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E3y Evelyn Kennedy
Have you ever paused, as you walked in
the dusk, to gaze at an old abandoned
:..house and wondered what memories, linger
fliers? That sagging porch, shattered window
fres, broken chimney, and crumbling
had they once been home to a 11,aonv
family? The weed choked. lawn, neglecteta
flower beds and garden plot, had they, in
the past, been things of beauty, tended by
loving hands? ,
If you shut .out the sounds of the world
around you may faintly hear the merry
Sounds of children at play and catch a
shadowed glimpse of a contented couple at
rest on that porch in the evening glow.
Memories, of a lifetime linger there. The
sound of a baby's first cry, faces at the
shining window panes, joy and sadness,
hopes and dreams, fulfillment and
disappointment, the threads that are
woven into thetapestry of life, these still
linger there in that old tumble-down house.
Reality
The month of June is that time
of year when 2 million graduates
leave college to look for positions
- and wind up getting jobs.
Sporty Student
I know one football player
who's been in college for 5
years, It 's a sad story. He sari
kick and he can run - but he can't
pass!
Memories still linger there
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A history of Brussels
Thuell mill five months after the
1905 tire. Because of its proximity
to the burned down Ross mill, we
have surmised that the Thuells
reconstructed a roof and interior,
using the stone walls of the Ross
mill as a base, This Mill closed in
May 1913.
Sometime in the second deCade .
of this century, another flax mill
started up in business' • It was
situated on the north side of the
river.' This mill paid its workers
too- high wages and soon ran itself
,into the ground.
This created problems for
Phillip Ament, whose business
was still thriving. His workers
deserted him for the .higher
paying job of pulling flax without
giving him a chance to match the
'flax mill's, wages.
During the war, J. T. Woods
was doing a booming business.in
his woollen mill, making yarn and
heavy woollen sox. After the war,
he approached the village council
with the idea of giving him a loan
with which to make an extension
on the mill. They turned him
down, so he closed his mill and
moved .to Chatham. It was
estimated that,. at this time, he
was worth $60,000, but he lost his
money after leaving Brussels.
Thus, Brussels lost one of its two
biggest employers.
, (Continued from last week)
(By Volute MeCutcheon and.
David Brister)
;?„Sometime after starting. oper-
Aflons Id. Ronald was sued by
tic town. He had taken their
$20,000 and failed to meet the
terms of their agreement by not
iiiag as many men as promised.
*mid won the suit and kept the
520,000. By the turn of . the
•c'ittury, Ronald had sold his
1.1i1110 05 industry to London
Interests and lire engines were no
M
ager built in Brussels. In 1902,
la building waS occupied by the
Ober Carriage Works. James
iliil , Garsicle, who had been
dined at the Ronald Works
14ried building fire
itinguishers and running a
:iltchine shop. Their • business
ails located to the west of the
pipet)! Topnotch mill, and was
soon b ought out by Charlie Pope.
Me also know that in the early
1900's„1. T. Wood obtained
52.000 from the Brussels Council
iikc-open the old George Howe
w'tiollen mill, which had passed
talsoeressfully through the hands
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11 Lock ri dee s
flax mill was also n, Operation
diiring the very early 1900's,
Ara river from the dam. It was
Kinded more than once and
(tally burned,
In 1905 another disastrous fire
1:Ork Brussels. It started in the
teen's Hotel livery barn and
cstroved the outbuildings
IJiincl main street. These
fide(' Walker's livery barn,
lie private residences, the
led= Hotel stables, Plum's
teksmith shop and P.scott's
-teksmith shop, The fire then
cad to Mill Street, where' it
ied out F. Adams pump works,
leteher Sparling's Implement
o•e, Gco, Edwards' planing
h1, and Ross' flour and feed mill
rehased from F.W.Mann).
1. Colley, thinking himself safe
it the blaze, sent his men into
village to help put out the fire.
never, the fire jumped the
r, burning Cober's Carriage
orks and Cousley's stable to the
ound,
his fire proved to be more
'astatine than the earlier fires,
some of these industries were
or rebuilt. Cober moved his
tory to another town, F.
ams started a hardware store
ordwieh, F. Ross did hot
uild his mill. Geo. Edwards
ataioncd his planing mill and
it into the well-drilling
smess,
We do know that P. Scott's
kstaith shop (present building.
S. Workman Plu tubing) -and F.
um's blacksmith shop(present
hall) as well as the two hotels'
hies were rebuilt,
he closing down of the Ronald
tOgitie Works And the
'snag of the flax Mill resulted in
bstantial loss of einployinent,
e Ronald Works alone
ployed forty to fifty men. This,
on,affeeted the hotels, whose
lihood depended oil the
.ding and liquor ebtishrlipticin
local workers, Added to this
the abandoittnent of 'snarly of
tititite8 butried out in the'
1905 fire, Naturally, the local
merchants would "also suffer.
A. bright spot in Brussels at this
time was the Ament Mill, Phillip
Ament built his first milt opposite
the present creamery on the north
side of the river. By 1898, it had
burned down. His 'second mill,
built at the present McNeil
garage site at the north end of
town, burned also. He rebuilt a
cement building which is now the
'McNeil building. His operations
included a planing mill, a saw
mill, and a cooper shop, where
barrels were made. Ament
bought'timber lots from farmers
and during the winter often had
twenty' to thirty teams hauling.
logs to his mill. His enterprise
was a very prosperous one which
employed many workers.
William Vanstene, -another
industralist had -moved to
Wingham and sold his mills to
Stewart and. Lowick, who then
sold to a man named Pryne. The
Pryne Milling Company increased
production from 75 to 125 barrels
of mill a dily in 1912. But, in 1914.
this industry, tod was destroyed
by fire. R wits resurrected as a
chopping mill by. Jack Logan.
Also, at the turn of the century,
J. Irwin operated the Electric
Light Company at the southwest
corner of the bridge. Robert
Thuell took over the enterprise
and in October of 1905, the Thuell
brothers started production at
their chopping mill nearby.
References were made to the
News of
Belgrave
Visitors last weekend with Mr.
and Mrs. Keith Pletch were Mr.
and Mrs. James Hodgins of
Granton, and Mr, and Mrs. Doug
Walker and Shelley Ann of
Schofnberg.
-Ms. and Mrs. Harold Cantelon
of Tweed spent a few days last
week with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Harry McGuire.
Mr. Albert Vincent moved from
the Wingham and District Hospi-
tal recently to the Pinecrest
Manor Nursing Home in Luck-
now, He was able to attend his
sale of household effects on
Tuesday in the Belgrave Institute
Hall.
Mr. and Mrs. Del Deleare and
boys of Lynn Lake, Manitoba
called on their uncle and aunt,
Mr. and Mrs. Harty McGuire last
Monday afternoon.
Miss Bonnie Coyne of Windsor
is spending a few days with her
'uncle and aunt, Mr. and. Mrs.
Lawrence Taylor and with kobin-
sett relatives.
titehte
Seven tables of euchre were
played Iast Wednesday evening
in the Belgrave Community
towns.
High Lady - Herb
Wheeler; Low Lady - Mrs. Doris
Adams;
High Man-6eorge ilreWet; Low
Man - tdot Wightmati; Novelty
Man- Mrs,• Clatenee Hanna (play,
trig as titian.)
UPSIDE DOWN — Senior students at Brussels
Public School showed their skill at gymnastics during
Open House at the school last week. With some
assistance from Dave Watts, Carold Raymond and
Cathy Bridge perform a hand stand...
(Photo by Pat Langlois)
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