The pine lumber from the bins
. known at that time as Exeter. . Carf . Cann has some• of -the . in 1866 Gidley sold to Albert few remaining .trees in the or- 14.000 square foot one storey
Holler Mills. The original owners. original documents covering the ' Clark. and in the ensuing years chart when his father purchased , commercial complex. He hopes
were Arthur -J: Rollins and - John property ; which became -well other owners were Armon Clark, the mill in the late 1930's. to have construction completed
nown in the area as Cann s mill. Robert Elston and Henry•Hooner: The sale bill in 1892 -was' " b� late 1975.•
sale .including beams rn
mer :Cann'$ Mill property on fertilizer storage equipment at ' Owners in the next 26 years auction sale notice in his Ti
Main street within the next - the CNR station were E w possession 1l had dimensions
'A Williams k
During the next four vears
Rollins sqld his -shire toWifliams
for .$7,000 acid in January '1899 •
Williains sold the property to'
Joseph Cobbledick for $11,500
plus nterrhandise on hand. .•
Themerchandise included-
- wood at $1.55 per_ cord; coal at
$3120 a. tort; Star flour $1.35'cwt.; -
Manitoba flour $1:45: shorts 70
cents a hundred; fall wheat 62
cents per trushel and Manitoba'
wheat 75 cents a bushel._
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blediek sold the mill to Harvey
..Bron: for the same price of
811,500. -Prices in 1902 had risen
somewhat. Hardwood was selling -
at $3.50 per cord; Star flour $1.85: -
Manitoba flour $2;, shorts $1; and
oats.42c'4 bushel,
Thomas anth,Jgseph. Ilarvey
operated the business for man','
years 'and it was purchased -in
late 1939 from the Harvey Estate
by G: A. Cann and Sons for $4,600.
The document of the sale ro•
.Cann's listed all land, buildings
and . machinery included except
stock of mixed grain owned by.
Verne Pincombe, cracked beans
owned by Bruce Tuekey, Wm. P.
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EXETER, ONTARIO, APRIL 3, 1975 -
An early 1900's scene at.,Harvey Bros: mill
e.
Meanwhile 'ban Simpson of
Thedford and his crew are busily
engaged in demolishing- the
building.• -
Simpson who purchase(_ the
building for $310 at -.a pdblic
au _tion
a few weeks ago said he
didn't'_plan on buying when he
came to sale.
"i was interested in buying
scales, motors and office
equipment for two other mills in
which -1 have an -interest." said
Simpson. • -
:1 mill in Thedford now known
as,l.ambton Farmers Limited is
•being readied for operation after
'being out of business for a couple
of years., Simpson said the
Thedford mill is as old or older
than the Exeter building.
The Thedford man expects to
• have all the materials cleared
away by the end of April..May 15
is the time limit for completion of
his contract.
. Hundreds of peoplehave visited
the site in the last couple of weeks"
looking for materials of all kinds
. especially antique items.
.On. the subject of buyers
Second Section
Neil McLeod, Don Simpson and Terry Simpson check
one of entrance doors
Terry Simpson with old church doors
Grand Bend man advocates
incentives to conserve energy
At a meeting in Bayfield of
Huron -Middlesex New
Democrats, the topic- of energy
conservation in Ontario was the.
main item on the agenda. An
extensive paper on the topic was
presented by Philip F. Walker,
Grand Bend.
The paper was prepared in
response to the recent an-
nuuncenients by the Provincial
and Federal Ministries of Energy
indicating programs 'to be un-
dertaken in the two jurisdictions.
Mr. Walker has suggested that
the recently published booklet,
"100 Ways to Save Energy in the
Horne," by the Federal Minis(er
of Energy has "just scratched the
surface." "
"Since the construction of a
home obviously precedes its
management, L think we should
talk about that first," he com-
mented. "Revision of the building
aide should be undertaken to
considerably increase the in-
sulating requirements in all
residential_ construction," he
went on to say.
Ile continued . to point out a
series of incentives to encourage
the use of conservation measures
in the home. Ile suggested that
the sales tax should be eliminated
from insulation materials, as one
example.
in other areas, the main thrust
of his presentation was that the
"conservation of - existing
resources must be our immediate
priority:' He dealt with tran-
sportation extensively. in
separate sections he reviewed
urban, inter -urban facilities,
aviation and the question of
private as opposed to public
, transportation systems.
