South Saugeen WI Scrapbook, Volume 1, [1869] - [1990], p. 106

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Quilts, quilts and more quilts There were quilts galore Inst Wednesday A! the Paisley Centnll School at the Summlry Night for the Bruce County Quilters. experiean to he I quilter when she grew up. "And thut's the Truth". tired otheihg Iefi at home but who finally made r visit to r quilting group, deciding from whet she Layne Alvaer. supervisor at Hnmc Cufls in the Home Economics Branch of the Onhrio Ministry of Agriculture presented lenders badges and commented on the work. A seniorquiitiug training school our held ui rnisley last full sun Park Head was host for I needle point school. Two leaders noun each institute group attended the school Ind returned to their twin groups with the hints and know- ledge they had griued, luyne Alvaer said the Iddieii showed unusunl and interesting mlour and schemes as well a: some original designs. Barb De Visscher is the 3mm County Home Economists Ind works out of Wulkerton. Blrb organizes the quilting training school. She told me Reporter there . ‘_ r . 5 _ 1 ‘ I P 'sley Q liters tell story} at a patch work quilt were 19 groups taking the quilting with a tot-l of 200 people. In the needle point there were 175 partici- pants. The Toronto ofi'ice prepare it mlflull on the drifts. These eluted are vuillble to anyone. not lull institute groups. if there are rir people in your neighbourhoct interested in Crlfts. just contort Bath and the Walkerton Office. A nrogrrmme or entertrinrnen followed with the theme, of course being quilting. indies told the not: of "A Patchwork Quilt". A quilts from Armow kept the audience ll titches" with her poems Abon ‘ The Surplus Milk Ind Petie (ht Snake.“ The Reporter corresponden Mrst McCum'el from Burgay'ut presented r poetic story of quiltln‘ in aurgoyue. She wncluded h) addresslng the lenders seylng “they would keep on n quillin' Ind we will show them it his plid." A monologue by Mrs. Henry Muchtyre of Knirshu was very entertuinlngr She played in the put of Edith Ann. 3 young girl, Edith Ami told at her mommy always going quilting and how she wls . v t , m i . t nâ€"h'w One otthe delightful quilts displayed by the quilters who grthered trout in over 831:: Countyin Paisley histflgdinesdly. tinge IDA, the neuron Tiuu,, “rumour. Juli J0. with, ' t lrrue izhy, lt-tl. and \lll‘j llullktfiuniurrru lu duuumsimu uullllhu Lil lu~l ut-utx Fiddles hnd “llll'llllulllddltw :il ltlu llruu- ( ltllfllt ‘luxpumv m \uulhgmplnn Huld Thursday, Jul} 24. lhttlugh Nultlrddt. .lul\ Ztl. lht» 2nd annual tut-m drcu morass peoplt, qtlllt‘ it tea more lllJn last )t'ul’. ~iltrl murdiunlur \lurrur \li‘llh msfi____,_______4â€"â€"â€"_._______ tln the issue of Nov. 7. 1901. the (allowing story was reprinted from The Saturday Night. The principal of the tale was an early and well known lawyer in the village.) 4mm Saturday thhtl Old politicians never fail to recall tht-l plesure the per sonallty of Mr, Archie McCallum, who [or several years has ‘be‘en buried away in New Ontarlo as District Judge for Manitoulin and the North Shore, Amember or the Globe Stall and inter practitioner in the town of Paisley, in Bruce County, he was a lamilinr figure through Ontario its a slump speaker tor the Liberal party He could talk in English or Gaelic with a fluency ul' denunciation that delighted ht listeners in the back townships, and had a happy twtst. peculiur to all Bruce County man, in expressing himself. One of the most characteristic stories at him is as follows: It was in the bitter campaign of I896 when Archie travelled tar and wide in the cause at Laurier. He had been sent from headquarters to address a hamlet near a flag station on lhe CPR, it was not a regular Swp, and the orator expected to run past it eight miles and then drive over. He had progressed a con» siderable way upon his journey when the conductor came through the train asking for Mr. McCallum, "I am he." said Archie. "l have telegraphic orders it: stop the train al Smith‘s Corners and let you cit," said the cam ductor The volatile Archie fairly jumped In the air with delighl, and then almost collapsed. "My gawd! Are we so near power as that?" he gasped. The other story is that one light he was speaking in the little village of Underwood and deemed it gpod policy to get on the right side or the audience. The story goes thal he tackled the task In characteristic fashion. “l have Just returned. he said, In opening his spEech, "(mm a trip to the for eastern part at the province, where l was addressmg the electors on the great questions of Lhcday, At a meeting down there they asked me where I came lrom, and I told them lrom the County of Bruce â€" tram Paisley. So l mid them that Paisley was 12 miles from Walkerton, the county town 01 Bruce. But they had never heard of Walkerwn either Then [hey said to me, ‘You come from Paisley â€" how lat- is that tram Underwood“ H gilt" “on... thol in rlill sad In th

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