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l4i "o_.;a.e,hlh ;;AinY 1011 reader boxes, oranges in crates at now. spices were teighed out on special scales. Table and dairy salt care ir small cotton huge but coarse suit, which many people used in their cooking, came in 100 lb. bags. n the shelves behind were the canned goods and jtchages much the same as at ipre)'3'- ant but in less variety}; school supplies in the form of slates and slate-pencils, scrib- blers, lead pencils, Pens (with sefarate rcilsji1%o1seap, ink, leather satchels.;lanndry . supplies consisting of wrapped soap bars, lye, bluing cad starch; 11.111755: and l;.ntorns with their separate burners, nicks and chimneys; kitchen dishes, pots and gens. waterpails and milk pails. In the drygoods section were prints and ginghams with lace and other triiI1- Tings, cheesecloth, buttons, thread and needles; sock ytrn as well as ready-n de socks and stockings; shirts, pants, overalls; oilcloth, towelling, sheets and blankets. lbs store carried quite a variety of paints and hardware such as nails and spikes, files, iEaMiatdqI 'aiiit " 5% a13?$% Rtglt1ltMl-lheiironserrs, axe hondles and heads. in the back store were the oarrels: Mrt z‘ ', " . 7 ..' - =2, Jie'aWN . “I???" '1-23' m KL CH] -lrilll. "salt pork, vinegar, molasses, apples, herrings and [at a respeetabse "W, all N ifs? "lat . . _ _ . f" i'Egmll" Hale distance), coal-Oil. Lhere were minor tragedies as when coeil-cil “#41139. " use , 3.3% 231»: 'aim " . . . , F, ..rttsay 4?. . amNL'actot ut into somebodv's VlnSebr war and when the molasses spout was Wb', " - kt-INN, iMi* . v p " E d " ENR' , , 1-3 " . ' iffy- ”?h“"ftutw ZTJII- " e runnin an ore en. 2hu4 came in o lu. he s an" i was a = "lil' N “4,1 1 ft g d f cott h t A l g o t - ' _ . , I ' _ " _ 3'»! an 3 = a FF, 'glltN!lltMli* v,feat of strength to see how high you could raise a bug xith one hand. ‘ " At, 43!.1‘9‘! t a Tt' f " ,Ehells were saved and re-loaded. hear the front of the store was a A., rr a ,l'j..su'i"iL.a, lku,t , 31.! . ._. .. ' . I., _ 1 M! WI] . ring suspended fron the ceiling on union Luggy whips hung. w5”%.."‘4." P.r22 , -, hr " - ' . _ . . 'C", " n LN Fiery year 1.ce was out at the niver, the break or Casey's ' ’ . Fl 3 a TI ct T _ . , . , . u lilE i lake. The blocks were packed around a small room in tee Ice-house ' " " . - ~-i§%§m . . _ .. , - » Mi" Bt.tri',sel8li,'iv-'rr11ier1 served as a refrigerator. Aere were wept gilk. butter cogs. - I 'er!MBiW* Cg? u‘fa - 2'75'43'")343' law"? 'f,i'tjssi'fuii,ili; _ _ ' 1 _ , ,ET.Q5:%3M%ig-%fig¥girfi bacon, sausages and anything that aeeded to be nest cool. e large ~ he; l - .52... ','i.v:"iifclif,r:?"1ii(,'s),,-lCri, 35.3.3311: . Emeline John James cheese was always in the process of teing cut into wedges. sf course the store bought as well as sold and butter, eggs. chickens and iegetables were turned in on many orders, with an occasional cow-hide or sheepskin. rhis fermers' . = produce, if not sold out again over the counter, was taken to ottawa and sold to a dealer on the Market when John games made his weekly trip with express or sleigh and pioned up supplies from the Xholesale to replenish his store. Mixed farming was also carried on and in the early days a brother, Robert, the had lost his own store at Louth “arch Dy fire came in and worked at the store vhile iohn James attended to the farm. the gresent turn was built in 1914. , Emeline end John James had ten children: wand, lellie, cornice, Lanfield leatty George, Stewart, myrtle, Crnest Travers and luriel. The eldest children attended lumber o larch Public School but the younger half went to number l, iorbolton. most of them