Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-08
THE COURIER JUNIOR
Published by
THE COURIER PRINTING CO.
ottunwa, Iowa
MATILDA DEVEREAUx
EDITOR
4 JUNIOR MAYOR.

a JUNIOR MAYOR.
Dear Juniors: Last Junior day we
asked all the Juniors in Ottumwa and
4 everywhere else, to assist in the great
cleanup movement Well. since then
We have seen a circular from Pales,
tine, Texas, which embodies the proc.
lamation" Of the Junior mayor of that
\ city. This Junior mayor is the son
OF Z former Ottumwa teacher, Miss
y Maude Utecht, and his name is T. B.
1 Greenwood, Jr. Thinking perhaps
1 the Courier Juniors will be glad to
\ know what other Juniors are doing
u We will let you read the following
"proclamation'':
A Proclamation.
70 the citizens of the First ward,
Palestine, Texas.
Il 0restine:
e Acting under and by virtue of the
authority vested In me as Junior
ShAayor OF the above named ward, hav-
Eng been duly elected and Installed as
u such by Its Junior Civic Improvement
k1eague, beg to inform you that said
hi 1saaue IL now engaged in vigorous
cleanup and civic Improvement con-
rest. A cash prize is being offered to
1.-THE school located in the ward max
sang the greatest Improvement. In or.
der to win the prizbe for our school
the cooperation of every citizen Will
q be necessary.
To such end you are therefore re-
Nuuested. implored and COMMANDED
sTo Clean Up and eeautlfy your
Premises.
The following suggestions are made:
Rake up and burn all trash and
rubbish possible.
| Rake and pile up all tin cans ana
other rubbish that cannot be burned:
Place trash can on the corner OF
each block so that school children ana
other passersby may pick up and de-
posit in it all loose papers and other
such trash.
Form the habit Of picking up and
depositing such trash yourself.
Remove unsightly ash and cinder
/ pies from your back yards.
Neatly stack your wood pile or place
Il IN the wood shed. =
Pile up all old lumber.
Keep all receptacles for garbage
closely covered or screened.
Do not permit water to stand and
become a breeding place for misqul-
toes.
Swat and trap the flies.
Now your lawn; or II you have no
grass, see that your yards are swept
nice and clean.
Plant flowers, shrubbery and shade
trees.
Boost the cleanup campaign and do
everything you can to make our ward
u al mt
tion Of the city.
The entire month Of April will be
devoted to the campaign, but April 81
II proclaimed general cleanup day.
II you do not want one of our po-
Mcemen to call on you. be sure to
clean up on or before that day.
Respectfully
+. b. Greenwood, Jr., Junior Mayor.
Joined by:
Lois Bailey.
George Dean.
Henry Ragsdale.
Commissioners.
II n not too late for Courier Juniors
to appoint Junior mayors. Hoping that
many of the Courier Juniors will be
more interested in this cleanup work
after reading about the Palestine
Juniors, we have decided to reprint
the contest announced last week:
We hope the Juniors everywhere
are doing what the Ottumwa Juniors
are doing cleaning up the back yards.
We are interested in this "Clean Up"
movement and we want everybody
else to be. We wish all the Juniors
would write some compositions about
the Spring Clean Up"
We will not announce any particu-
lar time for closing but the workers
can select their prizes from the fol
lowing: A fancy basket, plate, ball,
knife or book.