C. E. Boyd sells Business
Simcoe Reformer

Believing he should take a holiday, Mr. C. E. Boyd has transferred the proprietorship of the largest hardware establishment in the county to W. H. Davison [sic] of Clinton. Stock taking began this morning and as soon as it is completed Mr. Davis [sic] will take possession.

The business was established something like 60 years back, upon almost its present site, by the late Thomas Hebblewhite. He was succeeded by Gordon and Ellis, the latter of whom Mr. Boyd bought out better than 25 years ago.

Mr. Boyd learned hardware selling with Gordon and Ellis, and later opened a store for himself in Norwich. In [1887], when the present Melbourne block was built, he returned to Simcoe and conducted a store in the premises now occupied by the Royal Bank [on the northwest corner of Robinson and Kent Streets in downtown Simcoe]. 

When the Ellis estate came to market, Mr. Boyd became the purchaser of the business that he now disposes of to Mr. Davison [sic].