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Show if spring work quite a good ized jolly party of men and ivomen went Maying on Monday from 10:30, a. m,, to 2:o0, p. m., i'isiting over 35 homes. The excursion ex-cursion was in no sense an inspection in-spection but a friendly visit and n most cases the hosts and hostesses escorted the party all ibout their premises pointing jut the beauty spots. Lunch was eaten on Mrs J. E. Wright's shady lawn. Mrs. Wright hospitably hos-pitably serving refreshments to those who had forgotten to briny lunches.' A great deal of cleaning clean-ing had been done and was still going on even in places which there was not time to visit. Hundreds Hun-dreds of loads of manure have been removed and many sanitary toilets have been installed. In some instances very unsanitary conditions were found, but many premises were delightfully clean. The scoring will be done at once during the first part of this month, the Boy Scouts will do the inspecting and preliminary scoring and prizes will be awarded award-ed to the best premises. , May Day in Hinckley r The people of Hinckley, in , spite of all indications to the con-. con-. trary, do want to have a clean town and individually clean l homes. Everyune, men and 1 wmirii, interested in Home Economics has been hard at work on the problem since. February Feb-ruary and at the last H. E. A. i-; party in March, the men suggested sug-gested that they might clean up o better if we appointed a visiting ii day in connection with the clean - premises contest- May day was d appointed as the day when we t should visit each other's back n yards to see how much improve-;t improve-;t ment had been made, and to get i. suggestions fur improving our 4 own homes. In spite of the rush |
