Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-03-15
70 MAUT|fr A TOWN,
How We'll Directed Efforts VIII
Produce Good Results.
WHAT ONE SOCIETY HAS DONE
erosrsssI.e Citizens o. Cresakilt, y. -,
Organize an improvement Assoe'a
ton and Accomplish Wonders-Dep ot
Grounds Trarsfosr1ed--Trsss Saved.


Only few inoaShs ego three com
muters iiv,ng III small Jersey town
met on IRAN home ward bound from
New York The conversation Soon
turned 10 the snDjees Of Improving ;neir
town.
''Wbss C,resssIl needs is an improve
| neEt society, oae Of them remarked
/ Nothing more wRg said on the sIlbje.:;
+. and iher ~. I've tpnin for their homes
/, p A few dsys sfterweyd another Cress
hillte met Tie rnhsc- Of the above re-.
mark, ard this toaversntlon ensued:
| ''Dsd you ssy :ha. Cresss.ll needed
| a. improvement sn+c'y ~ said re.
II did "n. $40 reply.
"DO you res.s Il aud would y6u as
! willing TO Aelp u forming one:"
~Certsiniy. VIII DO I'll l can.
A. meeting ,*&< aztec rOr The pUr
pose ~ o-gsr,ziny "a ::r2-ovcEnnht So
eiety, snd aius men responded 30 tt~
| call, .fte" brier lis"us,iou Al pc.
deDt. We president. .s@*eta.I -.
| treasure were elected 40 tie So, -
launch"u on Is earees of sJJi r"et
| At first tie membership was limited -
| fifteen. The dues are ., cents a
month.
| For some years The .siiZ"i,s pf t's.tss-
Kill had 6neD Try n4 10 haze all ex.is
train ,'opp"a n he morning h,und
| FOR New Yorf hut had f} led. .
! improvement society ~ once F""h.e.'
the problem. arranged meeting tn
| tw cen their representatives and III I.rje
railroad ofiieiaI and soon secure4 -
promise Of al extra Gain The h"e'
ing, 81 which the leeds OF ele 't-#.s
muteTS Were thoroughly discussed. MN
very pheasant, and in y few weeks ths
o. tva train stopped At Cresskill ANA i!,.s
been wei fatroniztd. This sho'ts
What q li!tie organized effort viii Do
The interest N tho society .-."M
apace. and soon he membership fit4'
was raised 10 twenty I've. Nor IL
ce-s were elected and the good H0~h
! pusbed along.
One OF The l5l@h.na streets III tAt
town is we'll shaded y. an avenue u
One trees. forming 4 reTy attractive
Tea ture. The electric ("ht w;reS were
% strung hat they were slowly, '.Hf
surely running !he trees. 4 COMMIT.
tee fror the Improvement society cal
ed the town councils attention 20 tn.
condition % the trees and requested
them TO urge the electric Eight COMPANY
to prevent their wires from touching
the trees throughout he whole 10!
eugh. The request was we'll received
OH .3rt, ts,.j,+
ali the branches that were touched i,
the wires. and The :r"cs have hee9
saved for the enjoyment Of al.
This action no doubt brought the 81
clety prominently before Inc public
One Of the councilnen, 10 is also
member OF the improvement society /
agitated the observation of clean ~;
up day fer The whole town. He Hr9et +
1t among his friends and fellow council I
men, The MAYOR isGued z pre"la:aa
ton urging all the residents on Ma. {
II last 70 clean up around Their h3,r.a@
In In" morning and 10 assemble b. re I
afternoon 70 beauty the gro. IA
around the depot. quite larg. ~ -
Der responded. and , great dea o.
good work was done
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