Clean-up week is here [editorial]
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- Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 4 Jun 1914, p. 4
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- Clean-up week has arrived at last. That is to say the officials of the Wilmette Improvement association have followed out the suggestion contained in a story published in this newspaper a few weeks ago and are ready to have carted away the refuse from the alleyways.
As we have said previously in these columns, Wilmette is too pretty and too select a residential village to neglect the care of the alleyways and other premises. How often does a casual visitor to the community misjudge the place by an opinion he may form from looking upon ill kempt and untidy alleyways and premises! Only a short time ago a visitor in Wilmette, while walking along the streets, was heard to remark about the beauty of this place and declare that it eclipsed any other residential suburb of Chicago in many ways. However he did not overlook the alleys which at that time were piled high with ash heaps and tin cans in many places. "But dirty alleys give any place a black eye," remarked the visitor. "Why don't they clean them up?" he asked.
And now the Improvement association intends to accomplish a genuine clean-up. To do this the organizaiton will need the co-operation of every property owner and family of the village. Do not neglect your "clean-up" work any longer. Call up P. M. Bingham or any other member or official of the association if the wagons have failed to call in the alley in the rear of your home and report that your lot is cleaned and the refuse is piled up ready for the wagon man. - Date of Publication
- 4 Jun 1914
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- Wilmette.News.295008
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- English
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