Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-01-11 | Page 7 | Cleaning the Court House a Job of Proportions

CLEANING" THE" COURT HOUSE A JOB OF PROPORTIONS Sheriff Herlv irl 0. Peterson today started a general clean-up of the lower regions of the county - ancient and inadequate court house. He mobilized the prisoners and prepared for a thor ough cleansing of the cells and corridors. corri-dors. The sheriff had discovered the presence pres-ence of dirt piles, caked like concrete, in the nooks and corners and a general gen-eral unsanitary condition which apparently ap-parently had existed for a long, long time. When the cleanup Is completed, vis- itors will bp invited to inspect the f county bastile. Until then, no one except ex-cept prisoners, lawyers and officers will be admitted to the jail. Commissioner Brown said today, after af-ter a general survey of conditions in the old rookery, that the janitor needs an assistant to make a general clean up. The task is one requiring two men, exercising their maximum ner.v. It js necessary, said Mr. Brown, to He;tn tin old rooke-rv from top to bottom, and one man cannot possibly do the work. The new officials, like their predecessors, prede-cessors, are complaining of the accumulated ac-cumulated dirt and unsanitary conditions, condi-tions, the unpleasant odors and unsightly un-sightly rooms.