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The Huron Expositor, 1966-05-05, Page 3e or (Continued from last week), - f forth . . a History by— Isabelle Campbell • Albert Edward Hotel local coal dealers agreed to rent at $5.0.00 per annu'm'. On Goderich St., Thomas Downey in July, 1857, responsibility to gay maintenance and also assumed the bought from George Snarling the first lot on the north- and the salary of the weighmaster, Albert W. Moore. e because east corner at the crossroads, and b0ilt on it a large Howev r,n1 962, be ... seo f the e repairs needed fhy. frame hotel,' "The Albert Edward" or "Downey House decided to give them up. In August that year the purr It was in Downey's Hall some of the first church serv- chase offer of $310.00 from the Snell. Feed Mill in Blyth ices were held. In 1863, Downey advertised that the was accepted by the town council. bar was constantly supplied with pure wines and liquors, The transformer station here was built by the the table covered with all the substantials and luxuries.. Public Utility Commission in 1911, k but was replaced of the season, and that a capable and attentive hostler by' a much larger one in the ,1950's en Chalk Street was always in attendance. The stable and livery were east of Victoria Park. Littlg use, if any, is made of east of the hotel. Thomas Stephens was the one at the 1911 building now. the helm when, all were burned in 1876. At that time In the 1870's, ust north of what is now John it was known as "The British Hotel". Within days, ' Tremeer's apartment house, Joseph Able had a livery, Stephens ,had arrangements made with James Mullen and in part of it David Stewart had a paint shop. These for the erection of the present hotel. It was officially lots from the early 1880's were owned by Davidsons, opened April 2, 1877, and named "The Queen's", the of the Commercial Hotel. Part of this land is now the name by which it has been known ever since. hotel parking lot.- Thomas Stephens, when he came to Seaforth in "West .Side Main Street 1865, was a grain buyer, but before 1869 he had a pork From Goderich Street to the railway track, all the packing plant on the back part of the lot east of first stores built 'on both sides . of Main Street were Downey's Hotel stable till he went into the hotel busi- frame, with the exception of Dickson's, . at the corner nese in .1875. From then till the middle 1930's this of Main and St. John Street. It, when built, was only hotel was under the management of the Stephens fam- ily. At the time of "Dad" Stephens' death in 1936, at a small brick building. the age of 95 years, he was the oldest hotel proprietor „ In the same year, 1857, that Downey built his in Ontario. Various uses have been made of parts of Albert Edward Hotel, Robert Carmichael and George the building through the years. Alex Hassan and Hanny Soole together crossed the Atlantic. Ocean, and after a ' opened it voyage of several weeks landed at, New York. In 1859 Shousher, of London, bought it in 1960 and again as a hotel in April, 1962. It had not been used they came to Huron County, and in 1860. Carmichael for this purpose from 1955. gave Soole the contract to build a frame hotel on the site where - McKernan's log tavern had stood. Some The hotel stable was burned twice and replaced of Soole's account was paid in produce. One item men - each time. The first fire was in September, 1876, and tioned was 33 pounds of beef at 6c 'per pound. The the second in September, 1910. Stephens had the pres- kitchen of this hotel was moved to St. John Street by ent cement building with iron' roof built in 1912. In the 1870's, and it was here `Robert Carmichael and his 1940 it was bougllt by the Imperial Oil Co., who in- stalled gas tanks. Andrew W. Dunlop used it as a garage and was followed by Rowcliffe Motors in the 1940's. Where buggies were formerly parked while horses were fed, cars are parked now for repairs. Next was" Downey's livery, but owned by Thomas Sharp at the time of the 187.6 fire. In a building here, John S. Walsh, from 1892, made and repaired pumps, and was followed by his son, Fred Walsh. Still later this building was part of Cluff's mill property. From the hotel stable to the corner, several houses were burned in the 1876 fire. By 1885 Thomas Downey, contractor, had a 'lumber yard and implement house here.. Cluffs bought