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-Spring weather has brought a start to another construction boom in Western Ontario. In Ingersoll, workmen are
busy tearing up the side of Thames street to make it six feet wider between the Post Office and the Royal Bank:
Cost of the job will be $4,500. (Photo by Watmough).
Shifr meters, a Ingersoll Crossing Smoothed Out
Light Posts,
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INGE'RSOLL, April 29 — Work
has started on Thames street here
ofwidening the road by about six
feet in the block from the post
Wire to the Royal Bank.
1he.$4,500 job, including the cost
If shifting back and re -wiring
fight -standards and moving back
parking meters, may later be ex -
:ended to other, parts of the town
rs re -wiring work is carried out.
Rewire Standards -
Mayor Thomas Morrison said
he council has had the street
videning plan in mind for some
ime. It was taking advantage of
he need to rewire the standards -
d carry out the job,
�. The width of the sidewalkswill
e narrowed three feet by the
✓ork.
`The present feeders for the I,
tandards are located under the
art of the sidewalk which will be
he road expansion when the work
i completed. 1
The new feeder system will go
ruder the narrowed sidewalk.'
The work is being done by the
'UC and Worlts Department_ _
I rains on the CNR main line werere-routed at . Ingersoll today to - give workmen • i
chance to make necessary repairs. The CNR crossing on Thames street will no longer
be "rough" after the crew, shown above, gets through with it. (Photo by Watlrlough.)
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YxFord Families__„f a
OLD SETTLERS •, ". , ",a ,
The Keachfes and the Hoag gs�Dundas, N Oxford, 84 Barbara
(they. were interlocked' by'marrr Dundas, N Oxford, 100: Thomas
age) both kept diaries:k
Even little �J,nes,.W. Oxford, 80,Sampey, N. Dorchester, 84; Herrian Wiliam
Annie Maud, the age of Ile E oo
Me-
pasted in bar. school scribbler. lots' R Oxford, 80; Era, 97; J Mc -
of poetry, localeventsand highly- Celley, E. issourra, 0; John e n
colored lithographed prints.' She Ag,rKelley, E. Nissouri, Joseph
Robert
Ken -
inserted one clipping which, un- nody Dereham; $5; Joseph Ken-
�doubtedly, contained the names of nosy, E. Nissouri,: 81; .Margaret
Me -
lifelong friends' of her father and - Ross, E. Nissouri, 8U h John Mc-
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grandfather, and it will be, of such Kay, n rsoll, 11 84 Charles ly._
interest to the present - day Cue, Ingersoll; 114; James IZ ely,
descendants of Oxford count �chester. 80; Mary Salmond,-N.
y pion- Oxford, 81; Margaret Ross,_ N.
eers that we shall pass it on: Dorchester, 80; Hugh Morrison, N.
"The following was copied out of . Oxford, 87; Margaret O'Rouke,-N.
the coffin register at McIntyre and ;IDorchester, 80; Sarah Curds, W.
Crotty's undertaking establishmentr Oxford, 88, John Hemsworth, Dere
Ingersoll, beginning April 1st, 1867,I ham, 85; Nancy Fuller, Dereham,
to December 31st, 1877, The regis- g6; William McKay, Ingersoll, 83;
ter shows. remarkable cases of Stephen Ballow, Ingersoll, 88;
longevity of the very first settlers Sarah Martin,. Beachvllle, 81;
to enter Oxford County and every Nancy Va roam, Dorchester, 86;
one of them was born in. the last Sarah Ross, Dorchester, 82; Thom -
century, A few of them were born as Gee, Thamesferd, 85; Aklgail'
before. the American War of It ,Mabee W. Oxford, 87; Mary Mor-
dependence and remained to the rison, h. Nissouri, 80 Dinah Pres-
last true Brutish patriots Marar€t tan, W. Oxford, 90; John Gilchrist.Cue, Dereham 99 }ears -Va,a. ICampbell Corners 106 John Elliott
in Browu W Oxfocd,81 La7ni N..Oxfar 84 -A1arg iet yProck,�
ville, 81; Loeainy Harris, Dereham
81; Andrew Cowan, E. Nissouri,
83: F,liiabeth Nichols, W. Oxford,
Edward Harris, Ingersoll, 82; John :
Xoungs, W. Oxford, 99; John AI-
ler-Ttorn, Ingersoll, 85; John Keir-
win, Dereham, 80; Mary Hackett,
Ingersoll, 4 Wil. iam - - not s g 8 l�li, D d , W.
