The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-16
Official Title viii be That Of
"srishten Up crusade" and
VIII Effect En-
tire city.
CHAIRMAN, EACH WARD
Lieutenants viii b same a. Last
Year-want All Blocks
to be Banner
Ones
Prepare for the Brighten up Cru

SADIE.
1t will be housecleaning day for the
CITY Of Keokuk, and the date has been
set for April 80. It is only q short
time away, but there is ample time in
which to get busy and see that ASH
piles, manure piles, rubbish heaps
and the like are removed from the al
legs in the rear of your lots.
4 Brighten Up Day is the new name
for the house cleaning movement. 1t
will be directed by the streets and al
leys committee and the parks, play
ground and public improvements COM
mittee of the Industrial association.
The same lieutenants in each block
who served last year Will be reap
pointed Every citizen Is solicited in
this move to clean up their property
and to prepare the city for the sum-
mer.
William Ballinger is the general
chairman OF the Brighten UP Day
movement, with Myrtle F. Baker as
vice chairman. The following, superin-
tendents have been named:
A. f. Matless for the first ward.
James T. Mccarthy for the second
ward.
C. J. Kirch for the third ward.
Cephas Harrison for the Fourth
ward.
John NJ. French for the fifth ward.
Jacob Schouten for the sixth ward.
Frank Swan for the seventh ward.
Civic League chairmen.
The following chairmen have been
named from the Civic League:
Mrs. George d. Rand, general chair
man.
Mrs. J. F. Elder. first ward.
Mrs. George w. Ewers, second ward.
Mrs. H. o. whitney, third ward.
Mrs. William A. DObbs, Fourth
ward.
Mrs. George l.. Reiner, Fifth ward.
Mrs. George S. Merriam, sixth ward
Mrs. George Loewenstein, seventh
ward
The same lieutenants who served
last year will serve again this time
The lieutenant's duty is to suggest to
the property owners in their blocks
what must be done and to urge the
property owners to get this done by
April 80.
To Brighten up city.
Brighten UP Day will mean a gen
eral city housekeeping. in order tc
put the streets and alleys in shape sc
that the hundreds Of visitors who viii
come to Keokuk this summer will see
city which Is not all ash heaps ant
rubbish piles. The cooperation OF the
city in the cleaning of streets ant
cutters will be sought by the cam
paign managers. If the property own
ers will see to it that their alleys arr
taken care Of, and If the city will lool
after the cutters and streets, thu
result will be satisfactory.
Last year the banner block for thu
clean up was the sixth ward. Thu
year, Chairman Ballinger hopes all thu
wards will be banner blocks. If every
body gets out and works. he thinks
there will be little doubt but tina
there will be banner blocks.
Ash heaps In the rear of propert!
should be removed at once. Furnaces
probably will not be needed by mex
week, and the ashes can all be carr1e'
out and placed in barrels or boxes 8
that the teamsters can easily reacl
them, and haul them away.
inspection Day Follows.
Rubbish piles that can be burne
should be done SO at once, and thos
which are not Of material to max
good bonflres should be carted away
Unsightly heaps Of any sort should
carted away or destroyed by April ~
Inspection day will follow tn
clean up campaign. On the next da
after April 80, Chairman Ball1nge
and Vice Chairman Baker will max
an inspection and report on the r
suits of Brighten Up Day. The war
having the least number Of uns1ehti
ash heaps. rubbish piles and the hk