By the 1950s, it was converted into a freezer locker plant, used primarily for the storage and sale of meat.

Later, with the encouragement and patronage of farmers in the community, they installed a locker plant in the rear of the building.

And producers like Brian Beckman of Grinnell Locker Plant in Grinnell, Kan., said they wondered how accurate the technology could be, noting some slaughterhouses process hundreds of animals at once.

They include Shevlin cooperative creamery, the locker plant, a saw mill, The co-op oil station, a box factory, several general, hardware and drug stores, three saloons a couple of restaurants, a newspaper, a millinery, barbershop, and doctors' offices.

Fred and Carol bought a farm in the Boyne Creek district in 1948, where they farmed for the next 19 years; he continued to dig wells, as well as working part time for the Massey Harris dealer and part time for the Treherne Locker Plant.

At one time it had two banks, two grocery stores, blacksmith shop, livery stable, creamery, hotel, at least two barber shops; Lutheran, Catholic, Methodist and Baptist churches; five gas stations, grain elevator, two cafes, a locker plant, a pharmacy, a lumber yard, two beer halls and several other businesses.