"We're planning to see Colonel Stratton about starting up a club for
the preservation of our wild flowers and Doc Philipps is to have charge
of a fight on the moths and things that are eating and killing our
fruit trees.
"The school buildings will be investigated and conditions noted. Doc
Philipps says that if the heating plant and ventilation and light was
tended to we wouldn't have so much sickness among the children or so
many needing glasses.
"As soon as spring really comes the Woman's Civic League is going to
start up a clean-up campaign. Of course, Green Valley never was a
dirty town. Everybody likes to have their yard nice but there's
considerable old faded newspaper and rusty tin cans lying along the
roads farther out and in unnoticed corners that nobody's felt
responsible for. That will all be attended to. We'll have no filth,
no germs, no ugliness anywhere, Mrs. Brownlee says.
"And I've been appointed a committee of one to wait on Seth Curtis and
call his attention to the careless way he leaves his horses standing
about the town. Those horses are dangerous and getting uglier in
temper every day. And Seth is just as bad."
This was only too true. Seth had grown bitter and even reckless of
late.
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