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Springford, Norwich, Ontario

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“TILLSONBURG YOUTHS HELD FOR ASSAULT,” Brantford Expositor. January 6, 1933. Page 5. ---- Accused of Attacking and Intending to Rob Woman ---- TILLSONBURG, Jan. 6 - (CP) Andrew Beavis and Walter Greenhead, two local youths, were arrested yesterday by Chief of Police Reynolds in connection with the assault on Miss Margaret Hogarth last Thursday. A charge of assault with intent to rob was laid and the case will be heard by Magistrate Patterson at Woodstock this morning.

In making the arrests Chief Reynolds discovered a leather "billy” loaded with lead.

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"Gets Two Years," Windsor Star. December 9, 1942. Page 6. ---- Windsor Man Arrested at Tillsonburg in Auto Stolen Here ---- Pleading guilty to the theft of a car, John L. Short, Windsor, was given a year in the Ontario Reformatory in city police court today.

Short was arrested in Tillsonburg by Chief of Police T. L. Corbett, driving a stolen car belonging to Bert Feldman, Donnelly street. The car was stolen from the parking lot at Ford Plant No. 4, where Feldman is employed. In the car Tillsonburg police found burglar tools. Through his counsel. Ross S. Riddell, K.C., Short pleaded guilty today. He had been sentenced to two years in the reformatory for convictions at Tillsonburg, and today's sentence runs concurrent.

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"Italian Prisoners May Work on Farms," Ottawa Journal. December 23, 1942. Pags 12. ---- TORONTO, Dec. 23. - (CP)- Premier Gordon Conant of Ontario said today that employment of Italian prisoners of war and residents of the British West Indies, on Ontario farms is under consideration by his Government. He added, however, that no decision would be reached until conferences are held with federal authorities which asked the Ontario Government for its views on the employment of West Indies residents in sugar beet and tobacco fields.

[AL: The deep history of deploying immigrant or 'temporary foreign workers' from the Carribean in South-West Ontario agriculture.]

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“ROAD WORK FOR THE UNEMPLOYED,” Brantford Expositor. March 28, 1930. Page 2. --- Heavy Program Is Scheduled for Tillsonburg and District ---- TILSONBURG, March 28 - Tillsonburg is going to be the centre of a large amount of road work this summer scheduled to start early in April to relieve local unemployment. The County Council has passed grant of $24,700 for local work inside the town limits and by far the largest amount in several past years. Twenty-two thousand dollars will be spent on a concrete road on Tillson avenue to the Michigan. Central connecting with the County Road to Norwich on which $4360 will also be spent for resurfacing. Vienna Hill to the Wabash station will receive improvements up to $2700.

County Magistrate Patterson of Ingersoll presided over the usual court here Thursday morning at 11 a.m. with a very light docket on hand. George Pressey of Aylmer, Ont., was charged with an infraction of the Motor Vehicles Act by Traffic Officer Emmerson Spence for overloading his truck and was assessed the minimum fine of $10 and costs. The offence occurred on Highway No. 3. Under the Master and Servant Act Henry Childs of Dereham was ordered to pay James Wm. Barker of the same township the sum of $26.75 in back wages as well as the costs of the court.

Myrtle Rebekah Lodge No. 177 held a very delightful at home in the lodge rooms last evening and despite very stormy weather there was a splendid attendance from town and district. Progressive euchre was enjoyed the first part of the evening with the following prize winners: Ladies' first, Mrs. Stanley Wood, second, Mrs. Elwood Service: men's first, J. H. Smith, second. Thomas Burn. A dainty lunch was served following the cards, after which dancing was enjoyed in the banquet hall till the early hours of the morning.

The executive of the Tillsonburg Baseball nine was rewarded with a large attendance at the benefit dance in Brown's hall Wednesday evening. The hall and orchestra were generously donated for the occasion and the proceeds will be used towards the purchase of new uniforms. 

The disagreeable weather of the past two weeks is no doubt responsible for the large number of heavy colds and light cases of 'flu' in town and district.

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“Gels Two Years,” Windsor Star. October 22, 1942. Page 10. ---- John L. Short Sentenced for Burglar Tool Possession --- TILLSONBURG. Oct. 22. John L. Short, 37, of 985 Howard avenue. Windsor, was found guilty Wednesday by Magistrate E. Donald Smith in local court to a charge of being in possession of burglars' tools and sentenced to two years less one day. 

