The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-04-27
City Cleaner Now
Than Ever Before
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symptoms last year at clean up time,
but this spring they broke out all
yer with feelings for clean yards,
both front and back, and for clean
streets and alleys. Even the wood
Is piled up straight this spring in
stead of being thrown into a heap
when chopped and left so. There
are more neat looking chicken yards
this spring and less of fringes on the
outbuildings where grass grew and
was never removed carefully
fringes that start a fire so easily
they are missing now, just as if the
family had decided to reduce the fire
menace. A great deal of the trash
that has disappeared from real lots
was a fire menace, some Of it lying
for several years where it might
easily set a building Attire by merely
having a spark dropped in the right
place. Gone is the trash, and the
fire risk from most of these places.
A good many people have done
something this spring which they
had neglected to do for years-they
took the leaves off of the valley"
in the single roof, where they &C
cumulate and decay, rotting the
shingles under them. A good many
of the young folks have practiced
climbing this spring, in the direction
OF rotting leaves on the roof, and
have cleaned them off. That not
only removes a fire risk, but saves
decay and loss Of shingles and loss
inside the house by leaking that
spoils) plaster, paper and tinted
walls. !
Old Timer Talks
A man who is an 'observant old
timer says that whenever people be-
gin taking an interest in the roofs Of
their houses, they begin to see that
the shingles dry out, lose their paint
and curl, ard then they see the need
Of paint as a preserver of the whole
house and they get to using paint
brushes and paint on the roof. This
old man was onc something Of a
sailor and he says that a sea captain
says that to have q clean deck is to
have a clean ship, so when he has.
the decks we'll washed, the cleanup
naturally, spreads to the whole boat.
With a land lubber, he says, when a
family begin to. take care Of the roof
Of their house they protect all that
is below it, and it runs to painting
and preserving what is already built
and a house with a good roof is a
compliment to its owners. 1t looks
good and is good, and they don't
stop at the roof; for when they can |
afford some more work and paint, |
they paint the porch and the window
stills and castings, and the screen
door and finally the whole house and
1t makes for good appearances, good
economy and for, comfort and salts
faction not only with the family, but
with the neighbors.
School Property Cleaned
The schools have been busy put
ting their real estate in order ard
1t is a credit to the management and
to the workers. Well kept school
property bespeaks a spirit Of COM
munity pride and it spreads. If
school property is not we'll kept, it
spreads gloom and slovenliness to
the homes. 1t is like the cat that
gets too trifing to lick ITSELF
everybody avoids it and it gets SO it
seems to hate itself. There is no
surer way to destroy school interest
than to let the school property run
down at the heel.
A good deal of money has been
spent to make good entrances to the
town Of Blackfoot and about the
worst trash and disorder looms up
at the Broadway entrnce. Tourists
will be impressed by it and it will be
a fire risk and a weed menace If not
removed.
Ditch Companies Surprised
Ditch companies having bitches
running thru town long ago gave up
getting the adjacent residents to
take leaves out Of the ditch. The
leaves fell from the trees belonging
to Smith and Jones, for example. but /
the moment the leaves got into the
ditch, Smith and Jones disowned
them and left them for the ditch
owner to take out at their W ex-
pense. Smith and Jones might be
stockholders in that same ditch, and
they might have more time than
money, but in spite Of all logic, they
would wait till the ditch company
hired men to clean out the ditch,
then an assessment would be levied |
on Smith and Jones and the others,
the money would have to be paid in
to the ditch treasurer and then paid
to the workmen, and in that way the
owners of the trees, and the ditch,
worked 1t around so that the ditch
company had to do some work that
by right should have been done d.
rectly by the owners of the trees that
shed the leaves that fell in the ditch
that lay thru the town that Jack
built.
A Popular Holdup
Last year there was considerable