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~oalga e 0. e n en oi en dat s o is ht ie man C umt o. A0 enc careâ€" Avemes o sc coc0 Women‘s Institute bir’rhplace\ to be maintained as shrine _ | .. _Mr. Lee was the man who | invited Adelaide Hunter Hoodâ€" less to speak to 101 women at a ladies‘ night at the South _ Wentworth Farmer‘s Institute | February 19, 1897. The immeâ€" | diate result was another meetâ€" \ing, held six days later, ‘at which _ Mrs. . Hoodless _ was ‘ elected ~ honorary ~ president and Mrs. E. D. Smith of Winona, president of a new women‘s organization. _ â€" â€" They are restoring it to the 1850s, the era when it was built. She says donations of furniture have come in from institute members, and the bedrooms and dining room now areâ€"complete.â€" Mrs. Austin Zoeller of New Hamburg, â€"chairman of the Erâ€" land Lee. Home committee, says Mr. Leé â€"drew up the original constitution and Mrs. Lee handâ€"wrote it at a dining room table in the old house. Mrs. Zoeller.says the home remained in the Lee family until the Federated Women‘s Institutes of Ontario®_(FWIO) bought it, after several years of heartâ€"searching over the problems involved in operatâ€" ing it. STONEY CREEK (CP) â€" The ~Ontario Women‘s Instiâ€" tute has spent $40,000 for the Erland. Lee. home and plans to maintain it as a shrine and showplace for people to see whereâ€"the WI was born. As yet,. it is being®" mainâ€" By JEAN SHARP CP Women‘s Editor ¢ (d ( : / ' . | ' ' Ll ’ | a a B ; ’ . | Ol- L " f |* : A / f ) | ) | | 73 _KEEP IT BEAUTIFUL tained on the proceeds of a doâ€" nations boxâ€" andâ€" volunteer help. The 30,000 members in the province are being. asâ€" sessed 10 cents a year each to build a maintenance fund, but that will take time, and the federation is hoping for some interim help from the fedâ€" eral government. P The idea to buy the home came to the FWIO originally from the Wentworth County Time runs out for eight schools in rural Oxford WOODSTOCK â€" Eight rural elementary schools of the Oxford County board of educaâ€" tion closed their doors for the last time last week andâ€"their 630 students will be bused to the new 20â€"room _ Harris Heights Public School near Ingersoll in September. About 14 of the 24 teachers involved will 0O NTA R 1O . Mrs. Zoeller says one mem. ber:donated $5,000 and the:â€"Naâ€" tional Federation of Women‘s Institutes in England â€" sent £100. The rest has been raised by the EWIO and she says the home will be a provincial proâ€" ject for a long time to come. chapter. _ The county â€" has helped the cause, as have Saltâ€" fleet Township and Stoney Creek, plus <the provincial home economics branch. _ Leonard Johnson; a master at the Stratford Teacher‘s College for the past six years, will be principal. There will be 22 teachers. also go the $698,000 .Harris Heights School while the rest will be relocated in othe: schools in the system, said George Simons county director of education. The public schools involved are: Dickson‘s Corners, RR 3, Ingersoll; Clark‘s Corners, RR 1, Ingersoll; Dunn‘s Corners, RR 2, Inâ€" gersoll; Mt. Elgin;y Salford; Verschoyle, RR 1, Ingersoll; Dereham Centre, RR 1, Mt. Elâ€" gin; and Centreville, RR 2 Ingersoll. Mr. Simons said most of the equipment from. the eight schools will be used in the new school and the rest auctioned off in the fall. r)'d/z 2