The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-07-03
PUBLIC CLEANUP DAY.

If any subject has been talked o
more this week than the good tim,
we expect to have on the Fourth, i
is the good, bad or Indifferent things
in connection with the cleanup day
| Nearly every family in town has been
out looking about their premises and
over the back fence, and discussing
the lots and lots of work they have
done or are about to do to keep their
part of the town clean and neat.
A peculiar thing about recent agi-
tatiOn of thesubject is that so many
people have taken matters PERSONAL
ly, as if they were the only ones in
town who needed to do any cleaning
To some extent that has bene an ad-
vantage, for there has been an i'm
mense amount of cleaning done al
ready about the homes. -
Marshal Hilliard has been getting
more callings down perhaps than
anybody else, for people are accus-
toned to tell their troubles to po-
liceman. He sent out about $50 no.
tices to individuals, ordering them to
clean up things they had dumped
over their fences, and many of these
folks have hunted up the marshal
to tell him that it was some neigh
Dor who put it there. If all these
complaints were registered, they
would make title page dark enough
to shade the town. People hardly
know whether to be provoked at
Marshal Hilliard for sending them
the notices or at their neighbors for
not attending to their share Of the
clean-up.
1t is easy to feel provoked at the
neighbor and to make complaint to
tn marshal, and many are doing it
that way.
After Marshal Hilliard had flooded
the mails with notices to clean up,
Dr. Patrie got busy as health officer,
and notified lot of the same people
hat certain things about their prem
ses or alleys were menace to pub
ic health, and gave orders for their
'emoval, and this brought forth some
feeling against the doctor. Some
)f the folks did not read either no.
ice too carefully, and getting a sec
md notice following the first one,
both looking toward the same end,
vas exasperating to some of US, and
We have notion to boycott the mar
'hal and the health officer too. If
We can induce our wife not to have
lny more neuralgia, we will get even
With DR.. Patrie by not calling him
my more, and as for the marshal, we
want to keep out of his reach any
low. Between looking after hoboes
n the chaingang and grading the
treets, he is busy and we like to see
lin sweat.
The ladies of the V. /. S. are MAX
ng preparations to feed those who
york on cleanup days, giving them
1cnic dinner out of doors, but up to
ate, nobody knows how many are
DING to work. A lot of people had
cen waiting for the rains to cease SO
hey could do the work or have it
one, and now the good work is go
lg on. Any number of men say they
re going to clean up all about their
wn places, but draw the line on do
lg anything for the other fellow or
n the vacant lot where nobody lives.
these vacant lots are owned by
on-residents, they ought to have to
ear the expense of having them {
eaned, but we the people have neg !
cted to provide for having weeds
1t at their expense, and if we can I
1T up with the weeds on lots next
us, and be happy with the hay few
1t gives us, the nOp-residentc Uv- p