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Show WEEDS, STREETS ANDJLEANLINESS Tiiinu i:m:n- ox aivaxci ok ki:tahih tiii: (iiunvrn or v CITY. The population of Anicilcnn Eork has recently been Increased by se oral very desirable citizens from oth cr parts of tho stale. They are a al unblo asset to the community and ar., of a class who could Just as well haw chosen some other city as their inn ,. nnd still transacted their present b..si ncss with equal convenience. The city Is conventlently located to he come n city of homos for people who havo mmlo their money In tho mines stock business or other avocations but who nre now In a position to bo Bin taking life more easy. Thoro nro many reasons why thif, class should locate Jiere. It Is a cltv of henutlful homes, well kept lawns Rood schools, churches nnd business houses and progressive Intelligent citizens, citi-zens, llesldes this It Is but an hours run Into the stato metropolis In an auto or on nn Interurban car or the other two railroads and hut a shnit dlstnnco to the lake or the mountains. Dut tho universal objection of those who come from tho outside Is the pres. enee of weeds. Weeds nre everywhere. A K.irilcn( Rone to weeds or, n farm Kono to weeds gives tho appearance of being abandoned, nnd just such a feeling creeps over the stranger when ho sees a whole town gone to weeds. At this season of the year when the weeds have gone to seed the condition condi-tion Is partleulaily tntlc.ble. The sidewalks In mnny sections arc so overgrown ov-ergrown that tho fences are only part, ly visible and pedestrians nre com polled to go single file. lt) main ynrds tho condition Is worse. To the natives who have lived hero since the weei's first sprang from tiny weeds tho condition has grown so grodunlly that It Is less offensive.: but the effect Is tremendous on the stranger, nnd has a physologleal effect on both. WnnM It not be well to tako steps at onco to clean up the town nnd next year organize a eampnlgn for a wocd-less wocd-less (own. Think of tho economic nnd sanitary value It would havo I" tho community, the effect It wnub' hnve on tho visitor to our otherwise fnlr city, nnd the Immense ndvertls. lng value It would hnvo throughout tho state. A little healthful eve" clso for a few hours each week would brlnv the desired results nnd the re. turns would ho worth thousands. The? eommojnls and recommendations recommenda-tions could bo applied to almost any of n score of I'tnli cities. o |