The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-01
.HOW ONE ASSOCIATION
GETS IMPROVEMENTS
70 L,dNce Property Oagners to Benutify the CITY,
the Lit,den HILLS Association offers P,1ses for
the Most 14tt1uctiye Laagus and GnrdeNS and
breaches the Gospel of a Good Appearance at
Public Meetings.

I'd Minneapolis is busy cleaning up. In
various parts of the city the benefits
T of cooperation are realized and i'm
6provement associations are directing
3 the work of their individual members.
One association, that of the residents
of Linden Hills, has come to the front
with novel plan of campaign which
will prove of interest to other associa-
Ftions and to all property owners who
are eager to beautify Minneapolis by
doing their own part of the work
An incentive for the Linden Hills
and Cottage City property owners to
clean up is the offer Of 100 prizes by
the association for the best-kept, tidi-
est, prettiest gardens, front lawns,
season opening April Is and closing
Sept. 30.
The prizes for best-kept lawns:
800 square yards and over. Five prizes
Under 800 and over IS square
sts yards .................... Five prizes
rs square yards ard under. Five prizes
Best kept vacant lot.......... Five prizes
Best appearing back yards. :. Ten prizes
Best lawn general effect from
s the street Three prizes
Best flower garden. inspections
June 25, Aug. l, Sept. 15....Ten prizes
y Best display shrubbery. ....... Five prizes
CHILDREN's FLOWER GARDENS.
Fifteen years and over ten. Ten prizes
Ten years and younger Ten prizes
GREATEST IMPROVEMENT, FIRST IN
SPECT1ON APRIL Is.
In front lawn Five prizes
g In back yard Five prizes
Z FOR LOTS BEYOND THE CITY WATER
ST LIMIT.
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Best back yard Five prizes
Best flower garden ........... Five prizes
Greatest improvement in lawn Five prizes
Greatest Improvement in back
81 yard Five prizes
Spring fever permeates the veins of
+ the editor Of the circular issued by the
association. He starts out thus:
"Spring is coming on our street.
4 How is it on yours7 Is your hoe pol
1 ished up9 Is your lawn mower in gears
I Ours is.
4 "Have you heard what the Linden
81 Hills Improvement association is doing
4 season7 You haven't? Then read right
q on down this page
4 The circular continues: Il
fThere are 400 families in this sub
urb-four hundred! There is no reason
on earth why there should not be 400
n We'll trimmed, we'll CledneQ, We'll now
cred home yards out here this season.
four hundred! Every fourth family
can win prize, and a full 400 can win
q whole season Of tidiness and beauty.
& Keeping Up Interest.
b. eve want everybody to enter for
one or more prizes Any one family
lis eligible to one prize in any one class.
Each child in every family is eligible
4 to enter for prize in the children 8
$class. Do not put this aside and say
you will keep your lawn and garden
tidy without entering the contest. We
want the enthusiasm Of numbers. We
4 want 400 entries. That is why we put
up so many prizes. Four hundred well
groomed lawns will add 100000 to the
value Of this suburb without increas-
ing the taxes cent. Do you want to
sell your places This move makes it
worth 5000 more. Do you want to live
in your home9 United tidiness makes
it easily worth $500 more. You know
it.. All expert testimony is strong on
this point.
t'Let us unite to make the southwest
Ecorner Of Minneapolis the brightest
patch in this municipality during the
season of 1905.
4 "Does this circular fail to interest
you? Then hand it to your wife and do
as she tells you. In any case show it