The Daily Morning Journal And Courier

SIX NEW SOCIETY HOUSES.
At Plainville Camp Ground.
Plainville, July 26.-The six new society houses on the Methodist camp ground are each two stories high and nearly completed. They are marvels of neatness and convenience for a small outlay. A model, which Mr. and Mrs. C. T. McGee of Park street have largely carried out, is the South Park (Hartford) house. The money to build it ($600) has been raised in that society by subscription the last six weeks, largely by prepaying the rent of rooms, some paying ahead for several years.
The amount is credited until used at the rate of 50 cents a day for each person. The ground floor is a prayer-meeting room 22x32, with the whole front of doors which fold back from the veranda. At night it is the sleeping room for men, and has a large closet where the beds are stowed away by day. The second story has a center hall opening on to the first balcony and four chambers on each side, every one furnished with woven wire springs, mattress, toilet table, and wardrobe hooks, with a platform over the hall for trunks, etc., and the whole top open from each room with windows on all sides for ventilation. In the rear is the kitchen, 12x14, where packing boxes are utilized for furnishing. There are cupboards, shelves, seats, a cold storage pit and a stove, all conveniently arranged.
Secretary Parker and Manager Dutton are on the ground to direct the people as they arrive from all parts of the state. The dedication services of the South Park house will be at 6 o'clock, Monday, July 29.