Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1918 — USE FOR OLD GAS LAMPS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

USE FOR OLD GAS LAMPS

Abandoned Poles Converted Into Hanging Gardens by Beauty-Lov-ing Cincinnati Man. Out on Blair avenue, in a residential section of Cincinnati, a flower lover had a happy inspiration. There had been a change made in the street lamps used. The older-style gas lamps were

Old Gas Lamp Filled With Flowering Plants in a Cincinnati Street. discarded, the glass globes were removed, and only the old poles and the lamp frames were left. “Good enough!” thought the flower lover. Down in his cellar there was some old ■window screening.' It was the work of a moment to rip the screen itself from the frame, take the family ladder to the sidewalk and wrap and bend the screen to the prongs of the lamp frame. Soil from the yard; seed from the war garden; water when needed —and 10, in a very short time each lamp post had Its hanging garden. Popular Science Monthly.