Mrs. Welland Woodruff needed many household items in March of 1877. She purchased: a broom, soap, a wringer, a pail, a cello line (clothesline), a tub, a rolling pin, a potato masher, a bowl, knives, a box of blacking brushes (for applying shoe polish), a mat, teaspoons, a wooden spoon, a crock, starch, a bath brick (earlier form of scouring pad made of clay), a stove brush and stove polish. She also purchased some food which included: sugar, pepper, mustard, salt, baking powder, vinegar, tea, peas, almonds, and rice.
William James McCalla and his brother John came to Canada from Ireland. They owned a store which was a combination of a grocery and hardware store on Geneva Street.
