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THE REVIEW, DURHAM COUNTER CHECK BOOKS We supply them in any quantity at lowest prices And Any Magazine Listed â€"â€" Both for Price Shown. @ The alert reader will recogciu o:';nco that :ilere is a golden opportunity to obtai outstandi subscription bargain :7 the yoor'.n neng THIS NEWSPAPER, 1 Year the year. j (By Arthur Haas) | In this column during the followâ€" ing eight or ten weeks will be found items which should be of interest | to all readers, articles on rural probâ€" in need of a happy healthy, sat‘sfyâ€" community for the uvpkeep of the defeated ing home life, and certainly every Librar‘. ‘Thére is no compulsory der Cou efficient social engineer will appreciâ€" taxation for funds for the Library. & force ate the fact that for best develop Naturally the Free Library can give in a bili ment human beings crave and need hetter service. ish Cor to share in vigorous progressive and Of the population of 57,8699 in French satisfying group and community life. Grey County 33,661 are rural and wounds. How can these desired goals be atâ€" 24,148 urban. Of the total popâ€" In Ontario the rame Neighbor Nights has been applied to an educaâ€" tional programme by the extension department of Pickering College, Newmarket, with splendid response, North York being especially favored in having a brilliant headmaster like Mr. Joe McCulley, â€"~sympathetic to ward community improvements. In Kent County the United Farmâ€" ers‘ _ Coâ€"operative Company â€" last spring carried oi a six weeks‘ intenâ€" sive educational campaign, which reâ€" sulted in a fertilizer mixing plant near Chatham. And so why not Neighbor Nights in Grey County? Is there nothing that groups of intelligent people could do to improve their livelihood, in the way of buying and selling, fertilizer mixing, health insurance. county libraries â€" and _ community beautification ? So let‘s have "Neighbor Nights" in Grey. earth make it imperative that we delvelop a generation of social and cultural engineers. An engineer has in mind a purpose whether he plans to span a river, bridge, or chasm. With a clear picâ€" ture in his mind of what he has set out to accomplish, he makes gurveys of the obstacles he has to overcome and the resources and materials at his command. we hope will hold reader interest. i The title "Neighbor Nights" calls for an explanation. It has been used extersively in the Central States to describe a rural technique, which has had wonderful guccess, briefly it is thisâ€" The family is taken as a unit and eight or ten families meet in one home each week. A social hour or so is spent in games, and sing song in an effort to revive the old neighborly spirit, which is rapidly slipping away. One of the number acts as leader, and briefly outlines the community problem they wish discussed. Then the meeting separâ€" ates into two small groups of not more than seven, each group appointâ€" ing a leader and secretary. In these small groups the question is _ discussed _ thoroughly without political or religicus bias. The meetâ€" ing reconvenes and a forum is held. where the various secretames brinz in the findings of their graups and out of this most democratic demonâ€" stration has igrown a strong farm movement in the States, which is pcossibly doing rural people a greatâ€" ter service, than government aid in the New Deal. Planning Councils As a result of the rapid developâ€" ment of our transportation and comâ€" munication facilities, the changing and expanding educational program and system, the shifting economic and social picture the increased aâ€" mount of leisure time, in many inâ€" stances the lagging church program and the interdependence of town and country, agriculture and industry, the currents of influence that enter our homes from the ends of the NEW YEAR‘$3 RESOLUTIONS FOR COMMUNITY LEADERS 1. I will plan a program of work for the year based on the needs of the I will have one cammunity serâ€" vice going at all times. I will plan all programs in adâ€" vance of meetink time. I will start all meetings on time. I will have fewer and better speeches. I will have every member particiâ€" pating in the year‘s program. Neighbor Nights THE DURHAM REVIEW j RRAERTCE #11 CHC e LU "% & ol r been passed by a Munfcipality authâ€" ::";u:;uws ut‘:ml::l-m were unve.i G. Ritchie read mmw;rcmvzf ‘: ;;::ldl .:::' orlxing the Wn,'nflon of a Free g Sep! * ‘Mar> Jones and her bible‘ Hm u as I Public Library. ‘This grant may be A cut stone monument at Grand and prayer by. Mes: Priest cioud e am sur 50c per capita. No fees may then Pre, Nova Scotia, commemorating mm'm: A ‘déinty Junch was served lected, your Con be charged to residents outside the the Battle of Grand Pre which took ‘The willbe heldn' am s:.dln. you Municipality. â€" Association Libraries Place on February 11, 1747, when Mrs 'H!enryhlw, “m’. with . are maintained by fees paid by bor. New England troops, under Colonel Beaton‘s . Can we be of sil rowers and by money raised in the Arthur Noble, were surprised and community for the upkeep of the defeated by French and Indians un ‘The oneâ€"time Sootch national dish, Ke“v a Library. ‘There is no compulsory der Coulonde Villiers, who had made the t!