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Many of the early settlers of Ox- I
ford County have experienced the
same problems of living accOrrul
dation as has existed in recent years
since the end of the war. In the
Lcommunity of B n villvill�, for in-
stance, the Brown family, from
which the village took its name, and
their friends, the Loucks, all spent
the winter of 1841 in a two -room
cabin. The cabin, one room above
the other, was 20 feet square. 'rile
'Browns were a-fanlity Ill,,
f 12, and Il,
n uucks were eight. '1'hc calm wa,
J the only one available when the
Browns arrived in April, and 111-
were the only friends available tooprovide shelter for the Loucks when
they reached the clearing as winter
we, coming on. This kind of hos-
pitality made the hardships of early
Brownsville bearable. Land sold for
a dollar an acre, and was covered
with beech, maple and pine. The
Browns and Loucks built homes for
themselves and James Dennis came
later to take up land where his
descendants still farm.
A vacant log house served as a
schoolhouse, the first teacher being
a Mrs. Abram Matheus. Her salary
was $$8 a month including board. In
1907, the second school building was
built which now serves the children'
of the community. The first church
Lwas built on ground given by Rrin-
ton Rrown who was the lay preach-
er. The Borden plant now stands
an the sift. By 1860, Brownsville
was a thriving community with all
the usual tradesmen. One of the
most effective builders was Henry
Helmka, whose own house still
stands.
-� In spite of its industrial ten-
dencies, Brownsville was also agri-
cultural, specializing for many year.;
in the dairy industry, particularly
cheese making, for which the coun-
'I'illso 1 was founded by Ihr
TIII-ons in I825. (,. ,rgc 'I Ilkon was
hrnl .chin it lbe n, where
'I,II nhurg n,w land>, nil since
I Len the fwnily h;,n b"'n ,"'lluert'ed
Willi Ihr I, rvc u', hisdny ,d drvehill
weal cool prnsperil y. Grorgv Till -
I 'It f r' 'old vrvc nnll sup -
Oxford Chooses McBeth
After 42 Ballots Token
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ty as a whole is noted. Brownsville eeve n w r w
began in flit district. \NitL the race at the end of the 22nd ballot. ��•'� icy t�iu�n'w.y GFrzy G ov. Ca*<tliR+.�aaty� n?�stlj -
has always been a socially active growth of the tobacco industry
village, and many will remember the came other industries such as plant> From there on in the remaining J4c
garden parties Meld and attended by. ❑iakiug shoes, farm and gn r(Irlt three candidates polled a steady t A,
5,000 or more people, coming many tools, 'and all kinds of wood vote until Reeve McDonald with. ,,, �n lyzer, i'� ty.1, 9 w"' •
miles by horse and buggy. drew at the end of the 41st ballot.''
products. .avt,,o �tce%+KcL F/2
The tenseness of the chambers
crowd in the Donnell chambers rat.ta 7�v
could be felt as County Clerk and .75�y/lw_
•�
Treasurer L. K. Coles started the `�o-ia,� -Gw f7rG S • * f
final vote.-
_ Under Oxford's unique system of atk.d. 2•c477.��r yam, ,�r� ��
electing a warden, each member of `a� /rnG {'J'
the 20-man council votes openly �- �ia*� '2"'E• G7^"—
for his choice with the reeve of
Tillsonburg having two votes. a,
,R1 the final vote the score
was �• CLY .L°G ��' �� , ""'7' - t✓�ilG
-- -- - 1 th to 10 with Reeve Bishopcastingtgfi• ;zV +/��-'ao tulli''L�•--,- n ✓'
e deciding vote. I'� y„� t'�''�"6' ✓ - .�iuscL '/✓✓>�"°,r� / - "
First Powd0gring P1antel_
.ter, bhZ ram � -Ae, —2%+'e 4'" 2Z`K
`,YC;r.
a fF L�..d i
2� .'Nf,1933.s � a- rTi.LYa' maw /90.css�
Located at Brow �C/V 1 �+ O r
'1'ne plant aC Brownsville which Woe P'>k� e milk was first e An indication oP the IT try br j
1 I at resent is still standing but note manufactured commercially, it was k of the powdered milk industry can �**� 4i o '
The first plant in North Amer- , p g '-'� " /� �� r4fle- `� �
in operation, did not use warm sold to the baking trade, and then be found in the followin Dominion (�� d 8 eo0 J,t.e �iP�accts.
