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Other occupations were also busy in Orwell at the turn of the century. Norman NacLeod operated a store at Orwell cross- roads until 1893. He advertized the property for sale in the Daily Examiner as "one of the most desirable stands in P.E.I. for a country store. There is a large store. warehouse. shed. dwell- ing house, and orchard. all in good order.“ (November 20, 1893) It does not seem that anyone purchased MacLeod's store. In 1895

Dennis Clarke opened a store across the road from MacLeod's, then defunct. The building for this was moved onto the location and a,house was added in 1905. The store is listed in the 1904 Direc— tory. In 1895, it was also the site of the dressmaking operations of a Mrs. Latrobe. That Mr. Clarke had the post office at this store is seen in the following mention in The Weekly Examiner (January 26, 1900). "It is rumoured that after the recent local elections, Mr. D. E. Clarke is about to lose the post office.

The People of Orwell would be very sorry for any such change."

The store closed a few years later. Another store operated by

D. D. MacLeod in Orwell (Cove) is shown in the 1904 and 1914 Directories and continued to operate until the 1950's. The 1904 Directory also lists A. N. Jenkins as a trader (he lived on Mac- Phails road), and Cephas Gay as a butcher Orwell. And the 1914 Directory shows Samuel Jardine a blacksmith, and J} C. Gay a harness maker. Other occupations around the turn of the century_ (listed in the Orwell Guide) are Sam Cephas Gay, butcher and also harness maker (in what is now Ernest Taylor's house). carpenters

Neil Gillis and John Sam Martin, cooper John Pendergass, tailor

J. Gillis ( whose Shop was below Mrs. Lindsay"s gate), andfshoe-