+rmiz, must be falling from its . taxation for funds for the Library. & fmmmmhm"‘..*w“ c'““..l.l Naturally the Free Library can give in a blinding snowstorm. ‘The Brit firm in Toronto received the Orde? Fitablished 1890 Grey County which has a populaâ€" tion of 57,699 has 14 Public Lib raries. Â¥Fve of these are Free Lib raries and nine are Association Libâ€" raries. Free Libraries are maintainâ€" ed by a grant each year from the Town Council after a tbylaw has natentvapenmeneitvenmnenennetenntranetmanamnmpnteemammmeeneeneeeeeieee ie i i inncmus â€" cuuasc enc mm 10 0 tained without nhm.mmmmununmw A cut stone monument at Bate. We iadIiBPr Mn-kywmummm“u.uqmnmdmmflflm commemor®! jyy, Carman Hapkins took a loag out planning ? As we focus OUr nearest Public Library. Of the other UNS the preâ€"historic "“"m of the B.Y.P.U. Thursday cvening minds on our communities, counties, 4:, there are 36% living in muni which connects Bale Verte fhom the of last week to spend an enjoyable and our State we find that churches,| cipalities where Free Libraries have saguash Rivers. This "“‘m Nee or aveainr with Mr John McLean, who Sundry Schools, Women‘s Institutes, already been established â€"â€" Owen Guif of St. Lawrence to had the misfortune to break his arm Junior Farmers, U.F.Y.P.O. Clubs Sound, Meaford, Hanover, Durham Fundy wa® on c io : uc k b and other institutions and agencies and Markdale. Out of this 36% only nw«l“:‘ between . Quebec, The l-\'-:.-rv; -'::er- are busy . Rc * wo entine play are making an effort to meet the 34%, of the population ol flfl:ll_l:i:l r‘:'m “cmw , Mant :m'. 7. plays, HOW TO ACHIEVE ITâ€" Through voluntary efforts on the part of each citizen of the county; through united efforts of neighborhoods, communâ€" ities, and organizations. A Speaker‘s Bureau was developed to present the details of the campaign to each community in the county. . The folâ€" lowing organizations cooperated in the campaign Young Women‘s Asâ€" sociations, Women‘s Institutes. Church, Sunday Schools Junior Farmâ€" are making an effort to meet the necds of individuals, homes, groups, and communities withciust any Clear cut picture and very little appreciaâ€" tion and a great lack of understandâ€" ing of what needs the other agencies are attempting to meet. We submit these two ideas for the improvement of rural life, for we beâ€" lieve that every selfâ€"respecting cit!â€" zen and community should undertake a similar venture. Something a Wideâ€"Awake Community THE OBJECTâ€" to develop the scenic beauty and home attractiveâ€" nevs of the rural and village areas of Compkins County. Could Do Beautifying highways; do roadside planting; eliminate auto gravevards; remove _ signs; promote front yard cleanup; promote a flower show; promote school essay contests of improvements ; landscape _ village green or park drain or fill swampy areas; build a lookout parking area; promote demolition of _ unsightlly structures: plant ornamental trees. WANTEDâ€"A Spruceâ€"Up â€" Campaign Particular interest has been foâ€" cussed en Farm and Home Improveâ€" ments by the Farmer Magazine. They have sponsored Farm and Home Im provement contests in five centres in Ontario, the first of which was sponâ€" sored by the Unijonville Junior Farâ€" mers‘ Association. Sometime aro. in New York State the citizens of Compkins County orâ€" ganized the Compkins County Develâ€" opment Assoc‘ation which sponsored a snruceâ€"un Campaign. Home is where the heart is, some people prefer a neat manure pile or root house to a beautiful flawer bed, or comfortable parior. hedge row; rake up sticlks and leayâ€" es; plant muddy spots; make a sideâ€" plant ornamentaltrees remove signs; cut dead trees. To meet this growing need in our changing social and economic order we propose planning councils, We have discovered that life in our rormal rural communities is influâ€" enced and in a large measure deterâ€" mined by these institutions and facâ€" torsâ€"farms, business, church, school, ocmmunity