3|! * II! REST WHERE YOU ARE By Charles Poole Cleaves When spurred by tasks unceasing or undone You would seek rest afar And cannot, though the rest be fairly won, Rest where you are. Not in event, restriction. or release. In journeys near or far. But in the heart lies restlessness or peace, Rest where you are. * * of all three districts in a county conference, held in Petrolia. Some interesting features of Nanticoke's fif- tieth anniversary celebration were that the historian for the day recalled, as two of the earliest ventures of the Institute, the installa- tion of street lights and the purchase of a vacuum cleaner which was rented to members at twenty-fiva cents a day. The C.G.I.T. girls of the church where the celebration was held. decorated the room in the Institute colors. Orangeville and Marsville, both in Dufferin county, celebrated their fiftieth anniversaries last summer. A local editor might have been referring to many Institutes the country over when he wrote: “Both organizations have played an important part in the life of their community through their support of local projects; through their assembling of local history; through their donations to countless worthy causes and their war work; through the welding together in friendship and in come mon effort, of the women of the community." When Poplar on Manitoulin Island celebrat- ed its fiftieth anniversary both president and viceâ€"president of fifty years ago, Mrs. Joseph Baker and Mrs. Mack McGillivary were pres- ent, The first part of the afternoon was spent in visiting and looking over a display of Instiâ€" tute and school pictures of former days. Elmview celebrated its fiftieth anniversary on the farm on which Susannah Moodie, author of “Roughing It in the Bush," once lived. The daughter of the first president, and the only charter member present, gave a resume of Institute events over the past fifty years. Elm- view is the Institute that started the Book Quiz for school children to direct their interest away from the crime comicsâ€"a project that has attracted attention not only in other parts of Canada but also in the United States and Britain. Cheltenham Institute had two hundred members and guests in attendance at their fiftieth anniversary. One feature of the pro- gram was the reading of the names of all the presidents and secretaries from 1905 to 1955, Silver Water had an interesting roll mu al its fiftieth anniversary. Each member or gum displayed an article or a picture whim, “.1; over one hundred years old, At Wellman’s fiftieth anniversary, thr Insti- tute's history given by Miss Emma H." W a charter member. recalled that “in mm 'I'hp president of Springbrook Institute argued Wellman's in the Orange Hal] nearby," Tim was largely the way the movement new fifty years ago.) Mindemoya celebrated its fiftieth in we,- sary with thirty past members as guest on.“ they had a friendly social hour lookinr ‘ Hit pictures and papers. In a talk about til- n51] tute in the earlier days Mrs, A. J, Wu. of members walking several miles to n mg and carrying small children. a marked that they had gone a long wt the five gallon crock to the deep fro the pioneers of the first Institutes hon handed down a challenge. told wel- is To add a little fun to Lindsay’s bozo arranged anniversary program and it members in oldâ€"fashioned dresses and i played old tunes on the piano and organ. At St. Helen's golden anniversary stitute received two memorial gifts 7 tric clock for the hall, from the A family in memory of Mrs. Aitchison \president at the time of her death, an dollars from Miss Elizabeth Antit'l Montreal in memory of her motln served as president for thirteen years Beamsville and Streetsville have all brated their fiftieth anniversaries tin * HOUSE-WEARY By Ian Drag I‘m going out! I'm tired of tables. Chail I'm tired of walls that hedge me all at: I'm tired of rooms and ceilings. carpets, And soil'm going out! Somehow or othEr what I need today Are skies, and birds that carol. winds that shout! I want Dame Nature's friendship. Thus I say, "Good-byeâ€"I'm going out!" It‘s just house-tiredness. Trivial humdrum Monotony! But when I've climbed the '1' My heart. refreshed. will laugh and sin}: Dear home I'll love it still! * *