Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1916-02-24
REPORT OF CIVIC IMPROVE
MENT LEAGUE
Annual Report Of Secretary for Year
Ending Dec. 81, 1915.

Ending Dec. oi, 1910.
On the roll we have the names of
eighty-seven women. OF that num-
Der sixty have attended at least one
meeting. Twelve regular meetings
were held, average attendance six
teen. At the March meeting Mr..
Winkworth of Monroe was present
and spoke on the subject, "The City
Beautiful" In April ID. +. Mcclure
of Lansing presented plans for a
Good Health Week." Mrs. b. W..
Ellison loaned the league plot of
ground corner Of Superior and Park.
In May this was planted with pota-
toes. Ten boys from the public
schools had charge of the garden, and
when the potatoes were harvested
two boys were given prizes. The
school children had flower gardens
again this year. In July Civic
league party was given in the gymna-
stun at the Masonic Home, proceeds
$24.17. Chautauqua tickets were
sold by the league with profit of
$19.3S. Through the efforts of the
league a Gratiot County Good Health
association was formed and held their
first meeting in Alma from October
to s. Mrs. Caroline Bartlett Crane
was present two days and inspected
the city. Since then the following
matters have been taken up by the
league:
Food inspection.
slaughter houses.
"a request sent to the council
that an ordinance be passed that
within two years every house within
q reasonable distance be connected
with the sewer.
4-Fire inspection.
5-The board of education asked
to have better fire protection at the
Ward and Union schools.
In November a delegate was sent
to the meeting of the State Fedora
ton of Women's clubs at Lansing.
In November the league joined the
Michigan Equal Suffrage association,
and with the financial assistance of
the Art club and the Woman's club,
sent a delegate to the M. +. s. A.
state convention at Saginaw, Nov.
10 and IL.
All the committees have done eX-
cellent work. The town improvement
committee took charge of the spring
and fall cleanup. The Boy Scouts
assisted in the fall and after the
work was done were served dough
nuts and coffee at the Free Reading
room. The waste paper cans have
been kept in repair and one new can
made. Shrubs were sold both spring
and fall, netting the league $25.08.
At the Free Reading room, in addi
ton to 355 books, 5 different peri
odicals and the daily papers, the war
supplements to the New York Times
were on the tables all last winter. and
now Golfers with a geographic his
tory and war maps are there.
The little park at the r. X. station
has been taken care of as usual. The
grass kept trimmed, roses pruned and
trained and in the fall laid down for
winter
Sixty-four Christmas wreaths were
hung on the lamp posts in the bust
ness section of the city. Red Cross
stamps were sold by the tuberculosis
fund committee. Twenty-one dollars
from these sales were given in prizes
for essays written by pupils of diff
ferent schools during Good Health
week. The league has taken charge
Of the city sprinkling. running one
cart from May to October all the
time, and two carts part of the time.
and all the year through the real
business of the league has been main
tanning and overseeing the Free Read
ing room.