The Press., 1892-08-04
mantle and of to the hills, beyond, and
A LOCAL ENTERPRISE.


 LOCAL ENTERPRIsE.
 MT. Edwin Reynolds has been an efficient friend of the cause of schools and educa- tion here, as we'll as moving and gen. erous spirit in establishing the Hillside Hall company, a joint stock corpoi ation, of which $4 900 of the capital has been subscribed, and more funds are likely to be forthcoming when most needed. Work ing with the Hillside Club, local organ ization of young women, the company are planning for a better time, socially and intellectually, for this part of Mansfield They are erecting a large and hand some building of two stories for club house, with @ tenement included, for family to see to the club rooms and build ing. The hall, an elegant, high room in has a spacious stage, will be heated by steam, has kitchen, pantry, etc., and fine, large cellar, inside of very solid walls of stone masonry. The hall will be an ex- ceptionally fine place for lectures, spec tacular exhibitions or concerts. It is hhOAJ NChtluIOu biiu WCll hllu bIlS building is altogether a striking and in- teresting structure, with it's peculiar archi- lecture, it's big portico, five flights of steps, and enormous upper windows di- vided in the upper part into transoms. MT. George Reynolds gives to the club house not only the ground, but all the furniture and table ware that are to be put in. The building is of selected wood, and the handsome flights of steps, of solid Georgia pine, reveal rare richness of strong and beautiful natural graining. It is all being built by days work, and is we'll built. It is to be finished, the grounds graded, and everything ready for a hearty "house- warming" next Thanks giving.
 That such an enterprise is destined to add greatly to the social pleasure and en- | largement of Mansfield people, there can not be a doubt. In modest little speech, in reply to complimentary allusion to the good work of the two brothers, at some recent gath ering of his Mansfield neighbors, MT. George Reynolds said he and his brother had been drawn back, in part at least, to the ancestral acres by the memories con- nected with a certain old spring, which used to gush out of the wooded hillside | not far above the place where he has now erected his home. ct can be added that this is handsome home, and that the barns are model barns.) He has va riety of pets, from pigeons to squirrels; and in the woods along the Reynolds do- main, the October slaughter of the frisky | gray squirrels by alleged sportsmen is ab- solutely prohibited-the result being that these graceful arboreal creatures frisk about the groves and glades unfrightened, and like Hoods wild fowl about the haunted house, 'feed with a shocking tameness." Touching the old spring, MT
 Reynolds said that on coming back after so many years, he found that it "tasted just as cool and refreshing as it did when he used to drink out of it as boy" WHAT HAS BEEN DONE.
 Thus out of a nest-egg no bigger than a little local rural club of young women, seems to have developed (with the aid of the liberal gentlemen named in the fore going account) another and separate con- cern, an efficient joint stock company, and a prospect that Mansfield will have not only fine clubhouse but a future of entertainments calculated to draw the people together, wake them up, and get them better acquainted, not only with some of the interesting things of the out side world, hnt with themselves.