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Stanley and Berneice McIlwain
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's, "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 40th wedding anniversary
committee. reception was extended.
During the business Best wishes were
period, new presidents,
Stanley and Bernice
McIlwain, were installed
owing to the death of Bruce
Morrice. Sybil 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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Smith as they leave for the
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 Friday night 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-
ed up with two more third
period goals.
Sunday's game looked like
a completely different team
on the ice in Walkerton as
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 Slangs
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.
The Black Hawks came
out flying in the third period
but Jim MacDonald was
equal to the task as he stop-
ped 17 shots while allowing
only one more goal as the
Mustangs were short-
handed.
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
ofmembers 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 Mcllwaln, 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
McIlwain, Ruth Moore, Sybil Chandler, Molly Cox, Doris Patterson, Betty
Doherty, Carot•Simons, Darlene Shobbrook and Lgis Wise. Absent for photo
were Lawrence and Jean Plaetzer, Norman and Florence Wlghtman, John
' and Margaret Hlldebrand, Len and Betty Archambault, Archie and Mildred
Purdon, Ross and Wilma Higgins, Alex • and Jean Nethery, Donald and
Gloria Dow, Deb and Maithel Wilson, Allen and Maxine Johnson, Hal 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 they 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, Including 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-
way 8.
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 hundredyears 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
stablesand sheep dip.
Practically everything.
those early settlers used 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
Gottfried Maedel was born
in Tennstaedt, Germany in
1819; he served his 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 tannerywasserved by.
a year-round free-flowing
spring of water, whose
ample volume gave a
copious supply for all the
tanning operations. Gott-
fried'L eldest son, William,
drivin? 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 skins were
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 35 degrees.
The dehairing 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.
Ft -,sr tanning, the hide was
put first into a.weak solution
or 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 leathei 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 aroilnci
people in cold winter •
weather.
Gottfried Maedel built a
house, near his tannery. for
e
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 hang
'exposed• on hgoks-there are
no cupboards. In this small.
house, the Maedels raised a
family of seven—two girl
and five boys.. '
The house, modest in size
and architectural preten•
sions, was possibly built by
Scottish Andrew Heddle. It
has rusticated outside
corners to give it a sense of
strength and router walls of
poured lime, paced with
cattle and 'horse •hair fr:oiu
the tannery, and set on lath
and wooden frank. with a
•field stone base. After all the
long years of exposure and
buffeting by the elenienr•,
the house fell into disrepair,
but, fortunately. it was
restared two years ago arid
now stands .as a piling
reminder and example of the
early Benmiller days.
The house ':Mill blas this,; ,
original furnituri'. 'There are
two ornate beds downstairs
and a rope bed upstairs.
That the modern
generation has grown tallf r
is evident as all bells had to .
have extra pieces added to •
them to lengthen them.
The 'desk--sornetinu s
called "the most useful piece
of furniture" has green glass
knobs. The upper pn't
fitted with small • drag ea s
and • pigeon -holes and the
writing space is .a hinged
slab covered with green felt,
supported on two runners, it
served the double purpos'! of
a writing table - an4 h
storehouse for the tannery
books, records and di a He:,
There is a wide a.'z•surtrnrnt
-of that 'most varied and
familiar. articles .,f ;dl
dornestic furniture --chairs.
Now there arc two kind, of
chairs—we sit in an arm
chair and "on" other kinds.
One sits "on" the yl;ledel
chairs but there is maple
relief in the supply of
comforting 'cushions ern-
blazened with hand enc
broidery. .
In one corner, there still
proudly stands erect ;a once
popular musical pleasure
giver --"the talking
machine" --a Made in
Canada Symphola, wind-up
cabinet ,gramophone The
long ago musical marvel,
which Thomas Alva 1';drson
developed in 18; 7, stiil
works.
Lying neglected on ;a sTle'f
is a Galvanic battery which
was the once popular ..core -
all" of all diseases at the
turn of the cantor y.' •
It promptly dispelled.Litll.
hypchondria'•'. that plagued ---
the
the human race. The ac-
companying handbook, with
full directions for home
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 could he
"cured", shown in the
Electro -Therapeutic harr
tibook—apoplexy, asthma,
bed sores, change 1,f life,
carbuncles, diab>etos, ear
ache, rheumatic fever,
goitre, hiccough, pregnane,
miscarriage. ringworm.
worms and weak ankle