[Welland Tribune January 28, 1947]
Proprietors of the Majestic Grill East Main street, have purchased the building occupied by Loblaws Groceteria Limited, situated on the south side of East Main street. The former owner was Mrs. Blake Booth of Aqueduct street. Loblaws Groceteria Ltd. will later this year move to new quarters on East Main street.
The manager, Chris Dimitroff, would not reveal the purchase price but he told the Tribune that renovations and the work of re-fashioning the former groceteria into what he stated would be one of the most modern and up to date restaurants in this part of the Niagara peninsula would cost between $20,000 and $25,000. He was unable to state when the work would be completed because of the uncertain state of building operations. The new restaurant, he said, would seat approximately 100 persons at a time. And the upper floor will be devoted to catering to wedding and other parties and groups. It is the intention to maintain the present grill on the north side of the street.
The owners of the Majestic Grill are Chris Dimitroff, William Tallis and Harry Lombro, and it is expected that John Tallis also of Welland will become a fourth partner within the next few months.
The present owners purchased the goodwill of the present restaurant from G. Gettas in 1937, and the name of the establishment was then changed from “The Appolo Restaurant” to “Majestic Grill.”
[Welland Tribune January 6, 1947]
Hamilton, Jan. 6- Railway traffic was halted, power cut off and Station road in nearby Smithville blocked Saturday night when a T.H. and B. Railway freight train plowed into the rear of another near the village station.
Two men, Conductor Edward Barlow and Trainman A. LeRoy, both of Hamilton, leaped from the caboose of the first train seconds before the crash. No one was injured.
The collision wrecked four coal cars and the caboose of the first train and two coal cars of the second. The locomotive of the rear train was damaged. Immediately after the crash, the caboose of the leading train caught fire, but the blaze was extinguished by Smithville fire department before serious damage resulted.
Smithville Lights Out
In addition, one of the derailed cars knocked down a hydro line and plunged Smithville into darkness for the night. The community’s power supply had been restored only a few hours before after a 30-hour blackout caused by storm damage to the electric system.
Wreckage strewn along the tracks prevented service from being resumed until yesterday, and a C.P.R.-T.H. and B. Toronto-New York train, had to be rerouted via the Canadian National Railways to the suspension bridge at Niagara Falls station road, near the village depot, was also plugged by debris and was not opened for traffic until yesterday.
Railway officials could offer no explanation for the crash, but it was pointed out that both freights were extras and that recent storm damage had made communications difficult. Many wires in the area were not yet operating when the accident took place.
Both trains were bound for Hamilton. The first had just pulled onto main line from the Dunnville spur when it was struck. The other was en route from Welland to Hamilton.
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