Items of
Local Interest
Mr. W. L. Cameron has purchased the house in the north ward
just north of the property of Mrs. Thos. McCall.
Miss Elizabeth Alice Cruise of Port Dover as one of the class
receiving diplomas at the Deaconess Training School, Toronto.
The Dowme Dog and Pony Show gave two performances here last
Thursday, a large number of spectators being in evidence.
Chas. E. Boyd has been appointed agent for this district for
the Berlin Vacuum Cleaner. He has them for sale or rent by the
hour or day.
Saturday meals at the Norfolk House, 25¢.
Ira Whitehead, Proprietor.
Frank Taylor has sold his livery business to Lewis Green of
Waterford and has reportedly purchased the Hanson hotel in Port
Rowan.
Robert Young Mabee, formerly a merchant in Vittoria, recently a
resident of Toronto, died on 9 May 1910, at the home of his son in
Magrath, Alberta. He had only been in Magrath for three weeks and
was taken ill shortly after arriving there. His widow, three
daughters and two sons survive.
The Port Dover Maple Leaf says Captain John S. Allan
will sell the Norfolk House in that village to Ira Whitehead if
the license now held by Robt. McMillan can be transferred to the
purchaser.
Nelson R. Butcher of Toronto left for the Hague last week,
having been placed in charge of the British officials before the
Peace Hague Tribunal. Mr. Butcher is an old Norfolk boy, a native
of South Walsingham.
Robert Hamilton of the firm Hamilton & Hawthorne has
purchased the Norfolk Feed Barn from George McKnight. Mr.
Hamilton, it is said, will, after this year's business of Hamilton
& Hawthorne is wound up, leave that firm and go into
partnership with his son, Mr. Murray Hamilton. The Norfolk Feed
Barn will in that event be converted into a depot for the business
of importing French horses.
