Show For A Better Ephraim By The EPHRAIM UP CLEAN-UP COMMITTEE Clifford H. H Sondrup rup Chairman AND EPHRAIM CITY CORPORATION All our t talk k about up clean-up and up fix-up is not a new thing Dorothy Stoddard brought an ar article Ucle in which was printed 17 years ago in the Ephraim raim Enterprise Enterprise Enterprise En En- under the same title we are using today For A Better Ephraim It was her opinion as well as ours that it should be run again Seventeen Seventeen Seventeen Seven Seven- teen years of trying to get get rid of old barns and useless sheds ought to be long enough dont don't you thing The article printed 17 years ago read as follows We suggest the organization of a Society For the Humane Removal of Old and Useless if Sheds and Barns Of course t many of them have sentimental value but so few have real utility and most of them are plain fire Ire hazards in addition to being eyesores We were still talking about unsightly unsanitary unsanItary unsanitary and deleterious sheds and barns in the last sentence Now of course when a lot lotof lotof lotof of the barns were built and the she sheds ls too for that matter it was expedient that people live close together for protective protective protective tive reasons And if they built their barns out in the fields and then huddled together for safety it would have been easy for the Indians to have put the torch to the unshielded barns Too travel sl slow w and in addition addition addition addi addi- tion to having the said barns under the protective eye and arm they had to be For that reason homes were clustered close together and so were corrals and barns etc A lot of the settlers that came here arrived from areas where it was extremely wet or it was necessary to have barns to save every straw r 0 Sheds were used as wood sheds and to house the family buggy which in this case for the benefit of the younger generations generations genera genera- had one or two horse horsepower horsepower horsepower power and they each had four legs Now that a lot of people have sold the family cow and get their milk from the dairy and the oleo from the store they have no need for a barn The buggy has become a gas buggy and must have a garage With central heating the old woodshed wood woodshed woodshed shed Is obsolete What we are preserving them for we dont don't donty r y rightly Brightly know Maybe it is like when we used to go swimming in the frog ponds west of town we would try the water with our wrist and toe and then some one would come up be behind behind behind be- be hind us and shove us in Once in all over it was fine the agony of trying the water and putting off the plunge was far more poignant than the quick plunge Now the Idea of all this is maybe all we are waiting for forIs forIs foris Is the push and that is what the society is for What's your idea This weeks week's Orchid goes to fr Mr and Mrs Glen L L. L Bartholomew Bartholomew Bartholomew Barth Barth- for their fine appearIng appearing appearing appear appear- ing premises |