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SERIOUS FIRE IN CROWLAND
Solomon David’s Property With Four Tenancies Destroyed
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 22 February 1921]
Quite a serious fire occurred in Crowland township in the early hour of yesterday morning, when what is known as the old cheese factory, occupied by Solomon David, was completely destroyed by the conflagration.
About a quarter to three yesterday morning a local doctor returning from a call reported to the Crowland police that he had seen a blaze on Ontario Road a short distance away. The Crowland fire department made an immediate response, but upon arrival found that the fire had secured a good start. Good work was done by the department, but they were unable to save the building.
Solomon David, the owner, who lives in the rear of the building, together with his wife and three children, was asleep at the time, and were not aroused until the arrival of the fire department, thus having a very narrow escape.
The property had been rented out to different parties, who controlled a pool room, restaurant, grocery store and barber shop, and nothing of these four stores remain now except the burned ruins.
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