. Village improvement . AN ATTRACTIVE RAILWAY STATION. Ornamental Grounds about the Station at Wellesley Hills, A STREET FOUNTAIN. This sanitary fountain was built in one of the Streets of Cal-houn, Georgia, at a cost of only $100. OTHEE IMPEOVEMENT SOCIETIES 31 developed some objectionable features. Thestores were locked up for most of tbe day,we are told, and people went out to forenoon saw four ball-games, so organ-ised as to make as many people take partas possible. Three innings was the length ofa game. The boys played a single-mensteam, and the married ladies play
. Village improvement . AN ATTRACTIVE RAILWAY STATION. Ornamental Grounds about the Station at Wellesley Hills, A STREET FOUNTAIN. This sanitary fountain was built in one of the Streets of Cal-houn, Georgia, at a cost of only $100. OTHEE IMPEOVEMENT SOCIETIES 31 developed some objectionable features. Thestores were locked up for most of tbe day,we are told, and people went out to forenoon saw four ball-games, so organ-ised as to make as many people take partas possible. Three innings was the length ofa game. The boys played a single-mensteam, and the married ladies played the girls,while two farm-boys teams got into the gamealso. It was truly said that there had notbeen so much fun on the ball-ground forseveral years. At noon there was a picnicdinner, and following this came field sports:group games for the little folks, races formen, women, children, farmers, business men,etc. The whole was planned to make many takepart. . Nearly two hundred people actuallytook part in the games, and the whole thing costless than five dollars. It is an annual affair inthat town now. This mens club
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