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Show How Lelii Won I First Prize Glass G H I Wrlle'l'l' Will Apnenr In Eastern I Jfopulnc I.olif To Huvo lUg L'ele. I brfltlon M'lien Prize roiintnln Ar-M Ar-M rim. Eastern magazines nro nnxlouo to I aru all about tlio Utah Clean To An I 'Contest that has aroused nation wide fl Interest. Several publlshoro havo sent I requeats to the officials of tlio Utnh .A Development League asking; for par's par-'s ticulara. Tlio officials have vrlttou to Lehl, the winner of Unit prize In U cia9 c, asking what this city did and fl ton- the organization was worked. I Following Is Lehl's answer: B -Lehl waB a little slow In entering I tie contest, and it was not till after I leteral letters had been sent (lie tl city officials nud the Lehl Coniinerclal Jj dub, that Mayor W. R Qurney, nnd fl 3 V. Ross, president of the Commcr-B'tt Commcr-B'tt club, got together and selected ito general committee, which roimlat-tjot roimlat-tjot thirty members, ono reprcscnt-tjig reprcscnt-tjig each of the social, fraternal, civic Kgf religious organizations In the Kjr. This organization elected Junius tksks Its president nud B. W. Ross li'iecretary, and also selected an RjKCUtive committee, one from each Ktrd- The wards were divided Into Hwttrlcts or blocks, with a captain Ker each block, whose duty It was Ro,'(lro out literature and personally N' responsible for each home on his Meek. H&The city was divided Into an Hast B id-West sido, with n captain over Wb aide, thus n spirit of frldndly nlry was engendered. This was ompllshed by the committee hav-Hft hav-Hft a lot of red and bluo buttons Hwjde, on which was printed, "A H Cleaner Lehl." When a homo was (leaned up so that it would score '5 ''points, it was awarded a button :Btioie living on tlio Hast sido being fltfren n bluo one and those Hying on fl fie West side of Center Street n red S "This was locally known ns tlio batik bat-ik the Reds anutho Blues, 'When S&Imb was.thoughtt'to?nowolhyjfmi i iutton, local Judges gave It a scor-fl(jjg scor-fl(jjg and If up to tlio stnndnrd, one Hudre victory was awarded to the wln- niag side. A large ma), showing In I detail tlio olty blocks, was exhibited in' the postofllec, and when a home flui given a button, It was noted with tpproprjnto color on tlio map, ho that Unpeople could bco from ilay to day -low tlio battle progressed. It wjip considered a marked distinction to be tie wearer of "A Cleaner Lehl" hut's hut-'s too. Besides this, tlio newspapers gave lde publicity to tlio movement qach Iiue, and public meetings wero ad- dressed by leading speakers from H other towns. The city Council nlso should lie fJvea much credit for the success attained. at-tained. It provided tlio necessary 'anils for printing circulars and the W'rclinsu of buttons, etc., and also "red teams for several days In help-log help-log to clean up tho street. On "cor-Wn "cor-Wn days theso teams would haul "ay gratis garbage that tho cltlzo'ns Placed on tho streets. The Btato sanitary Inspector'H co-opratlon co-opratlon was also used to enforce 1M cleaning up of cortnlu placet where the owners woro negligent In following tho suggestions of the locnl committee. I'fobably novor before did the people peo-ple enter so unanimously Into a pub-Hc'movemont, pub-Hc'movemont, nnd probnbly uovor bo. 'ore was a movemont so beneficial to ln community in Imiiroving its jalth nnd Installing n spirit of pride '''the homo town. Strnngors remark-"I remark-"I on Its clean appearnuro and for fconths at a time during tho summer, ,be U'idertnker did not havo a single Patron, nnd tho town never before a8 8o free from contnglous diseases. Tho people aro nwaltlng with nnx-wusiieas nnx-wusiieas tho coming of tho fountain hIch will bo Uhl'H prlzo and which ul bo tho occasion of a groat celebration cele-bration o |