1894 Ice Business

In the middle of the winter, blocks of ice would be cut and stored for the upcoming warmer season, and pretty much every year the editor of the local newspaper would make mention of this work being done. In 1894, I found it interesting that this article included the location for the ice storage. Here is the article: - The prospects for a good supply of ice in this village next season are very good. Fred Weller and Ernest Krause have rented the old shook shop and will put up a large supply and will run an ice wagon next summer. S.S. Abbott has cleaned out his fish pond and will put up a large supply of ice cut from the pond which he will dispense to the public next summer. - The "old shook shop" was probably the one owned and operated by the Starkey family. By now, F.C. Starkey & Co. dealt in lumber and a few years earlier some of the other Starkeys and the Palmertons were in business in the Flint/Fenton/Saginaw area and so that probably means the shop had been sitting empty and unused until Messrs. Weller and Krause made use of the building.