The Goderich Signal-Star, 1982-10-20, Page 14PAGE 12—GODERICH SIGNALSTAR, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20,1982
Stanley and Berneice 1VIcIlwain
installed as presidents by Dancers
The Round Dancers met
for their regular evening of
dancing Friday at the
Clinton Public School.
Lois and Edward Wise
guided members through
some easy level dances such
as "Whistling",
"Debutante" "Expert at
Everything", "Little Bitty
Tear", "Groovin", "Tips of
My Fingers," etc.
The intermediate dances
reviewed ''Corredo", "Moon
over Naples" and "Answer
Me".
As usual, refreshments
were served by the social
committee.
During the business
period, new presidents,
Stanley and Bernice
McIlwain, were installed
owing to the death of Bruce
Morrice. Sybil f and Peter
Chandler will be vice-
presidents. Lois and Cecil
Elliott will act as secretary -
treasurer to replace the
Merrills.
A thank you note from
Blanche Morrice was read.
An invitation to attend
Gladys and Allister Green's.
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40th wedding anniversary pressed to Hazel and Wilfred
reception was extended. Smith as they leave for the
Best wishes were ex- winter in Florida.
Mustangs -break
out of early slump
The Clinton Mustangs
broke out of their early,
season slump last Sunday in
Central Junior 'C' action,
when Jim MacDonald stop-
ped 45 shots against the
league leading : Walkerton
Black Hawks. The Mustangs
upset the Hawks 4 - 2 in a
game which all the playerss
put up their finest effort of
the short season.
On Fridaynight the Stangs
played probably . the worst
game any Clinton team has
since joining the Junior 'C'
ranks years ago as they were
trounced 9 - 1 by the Kincar-
dine Kinucks.
The Mustangs received
solid goaltending from Jeff
Denomme on Friday night or
the score could have been a
lot worse. Brad Hymers
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scored Clinton's only goal
early in the first period and
then the Stangs went to sleep
and started taking some
cheap penalties as Kincar-
dine continued to score goals
and opened up a 7 - 1 lead
after two periods and finish-
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period goals. ,
Sunday's game looked like
a completely different team
on the ice in Walkertonas
the Stangs were forecheck-
ing and backchecking and
passing the puck to the right
team for a change.
Brad Armstrong opened'
the scoring for the Stangs
before Wayne Mills tied the
game for the Hawks and
then . Brent Daw put the
Stangs ahead again to end
the period 2 - 1. The Stangs
were outshot 15 to eight in
the second period but the on-
ly goal scored was from the
stick of Brad Hymers as he
scored the eventual winner
on a high rising shot over the
goaltender's shoulder.
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but Jim MacDonald' was
equal to the task as he stop-
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only one more goal as the
Mustangs were short-
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Jeff Sargent added an in-
surance goal for Clinton mid-
way through the third period
and Walkerton pulled .:the
goaltender late in the game
but couldn't manage to put
the puck behind MacDonald.
The Mustangs are on the
road next weekend as they
travel.to Port Elgin to face
,the Bears on Friday night
and on Sunday they return to
Walkerton to face the Black
Hawks at 2 p.m.
The Mustangs will host a
• hospitality night at the arena
on Saturday, October 23rd
. with action • getting under-
way at 9:00 p.m.
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Meet the Wheels Plus Swingers, an advanced square dancing group made up
of members from both the Clinton Wheel ''n Dealers'and the Huron -Bruce
Swingers. The new group attended a square dance convention in Halifax in
August and now dance once a month at MacKay Centre. Back row, left to
right, are Dick Moore, Stan McIlwain, Cecil Elliott, Peter Chandler, Bill
Cox, ,Glenn Patterson (the caller), Stan Doherty, Edward Wise, George
Simons and Gordon Shobbrook. Front row, left to right, are 'Bernice
Mcllwain, Ruth Moore, Sybil Chandler, Molly Cox, Doris Patterson,'Bett}
Doherty, Carol Simons, DarleneShobbrook and Lois Wise. Absent for photo
were Lawrence and Jean Plaetzer, Norman and Florence Wightman, John
and Margaret Hildebrand, Len and Betty Archambault, Archie 'and Mildred
Pardon, Ross and Wilma Higgins, Alex and Jean Nethery, Donald and
Gloria Dow, Deb and Maithel Wilson, Allen and Maxine Johnson, Ital and
Anne Gosnell and Lois Elliott. (Photo by Bob Henry).
