The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-26
NOTICE

In going over the city in my in
spectlon. find number of vacant
lots full of cans, rubbish and filth.
These lots must be cleaned up and
put in sanitary condition.
There is city ordinance which
gives to the health officer authority
TO notify the owner or renter of such
kind OF property to clean the same
up within forty-eight hours and in
the event the same is not done, the
health officer may employ men and
teams, clean up such property and
charge to the property owner or the
renter and collect for such expense.
1t does not matter how much pride
citizen may take in their own home,
II vacant lot along the side Is flied
with old trash and rubbish it kills
all the good looks they may add to
their property looks and also places
their family in just as much danger
of Ill health as II 1t were their own
back yard. The public is entitled to
this protection and am going to do
all in my power to see that they get
it. Clean up the vacant lots and
make them look pure and clean.
On nearly every corner in the main
part OF the city is a waste basket to
receive papers, pealings, etc. Take
tip and use them. It's a fine to
throw such waste upon the streets
and sidewalks.
Pen up the chickens. and see that
the chicken yard is away from the
residence thirty feet; then you are
up with the law. Don't let your
chickens annoy your neighbors by
eating up his garden or scratching
out all his lawn grass and flowers.
cannot help but admire the good citi-
zenship shown by man a few days
ago. He was advised that he had
some chickens running loose and were
annyorg his neighbors. He at once
sold the majority of his flock and
fastened up the remainder. This
man needed the chickens, but he
wanted to do the right thing by 9TH
ers as we'll as himself. l am getting
numerous complaints on the chicken
nuisance and something must be
done. There is law and l am going
to enforce it on this chicken yard
business. Keep the yard clean
don't make garbage can out of it.
Stable manure must be removed or
spread upon the gardens. 1t is now
becoming a menace to health and
must be gotten out of the bins.
Don't spit on the sidewalks. 1t
may cost you something, just as I'M
expected as death-and when you
least expect 1t. In a few days signs
will be placed on the main streets
to help you remember the teachings
that mother gave you when at home.
There will be a circus here May
that will clean your pocketbooks.
There will be cleanup day in
Clarksburg May 10. VIII 1t clean up
your premises? Let us all join hands
and clean up the city filth. You will
have May and 9 to get your old
cans rubbish and filth to the side
walks. 1t must be on the curb by
Z o'clock a. m, May 10. Remember,
the teams will only go over each
street one time and one time only.
Don't wait until the morning OF the
10th. That Is the day when the
health department will do It's dirty
work; you have yours ready. Do it
May and 9.
leave police headquarters at Z
O'Clock a. M, May 10th, and spread
to different parts of the city, and It
you have waited until the eleventh
hour, you may have waited that much
too long. If trash is set out on the
sidewalks on May 10, after the wag-
ons have passed, you will be fined for
such offense.
w. w. OURS,
Sanitary Officer