Week of March 16, 1914
• The Gazette learns that a new contract has been awarded for the completion of the revetment wall on the lake front; work to commence as soon as the water in the lake recedes. • Just days after announcing the opening of his new dairy, Chas. Miller tells The Gazette it will be known as the Lakeside Dairy. • W. D. Flatt named president as football club organized; games to be played at the Pine Cove grounds. • Pine Cove Baseball Club re-organized with W. D. Flatt as president; announces that a pavilion would be erected on the grounds for the coming season. • Hamilton police arrest John Lougheed of Port Nelson on a charge of non-support and desertion preferred by his wife. • John Connell purchases property from W. C. Kerns at the corner of James and John streets to build an up-to-date blacksmith and wagon shop. Week of March 16, 1964 • Interim board elected as residents approve establishment of a family YMCA in Burlington. • Huge crowd lines the street as Green’s Department store opens on Brant Street. • Work of Burlington’s new town hall now only slightly behind schedule, delay as a result of an appeal after project approved by OMB. • Virtue Motors on Lakeshore Road undergoes vast changes with a name change to Brant Chrysler and the demolition of two houses on Locust for a used car lot.
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