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Golden Anniversary Irwin Institute in West Kent celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with a supper and soc1al evening held in the hall where the Institute was organized. Over one hundred and fifty guests attended, and three of the twelve char- ter members. - I Conn in North Wellington had its fiftieth anniversary celebration in the form of a tur~ key dinner attended by over two hundred guests and former members. The oldest char~ ter member present, Mrs. Wm. Duncan, cut the birthday cake and seven of the oldest meme bers were presented with corsages. The dinner was served by the 4-H Homemaking Club rirls. L Springvale used the Institute colors in yelâ€" low daffodils and blue hyacinths to decorate the church where their fiftieth anniversary meeting was held. The two charter members present recalled that the first meeting was held on a stormy February day and that the mode of travel at that time left something to be desired “but anyone got anywhere they wanted to go if they tried hard enough.“ Mrs. Harvey Paisley of Dunnville, the guest speaker, gave some interesting facts from the lives of pionccrs in the Institute movement, Mrs. Adelaide Hoodless, Mrs. Laura Rose Stephen and in the international field, Mrs. Raymond Sayre. In a history of the Institute by Mrs. Earl Carpenter, two items of interest were that in 1911 the Institute bought a vac- uum cleaner which they rented to members for twenty-five cents a day and t0 nonmembers for fifty cents; and that the subject of the first paper given at a meeting was “Judicious 8.: ing," by Mrs. Addie Benn. ' At the fiftieth anniversary of Essex Ir. ‘ tute the candles were lighted by the only 1 ing charter member, Mrs. Scott Thornton Leamington, who gave an interesting act... of the first few meetings. Mrs. Minerva A: strong, who joined the branch forty-5e years ago, gave a synopsis of a paper 51, that year on “Good Housekeeping" and Ml" Schipp contributed a paper of recipes or ; years ago and now. At Camhray’s fiftieth anniversary the torian, Mrs. A. E. Tamblyn, reported that Institute was organized on a cold stormy and it began with only five members. twenty-two more joined before the year on Mrs. Tamblyn said: “Our aim at that time. not so much the raising of funds for Churn purposes as now. We met for the purpo: talking over the problems arising in homes, to exchange ideas and recipes, am fact, to be a sort of ‘mutual improvemen- ciety'.” Mrs. W. Burns, a former Cami girl, now F.W,I.O. Board Member for the .: was guest speaker. East Kent district celebrated its fiftieth niversary at Highgate. Three hundred we attended a luncheon. Miss Anna P. Lewi< guest speaker and was presented with a h. some table cloth as a gift for her approari wedding. This district celebration was hell March 10. On March 31, Highgate branch 1 brated its fiftieth birthday with a family in New Branch in a City Survey ERHAPS the new housing developments Pspringing up on the outskirts of most cities may be logical new territory for the organization of Women's Institutes. The folâ€" lowing letter from Mrs. John Armstrong, President of King's Forcst Branch recently or- ganized in South Wentworth, tells its own story: “Although we are within the city of Hamil- ton limits. this is a small. new survey in a reâ€" ccntly annexed section, and because of the manner in which it was laid out, it really seems more like a little Village than part of a big city. There are sixty homes. mostly with young mothers who cannot get out often and who were feeling rather lonely. “Personally I was a farm woman for most of my life and a Women's Institute member for nearly thirty-Anya years, and I hare missed the Institute very much Sll‘lCl' I have had to time in the city. So at our area convention I asked Miss Lewis if it would be permissible to organize a new Branch in the city. Shn said, ‘I see no reason why it should not be done. 1 viding you never lose sight of the rural pl of view, since the Institute was origin meant to be a rural organization.‘ That su me perfectly as my main reason for wantin get one started was to try to get a better derstanding between producers and consun as I am still very rural at heart. "No one in the survey, except myself, ever been a member of an Institute. the mo ity never having even heard of it: but me. all welcomed the idea of a getâ€"together 1' to their homes where they could exchu ideas and learn something. We hold our mi ings in the evening when husbands can ba sit. “Our District President, Mrs. S. Harri and our District Secretary, Mrs. N. A. Flu-M conducted our organization meeting. We “way have thirty-two members with m expected and we hope soon to be a credits unit in our great organization."