The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-05-08
WHAT OUR TOWN NEEDS"
Being Report of an Address by Sec.
Rotary MOrscy Before the Mon
day Club

OF ldhlHb dNNlNt paw ~ WV N'N''"-a UP
but feeling that the me,lhcrs did not
have the knowledge thcy desired Of
the things that could bc accomplished
BIZ them during the clean up days,
asked the Secretary Of the I"r"ing-
ton Commercial Club to explain to
them a, their meeting oil last Mon
day night what, in his opinion. our
town needs In Response to this re-
guest, the Secretary Of the Commerce.
iul Club recountcd a number Of things
that had been accomplished by WOmens
Clubs throughout the country and re-
viewed the progress that had been
made by the Federation Of Women's
Clubs since ITS inauguration twenty
rolr years ago, During the discus
ion, our Club Wa appealed to for
import of certain ordinances which
had been on were 60 pc passed. but
which many of our r,'llru thought
urwgsr and imprastlnab.v. lie eN-
planned chat the so-ru.od hog ordln-
... wu. NOT mrya ognn.c and when
understood Dy the citizens would not
ry Objectionable TO them for the rea-
that rH. ordinance does not pre-
Np., tine Keeping OF hog, within cor
pruJn limits but only prevents per-
SONS from enclosing the animals in a
small pen on sly for % longer period
than three days, between the 18th
d.y OF April and the 18th day of Sep
tcmhcr Of each year. The ordinance
known as the chicken ordinance was
discussed for a moment and we
were shown that it was reasonable
provision and required no more than
the ordinary publicspiritcd person
would be willing to provide in the alb
sence Of any law on the subject
We were appealed to for our assist
ancc with regard to the building Of
| sidewalks along the streets of our
town where, without the support of
popular opinion, it seems difficult to
secure the passage of an ordinance
which will require the building Of the
walk. The Club was shown that the
sympathy held for persons who seem
to be unable to provide for the walks
was false and without foundation for
the reason that it is not real eX-
pcnsc TO the property owner, but Is
! merely an addition to the property OF
more value than the actual eXpendi.
turc incurred.
An ordinance which it was deemed
would be of value to the city is one
prohibiting the promiscuous throwing
Of patent medicine and many other
advertising matters in the yards anC
on the lawns of the citizens of tn,
town 1t is evident that many child
rem in a position to pick up the pat
ent medicine would be tempted tC
swallow the medicine thinking it some
form Of candy. In order to compcn.
safe for the seeming loss Of the priv.
ilege of scattering advertising bills
it was suggested that public announ
cement board on the Court House
Square could be provided and Lighted
with very small cost,
There was some slight discussion
Of the reputation Pennington bears
of being cold and distant to strangers
and we were shown that Pennington
was no worse than other towns in this
respect, yet, there could be found ne
excuse for this lack of fellowship il
any community.
Among the things which the Clut
was told it might begin work upor
Immediately was white way. II
was thought that by first illumin'
ating the public square a beginning
could be made that would result If
more illumination later.
The question of providing public
park and play ground for our city
was discussed at some length ant
from the great success shown to have
been accomplished along these lines
in other cities, it was thought wei
to make a beginning in this regard as
soon as possible. If the play grounC
could be provided with some compe
tent instructor in charge through The
vacation months, it would be highly
beneficial in keeping many children
off of the streets, relieving mother!
of the care of children above a Ger
tain age for few hours each day an,
be valuable to the children rs means
of instructing them how to play a!
well as how to do many other thing
that one proficient in the management
of play grounds is capable of pro
'iIing.
The speaker thought il might b.
possible to induce owners Of vacan
lots to either turn them into garden
or beautify them with flowers ant
zines. The Club was told that at I
snail expense it might provide u law
mower to be loaned to persons having
no such machine and in this way ;
movement started 20 have all lawn
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