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names “Jim,” “Deno” and “Doug,” and pre- sented them to the boys. For some years Balsam Hill in South Ren- frew has held an auction sale in November to raise funds for their Christmas gifts of fruit and candy to the old people of the commun- ity, and hampers of apples to their two schools as a treat to follow the Christmas concert. Last year the Institute needed extra money as they had promised to give $50. to the South Renfrew Institutes’ project of buying an organ for the chapel of the new Bonnechere Manor, (Home for the Aged}. The members con- tributed a great variety of articles to the sale: Vegetables, eggs, 3 chicken, maple syrup. honey, marmalade, doughnuts, a lunch cloth. hand made corsages. bread, rolls. pies, cookies. candy, aprons, tea towels. soap. The sale netted them just over $50.00. A press report of Villa Nova says: “The Auction Sale that was to have been held was cancelled and, instead, each member is to donate one dollar.” (We wonder if some In- stitutes find it less expensive to make a direct contribution than to provide articles for a sale. and how the returns from the two methods compare. Ed.) A press report says that “the highlight of Washago’s March meeting was the purchase of an electric stove for Washago Memorial Hall and paid for from the hall equipment fund"; and that “a vote of confidence was then accorded the ofiicers in the spending of additional money to purchase dishes and Si]- verware for the hall.” A representative of Greensville appointed to take Valentine treats to the County Home reported that she had visited with every resident in the Home and had found that a friendly visit meant as much'to these people as a material gift. These had on important place on Camber Inslilule's International Day programme. They are, lefl to right: Mrs. Don Sovu representing Czechoslovakia; Miss Nie- monn, native of Germany; Brian and Garry Thompson, sons of Ireland; Mrs. McKaen of Comber who read a letter from the lnslilule's "adopted" boy in India; and Mrs. Norman Nakclshimu, Japanese Canadian. in memory of the late Mrs. Jessie Cooper, lo.- on active member of East Fort William Inslilule lime F.W.|.Ol Board member and ronvener or Q; and Education, her lnsliluPe presenled the For: Public Library wilh a number of books. The r, Mrs. H. Le Brun is shown making lhe Preseflloll... Chairman of the Library Board, Mr, Gerda“ Others in the picture are R. M. Donovan, lihrc: Institute members who look port in ceremony. the pn; Laura Rose branch presented a machine to their County Home. The Institutes of Middlesex count. with the Federation of Agriculture .'-: Junior Farmers tried to visit ever“ in the county to ask the family to .. the TB X»ray survey. 2480 “visitors” a on the canvass. At Sudbury District’s executive l $100 was presented to the Sudbury a trict Association for Retarded Childr. $50 to the Cerebral Palsy Parents“ l North Bruce District sponsored a festival, and to help the branches paring their plays the District execul ranged for a one-day course on play 1 tion, directed by Mr. Allan Hood C.B.C. Miscellaneous The President of Aughrim Institute “I would like to thank whoever was ‘ sible for arranging Aughrim‘s linl Bylchau Women’s Institute in North ll has been a heart-warming experience at first just to send them things the rationing denied them, and now to ilq warm relationship that has grown betwi two Institutes. In the summer of 1956 their daughters, a teacher of physical tion and folk dancing in secondary . came to Canada to spend her vacatio her sister in Sudbury and she came way down here to Lambton county to three days with us, At Aughrim's anniversary We had a very nice dis; small gifts sent us from time to tini- Bylchau, including a brass bell to be i our meetings, cast from church bells ’ in the war.” ' fears "o one nship 'ulliom idem. '0 live wlzell. ‘ and "'llan :les: on ‘Jltll :, ll 11:: Hell 1m- i the E of may ols. filth lhc mend [ell] c of Tom -d al when .(Institutes wishing to form friendshii links w1th Institutes in other countries should wrlle to the Loan Library, Home Economit' . Serâ€" vice, Department of Agriculture, Toronto.) HOME AND COUNYRV