the lumber yard from Stephen Lamb in 1903, and in 1912 moved their planing mill here from Franklin St. The building at the corner used by Cluff Bros. as an office, was part of McDermid's store,in Harpurhey, and was moved 'down in the middle 1890's. Gordon M. Ritchie, in January, 1946, bought Cluff's. business, and the Seaforth Supply & Fuel Co. took over in 1,947. When this company sold to the Sunoco Gas Co. in' 1956, they moved, their supplies . to a new building on.,Railway St. The buildings here were all removed to make way for gas pumps and a large garage, which opened for business in 1957. Cleave Coombs is thepresent lessee. In a•frame building on the north part of the next lot east, for a number of years from the 1870's, Zawrence Murphy sold implen ents. From 1893 this was Adam Hays' first, livery, and James, Barron used it later for his workshop -.–sharpening lawn mowers, wife spent the last years of their life. It is now the home of Mrs. William Montgomery and family. Carmichael replaced the frame hotel with a brick one, containing two stores, in the spring of 1869. This "Mansion House" was burned in 1876, and again he built in 1877 the present brick building with two stores to the south of it. This hotel was opened for business on May 1, 1878. This now houses the Royal Apart- ments, Broderick Billiard Room and lunch counter, Dave Tremeer's barber shop, and Harold Whyte's butcher shop in the part added in later years. The hotel stable was demolished bit by bit, and a Cities Service gas station and car repair shop was built in,1957 on part of the same site. It is now run by J. Robert Huard. Two stores were in Carmichael's first brick hotel, built in 1869. James Jamieson's shoe shop and John Edy's harness shop were: here at the time of the. fire. When Carmichael rebuilt and opened in 1878, two stores were attached to his new hotel. These are now owned by John C. Crich—one is his bakeshop and restaurant, and the other has been vacant since Dublin Creamery Export Packers Ltd. left in 1963. From the late 1860's till 1879, the Victoria Skat- ing Rink was just south of the Mansion House. Two other frame stores built by . Carmichael in 1864 were first occupied by Fred Veale and H. W. McCann. They were burned in 1876. From then this space was vacant till Carmichael built again in 1895 two brick stores. These are now G. A. Whitney's furni- ture store and Lorne MacDonald's shoe store, On the south side, east of the McGonigle store, In 1878 John Kidd replaced, with a large brick Grassie had a and - shop store, the one lost in the 1876 fire, which had been Williamom 1867. Its was burned blacksmithin 1869.The one wagonhe shopbuilt first occupied by Arthur Veale, but was George Dent's . general store at the tune of the fire. Kidd carried on met the same fate in the September )876 fire.Cour- a hardware business in the new store. Hildebrand ageously', he faced his loss and had his new shop ready Paint and Paper Shop, is now housed in the Kidd build - to open in, August, 1877. A few months after John ing. Dorsey got it in.April, 1880, he commenced to build a The next store, occupied by Allan Mitchell from brickblacksmith and carriage shop, which was coin- the early 1860's and by Thomas Lee at the time of the pleted by January, 1881. When this shop burned on fire, was replaced by George Mitchell in 1878. Melvin November 18;1882, it was'the':.third time a blacksmith Staffen did business here until April, 1966. shop had been burned on this same site. Dorsey was In 1863,, W. Scott Robertson had a grocery and doing business again tin the present brick building by seed store in the "north part of Duncan & Co.'s frame 1883. Robert and Frank Devereaux carried on after store that extended to the corner. At the time of the Dorsey till William A. r -Wright made it into a garage fire this part was Mrs. E. Whitney's tinsmith shop. in 1929 to meet the needs of the time. It is now owned by Rowcliffe Motors.. Her hardware store and home were in the south part Froin 1872 William Grassie hada paint shop east where Duncan & 'Co. formerly had been. In March,° of his blacksmith shop.. James Williams and William 1877, Mrs. Whitney 'let the contract to Walte`. Mullen Henderson .both had it before the 1876 fire.. Hander- •to build three brick stores. Two of these are occupied now by Canadian Tire Co., and the corner' one, now son was the one who suffered from the fire loss. empty, was vacated in 1964 by United Dairy & Poultry On the corner was Thomas Downey's lumber yard 'Co-operative Co. • where he lost lumber in the 1876 fire. On these vacant p lots John Dorsey built a carriage showroom in 1885. 