THE LITTLE GYPSY TEA ROOM

In 1935, Lloyd Matthews operated The Little Gypsy Tea Room in the Herbie Vatcher building on Main Street. His tea room had four booths and served tea, sandwiches and pop.

SAUNDERS STORE

In 1949, Dan Saunders bought a building from James Sutherland and opened a general store. James had previously operated it as a meat market.

In 1955, Dan entered into a partnership with Lloyd Matthews to sell Quaker Feeds to the local farmers. The store was used as an outlet to sell the merchandise. In 1957, Lloyd withdrew from the business but Dan continued until the following year.

Dan and his family ran the operation for twenty years then sold the business to DeBlois Brothers of Charlottetown, and they, in turn, rented it to Carl Bryanton under the Clover Farm name. In 1989, Carl bought the business and continues to run it (1992).

SMALLMAN'S BAKERY

In 1956 Milton Smallman, Jr. built a bakery in the front portion of his house; living quarters were in the back.

Helen, Junior's stepmother, helped organize the business during the first years of operation. She and Hilda (lunior's wife) did the bak- mg. The bakery was equipped with a bread mixer and two large propane stoves. Each oven held sixty loaves of bread. Because of this extensive bread making operation, Milton (Junior) established a bread route in West Prince.

A small grocery was added in 1958. The business'closed before the end of that year.

THOMSON’S FEED MILL

This feed mill is one of the oldest buildings in O'Leary. It was relocated on its present site by Sanford Phillips, Sr., who owned and operated it until 1945. Since that time the following have carried on the business: Herbie Vatcher (1955-1956), Kenneth Matthews (1956- 1958), Randall Boates (1958-1974), and the present owner - Blair Thomson (1974-).

Most of the work over the years has been custom work. Farmers have brought in their feed grain to be crushed and mixed with con-

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