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BAKERY Around the year 1930 the Hill brothers, Addison and Oliver opened a Bakery in New Dundee. Addison had learned the trade in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, working for Canada Bread and Oliver trained at the Home Bakery in Kitchener. The brothers first bought a bakery at Linden but changed their minds, rented space in the east side and basement of the New Dundee Hotel, then owned by Herb Madter. Jacob Lies bought the Hotel while the Hill brothers were still there. About a year later a third brother Milton joined them, doing the deliveries. The business was carried on from this rented space for several years. Eventually the brothers bought the house at the cornor of Main and Mill streets. The equipment was enlarged and moved to this location. The boys father Samuel Hill sold the farm and moved in with his sons. The Mother had died in 1928. Norman the youngest brother also stayed here, completing his education at Kitchener Collegiate Institute, and Stratford Teachers College. Subsequently he taught for four years at Rosebank School and then was Principal at the New Hamburg School. Now (1966) he is vice-Principal of Waterloo Oxford Secondary School. Shortly after buying the home from Mr. Ronald Toman they added a second truck. Milton recalled three routes he took on Monday's it was north to Petersburg, St.Agatha, to the edge of Waterloo, then back to Mannheim and all the territory surrounding these places. On Tuesday he went to Doon and Blair servicing some stores as well surrounding territory then back through the Roseville area. On Wednesday he drove south and west to Washington and Plattsville. Milton remembers delivering in heavy winter weather with a team of horses, a sleigh with a box and sometimes on shorter routes with a single horse and cutter. The horses were kept in a livery ander Kavelmans Hall. Oliver left the business when he married Jessie Richmond. They moved to Jarvis where they began their own Bakery business. Oliver baked bread while Jessie did the finer baking. When Oliver left a fourth brother Wilfred took his place. In 1938 they sold out to Mr. Gilbert Smith. Addison married Elizabeth Woods, the local High School Teacher and they moved to Preston. Milton continued delivering for Mr. Smith and later for Mr. Koch. Eventually he moved to Ayr where he still resides He married Will Griffin, has 2 boys and 2 girls. Wilfred married a Gait girl and lived in Gait for many years before moving to Kitchener. Gilbert Smith, a son of a Woodstock Funeral director, and his wife bought the Bakery from Addison and Milton in 1938. They both worked very hard and, because of the long hours and fatique, sold within 2 years. On August 14, 1940 Karl Koch took over until 1950, In 1948 he started a wholesale candy business. He opened a Lunch room in the front part of the Bakery, were the young people liked to congregate. When he ciosedthe Bakery business in 1950 he filled the down stairs with candy making equipment. The hours were long and equipment expensive, so in 1952 Mr. Koch closed and later worked for the Kondu Manufacturing Company in Preston. He has one son Robert, now residing in Kitchener. During his years as a Baker he recalls the cold, stormy winter of 1943 when he could'nt get his supplies. Ross Miller used skis to travel over the deep snow, packing 50 lbs. of yeast on his back from the Petersburg Station to New Dundee. During stormy weather Karl made his deliveries by horse and sled. His deliveries covered a side territory from Ratho to Waterloo, to Kitchener's outskirts, to Gait and to Plattsville. At one time he opened a small restaurant in the front of the Bakery Shop. Ice cream, soft drinks and light lunches were served. His biggest business was Saturday and Sunday. Later they decided the lunch counter took too much work, so they discontinued it. They worked from 8 The Hill Brothers, Oliver, Milton, Will, 1960 A.M. until midnight, the village. Mr. Koch was noted for his fine slab cakes which were popular at social's in While in the candy business he created a temple of cake and icing which was greatly admired by everyone. He was also famous for his old fashioned Horehound candy.