'First Brick Store Devereux also had it till Bruce Phillips opened a James Dickson, M.P., in 1863, built across on the garage in part f it in 1924, and Williard Elliott, a corner the first brick store in Seaforth. It was used by gas station at the front. Elliott later had a lunch booth his son, Archibald. The Post Office 'was here from and taxi service here. The British American Oil Co. 1863 till 1869. Additions were made in later years. took over in 1928. After a $3.000 fire in 1959, exten- sive improvefnents were made. During the years there This is now R. R. McKindsey's drug store, also the have been many lessees and many periods when the office of Dr. M. W. Stapleton, XV .D., and Dr. M. R. Buljubasic, D.D.S. building was closed. At the present time it operates West of Dickson's store, McIntyre & Willis had under the name of Bob's B%A Service Station. their shoemaker shop in the early 1860's. Gordon When David McNaught left North Main Street Wright has his cabinet shophere today.Later,Robert he had ,his blacksmith shop, office and. home east of Willis was in the retail buiness. Beteen the making the Toronto -Dominion Bank on Dr. Gorwill's property. and retailing of shoes and gaiters; he and his descend - The shop was torn down by, lawyer L. 'E. Dancey when ants carried on a shoe business on Main Street for a he moved here in 1886. When McNaught left this shop full century, plus a few years. in 1875 he did his blacksmith work where the red brick town house is now located. He was followed by Thomas Moses R. Counter's jewellery store came next. He bo Redmond till the late 70's. The Commercial Hotel own - present part of the Dickson lot in 1874 and built the ars °then . had the lot till the town built the house with present brick stoz#e which he openedon. March 1, 1875. scales attached to the north side in 1923, This was the It is here John P,uIllrian has his barber shop, and Don home of those in charge of the Hydro sub -station to Eaton his insurance office. the northof it,, also the waterworks, and for a few J (Tobe continued) - years the scales. Those who lived .here were ` Adam McKay,, Ed. Mole and Ray "Jake" Holmes. It is now rented by the, town to a private tenant. From an early date till 1960,.the town was re - WEDDING INVITATIONS sponsible for the scales, which were used to weigh Phone 527-0240 Seaforth ' coal, etc., but in May, 1960, a change was made. The Remember! It takes but a moment to place an Expositor Want Ad and be money in pocket. To advertise, just Dial Seaforth 527-0240. INSURANCE WIND TORNADO CYCLONE JAMES F. KEYS Phone 5274467 Seaforth Representing . the Western Fanner'* Weather Insurance Mufual Co., Woodstock, Ont. TRAIN TO tORONTO Ask about convenient departure and return times For Informatton,•phone the focal CN Passenger Sales Office tit' iti SEAPORril 90 wH�rs Ono FAae $3.0 Wa ARAR Fare e 0.0 CANADIAN NATIONAL DEAR DORIS advice from Doris Clary Dealing With A Gossip. DEAR DORIS .-- The gossip next door is always watching out her window and the least little thing she sees is magni- fied out of all proportion. Her dog dug up my, flowers and knocked over my garbage continually. I ignored this. • But when my dog broke his chain and got loose, she would im- mediately call the neighbor on the other side and tell her that my dog was on her lawn. As a result of this continuous harassing, we were forced to give our dog away. My son cried for three days. "This is 'just one sample of the trouble she causes, yet she is nice to my face, Speech1eSs DEAR SPEECHLESS — Your window -watching gossip is a sort of parasite — living off the lives and doings of others. How empty her oWp life must ,be! She exults in causing mis- chief, and preens herself, in a perverted sort of way, when her tale -bearing brings results. If she feels any guilt it "is buried in a heavy overcoat of pseudo - virtue. Isn't it time to protest! Fur- ther conversation, with her would only be. reported and dis- torted; but you could contact a lawjer. A warning letter outlin- ing ' the penalties for slander has been known to silence ma- licious