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Two guests, Mrs. Barbara
Cameron of Woodstock, 1st
vice-president of Electoral Dis-
trict 8 $&PW Clubs of Ontario,
and Mrs, Shirley Mackenzie of
Wiarton, regional advisor, at-
tended the meeting of the 13&.
PW Club at Danny's Restaurant
last Tuesday. After the presen-
tation of the slate of officers for
the ensuing year by Mrs, J.
Alexander, Mrs, Mackenzie in.
stalled the officers in the tra-
ditional ceremony, She then
spoke to the club, bringing the
highlights of the various clubs
of the area.
Mrs. Cameron
speaker and gave
Members must be willing
to take responsibility
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address on the values of 9&PW
work to the individual Member,
She stressed the importance of
each Member whole-heartedly
contributing as much as possi-
ble to the club. Every woman
has an opportunity to promote
women's rights through her
club membership. Members
Should be happy and willing to
accept responsibility by acting
on boards wherever possible.
More opportunities will be open
to women if they show that they
can accept responsibility.
During the business, annual
reports were heard from the
secretary, treasurer and chair-
men of the various committees,
Plans were discussed for the
fashion pageant being sponsored
on May 29. In this connection
beautiful posters were prepared
by Mrs. Goldthorpe's class,
Turnberry Central School, and
by two students from the Myth
area.
The secretary's report show-
ed that a highlight of the club's
year was the celebration of its
fifth birthday in September and
the Christmas social evening
with fifteen guests.
During the year $25.00 was
.given to the Centennial Fund;
the sale of UNICEF cards was
successful; the African Student
Fund and the Ramallah Project
were supported and a proficien-
cy award was presented to a
Wingham District High School
student.
Several club members pro-
vided excellent entertainment
with pictures and accounts of
their travels. Outside speakers
were Cyrus Needham of Kings-
ton, Jamaica, teacher at Luck-
now District High School; Mar-
vin Howe, M.P. for Welling-
ton-Huron; Robert P. Ritter,
vice-principal• o f W D. H. S. ,
and Mrs. Iris Morrey, adminis-
trator of Wingham and District
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In March the club members
were saddened by the death of
a valued member, Miss May
Williamson, and tribute was
paid to her memory at the reg-
ular meeting.
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rived home on Tuesday after
spending the winter months in
Lakeland, Florida.
—0/Cadet Keith L, Scott of
Camp Borden is spending two
weeks' leave at his home here,
Keith has successfully passed
the first phase of his training.
—Mr. and Mrs, Lloyd Ella-
cott accompanied Mr, and Mrs.
Joe Ellaectt of Walkerton, and
the latter's brother and his wife
who are visitors from England,
to Niagara Falls on Sunday.
--Mr. Jas, H. Currie of Cen-
tre Street has been attending
the Expo at Montreal. His sis-
ter Mrs, Mary Galbraith leaves
on Thursday to spend a few days
with Mrs. Elgin Currie of Toron-
to and then Mrs. Galbraith and
Mrs. Currie will attend Expo.
—Miss Elizabeth. Anderson,
Reg. N. and Miss Dunn of Mont-
real motored on Saturday to the
home of the former's sister, Mrs.
Robert Purdon of Belgrave. Miss
Anderson has sold her nursing
home in Montreal and is retir-
ing to Belgrave. Mrs. Gordon
Rintoul and Gayle of White-
church, also Mrs. Jas, Curran
of St, Helens, visited there on
Sunday.
—Mr. and Mrs. Ken Dunbar
and family of Chatsworth visit-
ed with her mother, Mrs. Gert-
rude Allen on the week-end.
—Mr. and Mrs. Don Lahn
and family of Waterloo visited
on Sunday with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Michael Cummins,
Josephine Street.
--Mr. Bruce Edgar and Mr.
Joe Marshall of Toronto visited
over the week-end with Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Edgar,
—Mrs. Alex Porter-field, a
resident of Huronview, Clinton,
observes her 89th birthday on
Thursday, May 11.