Benmiller was a bustling, thriving:
classic example of a pioneer village
The following article was
written by Jack McLaren of
Benmiller, a painter who
studied with the ' Group of
Seven and a one-time
member of the famous
Dumbbells, a 'World War I
troop entertainment group.
It appeared 18 years ago in
the London Free Press and
received quite a response
from a number of people in
London, inc ding Peter Ivey
who had written some books
on the early Canadian
pioneers.
Benmiller is a small, quiet
hamlet in Colborne Town-
ship, . Huron County, four
miles east of Goderich•and
two miles northwest of High-
way8.
On Sharpe's Creek at the
place where it flows into the.
Maitland River, it was
known as "The Hollow".
This tightly, knit, self-
contained centre was left.
behind in a jostling new
world of global activities.
A ° hundred years ago,
Benmiller was a bustling;
thriving, classic example of
a pioneer village with its
water -powered woollen,
grist and saw mills.Sharpe's
Creek was a prime social
influence since it gave power
to those mills. There was a
tannery, cheese factory,
blacksmith shop, shoe and
harness maker, wagon
maker and repair shop, a
plant . and seed nursery,
cooperage, cradle scythe
shop, lime kiln, carpenter,
tailor, dress -maker, general
store, hotel, school, church,
post office, tavern, , livery
stables'and sheep dip.
Practically everything
those earlysettlersused was
made in the community.
They were an odd assort-
ment of English, Irish,
Scottish, German and Dutch.
There was also an en-
campment of Ojibway
Indians. Bear and deer
roamed the area; there was
'a great assortment of bird
life and excellent fishing on
Sharpe's ' Creek and the
- Maitland River.
Wild fruits—raspberries,
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elderberries, cherries and
plums were plentiful. The
forest pharmacopoeia in-
cluded peppermint for
cholic, boneset as a tonic and
nettle roots to alleviate
dropsy.
Gottfried Maedel was born
in Tennstaedt, Germany in
1819; he servedhis ap-
prenticeship at the tannery
trade in his native district of
Thuringia and came to
Canada when he was 33 in
1852. He established and
operated a successful tan-
nery business on the banks of
the Maitland River at
Benmiller._
The tannery was served by,.
a " year-round free-flowing
spring of water, whose
ample volume gave a
copious supply for all the
tanning operations. Gott-'•
fried's eldest son, William,
driving a horse and wagon,
collected " hides from the
butchers and farmers within
a " 25 -mile radius.. The hides
came mostly from cattle and •
horses.
Hides and skinswere
salted in a limestone cave on
the river bank and hung into
a vat of flowing spring
water, to wash and soften by
soaking. The soaked hides
were then laid into another
vat, made of cedar wood,
which contained slaked lime
and wood ashes. Every day
the process was punctuated
by removing the hides while
more lime was added, and
then they were returned for
further soaking. This was
repeated daily for a couple of
weeks to loosen the hair,
which could then be scraped
off the hides with a dull
knife.
The latter operation was
carried out on a length ,of
tree trunk which was
cleaned, smoothed and
propped up on end, at an
angle of 34 degrees.
The de airing completed,
the hide was reversed and
the flesh side cleaned with a
sharp knife. The cleaned
hide went into another vat of
fresh lime -water for a few
days, then was rinsed again
with spring water.
