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Oldest Former Warden /“/3 My; 1w. ’7': Opens New Building Bruce County’s "Oldest Farmer Warden”, Hon. Campbell Grant, addresses the large gathering Many dignitaries and a large ,‘audlnnce turned out on a runny ‘ autumn alternaon, Monday. Oct. 25m. to witness the Official Open- ino ceremony and partake ol a tour oi the recently completed County at Bruce Administrative Centre on Park St. In Waikerlon. About 200 people were present, including a low children, it was 7. noted. Master of ceremonies ior the occasion was Bred Davis. Chairman oi the County Finance ‘ Committee. Rev. James Dookram at Trinity Lutheran Church In Walkerton new the prayer ot l invocationi Amend the' guest were the Weroens oi the surrounding , Counties at Grey. Wellington and i Huron, as well as the Warden: at 3 Simona, Dullerln a'nd Perth. County Warden Clm Pooeio oi Brant Twpi spoke of a dream that has become a reality, and said he w’e‘é'proud to be Inyoi'ved In the [law oneroy-altlolant‘building, He 1. lnenllanao the need? bring the various County oftioe qr Walker- ton under one ro‘olfifioluding the Children's Aid Society, and the. 3 the neVLDulldl lack. oi e Waroon'a otiica in the last Tuesday prior to officially "cutting the ribbon” to iormally open Bruce County’s new Ad- minstratlvc Centre. The weatherman ctr-operated 100% for the outdoor cvcnl. 7Cricr old building. The County Library haadquarlers however will re- main in Port Elgini He conceded that had the economy been this bad a year ago they would not have proceeded. The cost Di the new building IS approximately 52,QO0,00D,DO. Mayor Jim Bulden ol Walker- ton spoke briefly, making a loc-v uiar reference to a bottle 0L whisky which supooseoiy decided the location at the original Couhty Building. He mentioned that he was on the County Finance Com- mittee when the proposal lot a new building first came up. Retired Bruce County Clerk- Treaeurer Tarn Alton gave an outline of lhe history oi the County Buildings and said he regretted that he had held the post too early to be able to anloy Bllbillt‘SSt e ()l The 1930’s Recently, we reflected on Walkerton buslnesies at the turn of the century, but since most of us cannot remember thar long ago, here are some from our more recent past. In the l930's if you needed groceries, you rould choose from the Dominion store (where Sledrnans is now), Damm's Grocery, Geode and Maskav, Soarlings, Ralph Krau. gcr's Grocery, Oherle’s, or Pal- ridr's Store on Calhorne Street, Patrick’s closed in 1944, when Mr. Patrick retired at Bl years of age. Al the south end oi town, Baker‘s store (stored to the Station Road customers In that some era, you could buy elathes at Stephen‘s De- partment Store (where Adal’s is now). BuekhellePs Clothing, Brenner‘s Falr, McBurnay‘i clothing and Dry Goods, and Ker J. Obrlght's Man’s Wear or Rita‘s Men's Wear. Mabel Raine: would pravlde the huh la the ladies, and Rogers Fur Shop, the fur coats. Shoes could he bought {rem Cnrtwrlghl'o Shoe Store, or Frank Donahue, or repaired by Sewell's Shoo Repolr. Walkerton boasted three drug stores, â€" Lamberhrs', Hobley‘x and Reed's. C A. Fox and Archll Reich- enbocli catered to the watch- making and lewellerv needs, while Vogon’s Hardware and Sternell‘s Hardware sold the topper wash boilers, so neces- sary than. The restaurants included Eni- man’s, Anderson's, a Chinese restau'rant, rolled the Viclorla Cafe, where Slaier’s Auto Elac. trio is now located. at the cork nor of Durham and Feler Streets, and e newest o0 Ihe day, Lab '5 Restaurant. Tanner I. Pearson and Dick Schuelf’fi were the furniture stores, and Ted McConnell ran the book store, now Ihe Fran Shop, it your Model "A" needed gas, there was Leltner‘s, Lo- hie'a, Kain'sl Harold Scott's, George Scott's and Gus Boyle's flaragos to situate horn. HISTORY OF'rlRTll/lilcm“ SHOE STORE HERE HAD /7§’0 Bert Cartwright followed the trade of both his father and grandfather. and teamed the art of making shoes. as well as repairing them His home was In Yorkshire. England. When Bert was twenty-one in 1910, hedecided to head for Canada. ‘He had saved enough (or his passage and when he landed ntlHallIex he converted hisn'Englisb money into-Cans» AN EARLY BEGINNING England and marry Gladys, which he did in 1920 and brought her back to Canada. ‘ During all these years, all shoe repair finishing had been done by band, as was all sole‘ stitching. In 1921, a shoe ishing machine ‘was bought and this speeded up work It“ was in 1929 that M. J. may decided to retire and inert bought the business. rllan He had twaoayoirra dolu It gas also‘in me that the Enzfâ€"rax â€" r He took title-train to antral Ontario and. after working as a had carrier; for bricklayer-s, he heard that,a store in Walker- ton neededira shoemaker. John 'Kruspe. who worked in the re- pair shop at Ramsey’s shoe Store. had left. Bart took the first train to Walkerton and soon found be was runningia busy shoe repair l shop. In lthose days boots were still being tusmm made in N12 shopi‘ Skates had to be attached to boots. leather tops had to be seWn to rubber bot- toms for tho tax-mar. ,ns wdl as regular shoe repair work. In 1914. when war broke out. YBert immediately joined the 18th battalion and was soon on his way Overseas. who‘re ht- eventuaLiy became a sergeant oamaker for the troops During wartim‘e leaves in Eng- land. he mel'bis future wife, Gladys Mitchell. When the war ended, his 3le at Ramsey's was waiting i=3:- hlm. with accumulated repairs piled high, some busy years and long hours followed. as he saved money .to get hilt-k to “mm more emigrants“ Wharf he bougllt'the‘busitlaea ma, cea Ernst was clanking for Ramsey and Norbert Scbnurr‘ was working in the shoe repair shop, So tough did business become, that Norbert Schnun' had to he laid: off for several months one season. and Inert returned to the shoemaker: lost. In 1937. his son Lloyd left‘ school to learn the shoe repair} trade. and after Bart‘s death in 1911;, Lloyd operated the storeJ in nonjunotion with his Ino-‘ than In 1965. Lloyd's son Bruce also loll school to learn the business of shoe retailing Bruce is now on charge of. the store. Over the, years. Cartwright's Shoe Store has been fortunate, 10 have employed stair persons who stayed with the firm for many years Most notable llrnollg these might be mention- ad the late Frances Ernst. who held her position from 1926 (tor Ramsey) until about 1950, and more lately Mrs. Dolores Weber. who started in 1952, and is still on the staff.