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The new La Fell water_wheel system was installed at a date when few, if any mills in the province

were so equipped.

A total of fifteen men were often employed in and

around the mill, many of them provided with bed and board by their employer. Who, it is said, sounded the Wake Up Call at four o'clock in the

morning.

Mills and a farm acquired by John Dixon Sr., pro- fessional miller from Stanchel about 1885, closed

out the cloth operation and opened a saw mill in

its place.

At this time steel roller machinery was installed in the grist mill replacing the old grinding stones.

In later years the whole enterprise - Flour and 'a. Oatmeal Mille, Wool Carding and Saw Mills, was carried on in the beat tradition of the old and ;

honorable milling service, by John H. B. Dixon,

successor to his father.

There came a day in 1940, however, when the two