The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-05-09
The Cleanup Forum
Eyerybody's Comments

II Inc Nledn-up TOrum
II Everybody's Comments
C. A. Swope, owner of the Swope
property on West Bridge street, re-
ports that upon reading the news
last Thursday evening to the effect
that his property needed cleaning up,
he engaged transportation for rub
bish and began carting 1t away.
Mr.. Swope stated that he thought
we had been rather hard ON him in
delivering all the responsibility for
the territory mentioned upon his UNI
offending shoulders since he had only
held title and paid taxes on 1t for
! some time and his tenants, Stultz &
Conover the painters, Don Geyer's
garage, Rowland & Stewart of the
Welding shop and Bauer & Bellamy
Of the blacksmith and wheelwright
shop were all contributing to the
piles and parks of old machines and
other things complained OF, and that
! Clark's Transfer company has been
abandoning the obsolete wagons and
leaving them in his park Of cast-off
stuff, and the county had left one of
their big boilers there and lot of
| railroad rails which they had pur-
chased or swiped for use in building
cement culverts, and James Lloyd
the dry farmer, had left some of his
old iron there and altogether the
help of these enterprising gentlemen
shedding their old stuff had multi
piled the sins that he is made to
stand for.
We suggested that if he allowed all
of us to leave our old stuff on his lots
it might be easy to enlarge the list
indefinitely as most of us would
rather unhitch from it there than to
take it to the city dumping ground
and he ought to be proud Of the
honor of owning SO much stuff that
was once good and covered more or
less with red paint.
Mr.. Swope is good scout and says
he is with us for good cleanup for
Blackfoot and has removed the old
fence and is getting rid of orna-
mental rig-ama-jigs that he was
about half in the notion Of tearing
out before we spoke, and got fully
in the notion of removing when he
saw our version of it in cold type.
Lady Friend Rings Up
Mrs. Mary Johnson rang up to say
that we had blamed the city water
works for something that belongs to
her, and she thinks the city has
enough to answer for without should
ering any of hers. 1t was the item
about the pile of leaves gathered
together into an orderly Pile" that
we said might be fertilizer in process
of decay for use, and she stated that
this was good guess and we are
privileged to say that it is preserved
for that purpose and used about the
roots of flowers and shrubs. I'll
matches no vermin, gives off no odor
and is an asset to the place and the
town when applied to the roots of
plants. She has it piled up against
the watrworks building, but she pays
the tribute to the tax gather for the
ground it rests on she wants to bear
all the reproach and receive whatever
honor there is in being responsible
for it's existence, thank you very
kindly. N
Bills Merely Mentions
Grin Bills merely mentions it in
passing, that most of the ashes at
the rear of his place was there when
he rented and moved in, but that he
will remove it as soon as he can catch
a drayman willing to book for a
cargo of ashes. He didn't mean to be |
mean about it nor to offend the
neighbors nor the city and he admits
that if he had known that inspection
committee was applying for passports
for the tour of the city he might even
have wheeled it away the day before
and built it into some local rut or
mudhole. Mr.. Bills admits that we !
caught him with the goods,
School Trustee Speaks
Ernest Pearson, proprietor Of the |
Pearson Grocery and member of the
school board, the member who "hol- |
lers" loudest against extravaganza in |
school matters and threatens to cut |
out lot of the frills in school work |
that are running into big expense,
referred to the committee report pub
lished Thursday and said the only |
"holler" he had coming about it was |
that the committee did not overlook |
that brush piled in the street on the
school house side of Stout avenue |
that did not belong to the school |
grounds. He said he had his eye |
on it the morning after it's arrival,
and he thought some of demanding |
it's removal in his capacity as citi-
zen, but he raised in his own mind |
question of authority; then he con-
sidered doing it in the capacity of a
school trustee, and he raised ques-
ton with himself as to his jurisdic-
ton, since this rubbish was not on
the school grounds, but on the street
adjacent to them, and while owners
Of the property are held responsible
for rubbish which they put on the
street, yet he was not sure they are
responsible for what somebody else
imports and piles in such position, so
he took it under advisement with
himself pending questions of juris-
dictiou ond In tho meantime tho |