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Show I ' j CLEAN-UP DAY. I H Press dispatchers announce that Spokane, Washington, made March' H ' 31st a holiday devoted to cleaning the H ' city's front and trick jards, alley wavs, H j outbuildings, everything that needed H ' cleaning. Tun Rkpuhui-an presents H ' the dispatch to Its readers and com- mends the idea to otllclals and public H bpirltcd citlcns The Spokane dls-M dls-M patch savs: H "Twenty thousand persons of all ages ' took part today, in tiio greatest city BB j cleaning nun n nit over known ma B Western cum... ui, ay It wr.s theinost BB general muveiiichi ever started inSpo- BB Kane. , J The Mayor named March :il as a H i special cleaning and arbor (lay, allow- ' i mg lires anywhere and giving use of , the city's street laborers to help In H j carting away the rubbish. The banks H t declared a holldav and city and county BB otllcis closed. The school children BB hud been organicd In the various pre-BB pre-BB cincts woiklng under precinct cap- i tains. The city oillclals designated H I certain vacant lots In etch ward as BB dumping places for non-combustible BB material. H ' It Is estimated that GOoO trees were j set out during the afternoon. One M I syndicate planted 1000 tree The H j nioverncnt was planned and directed B , by the city beautiful committee or the 160,000 club.' |