Welland History .ca

Historic EVENTS in and around Welland

TOWN NEWS

[Welland Tribune, 27 August 1880]

The Welland Railway Company will this week have their entire roadway laid with steel rails, with the exception of a small section where the company will await the completion of bridges on the canal enlargement.

W.G. Somerville’s business quarters are now in the store lately occupied by Mr. Tench, next to Loesch’s Mansion House, where he will keep agricultural implements and also deal in flour and feed.

The mud holes along the south side of Main street are a great nuisance. Horses stand in them and splash the mud in all directions, soiling ladies’ dresses and making the sidewalks very dirty and disagreeable. Is there no remedy for this, even in midsummer?