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AUG. 21 - 1:00 PM. Hillier Hall TWEEDSMUIR STORY TOPIC: Tea Show and Tell lTlgkLPCALL: Show arid/or tell about tea : eggy Bunis, Lois Conle M Darl‘ HOSTESS: Marjorie Darling Y My “1810!! Volunteer hours Hillier W1 meets By Rebecca MacKellar the hall at 11am then fol- Special to the Gazette lowing the meeting we will Joan Priestman will be be exiting there at 1:30pm our substitute president for to journey to Prince Edward the September lSih mcelr ing, The roll call is “A Fact You Know About Land instnimcnts (Deeds and Wills)". so get your papers out girls. We will be meeting in WI front page 16 with you. it is once again that time of year for the AttiaLing Loyalist Adventure (fundraiser). so CUIHL‘ and try our delicious Apple Dumplings. For a change this year we are putting together a gourmets dcltghl . a super-duper chili. Members please be at the hall on Friday the 1901 at 9am to assist in the assembling of the apple dumplings This is a two day event: sin. urtltty 20th. 10 till-i pnt and Sunday 21st Sep- iciiiher. Hum [111 4pm. Plcasc not our new VL‘IILIL' is now Our Own Hillier Hall. Pant Litilctair stood in as president at our August meeting. Our Tweedsinutr Story was told by Ruth Crawford. 11 was in relationship in a Pleasant Bay faintly called Grant during the 1800's. The father lived until his 92nd year and his wife to her 89th year. Tragic y live 01' their Nuns succumbed early in lift: to a mystery ill- ttess and their daughter died tit Childbirth. unfortunately their others sons died before their parents. This must have been a dreadful heartbreak to int: With. Our roll call was “Show and or Tell about Tea". Vlarjorit' Dar- ling prescntcd this program.»chch tea cad- dies were on display depicting the history of tea. Marjorie had researched lots of infomtav uon about this Subjccl that she then read. Joan Priesiman mentioned that tca came into use about 2,000 years ago circa 2737 B.C. when Chinese Chen Yung tea was in use. Joan men- tioned Europe started using tea in the 17th County Archives. in Piclon. This sounds interesting and informative. Remember to bring a brown bag lunch and drink See WI page 17 started consuming tea sometime after the Boston Tea Pany escapade. Tea bags came into vogue around 1903. Our guest this month was Sarah Hilton. Peggy and Phyllis served delicious Eng- lish afternoon tea. with homemade sconesjam and cream everyone enjoyed the treats. thank you both. To date we are still looking for a new president. We were delighted to welcome Lee Ann Scammcll into our group when Pam pinned herjusi after roll call. We would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to the Mountain View W1 for their kind invilc to their 95th anniversary. We had a wonderful night ranging from fashions over lltc last 95 years. the songs that went with those years. the stories each W1 group told regarding their accomplishments during their particular years; and of course the delightful supper these ladies presented was second to none. Dates to remember are October 27th all branches are invited to attend the 3rd annual District potluck supper to be held in the Bloomfield hall commencing 6pm for further details call Pam Liidefair. October 4111 Cherry Valley is holding their 95th anniversary between 2â€"4 in the afternoon details will be forwarded to each branch soon. The Distr‘tCi are donating a decorated tree to the Festival of Trees for Garrett Island and each branch are asked to fumish them with 3 TOPIC: Visit P. E. C. Archives in Picton -1eaving hall 1:30 PM. ROLL CALL: A fact 1 know about land instruments (Deed Wills) TEA: Brown bag lunch (Hillier Hall) HOSTESS: Pat VanKregten Volunteer hours SEPT. 18 - 11:00 AM. Hillier Hall TWEEDSMULR STORY century. The Americans drank only coffee but Hillier Women’s Institute By Joye: Brown The Women's lnstimte. Hillier Branch enjoyed a wonderfiil day with Pat VanKregten and her husâ€" band Jim who put a lot of thought and time into planning a tour of the Prince Edward 'County Archives. We began in the Court House. with a talk about the history of the building and its continued use of the courtroom. A few of our members took the opportunity to sit in the judge‘s chair. see the library and explore the architecture. Then on to the jail. It was interesting t See Page 7.... (I? Hillier W.I. From Page 6 to see and hear about how the County dealt with criminals many years ago. as well as the hanging facilities used for the last hanging in the County jail. If you have never been to see the Archives (old documents, scrap books. deeds. etc.) in this delight- ful historic building, 1 suggest that you take time to go. You will remember that Pa! and Jim spent many months putting the Hillier Women’s Tweedsmuir History onto CD disks. Well. this was the highlight of our tour, when we could go into the computer to get informa- tion regarding the lives and history of our Hamlet. Many of the members could .find stories and pictures of their Mothers and Grandmothers when they belonged to the Hilâ€" lier WI. A great big thank you to Jim and Pat and of course the many volun- teers for sharing their knowledge with us. We had an interesting guest join us for the tour and prior meeting. Pat Plumb a member of 3 WI branch in Cheshire England. chose to visit Hillier Wl during her vacation in Bloomfield. We were de- lighted that she volun- teered to talk about what her group did in England and answer our many questions. Parts of our Tweedsmuir History and biographies are being re- searched by various mem- bers and read each month. This is one of the reasons we would encourageland invite you to be at guest in the near future. Our new venue for the Anole Chrisuoas item for this worthy cause. an (:77: IO 4,7 o] Dumpling Days. part of the Loyalist Adventure Program. was it huge suc- cesg. We served over 500 dumplings and many bowh of Chili. Thank you to all who contributed many hours to make this a success and to those of you who came to enjoy a lunch and dumpling. Thursday, October 16In a well-known agrologist. Kenneth Wright. spoke to the Hillier Women‘s tn- stitute on Agriculture. past. present and future. Kenneth Wright the son of a successful farmer. not only benefitted from his experience on the home farm. but participated in 4- H and Junior Partner pro« grams which led him to his passion for profes- sional agriculture. Thank you Kenneth for sharing your extensive knowledge with uS- Th" 75m; maze