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features from
• The World' of Women
Restoring historical house
novel industrial project
HEAD TABLE GUESTS at the Mother and.
Daughter CGIT banquet at the United
Church included Mrs. Orval Struthers,
guest speaker, seen in centennial dress and
the only gentleman at the event, Rev, C.
M. Jardine, minister of the Wingham
United Church.
—Advance-Times Photo.
THE UNITED CHURCH in Wingham was
the scene of a large gathering of girls
and mothers as the Wingham Canadian
Girls in Training held their annual Mother-
Daughter banquet. Guest speaker for the
event was Mrs. Orval Struthers of Mitchell,
formerly of Wingham.
—Advance-Times Photo.
LET'S HUNT MUSHROOMS
Be Sure You Pick Edible Variety
Rarely can Canadian house-
wives identify with the day-to-
day operations of a large, corn--
plex chemical company, but
during 1967 anything can hap-
pen! Canadian Industries Ltd.
has purchased an historic old
building in the old section of
Montreal, as its centennial pro-
ject, and its plans to restore it
to its original condition will
interest anyone who has ever
contemplated buying an old
home and "fixing it up".
The building, a sturdy, two-
and-a-half-storey, stone house
dating from the beginning of the
19th century, will be restored
to its original condition and
will conform to the general plan
of the Jacques Niger Commission
to restore and preserve the old
city.
The usual complications
were encountered when clear-
ing the deeds to the old house,
but in so doing some facinating
historical facts were uncovered.
Built about 1806, the old stone
house stands on a property with
much older connections with
the ancient city. Once the land
formed part of the great garden
of a palatial chateau started in
1723 by Philippe de Rigaud,
Marquis de Vaudreuil, gover-
nor of Montreal and, later, gov-
ernor of New France. Vaudreuil,
who planned it as a home in
which to spend his declining
years, died in 1725, a year be-
fore the completion of the cha-
teau but from then until the end
of the French regime, it was
occupied by the Vaudreuil fam-
ily. As one of the greatest
chateaux in the city, it was
frequently visited by such dis-
tinguished guests as the Marquis
de Montcalm, the Chevalier de
Levis and the Marquis de LaJon-
quiere.
In 1803, the chateau, then
spores per minute continuously
for three or four days.
One variety of puffball, Ly-
coperdon pyriforme, functions
ingeniously. The pressure of a
single raindrop striking the puff-
ball will eject a million spores
out of a tiny opening in the top.
Mushroom spores are so
buoyant that a beam of light
projected into a laboratory tube
of spores will cause them to
churn up like smoke. —Health-
ways.
serving as the College of Mont-
real, was destroyed by fire and
the land on which it stood, in ,
eluding the spacious gardens,
was subdivided into building lots,
with a large section, the pres-
ent Place Jacques Cartier, be-
ing donated to the city to serve
as a market place,
The lot on the present corner
of Place Jacques Cartier and St,
Paul Street, facing the lower
end of the new market place,
was sold to Dame Angelique
Blondeau, widow of Gabriel
Come, a well-known and weal-
thy fur-trader and a founder of
the Beaver Club, on condition
that a stone house to certain
specifications be erected upon
it, It was sold by her to Pierre
Delvecchio soon after she ac-
quired it and it remained in the
hands of the Delvecchio family
and its connections until 1946.
The existence of the handsome
old stone house today is proof
that the conditions of the orig-
inal sale lyere
The first step in its restora-
tion was the clearing away of
years of accumulated debris.
Then the job of stripping the
house down to its original struc-
ture began. Partitions came
down which had been added at
various times, as did layers of
ceilings, While no secret pan-
els or passageways were unearth-
ed, no less than five fireplaces
which had been bricked up at
some point in the last 150 years
were discovered. These fire-
places have now undergone face-
lifting by stonemasons and their
chimneys have been relined.
