HomeMy WebLinkAbout372"Article copied from the Pickering News, April 28, 1893, page2.
Claremont is one of the finest, if not the best village in the county, with a population of about 400
honest, selfsustaining people—none depending on or receiving aid from any source;
and as a business village it will compare favorably with the best. We have three general stores,
and we believe we are safe in saying that they do more business than any other three in the
township. We have three flour and feed stores; two boot and shoe stores; two tailors;
two blacksmiths; three shoe makers; a foundry, with chopping mill attached, which does a rushing
business Tuesdays and Fridays; a baker: a harness maker; two butchers; a drug store;
two tinsmiths; six carpenters; one wagon and carriage maker; four masons; two doctors;
a collector; an undertaker that is not the swiftest, yet, he manages to keep to the doctors,
which speaks well for them: a furniture store; an implement agent and dealer in washing
machines, churns, hayforks and fancy goods such as farmers want ;two pump makers;
a watch maker and jeweler ; a livery and good bus which meets all passenger trains;
two elevators with good grain buyers at each; two lumber and wood yards ; a saw mill ;
a gardener and florist ; a veterinary ; a skating rink with a music teacher to whitewash it and a
King for a road contractor. A magistrate and constable; a dictator, commissioner and
conveyancer; three music and two school teachers; a temperance hotel and one licensed
(which will be a temperance one after May 1st); two teamsters; one coal, lime,
salt and plaster dealer; a town hall; two mail carriers, a town bell, a practical banker, a lawyer,
and the most accommodating and gentlemanly station agent that there is to be found.
All the above with fourteen dressmakers, twenty-two widows, that ought to be married,
seven widowers that say they were caught once, fourteen old bachelors with fourteen old
maids wanting to make them happy, if they would, three ministers to marry them and three
good churches to do it in. We have the Patrons of Industry, United Workmen, Home Circle,
and Foresters. The families in the village are pretty equally divided between the three churches;
they’re being about thirty adherents to the Baptist twenty-five to the Presbyterian and thirty to the
Methodists. The rest their religion is so near alike that you can't tell them apart, yet I think most
of them belong to the other church. So about all we lack is a barber.
There are plenty of outsiders that come in and shave us often enough but our hair gets too long
sometimes, but all considered this in the spot for the business men or men retiring to live in.
Both are welcome
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