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Qvic Improvement 
MENOMONIE, WIS., AND ITS GROWTH OF CIVIC SPIRIT 
! An interesting study of civic development brought 
about by the influence of actual work accomplished is 
to be found in the city of Menomonie in northwestern 
Wisconsin. Nature did much for the city in land- 
' scape beauty, with a lake near its very center, an in- 
i teresting river and its blufifs, as well as several attrac- 
tive creeks in virgin timber and more or less used for 
boating. Its water frontage is quite remarkable for 
a city of its size and location. Chief among its at- 
tractions as a city Menomonie has a fine school sys- 
‘ tern due to a large extent to the generosity of one of 
? its prominent citizens. Senator Stout. In addition to 
j an unusual graded school system, the Stout Manual 
\ Training School and a school of physical culture are 
used for a part of the school work. The county has 
two schools here, one for the training of her teachers 
and one for her farmers as well — these being among 
the first of their kind in the country. Still further 
advanced in their scope are three training schools for 
teachers of kindergarten work, domestic science, and 
the mechanic arts open to students from the state of 
Wisconsin. 
Due to the assistance and efforts of the founder of 
the manual training school the central school grounds 
have been laid out with a large shrub collection to 
give the best landscape effects. It includes both native 
and exotic plants arranged according to family with 
a view to students’ use. This work was planned bv 