7xford 101 SVillet Post Dereham,
80; John Dynes,__Ingersoll, 92; Coal-
q Ma
rtin, artin, Beachvllle, 88; Gitty 1
Whaley, N. Oxford, 85; Robert i
Leid, W. Oxford, 84; Sarah Hola-�
ban, Ingersoll, 84; James -.Rowe,
W. Oxford, 85; Martin Quarter -
mass, W. Oxford, 91; Hugh Ross,
Dorchester, 90: Samuel Leigh,
Dereham., 1; Ann Rutledge, Dor-
chester V 91; Michael Whelan,N. 1
Oxford 86; Catherine St. Clair,. N. l
Oxford 86; Bette I.ewi.s, Thames- 1
ford, 89 and David Ede, Inger-
soll, 81.' - ,
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Accommodated To'urmsts
In Era of Stage Coachl.
Stage fare from Ingersoll to Woodstock just over a century I I
ago in 1851,was -2s 6d; to London, 6s 3d; to Brantford, los and I
to Hamilton 16s 3d. In the era of the stage coach, inns and
hotels dotted the countryside, a necessity in those days when
a few miles constituted a day's journey.
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' —Ills
The Village of Ingersoll had
Alexander ordon, and Samuel
Gat
at least four hotels in 1851. R,..I
PoT and ]cast one dress- ' =
' H, Carroll was a hotel keeper
maker, Mrs. Blythe.
and dealer in wheat and grain
C. P. ITa11 was a watchmaker;
of all kinds. J. Patterson kept
A. Snelgrove, a chairmaker; El -
the Ro al F,xchange Hotel on
roar.
Thnntg Absalom Daly.
liot and McDonald, butchers;
atrOct.
William Haywood,- an orna.
had a hotel on King street and
mental painter, and Silas
W. G. Wonham kept the Man-
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Loneck, a baker. -
aeon House and was asurveyor.
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Robert Haining was a tin-
Willis Belton John Gal-
. smith enedealer in dry
'goods
lifordwere shoemakers; John
and groceries "of all de-
' Buchanan, William Feather-
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scriptions." J.'McNab was a
alone Homer Campbell and G.
general dealer in dry goods,
W. Webster,' cabinet makers;
groceries, hardware and crock-
Thomas Byrne and H. 13Hop-
ery
king,/ saddlers and harness-
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makers; James Murdoch, a w a.g
General merchants also in.
gmi maker,` and Uriah Phelps,
eluded John Morrison Joseph
a blacksmith. W. A. Ramsay
Browett, E. Daly, John Mack-
had an iron foundry, -
lm James McDonald, J T. Me-
Clergymen included the Rev.
Kenzie, Phalen and Adair. W.'
H. Revell, Church of England;
Eastwood was a general merch-
the Rev. J. Shepley, Wesleyan
ant and saddler; Mathew Mc-
Methodist, and. the Rev. R.
Gill was a merchant, and James
Wallace, Free Church. Dr.
McCarthy a druggist.
Reynolds was a physician; S. J.
There were several tailors,
Hoyt, physician and surgeon,
William Berry, Thomas Brown,
and James �,ngersoli, notary.
Wins Scholarship
Sam Wadsworth, Ingersoll, presented the first anpual
scTSTarsFip for the highest standing in French in Grade
12 to Margaret Start. The scholarship is valued at $100
and enables Miss Start to spend part of the summer in
Quebec. (Photo by Watmough.) -
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