Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Summer 1968, p. 32

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Mrs. J. J, Edwards of Auckland. New Zea- Iand is a pen friend of Mrs. Harvey Eller of Fonthill. Ontario. Mrs. Edwards has visited Canada and tells us that she receiVes and en- joys our Home and Country. She is an experi- enced potter and has sent one of her pots to Mrs. Ellcr to be put in :1 Wellington County M use um. Louth â€" Members from four local Womâ€" en's Institute Branches. neighbours and friends were invited to share the Louth Branch Inter- national Day program. A member who had formerly lived in Sweden showed films, dem- onstrated Glass Blowing and showed samples of Blown Glass and other Home Crafts. Swe- den i\ u niethr of A.C.W.W. Windennereâ€"A member of the Winder- mere Branch. Mrs. G. D. Young is visiting Australia. Miss Evelyn Longhurst, secretary treasurer of the Branch has sent us a copy of a letter from Mrs. Young. Mrs. Young tells of addressing a meeting of the Countrywomen of Australia to tell about our Canadian Women's Institutes. She says. "I arrived at the meeting in a rather casual summer costume to find the Australian ladies all in hats and gloves. The president just opened the meeting and then turned it over to me. After my talk they had quite a lot of business. After the meeting a woman came up to me to tell me how home- sick my talk had made her. She was English originally. but her people had come to Canada and she had lived in Edmonton and Toronto before going with her husband to Australia." * i * .. 7 . . \_\i: must search behind the popular discontent to find “5 cause." Oliver \Vendell Holmes 32 Brant â€" Greenock â€" speaker [Elllnu [hE history of local school, now closed. Preston â€" presented a picture of tin- F“. thers of Confederation to the town count Bainsville â€" speaker â€"â€" telling the s! n m the explorer David Thompson saying [h W Thompson had lived once in a manse i ML liamstown, built by the Rev. John Bethui. Jumbo Gardens â€" study condum. member on the Jesuit Missions among ll i. too Indians at Saint Marie and the rest. of the fort and shrine. Millereek â€" roll call â€" “Wear yoiii A, piece of jewellery and tell something of ; FOnthill â€" roll call_A favourite cheese. Paper â€" Canadian architecture I â€"â€" early Canadian furniture. Dublin #- have purchased a sewing I! for the use of the branch and to he a' to the 4-H Giris‘ Sewing Clubs. Armow â€" mottoâ€" “If thou hast iv“ nies spend one and with the other h- acinths for the soul." Queen’s Line â€" roll call â€" Ari unex; l company dessert â€" Had an apple peelia test. Dundalk ~â€" Town fire chief addressed ing speaking on fire prevention. Spent. that baking soda is a housekeeper‘s ht extinguisher. * i i: DOING NOTHING IS DANGEROI It is not the well-warmed, well-peopled hm. That soonest falls to wrack. 'Tis the dlSUNl And empty dwelling, that with fireless hear. Pictureiess walls, and shuttered window pm Coldly, untimely mopes into decay. â€"Sir William \Vai- 2! 4 4 V Mossley â€" speaker from a C in. ;~ Court who explained the work of the ct .n connection with granting citizenship it» a Canadians. This speaker said that the n palities could help the immigrants by .â€"' up machinery to help non English sr ’ families to learn the language as soon as ble. as well as the Canadian laws and ct: ‘ (Ed. Note: Perhaps this could be a proj- it a Women’s Institute Branch.) Other featl | the Mossley meeting were â€" Local mt ' of the Ontario Legislature and the l M House. representatives of Council. Schiv‘ Fair Boards attended. A student from who is staying in the area was a gnu there was a fine display of handWOrk u maps of the area. ' ' ' ' Mrs, Don Mei Chung Sun ' 3.5:. of SCUM ’: admiring hut ' on display Citizenship fit‘ it" cation meal-t the Mossley " en '5 Insiilule HOME AND COL RY

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