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Clinton News-Record, 1976-06-24, Page 91, (401TatMEWI; 74Rgc,Q40. • take a walk up Main St. for their Hower; but for the businesses that We nee and the eseechtilY at ThankSlOvinil- It On tot 161 on the corner , office was in the corner of the Catherine and Main Streets we building. see a large brick whits; with Ellwood Mitchell- bought in 1966 beatAtifttl old windows, now and resold to PatGlItham in 1969. Graltarala General Stare. their For Pat, it' was almost like home and, the office of Dr. G. H. coming home as la' father -was - Shepherd who moved here from the, minister of Trinity Anglican Windsor, and to the delight of the - Churchhere years before. Bayfield people, could not just sit Next to Graham's is a smaller down in retirement and not use building that Dr. Smith used for his knowledge, skill and talent. his office in the early pea. of this On July 14, 1853, this property century before he left to serve in was aCquireti- from -avow World War One. Mr. and Mrs. Tuyil by Donald McKenzie, Harry Dretunann lived there d er of Mrs. Colin after they were burned out in Let U5 and bac* and consider the beentittek window deprOons, nneS that US$ to be- was at this time that the post especially handmade quilts and woven coverlet,s. The shop is open May through •October. but On bet summer afternoons, there may be a note on the door. "Gone for a swirn. come back in about an hoar." Mr. and Mrs. Lorne • parks were the first to operate an 14 -.4.t ---4L-1 Antique Shop in this historic , store, living in the house next door and above as did the Edwards. Keeping to the right after we pass the Albion Hotel we come to the hardware store operated by the Brandons. this building was - a woollen or cording mill in the last century - its history as a mill Campitell promtly livitps on Ann 1922, he was a tailor handling, the WhIddonis store In the 180's was apopular spot for ' is given in another article. This Street. After tWo years he sold it Hobberlin line of goods. Mr. and socializing and catching up on the talk of the town. was a flourishing business but te4,)0,0*.id Pra.ser,, his brother -in- Mrs. Percy Weston operated a mann improved their premises across and up the street). and. finally closed down. Pupils going la*. WiMown$ appOirded in 18474,5 dreg and variety store until 1958 by the addition' a handsome earlier. as a "Music Emporium" to school in athlete 1880's and Hayfield's lint postmaster and when they sold to Mr. and Mrs. fronts." but Mr. Tippet always used his early 1890's remember peering in who alreadyba.dbeen operating a Cliff Utter who continued the The 1905 directory gives John half for his boat, shoe and har- at the old machinery. Then in Gneral._ ttore. He erected this store until- 1972. Mrs. Logan Whiddon as grecer. he operated ness business. He took great 1893. Mr. Rowatt moved his tin 438' x 518" huitilleg 'oritot.462 in • rented the -store to sell locally until 1909. - pride in his ability to make fancy and hardware business from the 1.855 using bricks' from Tudor created and other crafts and gave Later, Stanley Flour and Feeds harness and regularly won prizes building next to King's Bakery Marks' brickyard and operated it it the name Kaleidoscope but operated in the building. The at the Hayfield Fair. Mrs. Tippet and began operating in the old for 23 years. Upon his death in Utters continued to live there and Misses Margaret and Annie Reid had a beautiful flower garden and mill. Since then it has had a • 1878 it was sold to Daniel Barker the whole building is now a home. 'Tented it for a grocery store but some of her original plantings are number of owners: Thos. Elliott, so, in some of the old newspaper On the next lot Mr. William then moved to manage Mr. still blooming. Since the time of Chas. Scotchmer. Ted Mack, items, we have references to Whiddon had a shoe store in the Merner's store. the Tippets a number of people Frank McFadden and now "Joe" Barker's Hall - a room upstairs late 1800's but moved it across the A Mr. Xipfer was barbering have lived there. the last two Brandon. who like his reached by an outside staircase. street. The Clinton New Era in there for a few years and then owners being Mr. and Mr. Predecessors. makes it a decided The next