The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-04-17
CLEANUP is ADDED TO
PRETTY-UP PROGRAM OF
The BUSINESS WOMEN
Officials and Public Spirited Citizens to
Join Hands in Good Work. k---Improve
Vacant Lots and Ask for Day
Devoted to Beginning on
Boulevard to College

You can't stop 'em, so there is nc
use TO try it. You had better join 'em
and take some OF the credit to your.
self The Business Women's club
aided and abetted by pubic-minded
citizens and city officials. are going
to clean up Chickasha. Just simply
give her scrubbin' the like Of which
is read about, but seldom seen. II You
don't join in and clean up along with
the rest Of the town, the chances are
that somebody will come along and
clean up for your, or on you
1t would be a fine thing TO wake up
some morning and find that your
neighbor had become SO ashamed Of
you that he had climbed over the fence
and had cleaned up your whole place,
simply to maintain the social stand
ing of the block. You would be about
as popular as q bootlegger at an Ep-
worth league convention.
But to 30 back to the Business Wo-
mems club. They have planned a
cleanup for Chickasha, that when
complete win put ChIckasha right in
the middle OF the map as the cleanest
town in Oklahoma. Not only that,
but town that ~The City Beautiful
was named after Rubbish piles are
TO be turned into grassy knolls. I'M
slightly alleys into bouleyards and va
want lots into flower gardens. NOT to
mention what the yards and parkings
will look like. Yes. sir. that is some
job, but they are going to do IT,
Contests Started.
In fact, they have already started
by offering a series OF prizes in var
ious classes OF contest that will
mean the beautifying OF the city. The
different divisions in the contest are
for the greatest Improvement shown In
any piece Of property during the sum.
mer. for the best kept lawn, for the
best kept childs flower garden and for
the biggest Improvement or best kept
public building or grounds. They are
contemplating making other divisions.
The entrance fee is absolutely moth.
ing. All that II required is to phone
your entry to DR. Martha BIedsoe.
president of the club. A member OF
the club will then appear on the scene
with dodak, take picture of your
premises and let you go to work The
entry books close on May IS. When
the entries are at their best other
photographs are taken and by com.
parison the judges will decide. An
hour after the contest was announced
in the Express. Dr. Bledsoe and Mrs.
Edna Watkins began to receive tele-
phone calls and the next day the cam
era brigade was started.
Improve Vacant Lots.
Vacant and unsightly lots are to be
cleaned and beautified The most
screaming example of this kind is on
the corner of Choctaw and Fourth
street. A blacksmith shop has moved
away, building and all, but the pile
of scrapiron left behind would make
junk man wiring his hands for JOY
Already pressure is being brought to
bear and the speedy removal Of the
scrap heap is assured, The plot will
then be plowed, leveled and planted
in grass and flowers. The rest is up
to your imagination.
Other vacant lots win come in for
their share of attention, but the one
mentioned will be set as an example
simply because OF its prominence of
location.
Driveway to College.
Pursuing the idea OF a driveway to
the Oklahoma College for Women, the
club women have started crusade
that is gathering headway as IL pro-
ceeds. Mayor J. b. Burton will be
asked to sci aside day to be espec-
tally devoted to the beginning Of what