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In this part of the Oxford County website you will find some newspaper articles documenting other noteworthy events that occured in Norwich Township.
 
From the Sentinel Review, April 21, 1882 (p. 5, c. 2)

S. G. Burgess' Sales
Saturday, April 22 - Sale in Norwich for Mrs. Hirsch.

E. C. Ryott's Sales
Saturday, April 22 - Sale on market

Wednesday, April 26 - Sale on 12th line, East Zorra

T. Logan's Sales
Tuesday, April 25 - Sale for John Carnegie, lot 18, con. 1, Burford
Thursday, April 27 - Sale for Andrew Swan, administrator of the late John Swan, on lot 4, con. 3, Blenheim


from the Woodstock Sentinel Review, Dec. 6, 1900

Holbrook
Dec. 4 - Mr. Emigh is away attending the Beekeepers' Association convention.
Alex Lindsay is away ploughing on his new farm near Beachville.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Gill attended the opening of the new Methodist church at Mt. Elgin on Sunday.

Oxford Centre
Miss Elsie Davidson is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Dayton of town.
The quarterly board of the Methodist Church met here on Monday and decided not to sell the old parsonage.
We are sorry to learn Miss Maud Schooley has not been well the past week, but hope she may soon be around again.
We are glad to be able to say that Henry Cole and his son Clarence are recovering from the fever.


from the Weekly Sentinel Review, Aug. 26, 1908

Burgessville
Miss Ethel Losee is visiting in Hamilton.
Mrs. Howie Dennis of Norwich is visiting at Mrs. W. C. Topham's.
Mr. and Mrs. Tenant of Atwood have been visiting her brother, Chas. Sackrider.
Miss Corbin and Miss Maude Dennis are spending a few days at Port Dover.

Cassel
The third annual picnic of the old public school leaving and entrance class and their friends was held on Pearson's Grove on Aug. 17. The afternoon was spent in playing baseball and following that refreshments were served in a very romantic fashion, after which they went to Mr. Pearson's where old time games were played. The happy gathering broke up at a late hour, all pleased with the day's outing. Chas. Kaufmann, Tavistock, being present, a few snapshots of the picnickers were taken.


from the Weekly Sentinel Review, Oct. 26, 1911

Mr. Richard Siple has purchased a new automobile.

For Sale - There will be offered for sale by A. Siple, on Woodstock market on Saturday, Oct. 28, 1911, at eleven o'clock a.m., one span of Welsh ponies, five and six years old, good drivers, well broken; one double set of brass mounted harness, good; one buggy with pole, all to suit the ponies.


from the Norwich Gazette, Aug. 8, 1918

Pte. Howie Siple, of Camp Stanley, Texas, and bride, spent a few days with his father, Benson Siple.


from the Daily Sentinel Review, Thursday, Oct. 11, 1923

Toronto, Oct. 10 - Among the new members admitted on October 11 to the College of Physicians and Surgeons, are: Grace Baker, Chatham; Herbert Harold Batson, Brantford; Hugh Stanley Douglas, Springfield; Edward George Ellis, Sarnia; Herbert Ewing, Fergus; James Gordon Grieve, Stratford; William McCormick, Amberstburg; Harold Barrick Miner, Humberstone; Kenneth Duncan Nichol, Brantford; Leo Orechkin, Windsor; and Douglas Irving Snider, Windsor.


 

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