Owner was Tudor J. July 4, 1888 tab', "Mr. William Lloyd and Esther Makins had it Brisson and Mr. and Mrs- Amy, asset to the village. Marks but firlr. Barker continued Whiddon is erecting an elegant . as a home and as the Bieber and both of whom sold antiques, and Mr. Amy also has a Real Estate side of Main St. on the corner by Now. let us start down the other business. Clan Gregor Square where Knox Next, up the street we come to Presbyterian Church now stands the Lance summer home and was a large frame building - Antique shop. which was known King's Bakery - when Thos. King for many years as the F. A. succeeded his brother. A news Edwards store. The foilowing item of May 21. 1891. tells us, was written by Lois Lance. "The "Thos. King has erected a new yellow brick building on Main St fence in front of his bakery." near the Square which contains It was delicious bread. light the Don Lance Antique Shop (and and crusty and Mr. King con - home) is 'supposed to have been tinued in business until their the first commercial building on combined store and home burned Main St." The Lances have in Nov., 1922. traced its occupancy back to 1851. Next door was another large although some people say it was frame building which was used at actually built in the 1840's. one time as a butcher shop, at -It was operated as a general another as a harness and shoe store from its beginnings to about store. and probably had Several 1938 and the interior of the store other uses before Mr. George Is virtually untouched - the same Grunsiade began his con- fectionery store there which he 3. to run it as Mr. Marks had his new shoe shop on Main Street. II' own store one block up the stxeet. is quite an ornament." Then Mr. Hewson bought the In listing Hayfield's property. moved there from his businessmen, the Clinton New drug store in what is now the Era on September 15, 1895 said of kand Village Market. In addition to Mr. Whiddon. "Shoemaer drugs he sold china, stationecy; on council. A neat cobbler. In wallpaper, •glass and gift items. order to pleate lady customershe Many of the interesting old china Purchased fine stitching. He a new machine for or glass pitchers, wee teapot sets, doing is plates and so on in Hayfield Bayfiefirs .Chief of Police and homes today came . from another staunch reforreer." Hewson's store. Some have In the April 21, 18.97 issue el the paper Mr scenes of the Main St. or Bayfield . Whiddon's leaving was River on them. noted. "William Whiddon has Edward F. Merrier bought the gone aboard the Survey boat. Me - store in 1911. Mr. Hewson having one is taking his place so there is ora shoemaker. died two years earlier. and put in a good opening f" a stock 01 groceries, as well as., Next we come to the Red other items, to make it a general Pump. _a restaurant during the store. When he returned t� far- summer. It was the residence ming in 1924, ' of John Whiddon. his sister-in-laW. and store Miss Maggie Reid, managed the Quotes from the Huron News store until it was sold to George Record are as follows: July 22. Elliot in 1928 who operated an ice . 1881,„ "Mr. Whiddon'snew store is cream parlour alma; with the in a fair way of completion and . " groceries. will. when finished. be .a grand Robert Penhale Mr. D. j.. Stephenson. the next improvement to the lower part of building.. moving 4 to .his ' tickle your nostrils. From t e owner, -:stayed only two years the village": in 1884. , "Mr. property on Reward Street for 1880's until 1940 it was known as tells us that he first started in Mr. selling to the Harveys, Ernie and Whiddon has -opened a floUr and use as a barn. .. Edwards' Cash Store and it had A. Erwin's store. also that, "he Dorothy in 1946. The George feed store on Main St.": the year The Robinson Bros. Malt a the first gas lights in the village. offers a splendid selection of Elliots are remembered for the 1885, "The new grocer, Whiddon, small store there some years Frank Edwards operated the tweeds and can furnish a suit h lovely climbing roses that lheY is doing a good business"; and in later. selling produce and telegraph services, kept a horse the most economical and planted and theHarveys, not only 1902, 3. Whiddon and II. Dreh- groceries. They sold to Maynard for hire and was all-around fastidious manner. He