Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-04-15
Meeting Scheduled For Next
Monday Is Expected
to Attract Many
WILL ORGANIZE FOR
LOCAL IMPROVEMENT
Permanence Will Be Object
in Starting Movement
Here This Spring

Interest in the big clean up meeting
to be held Monday evening in the
rooms Of the Commercial club Is grow
ing and all over the city sentiment
for the cleaner and prettier Ottumwa
is cropping out. The attendance at
the first mass meeting planned to fur
ther the movement this year Is ex-
pected to be large for many people of
both sexes and in all parts Of the city
are interested in the work.
The committee of twenty-one that
did such effective work last year Is
Just as active this spring and even
more keen to do than year ago. The
members OF this committee and all
who participated in the organization
effected by the clean up boosters last
year feel that the experience Of the
first year has been help and should
make 1t easier now to accomplish the
ends for which the movement was
started.
Despite the fact that full attend
ent at the meeting held April 6, the
interest was not in the least dimin-
ished. Many were unablesfor various
reasons to be present at the first
meeting but all are expected at the
mass meeting Monday evening. The
fact that the governors proclamation
sets Monday, April "a, as the official
opening day Of the clean up period.
it is expected to have things moving
in good shape here by that time.
Want Permanence.
Organization will be accomplished
and the workers busy by the date of
the opening of official clean up week.
The expectation here, however, with
many of the clean up boosters, is to
make it not week but continuous
clean up. Permanence is the idea that.
many Of the workers in Ottumwa be-
lieve in and the meeting next Mon
day will see considerable sentiment
for a permanent movement to clean
up and keep clean.
Competition among people in
neighborhood will be encouraged and
every section Of the city entered in
given for the best kept premises, II
the plans of some of the boosters for
cleaner Ottumwa prevail. The per-
son taking pride In his or her own
premises will see that the alley and
street on which the home is located
are tidy and in keeping with the
premises.
The meeting of next Monday has
been characterized by one enthusiast
as the gathering of the enemies of
dirt and disease. Cleanliness and
sanitation applied to every home in
the city and to the vacant lots, streets
and alleys, the removal Of tin cans,
old papers, rags and other rubbish
from yards, streets. alleys and also
from the cellars, sheds. etc, where
they are hidden away from sight will
be things discussed at the clean up
breeding places and a general better
toning of the city throughout, making
1t nicer and healthier place to live;
the encouraging of everyone to clean
up the house, the yard, the barn, shed
or garage, the lawn, parking, alley and
street adjoining, ETC.. are all things
that the clean up campaign to be
launched in Ottumwa at the big
Monday night is to accom-
plish.
Every man and woman of Ottumwa
is invited to attend the meeting or
at least become interested In the
by starting at home in
clean up work A big attendance
Monday night will make possible
good start for the work this spring
and better prospect for the success.
full accomplishment of a cleaner and
brighter Ottumwa this summer.