had to look forward to, to see their neighbours and visit, as well as work together for common goals and bettering their community. Membership is now 18, and Officers for 1975-76 are as follows: President - Mrs. Allison MacLean ; Vice President - Mrs. Wilfred Lyle ; Secretary - Mrs. Jack Yeo ; Treasurer - Mrs. John Manderson . Members are - Bertha MacLean , Eileen Manderson , Edith MacLean , Helen Lyle , Shirley Barlow , Jean Yeo , Violet MacGregor , Ruby Clark , Annie Carr , Nina Best , Dorothy MacLean , Jennie Betton , Arlene craig, Mary MacLean , Etta Hut ¬ chinson (Charter Member), Elizabeth Yeo , Joan Murray , Alvira Hutchinson . ORANGEMEN'S ASSOCIATION AND LODGE The Orangemen's Association was a very active organization in our District throughout the early 1900's. Up until 1911 there was no Lodge in Lot 16 , and the Orangement travelled to Union Corner and then Wellington to meetings. However, in 1911 a building, part of a house, was purchased from a Mr. Edward Simmons , and hauled from land now belonging to Alton Hutchinson to a site on the , on land owned at the time by Edward Simmons , and later on by Johnny MacLeod of Belmont. In 1926 there were 40 members on the roll call from the District. As time went on, through the 1940's, membership dwindled, and in the 1950's meetings ceased altogether. The building remained until the Spring of 1970, when it was sold to Floyd MacKinnon of Belmont, and hauled to a site back of his home. The land where it had been reverted to Johnny MacLeod . OLD HOMES The oldest house in Central is on the Wilfred Lyle property, (formerly the old Lyle Hotel), and shown above. For a time the post office was located in this house. It has always been occupied by Lyles. A very old building stands on the homestead of Darrell Lyle. William Millar bought it in 1867 from a Mr. Rogers , who lived in it with his wife and family; it was located South of the Millar home and Mr. Millar moved it to its present site. The Rogers family moved to Coleman. The building is now in use as a grainary. One of the first airplane crashes, if not the first, on P.E.I , occurred on the Lawrence Yeo farm on November 2nd, 1930, when a plane piloted by H.S . (Junior) Jones of Apohaqui, N.B. and owned by a Mr. McCully , which was taking up passengers that day crashed and injured the pilot and a passenger, Charles Yeo , now of St. Eleanors . Mr. Yeo suffered burns and a 67