Short will now face a charge of stealing a car the property of Bart Fieldmau, 967 Donnelly street, Windsor, laid by the Windsor police. Short was arrested here on the evening of September 11 by Chief Constable R. E. Corbett and Police Constable Sam Ham In a car on Bidwell street which contained a hammer, chisel, several other tools and a partly consumed bottle of wine.

[AL: Short had done one or two penitentiary stints by this point.]

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“Price Disappoints Tobacco Growers,” Toronto Globe. October 27, 1932. Page 12. ---- Top Mark Reached in Norfolk as Market Opens is 24 Cents ----- (Special Despatch to The Globe.) Simcoe, Oct. 26 - Disappointment greeted hundreds of farmers in Norfolk County when the tobacco market opened yesterday with a top price of 24 cents for the finest crop ever produced in the district. Many expected the price to be higher than in 1931, but in the nine contracts reported in the Simcoe district there was a drop of six cents from last year’s price.

One official held out the hope that the individual grower might realize more than last year even with the six-cent drop on the opening price for 1931. He explained that the 1931 market took a sudden drop after opening from 30 to 23 cents, and from that to 16 cents. If the present price remains stable during the bulk of the buying the avergae price will be atually higher. It was stated that many growers could show a profit at 20 cents, but below that figure they would be in difficulties.

Reports from other sections of the County of Norfolk state that many farmers who have invested in land, kilns, greenhouses and equipment for tobacco growing will be forced out of business. Every commercial interest in the county it affected, and the farmers will be unable to pay themselves a decent wage for their season’s work. The top price of 24 cents is far from encouraging.

From Tilsonburg reports were received of purchases by a large company which paid 24 cents a pound in some instances and 20 and 22 cents in others, according to quality. Tobacco growers, it is stated, expected 30 cents this year because of better prices in the Southern States. Crops were purchased in the districts of Otterville and Langton.

It is expected that all interested companies will be in the field by Friday.

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“COURT CASE WAS SEQUEL TO WILD RIDE,” Brantford Expositor. April 18, 1932. Page 3. ---- Reeve Townsend Fined— Constable Sent to Jail --- Must Make Good Damage to Two Motor Cars ---- SIMCOE, April 16 - (By staff rep.) — Mistaking another man's car for their own proved costly for Reeve J. W. Townsend and County Constable H. J. Hines of South Walsingham when they appeared before Magistrate J. L. Patterson of Ingersoll at Tilsonburg on Saturday. The constable was sentenced to seven days in jail and ordered to pay costs on a charge of being drunk while driving and the reeve was fined $10 and costs for being intoxicated in a public place. In addition, they undertook to make good to the extent of $400 damage done to the car of C. R. Bollert, Simcoe, which they borrowed and $300 to the owner of the car commandeered by Chief Reynolds of Tilsonburg to give them chase. The explanation of the two accused was that they went to get into the reeve's car, the constable undertaking to drive while the owner got in the back seat. Mr. Bollert’s car, which was very similar, was parked beside it and they got in the wrong car.

CHIEF TESTIFIES On the witness stand Chief of Police Reynolds of Tilsonburg gave an account of the chase which resulted in the apprehension of Townsend and Hines after the care of both pursued and pursuers had been wrecked at the bridge on North Broadway in Tilsonburg. At 6:15, Friday evening, Chief Reynolds said he had received a call from Provincial officers in Simcoe, to be on the lookout for a stolen sedan. He stationed himself at the white bridge in Tilsonburg and saw the car approaching. As he stepped into the road, the vehicle increased its speed, he said, and he narrowly escaped being struck. He discharged his revolver a number of times in an effort to pierce the gas tank or tires but had no success.

COUPE COMMANDEERED Then he commandeered a coupe owned by James Long, a garage man, and set out in pursuit. Up Tilsonburg's main street, the cars sped, the chase coming to a sudden end at the Canadian National Railways bridge, when the police vehicle was crowded into an abutment and the car driven by Hines struck the other side.

In explaining the case, Crown Attorney R. N. Ball K. C. of Woodstock said that there had apparently been a party in Simcoe and that Townsend mistook C. R. Bollert's car which was parked in the street for his own.