The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-06-15
ENCOURAGING
Tree PLANTING
Ladies OF the Civic League Offer At.
tractlve Prizes in Order to Beau.
tify the Town.

The Civic League is at least one or
gahization that is always alive to
packing any proposition that has for
It's object the advancement or i'm
proVement or the town, and If the at
tention of the members of the League
is not called to some particular object
that needs fostering and nursing the
members are not slow in originating
some movement that has the aim of
the general good in view. 1t takes the
women of any community to initiate
civic improvents and they have the
pride and grit to carry out to success
full consummation anything they once
start.
1t was the women alone of Oroville
that conceived the Civic League build
ing and park, and 1t Is very, very
doubtful had the idea been advanced
by mere man If 1t would ever have
been carried out. Thanks to the pluck
and perseverance of the ladies, Oro-
vile can today boast of as neat and
attractive community building, set In
the midst of beautiful park, as can
be found in any town in the state of
the same size or even many times lar
ger. Tnrough their energy was the
building, housing the public library
and providing quarters for public
gatherings of all kinds, made possible
and where but recently was barren
strip of ground paralelling the rail-
road is a grassy lawn shaded by a
multitude of vigorous trees, the grove
itself a living witness of what the en-
tire town site might be today IL the
the town and the enterprise to set out
trees, about the same time the ladies
planted those that beautify the park.
1t must be stated that at one time
the members Of the Civic League did
set out number of trees along the
streets, expecting that the male MEN,
bers of the community would wake up
and at least see that the trees were
watered and cared for, but regrettable
to say the men did not respond and
all those trees wilted and died. Tae la
dies propose to make another effort to
induce tree planting on the public
streets and arouse sufficient interest
in the proposition to have the trees
taken care of after they are once
planted, and this effort may bear fruit,
as there is a reward hanging up for
those who succeed in making tree or
two grow where trees never grew be-
fore.
The proposition tlat the ladies or
the Civic League now presents before
the public is this. The league offers
800 in prizes to those who are will
ing to enter the contest in the matter
OF tree planting. Here is chance to
break off a little cash while adding
to the value of your property by set
ting out trees. The purse Is cut into
three prizes, $50, $35 and $15, and
everybody is urged to take part in the
contest. The money, or prizes, will be
distributed this way. Each contestant
| is urged to set out as many trees as
possible and at the end of three years
| the prizes will be awarded to those
three persons who committee de-
cides have made the best showing in
the matter of tree growing. Whoever
has at least three healthy trees about
their premises that were set out this
| year or next spring if the beginning
of the contest dates from that time,
at the end of the three years is count
ed in as a competitor for the prizes.
1t is expected that all those VINO
| enter the contest will register with
the secretary of the Civic League
,when the trees are set out.
Now, the sum involved is not large
Especially considering the period fixeo
las the time wnen the distribution Of
the prizes is proposed. but 1t is con-
lsideration worth contending for, es-
pecially as every tree planted adds tc
the intrinsic value of the premises
Then tne honor Of winning In such o
confess should be an incentive Io'
lmany to enter the contest. 1t can Dc
understood why a three year perlot
lis fixed before prizes are awarded
flor it will require that time at leas
lbefore trees attain vigorous grown
lsufficent to make showing, and therf
ia a further method in the plan, fol
If trees are cared for for three years
IL hardly stands to reason that thos'
who did the planting, grooming AM
watching will tien lose interest II
l., pf tho trees