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Show A PICNIC PARTY Following up our article of several weeks ago on improving the road to the power plant we are prone to call attention to a movement that seems to be spreading over certain sections of the country, notably in some of the southern states, which has great possibilities when properly pushed. The idea is to select a certain road-; road-; way, for instance, which is in need j of improvement and is of vital interest inter-est to all the people. The next step is to arrange for a holiday on a certain date, at which time the people all turn out by hundreds and sometimes in larger numbers and take off their coats and pitch! in and build the road, or whatever may be the object to be attained. Often the ladies declare a picnic and go along and take dinners for the men and cheer them with their presence. It has proven a great success in every case that has been called to our attention. And if it has proven successful in other places, why not here? Such a movement could be carried out in a like manner on some of the streets in Mt. Pleasant to good advantage. One of the prominent property owners own-ers on State street has said that he would donate two hundred dollars worth of labor toward building up that street. And if one man will offer that, how much could ten or fifty men accomplish by doing a liberal lib-eral amount of labor in the same direction. Why can't we of Moiunt Pleasant declare three or four general holidays holi-days and everybody turn out and make some improvement that is ; greatly needed in our midst? Why j can't we do something that will make j this a more attractive place for the farming community around as well j as the citizens of the town? Why can't we do something that will be of commercial and civic value to our city? We need a few get-together picnics and we need plenty of improvements, and we know of no better way of getting them than by means of something some-thing of this kind. |