spirit, government or citiâ€" zenship, homes, bealth, nature, and social and economic cultural and reâ€" creational organization cf the comâ€" munity . To bring about cooperative and planned action in community, one or more neople are elected to present the different phases of the life in in the community such as church, schcol, farms, business, etc. WANTEDâ€"A Spruceâ€"Up â€" Campaign Would you like to boast about your home ° You could if you did some of the following: Clean front yard; make a flower bed; paint plant hedge; build a rose trellis;| burn brush; build rock garden; reâ€". Library Pacilities in Grey County COUNTY LIBRARIES sources in the marking and preservaâ€" tion of historic sites, and from the Atlantic tothe Pacific stirring events in the history of Canada are recalled by tablets and monuments erected by the government. The following monuments and cairns were unve‘ilâ€" ed during September: Leaving out Owen Sound with 43% using the Libraries. Only 5% LTaC‘UB PDPM+ are within reach of the Association, Bay Company Libraries at â€"Badjeros, Hepworth, Company loca! Holstein, Maxwell, Thornbury. Of Fort Alexande the people in these communities only company, has national importance. An honorary advisory board, the Historic Sites and Mcnuments Board, ccmposed of recognized historians, coâ€"operates with the National Parks Bureau of the Department of Mines and Reâ€" HoIstCIN, MARWERM, S MRMIAIAIOE * OY TEORRE the people in these communities only company, has survived. 22% are making use of the Libraries. ing of this monument The reason for this small percentage of the La Verendrye is obvious when the small amount Celebration . that can be spent yearly on books . a cairn at Norway | is seenâ€"â€"$20.69, $43.46, $45.43â€"which ;opa, marking the i of course will not mean many NDeW jouse built on Jack Ri beoks. Most of this will likely be 13 py the Hudson‘s B: spent on very light fiction. Out Of 1; was rebuilt on this the whole population of 57,699 only 7877 or 14% are making use of lbâ€" raries. Of this number 3,716 are in Owen Sound and 4,161 outside of Owen Sound cr only 7% of the whole of Grey. County outside of Owen Sound are making use of Public Libraries The small Wbraries in rural schools are of course, not taken into conâ€" sideration. _ These figures are based on the latest report available and does nct take in the change in Juâ€" venile reading since the new Course of Study has been issued. Any inâ€" who have no access to Libraries but it certainly does not give the whole County a very high standard so far as books are concerned. A few people not using Public Libraries may be readers but it would only Not only for adults are book: : Mr needed but the new Course of Study (Chri:tian for schools requires so many more Williams books than most rural school boards Mp Allie feel they can possibly afford to buy. hymn« a The children want books but the mogirr ; supply is not there. The intellects Of ang the : these bright youngsters in rural d!=® Witshin s mean juvenile reading. This small percentage is due ob viously to the large number of people be a very sma‘il percentage who could afford to buy very many books for themselves. rary in Grey, at Maxwell, where there are 53 borrowers and a cirulaâ€" tion in 1935 of 1713 or 32 books per borrower. The amount spent on books was $34.98 and they have 367 volumes in their Library. Does this look as though the people in the rural districts would not read if they had the books to read ? taught to read and advised to read more books but nobody is taking the trouble to supply them with a rural school board feels it can afâ€" ford to buy each year. Many of of these are not suitable for the young people who have left schoo! and are still at home. The result is they lose interest in books. Isn‘t ittime someinterest was taken in Grey to keep up with rural dis tricts in other counties where to meet the same need they have County Libraries ? Next week we will explain just what is meant by a County Library. the A FACT A WEEK ABNUT CANADA neu> «m es acp omm en tabâ€" of £° EmtE 2 CCat o y munication between . Quebec, Isl# â€" ‘phe B.Y.P.U. members ars busy . Rcyale and Chignecto. practising for two Valentine piays, ; A cairn at Fort Alexander, MaNito® 1 be presented shortly. ; ba, marking the site of _ F"t Mr and Mrs Clifford Adlam visiieg o Maurepas, one Of LA Verendry©® gSunday at the home of Mr and x; . sradine nosts. _ Both the Hudson‘s jao, Sherman, Lamlash . ho eentreant P Company located here in 1792. ODY and under the doctor‘s cars, but w» Rart Alexander, built by the u-or