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flowers, both wild and cultivated, occupied long tables on one 
side of the room and vegetables in great variety were 
shown on similar tables on the opposite side. One corner was 
filled with an extensive showing of potted plants from a local 
conservatory, and the stage was elaborately decorated with 
plants and cut flowers. During the afternoon a piano recital 
was given by a Boston expert, a lecture was delivered by a 
member of the faculty of the New Hampshire college on 
■“Plant Travelers,” and the chairman of the executive board 
of the organization, Rev. Edward Green, made an address 
explaining the object of the association and telling of the 
work it had accomplished. An orchestra furnished music in 
the evening. 
This account is fruitful in suggestions for other organiza- 
tions. A fall flower show on similar lines might be given 
with decided advantage by nearly every improvement society. 
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The North Andover (Mass.) Improvement Association, Mr. 
Geo. E. Kunhardt, President, has devoted its attention and 
efforts during the past year chiefly to three important mat- 
ters, viz., (i) the extension of the Common or Village Green; 
(2) to a project started by the North Andover Young Men’s 
Club to erect a club building and (3) to provide a field for 
athletic sports. 
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A Village Improvement Conference was held in Boston, 
Mass., Oct. 1 and 2, under the auspices of the Massachusetts 
Civic League. All improvement organizations in the state 
were asked to send delegates and many responded. 
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The City Improvement Society of Lincoln, Neb., Mrs. 
Willis M. Richardson, Secretary, last summer planted trees, 
shrubs and vines on postoffice square, on the grounds of one 
grammar and one high school, on the college settlement 
grounds and in two public parks. 
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The Dudley (Mass.) Village Improvement Society last 
spring distributed flower seeds among the children of the 
town and offered prizes for the three best displays of flowers 
grown from them and shown at the annual fair of the society 
in July. Two prizes were also' offered for the first and 
second best kept grounds on Dudley hill. Chairman of com- 
mitee on June entertainment and July fair, Miss Alice M. 
Arnold. 
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The Village Improvement Association of Falmouth, Mass., 
Mr. Wm. H. He wins, President, is credited with originating 
three phases of work that have proved so popular that all 
have been adopted by the Town Board, which has relieved 
the association of further expense in those directions. These 
were, in the order named, (1) establishing and maintaining 
street lights in the village, (2) setting out and caring for 
street shade trees, and destroying destructive caterpillars, 
and, (3) watering the principal streets during the three sum- 
mer months. After setting these several examples the town 
appropriated $2,700 for street lights, $300 for setting and 
caring for trees and $200 for destroying caterpillars, and $500 
a year for street watering. The society is now looking anx- 
iously around for more worlds to conquer. 
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The Pigeon Cove (Mass.) Improvement Society has been 
in existence 15 years, and during the past season made a spe- 
cialty of waging war on the brown tail moth, accounted one 
of the worst pests of that region. Its method was to offer 
prizes for the greatest number of nests collected. The total 
number of nests gathered footed up 1,012, and as it is esti- 
mated that each nest contains not less than 2,221 eggs, the 
result assumes commendable proportions. 
The women of the Civic Improvement Association of Port- 
land, Me., have roused deep feeling among certain residents. 
One, described as a “conservative citizen,” is said to have 
complained that “them women had got their heads together 
to run the whole city, and that the prospect was that a feller 
would soon have to go- out of town to spit.” Beg pardon for 
the lack of taste that some may consider evidenced by using 
this quotation, but it seems almost too good to be lost to im- 
provement workers. It is not exactly elegant either in matter 
or manner, but doesn’t it sound rather encouraging? 
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It is said that an anti-expectoration ordinance has been 
passed and is enforced in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Spo- 
kane (Wash.) and other Pacific Coast cities, and that active 
measures have been taken by the officers of the local Civic 
League to have an existing similar ordinance enforced in the 
city of Portland, Ore. As we go to press fresh impetus has 
been given this steadily growing movement by the opening of 
an anti-expectoration crusade by the Progressive Health Club 
of Chicago. Dr. Mary Seymour, its president, says: “I 
mean to appoint a committee, of which I shall be a member, 
to wait upon the managers of the elevated roads and of the 
Union Traction Company to determine whether something 
cannot be done toward the cleansing of the city from this 
infection-breeding habit.” 
THOMPSON MONUMENT, BELLEVILLE, ILL. 
An interesting coincidence in connection with the Thomp- 
son monument, illustrated on this page, is found in the fact 
of the birth and death of Mr. Amos Thompson, whose grave 
THOMPSON MONUMENT, BELLEVILLE, ILL. 
it marks, having occurred at Portland, Me., and Portland, 
Ore., respectively. His birth and death also occurred in the 
month of April, 1807-1901. The monument is in Greenmount 
Cemetery, Belleville, 111 ., and is the work of Thomas & Miller, 
of Quincy, Mass. We are indebted to Mr. Geo. A. Harvey, 
secretary of the cemetery, for the photograph and facts. 
