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Annual reports or extracts from them , historical sketches , 
descriptive circulars, photographs of improvements or dis- 
tinctive features are requested for use in this department . 
The Hamilton City Improvement Society, Hamilton, Ont., 
has awarded three prizes for improving front and rear gardens 
on four streets in that city, one for the removal of a board 
fence and the substitution of a flower garden between lots, 
and five for the planting of corners and rockeries. The prizes 
ranged in value from $5 to $15 and the contest has resulted 
in quite a noticeable improvement in many yards and gardens. 
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The Village Improvement Association, of Waterbury, Vt., 
has secured the placing of electric lights in the railway station 
of that town, and has had six garbage barrels placed at con- 
venient corners. The proceeds of a sale held last spring 
amounting to $100 were appropriated for the purchase of a 
drinking fountain. The receipts for the year were $248.95. 
The association maintains committees on press, library, streets, 
depot park and grounds, and executive committee. 
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At the recent annual meeting of the Billerica Improvement 
Association, Billerica, Mass., the members listened to a stere- 
opticon lecture by Frederick S. Clark, showing over 150 
views of local interest, and awarded prizes in the society’s 
planting contest for the following work. Best kept premises ; 
vines ; window and porch boxes ; flower gardens, and vegeta- 
ble gardens. Reports of officers showing effectual work for 
the year were presented and the following officers elected : 
President, Joseph F. Talbot; secretary, Victor J. Hosmer ; 
treasurer, T. Frank Lyons. 
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The Massachusetts Civic League recently extended invita- 
tions to town officials, members of improvement societies and 
others interested in Wakefield, Stoneham, Woburn, Winches- 
ter, Arlington, Medford, Somerville, Cambridge, Malden, 
Melrose, Everett, Saugus, Lynnfield, North Reading, Ando- 
ver, Wilmington and Billerica, asking that representatives 
be sent to a meeting for mutual discussion and consultation 
as to plans for exterminating moth pests, the meeting to be 
held in Reading. Prof. A. H. Kirkland, the well-known en- 
tomologist, gave an illustrated practical talk on the gypsy 
and browntail moths. 
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The Village Improvement Society of Northeast Harbor, 
Me., has through its efforts secured the completion of a beau- 
tiful roadway along Somes Sound, which has been named 
Sargent Drive in honor of Mr. Samuel D. Sargent, treasurer 
of the society and one of the leaders in the work of building 
the drive. The work was accomplished at a cost of $8,000, 
two-thirds of which was contributed by the summer visitors 
and the rest by the town. On one of the great rocks over- 
hanging the road a bronze tablet, bearing an appropriate in- 
scription, has been placed. 
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To promote tree planting along the street curbs, the South 
Park Improvement Association of Chicago has offered three 
prizes of $50, $20, and $10 for students in the schools of the 
CEMETERY. 
district who, between Nov. 1, 1904, and Nov. 1, 1905, cause 
the greatest number of trees to be planted. The trees must 
be planted within the street lines ; no tree to be planted more 
than twenty-five feet from another sound growing tree ; no 
tree to be less than three inches in diameter one foot above 
the ground. Each tree must be certified by the owner of the 
property as being done with the credit due the pupil holding 
the certificate. 
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The Indianapolis Civic Improvement Society has started a 
movement for the improvement of the state fair grounds in 
that city in which it expects to get the assistance of the Legis- 
lature. It is the plan of the society to get an appropriation 
sufficient to plot the grounds symmetrically, erect permanent 
and attractive buildings and to enhance the whole generally. 
C. A. Wallingford and Lewis Hoover constitute the com- 
mittee having direction of the movement. The question of 
regulating the height of buildings in Monument Place is also 
being agitated by the society. Charles Carroll Brown, engi- 
neer, was asked to suggest a group plan for Monument Place. 
He suggested that buildings on the south side of the monu- 
ment should be regulated to a height of seven or eight stories 
and that the tall buildings which are erected on the north side 
of Washington street, between Illinois and Pennsylvania 
streets, be compelled to make their rear as attractive as their 
fronts, so as to offset any unsightliness when the monument 
is viewed from the north side. He urged symmetry in all 
the buildings about the monument and said that the new city 
hall, when built, should be located in the square just west of 
the new government building. He declared that it was in the 
power of Indianapolis to have one of the most uniform and 
attractively planned cities in the country, and that at smallest 
expense, if the work was undertaken at once. A committee 
has been appointed by the society to undertake the movement 
and to frame an ordinance regulating the height of all build- 
ings around the monument. 
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Many towns in Massachusetts are taking active steps toward 
the extermination of the brown-tail moth. The Stoneham Im- 
provement Association issues the following certificate for nests 
delivered to its agents : 
CERTIFICATE OF DESTRUCTION BROWN-TAIL 
MOTH NESTS. 
This certifies that the nests of the brown-tail moth deliv- 
ered by me this .... day of , 190. ., to , 
agent of the Stoneham Town Improvement Association, were 
collected by me from shade trees and from forest trees on 
street, and that none of them were collected 
on private premises. 
Name 
Street and No 
Nests in lots of 100 or more (not less than 100), can be 
taken to any of the agents named, who will pay for them at 
the rate of 5 cents per hundred. 
An appropriation of $6,000 for the extermination of the 
gypsy and brown-tail moth was made at a recent town meet- 
ing at Arlington. It was decided that the appropriation should 
be expended by a committee composed of the board of public 
works, the park commission, Tree Warden Brooks and Presi- 
dent Thomas Smith of the E. Arlington Improvement Asso- 
ciation, President E. B. I-Iiggins of the Arlington Tree Pro- 
tective Association, and President C. E. Dallin of the Arling- 
ton Heights Tree Protective Association. The three organ- 
izations of citizens have accomplished much effective work 
against the moths. 
The Methuen Improvement Society has appointed a com- 
mittee of three to act with the tree warden in exterminating 
the moths. George W. Tenney is chairman of the committee. 
