Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-04-04

stance, JUSTLY manifest our pride in
our nice little park..which in summer
is a place of beauty-:and source of
pleasure, and we'll re-pays us for the
work and money which has been ex-
| pended in it's creation; we may we'll
feel elated in the possession of a
bountiful supply of wholesome water
which is now within the reach of
almost every home, and we may we'll
rejoice in the attainment of a sewer
system which is not the least among
the things necessary to promote good
health and make our city attractive.
These things are however but the
ground work, the foundation so to
speak, of what is necessary to be
done along this line. The work
which has been done and which is
really a credit to our city has been
accomplished almost entirely by the
public expenditure of money and
promoted largely by our public
officials. This ought not to be the
case. The appearance of our streets
and alleys, yards and vacant lots
compares most unfavorably with
that pretailing in many of our neigh
boring towns. The beauty of our
city park may be wholly effaced from
the memory of visitor by careless
look at the unkept yards, dirty
alleys, unsightly streets bordered
with defective walks and ugly shacks,
and vacant lots overgrown with
weeds and Uttered with the refuse
from the kitchen, office, stable and
the store, or perhaps cast off machin-
cry from some farm. We have
arrived at the period in our history
where every citizen should realize
that he is responsible to certain
extent for existing conditions and he
is under obligations to his city, his
neighbors and himself to so care for
his property and adjacent streets
that there is nothing left or thrown
thereon which may become a nuis-
ance or menace to life or health.
He should realize that the sidewalks,
streets and alleys are public thor
Oughfares on which he should not
throw waste paper to frighten horses
or foster fires, nor ashes which hold
the snow and ice in spring and inter-
feres with the drainage Of the streets
and are both unsightly and source
OF danger, nor house slops and re-
mains Of fruits and vegetables which,
decaying, breed disease; nor leave
his wagon.or delivery cart for some
unfortunate to collide with. He
should realize that no gentleman to-
day should spit upon the sidewalk or
on the floors of stores or public halls
or other places where the public
gather. Of all the crimes against
good health and decency this is per-
haps the worst. In addition to being
unsightly your sputum, gentlemen,
may be spreading the germs of tuber-
culosis, the one disease that causes
the death of l-6 of all our people.
These are some of, the sins Of COM
mission which you should pray to be
delivered from and meekly thank the
officer for pointing out the path of
duty, for some of these are misde-
meanors and subject to- punishment
here on earth if not in the world to
come. But as cleanliness is next to-
Godliness, I,doubt if the filthy sin
ner may expect to escape his punish
ment even then. &..t*,> %<,N' -
The duty of the good citizen, how
ever, does not end with this There
are other things Of scarcely less i'm
portance of which, I may mention