Mahone Bay Old School_A Life and Times_Bob Sayer

to get him to pay his bills, which he eventually would.
George Silver remembers one Halloween when some of the boys in town
waited for him to go to the outhouse. With him ensconced on the throne,
they tipped it over, door side down, until his wife heard his angry yells and
came to free him. The boys ran for their life.
• ‘In the same building was the barber shop owned by Mr. Cushing, a very dignified
man…later Chookie Ham [also] a barber shop.
• Next was the large W.H. Zwicker Store with tenants overhead.’
• [much later these two buildings were joined into one; for years well known
as Bill’s Store, now the Mahone Bay Trading Company, street no. 544]
In 1914, Mahone Bay was proud of its fine new bank. Across the road are the
Westhaver manufacturing businesses. The Westhaver house can be seen
next door to the bank. The Zwicker store and Chisholm’s/Hirtle’s are in the
distance on the left, and Joudrey’s Livery Stables on the right.
G.A Westhaver’s Home
• ‘Next the home of the G.A. Westhavers, owners of the big Oar and Blocks work
across the street.’
• [The Westhaver house is another Mahone Bay landmark building: street
no. 558 now. On the corner of Main and Pleasant, it is presently a bed and
breakfast, and, with its fine ornate gingerbread, one of the most photographed
houses in the Bay].
Town Post Office [now Eli’s coffee shop/gallery, no. 538]
• ‘Next was the Schnare home, the [downstairs] post office. Our box in 1914 was no.
167….David Mader was postmaster. His assistant was Johnny Duncan-he and his
sister Dora lived in and owned what is now The Teazer Shop….
• Next, but way back off the street was to be our first Town Hall’ [After the town
was incorporated in 1919]. And a bandstand was to be added. The site is now
occupied by the Federal Building-the Post Office].
Chisholm’s [Hirtle’s] Dry Good’s Store [now Ernst’s Dentist, street no. 530]
(Below) is a rare copy of a long lost photo of the young Reg Hyson [on left]
and Warren Hirtle, future mayor and school board chair [on right].
Photo: Courtesy Bill Meredith Collection
Wile’s Jewelry, Cushing’s Barber Shop and the Zwicker Store
• ‘Across Pleasant St., on the opposite corner from the Westhavers, was Ashel
Wile’s Jewelry Store. He had one of the first cars. He kept the brass radiator so
highly polished. Above the store lived the Nowe family.’
• [Mr. Wile was to be a major school bond buyer. He had a reputation for being
a penny pincher and being cranky. It was said of him, “When he spent a penny,
he pinched it so hard, the Queen or King said “Ouch.” Alfreda Zwicker used to
deliver milk to him before heading for school, and she recalls the battles trying
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