For tanning, the hide was
put first into a weak solution
of old-" fermented bark
liquors; then into a stronger
solution and finally into a vat
of strong bark liquor : and
ground -up bark. The bark
came from oak, hemlock,
spruce, pine and birch. Bark
was , stripped from felled
trees, air dried, chopped and
ground. The tanned leather.
was cleaned by washing and
scrubbing with brushes and
treated with neat's foot oil,
soap and hot tallow and hung
to dry in a dark place.
Sheep's wool was washed, -
dried and sacked for the
local Gledhill Woollen Mill.
Processed on. a special
sewing machine for leather,
were calf, dog and racoon
skins which Gottfried's wife,
Christina, made into
gauntlet -type fur mitts for
winter. At harvest time, she
made plain leather mitts for
the 24 men who operated and
serviced the threshing
machine Horse hides were
.
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lined with green or red felt
and the edging pinked to
make a colorful decoration
to hang over the back of
cutter or to tuck around
people in cold winter
weather.
Gottfried Maedel built a
house, near his tannery for
his German bride, Christina
Frankel. It still stands --a
small house with a living
room and two bedrooms off
it. Up on • a steep, winding,
narrow stair.is a good-sized
attic bedroom. and ..two'
smaller bedrooms off it, with
rough hewn floor planks 17
inches wide. All clothes hying
exposed on-hooksther( are
no cupboards., In this small
house, the Maedels raised a
family of seven -two girls
and five boys.
The house, modest in sire
and architectural preten-
sions, was possibly built by
Scottish Andrew Heddle. It
has rusticated outsi,le
corners to give it a sense of
strength and Touter Walls of
poured lime,, paced witli
cattle .and horse -hair from
the' tannery, and set on, lath
and wooden frame. with a
field stone.base. After all the
long' years of exposure and
buffeting by the element.;,
the house ,fell into disrepair,
but, fortunately it-
restored
t restored two years ago and
now,stands as a prime
remider and example of the
early Benmiller days..
The house still has the
original furniture. There are
two ornate beds downstairs
and a rope bed upstairs.
That the modern
generation has grown taller
is evident as all beds had to
have extra pieces adriel to
them tolengthen thein.
The desk--sunietl1105
called.,"the most useful piece
of furniture" has green las
knobs. The upper' p,Irt
fitted with small drawees
and pigeon -holes and the
writing space is a hinged
slab covered with green felt,
supported on two runners; it
.served the double porl;wrt.::-�'
a writing table and 4
storehouse for Clic tannery
books, records and diarios
There is'a wide assortrnwrit
of, that most Varied and
familiar articles ' I!' all
'domestic furniturt,--elialis.
Now there are t'wu kinds of
chairs—we sit • irr" `;in arra
chair and "on" other kinds.
One sits "on" the Maedel
chairs but there is ample
relief in the supple ..f
comforting cushion!. I'm-
blazened' with hand ern-
broidery.
In one corner, there still
proudly stands erect ;i ()nee
popular musical pleasure
giver --"the talking
machine"-ra Made in
Canada Symphola, wind-up
cabinet gramophone The
long ago musical marvel,
.which Thomas Alva Edison
developed in 1871, suit
works.
Lying neglected on a she.;
is a Galvanic battery which
was the once popular "cure-
all" of, all diseases at the
turn of the century
Itrprolnptly.-dispeIlcti ate
hypchondria" that plagued
the human' race. The ac-
companying handbook, with
full•"'diiretiiotts • for `house
treatment, Claimed, if
properly used, it was a safe
remedy that could be placed
in the -hands of "any. person
of ordinary intelligence"
Here are just a few of the 142
diseases listed, that eorilti be
"cured", shown in the
Electro -Therapeutic han-
dbook—apoplexy, asthma,
bed sores, change of life,
carbuncles, diabetes, ear
ache, rheumatic fever,
goitre; hiccough, pregnancy,
miscarriage, ringworm,
worms and weak ankteo