Adam Seltzer erected the first bake shop in the village at 18 Hope Street East in 1888 between the rail line and mill siding. On July 27, 1903 the shop burned, but was rebuilt.
On June 30, 1910, Fred Weston bought the store from a Harry Weitzel. He was very involved in the community and his employee Henry "Ike" Eckstein peddled bread and other baked goods in a van in the country for approximately 40 years. They made the best "Hot Cross Buns".
Stratford Beacon: 1890-02-28 - The Seltzer brothers have purchased their father's property here for $1200 at the sale last week.
Stratford Beacon: 1890-09-05 - The bakery of Adam Seltzer is being painted by John Kelly. "With an attractive and inviting outside, excellent bread, hot buns, and smiling cakes on the inside, and an attentive proprietor with a happy and pleasant disposition ready to wait on all, no wonder our bakery does a rushing business!"
Stratford Beacon: 1892-12-21 - Adam Seltzer, our baker, has a new son. New brick residence for Seltzer brothers.
Stratford Beacon: 1893-09-05 - Brick on the two storey Seltzer residence (A. Seltzer, baker) completed.
Other bakers in Tavistock were Adam Mohr and his wife Edna, Harold and Elaine Vogt and Clare Brenner.