344 COUNTRY LIFE CONVENIENCES 



North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, 

 South Dakota, Vermont, and Wisconsin. 



Community Improvement Clubs. The progressive people of 

 every community should organize a club to sustain the same 

 business relationship to the community as exists between a city 

 and its commercial club. The community improvement club 

 should encourage the establishment of good schools and good 

 school environments, and should also furnish for the community 



Class in agriculture, Weatherford, Okla., destroying infected branches. 



lectures, entertainments, and instructive amusements. The build- 

 ing of good roads, the establishment of churches, libraries, reading 

 rooms, and many other things of like nature that are necessary 

 for the general welfare of the community, should receive the atten- 

 tion of the club. Such an organization when properly managed 

 can be made a power for good in any community. 



Rural Mail Routes. Formerly the farmer had to go to town 

 or to some village in order to get his mail, and generally this 

 necessitated a trip of several miles and meant a considerable 

 loss of time. Under such conditions it was impossible to secure 



