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Miss B. M. Evans of the Travelling Libraries' Branch oi the Ontario Depurlmenl of Education packs a box of children‘s books to send our to a rural school. At the la” is a partially puck- ed "library" for general “Sh-Possibly going to a Women's Institute. The Travelling Libraries distrib- ul’ing centre has a sled: of the best books on Ihe marker, both old and new, fiction and general reading â€"lamily life and home« making, biography, advem lure, history. science. agri- cullure, religion, music. art, cralrs, Canadian literature and books for boys and girls. Travelling Libraries are not new lo Women's Instilules. The service is free except for shipping charges one way. Apply lo Travelling Libraries, 206 Huron Streel, Toronto. Kirkton equipped the community hall with cupboards, dishes and cutlery. Navan equipped a kitchen in the community centre. Minesing has taken over the management of the local library. Inglewood reports: “We own our Institute building, a twoâ€"room brick structure which houses the public library, and We pay the librarian a small yearly honorarium.” Seymour East owns a hall and lot. The building was a well-built old home, They took out the partitions on the ground floor to give one large room for meetings and they built on a kitchen. Wooler owns a park with picnic tables and playground equipment. Roseneath has installed a rest room in the town hall. Gamebridge cleaned up and planted the grounds around the community hall. Brooksdale brought in a travelling library for the community. Silver Crescent in North Parry Sound, through a penny sale, raised the money to buy a hospital bed and mattress for use in cases of illness in the community and neighboring communities. Ullswater purchased a project to be used in the school and for community entertainments. Bala canvassed the community for donations of chairs for the hall and bought 150 new chairs. Phelps owns a hall and four acres of playâ€" ground with baseball diamond, back stop, bleachers, sand pile, swings, teeters and swim- ming facilities. The hall is maintained and given, rent free, for the use of the Home and School Association, Girl Guides, Athletic Society and Road Commissioners. The play ground is open to the public. Rosseau PIECEd 3 life preserver at the dock. Coldstream maintains a rest room and a booth in the Park. Melrose sent a delegation to the County Council to ask that a kitchen be added to the community hall. The request was granted. WINTER I957 Most reports mentioned some work for the school or the children and the young people of the community. Several branches reported an interest in the old people in the County Home. Goring bought books for children from the library. Tarentorus placed a book in the library in memory of a deceased member; gave ABC Traffic Rules books for colouring to the pupils in the junior room and sent gifts to an “adopted grandmother” in the Home for the Aged. Orangeville and Arnprior gave rather unusual school prizesuclonations to the high school student with the highest standing in home economics. Women's Dun- ning in North Cochrane gave a tooth brush to every child starting to school. Spry pro- vided free dental care for school children. Wiarton sponsored a class in fancy skating. Alleniord gave flower seeds to the school children and arranged a flower show in the fall. Princess Anne put swings for children in the park and sent a child to camp. Loch- winnoch members scrubbed the school and we gather from their report that they had something to do with a dental clinic. Lee Valley supplied cod liver oil to school children and provided dental care and transportation to the dentist for all local children. Queen Elizabeth gave large flags to two schools. Wharnclifi'e bought toys for poor children at Christmas time. And Walkerton Young Wo- men's Evening Institute provided toys and dressing gowns for the children’s ward in the local hospital. Stamford Evening Group carry on their own library for the children of the community having it open once a week. Orkney provided sports equipment for the school and were instrumental in getting a rhythm band organâ€" ized. Earlton is working toward getting a school nurse. Sunday Creek gave sports equip- 27