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Show IN AND AROUND DELTA lTe Week's News from the Coming Metropolis 1 IMPROVE THE TOWN. F.dltor Chronicle: Why don't the town board or .Commercial .Com-mercial Club get busy and propose something to help beautify our town? There are lot of things we could do. One thing that would be highly commendable com-mendable would be for each citizen to dean up hi own place, Improve In front of hi lot. Another thing that would Improve the look of our swiftly growing town, would be for each property prop-erty owner who ha a vacant lot with the brush on It, to clean it off, and burn the brush. The Irrigation season I on and look at the condition of the dltche in town. What do they look like? Do they look like they belonged to a thrifty, growing grow-ing town, or do they look us though they belonged to Home backwoods town that wa not on the map? There are hundred of dollar Hpent annually in advertising our town and what good loe It do? About the first thing that you hear a person say when they come here I. "What kind of a town have you got here, anyway? Mud and water all over the street; no sidewalk, side-walk, no public Improvement of any kind. It seem a though all the people peo-ple here cared for I to get hold of the almighty dollar and they don't care for anything else. Hut It don't seem as though they understood how to make a good thing out or it. If they did they would get out and show a little public spirit and do a little Improving Im-proving around their places they would realize a greater prollt off their Investment Invest-ment than they do. It look to the casual observer a though our town ha got the smallest bunch of public spirited leader , that , -- ver existed" 'Who are they? The ao-called ao-called Commercial Club ha It committee com-mittee on street, etc., but they never get anything done. The town board hasn't made any visible Improvement no far. The Irrigation company doesn't seem to care very much whether wheth-er they keep up their ditchea or not. They had plenty of time lust fall and also this spring to fix up the il itches in 1 1 town, but they didn't do anything to' them, and the water was turned Into1 the ditches and the dltche turned It i Into the streets, which result in muddy j , st reels ftnd a bum looking town. i, It i getting so that a person can't, haul a load through town for fear of , Setting stuck In a mud hole or ditch. No culvert or boxes in dilche where t they should be, and where there doe happen to be one, most of the top or It I broken orr and gone, so it I notj passable, and then generally there s j a big hole on either aide w hich make 1 1 It worse than If there wa no culvert It nt all. , Now, don't you as a people think it J would be much better to get out andt help to fix up mime of these street' and beautify our town a little? TheM irrigation company will get out and g help us and thereby make our townU the most beautiful In the country. jt A CITIZEN. L |