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Christmas Markets
[Welland Telegraph, 15 December 1885]
The supply on the market yesterday was a very large one. Farmers’ wagons occupied the market and Main street as far as the corner of North Main street. They were supplied with everything suitable to the holidays. The fatted turkey, geese, chickens, and even lamb, porker and beef and veal, dressed and quartered, were in bountiful supply. The demand was good, but the opposition in meat supplies at the regular butcher shops was too great, and the supply was displayed to greater advantage than that of the dealers on the public market.
Best Bros.’ large shops in Griffith’s block were dressed for Christmas in evergreens and artificial flowers. Their display of beef was a fine one, largely from animals fatted specially for their wants at this season. Mr. Jesse Steele, of Humberstone, supplied them with a pair of fine steers. Mr. James Moore supplied a pair of the great fat sheep, and the whole county was tasked indirectly to make up the supply of fatted animals slaughtered for their Christmas trade.
The old reliable meat market of W.F. Guest was not behind, but in the two establishments on East Main Street and corner of Hellems Avenue and Division Street, had a supply of everything that could tempt the gourmand or epicure in meats.
Wood Brothers, on West Main Street, displayed a large supply of meats in all kinds, fatted by them for the holiday trade. Quarters of beef, whole sheep, small porkers, turkeys, geese and fowl of all kinds, tastefully arranged, filled the shops, and as soon as sold, place was filled by surplus supplies from the refrigerator and store rooms.
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