PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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BEFORE; GRADING SPAULDING PARK, MUSKOGEE, OKLA., APRIL, 1909, 
grounds in some of the improved 
park ground, and these have cement- 
ed the friendship of every child and 
the parents of every child to the 
park work. They are immensely 
popular. 
The playgrounds are under the 
joint control and supervision of the 
park board which consists of three 
members serving without pay, and 
the Playgrounds Association. 
In one of the largest and most 
highly improved parks a concrete 
wading pool 40x60 feet has been built. 
It is kept filled with running water 
from one to twenty inches in depth, 
the overflow running into the arti- 
ficial lake near by. Thousands of 
little feet and legs are cooled daily 
during the summer months in this 
pool. 
AFTER; SPAULDING PARK IN AUGUST, 1911. 
