Clinton News-Record, 1975-07-24, Page 38-insufl0 and
:Pox wart w frarne
uslog two • stores.
being torn down In
aw rted as being one
the oldest buildings in town
which would suggest it dated
from the 1850's. .
In 1578 the store In southern
half of the ,building was William
Lee's Victoria BaIkItop which In
1884 belonged to T.D. Dunlop.
About 1810 the northern store was
occupied by the Clinton New Era,
which remained there until 1893
when Sum Coope' completed new.
guaarter; 'fotr the newspaper office
the brick -, building presently
occupied by Dnrst`s Farm and
Garden Centre. The southern
stare ts believed to have
remained a `bakeshop until
demoliti+nn in MI George Levis
was in ta:cupaance of the northern
store as an agent for Massey
Harris just prior to demolition..
Lavis* present building jar-
" mxtediaitt4y south of Burst's was
to olt in 1890 as a horse. hospital
for 1?r. 13taackatl, a veterinarian.
As i+riginally built it had four
-angle stalls, two box staffs, a
•' wri.tge room.. and an office at
+ht• front. It- was a place where
h% t•iv discussions apparently
*Look --place. for the • New Era
, frequently ntly referred to it as the
'-Woe Office'`. George Lavis.
grandfather of the present in-
cumbent of th+e name, rented the
building in 1905. and in October
1996 bought. it. By virtue of the
-mai.Kemal the Lois building is
the t,rngest family -occupied
commercial l building in Clinton.
brining Rartliff's by one year.
The next dateahte building on
*Olt PY
a't 24i as a
Peg,
ost certainly earlier than
�tabaston's'
achSr shop which
located'" between the present
Korner c Re ation +l room ant
tie Laa banding: Ho+.w'eyar, it
first Comes tO notice in the
newspaper in an Identifiable
location in lay In .lily 1901 it
was - purchased by .l. Rands,
ds.,..
blacksmith, who in 1903 added a'
oventhe street bonging' sign in
the 'form of a large wooden
horseshoe. Mr. Rands remnitied.
in the building until its
blacksmithtng dayswere over.
Following site demolition of the
old frame building north of '
Dikes present stere in 1902, the
site reinained• vacant except -fora
Jorge billboard erected in 1905 by
Frank Evans who had seven
other suchsignsin the.town. This
one wag..take& down in 1906 in
anticipation of -On emporium for
buggies. furniture and un-
dertaking to be operated. by
McMath and Tyndai (sea 39) that
never materialized. Re-
ocenpance of the site came in 1908
when' Jacob Taylor, insurance
agent and reactor, built the'
buildings now occupied( by
Laongstafrs optometry office and
Riley's barbershop.- Mr. Taylor
Closed the gap between these
bindings and -the' Elliott Block
when in 1909 he contracted with
Sam Cooper for the erection of
the building now occupied by
K.W. Coleluhoun's insurance and
real estate office. It was initiaclye
occupied by Ford and McLeod's
feed store.
A friendly feature of •the
Midway for many years was a
public drinkingfountain just. in
front of Counter's jewelry store
provided by the businessmen of
4the Midway in 1912, now
vanished.
The chopping till bunt by Fri Andrews and + _
north of Dr. Newland's present residence. Earlier the site was
Works.
efe * *rte in, 1925 Itt
1de •and ayer's mon u tent
e.
(continued from page 11)
single storey building it was
operated as a service stationnby
George Hanley between•the wars.
The date of demolition orate old
garage and the construction of
the present vaeaant service
station has not been obtained.
South of the Commercial Hotel
• at least as' early as 1890. and
probably much earlier; was Seale
and Hoover's monument yard. it
was stilt in operation in 1900'when
the partnership was dissolved
and Mr. Seale opened another
monument yard on Rattenbury
Street •tsee 40). 1t is not known
how long Mr. Hoover continued
on the Huron Street site. but in
1925 Frank ,Andrews and George
House ereted a cement block
chopping mill there,, the ruins of
which may still be seen. For
some years the mill was operated
. by George Murdock and was
bought from him by Canada
Packers in 1936.
South of this site was a row of
wooden stores dating from about
1845 built by "Lord" Johrs•
Du 9sworth and known as Dod-
swortb- Row. "Lord" John was
apparently a somewhat eccentric
Englishman. and at least, two
seemingly reliable accounts
attribute the naming of Clinton in
1658 to him rather than to William
Rattenbury.
Not much is known of Dod-
sworth' Row.. during its lifetime.
N. Norsworthy had a sewing
machine shop in it in 1375, and
this shop was occupied as a tin
shop in 1883 by Sam Wilson. to
1893 at, least part of the low was
torn down and offered' for sale.
George Lavis bou t hit one section
and sold it for conversion to a
farmhouse. Sam Wilson's shop
survived the 1893 demolition, for
in 1889 W. Wheatley had bought
the lot next to Sam Wilson and
erected an ice house on it.
In the first winter of operation'
he stored 14.0o0 blocks of ice at
100 pounds each. By 1903. relative
to a pian to build a Salv'aation
Army barrack on the site, which
never materialized., the icehouse
was described as a "despicable
spot." It was on this despicable
spot that Sam Cooper. on con-
tract to Dr. Thompson - father of
the present incumbent of that
name, built in 1906 the residence
presently occupied by Dr.
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• P
...e solute the Town
of Ciint�n,on its
100th ,Anniversary