are pleased to uy_d}e has improved day s»pner in the and prayer by Mrs Priest closed the lected, meet‘nm=. A dainty lunch was served. am se The February meeting will be held at with ." Mrs Henry Beaton‘s. Aioks aus Church here Thursday night last. PAKG000000800000000§00000046 scripture lesson. Following was a brief a New Year‘s mossage from Miss Jenn‘e Pearcy, the president of our Home Missions. A hymn was sung and Mrs J. T. Priest gave a paper entitled "In the Beginning". Mrs W. G. Ritchie read the third chapter of A cairn at Norway House, Muniâ€" toba, marking the site of Norway House built on Jack River in 1812â€" 13, by the Hudson‘s Bay Company. It was rebuilt on this site in 1825 and was a frequent meetingâ€"place of the Council of the Northern Departâ€" ment of Rupert‘s Land. _ Here the Ritchie gave an interesting paper on the newer Canadian hymns and their ‘The regular meeting of Knox Unitâ€" ed Â¥oung People was held Tuebday evening. ‘The president, Miss Anne Ritchiec, presided during the businâ€" efs prriod. It was decided to send spend asocial night on St. Valentine‘s The meeting was then turned over to Mr Dan Ritchie, convener of Christian culture. _ Miss Margaret Williams read.the scripture lesson. ‘The Senior Young People of the Durham Presbyterian Church hel4 their regular weekly meeting on Sunday evening at the conclusion of the church service. A goodly numâ€" ber of members of the Society and The Glenelg Centre Baptist Misâ€" sion Circle held their January meetâ€" Inz at the home of Mrs Neil Mactarâ€" lane. ‘The meeting opened with a bymn. bible reading and prayer in and used continuously than a century by furâ€"traders and exâ€" picrers, including Sir Alexander Macâ€" kenzie, Sir John Franktin and George Wilkerten Y. P. 8. an and the members sang them. Mr Dan from the Hanover P.Y.P.8. was read, informing the locai society of poctporement of the former‘s skating Mr Allie McGirr gave a paper on hymn« and their authors. Miss Jean CcONDUCTS ILLUSTRATIVE TALK ON BHIL MISSION FIELD The onetime Sootch national aisn, _ Kelly & Aiker monument formed @art assisting in the home. Verendrye BiCentenary Many friends of Mr Don. McoKec) nie will be pleased to know he ;; at Norway House, Mhuniâ€" doing as welp as can be erpected ing the site of Norway though now in his 87th year, wish & on Jack River in 1812â€" broken leg. Mrs. Wiilson of Fios»p Hudson‘s Bay Company. erton, is looking after the aged jop ilt on this site in 1825 tleman and daughter, Miss Mary frequent meetingâ€"place of doctor and all speak highly o( n C Onpedonncs onl C enemmencie cantndlt â€" Aromenmadts couas â€"#, ine president of our mns. A hymn was sung On January 7th 1939, a " T. Priest gave a paper cleint wrote us in part as !: the Beginning". Mrs W. "I would surely recommend y ead the third chapter of anyone I know who has bills and her bible‘. Hymn lacmt am T am swea if tha. aan a paper cleint wrote us in part as follow Mrs W. "I would surely recommend y>= * hapter of anyone I know who has bills :~ ~~ . Hymn lect as I am sure if they can »» c . am sending you another note hore mbility as nurse and housekse= Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lockor of Straffordville, Ont, spent theis honey moon at the home of Mrs. Row =;, yu. at 2 o‘clock in the church. (intended for last week Today, Tuesday is very jrosty nrobably as cold as any Jay thi a position in Owen Sound and wil] spend sometime there. cently with her father in Hamilton the back had spent the past week with her parents returned home with hin Miss Georgie Miller has accepted Mr Bill Sheuremann has been busy with his sawing outft on this line ‘The annual meeting in connoction with the church here wil be held on ‘Thursday afternoon, Febh. Sth were in attendance at the funeral of a friend, Mrs McGillivray in Pasloy Can we be of similar service to you" Mrs Lance Rumble of Toronto, is spending this week with her mother, Robert Lawson who was on the sicl list the past week. Pleased to hear she is much better again. Mrs Eliza Tiffany, Dorncch, @s spending some time at the home o! cent visitor at his home. Mrs McGregor of London is spon«4 ing sometime with her aunt,. \»= with Mr and Mrs Salter, William: Mrâ€"and Mrs Gordon MeCras and family were wvisitors fAirst of the week with Mr and Mrs Wm. Beli and Mrs W. H. Smith visited recontiy _ ~ with her aunt Mrs J. A. Ledincham Big bundle of old papers, oniy it at Review Office. Just the thins for Mr and Mrs Malcolm MeKechnie Miss Georgle Miller is spen<« Mr and Mra Patterson of T Mr and Mrs A. D. 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