010Exp®ricer, Ira All Canada
By GEORGE JANES and moues o dealers there Ac= i
' Turning the -pages o ocal his- company the shipments . w'a's
the -
Cory back 50 to 6'0 years the fact a gwallified mechanic Prom
is established that Ingersoll oc- ffrm's plant who. assemble the .
oupied a prominent position as equipment on its arrival: in Bus -
an exporting centre. Oldtime rep sia. -.
sidents have related that t h e EARLY HISTORY
the
year 1888was. one of industrial
it in
Some early history of
Noxon plantwas provided
expansion and that was
1865 that Ingersoll gave 'vile-
great
by one local hystoriark many
-up
agehood for the status of a -town.
years ago. According to his re:
the Noxon Works removed)
For many years it was stated
the town ranked fifth: amen ex-
cords
from the site that has long been
porting centre, net only in Ont-
oocupied by the furniture to their
to which refer
ario but across Canada.
large premises
has been made. This, was
Some of the oldGime, residents
ence
1672 The founder of the firm
have paused in their conversa-
tions to remark that some 150
in
was Jam Noxon, who was a
years have passed in bringing
leader- in many o? the progres
movements in the town in
Ingersoll up for a settlement in
save
the virgin forests to its present
future years.
The extensive business of -the
stature of a town of slightly ev-
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firm. which developed through
er 7,000 inhatzutamts.
better facilities and their wider
COkTRHIUTING. FACTORS
markets did much for the pros
There were many factors that
perity of the town, as did the
contributed to tale fame of Ing-,
great volume of business done
ersoll as an export. centre There,
each year by the Ingersoll Pack
were local Industriesand a num-) '
Ing Company.
ber of persons who had strong
For the year 1922 official fig
business relationships with the
ores. for the total income of fac
British markets. Among" the,
tort' dairy products in Oxford
firms those outstanding were the
county,. consisting - of cheese,
Noxon Manufacturing Co.,. Ltd.,
creamery butter, whev butter,
and the Ingersoll Packing Co:
whey cream milk for conden
Tremendous quantities of hams
sing power etc milk and cream
and bacon produced in the maim-
shipped Irenn factories was given
motif plaint of the Ingersoll Pack- I
i
as $3 2g3,446 92
Ing Company on Victoria street
were shipped to the British mar-
S a" rr
ket. Cheese was also provided by
t is ri-tlt,IX ✓
the same. firm, buttherewere a y xe
number of other ahees export-
a
,
ers in the town who maintained
i +
a6fices' and a corps of buyers
who visited the factories through
out . th, district and made ipur-
'
chases tinder stiff comlx.tition.
These buyers also took charge
Of the various lots of cheese
purchased inspected them, and
for
`s
,i so
dud the branding Bitter ware-
ship-
y k
house storage or overseas
Iment.
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•APPLES AND TURKEYS t But tlhere also were other ex-
the town who made
@
porters in
enormous shipments of apples,
aswell air tunke;ys to the Brit.s�
Among theme were
;l
Isla markets
'The late TbDMas Se—ldoy, who
business
t �"
carried an an extensive
for many years; the late d_. $,.
to a ,
Thom soon and the late J. C.
few later
x
arnis,'who a years
i be Came .known as one of thezz
in the
a
% Is
tforeost apple growers
m
'county and successful with his
to the Brit-
extensive shipments
ish markets.
In the days of ,iota peak pro -
deletion .the Ingersoll Packing Co.
was said to have employed from
250 to WO hands, and it is re-
called that it was regarded as , In-
a day of great achievement when
more than 2,500 hogs were slau-
ghtered.
The Noxon Manufacturing Co.
Ltd. was also said to have given
employment to almost an equal
number of workers durinigtheir
busiest season with feu' if any
layoffs during the year.-
Their.;great plant on the West
near the
side of Thames street,
bridge, consisted of a number of
i
departments, m(Addinig, Wood-
working, painting and assem-
A004
bling of the various types of farm
im-plements There were also
large display rooms' and coon-'
for handling of
--.,,.• r,.,
modious offices
the essential details of tine-var-
v
lous. departments.
NO IRON CURTAIN
t ✓
xH'^ N r
It has been mentioned that in
those years there was no Iron
7 az
.curtain in Russia. , The Noxon
)
Company had strong business re..
lationshi�ps with the country and
I ^,
ton several occ'asfom made exten
I
iyive shipments of their reapers
' pw,r `��e,1�- NO EXPI,?NATION
igarg! '§+.tli] ere,
r ' and-Rolled
n -y olle Moderate drinkers and abstain='-
V 61 l" K�r �0 /0.F F1�"YJi o0 iii Y� ers who wen* smokers often re.
y� ^`
1 turned to their homes with the
In Early Day, Loca� Plant$ vest pockets filled with cigars
whmh ofcourse explained„ as,:
clearly as words where they bad
By. GE.ORGE. JANES at the rear of (:the Ingersoll Auto Spent some of their tune Pi
Looking back' over a kspan of Electric Block, WENT ELSEWHERE
sixty or more ,years the fact was STEADY EMPLOYMENT When production ceased at the,
astablished that hand milled cig- There were a number of cigar two local factories, probably due
ars were made in Ingersoll in makers in the town who had in a measure to competitiorf by`
large quantities,. 'to fact the steafly employment at the two larger firms with greater facild-
manufacture of ..cigars was, an factoaies- for a number of years. ties, the: m�aJority of the cigar
Important industry.p. Each of the .factories produced makers sought employment else -
TWO FACTORIES cigars which were widtiy. known where, a' number of them: local
There were Imp. cigar' factories by their brand names,'and'. for ting in Landon.
