OUR VILLAGE IM- 

 PROVEMENT SOCIETY 



UR village is pleasantly lo- 

 cated. It has river frontage, 

 and some very fine trees, and 

 quite a number of attractive 

 residences. 



It also has a two-acre lot 

 which had long been known 

 as " the park," because it was public property. 

 It was bought years ago, when the town had a 

 "boom," as a site for a court-house. But a 

 rival town got the court-house, the "boom" 

 collapsed, and our "park" became the village 

 cow-pasture. 



Its fine elms made it a shady, pleasant place, 

 and many of us saw great possibilities in it, if, 

 as we used to say to each other, " the town ever 

 improved any." But, like the rest of the vil- 

 lage, as a village, the two-acre lot was so 

 neglected that we took no pride in it, and the 

 question of cutting it up for residence pur- 

 poses finally came before the village Council. 

 It was this suggestion on the part of some 



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