Show will vernal NO win he be clean ci 4 1 town contest it all depends on the private Cill Gi lizen zen dirt reform Is the reform most badly need ed some fly donis will vernal win the prize la in the clean town contest can call the citizens of this city afford to take second place to any other city in this state in a matter of cleanliness these art are questions that should receive bellow segious attention how matiy many ale aie giving them serious attention vernal has entered the clean town contest as was announced last week vernal shoud win the paize in its division and it will win if every citizen does his duty ditty other cities 0 of f the state have entered the contest and the competition will be keen keefa all the more i leason eason why every citizen should work we are all for reform and the reform most needed Is dirt inform no other reform move men ment t approaches this in ili fari ie caching beaching importance dirt is our universal sin and every man woman oi 01 child is more or less intimately in touch with its harmful influences not only health but likewise morals suffer in its presence it if a city is dirty it is so because its people are ditty dirty Is as clity does the truth may hut huit t but dai alit t huits worse heal the sore and then e will be no hut huit t civic pride or a ditty city ls Is false bilde careless and dai ty habits of citizens call for unnecessary expenditure of the th public funds streets are dirty because some abutting householders make them catch alls foi their garbage gai bage stable and wastes without legai d to proper receptacles the man or woman who howls because the city lecove his garbage and other wastes had better do sonie some thinking citizens themselves not the city authorities are responsible for street litter it is common practice to throw papers handbills hand bills banana or orange pe elings paper bags and boxes into the A street can be littered up much faster than it can be cleaned the proper treatment for offenders of this type is for an officer of the law to compel such person to pick up the stuff and deposit it in a proper receptacle another class of mess in makers akerE is the storekeeper who sweeps his wastes into the streets or alleys such offenders offen deis continuing effis i tice should be promptly arrested and fined A few such examples will have the desired effect the i demoval of nat uial street wastes from the streets and of household wastes flow aiom receptacles in the alleys can be much moie efficiently done if citizens themselves will become orderly and law abiding the work of cleaning up preventable litter claims a very large part of the time linie of the street cleaning force and equipment needlessly of course we cant have teal leal clean until we have clean alleys horses wagons and automobiles passing fiant a dirty alley into a street just cleaned soon make the dirty again this is a big factor and one which merits attention the pressing question now Is how can we keep the city clean all the time basyl everybody take a hand clean the back yard clean tho the front yard clean up your house clean out your basement clean up the barn if you have one clean up the mesa you have hav a made in ili the street with your neighbors hell hel clean the vacant lot next door clean out the weeds keep them cleaned from the side walks from froin fences and yards weeds are a species of dirt they are a disgrace to any town A last summers visitor said bald you have a splendid town but oh the weeds do you grow anything else you cant apologize for weeds clean them out once more the question will vernal win the prize FLIE ARE TH THE il 1 MOST DANGEROUS INSECT dont allow f tiles lies in your house dont permit them near your food especially milk dont buy foodstuffs where flies files are tolerated dont eat where tiles flies have access to the food flies files are the most dangerous insects known to man mail piles flies are the filthiest of all vermin they are born in filth live on filth and carry filth around with them they are maggots before they are flies plies flies are known to be car lieis of millions of death deal ing disease germs they leave borne bome of these germs wherever they alight flies files may infect the food you eat they come colne to your kitchen or to your dining table fresh from the privy vault aloni the garbage box from the manure pile from the cuspidor from decaying animals oi 01 vegetable matter or from the contagious sick loom with this sort of filth on their feet and in their bodies and they deposit it on houi food and YOU DO swallow filth from privy vault etc if you eat food that has come in ill contact with flies files plies may infect you with hubei cul typhoid fever scarlet fever diphtheria and other infectious diseases they have the habit of feasting on oil tuberculosis sputum and other discharges of those sick with these dise diseases aBes and then go direct to your food to your drink to the lips of your sleep ing chiedor chil dor perhaps to a small open wound on your hands or face when germs are deposited in milk they multiply very f fast ast therefore milk should never be exposed to f lies flies 1 U hat to do to got get rid of file screen your windows and dlois do it early before fly time and keep screens up tip until snow flies files screen all food especially milk do not eat food that has been in contact with flies screen the babas bed and keep flies away from the babas bottle the babas food and the babas comforter keep flies away from the sick especially those ill with typhoid fever scarlet fever diphtheria and tuberculosis screen the pat patients lents bed kill every fly that enters the sick room immediately disinfect and dispose of all discharges catch the flies as fast as they appear use liquid continued on page 6 will vernal win the clean town contest continued from page 1 ons one sticky fly capeis and traps place either of these fly poisons in shallow dillus throughout the house a two teaspoonfuls teaspoonful of fol foi malde hyde to a pint of or b one dram drain of ornate of potash dissolved in two ounces of water sweetened sweeten pd with plenty of sugar to quickly cleat rooms of flies files burn pyrethrum hium powder or blow powdered black flag into the air of the room with a powder blower this causes flies files to fall to the floor in stunned condition they must then be gathered up and destroyed |