Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-10-08
TOWN B%ETTERMENT.
What Is Being Done In Various Com
munities In This Direction.

munities In This Direction.
A committee of the board of trade in
Lowell, Mass, has taken an inventory
of all the billboards in the town and
has communicated with the authori-
ties requesting that the leasing Of
boards on city property be discontin-
ued when the time comes for their re-
newal. The committee says that the
revenue received is a trifle compared
with the harm done to the beauty of
the town.
Following the example of large cities
and more recently many small ones,
Easton, Pa, has adopted an antispit-
ting law, and the measure has been
signed by Mayor McKeen. People
who have been in the habit of spit
ting tobacco juice over the sidewalks
or on floors of public buildings will be
placed under arrest and fined for their
offenses if they are continued. No
tees Of warning have been posted.
Conspicuous improvements have been
made this summer in the appearance
Of the business section of Utica, N. Y.
New cement walks have been laid on
Genesee and other central streets.
This has been the result of agitation
started last winter by President Baker
Of the council, who says he was led to
give attention to the matter by his
observation that, whereas the city was
spending thousands of dollars-up into
the millions, in fact-to provide proper
places upon which dumb animals might
travel, the ways which humankind
must tread were left in a condition I'm
fit e for the animal kingdom.
%Sunnyside, one Of the longest streets
in Burlington, Ia, is to be paved its
entire length in the near future. The
street extends from one city limit to
the other, and much of the property
though the legal assessment derived
from this property would not begin to
pay the cost, the return value of the
pavement has been fully promised by
citizens anxious for the improvement
and who are more than willing to pay
their full share of the assessment.
AS q measure for the protection of
the school children of New Orleans,
City Health Officer W. T. O'Reilly will
make a suggestion to the school board
that, beginning at the next term. all
pupils be compelled to bring their own
drinking cups and that common cups
and dippers for the use of all be abol-
ished.
Under an ordinance recently passed
by the city council of Knoxville, Tenn,
it is unlawful to put down any side
walk in the city limits except of con
crete. The specifications provide for
inspections by the city inspector, and
every safeguard is thrown around the
ordinance to give the property owner
a good sidewalk and protect him
against any inferior work.
The park and cemetery commissions
of Grand Rapids, Mich, have adopted
formal resolutions in reference to criti-
cisms that have been made against the
superintendent of the public parks on
account of their being engaged in pri-
vate landscape work. The board takes
the ground that the performance of
such work for citizens of Grand Rap
ids results in the substantial improve
ment in the appearance of the town
and that when done for neighboring
towns they are simply doing a neigh
borly act which tends to raise the
prestige Of Grand Rapids in matters
of outdoor art, besides having a tend
ency to educate the superintendent
and give them larger experience.