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(jvic Improvement 
The Moorestown, N. J., Improvement Association. 
The importance of keeping the work and needs of 
improvement organizations constantly before the pub- 
lic so that enthusiasm may not be allowed to flag has 
often been noted in these columns and all of the most 
successful associations have committees or officers 
who keep the local press supplied with news. The 
INIoorestown Improvement Association, of Afoores- 
town, X. J., has gone a step farther than the others 
and publishes a monthly paper of its own, entitled 
‘A^illage Improvement,” of which we reproduce the 
title heading below. It is published every month in 
the year except December, January and February, and 
is distributed free to every house in the village. It is 
an ably edited, newsy little journal, and that its value 
has substantial recognition is shown by the fact that 
the receipts for the advertisements of local merchants 
very nearly cover the expense of publication. Airs. 
Horace Stokes, Secretary, writes that they find it an 
excellent medium of communication, and that consid- 
erable interest has been awakened since the paper was 
started in September, 1904. The title design shown 
on this page was drawn by Ruth Evans Rhoads, Chair- 
man of the Publication Committee. Village Improve- 
ment has four or six pages 9^2x12^2 inches in size. 
is very neatly printed, and both in typography and 
contents is far in advance of the average country news- 
paper. The first page is devoted to editorials and im- 
portant notices or news, and the regular departments 
and special features are on the inner pages, which also 
contain advertisements. The last page is devoted en- 
tirely to advertisements. One of the regular features 
is the “Children’s Column,” which contains notes and 
suggestions to encourage and stimulate the work of 
the young people. “Here and There” is the heading 
of a column containing brief paragraphs about indi- 
vidual instances of improvement noted about town and 
suggestions for others. The following headings se- 
lected at random from different numbers of Village 
Improvement will give some idea of its contents : 
Our Duty as Citizens ; The Sidewalk Question ; Pure 
Water; Trimming of Trees; Our Shade Trees; High 
School Improvements ; Attractive Vines ; The Hardy 
Border, by Walter P. Stokes ; How to Plant the Home 
Grounds; The Flower Show; Tree Spraying; A X^ew 
School Building Needed ; A Town Hall. The follow- 
ing editorial on “The Preservation of Our Shade 
Trees,” is a fair example of the practical, sensible na- 
ture of the material published : 
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HEADING OF THE MOORESTOWN, N. J.. VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT MONTHLY. 
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