55 Apparently this whole family was strong. Hon Lauchlan was a big and :ul b 509 7AQ powerful man. His son Ronnie had the strength to actually carry a cow. Telephones were introduced to East Point in 1907- The first telephone office was in the home of Helen Stewart . The first tele- 510 phones at East Point were at Lauchlan MacDonalds and at Beatoris. The first Women's Institute at East Point was organized by Miss Hazel Sterns . The first executive was composed of Mrs. John J. MacDonald ( Mrs. John Gillis ) as President and Miss Margaret Beaton as the first Secretary - Treasurer . This group is still going strong. 311 It celebrated its sixtieth anniversary in July of 1977. Mrs. Bess MacKinnon recalled that her great grandfather first landed at East Point when he came to P.E.I. She believed that Donald Beaton drove him to St. Peters where he settled. Later a Beaton girl married a MacDonald from the same area. He used to ask her son, "How is your Mother". The grandson of Donald always replied, "She is a Beaton from East Point ". This was confusing for him. However he real¬ ized that his Scottish accent made his words come out as "Who is your 312 Mither?" instead of "How is your mother? In World War I two died in service* William 3] 3 Beaton son/, of James A. Beaton and Mary Magdalen Ford died in Europe. 'y Donald Maclntyre , a member of the 105th Battalion,, died in Ch'Town 314 in March of 1916 after a long illness. , ^' Most owned their own land and were protected 315 from the proprietor's selfish interests. y However, the area of East Point has long been a stronghold for the tenantry. In 1828, a news¬ paper reported that twenty-six ejectments were served on Title of land at East Point . However the defendants (who were probably