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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1973
ashwood r ady for big event
Plans have all been finalized
for the big Friedsburg Days in
Dashwood this Friday and Sat-
urday, and one thing visitors
can be sure of is plenty of tasty
German food. During the week
two ladies who are in charge
of the food preparations, Mrs.
Charles Tiernan and her mother,
Mrs. Cliff Salmon, have been
working feverishly pre-cooking
1, 000 pounds of meaty spare-
ribs..
Along with the 1, 000 pounds
of spare -ribs, the ladies are
preparing to serve another 800
pounds of frying sausage. Along
with all this meat they have
1, 000 pounds of sauerkraut on
hand, so visitors most certainly
will not have to go hungry.
"We should have enough
food on hand to serve 5, 000
people, " Mrs. Tiernan told the
Citizens News." And even with
the high prices of meat we are
only going to charge $1.50 per
plate."
The tasty food will be served
on Friday afternoon from 5 p.m.
to 1 a.m. and again on Saturday
from 11 a.m. to 1 a. m.
All profits derived from the
Friedsburg Days will go towards
the new picnic pavilion which
has just been built east of the
Dashwood Community Hall.
Total cost of the pavilion is
slightly over $7, 000 according
to village trustee Doug Riddell.
Some of this amount has already
been received by way of grants
and donations, and the group
in charge of Friedsburg Days
hope to raise the balance with
this year's event.
The new picnic pavilion will
be used extensively in this year':
event, with the big talent show
slated for Friday night to be
held under cover in the new
building. (A complete program
of the Friedsburg Days will be
found on page 17).
Friedsburg Days is celebrated
in Dashwood to acknowledge
that part of it's history in which
it was known not as Dashwood
but rather as Friedsburg. Around
the year 1860, Absolom Fried
MRS. CLIFF SALMON AND MRS. CHARLES TIEMAN PRE—COOK RIBS
PROFITS GO TOWARDS NEW PICNIC PAVILION
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clal
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL!
BRAN MUFFINS
Reg. 350 for Pkg. of 6
2 PKGS. 59(
(AT THE BAKERY)
TASTY' NU BAKERY
ZURICH
Only one percent of the 1,604
forest fires in Ontario during 1972
were caused by forest industry
operations, and these fires
burned only 139 acres of the total
78,742 acres of forest destroyed.
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DASIWOOD'
rhore 237.3381 or 237-3422
from Waterloo County establish-
ed a settlement on the boundary
of Hay and Stephen Township
on the present site of Dashwood.
Here he erected a steam -power-
ed sawmill and grist mill which
served as the corner -stones of
the new village which was cal-
led Friedsburg in honour of its
founder. However, in 1871,
when a post office was opened
there, the name seems to have '
been changed to Dashwood.
Mr. Fried died in 1874, but
the Cook Bros., John and Rhein -
hard, continued the operation
of the industries which he had
established. Another Fried soon
was to make a substantial cont-
ribution to the early develop-
ment of Dashwood. Noah Fried
had a new grist and flouring
mill constructed in the west
part of the village and, in 1885,
he increased the efficiency of
his operation by replacing the
old mill -stone grinding system
with the more up-to-date roller
system. In December, 1885,
this report of Fried's mill appear.
ed.
"The Dashwood Roller Mills
are running about 18 hours a
day to keep up and it is likely to
run night and day when the
roads get better: Business on
the whole is considered better
in town since it has started up."
The sawmills in Dashwood
were equally as busy, especially
because of Dashwood's choice
location in the heart of the great
hemlock region. In 1934, an
elderly citizen of Dashwood
reminisced that "at the height
of business Fried's Mill was
sawing lumber 18 hours a day to
fill its orders, my father being
an employee of the mill at that
time." In fact, within a seven-
mile radius of Dashwood, there
were about 13 saw mills in
operation during the early year
of the village. .
Already by 1879, the village
had two general stores, two
hotels, two sawmills, a grist
and flouring mill, two wagon -
makers, two blacksmiths, a
shoemaker, a tailor, and an
undertaker. Later, further add-
itions were a cooper shop to
manufacture flour barrels, a
wooden -pump shop, a harness -
making shop, a tin shop, a
butcher shop, a bakery, furnit-
ure store, two flax mills, and
a planing mills.
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DASHWOO
HOTEL
Entertainment
Wednesday, Aug. 1
COUNTRY WALLY
Come and visit us
Friedsburg Days
Fri. & Sat., Aug. 4 & 5
Saturday Matinee
TWO TREMENDOUS BANDS
In the Picture Lounge
The Schooner
In the Patio Lounge
Joe Fieder, J.F. Trail
Famous Oompah-pah-pah
Tiffany Dining Lounge Hours
Friday, 12 to 2 and 5 to 10
Saturday, 12 noon to 10 p.m.
Completely Air Conditioned
FRESH FROM OUR FIELDS DAILY!
12 Varieties
Are Available
including:
Field Tomatoes
Potatoes
Peaches
Dressed
Chicken
9s
all at
FARMER BILL'S
237-3228
Watch for our sign on Crediton Road east of Shipka, and on
Highway 83, west of Dashwood.