535-03 Page 77S weaburg store era ending
to eliminate traffic hazard
Aw' Free Press Woodstock Bureau
SWEABURG — Gordon Wiseman's general
store — the same store Sweaburg residents
started buying from 110 years ago — will soon
be just a memory.
It's going to be removed to eliminate a traf-
fic hazard at the community's main intersec-
tion.
Although he reached an agreement last year
with Oxford County allowing him to build a
new store behind the old one, Mr. Wiseman
id Saturday it won't be the same.
I emembers when customers would come
with their grocery orders and clerks would fill
them. People visiting the new store will use
the self -serve method.
The store dates to the 1860s when Harvey
Flood operated the general store and post of-
fice for the village.
By 1867, there were 200 residents here.
The post office was moved and in 1933 the
Wisemans bought the building.
Tuesday will be a day for reminiscing as
Mr. Wiseman holds a dispersal sale for those
looking for something unusual, including car-
bolic soap at five cents a bar, Very Best Stove
Pipe Enamel and Super Suds soap.
After the sale, the building will be removed
and taken three miles to the farm of George
Jakeman, RR 1, Beachville, where it will be-
come a museum. '
Relegates from Oxford attending the annual meeting of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture in
Hamilton included, lop photo, from South East Oxford, Wilfred Bishop of Norwich; Edgar McKay of
Embro, Oxford president, and Les Buckrell of Burgessville. In lower photo are South W'esl Oxford
delegates, Bill Roberts, Lewis Clark and Tom Way, all of Salford. '�ayi,�. n%2L- a/ %S
Friends honor
B. A. Finch
Beachville Hydro electric Sys-
tem members and friends
gathered to honour B.A. Finch for
54 years service as secretary -
treasurer of Beachville Hydro
Electric System at a dinner held
in Ingersoll last Monday.
James Riddick Commission
Chairman said Mr. Finch had
presided over many changes in
the village hydro system. His
retirement was effective in June.
The Commission presented him
with a book about trees. A former
principal of Beachville Public
School Mr. Finch taught there
from 1919 to 1956.
He was secretary of Beachville
Planning Board, for nine years
and secretary of Beachville
Cemetery Board, a position he
still holds.
He has also been treasurer of
Beachville Baptist Church more
than40years.
J. -'77i ,
Received
honors
certificate
Mary Barnett, a grade 13
student at I.D.C.1. received
her advanced honours cer-
tificate for completing 18 4-11
homemaking clubs at an
Achievement Day held Sat-
urday in Woodstock. She was a
member of Folden's West
oxford No. 2, 4-H Club. Mary
is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Dave Barnett, R.IL 5.
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South West Oxford township staff are shown with the township
crest. Front, left to right, Nora Siple, secretary; Helen Prouse,
clerk; back, L.B. Curry, tax collector; R.E. Saunders, treasurer;
and A. Forrester, deputy -clerk.