The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-02-12

in the Third Ward surprised James
I Dodson on Friday and spent the
| afternoon with him. Mrs. Dodson had
been notified and served cream and
cake for the children.
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Circle Two of the Christian church
will meet on Tuesday afternoon with
Mrs. Tom Roberts on North Wash
ington street.
The Presbyterian Aid Society will
have a chilli party with Mrs. b. A.
Simpson on Tuesday afternoon.
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The Boulevards.
Relative to the boulevards or drive
ways which it is proposed shall be
established in our city, many good
things will be noticed
The good effects of these drive
ways will reach for several blocks
on each side of the drive. 1t is
not a rich mans movement, for
the poor man will get quite as
much benefit from it as those in
better financial circumstances.
1t will serve as a good advertise
ment to the visitors in our city.
who, when taken for a drive on our
boulevards, will be struck with the
progressiveness of our citizens.
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A Clean City.
One of the recommendations of
the Civic Club was to the effect that
the commissioners and mayor be re-
quested 10 observe the custom of for
mer years and have a clean up day
in Ardmore. Don't you believe it
would be "A good idea for the Civic
Club to have a street and alley de-
partment and offer small prizes for
the best kept alley-and also re-
port those that are not well kept and
have not come up to the require
ments of the city sanitation?
Then if some other department
would choose vacant lots and ask
the owner to have them planted in
something instead of allowing it
to grow up in weeds, another of
our chief ills would be avoided.
You see, it wouldn't cost the
property owner cent more than
otherwise, for Commissioner Burnitt
last year made them cut the weeds
from the lots and will do so again
except, of course, this committee will
have to be very polite in their ap-
proach to the property owner, for
it might wound some of their feel
ings and lead them to plant field
corn, or some such crop, that does
not particularly adorn a lot on a
city street.
You see, property owner is
sometimes a very captious person,
and has to be approached with the
proper amount of awe-very few
Ardmore people are exceedingly care
less about their own premises, and
by the time the vacant lots and
alleys are cleaned out, few germs
will be left and few breeding places
for mosquitoes.
Last summer, for week or so in
southwest Ardmore you could not en-
JOY your porch in the evenings for
the mosquitoes from a vacant lot
in McLlsh Place, who were max
ing friendly calls on their neighbors.
pool of water stood on this
lot and fairly swarmed with mos.
quitoes, OF a most friendly and in
dustlious species.
This nuisance has been oxercome
by filing in the lot this winter, but
1t will serve as warning to the
Civic Club to look out for the low
ground and see what may be done
Tor the health of the city.
Did you ever stop to think that
cities are becoming healthier every
year and all because of city santa
tion.
In the past thirty years the death
rate of the country has gone down
one half in actual numbers.
The average human life in Amerl.
ca is eighteen years longer than it
was at the close of the civil war.
This astounding situation is due.
not to advances in medicine and
surgery. but to cleaning up cities
and bettering living conditions gen
orally.
Saving human life and health prob-
lens in general are being recog-
nized as economic instead of med
ical problems.
Pure water and food, plenty of
fresh air. clean hOuses and .toro.