In a farm-oriented area such as ours, these shops are a dire necessity. Among the first of these was that of Fred Schliuse, whose advertisement appeared regularly in the local paper from its very beginning, in 1895. He used to have a shop, a big red one, at 66 Hope St., E., with a bicycle painted on the double doors. This was his trademark. He was the only truly ambidextrous man I ever saw. The east half of the shop was occupied by Mr. Henry Schlitt's paint and wallpaper-shop. When the shop passed into other hands, Fred Schliuse opened new quarters on the north side of the Opera Hall, on the ground floor, till 1920. Mr. Schlitt continued his business for many years from his home on William Street N.

At the north end of town stood the shop of Mr. J. K. Lemp, a man of no mean ability and invention. He opened his shop, particularly for the sale and filing of saws, in 1886, when saw and axe were the settler's chief tools. He is one of two men advertising in the 1895 FARMERS AND BUSINESS DlRECTORY, put out by the Union Publishing Company of Ingersoll: the second advertiser was Henry Roedding Jr., Horseshoer and General Blacksmith, opposite J. Landreth's Hotel (the Oxford).

In 1919 his grandson Ernest C. Piehl joined him, and bought him out in 1933, and is still very much on the job. He and his grandfather turned out the wheels and all the work of four grandfather clocks. One of them is on loan to the Library, where it records the days as well as the hours and minutes. Mr. Piehl has taken an active part in the life of the village, having served on the P.U.C. for twenty years and in the Tavistock Band from 1918 to 1956. His shop is full of the "realia" of former years, old clocks, tools, old catalogues, stamps etc. etc.

O quae mutatio rerum!

At the other end of town on Woodstock St. S., is Ken's Welding Service, with Ken Brunk as proprietor. The cement-block structure was put up by Ken Mason, after he was burned out in the Woelfle Block fire. Mr. Stovel of Toronto, who used to ship turnips from his plants here and in Bright, had sold the property to Mr. David Schwartzentruber, who in turn had disposed of part of it to Ken Mason in September, 1962. In April of 1963, Ken Brunk cleared the deed with Mason and opened his welding shop. His main source of work is the repair and remodelling of farm machinery. Of late he has turned to the manufacture of a special hinge for stable cleaners.

THE JICKLING BLOCK 1912
(former Bauer Hotel Sheds; purchased by Wm. Koch in 1967)
Left to right - Mr. T. Anthony Jickling, unknown, Wilfred "Gus" Strahm, Christian Strahm, Bob Murray
Leo Dyck Garage - Public Hall Licence applied for in 1931 for a Dance Hall above the garage.
Mrs. Helen Dyck (nee Graviston) had a Beauty Parlour upstairs, later downstairs at front
where present barber shop of Ralph Graviston is located.