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women and for both ; all singing schools and 

 musical clubs ; reading clubs and library asso- 

 ciations; women's clubs; historical societies; 

 athletic organizations, and all groups that 

 might develop the play spirit and revive the 

 native games; local political organizations, 

 that might give as much attention to develop- 

 ing or promoting the community as to putting 

 some one in office; the good roads interest, 

 which is now easy of organization and direc- 

 tion ; banks, which might have relation to the 

 welfare of the community as well as to them- 

 selves, as is shown by various European expe- 

 rience; chambers of commerce and business 

 men's organizations in the smaller cities, that 

 might extend their efforts beyond the corpor- 

 ation lines, associating the country merchants 

 and traders with them ; civic societies ; im- 

 provement and art societies. In the way of 

 economic group-associations, the cooperative 

 creamery may be cited as a representative ex- 

 ample. In a dairy country, such an institution 

 not only works an improvement in farm prac- 

 tice and develops a market, but it makes a 



