Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1915 — Home Town Helps [ARTICLE]

Home Town Helps

RUIN WILL BENEFIT TOWNS Destruction by Armies Will Make Necessary the Construction of Whole Communities Anew. Every town of importance in East Prussia that has suffered at the devastating hand of the Russians has decided to incorporate a municipal garden section in its plans for rebuilding. Many of the destroyed towns are so completely ruined that it is going to be necessary to raze what little is left and construct the whole community anew. This makes it eminently feasible to apportion off a section that can be devoted to the desirable city garden feathre. Many of the communities also areplanning for a series of municipally obstructed and owned houses for workmen, single home structures with) two, three and four rooms, which ultimately can be purchased by their oc* cupants on the familiar easy-payment plan. Plans of this character are already well advanced in Gerdauen, Tapiau,. Ortelsburg, Lyck and other communities, and additional municipalities aret preparing to follow suit.