to produce Powdered milk in , rocks and the sun heat. It used to dairies and ice cream menu- t Bureau of Statistics figures: Pro-
9904 was located at Brownsville, f heated steel rolls on which the facturers. In dairies, before it f duction of Whole milk powder in
• ing another first for Oxford as milk spread out thinly on the pot- could be used, the Department of 1951 totalled over 17 million pounds CZc -2QaeL 1at(,�L �rD S'Qc.e4.clJ
is. dairy county. Since that date, ished surface. The rolls revolve Health had to be sold on the purity - and accounted for 136 million ✓ �k�y Le,-?�isn/
powdered milk has been, and still and the heat removes the cools- of the product. As late as 25 years y pounds of whole milk. Production
is one of the fastest growing divi- n I lure. Large knives are adjusted ago, in many localities, the first t of skim milk powder in 1951 total- dusLLL a�rclys-x �'
skins of the dairy industry. nito scrape the dried film of milk call of the powdered milk sales- 1 led more than 52 million pounds. Qu.L �u-ecrt�i*s
n the Asians, is called the "roller" man was on the medical officer of f accounting for 577 million pounds
The first commercial producers•,. process and is still used extensive- stealth• -f of skim milk. In addition, tonsil- mac./ - Pitw
of powdered milk had an advan- a from the rolls. This process, the The product has now Gained full d erxble quantities of powdered hub 6V �,rru�+itsv,v _ 1. N T•
tage over the originator of evaP- r same in principle as that used by acceptance. It is used by the bak. termfik, baby foods, powdered _ g, ,Fj s,�„•,,,
orated milk in that the fundament- ell in plants throughout Canada inB trade, the makers of foods for o whey, casein and lower grade pow• dJan
al principle in making this product y infants, the meat packing trades- ` der used in prepared stock foods
and United States. wj,
was known long before people in - - • - „- try, for cake mixes and candies. n were also produced. Dry milk pro• B�l-r-�- ,..._L,�c,C�a,•.d S
Canada or United States even A method known as the ' spray It was used in the arr&d services ducts are also an important item -
dreamed of powdered milk, or Process was developed by an Amer- during the First and Second World s in Canada's export trade. More �, a"0
needed it. It is recorded that the scan company and has been adopt ; Wara. It has assisted in increasing ; than 40 different countries import-
Tartars of northern Asia used a ed by the majority of plants. In,. the nutritional standards of menus ed these products from Canada in
form of powdered milk before the this method, the milk is heated I in lumbering, mining and other t 1951. a[
14th century. They discovered That, in vacuum tanks to remove a work camps in our northern coun-
milk, poured on warm rocks andlarg portion of the moisture. Un-, tries, thus contributing to the
left in the hot sun until the water der high pressure, the milk isi health and welfare of the workers, g� aed. -"''•le•'. `•�`��• .bra — /�'`�(,
sprayed through tiny openings in- Whole milk, skim milk, buttee-
could be scraped off in the form Li�ZouQevt•
had evaporated, left a residue that to the drying chambers. In thel milk, butterfa, cream and even / [ ne•Y M1•
of powder or dried curd. The pow- ft form of mist meets purified,, whey is now r• available in Powde-u..
der so obtained was used as food warm air. The remaining water is ed form. A dry ice cream mix has
by travellers who were travelling' evaporated and the milk Palls to product that is cream is being -
;long distances. the bottom of he chamber in the made available to troops in Korea dt4 ���Me-e'er s
form of powder. I and the Pacific. [*� i
sun till d a g
plying lumber fur tilt plunk road
a
Nine county councils in the district held their 1952 inaugural
connecting Illgers,dl awl Part Bur-
meetings yesterday, and elected new wardens.
well. It was he who insisted, dc-
Among those named were: Perth, Harold Cosens; Huron, Harvey
spite opposition, thal it was a w;olc
hill
Johnston; Waterloo, Robert R. Barber; Lambton, Ralph White; Kent
of land that the wain street ;l
(eel wide. �hillson burg am Lassl of
Emerson L. Gu ltt; Oxford, Harley R. McBeth; Brant, Edward A.
Y Y
having the widtst main street in
Wright; Elgin, Ronald K. McNell,♦
i It.
Ontario. It call awimnwdatc Alt,
both with room lit
and Grey, Julius Kuhl,
Y, I/�
parking un sides
tween for tw, Iruts of n'1fl» ,eel'
McBETH NAMED 102)
WOODSTOCK, Jan. 15 — Reeve
N�W WardenQ
ei M MYM JJ
way.
By the uuddL Ihr umury L.
Harley R. McBeth, a Dereham
D. 1'illsou's sixth son, (A ill t fill-
Township farmer, won a tense
@
son, began to txp;o,d Lis holdings ill
foldp--way contest for the warden -
tF.
the area With $70im he tarned by
shWhere today by a single vote
teaching school be joined forces
to•('ake the county's highest politl
,
with two othu s ,old built a d.ou
cal plum back to his township for
and saw mill In I892 h, own(-(] the
the first time in 24 years.
saw mill, planuig null, stave he:1dnig
It was only in a neck and neck
nnill, cooper . 11.p. Li ickyal d 12
race to the wire that Reeve McBeth
tr ens of hat.,: nmch of ill( I,':d
nosed out Reeve Thomas fellow,
°F •-
esl ilt ill 'fills. nbulg, and I world-
Nest Oxford, In the 42nd openilUou
f %tlil' which pu du`e,l
ballot by 11 to 10.
,
rl l tI t'Fpl 'I IIIV n:4l till dI ill'
w I Id wide nrn I , r.
Fx-Warden Alexander Baxter
`" ''I;
Uul iuti Ihu Inm hr d, Igo, II nil
last held the wardenship for Dere
`�
•. ',,,�
hnill a dam au,ss Ill, ()lilt I, pr„-
ham In 1929.
vide newer fill bin mills. I his d.iu1
Four Nominated
ay s,','.°r4• '
Blood until 1937 when II wu11 ,nil
Four candidates were nominated
a,U. lL, sprnlg Iloorl um ulg h,v .,p
at the outset. Reeve
pi ill, Id;uuag, Rcsld nl lilt,
li
it wall out
.Wilfred
Bishop, North Norwich, nomin-
II i, lI1 only
L. of line duns abrn, will , oriel
ated Reeve H. P. Dunn, North
x,n
Reeve Murray V. Logan,
'•'
by acne, I mill 'o, Koss
,Oxford.
(East Oxford, nominated Reeve Pel-
glow.
we .Asite AI,. 'CilLnu bath in
Deputy Reeve Louis L. Wett-
19112 Ihey nru, .old, and in ltlel'
laufer, East Zorra, nominated
.x
years they gradually burned nr Were
Reeve William McDonald, .East
abandoned. But a solid Isuis I,od
Z a. Deputy Reeve William- J.
� HARLEY R. MCBETA
been laid for future pruaperitN, mid
S kley, Dereham, nominaAii'
- Oxford warden
future prosperity was gir,nl the
Reeve McBeth. "
bab•JULY-1143
community when tobacco gruwil'g
R Dun ithd from the