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time it might avoid confusion with other celeâ€" br-tlons." i’"obourg annually awards prizes to the -‘| ghest pupil” in Grade VI in all the public m 7 separate schools of the town. The Secâ€" n aries’ Reports of meetings show a great n my Institutes giving local school prizes, 5. .fiarships, graduation dinners, etc, lrs. Christine Krampp sends this interest- story of how the town of Walkerton got hospital: “Years ago a man died and left ney to be used to build a Bruce county pile]. The money was to be used within ; years. The men were slow about getting 1gs going, so in 1901 the women of Walker- and Bruce townships formed a Women‘s titute. Then two women from the Institute two from the I.O.D.E. went to the county incil and got a grant of $1500 and from ' town council they got a grant of $2000. 1h these grants and the bequest the hosâ€" Ta] was built at a cost of $16,500 and was erred debt free. Just this year a new wing :5 opened at a cost of approximately $1.163.- iD. We have now quite a good hospital with M beds and room for expansion." Dewars reports interesting meetings when to Public Health Nurse spoke to them about at work and when the County Home Econo- xist spoke on the ‘Food of Other Countries‘." At South Waterloo District Annual. Mrs. loyd Hagey was to give a tribute to Pennies or Friendship as she presented a cheque goâ€" ng towards that fund. This was her tribute: “You give them your pennies To give them a start. In giving your pennies You’re giving your heart. So come on with your pennies It's not hard for you, For you have so many And they have so few. Just open your hearts, Your purse and your hand And we’ll spread our wee pennies Across the whole land. You’ll give them a lift That will make them all glad If you don’t give your pennies You will wish that you had. But you will give your pennies Because you’re so grand 50 God bless your hearts, your purse and your hand And our Institutes will expand and exPaDd-n Whitby had a roll call answered by each member presenting a coloring book and eraE’Otls for a child in the local school for the retarded. Some members of this Institute are taking a personal interest in retarded chil- FALL 1966 Members of Hogersville Institute modelling costumes from different periods of the post hundred years. dren as individuals in the Orillia school and others. Mrs. John Sutherland of Kemhle Institute, writing to tell us of the death ol’ a charter member. Mrs. James West, in her onc- hundrcd-andvthird year. included the interestâ€" ing note that a few days before her death. Mrs. West had recited the verse: "Age is a quality of mind, If we have left our dreams behind. 11' hope is lost. then we are old. But it from We we take the best. And if in life we keep our zest. No matter how the years go by. No matter how the birthdays l'ly. We are not old." Cornwall Centre's centennial projects arc: to give an award of $llltl to a 4-H Homc- making Cluh member, to refinish the town- ship hall’s hard maple floor which is over 100 years old. The P.R.O. Mrs. Robert Esdalc adds that it has been the custom when a girl completes the 12 projects required for prov- incial honors. for the Institute to give her a silver bread tray. Fourteen girls have now received these gifts. Recently the institute presented cups and saucers to two loanl lead- ers who had each led 10 or more clubs, These leaders were Mrs. Harold Robertson and Mrs, Gordon Manson. River Valley Institute this summer sponsored a swimming class for children. Lessons were 23