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4 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, July 26, 1961 AUDLEY until his retirement. The mu- seum is open from 2 to 5 p.m. on weekdays and from 2 to 6 p.m. each weekend. --Oshawa Times Photo stone that is located at the entrance to the museum. Mr. | Gillman was born in the Vil- | lage of Pickering and was a well known township farmer | THE CURATOR OF the Pickering Township Historic Museum, John Gillman, aged 79, is pictured with a mas- sive wagon wheel setting Pickering Museum Displays Wide Variety Of Antiques PICKERING TWP. (Staff) --|display is a complete collection by a resident of Scarborough Although the Pickering Town- of the tools of the pioneer farm-|and is completely furnished in ship Historic Museum has been er's trade. The majority of the pioneer style. open to the public for less than hand tools were made of wood of Py the wide variety of|and appear to be in excellent DREAMS REALIZED relics and antiques are continu-| condition. With the opening of the mu- ing to attract many visitors] Ope section of this display is fem the Sreams o the Picker. from far and wide. devoted to showing how the lS, sOWAsWp historic Socle.y and the many residents of the By MRS. FRED PUCKRIN AUDLEY -- The Rev. H. T. Cuthbert of the Moravian church took the church service on Sunday morning. He will alse be in charge of the service this Sunday. On August 6 and 13, both Sunday School and church services will be withdrawn. Vacation Bible school will be held next week, July 31 to Au- gust 4, in the church basement for children from 3 to 10. Classes will be held from 9 to 11.30 each morning. The club picnic, held at Springhill Park last Wednesday was well attended. The weather was ideal for races, ball game and the ever-popular pool. Sympathy is extended to the Wonnacott family in the passing of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Wonna- cott's only daughter, Ruby of Toronto. Sympathy is extended to the Hedge families in the passing on Wednesday, of last week, of Mre. Harold Hare of Port Credit. Mrs. Hare was a sister of Mr. Robt. Hedge, of Myrtle. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Hornady and family, of Calgary, Alberta, called on their cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Guthrie, recently, on their way to Ottawa. Mr. and Mrs. Hollis Ruth- erford, Hawkesbury, visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Aleck Richards, on Wednesday. Mrs. S. Wonnacott returned home on Sunday from Oshawa Hoenital, being hospitalized a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Percy Middleton, Buffalo, U.S.A, visited over the weekend at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Puckrin. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Guthrie, Anne, Mrs. W. H. Guthrie and Mrs. E. Batty spent the week- end at Dwight visiting with the A. Thompson family and Eileen | Guthrie. | OLD SWEDEN Jonkoping, centre for textiles and match factories in central Sweden, was chartered in 1284. MOVIE IS BERUTIF FEAT > COLUMBIA PICTURES presents 4&4THE PLAY WAS WONDERFUL. THE UL. (TIS IMPROVED IN THE TRANSFORMATION...A RARE IN MOVIE-MAKING?? MAGAZINE SHOW 9:30 SIDNEY POITIER lower ih pric ALL PRICES EFFECTIVE JULY 26, 27, 28, 29 IGA ORANGE DRINK SAVE 10¢c 64-0z. JUICE 2 IGA JAM SAVE 9¢ 48-0x. tins 49 IGA TOMATO 49 Located in Brougham, a tenth early barns were constructed. of a mile west of the Brock road|A Jocal farmer constructed an on Highway 7, the museum was intricate section of a barn, show- officially opened by Health Min- ine the beam and rafter joins ister Dr. M. B. Dymond July 3/and the tools used in building -- Pickering Township's 150th|early barns. birthday. Just as interesting as any of the displays in the building is its curator, John Gillman, aged smith's equipment was donated to the museum by a Clairmont 79, a lifelong resident of the resident. In those days the black- | township's early pioneers. The nycleus personally conducted tours of for the entire area. the displays by 'the curators| In addition to the early ox| help to project the visitors back yokes, the blacksmith was often into the last century when the|Called upon to make a human township's forefathers pioneered | Yoke for transporting buckets of the Fiori roy y |water and milk. Both are to be seen at the museum. EARLY COOKING UTENSILS | The early household displays FLINT LOCK CARBINE of furniture, clothing and cook- The early pioneer hunted and ing utensils make it evident that protected himself with a muzzle- the pioneers didn't exactly have loading flint lock carbine and an easy time a century and a the museum has three such half ago. However, the condi-Weapons on display. Each tion of the hand washing ma- weight about 25 Ibs. and two of chines, cooking pots, butter the guns are still in operating churns and utensils is still good, | condition. and at least the early housewife; The oldest items in the mu- didn't have any labor saving seum are a wide variety of appliances to constantly main-|Indian relics. Esctimated to be tain township, who donated the relics and antiques, were finally real- ized. Their combined efforts ' araisin in the sun (CLAUDIA McNETL-RuBY DER were instrumental in enshrining the township's pioneer memo- ries of the past three centuries A complete set of black- for the benefit of the present and future generations. The museum is open from 2 to 5 p.m. on week days and from| to 6 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. It is well worth a visit. | Provinces Cut Foreign Debt OTTAWA (CP)--A slight de-| cline in foreign borrowings by| the provincial governments was evident in the 1960-61 fiscal year, the bureau of statistics said to- day. The proportion of the 10 prov- inces' $3,705,000,000 in gross funded debt payable only in Canada rose during the year to 73 per cent at last March 31 from 70 per cent on the same date in 1960. Over-all provincial debt was up 8.5 per cent or $291,000,000 4 3,000 years old, the majority of A heating stove, imported|the arrowheads, tomahawks and from Dundee, Scotland, 100{Spearheads were excavated on years ago, still looks brand new |the banks of Duffin's Creek. although it warned a four-room| In addition to the museum log cabin in the winter months|building, which in itself has for over 60 years. The five but- enough to attract visitors for an ter churns and one cheese press entire day, is an original pioneer on display are still capable of log cabin, located in the museum | from the end of the preceding (fiscal year. { New bond issues totalling |$359,000,000 were floated by {eight of the provinces, Alberta | and British Columbia excluded. One $9,000,000 Saskatchewan is- | sue went to Switzerland. Bonded debt retired during the year was | $168,000,000. functioning as they did in early | grounds. The cabin was donated times. | COLLECTOR'S ITEMS ¢ The furniture in the museum, |¢ each piece a collector's item, depicts the skill of the pioneer craftsmen. The museum shows great pride in a four poster bed !¢ with hand carved oaken posts. | The skill of the pioneer women is plain for all to see when visi-| tors feel the strong texture of| the linen and wool bedspreads, |¢ that "were han@ loomed; knitted) and crocheted. ¢ A footwear display in this sec-| tion of the museum shows that| it was customary for thé pio- neers to have their boots cap-| ped with copper for long usage Of interest to every woman| that sets her foot inside the building are the price lists in early mail order catalogues on display. Their yellowing pages show that in the early days a pair of silk stockings cost ten cents, a mink coat would sell for as little as $75 and the best suit that a man could purchase sold for $18. It is interesting to note that the style of women's shoes and men's suits in the |$ catalogues are practically ident- | ical to those of today. Id Almost every household item, | It's His AUDIE STARTS TODAY! BLAZING ACROSS OUR SCREEN Big, Exciting True Life Story! MURPHY "To Hell and Back" THRILLS and EXCITEMENT ! The LAWLESS BREED ROCK HUDSON JULIA ADAMS from a soap stone foot warmer |§ to a human blood-letting knife, | are in the museum. 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