Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Summer 1959, page 30

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.J_ Convention Area. and a copy was forwarded to the provincial Highways Department. When the Goshen Institute‘s women's orchestra visited chfrew county's Bonnechere Manor to help with an afternoon's entertainment, Mrs. John E, Miller. of the Goshen musicians. assisted Mrs. Dagenais, a resident of the Manor. in a lap dance. Another resident, Daniel Tracy. gave an exhibition of tap dancing. assisted by Mrs. Lorne Cram, a very popular number being a combination waltz and tap dance. The orchestra led the party in a session of singing the old community songs. A unique feature of a Jean Brampton Institute programme dealt with the hobby of button col- lecting. Mrs, Earl Ellis contributed a talk and a display of buttons. some dating back to the seven- teenth century. In the collection there were but- tons from many countries. Mrs. William Stoakley showed a number of framed pictures made from buttons. To show how colourful the facts gathered for a Tweedsmuir history can be. a press report of Afikolmn Institutc's collection of material for their local history carries this paragraph: “Students who chafe at the confinement of the class room will lind it appropriate that Atikokan's first school was located in what had once been a jail. The building had been used successively as a jail. a liquor outlet. a pest house. a pen on a fox farm. on infirmury. a church and a school. This Institute takes a special interest in the schools of the to- cality. sponsoring an annual debating competition among the five elementary schools, giving a $25 scholarship to it graduating elementary school student and providing hooks and $25 to pay the instructor for an annual student driver's course at the high school, Ayr reports a showing of the film “Pageant of the Seasons" to members of the Institute and the local Horticultural Society as one of their most delightful entertainments of the year. Lnnark seems to be working closely with the village council. A recent report tells of the In- stitute assisting in both planning and financing the redecorating of the Council Chambers. 30 This picture was taken three Dutch Cunodior : u Homemaking Club girls v M", ed the completion 0" in, "Working With Wool" r ' to the North Yarmoulh I up, that sponsored their cl» r to right: Mary Low T Connie Smit, ussislont ten the current proiect "r.- the Menu"; Mrs. A. V .. ton, club leader; Rio ‘- 3,, wyst; Annie Smit, Th; v; girls come from Hollunr years ago. A“. 3|L:‘ “It “a, Mrs. L. G, Lymburner represented the ated Women‘s Institutes of Ontario on a deli .tr. that met Premier Frost and the Minister it ance, Hon. James Allen. to ask for new (1 fl. merit legislation regarding wills and Sub hi. duties concerning women. Other orguni represented in the delegation were: The ti University Women's Clubs, the Women TL: . Federation. the National Council of Womt it; National Council of Jewish Women and Elk dian Committee on the Status of Women. In their brief the women asked that one i ul a deceased husband‘s estate be considered 2 .- purposes as being earned by his widow Lt? it: subject to succession duty; that instead of L at ing estates up to $50,000, this amount be r t true exemption deductible from the value .‘tl estates before tax; that brothers and six transferred from the collaterial to preferrct vi:- ficiary class; that $5,000 of life insurance l' able without formal release: that gifts mat‘t. rit- than three years prior to death instead years at present be exempt from duty i‘lt tL-zl provision be made for quick succession, * i: * JEALOUSY By Jacqueline Embry Oh don't you love a windy line, ‘ 7 With small, gay clothes to make it 1- The one next door is such a joy-â€" They have a little girl and boy! I sit and sit to watch their frocks That blow and bow like bollyhocks. Look! Peter's rompers, pink and blue. They always seem to beckon you. And Joan‘s little under-things, _ They trembleâ€"don't they ?â€"like white u i There, see his tiny, waving sock! > And Joan‘s darling, jonquil smofk? (Always the swaying, dancing clears Blur out through swift and foolish ten l I wish I had a windy line, _ 7 With small, gay clothes to make u it: * * * HOME AND Cv‘JNTlV

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