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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1975-07-24, Page 40• • • PAGE le...;,cuisrroNmewsagtoap, TiAtotzwr, JULY 24, Ism ) nn'a „ a , • (continued from page 15) Mahon, 1002, the, latter being the operators when- the building hortlet1.- ITV October of 1902, Sam Cooper hOtIght the burnedlover Site for $1350 with the Intention cif building a new hotel. Bricks -110d - rubble from the old hotel were used as fill for the cavity under , titiltse's Store at the time being' removed by Mr. Cooper rebid/VC LS block four times to the_eonstructicin of the' new post OffiCe (see II). As *lames for the new hotel Mr: Cooper gave consideration to The Vendeme, The Iroquois, and The Parnell, • but decided on The -Xi Edward. 'However, the hotel parently never operated under that name. Before the new hotel was completed it was leased to WH. McClean. who in Not-overt:her 1905 rented it to Peter B. Lewis who • previously had operated the Normandie Hotel in London. Ont. The new hotel was formally oPened'on 19 January 1905 to'Ahe music of the London Harpers as „The Normandie. It was am- structed of cement blocks With a pebbled surface manufactured by Mr. Cooper, and was the first !nodding in Clinton of any size to be so constructed. A small MOTEL NO1tMANDI1E • nisi. . nt..ntber n Ow team that pulls the Union Bus turns his head to the statue of King IA.Ir-'I Nt.intling protected in the entrance to the Normandie Hotel sometime between 1906 and • -Le remnant of wall veneered in this • surfacemay -still be seen at the rear of the Sloane Block. Mr. Lewis rented the hotel on condition that Local Option which was being voted on about that time. did not come into effect. It did not. but it is evident that Mr. Lewis In particular was not popular with the temperance interests. He fell afoul the law in a liquor case which he won in 1905. Nevertheless in April 1906 his license was renewed for only two months, and in May 1906 there Was a "street episode" between him and i Mr. A.T. Cooper, a temperance le,der, which resulted in Mr. Lewis being fined $2 and costs for assault. A license was then issued to Sam Cooper on the un- derstanding that it would 'he transferred to Mr. Scott who had been clerk -of the hotel. Mr. Scott ' left town in December 1906 and the operation of the hotel came under B.W. Brown who almost immediately transferred it to AL. Strome. In December 1908 Sam Cooper's planing . mill burned down and was not rebuilt (see 43)°. It appears _that, at this time Mr. Cooper decided to operate the hotelhimsell having retained _ the ownership of it, and at the end (rf 1908, he - took over the management personally. Mr. Cooper's first choice for the name of the hotel had been The 'King Edward and in January of 1906 he had obtained a statue of the monarch. executed; it is believed, in plaster. Fora time it steed ina niche at the front entrance at the corner of Mary and King Streets, and subsequently was placedon a bracket above the entrance to the bar on Mary Street. Despite the statue the name of the hotel .apparently remained The Nor- mandie. Local Option was voted in in 1913. and Mr. Cooper opened a restaurant in the hotel to coM- pensate for the vanished bar business. He #pparently remained optimisticl about the hotel's future, for in July.1914 he purchased three elaborate cast iron lamp posts with five glebes • _each- for placement on King" Street beside the hotel, the town paying for the electricity. Information has not been o‘ tained on when the hotel. ceased operations, but it was not longer operating in the late 20's, and most of one floor had been con- verted to a silent moving picture theatre - the Star Theatre. with a player piano for sound effect (0 accompany such a8 adventures of . Rin Tin Tin - a hero of the canine • persuasion. The theatre closed about 1930 and the building was not used thereafter, except for a small part rented as an office to _ the Ontario • Department of Agriculture, it is thought to have , been ,.kmolished around 1939. _ Th -ret government building was erected a few years ago and the adibining lot that wasvacant when the Gr.uid Union was built is again vacant, with nothing to testify to a glory that is gene. .400' Congratulations to the people „.„..-- - of the -Town of Carden -on the occasion of the Town's 100th anniversary. PRIDE OF TUE CLINTON BOWILING-CLUIL- MRS. HELEN TENCH PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT 26 - Lawn bolding started in 1899 26 • Southwest Corner of Mary Street and Isaac Street The flow ling Green c copyright 1973 The Clinton Bowling Club was Founded in October 1893. The first green was behind the east end of. the Perrin Block on Rattenbury Street (see 76) i.e. in the interior or the block reached by the alley across Rattenbnry from the Public Library; The site or the present green was obtainedk in1s1p,vemher 1999. Sod"was taken from theoia green for the new. So 'far as has been found out. the Club has not missed a- season since its in- ception. 'although for some red:Son there was bowling on br. Agnew's lawn in 1901. Dr. Agnew's house. built by Thomas Mackenzie in 1899. is presently occupied by Terry Maguire at 69 Joseph Street. No building is known ever to have occupied the bowlinggreen site, 7 Happy Birthday • Clinton 1815.1915 Serving Clinton_ _ with Ovality Men's Wear since 1900 Tozier1 Brown .(1900 - 1920) Davis & Herman (1920 - 1948) Hermsn's Men's WOW (1948 - 1975) Herman's Men's Wear. Jean & Gord Hermon 32 Albert Street, Clinton 482.9351- ,r