Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 7, 1917, Page 6

WORK OF COMMUNITY CLUBS #“Bétsey Ann Association” of Brighton, " llinois, Does Much to Boost pe Little Village. (By P. G. HOLDEN, Former Dean of +Iowa State College.) ( Community clubs play an important pert in the development of civilization. They present the greatest of oppor- tunities for the co-operation of town and’ country to the lasting benefit of each. They enable the residerss of the town and those of the rural dis- itriets to get together and do things for fthe .welfare of all that otherwise would not be done. « This arousing of common interest in common interests brings the mem- bers of the community closer together, socially, industrially and economically. In movements of this character every small town should feel vitally inter- ested, for it can extend its trade ter- ritory many miles by uniting with the farmers in community wellfare work. This work may take one form, or it may take another, but the life of any ‘community organization depends upen having something to do that is worth while. i By the assistance of farmers, the ‘town of Brighton, Illinois, a village of ‘only 600 people, has worked wonders in the way of community road build- ng. »__For ten years the people ‘of Brighton have been . joining hands with their rlyll neighbors in go-operative work Ithat not only has bettered the whole ‘community, but has given the town a ‘commercial and educational standing qu:lh:‘o’ that of many cities ten times . The community organization, which Thas thus united town_ and country. bears the unique title of “The Betsey Ann Assoclation.” Tt has given the community 27 miles of excellent roads, 27815000 accredited high school, a $5,000 © community bullding and a neighborhood spirit which knows no township line or corporate boundary. The Betsey Ann association is incor- porated, but not for profit. It has 163 members, divided about equally be tween town and country, and its mem- bership fee is only 25 cents. The exec utive committee consists of nine mem- bers, of which not more than five can be residents of the town. a fire bell. Flanagan. Betsey Ann, passed to the association. day picnic in a large tent. Concerts, doth town and country. the treasury. improvement. from the town limits. The first improvement inaugurated by the association was the purchase of This bell was christened by a telephone operator, Miss Nell She gave it the name of which title has since During the second week of August, each year, the association holds a two- dramas and other forms of entertain- ment are given by local people from These picnicse are always attended by 2,500 or 3,000 people. All concessions are run by the association and all the profit goes into About $500 is realized . each year. The money is spent in road One year the association built 8 mile of rock road, extending eastward Each year a contract for dmgg'ing. at frequent in- tervals, nine different roads, for a dis- tance of three miles from town, s awarded.’ Each members of the execu- tive committee ha§ charge of a three- mile strip. An appropriation of $400 is anpually made for this purpose. These 27 miles of good roads are the visible results of the Betsey Ann association. They make it possible for Brighton to visit and to entertain her neighbors. They connect the town with i’wenty-seven Miles of Road Improve ment Around Brighton, Illinois, Work of the Betsey Ann Community Association. thé farm and make the inferests of one the interests of the other. They have made possible the community building. They have made a reality a high school, for both town and country children, from which graduates are ‘admitted to any college. ‘ Wheels Used in Argentina. Because some roads in Argentina have deeper dust in summer and deeper mud in winter than any others in the world, the wagons used on them have wheels from six to fif- teen feet in diameter. Work on Roads in 1915. During 1915 the total road and bridge expenditures in the United States amounted to about $282,000, 000, of which probably not over $15, 000,000 represented the value of the statute and convict labor. —_— Stevenson at Thirty. “] was told of a rainy afternoon ‘plague party’ at which I did not chance to be present,” writes Birge Harrison in the Century of Robert L. Steven- son’s early days, “during which Bob Stevenson amused himself by forecast- Ing the future careers of those present. When he came to his cousin he re- marked with a satirical little smile: “There sits Louis, as smug and complas cent as any old type de bourgeois. 1 have not the least doubt that he fondly imagines that one of these days they will be publishing all of his dinky pri- vate correspondence—*“the letters of R. L. S.”—in boards.’ And Louis joined as heartily as anyone in the laugh which the sally raised. Bob, at least, did live to see the publication of the #Vaillima Letters, and I have often wondered if he remembered this little incident as he thumbed their leaves.” e e e O — S Sugar Crop of Hawaii, 1916. The sugar production of Hawaii for the year ending September 30, 1916, was about 592,763 tons, ‘or 53,237 tons less than in the preceding year. The area harvested in 1916, or 115418 acres, was 2,219 mote than in 1915; but in 1916 a lower yleld of cane per acre and a smaller average yield of sagar per ton of cane made the sugar crop of 1916 less than that of the pre ceding year. 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