The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-11-01
CITY CLEANUP
NEXT MONDAY
GENERAL CAMPAIGN TO CRE-
ATE BETTER HEALTH CON-
DITIONS-WARD CAP
TAINS ARE NAMED.
Ardmore is to be given thorough

Ardmore is to be given thorough
cleansing.
If sanitation will accomplish 1t,
the influenza epidemic should sub
side in the near future. incidentally
there will be less danger from fire
and unsightly places that are now
prominent will disappear from view.
Mayor w. r. Roberts declares
that the people have failed to CO.
operate with the civic officials IN
their efforts to keep the town clean,
slightly and sanitary. He says that
when the police notify people to
cut weeds and clean up their prem
ises and keep their alleys free from
garbage that little il any attention IS
paid to his orders.
IF we should begin arresting the
delinquents" said the mayor, eve
would naturally have to begin at
the top by arresting some OF our
most prominent citizens. ii we
should do this. then these citizens
would declare that we were picking
on them so we have felt rather help
less in our desire to keep the city
both sanitary and slightly"
But now this is to be changed.
The people are going to get behind
the city authorities and with no 9TH
er pressure brought to bear upon
them other than that OF civic pride
and the determination to put a check
on the influenza epidemic, they will
proceed without delay, each at his
own home and place of business to
remove all garbage and trash, shovel
the mud oil the walks, drain the
mud puddles, clean Off the parkings,
open up the cutters and in every
way remove and destroy all refuge
and everything that tends to render
their premises either unsanitary or
unsightlv or to increase the men-
ace from fire.
The day on which this is to be
consummated is next Monday,
Nov. 4. The mayor has designated
this day by official proclamation and
the citizens are working to back him
up with results. Each individual will
be placed on his own responsibility
for the cleaning up of his home and
place of busines sand whoever fails
is going to be mark for the scorn
and displeasure of his neighbors and
the entire city.
Conference Held Yesterday.
This movement was formally
launched at meeting held yesterday
afternoon in the Chamber of Com
merce rooms in response to call
issued by the officers of that organ
ization addressed to the various
civic clubs and fraternal orders of
the city. The call set forth the fol-
lowing conditions:
"Ardmore is in an unsanitary con-
dition. Streets and cutters are dir
ty; garbage in the rear of many
business places is stencil and a
menace; alleys and back lots are lit
tered with debris that is both a
health and fire menace; vacant lots
are dangerous and unsightly dump
ing grounds; buildings wrecked by
fire or abandoned are allowed to
stand, unclean and unsilghtly breed.
ers of disease and encourages of
crime: even some occupied build
ings are breeding places OF disease,
and the county physician says they
should be condemned; waste places
overgrown by rank vegetation are
breeding places of myriads OF mos
quitoes; sidewalks are evergrown
with rank weeds and buried in mud
until practically impossible. These
conditions promote disease and low
er the morale of the people"
In response to this call, represen-
tatives of the four Ward Mothers
Clubs and the High School Mothers
Club, the Red Cross Luncheon Club