April 1912

This spring, as usual, the low-lying section of the south end of the town is flooded by water which comes in from the Scott farm and which will come, year after year, until something is done to divert it. Means of doing this have been under consideration for some time and P. L. Robertson Co. and the Grand Trunk Railway have offered to share the expense, but nothing definite has been done. The flooded lots remain vacant while lots suitable for dwellings are in demand. They are assessed at an average of $100 and taxed at $2.50 each, instead of about ten times that amount, as they would be if their owners could and would build on them.

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On Saturday Janes Williamson & Bros. shipped 26 horses, which they bought here, to Toronto (by rail). The herd made quite a show as it was being driven down Main Street. There was plenty of variety in it from ordinary to very high-class animals.

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One night last week a lady, a stranger to Milton, arrived by a C. P. R. train. There was no bus at the station and seeing several boys on the platform, she asked to be directed to the house of a friend where she was to visit. The boys said they would guide her, relieved her of her hand baggage and escorted her to the house. She offered to pay them, but they told her that they would accept nothing, that they were Boy Scouts and had merely done their duty. Their gallantry came from the splendid training given them by Rev. D. S. Houck, Scout Master.

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W. B. Clements has let the contract for alterations in the second story of the Dewar Block, (corner of Main and Martin) for a Masonic Hall to S. Henson.

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E. C. Featherstone, of Toronto, is in town. He has sold out his photographing business and on the 14th will go to Chicago to take a three month course at the McCormick Medical College in ophthalmology, after which he will go into business in Toronto as an optician.

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John Waugh, M. A. Inspector of Continuation Schools, visited the Milton school on Monday and Tuesday, and it is understood made recommendations regarding the extra room which it may be necessary to provide soon, on account of increasing population. He lived in Milton when he was a small boy and was a student of the late Peter Maclean.

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Town council received a letter from Edwards Electrical Co. asking that Court St. be extended across the C. P. R. to their works and from M. E. Thorold, Toronto, asking whether the town was prepared to give assistance to a Toronto manufacturing concern if it would remove to Milton. A letter was to be answered offering the usual inducements and the C. P. R. was asked to give a crossing on Court St. Lieut A. C. Bastedo applied to council for electric lights for the armory. The committee on light and police recommended that the work be done in the usual way and a meter installed. It was approved.

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This material is assembled on behalf of the Milton Historical Society by Jim Dills, who can be reached through the society at (905) 875-4156.