Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Winter 1967, page 25

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J. embers of Huysville Institute at their Pre-ceniennial ‘ect. Mrs. Schneller is operating the "grind argon" e of the antique: at the ten. . itittermere Farm Studio and spent about an our viewing the rugs. patterns and equipâ€" ent and talking with the studio owners and perators. Mr, and Mrs. Rowan,“ Mrs Devo- ii - adds: “This is the third trip for the Nipisâ€" ng Institutes and a fourth is being planned for . 67. We feel that these trips are very edu- ;. ational and that they help to make good pub- :c relations." ‘__ The President of South t'tiac'anizo' Institute. ‘ rs. Mabel Sterritt, writes that when the In- tttute was organized in 1900 the June meet- ‘- was held in the home of the President. t rs. Barron and the June meeting lifts been eId in that home ever since. This means that ;t 8 daughter in the home. Miss Annie Barron as attended every June meeting of Macaulay 'nstitute in her own home for sixty-six years. 6 only reason that this remarkable record f attendance cannot continue is that Miss arron’s brother who owned the lam] has now old it and the family has moved to town. ' For years the Women's Institute Hall at i _!i(‘.\" Mills has served as a meeting place '_- all sorts of community usSthllCSthrfil- '5‘ as concerts‘ chicken barbecues. oyster sup- ers, bridal showers and family parties ttx well Institute meetings. “Then. in I962.“ the resident, Mrs. Vermont Pow writes. “prog- ss necessitated the widening oi Number hree Highway. The new Highway took our 11. but with the payment we received we built fine new Institute hall; During the demoli- the other entrance we placed a new bronze plaque. bearing data regarding the Women's Institute Hall's building and its completion date." The President of Cannifton â€" Corbyville writes: "I would like to report how our branch created more interest in Pennies for Friendship this year. We have no meetings in July and August. so at our June meeting little bags made from scraps of cotton print were handed out to the members for their "pennies" to be given at the September meeting. Almost as much was turned in at this meeting as had been given during the whole of the previous year. At each meeting I lay a box on the table and each member empties her little bag into this. In the past eight months we have col- lected almost fourteen dollars." Mrs. Donald Yorke, Public Relations OI'I'i- cer t'or Central Ontario Women's Institutes Comention Area reports: "A great number of branches in the Central Ontario Area have given assistance to the Harold King Farm at Kcswickia rehabilitation centre for cxvpris- oners. In addition to cash donations of Sltllllllil). bales of clothing. bedding. quilts. bicycles, and many other articles have been received from all over the area We leel that the rehabilitation of L‘s-prisoners is :I program long owning and in supporting the Harold King Farm we are pioneerng for the good of mankind. ln Carleton (‘ottnty this year the local leader project was "Hats For You." Summary Days were held at Carp l'or (‘arlcton West and (irccly lor Carleton East and at these sum- mat‘y days more than three hundred women displayed hats they had made. The instructor at the training schools. Mrs. Mildred Mulligan oi the Home licnnomics Branch oi the Dib- tario Department of Agriculture and liood at- tcndcd both summary days and presented "Quick 'I ticks from a Magic Hall Box." Vernon presents a Women's Institute cup and saucer to each girl in the area who coin- plctcs lWL‘ch 4»H Homemaking club projects, the number required for Provincial Honors. Carleton East Institutes" Tour By A/lrt'. Tltz-ndorc flir'Briilt' ORTY~ONH LADIES. members and F friends of (‘arleton Iittsl District Women's Institutes thoronghly enjoyed a bus trip to the Nipissing District and were entertained by the Institute members there. 25

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