BIRCH GROVE Institute was organized at Freetown in 1932 
     
     with Mrs. Austin Scales First President, Mrs. Everett Schurman, 
     
     Vice President, Miss Rene Arbing, Treasurer and Mrs. Clifton Math- 
     
     eson, Recording Secretary. 
     
    

    
     Red Cross, school and community hall have received benefits 
     
     from this energetic group of women. Donations have been given to 
     
     Lnangrd charitable organizations and the under-privileged have been 
     
    

    
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     SEARLETOWN Institute was organized November 25, 1921 
     
     by the assistant Supervisor, Miss Bessie Carruthers, and called 
     
     “Willing Workers Institute”. First President, Mrs. Hugh MacLean, 
     
     Vice President, Mrs. L. W. Trueman and Secretary-Treasurer, Mrs. 
     
     Percy Allen. 
     
    

    
     Of the eleven charter members only one is still an active 
     
     member. Six members are still living. The school was the first inter- 
     
     est of this Institute. New blackboards, maps, desks, and flag were 
     
     provided. A neat fence was erected around play ground by the Insti- 
     
    
   
   
    
     tute. 
     
     In the Health Field, this Institute was instrumental in hav- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ing a Junior Red Cross organized in their school in 1922. 
     
    

    
     The highlight of their war work was an autograph quilt which 
     
     netted $30.00 and was then donated to a Canadian Military Hospital 
     
     in England. 
     
    

    
     Later projects have been the sponsorship of a 4-H garment 
     
     club in the community, paying for a music teacher in the school. New 
     
    
   
   
    
     tile floor for the school and community signs at each end of the 
     
     district. In addition to remembering the sick and shut-ins in the com— 
     
     munity, this Institute has contributed to all worthy causes and have 
     
     completed over forty years of service to “Home and Country”. 
     
    
   
   
    
     CAPE TRAVERSE Women’s Institute was organized on Sept— 
     
     ember 10, 1931, with Mrs. Louis Muttart, President and Mrs. Gordon 
     
    
   
   
    
     Harvey, Secretary. 
     
    
   
   
    
     CLINTON — Miss Mary MacDonald organized the Institute 
     
     October 16, 1939. The first President was Mrs. Charles Woodside, 
     
     Vice-President, Mrs. George Riley, Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Vivian 
     
     Woodside. We organized in 1939 because we could then do Red Cross 
     
     work more effectively, and are still interested in doing Red Cross 
     
     knitting and sewing. Probably our greatest work has been in the 
     
     interest of our community hall. We had a kitchen and dressing room 
     
     built, gyproc put on the walls, cement foundation, painted inside and 
     
     outside, the hall wired and new curtains and an organ purchased. We 
     
     buy treats for the children and school prizes, and contribute toward 
     
     the Institute District scholarship. We supervise the canvassing of 
     
    
   
   
    
     the district for charities. 
     
    
   
   
    
     NEW LONDON —— June 1913 discontinued in 1919. Reorgan- 
     
     ized in 1934. Miss Katharine James -—- Miss Hazard. President, Mrs. 
     
     Archibald Campbell, Secretary, Mrs. Walter Found, President, Mrs. 
     
     George Coles, Secretary, Miss Irene Wyand. Wired Community Hall 
     
    
   
   
    
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