gossip before this. DEAR DORIS -- A younger son wants his brother to be his hest man. The brother has re- fused because his fiancee has not been asked to be a.brides- maid. Yet same fiancee is not a particular friend of the bride. I think it is the fiancee who - is really making the protest, and that she is very wrong in. doing so. I. M. Interested DEAR I. M. -it's unreason- able. A bride chooses her at- tendants on the basis of warm, intimate friendship. The groom chooses his the same way. Sel- dom would the chosen attend- ants of a bride and groom be engaged to each other! V Iw911 . Min 4 Homemaking Seventeen Tuckers met at the home of Mrs. Barbara Gem- mell. The roll call, "One point I have learned about selecting accessories," was answered by 13 girls. Notes were taken on the selection and care of gloves, belts and jewellery. Mrs. Mc- Gregor demonstrated how to steam a hat. At a further meeting at the home of Mrs. McGregor, roll call; "One point I havelearn- M the reception soznekte is delegated to take good care of the detached fiancee ---who oth- erwise might feel very much at loese ends.. DEAR DORIS—My husband gives me $200 a month to buy groceries, clothe the•three chil- dren and myself, cover spend- ing pending money and sundries. The budget is based on what we re- quire, then he sets outto earn it. Of course, earnings fall short and, we are in more finan- cial straits. _ We lease a "top o' the lithe" car and go to, all "do's": "In business we can't afford not to" =�-quote and unquote. My sunny disposition is fast disappearing and I feel I am on a ship with no captain. I don't ask for a solution but perhaps you have some philoso- phy I can adopt. Going Numb DEAR GOING—If there's one thing a budget has to be, it is realistic. Making a list of ex- penses, then setting out to earn the money and not quite mak- ing it, ruins the whole idea. Try again. This time start with a little research. Record expenses and income—actual in- come — for the next three months. ,Together keep track of where the money goes. This will show up' overspending as well as skimped -on . items. A budget then undertaken 'with some "give-and-take should a11oW for holidays and diver- sions, and make life better in general. CONFIDENTIAL TO STILL IN LOVE—Moodswings, hus- band -rejection and that "dead" feeling, are not uncommon on the approach to nienopause. It's your good fortune that your re- buffed husband cared, a n d cares enough to "'Confess being attracted to 'the other woman, even though nothing happened. Get ready for the next periodic upset by coming to understand it. I'm 'sending you my pamph- let, "Facing Forty," which can help. (Available to other read- ers sending in ten cents and a stamped, self-addressed envel- ope.) Club Meets ed about caring for accessor- ies," was answered by 14 girls. The secretary, Miss Cathy Rob- erts, read the .minutes. Lois Jackson was elected secretary, and plans for achievement day were discussed. Remember! It takes but a moment to place an Expositor Want Ad and be money in pocket. To advertise, just Dial Seaforth 527-0240. All Kinds .of EVERGREENS for Spring Planting LANDSCAPING - "PLANTING Trimmingtand Spraying Services Available - We guarantee Every Tree We Sell -SEAFORTH NURSERY NURSERY. Gordon Noble — Phdne 527-0840 , Kindergarten Registration _Would parents of children , to start Kindergarten at 'Seaforth Public School in September, 1966, send the child's name and date of birth to the Prin- cipal as soon as possible. J. W. TALBOT Principal 'HOHURON oxPostroRe'sgmioarni, xo holit ? ,ds •114Asi,; 141 "'dryY0106Otte is 'Me' ° .^ A =auk 1'11' rairli i r, .i JOHN J. WAIS Phone 2714000 4$• Rebecca St., STRATFORD Sun Life Assurance Company. of nada ., . 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Copies of these lists will be available in stores handling numbers and in other public places. • Owners of properties are urged to determine the number apply- - ing to each property, and teob- tain and apply applicable num- bers as soon as possible., • Odd numbers have been assign- ed to the south and west sides of streets; even numbers to the north and east sides. * Numbers have been assigned on the basis of a number to each 20 feet of frontage in the central core of the 'Town, and on the basis of 30 feet of frontage else- where. ERNEST !WILLIAMS Clerk. .rw.1w..,.wra'014, r.4,u