The Crittenden record. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1904-1907, 1905-09-01
FAIR SIGN FIGHTERS
HOW cALlFoRNlAWoMeN DESTROYED
UNslGHTLY ADVERTISEMENTS.

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UNSlGHTLY ADVERTISEMENTS.
1entl"r Sex OF san Rafael Blotted
out yellow signs That Defaced
Ross VALLEY by Painting Them
Green-Roadsides No Longer UgIy.
As unSlghtly advertising signs tend
10 mar the appearance u the ap
proachc, 10 a town or even the town
Itself. 10 is OF Interest 20 know how a
few cnterpr.>iug women In California
town destroyed some yellow signs
which We're not pleasing 10 the eye.
Through uri>tucrauc Ross valley. in
California, and Ntrcuk!ug out ON the
roads % Nicasio. Mil Valley. Snusa.
Ito aud san Auselmo came the sign
painter man with yellow pots NJ paint.
says san Rafael dispatch TO the san
Francisco Examiner. lie bcdauhcd the
fences and the rocks and the dead
walls, and he told, rs sigu painters do.
Of the maryels u corn cures, " the
glorIe, Of wart eradicators. OF how
baby carriages might be- purchased IN
hardware stores, and how nursing bot.
ties were for sale at dry goods EN-.
pOrums
The work OF the slgn painter was not
pleasing 60 the eye. He daubcd In vel.
low, and yellow never did go well with
green. All the country hereabout
from the FASHIONED glories OF Tamal
pals 20 where the tinklng COW bells
and The rustlins skirts 80 gayly ~ the
bypaths 70 Pastorrs. Is all In green.
There Is an artistic sense IN Ross
valley and the country thereabou,
That sense was aroused against the
sign painter man and his ocher lnva.
sion The artistic seuas grumbled and
glowerei and talked on the train. The
men said Il was a great shame that
green nature should be so protaned by
these streaks OF yellow, but the men
OF the community had a streak Of vel.
low tn themselves, and they did moth.
Ing but talk and grumble GA the trains.
But then up arose the women
Ross valley, as rose Xarifa when II
laid her golden cushion down. or AS up
rose the historic women Of Marble.
head when they tarr,d and feather,.i
and carried IN cart old Flood Ircson.
whose hard heart led him 10 sail away
from Fellow seamen IN distress. These
women had the same artistic sense as
the men, but they had more courage
and more action. They were led by
Mrs Z. g. Schmicdell. with Miss Nath.
ale Colin aud Miss sara Colin as her
active hcuicuants These three women
gathered around them a few other. ~
their sex aud they quickly but quietly
determined that those yellow sign.
should no longer mar the beauty Of
ihe Marin landscape. They cared no,
Tor the admonltiou 20 buy corn plas.
iers az smiths Nothing 20 them was
Tie announcement that bargains In
kidney cures were 10 be- had at the
corner store % Jones Their souls did
not thrill over the allurements for the
purchase % sce,licss sowers and track.
less wagons at the emporium Of Brown
They even put behind them al thought
n The marked down advantages Ia
lingerie aud dress gools offered hy
Robinson.
They determined that thos. sign.
should b. bl1ttci from tn fences spd
TIE rccks aud from the dead walls
With a une idea Of an artistic revenge
they decided that green should d. m.
color that should blot the yellow from
u" landscape Ahd ~ decide with
Them was 60 act They secured Dot. N
green paint and heavy brushes nud In
ih'r tea carts and rub carts they went
forth Zoo the gray ~ the dawn ami d.
'"rcd Us the Scrptural laburcrs worked
IN The vineyard
Wherever they found a yellow sign
hey dluhvl 70 over with "a suat M
green. Even The white sIgu and IA.
''d s.-u lud the multlcuIur,I sign v,r.
l"i spared Wherever sIgu could be-
'u''rl down 10 was carried avay Ia.
stead uf being painted over A. uIrh,
DO" work ~ DETACHMENT aud eumIn,
iou was complete
san Aus,'mo arusr the u,Nt muu.py
10 tud % grrvu bridge Zoo playy N a ,,i
low "u" Valley knew mo- NOR, o,
urn p.1siyrs ur VI easy a.d, 10 iplIf
.cUni digestion Where the dusty
uads n N.cHslo lead into ~, dian lie
.ond the irucvs we're dmpy,i iu rr,~n
llrci and bc,lluly,l, but tr.umrbBp,
w Schm.v,lcll aud the Misses conn
'hd their feminine coadiu,ors rturn,,I .
/" h'ir homes fccllng that they had /
sen responsible for good deed w,ll T.
lone Their wrists achri and an m,
Fhilne " all the world would NO,
YAK The green color from their gown. .
'ut The sign by the wnysldr no NOR,
'n"nds The eye ~ the wayf.rcr nud h.
Mo las corns ou his los mus, ~.
y. own Ingenuity In finding respite
~" To- SUR. the people who engaged
he sisn painter to put on, their s.sn.
u'n"l AMI frcit~i ani threatened legal
'f"'oi.ng,. but tho laugh n Mr.. I
''hih'''irii AMI the Joy u the Miss. .
.oliu hui The g.srlr. ~ tho.. wt,
.li,d anl alcttci them show uo ,,urb