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MASSEY-HARRIS DELIVERY
[Welland Tribune, 10 June 1898]
Spring Delivery of their Celebrated Harvesting Machinery
The well-known Massey-Harris company are the largest makers of farm machinery under the British flag, and their delivery of implements at Welland last Friday was the largest in the county, comprising three full carloads. The sales were made by the popular local representative of the Massey-Harris firm. W.G. Somerville and the day was also a notable one to him as being the 19th anniversary of his advent in the machine business here.
The delivery comprised 75 orders, the machine filling three cars. A number of the purchasers could not come, but upward of sixty teams assembled at the G.T.R. station in the forenoon and took on their freight of machines and proceeded to North Main street, front of Mr. Somerville’s ware rooms where they camped, and at noon partook of the hospitality of the Massey-Harris Co. in the shape of a good substantial dinner at the Welland House, got up in mine host Angle’s best form.
After dinner the procession reformed and re-crossed the canal bridge, went eastward on Division street and doubled back on main street, the head of the parade stopping at the canal, and the teams forming three abreast on the street, when a fine photograph of them was taken by Mr. Morden. The scene was a splendid one, creditable alike to the enterprise of the Massey-Harris Co., and their managers and agents, and to the yeomen of our county, and the picture would make a filling one for an immigration pamphlet, illustrative of the facts that Canada manufactures the best agricultural machinery in the world today, as well as has the widest and richest fields to employ it upon.
The delivery was under the management of James Henning, general agent Massey-Harris Co. with Mr. Herbert Whittaker of Toronto, J.W. Harris of Brantford, all connected with the M.H. business and Agents Somerville and James Swayze of St. Catharines, all present and assisting.
Mr. Somerville’s continued success after a business career here of 19 years is proof of the fact that his courtesy and straightforward manner of doing business has won the confidence and goodwill of the community in an exceptionally high manner, and that he deals only in wares that will stand the tests of time and use.
Event: 3 June 1898
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