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and sixty school children collected 60 such heaps, which were removed 

 by the town authorities. Fences and trees are whitewashed, and fly 

 and moth campaigns are successfully carried on by women's clubs. 



Arbor Day is celebrated in many localities by planting shade trees 

 in the school 7/ards and on country roads. A county in California 

 planted a large number of shade trees on country roads, every woman's 

 club in the county being responsible for certain portions of the road. 

 The courtyard in Ashland City, Tenn., was turned into a park by the 

 woman's club there. 



Women's clubhouses are frequently used as commmiity centers. A 

 recreation hall was built by the Ladies' Literary Society, a rural club 

 near Exeter, Me., as early as 1865. It is still in existence and has 

 ■ been managed by the same organization of women since its construc- 

 tion. There is a stage for speaking and dramatic entertainments, 

 the Grange meets here, the yomig people may secure the hall for 

 social gatherings, and equipment for cooking and serving is provided. 

 On a reclamation project in Aiizona a splendid type of rural club 

 undertook the building of a clubhouse immediately upon being organ- 

 ized, as there was at that time no available meetmg place large enough 

 for public gatherings. It is said that at the time of the organization 

 of this club in 1907, when the meetings were held in .the members' 

 homes, the members were very widely scattered and drove on trails and 

 through sagebrush to the meetings, some driving as far as 17 miles. 

 Funds were raised by subscription for the clubhouse, the business 

 men contributmg a substantial sum. The families of the members 

 helped, and when the time came for construction much of the hauling 

 and actual work of building was done by them. The clubhouse was 

 used at once for a union Smiday school and has always been available 

 without charge for any community enterprise. Its maintenance is 

 provided for largely through rentals to the young people for their 

 social gatherings. The Heaton Point Household Science Club, in 

 Illmoio, unable to build a clubhouse, bought 100 trays, spoons, and 

 foldhig chairs to be used by any person in the community for spacial 

 entertainments or for any large gathering. 



Women's rural clubs have done much to further the employment 

 of trained workers for the county, such as women county agents, 

 comity nurses, and county social service workers. The woman State 

 agent for Mississippi has said that the women's clubs in that State 

 have been constant and earnest supporters of woman county agent 

 work in home economics. They have given financial aid, used their 

 influence to secure appropriations, bought canning club products, 

 and given the work a promment place on their programs. In St. 

 Joseph County, Mich., money was raised through the sale of Red 

 Cross stamps and in other ways to pay part of the salary of a comity 

 nurse. In some rural communities the women's organizations have 



