IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY 



accomplish really remarkable results, not 

 remarkable, perhaps, when individually con- 

 sidered, but quite so when looked at in the ag- 

 gregate. Old lawns were renovated and new 

 ones were made; trees, shrubs, and vines were 

 planted and beds planned for flowers; old 

 fences were mended and painted, some were 

 removed; we cleaned away the rubbish which 

 had accumulated everywhere because of the 

 careless, slovenly habits we had fallen into; 

 in short, we did a hundred and one things 

 which I need not make special mention of here, 

 but which each member of a society for general 

 improvement will find waiting to be done when 

 an aggressive campaign is begun. In going 

 about the village shortly after the era of reform 

 had set in we were delighted at the evidences 

 of neatness which met us on every hand, and 

 we congratulated ourselves on what had al- 

 ready been effected by combined effort ex- 

 pended along the same line. 



WE began public improvement at the 

 church. The grounds about it were 

 cleaned up thoroughly and some trees and vines 

 set out; old hitching posts were removed and 



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