is also an Corrie and he to Russell Kerr. message service for the corn- agent for the London Life The store was disposed of about 'Intmity, as well as a purveyor of Insurance," The post office was ten years ago and a house erected groceiies, boots and patent also in this building when it was by Wm. Bunn. It is now ownedby medicines." , burned in the 1922 fire. Mr. George Gregg. Mtn Lance and his wife. Lois. was built by Andrew Rutledge in The next large brick building in the next block we find an who hive ownedand operated the Beauty Shoppe from 1922 to 1943. When Mrs. Brown, daughter of Mr. Whiddon. returned to Hayfield to live, she made that her home. The next small frame building and also the next two homes we referred to in another article as the Erwin Houses, all having been built by members of the Erwin family. They are now The Store Next Door, The Village Guild and The Ancient Mariner, with the Village Library between the last two mentioned. George. one of the Erwin brothers. was a blacksmith, his shop being on the lot immediately to thecast, where Arnold Mak ins' house now. Tudor arks' store was on the corner and -was listed in the 1883 walnut counters. wooden shelves directo,ry as a general store but and double display windows that lost in the 1922 fire. later Mr. Marks concentrated were put in 11 125 years ago. The . . Next. where the Beauty Shop is more on men' now. was another two-storey stock was sold in clothing. The original spice bins are sti . 1918 and Mr. and if you pull open the one building in which Harry Dreh- ought the marked Cloves. the aroma will tailor shop. The New Era of 1893 mann lived and operated his Gas pumps looked like-. thb in the early litliei. These pumps . were found orilsidellOvey's Store. The Ritz Hotel den be seen In the back and. idiot Tippet Wilt whatis now known as Amy Antiques and Real Estate In earlier days. The building was then a Harness and Shoe Shop and later became part of the Queen's Hotel. .1* interesting old and well -kept antique shop for eight years, 1867 and is now owned by Mr. anti building. Part of it came from the have spent their summers in Mrs. Lkryd Westlake. Only the west side was used for businos, original. Queen's Hotel and was Bayfield since 1939. They bought mhved from its location on the their own cottage on Howard An item in the New Era. Sept. 29. corner of Main and Catherine Street 20 years ago when their 1893 said that one of our general Streets one block away after the three sons grew up to love stores did a S10.000 business ('0 new Queen's was erected around Bayfield and then decided to 1892) and that the others dui 1878. We find an item. Oct. 13, move "uptown" and join the equally well. That anibunt of 1893, "Mr. John Tippet has business community as their money wouldn't go far today. You will find the Canadian Imperial purchased from Mr. Hayrook the personal Canadian Centennial ' •es a Bank of Commerce in this corner lot opposite the post office project. e s p with the lot to the rear. This is a general line of antiques. Don is location today. splendid business stand. He will knowledgeable about Woods and A small sbop at not build' this year but intends furniture styles and - - just west of the R erecting a store soon. In the specialty is antique glass and and had a numin meantime he will carry on the china and textiles of all kinds. (continued on page 38B) harness and shoe business in the shop immediately west of Rowatt's hardware and tin depot." , An item in the May 21. 1897 paper, "Mr. Tippet has com- meneed to build a shop on the same lot as his residence now is. It will be a commodious building - a double shop with roonis up- stairs for renting. The min part of the building will be used by him for a harness and shoe shop - of the latter he will put in quite -an expensive stock." Miss Garrett rented ac- comblodations above the store for many summer vacations. then bought -a -part of the property and had a cottage built. which she willed to her niece, Rachel Bristol. Part of the shop was used in various capacities such as . E1rhart's Bakery. as a bank (the Sterling Bank moved about 1910 into Dr. Woods' building e time stood go building enantsover Lance Antiques, which serves as the store and house. used to be Edward's General Store.