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Wed March D E M 0 I I 0 N Hell shown above when It was still one of Auroras stately old homes was the first brick building in the town In later CREW CLAIMS HISTORIC DOAN HALL Pharmacy will replace home of first reeve Plumbing and electric lighting were luxuries unknown to Charles the first owner of the house Doan was a merchant the first postmaster of the area the first reeve building fell prey to a succession of own ers who in the name of progress and restyled rented and ravaged Despite efforts over the years to save the building it is dying under the wreckers hammer this week to bo replaced by a pharmacy and possibly a six or eightstorey office building Hall was the first brick A charter citizen of the town Mr Doan became the first reeve in 1863 He served a year then ard another year He was a shoemaker and mer chant and he acted as Whitchurch Town ship postmaster as Auroras postoffice was known then for years As well he was an ardent tem perance advocate and an active revolu tionary of the 1837 war he If his interests were varied they also were lucrative because Hail was an impressive building even for its Symmetrical in plan and facade it was essentially Classic but it had Goth ic Revival elements in the dominant cen tral doorway A dark wood lustrous stairway with wide shallow steps dominated the front hall The cellar with its red brick walls had another fireplace probably it was a summer kitchen during the early Mrs MacLeod who was born Ida Wells of King Township and whose fath er was a member of Confederation allied close friends with the unhur ried kitidness and tolerance of another day her friend says The pace quickened after Mrs MacLeod left the house In the 1930s a storekeeper lived in the house by the to the is week when the wreckers hammers peeled off the stucco the building had acquired in later years the wreckers The stark simplicity of the house helped by the Oatpitched large 12paned windows and the born in and went into the grocery and drug business before be inherited his fathers postmasters job from 1882 By 1912 Ida MacLeod whose husband was a customs officer was living in Hall and the most gracious era of the house began Fireplaces burned In two front and turned into apartments A door had been cut beside the icposing front entrance the opulent stair case had been replaced by a more func- the whole house A womens group tried to save it municipal officials mulled over the pos sibility of establishing a library there a Robert whose husband spent repairing the place during the will soon be gone General Mills Country special Corn Flakes before people had electric lights by to write ft has innumerable draw- and compartments including a secret t of shelves for important papers the site Above this owner Richard like to build square at of office space if parking problems RNING HEADACHE Tasty Economical Meaty Pork Side Dominion Breakfast BEEF STEAKETTES SPARE RIBS LB LB J J LBTU BULK SAUSAGE Scott While Pink Yellow or Turquoise SPECIAL TOWELS Sweetheart liquid SPECIAL DETERGENT 3 off Puritan Beef SPECIAL STEW Peek Digestive Nice Carmel Shortcake BISCUITS 4 1 00 Lynn Valley Standard Whole BEETS 7100 Arizona No Grade CAULIFLOWER Large Size S 49 Mexican Grown Excellent For Salads CHERRY TOMATOES Boxes J y Hilltop Frozen FRENCH FRIED POTATOES SPECIAL Dominions Own Brand Domino Frozen GREEN PEAS 39 Regular Super SAVE 10 Oz Size spray T00TH PASTE Gaint Size Tube Values effective in Richmond Hill until March We to limit quantifies STORES LIMITED OMINION