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clows. Next spring the idea running through most of them will 

 be, Clean up the town to prevent flies. A prize may be offered 

 for the poster setting forth most effectively the dangers of flies. 



This committee also placed a sanitary drinking fountain in 

 one of the four ward schools at a cost of twenty-five dollars. 

 The school board immediately decided to install them in the other 

 wards next summer. The Civic League expects to be financially 

 able to place one on the square next spring. A series of articles- 

 on tuberculosis and agitation for milk inspection are undertak- 

 ings that the committee hopes to begin on this winter. 



Perhaps, for the benefit of those who wish to organize for 

 this kind of work, something should be said concerning the 

 Woman's Civic League, which was organized by representatives 

 from the various literary clubs in March, 1908. The object is to 

 cooperate with the officials to have a clean, healthful, and beau- 

 tiful city, and to educate the rising generation to do the same. 

 Any one interested in the work may become a member by paying 

 the annual fee of one dollar. The membership consists of about 

 seventy-five of the leading women of the town. The working" 

 members, of whom there are twenty-five to thirty, are organized 

 into the following committees : 



Streets and Alleys. — This is the Clean-up Day Committee 

 also. 



Membership and Finance. 



Public Utilities. 



Parks, which has done much toward influencing owners of 

 property abutting on the park to keep their premises tidy. 



Preservation of Natural Beauty, which has offered prizes 

 for the best children's gardens, and lawns showing most im- 

 provement. 



Railroad, which has greatly improved conditions around the- 

 station, and made a small railroad park. 



Humane, which had four officers (without pay) appointed 

 by the city council for the prevention of cruelty to animals. This 

 was not wholly satisfactory, so the committee enlisted the cooper- 

 ation of a number of leading men, and organized a humane 

 society, embracing the whole county and affiliated with the Illinois 

 Human Society, and changed its name to the Philanthropic,. 

 which annually makes several layettes at a cost of three dollars 

 each for the infants of those who are too poor to provide them ; 

 maintains a representative on the city charities board, which it 



