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Show L. . . Yard and . Garden . Contest Under Way ..., . . .. . .. . i i SEND IN YOUR ENTRY AT ONCE j j I Send in your entry in (he Yard and Garden Contest j j ' at once. Do not delay. Clip out the entry coupon on j this pase, fill cut as directed and mail to the address j j i indicated. Interest your neighbors and get them to j j enter too. You will improve the appearance of your en- I tire street by so doing. Entry cards can be secured at ! j . contest headquarters as given in the coupon. You have I j as good a chance as anyone else to win a prize. j .. .. ,..-p,, To improve and beauty the home grounds of this community, to awaken all citizens to the desire for better living, and to make of Springville an are center in very deed, a city-wide Yard and Garden contest is now under way. The campaign is being sponsored by the Springville Flower Garden association. associa-tion. Every home owner in th ecity is invited to enter this big contest, which is part of a great national movement sweeping over the country. coun-try. There will be no entry fee and the contest is so arranged that the owner of a small home will have an equal chance with the wealthier resident in the prize competition. By improving and beautifying their home grounds through proper planting of shrubbery, trees and flowers, people of this community will accomplish many definite results, re-sults, as has been shown by the experience ex-perience of every city in which a Yard and Garden contest was held last year. Better living quarters, a healthier environment both for adults and growing children increasing the efficiency and to the family and adding dollars to the value of every home improved by proper planting, cleaning up alleys, streets and vacant lots, removing garbage and rubbish and eventually beautifying beautify-ing the entire community so that it conies to justly deserve the title vf "Art Center,'' are results achieved achiev-ed elsewhere and goals which it is confidently expected Springville will reach through the Yard" and Garden contest now in progress. To make easy the work of every one who enters this big contest, every assistance will be given by the committee in charge. Personal advice will be freely given Zy the chntest committee and ; the judges will take into consideration consider-ation the improvement made by those participating in the contest, rather than the selection cf some beautiful home in this city. "Be It Ever So Humble, Make It Attractive," is the slogan of the j campaign. With such a slogan it . I will n'pft be hard for the owner of J a modest home to compete with the more pretentious residence. Entrants in the contest will get the benefit of suggestions based on the fundamentally sound rules of landscaping, simplified and made easy to foll;-v anywhere, both on a small as well as on a large lot, or on uneven as well as level ground-The ground-The shape of t be house, its proximity prox-imity to the street, architecture of the residence or personal prefer- j ence rf the owner all adapt them- j selves harmoniously to the improve- j mer.t of the home grounds, giving each entrant a chance to achieve I variety and individuality. ' The Yard and Garden Contest I here has been endorsed by the muy- or, the board of health, club w?.men civic leaders and prominent citi-j citi-j zens as arc such contests cvery-I cvery-I where they have been held. ! Every- rcsiderJ of this community is asked to take a hand in this great, city-wide campaign and help make his home town a better and a more beautiful place to live in. In other cities where these campaigns have b'"'n conducted schools and i public institutions such as city! halls, court houses, juvenile and county homes, public libraries, d-iy , nurseries and Chambers of Commerce Com-merce have caught the spirit a nd wherever they have grounds these I have been improved and beautified, j Even factories have caught the 'contagion of beauti: ioat ion and im-po;tant im-po;tant strides have been inad in turning bleak and barren industrial tract! into attractive surroundings when- green gi ass. trees and flowers flow-ers aid in providing for cleanliness, purification of the air and more enjoyable en-joyable Working conditions. J |