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140"-Irlig 111.1RGN EXPOSITOR, SEAFORi'H, ONT., SEPT. 2, 1971 Newt of.
McKILLOP
Correspondent
Mrs. Ed. Regele
Miss Jill Wheatley of Mc-
Killop spent a few days with Mrs.
Charles McLean of Goderich.
Mrs. Joseph Thornton re-
turned to her home after visiting
her sisters and brothers in
Waterloo the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. Ron Foran,
Karen and Robert of Blyth visited
with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Regele on
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. • Harold
McCallum and Mr. and Mrs.
Ed Regele attended the Bean
Festival at Zurich on Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Torn Burns of
Dublin visited with Mrs. Jpseph
Thornton Monday evening.
We welcome Mr. and Mrs.
Gary McNichol to the 12th Con-
cession of McKUlop.
INVEST
In a
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DONALD G.
EATON
START ON NEW BRUCE FIELD CHURCH
The charred remains of the furnace from the old Brucefield United Church await a salvage
truck as workmen start to pour the fittings for a new 250 seat church. The old church was
destroyed by fire late last fall. The congregation hopes to be in the new building by Christmas.
(Staff Photo)
Pioneer Museum Is Monument
To Persistence of Founder
Drive Extra Carefully around schools and
playgrounds ! Be •on • the lookout for children
when they walk to and from school! Your vaca-
tion from school children is bver now!
Be On the-Alert when you are near a school
bus. Of course, they have to obey all traffic
rules! But give school buses a break anyway
. . they carry a priceless cargo.
Parents! Never Stop Telling Children about
the many traffic dangers! Only then can we
hope to help reduce traffic fatalities! One out
of seven fatalities involves a school child! One
out of ten fatal accidents is caused by a teenage
.driVer !
Drivers! Don't Hurry When You Drive! We
may as well face it. We cannot, reduce traffic
casualties unless we sloW down! • The lives of ,
others are in the hands holding your steering
wheel. The minute you may save isn't worth
the life of a school child !
antiques since the 193U's, he
finally needed a place to put
them, and on July 4, i9ai, the
Museum opened. Mr. Neill had
collected about a thousand
articles to start the museum, and
today there are 11,000 - an
average of over 500 acquisitions
every year.
Mr. Neill's museum was the
love of his life. He put his
energies and resources into It
whole heartedly until 1964, when
he gave up curatorship at the
age of 79.
His collecting trips took Mr.
Neill all across the continent,
and the old Essex car he had
fixed up for the purpose is as
efficient as a modern-day
camper. It is now one of the
exhibits in the museum.
He else built a trailer to carry
exhibits around to fairs and plow-
ing matches - any place where
great crowds of people were
gathered.
The Huron County Ccluncil
was responsible for obtainietthe
100-year-old public sithool
building which houses/ the
museum. ,/
, At first, Mr. Neill lived in the
small room at the front of the
building which now holds the
exhibit on salt. His workbench
was along the wall where the
clocks and exhibit oe,,time are.
However, wishing for a little
more privacy an 9li space, he
moved in the fall eif 1952 to the
little. log cabin on'the museum
property. The cabin had been
moved there flOrn near Bluevale.
It .had been built in 1875, and
bought 'for the museum for $100.
Mr. Neill worked every day
on the models which can be seen
throu.hreit the museum._ He also .
built the floral clock which is a
great attraction to the museum
grounds. He had begun_ working
on' 'the clock in his hometown of
Gorrie, before the museum was
even an idea.
Another point of interest on
the museum grounds are the
keannoris, Which look a little bit
f•ike huge thimbles, or enormous
Olives 'With the ends sliced off.
Nobody seems to know what these
mortars were used for, although
they lined the courthouse square
until 1954, when the Courthouse
burned down.
They were made in 1811 by a
cannon works in, Scotland, which
now makes such things as.orna-
mental railings. It is guessed
that they were used on ships,
because they are heavier than the
same type of land cannons.
In 1962 Mrs. Friedel Nanz
came to the museum to help fix
It up, and give it the woman's
touch ot neatness, and prder.
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TRUCKS
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1-1966 Dodge 1 ton, Duals, V8, 9 ft,Van
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NUMBER OF CHEV. AND ECONOLINE
VANS, BOTH STANDARD AND AUTO-
MATIC TRANSMISSIONS.
Mrs. Nanz, , who is now the
museum's Assistant Curator, is a
great • source 'of information, in
addition to being a warm and
pleasant person.
Junes Chisholm was the as-
sistant to Mr. Neill for about two
years_, until in 1964 Mr. Neill
gave up his curatokifirP:Tfroligh----
the Founty Council Mr. Chisholm
became curator. Although Mr.
Neill's influence ,and character
were still actively evident in the
museum, he was getting old, and
Mr. Chisholm's curatorship pro-
vided some new blood.
In 1965 the office was built,
and also the addition where the
grocery store and chapel now are.
Mrs. Nanz was appointed in
1966 through the County Council
as Assistant Curator to the
museum.
In 1967, Mr. Chisholm built
another addition, where the wash-
ing machines and wheelchairs are
to be seen now. The number of
exhibits 'grew and grew. Most all
of -them were donated. People
would' go to visit the museum and
then say to the curator, "I have
something' at home which you
don't have. Would you like it?"
say Mts. i(lanz. They aliititYti
said yes, and went to pick up the
article.
Mr. Neill left the museum in
1967 and went to live at nuronview
in Clinton, where he still worked
on models until he passed away in
the spring of 1969.
In 1968 Mr. Chisholm and
Mrs. Nanz, with the help of
various workmen, transformed
the log cabin into the old-
fashioned display it•is now. Elec-
tricity was taken out, and the
upstairs storage space trans-
-form ed--into- a...pioneer_hedroomL
Mr. Chisholm retired. as
Curator of the Museum, October
of 1968, and in April, Mr. Ray-
mond Scotchmer took with
Mrs.' Nanz still the assistant.
In 1969, ten guides were intro-
duced to the museum. This was
the idea of the County Council,
and they were not sure how it'
would work out, or whether it
would be better to have girls
or boys. But girls it is, of high
school age, and they continue
today to provide expert assis-
tance to the museum's visitors.
In 1970 Mr. Scotchmer
adopted as his first project the
outfitting of a school bus, pro-
vided by the County Council to
take around to fairs and exhibits.
His second project, thiS year, • is to build a storage place forthe.
bus, and also to build a new
structure to serve as a workshop
for the Museum, 'which, is always
fixing and refurbishing displays.
,The present workshop will be
cleared out and opened up as
an extension en the museum, to
house more exhibits.
The grounds are a beehive of
activity now, and the workshop
is beginning to take shape. •
What are some of the recent
.acquisitions to the museum? Mr.
Scotchmer replies that two
printing machines are interes-
ting, one a Babcock roll press
from London, and the other a lino-'
type machine`fierri Seaftieth4
An .old wheel 'chair, a china
doll, a church lamp areyiyll items
fairly new to the mus m. And
one outstanding addition is the
painting of Mr,. Neill icy G. W.
McLaren of Behmiller. , The
lette accompanying the painting
describes Mr. ;0111 as "An
Astonishing 'CiiiriVian Gentle-
man."
John Spittal, an admirer of
the museum from Westniiinister,
LOndon, dknated some lovely
scroll Work ,in praise of the
museum. It is beautiful Work, in
honor of an • ?'astonishing"
museum.
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Museum was not always theqarge
establishment we see today
buzzing with activity. How did
It_ grow_tewhatit la_now2
J. H. Neill was the fothider
of the museum. A collector of
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