Ile advocated "a two-page
- policy which would
simultaneously discourage use of
.thQ private • automobile while
cl controlling' the cost of
public transit systems."
He called for increased taxes
on high -consumption vehicles
combined with corresponding
reductions for 'economy -
,conscious auto purchasers. in
addition, he suggested licensing
systems with a greater
assessment against 6 and 8
cylinder automobiles.
in a third area, Mr. Walker •
discussed the question of re-
cycling waste materials. in
particular, he called for a
government ban on non-
returnable containers. "The
population of Ontario survived
very well without.these for a long.
time and,could do so equally well
again." he said.
in his concluding remarks, he
called for an increased effort in
the search for alternate sources •
of energy supply. He called for.
"intelligent, economic incentives
• in, government policy" as
necessary conservation
measures "to give us as much
time as possible to perfect better
and cleaner forms of energy."
.NDP members in attendance
gave Mr. Walker enthusiastic•
approval for his presentation. In
response, Owen Pemberton of
Hayfield suggested that existing
government measures were of an
"interim nature". Saving fuel is
not the answer," she suggested.
"but simply delays the inevitable
time when our resources are
depleted. Research is needed
immediately to study alter-
natives to existing energy sup-
ply."
David Weary of Goderich,
suggested that the incentive rates
for greater electrica4- usage
should be discontinued. '=Rate
discounts for high users have no
place in an energy -short
society." he explained.
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On the question of re -usable
containers. Donna Klopp ,of.
Zurich suggested that the
government should legislate a
"standardized returnable con-
tainer" for use in the food in-
dustry. "A 12 or 14 ounce bottle.
perhaps similar to -a beer bottle.
could he used to serve many
current consumer needs," she
staled.
Even Anders had
scale upside down
While many area residents had
April fool jokes played on them
Tuesday, none was quite as
universal as that of the weather
-reports and forecasts.
(hi that hate, the national
conversion of actual and forecast
temperatures changed to Celsius.
part of the planned conversion to
Me metric system.
The thermometer is called
Celsius in honor' of Anders
Celsius. professor of astronomy
al Uppsala Sweden in the early
181h cenlury.
in his short life time (1701-1744
Celsius- made many worthwhile
contributions to scientific
Anders Celsius
knowledge, not the least of which
was the thermometer based on
100 degrees of difference between
the freezing and boiling points of
water.
He desj�ribed the scale in a
paper read before the Swedish
Academy of Science in 1742.
Area readers may take some
measure of excuse in their lack of
knowledge of the new. tem-
perature system in the fact that
even the inventor had it upside
down initially.
The thermometer he presented
read loo in melting ice and 0 in
boiling water. Six years after his
death the settle was inverted to
read 0 when in ice and remains
the same to the present day.
While experts agreethatpeople•
should not attempt to learn some
of the suggested methods of
converting Celsius to Fahrenheit
in lieu - of Becoming conversant
with the new scale, there are
some methods of conversion that
many will employ.
The most accurate,if you have,
a head for mental arithmetic is
to subtract 32 and multiply by
five -ninths.
However there is a more
simple approximation to the rule
which allows conversion to be
made easily and gives tem-
peratures which are correct to
one or two . degrees (Celsius
degrees, -of course).
it is: Fahrenheit to Celsius -
subtract 30 "and divide -by 2;
Celsius to Fahrenheit • multiply
by two and add 30.
By this rule - 70 degrees 'F
becomes 20 degrees C instead of
21.1.
However, readers who are
having trouble with the new scale
ace reminded again that even the
inventor started with it upside
dawn,
'and chutes which has become..
highly polished from grain hnd
feed passing through is popular in
feet with •other beams at -about
$250. Lumber brings 8150. per
thousand board feel.
Simpson is planning an keeping
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Carf Cann and sale bill of 1 891
crew
'Most of the doom and windows
for his own use. The sliding doors
have been taken to the Thedford
and Forest Mills.
During the tearing down
process - workmen found several
interesting items.•Two doors still
ppinted red are reported to have
come from'the Bethesda church
located in Usborne township lust
east of Exeter. •
Lining an •inner wall workmen.
found a sign which came 'from a
London business _ co11 ge. The •
sign reads' "ForestCity Sher- -
(hand College. The best equipped
college in Ontario, February 28,
1898."
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Mill during early demolition stages
Terry and Ken Simpson atop structure