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NI l-3 fl»--s/*/'fl :PARAMQUNT CHEESE AND BUTTER CO,, l Jqémuary of 1888 a charter of incorporation. was granted and on March 24, 1888 a lease was i ', between John Martin andthe company for 1 acre of land in, the south east corner of Lot 16, (an. I i Huron for ninety-nine years at $1,perryear, theleesor to have the privilege of delivering his on": , the factory at his own expense and to be exempt from charges for manufacturing it into kheese , The property was also to revert to the [eesor if the factory remained idle for five iConee- chutive years. This lease was signed'by James A. Taylor, president, Andrew-Smith, Secretary i F- wlitnessed by Wm. McNay. l il factory differed from the others in the township in that, they had brick curing rooms and "'de it make rooms and; boiler lrooms while thisoneswas one complete solid brick building. There we s q {so a dwelling house for the cheesemaker and hog pens were constructed north of the creek. in Parly days pigs, weighing about 80 lbs. were bought by the company and fattened on whey land Pleas or ground chop. The President or Secretary were usually, but not always, appointed to k-his Fisk, as they were the only paid officers. They would-drive around the country ranging as far as Holy- r bod on the north corner to Port Albert on the south, since they had to avoid Huron township, because he there were three other factories with buyers out on the same mission in that area. Peter Jrrfiay " was one man who performed this task. - fhi/smethod of disposing of the Whey was soon abandoned and the whey was sold to contractors who S'upplled the pigs and bought the whey from the company/Two names which come to mind are Geo. its Robertson and John Pickering. As time went on the whey was returned to the producers to Jesuit N " home, and so Paramount avoided' the catastrophe which struck the other factories, namely, ': oof br-feaks of Hog Cholera in the pens, so that their pens were not destroyed and part of the pens were ilater used as a slaughter house for the beef ring, but more of that in another article. . l, l ' I l, factory did not serve a very large area, being only from Con. 2 in Huron to Con. 1trAshfield bt Extending about five miles east and five miles west of the factory on the Bruce Huron bump 'ary, about five miles on Con. 2 from Sideline 15 east to the Huron Kinloss boundary, and in 9sh- IWeld, because of its long sideroads, about three miles east and west from the division line. l, Mirth Cheesemaker was Sam Leach, who stayed for several years and married one of the local 5"?"- Abe Ketchebaw was next coming from Belgrave about 1895. He was a married man and Misti l a family in the factory house. He served till about 1912 when he bought a farm on the 'irish Held side of the boundary, just east of the factory and lived there andiraised his family till his '53,qu l in 1926. The next was HarrfYoun who stayed for two years and was followed by a Scotsman, Games is Reid, who served for one year but was stricken and died in midseason of his second term. lie . Ketchebaw returned to fill the position till a new maker could be secured. Otto Justice was "d iand, filled the position for several years, to be followed by Frank Ketchebaw, son of the former maker. All of these men were splendid cheesemakers and gave complete satisfaction. The next one lama, thW-f--J--fflc