The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

THE GERALD Wednesday DEC WI Meet In Acton The executive of No subdivision en Women Institute met it Acton public library on Dec with Mr John Bird provincial board member in charge of the meeting The meeting opened with the Mary Stewart collect and in troduction of present Mrs Bird reported on the provincial board meeting held on Nov The projects for this year are the Lee- homestead and toe Sight project In Ontario there are 1 with a membership of 30 with on life members The for friendship collected for the year was 015 and is used to finance the office expenses and travelling expenses of President and offices to visit small countries and for ex of leaders and teachers these countries Scholarships and awards were discussed the an nlversary scholarship Is closed out There is now the Dorothy and Florence scholarships available to girls also and District or Branch scholarships The International scholarship Is given to In countries to train and teach their own people also the Lady Aberdeen scholarship Is used In this manner The competition winners from the Guelph area are sent to the provincial competition then sent direct the In ternalional com petition at Perth Australia in October Miss McKercher asked that we support the con trlbutlng memberships of A C W W Mrs A Is the new editor of Home and Country and asked that any articles of Interest be sent for publication also black arid white glossy pictures be sent There will not be food forums but oneday courses on poultry please advance knits and baked in a pie There will be- 114 workshops on nutrition one for each district Each standing con venership must Include something on nutrition history and cultural habits of the family CONVENTION The area convention will be held on Nov and be hosted by subdivision 12 The officers conference of a study of CBC TV is to be carried out by members of the board The reports of standing committees were studied and a suggestion that roll calls produce a challenge to answer also to have a display where available A couple of topics with discussion were the greatest under developed territory in the world lies under your hat and best consumer protection Is what lies between your own two ears We need consumer education In schools The theme of the ACWW Conference In Perm is World to share There are countries with members In ACWW and a total of million members Mrs Helen Wilson Call Ahead Avoid The Rush To Make Calls Overseas Bell Canada has a few hints to make calling home at Christ mas easier for those phoning overseas points well as places In North America Find out the number of your party right now Don t wait until Christmas Day or New Years Eve You will save yourself a lot of time and your call will go through much faster Give yourself a break and call a few days or weeks before the holiday or a few days after There will be more chance of your call going right through at an offpeak hour or during a slow day Remember the time ferences around the world What may be a convenient time for you on this side of the world may be the middle of the night or the middle of a work day for the person you are calling If you are not sure ask the operator Last year about one of every two transoceanic calls out of Bell Canada territory went to the United Kingdom Moat of the rest went to Germany Italy Prance and Greece In hat order see CALLS Canadians placed SO 000 overseas calls last year and about of them went to Europe the far east A per cent In crease In these totals Is in dicated this year Special rates apply on Sun- diva and evenings to most countries called most often by Canadians However no pedal holiday rates apply Christmas Day itself No bookings are being made this year Bell has round that service is faster without scheduling times Abo mora circuits have made available over the last two years by Overseas Cor federal agtooy -i- WcasVUg ONE DAY ONLY WEDNESDAY DEC Boxino 9gjj Clearance Barbie English China Barbie and her ends are having a tea party And you re Invited Cups cers plates creamsugar teapot goblets E Smash Up Derby Pull ihs T Stick and oil they race Crash They re apart Snap They re together s 2 St icks jump ramps M Donald Duck Famous character Race them down walls windows or CLUNK CLUNK The wa I are here BOXING DAY HOURS OPEN am to 5 pm 316 E 8772234