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Special Programs and Projects A Note to PRO’s The purpose of this Special Programs and Projects section is to give Public Relations Officers a spot in Home and Country where they can tell all the Institutes of the province about anything done in their own Institute which might offer a suggestion to other branches. As we have explained in previous issues. we cannot give space to routine reports of meetâ€" ingsflunless the program is so original or out- standing as to give an idea to other institutes. A particularly good subject for a topic. (lisA (fission, debate, motto or roll call would he welcome. Some years ago it was decided that we could not report anniversary celebrations. These are of interest mainly in the local community where the participants are known and of course P.R.0.’s will see that they get into the local papers. And please note that to produce an illus- tration we require a photograph. not the noun- tive; and that we cannot make a cut from a colored picture or front a slide. Perhaps the best way to see the sort of material we need for this section is to look at the topics in this and previous issues. Then. as P.R.O. for your branch or district or area. if you have a story that should he told. do. please. send it along. Editor. Township History Published N CLYDE and Scott’s Corners Women's Institute when we were compiling maâ€" terial for our Tweedsmuir History, many of our members asked if it could not be put in book form." writes Mrs. M. W, Shelland: "but when we contacted printing firms we found no encouragement: the printing would cost so much that we could not sell the books for less than five or six dollars a copy.” The Institute appointed Mrs. R. G. Bailey and Mrs. Shelland a committee to see what could be done by other means; and the result IS a book of 325 pages the same size as the Pages of a Church weekly calendar, approxi- mately 55/2 inches by 8%. printed on an office SUMMER 1964 duplicating machine. The committee found a woman and her husband who would do the typing and put the pages through the duplica- tor. Then there was [he proofreading to do after the material was typed and before the pages were "run off.“ Aflcr that the members helped in putting the pages together in order. ready for binding. For this last step the pages were taken to a book binding firm in Hamil- ton. Two bunder copies of the book were "printed." to scll ut two dollars each. Mrs. Shclland says: "The books were complctcd about the midâ€" dlc of December and they have sold so well that we wish we had had more printed. Wc have only a few copics but now." About the book itself: It is a trim. substanâ€" tial. good-looking volume with a beige. pcb- bled. heavy paper covcr: the print is clcar and there are a number of line drawing illustra- tions including pictures of old-time vehicles. implcmcnls. dross fashions. kitchen equipment â€"-thc surrey. the flail. lhc spinning-wheel. the frozen pump. the big kilcbcn stove with “res- :rvoir." the grunge hall, the blacksmith shop. lhc grist mill. and a scene on the newest golf course opened only last summer. One of the first things to do in compiling a local history is to sct your boundaries. This book is limilcd to the history of Beverly Town- ship with xpcciul emphasis on ('lydc and Scott's Cornch school scclions. l-‘or backgroundâ€" and certainly for inlcrcstâ€"lhc more local records are prcccdcd by an “Hisloricul sketch of chlworlh ('ounly and Beverly Township.” The history of the county should he of wide inlcrcx't. recording in it docs \uclt early events as. thc visit of La Sullc and his cxplorcrs in lhc lhtltl's; the slice. of Indian villages: the coming of English hcltlcrs allcr 1hc battle of the Plains of Abraham. and the U.l{, loyalists aitcr lhc var or American lndcpcndcncc. Thcn th‘rc is“ a section on “'Ihc Municipal History of Bcvcrly Township" well documcnlcd from th' minutes of municipal mcclinga‘ as far back as 18M). Perhaps the readability of the books is due to thc cxtcnsiw factual information hung wcll inlcrspcrscd with human inlcrcst stories, “old timch talus". including u good deal about the notorious "Bcvcrly Swamp." Thu gcncrul conâ€" tcnt. in in most local hisloricx. includes~ record». of schools. churchcs. slorcy. postol'liccs. ceme- lcrica and especially slorics ol farm» and lami- lics. Special attention is givcn to the local men cnlixtcd in thc Iwo World Wars. cvcn publish- ing \omc of their Icllcrs wrillcn during lhc war. And if we didn't know a Minglc name in the book. nor had any curimity about any particu- lar fact recorded. We could turn to a page anywhch from cover to cover and find our intcrcst held with the thought. "So this is how 21