Mr. Delaney conducted an extensive business. Children longed to visit the Delaney store for penny candy. Some of the boys on their way home at noon delighted in knocking the salt fish, which Michael had carefully arranged around the top of the barrel, back into the brine, only to find them carefully displayed for another dunking on their return to school after dinner. The Delaney store was operated by Frank Mayhew for a short time in the early 1920s. The property was purchased by Welling¬ ton Thomas after Mr. Mayhew 's sudden death, and Wellie used the store as a wood working shop where he made and repaired sleighs and wagons. Heath M. Chisholm , who had been employed by the Bank of Nova Scotia, returned home in 1919, and opened Chisholm's General Store in a building beside Chisholm's Furniture Factory . Heath sold his store in 1930 to Stanley Dawson and the name was changed to Dawson's General Store . Stanley sold to Crilly Lea who sold to Sheldon Dixon in 1940. Sheldon expanded the business to include groceries, meats, hardware, housewares, Irving gas and oil products, men's clothing, foot wear, postal services, a dry cleaning drop off, and an egg grading station. The store went through several changes in appearance when it was operated by Sheldon. The building that had housed Chisholm's Furni¬ ture Factory was attached to the store in 1951. Self-service was estab¬ lished in the fall of 1953 and Sheldon joined Clover Farm Stores on July 31, 1958.6 Clerks who worked with Sheldon, several for more than twenty years, were: Marion Waddell MacDonald, Mary Dawson Webster , Cicely Chisholm's General Store : Heath Chisholm and his sister, Jessie, standing on the step to Heath's store. Shirley Thomson collection. 59