Restoration work, unlike re-
novation work, is slow and
painstaking. it requires special
skills and highly trained work-
ers. For instance, there are
problems in creating a mortar
that looks like the old 18th-
century material. Also, the
mortar must be applied, not in
the modern way, but as it would
have been when the house was
built early in the nineteenth
—Members of the P.H.A.M,
Club are looking forward to
their Centennial reunion this
coming Tuesday, May 16, at
the home of Mrs, Ross Howson,
31 Barrie St., Galt. century.
Some mildly toxic mush-
rooms cause hallucinations.
The Aztecs and other early
Mexican Indians ate a sacred
mushroom (Psilocybe) that pro-
duced fantastic visions. Some
Indians in remote areas still eat
the fungus in mystic ceremonies.
Recent research indicates
that Beserks, the Vikings' preda-
tory group of brawlers and kill-
ers, who fought like men pos-
sessed, chewed Amanita mus-
caria to induce their frenzied
state.
Unlike green plants, mush-
rooms have no chlorophyll.
They cannot manufacture their
own food, thus must live on the
organic remains of plants and
animals. A few species are
parasitic, but most flourish in
woodland humus.
The mushroom develops from
a microscopic spore, which cor-
responds to the seed of green
plants. The spore sprouts into
an underground system of
branching thin threads and cord-
like strands called the mycel-
ium.
The mycelium usually
spreads radially as it depletes
the soil of organic food. When
there is a proper balance of
warmth and moisture, little
knobs appear. These develop
into mushrooms, In a few hours,
the maturing fungi rise from the
circular mycelium, often form-
ing the "fairy ring" of folklore.
Growing mushrooms are com-
posed of 90 per cent water, and
they surge up with the power of
a hydraulic lift. Young mush-
rooms have forced their way
through paving.
The mature mushroom is the
fruit of the fungus. Its sole fun
tion is to produce spores. This
does prodigiously. Some spe-
cies release a half-million
Mushroom hunters head for
the woods in the springtime to
search for the succulent morel
and other fungu'i treats. Morels
are favorites among the elite of
edible fungi: A veteran myco-
phile—mushroom lover—has
described the sponge-headed
morel as "crisp, savory, and
enticing, one of nature's super-
ior delicacies."
Unfortunately, the morel
cannot be cultivated. It grows
only in the wild. In fact, just
one mushroom is grown com-
mercially in the United States--
the meadow mushroom (Agari-
cus campestris).
Knowledgeable mushroom
hunters, however, can easily
find many edible varieties
among the two thousand species.
They come in assorted flavors
—peppery, bitter and nutty.
Some species exude an aroma
of ripe apricots and anise. One
genus, Lactarius, produces a
savory juice which may be
milky white, blue or orange.
Botanists warn budding gour-
mets to eat only mushrooms
they are absolutely sure are not
poisonous. The distinction be-
tween mushrooms and toad-
stools is scientifically meaning-
less, though in popular usage
,the term "toadstool" often
designates a poisonous variety.
Actually, poisonous and edible
species may be closely related.
Make fresh mint sauce for
roast spring lamb more easily.
Scatter sugar onto the leavesbe-
fore chopping. Sugar absorbs
the mint flavour thoroughly, dis-
patches it in the boiling water,
and then, when the vinegar is
added, melds the sweet with the
sour for a finished flavour that
zings!
Mrs. Daisy Connell, past president; stand-
ing: Mrs. W, C, Murray, treasurer; Mrs.
George Scott, recording secretary, and Mrs.
Albert Rintoul, corresponding secretary.
Mrs. John Crewson, 1st vice-president, was
absent.—A-T Photo,
THE 1967 EXECUTIVE of the Wingham
Business and Professional Women's Club
was elected on Tuesday of last week during
the annual meeting at Danny's Restaurant.
Seated are Mrs. Fraser Forgie, 2nd vice-
president; Mrs. Robert Ahara, president;
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