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From D in the glen The day the Widows gang seized the town hall Continued from page 11 fortune however as the work progressed the following year A number of people were raising some heavy timber to the upper portion of the factory when the beam on which they were broke and they ere hurled down 30 eel to the cellar Three men were killed and many more were Injured The building finbihed but fire struck again In Charles son now became Ihe proprietor and rebuilt It on a grander scale two and a half stories high and powered by waterwheel Not wanting to tempt fate again the building was healed by steam and equipped with a system of waterworks for que nching fires Not only did il provide employment for to hands directly It also used pounds of Canadian wool daily The Glen woolen 111 financial ebbs and flows In the years that followed ecnt ually being taken over In law by the Sykes and facturing Company which maintained ties with the Willi family through the wife of general manager Harry Hold who was a daughter of Joseph Williams The Glen Woollen Mills Company Ltd was organized in to carry on the ess Most of the partners of this company lived in England with of George town vicepresident and who came as secretary urer as the only Canadian directors The Melrose Knitting Com was set up as It produced about dozen pairs of men wool socks and lumbermen socks a year to people worked there and a hundred could have been employed l they could be found Because of the shortage of labour 12 English automatic machines were Installed they seemed to be possessed of almost human Intelligence and with the care of two boys they knit GO dozen pairs of socks a day After death the mill passed through a number of operators and was destroy by fire In 1954 In 1B82 Samuel Beaumont who had seen both good and bad fortune In the wool trade bought a second woolen mill from its founder and owner James Bradley Fire which had already claimed the mill Beaumont had operated In Nerval struck his Glen mill shortly alter almost claiming the life of Beaumont himself He rebuilt the factory furnish it with the best English machinery he could find Though the river provided the power that attracted the first villagers and gave rise to infant industries it was not the Glen only resource nor even a lasting one It was not just the advent of new forms of energy like steam engines and gasoline motors and hydro power from a distance which stole the river s importance A saw mill for example was Important as long as there were ancient trees to be felled But as the land was cleared and the grain was planted where once there had been forests there was naturally LEASING A CAR OR TRUCK GIVE US A TRY less lumber to be cut Besides it was not unusual or a kerosene lamp be knocked over or a escape from liie you lived In a frame house your homo could very quickly go up in flames So people thought of brick homes and of stone mills with more was usually a local indust and the Historical Atlas shows brickyards on either side of the road going out of the ullage just before the 10th line Stone from the Glen area was used for the Peace Bridge between Fort and lluffat for post office Id from Lake on for the build in Toronto and Rev began clung his story in the small which overlooks the Glen There the grave marker he could find bore the nameof Bcnajuh Williams son Ira who died in 1B33 just eleven days his birthday Nearby is the grave of another son George who died three years later when he was just The cemetery site was en by the Williams family in keeping with the rural Iradit ion which would see farmers and burial ground for their relatives Others besides the have since used the cemetery of course The of old Williams self is marked by a llmcstont block dated Donations of land by two local Industrie Sheridan Nurseries have expanded the to its present By the mid another son of Isaac had a woodworking firm which specialized in chairs but in coffins h story records an amusing incident which could have just as easily happened lo Isaac A Milton furniture deiler of the same era Jones advertised Coffins made to order short notice The ad was not so odd as It sounds today since some people kep their coffins ready for when they were needed But the typesetters mistakenly the undt name from Jones lo Bones funeral services during the Inst century were sometimes held in the undertaker shop but more often the body would be kept at the home of lives and the service would place cither there or in the church On the way the ceme tery would close down while the funeral passed Harold Wheeler always turned Hie lights of Ihe general store the Glen when a on passed on its way up cemetery hill The custom may have had its many centuries ago the plague years when people would close the r shut bodies wen taken by things not groceries postmash sold considered as rockery glass I quor He was and had another He also attends to the wants of those ally inclined them with the necessary li Assuming of course that those matrimonially in had a prospective spouse in i860 one lady resident of the Used in The Canadian Champ on for a husband everyone approved of Ihe liquor business and the Glen had Its own temperance organization the Good Temp lars Royal Oak Temple It was in part the active support of this that enabled the village to proceed with their plans in 1670 to erect a town hill After the incvii ablcdchys the new brick hall was opened on the of May 1871 with concert to llqul dale debt The hail was much used not just for meetings but also for parties and concerts band radices church si Sunday schools In the winter of 187B an monk named Widows spent some time In the Glen and in other towns in the area him elf generally by preaching lecturing accompanied by boisterous behaviour His followers would keep the town hall for l lie church the Georgetown constables attended church to prevent the Widows gang from holding the building alter service Once evicted Widows mounted a wagon and ha ranged the assembled crowd until dark A final note in Down in the Glen relates the of how the village name was from Williamsburg in The of a post office an end to the name Glen Williams how ever when in 1W7 letter earner service was establish there and Ihe Glen became Post Office Three of George I own Although Glen residents were at the lime that they could using the name Glen Will on their correspondence the sub office has since closed and Glen Williams no longer officially exists according to one post master who appraised the situation To residents of the village however Rev Buggies hi story concludes Glen Willi still and is very much alive BANKING ON HOLLYWOOD Veteran Canadian Moore right ploys the bank manager of the Stale Bank of Madison in a from Never Trust an Thief shot on Monday Mr Moore pictured here with Strong who an IKS Investigator in the EH HI HI Hi OPENING SPECIAL Boy A Pizza Get A free OFFER GOOD FROM WED SEPT TO SAT SEPT 8th 1979 FREE PIZZA TO BE IDENTICAL TO THE ONE PURCHASED 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