The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-08-20
GARDENING IDEA
Satisfactory Results From a
Scheme to Beautify Towns.
GREAT Benefit TO CHILDREN

Encourages Cleanliness and Thrift and
| Develops Artistic Taete-How Life
Can Be Made Worth Living For
| Home Loving Employees.
| A scheme of prize awards as an in
centive for greater care Of yards and
gardens by house dwellers has been
adopted by a business firm in Neenah,
/ Wis, for the improvement of Niagara,
one Of the paper mill towns on the
Menominee river, in northern Wiscon-
! sin.
This plan, which can be followed by
any town, marks another step in the
movement for well kept gardens as
civic necessity. Milwaukee also bene-
| fits by such a movement, and lshpe-
ming Mich, rejoices in prize con-
test held annually by an iron company.
In the Niagara plan the village has
been divided into sixteen districts.
Prizes are offered Oh yard improve
ment contest to cover cleanliness,
sightliness and neatness of the prem
ises. The company in Neenah will APP
point three men out of town, who,
with two resident judges, will make
three inspections during the season. A
prize will he given to the yard in each
of the sixteen districts showing the
greatest improvement during the sum-
mer. TO the best Of the sixteen dis
tricts a prize winners prize will be
offered. In addition to the first prize,
there will be given cash prize to
fo I;,c In
hood which shows the greatest i'm
provement.
Seeds, plants, shrubs and trees are
being sold to the contestants at cost.
Much of the natural beauty Of the lit
tie town, which is situated attractively
between high bluffs, was shorn by
, lumbermen and jobbers, who cut ev-
cry tree from the hills and valley,
leaving stumps and slashings as they
passed through.
Ever since the inauguration of the
, yard Improvement plan stumps and
: brush have begun to disappear rapidly.
Fencing. grading and the removal or
: rock are doing wonders In the way Of
| appearance, and thousands of plants,
5 shrubs and trees are being set In.
/. Promising lawns already take the place
/ of riot of weed and Canadian thistle.
j The women and children have benefit
n ed in health by the out of door eXer-
else attendant on the garden work.
and men find recreation and interest
# In working about their homes.
n Niagara's army of willing beauti-
r ficrs promise to make their village a
e rival Of Ishpeming. with it's annual
" prize contest under the auspices Of an
IS iron company. The prize contestants
N there are persons occupying land own
a ed by the company. and number vt
v. classes are posted under which they
,e may compete. Prizes are offered for
le the best kept premises. vine planfius
window box planting and vegetabe
gardening The company issues an at
tractive booklet with instructions IN
If the care Of the garden and planting
70 The pamphlet issued by the lshpc m
rs ing company speaks editorially on 'hf
e. subject Of garden care.
le 1--WE find that the children in THO
Il homes where much regard is given tC
is making and keeping 1t as attractive rs
q possible are inclined to be more home
Up loving and more easily interested IL
I'd the best thing" 1t says. "A boy car
W have no better training than that u
knowing how to cultivate the soil
Many vegetable and flower garGen
~ have been brought to our notice show
SO ing the value of the work done h,
&c boys and girls through the long sun
yh mer holidays. Many boy and CIR
We have thus been able to earn their frs
es money and acquire habit of industr
as in this work which has been help t
re them throughout their lives. There
in no question about the benefit to tn
in home or the home life having such ip
he proved surroundings"
10 AS result of this work the city G
Ishpeming presents a pleasing cor
trast to the coal mining and found'
ng towns of America and Europe. 1t ci
OIL joys the distinction of being the hes
he kept of any in the long mining lis
lot Ishpeming has responded enthusia
ses ticalIy to the company's Invitations #
a general improvement.
ct The prizes. which are cash. aggr
ny. gate several hundred dollars annuall
are There are Several first second. thir
SSH and fourth prizes in each class. Thes
nd are for the tenants of the compan
)rk Besides these the president Of the cor
est pany gives prizes Of money to the boy
are and girls Of the public schools wi
APP make the best showings in flower ar
lily vegetable gardens.
The company has fine nursery ar
in greenhouses. from which 1t supplies |
the tenants at low cost.
av- Missionary work in the cause of ga
fat dens has been carried out with sati
.2l factory results in Milwaukee by Il
ely Milwaukee Sentinel Outdoor Art ass
In citation and the Woman's School Al
red ance. In Milwaukee the entries f
zee the first year were 100. This seas,
ties 1,J00 are taking part in the conte:
I'M Many of the native ferns. wild gra
'ut- vines and trees have been collected
100 thp woods and transferred to 4