Wallbridge WI Tweedsmuir Community History, [1945] - [1990], p. 2

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ORIGTN The first VVomen’s Institute was organized in Saltfleet Township \Ventworth County, on the 19th of February, 1897, with a View to meet: ing the expressed desire to acquire information which would insure greater efficiency 0n the part of the women of the rural sections in thoSe Varied responsibilities resting upon them in the home and as citizens. The branch is now knOWn as the Stony Creek Institute. Fuller par- ticulars regarding the origin and deVelopment of the Institutes will be sent to those writiag for the same. WOMEN’S INSTITUTE ANTHEM (Tune: "National Anthem.”) , ”7 , tt 1: , I ’7 (Cd bless our 1115 l U 6 MM, IW’LWJL/ _ 7AM 3 Give each a mind astute, Reverent and kind. As we together meet, f” , q . . f Ma); hearts in union beat, kW/aI/xX/l/H/LLIC/L) 4/ W7 May Thine own concord sweet, . Our spirits bind. , n I @{M/ (gm 1‘ For home and native land, May all our members stand, An undivided throng, May we crush out the wrong, And help the good along, With all our might. irm or eri 1. , j 9 L F {th glt é/m fl ,o/tfl/ JQ/zrfi 2 May discord, hate, and strife Be banished from our life For everrnore. May error flee away Like mist before the day, And own Thy Kingdom’s sway, Frorw shore to shore. By Mrs. \Vm. G. Towriss, Athens, Ont.

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