Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Fall 1965, p. 31

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Mrs. Wm. Poroschy, Mrs, Phil Post and Mrs. Roy Peters of Singer’s Corners Institute. This Institute this year made “Easter Eggs" as a money- making proiect. The P.R.O.. Mrs. Mike Brown, explains that "the eggs were cream filled and dipped in chocolate, then decorated with flowers and numes."The women held a coffee party at which the eggs were sold. in addition to bolted goods. The proiect was so successful that the Institute plans to repeat it next year. .cry hard every day and every night. His .vork is sewing the clothes of men. Every Sunday I go to the church. I teach me children to learn about Bible Stories. The lesson time is nine to ten o’clock. I am cry happy when I do this work. These chil- Ercn are eight or nine years old and they re very lovely and strong. When the test me comes they always know all questions nd answer them very well. So I give some ‘hings to them such as pencils, books, pic- ilI‘ES and sugars. Sometimes I teach them to mg a short song or play some games; so we re very happy. In Canada I think the boys nd girls must like to do this good work :ery Sunday. . . . Well. I will write a letter ‘ i you next time. God bless us all." Briefs RS. BELL COE of Maxwell Institute M reports that the Institute sponSOred a succeszul school reunion marking the losing of this one-room school after ninetyâ€" iven years of service. The school was ipened” at 1.30 in the afternoon by the writer and the principal of the township hool. There was a devotional service folâ€" "iwed by speeches by the Secretary of the Township School Board, the Deputy Minister =l' Education, the School Inspector and former catchers and pupils; then a sports program ind supper. In the evening the teacher and 'UPHS put on a concert and the Institute \Ponsored a dance in the community centre r0m nine to midnight. There was no charge tr admission fee for any part of the celebra- Ion except the dance. The Institute had :‘repared a souvenir program folder which ontained a picture 0f the school, the name of former teachers and an In Memoriam list of deceased former pupils. 2s * a: . Al’ton Institute recently honored three of its members, Mrs. Amos Widmeyer, Mrs. I. V. FALL 1955 Schcnk and Miss Alfrcdn Fisher. with Life Memberships. Miss Pearl Foerstcr. P.R.O., reports that these are the first Life Memberâ€" ships to be given in all of Ayton‘s filly-seven years' history. The presentations were made at a banquet cspecially arranged for the occasion. i: 2: 4: Mrs. Conrad Sippcl of Shakespeare branch has corresponded with an Institute number in England since 1959. There has been an exchange of so many gifts and souvenirs between them that at the Perth Centre District Annual this summer Mrs. Sippcl sat up a display of her collection. When the Archaeological and Historic Sites Board of Ontario erected a plaque on the old Frylogel Inn to honor Sehnstiun lirvl’ogcl. the first settler in Perth County. the Shake- speare Women‘s Institute cooperated with the Perth County Historical Foundation in arrangâ€" ing the unveiling ceremony. and prmldcd a tea to follow. It is of interest [hut Mrs, R. I. Futchcr. a former provincial president of F.W.I.O.. represented the Archuc“ogicnl and Historic Sites Board at this event: hlrx. ('onrud Sippel spoke for the Institute and Mr. Amos Fryt'ogcl. a great grandson of the pioneer, unveich the plaque. 4< * 1k Mrs, Wm. Bourn. P.R.O. for Drumorc In- stitute writes: “In April I964 our Institute drafth a resolution. got all the patrons on our local Holstein telephone exchangc to sign it; and presented it to the Bell Telephone Com- pany, demanding better rural telephone service providing free toll with Mount Forest and Durham. On our small exchange we could call only some 230 people without paying long distance charges. With a great deal of perseâ€" verance and the assistance of a delegation of men we finally obtained free toll to Mount Forest late in 1964 and to Durham in Febru- ary 1965.“ is :t: 1‘ 31

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