Chief Health Officer of Province Advises Municipality that No More Sewage Should be Emptied into Provincial Waters. Septic Tank Must be Built.
[Welland Telegraph, 30 July 1912]
Dr. J.W. McCullough, the Chief officer of Health of the Province, has sent to City Clerk Boyd a notice which, if dealt with by the Council, will likely mean that civic septic tanks for the disposal of sewage of the town must be built.
The communication is in the form of a notice to municipalities and quotes section 91 of the Public Health Act, as follows:
“No garbage, excreta, manure, vegetable or animal matter or filth shall be discharged into or be deposited in any of the lakes, rivers, streams or other waters in Ontario, or on the shore or banks thereof.
“The owners and officers of boats and other vessels plying upon any such lake, river, stream or other water shall so dispose of the garbage excreta, etc., as not to create a nuisance or permit of its gaining entrance to or polluting any such lake, river, stream or other water.”
Dr. McCullough concludes by advising that the Provincial Board of Health requires that any municipality now discharging sewage into any lake, river, stream or other water of the province shall, as expeditiously as possible, provide for the treatment of its sewage to the satisfaction of the Board. He asks the municipality to govern itself accordingly.
The town of Welland empties all its sewage into the Welland River. If the Public Health act is observed the town will have no other option than to install a septic tank.
[The Welland Telegraph, 27 February 1912]
Welland’s ambition to take in a section of the township of Crowland, from appearances at the present time, will end in a dismal failure.
W.M. German, town solicitor, is said to have informed the Mayor a few days ago that the proposition was “all off.” He did not make plain his real meaning, but it is obvious that the town’s aspirations are not to be crowned with success.
Another movement is on foot to form a police village, but the most likely thing to happen is that the town will take in the property of the township, this side of the railway tracks. Crowland has no objection to this procedure. Ald. McKay intends to bring it up at an early meeting of the Council.
Residents East of G.T.R. Claim They Are Not Liable
Say Meter Kept Right on Ticking Whether There was Any Gas or Not
[Welland Telegraph, 16 February 1912]
Incensed because the gas pressure had been very low, a number of citizens residing east of the G.T. R., refused to pay their gas bills to the Industrial Natural Gas Company for the month of January, when the collector called.
It was stated on Wednesday that the total number of those who refused to pay was probably about twenty-five or thirty, and that there were about seventy users. They claimed that several times there has been practically no gas, but that the meter kept right on ticking off the feet with as much energy as before. Therefore they issued an ultimatum that as there was no gas there should be no money.
An enquiry from T. Coulter of Port Robinson, manager of the company, on Wednesday morning, elicited the information that the affair was not as serious as stated. He claimed that those who refused to pay did not run up to anywhere near the number mentioned.
Canadian Steel Foundries will Acquire More Land
[Welland Telegraph, 30 January 1912]
The Canadian Steel Foundries will likely commence shortly alterations to their rolling mills, which will enable them to use this part of their plant again.
Although the company have plans for a million-dollar addition to their works here they do not intend to commence extensions for some time yet. They will, however, purchase a piece of property adjoining their plant, so that they will be in a position to proceed at any time they so desire.
Owners Have Spent Over $10,000 in Improvements
Business Section Laid Out in This Sub-Division
[Welland Telegraph, 20 February 1912]
The Telegraph has just had an interview with the manager of the Canadian General Securities Corporation, Limited, of Toronto, the owners of the Welland South estate, a sub-division at the south end of Welland adjoining the factory section.
The company reports that they are as rapidly as possible developing Welland South into a workman’s high class residential district. Recently they have taken over the Alfa Hanna property, lying between the canal and the Michigan Central Railroad. They have had built as entrances to this property two very handsome concrete pillars on Broadway, just across the canal from the steel plant and immediately adjoining Welland South station on the electric railway.
The company spent a great deal of money, in the neighborhood of $10,000, during the past season in grading streets, laying sidewalks and doing general improvement work for the benefit of their clients who are purchasing property through them, and for the benefit of the workmen in the factory section who will eventually live on this property.
Only a few homes were built on the property before winter set in, but the residences which were erected are good, and if the buildings built in this sub-division in the future are in keeping with those already there, then Welland South will surely be the choicest section from a residential standpoint in the factory district. We are informed that several lots in this property have been sold to Toronto contractors, many of whom have already gotten out plans and commenced active preparations for building houses and stores in Welland South this coming season.
One street running through the centre of the property has been made ninety feet wide and is named Young Street. This street is intended for the business street of the district, and no lots are being disposed of on this thoroughfare except to parties who will agree to build a store thereon within a reasonable length of time.
County Council Wants Equal Charges in All Parts of County.
[Welland Telegraph, 26 January 1912]
A motion was passed in County Council this morning instructing the Clerk to communicate with the Dominion Railway Commission in an effort to secure uniform telephone rates in all parts of the county. The motion was introduced by Stamford’s representatives who claim that their township was unjustly taxed.
[Welland Telegraph, 26 January 1912]
Everyone is looking forward to a greater Welland this year, and the idea seems to permeate the very atmosphere.
It is learned that a Guelph man is completing arrangements to erect a four storey business block here this summer. The site, it is said, has been optioned and all that is being awaited is the arrival of spring, which will bring with it, it is hoped, some idea of what will happen the coming summer.
A local man who was told of the proposition while in Guelph recently, stated on Tuesday morning that the block will be used as a department store to be run on a modern business basis.
ANOTHER NEW BLOCK
It is likely that W.E. Buckingham of Guelph will erect a three-storey business block on East Main Street next spring to replace the small frame building located next to the Temple building.
To Have Largest Paper Machines Ever Built
[People’s Press, 28 May 1912]
Thorold, May 25- The contractor for the erection of the buildings required by the Ontario Paper Company, Ltd., was let today to the Lackawanna Bridge Company of Buffalo, N.Y. It is expected that ground will be broken in a few weeks time, at the site recently acquired by the company near lock No. 25, new Welland canal. The citizens of Thorold are greatly pleased at having this large pulp and paper located here, and for which a fixed assessment bylaw, n the name of Mr. James Battle, as trustee, was voted on and carried in Thorold township, on February 28th.
Mr. Warren Curtis, jr., of Corinth, N.Y., the president and general manager of the company, has opened the company’s office here, and the construction of the mills will be completed at the earliest possible date.
The mills, which will manufacture news print paper exclusively, will be equipped with a ground wood mill of sufficient capacity to supply two two hundred inch paper machines, which will turn out from one hundred and twenty to one hundred and thirty tons of paper per 24 hours. These machines are the largest paper machines ever built, and are well under construction by the Pusey and Jones Company, of Wilmington, Del.
The power of this plant will be entirely electric, and will require eight to then thousand horse power, which will be supplied by the Ontario Power Company of Niagara Falls, Ont.
[People’s Press, 28 May 1912]
Col. Cohoe of Welland will command the Fifth Infantry Brigade at Niagara camp, commencing on Monday next, June 3rd.
The brigade consists of the 37th Haldimand; 39th Norfolk, 44th Lincoln and Welland, and 77th Wentworth regiments. The camp lasts twelve days.
This is a well deserved honor for the Colonel, who is a thorough military man.
Col. Cohoe will leave for Niagara camp on Saturday.
[Welland Telegraph, 9 January 1912]
The members of Court Secord, No. 9312, A.O.F., will hold their annual smoking concert in their lodge rooms, I.O.O. F., hall on Thursday, Jan. 18th. Members and friends are cordially invited. Smoking, singing and refreshments. Come along and have a jolly good smoke.
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