‘Reflections on Hantsport’ by Walter Comstock
ADVANCE [newspaper]: My earliest recollection of it was that it was run by a man named Marchant - his wife was a sister of Maurice Smith's wife, The shop was across the railroad track in what we know as the Mumford Block, now owned by Arch Kerr. There were three little places in the bottom; barber shop in one end, Town Office in the middle, and the Customs Office in the far end. Overhead was the Advance office. After Marchant, a man named George Woodworth took it over and ran it till it died. It was there for a while, then moved [to] a little building from T. R. Johnston property over to where Karl Dowe's house is now. His office was there, and he built on to it two or three times. Later it was moved up the Lane and it burned down.
Tri-Mu Church Club started by Methodist minister, then taken over by the Baptist minister....