It
was 'a reed
from some Of the which there was a keen'demand M 7ia. si r
older tesidents who-have.known The producers were given toy1�
the town from childhood, `There al support by the hotel propriet sy,�t ae s.'ln F
was -the Sno, .factor oil. the ors and the local retailers an
south rside of, Charles. street, the volume of wholesale trad's
West, at the .corner of„Wonhank outside. the town ways�`�7 d, .p. '� , •� �".'.,u#
street,. which- was operated on tensive. - �i+` ` �+i
the owner's premises near the One of the big. outlets for th vr„q rr a tfvyr+,'F.'
large :brick house.. which still cigars; however, was the treat -
stands there Ing system -.in the hotels,
.'The either factory,`s
. operated by THE TREATING SYSTEM E ,:icha Y*�s.Y nt
the west side otthe late�i hameswas o When boon companions- met at at s d"v+-� r
the bars and one volunteered to ^m o`' i '..>-f✓Ar�'LsL �i$,sA'1'va'I
treat the_ usual question was t ri* ;,,' r
"what will you have?" which E.r''4a hl'� AA.�, ,GtJ-Rf , `,t'�N
frequently brought the reply "Oh t.r}N„ k c; #, v;,
I will have one of those hand ,x, s' {/.�?
rolled' cigars", which was prob y ""f+'1
.a ably- followed
by giving the rs � `
< preferred -brand name
.
"," '•i"^4: '',�1 xS=y It was also mentioned that in < v�,Ma �v,,�•}'r 7,"eau
the
-:days cigarette smoking •i r, vx tl v yy,�", , y, �,'api.
was. in its infancy with the bulk ��' r '?'�
y ,.
y t of the smoking being canifned isu ��„ viSS s, xa p �
Rk. „ pipes and cigars.
Same of the oldtimers have �
recalled that in those years
a`r therewasa 'man's size' glass 3a rt✓ '
of beer and a good cigar with
a lingering aroma and a picas'"'�1
ing taste for _a nickel each.
a fight in Sydney, Ausrraua, .v.1
a purse of $30,000. The fight
took place in the Sydney Stad-I
ium December 25, 1908. It went
into the 14th round, when John -I
son was declared the winner.
While still 'the world heavy-1
weight champion, Burns visited
Ingersoll one winter night, his
presence creating much -excite-
ment at a hockey game in the
'old rink on King street, West,
when he dropped the puck for
the opening of play in the inter-
mediate series of the ONA. '
On a summer night some time
(later there was_a_ripple_of ex_
7citement. among sports lovers of
a ek
e
town when the news spread
r >
-, „, A • -.a fag
..,1sr.+�w.erux'xruu�w.z:.;n .1ir2naw§.�• �..�.a;>"
,,r,,y, „
Ithe
hart I_
that Jack Johnson, and his Carty
Ifeur, were guests at the McCarty
JACK JOHNS3'ON came to In-
.-�
heavyweight boxing champion
_
posed for a photograph as he
p
house where .they remained for
the night.
getsell'tu style, when be spent
I:of the era from about 1908 to
I left the car to register at the
There was quite a rush on the
a night in town early in the
1914, came to town kin his big
old , McCary House, where he
part of those who. were interested
century. The popular
eaied Stir In Ingersoll
By GEORGE JANES June 17, 1881.
on two separate 'occasions,' Burns, whose height was only
within a comparatively short 5 feet 7 inches, and his weight
at his prime was 175 pounds was
time many years ago Ingersoll) widely known. in Ontario lacrosse
(was visited by two heavyweight' circles, started fighting in 1900.
champion pugilists.. His last battle, records show, was
They were Tommy Burns, the in 1820.'.
only, Canadian ever-to-hord the On February 23, 1906, Burns
World's championship whose real .won a -20-round decision from
name; was Noah Brusso, and who Marvin Hart in "San Francisco.
was bond at _ Hanover, _Ontario,;He; claimed - the heavyweight
It has been recalled that at
that time, Johnson was the own-
er of a then so-called high pow-
ered automobile, and that in
making his trip east across
South -Western Ontario he was
fined in a number of places after
facing charges of speeding.
The accompanying picture tak-.
en on the night of his arrival in
front of the McCarty House, in
eludes at the front, Johnson ands
his chauffeur; the late , Asa'
McCarty proprietor of the hotel, -
land his late son Nelson (Dandy)'
McCarty in the .doorway. 1