Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 21, 1921, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT VARNISH Casper Glass and Paint Company 144 Midwest Ave. Phone 1374 GLASS “TRIPENY’S” SPECIALS FOR CLEAN UP WEEK! Creolin, lysol, chlorides, formaldehyde, fumi- gators—everything for fumigating and disinfect- ing the buildings and premises. Death Spray—Especially prepared for roaches pad bed bugs. Put up in handy packages ready ‘or use. Bug shots, roach paste, insecticides of all kinds. Make your furniture look like new with San Tox Furnishine. Best on the market. Glove and silk cleaners—safe to use and sure to get results. a Everything in the Clean Up Line John Tripeny Co. 241 South Center Drugs Jewelry Confectionery (2.0 BUSH SIGN AND DECORATIVE Co. 255 South Center St. Phone 1088W. A city that grows only in population and business is not growing at all—it is only swelling up. cb Take a look around the city and note the appearance of the lots not built upon Or incorporated within the yard of some home. Unless some- thing receritly has been done about it every such lot is a fright to behold, and it is a menace to health. It is a sad sight to see a well-kept home, with lawn and flowers, and right next to it a lot grown up to weeds and harboring cans, old rews- papers, and junk of all kinds. It usually belongs to some owner not living in the neighborhood, but occa- sionally the owner of such a lot ac- tually Hves next door and has not the sense of neatness, the love for beautiful surroundings nor even the knowledge that such a state of af- fairs is a menace to the health of When Covered With Weeds, Tin Cans, Old Newspapers and Jank of All Kinds his family, that)to convert it into_ a lawn or playground, or at least to keep the weeds'cut and ‘the refuse cleaned up, Citizens accustomed to seeing such eyesores in the vicinity of their homes generally sonn cease to notice them, but strangers passing by do not fail to note them and charge their ugliness against the whole city. More than that, persons thinking of moving into the neighborhood or buying @ home there are repelled by such ugliness and are moyed to go eleswhere. In that way the vacant lot isa detriment to all neighboring property and many a house is sold for enough less than {t is worth, be- cause of such surroundings, to have paid for keeping such lots like a city park for years. Property own- Full Line of Heath & Milligan’s Paints and Varnishes Large Assortment of Garden and Lawn Hose and Sprinklers Complete Stock of Garden Tools Richards & Cunningham “Think Richards & Cunningham When You Want the Best” | KNOW ALL MEN, WOMEN munity life throughout the United States In safeguarding Health; in promoting Thrift; in furthering Fire Prevention; in stimulating Civic Pride, and in making the Home and City Beautiful; Now, Therefore, Be it known that plans are being perfected for a thorough Clean-up and Paint-up Cam- The date will be named by the Chamber of Commerce later, but let all who can | $0 arrange start the good work at once and make our community Clean, Healthy, Thrifty, Safe and Beautiful. |paign throughout our city. Clean Up and Paint Up and Keep It Up AND CHILDREN BY THESE PRESENTS. That, whereas the National Clean-up and Paint-up Campaign has resulted in many advantages to com-] | HOLMES HARDWARE CO. By setting the Example we will bring about Activity throughout our State ers in neighborhoods where such lots exist are penny wise and pound fool- ish when they do not put an end to their ugliness. It costs them real money when they want to sell their property. But loss of reputation for the whole city and luss of property values for the immediate neighbor- hood are not the only injury that refuse-strewn lots do to their neigh- borhooc “They menace the health of all who live there, They are the breeding places of countless flies and mosquitos, the most deadly germ carriers that medical science now _knows as a part of our daily lives. Rats carry disease germs also, and rats are harbored by such places and in old buildings and dirty base- ments, though they do not do the The Menace and the Disgrace of the Vacant Lot deadly work of the house fly which breeds in refuse. Most cities have weed cutting ordi- nances, but they are so heldged about with red tape that they do not re- sult in the rutting of weeds, if they do it at all, until they have grown tall and gone to seed. Whatever menace to health they bear is not cured by such cutting of them as the municipality does. Unless the property owners or some neighbor- hood association looks after such places, they are not looked after at all. Here ls where the National Clean- Up and Paint-Up Campaign does some of its finest work. It not only cleans the streets and alleys, the back yards, basements-—and ashpits, but it secks fo remove the vacant ~_ JPWAESDAY. APER _ — lotw ugliness and its menace to. health. § The weeds are kept cut, all refuse is removed and, if possible, the lots are ‘converted Into play- Grounds for the children of the neighborhood, instead of letting them play in the streets and run the risk of being run over by ve- hicles. If not made into playgrounds, and very little equipment is neces- sary for that, then these vacant lots should be ,converted into thrift gardens., A neighborhood club could allot to each boy and girl a garden plot and offer prizes for best results. 'The problem of the vacant lot is one the Clean-Up and Paint-Up Cam- paign solves admirably. poececcccccecscocccocsccccosocosazos Paint Up — Clean Up . Campbell Decorating Company Experienced Workmen PAINTING PAPERHANGING INTERIOR DECORAT- ING 402 South Durbin St. Phone 1462 you should. gra Start Your Garden and Lawn Right —You’ll need many new tools and accessories if you are going to give your lawn and garden the strict attention _ i have a complete and very extensive stock of high Garden Spades —Spading Tools —Garden Trowels —Lawn Sprays —Hoes : —Shovels -—Each article carries Webel’s guarantee of satisfaction and assurance of the lowest possible prices, Webel Commercial Co. —~Rakes —Hose | geevecvecvccesososcocoorocccocceoossecossensonnsnoesoesconsonesesseoeoeeonon eons eneneoesoooeesnsoooeneeceeoosoes, Spring House-Cleaning - Done with ease and your entire: satisfaction by. the Master Cleaner. The Hoover Natrona Power Co. Phone 69 Pe oes ecccceseccceccoocsccscoosssccocsoooees A Full Line of Berry Brothers’ Varnish, Marble Floor Wallpaper A Good Stock of Latest Designs ~ Wallpaper Sample Books of Leading Eastern Houses P Ae PAINT N T Freight (GUARANTEED) (GUARANTEED) and Muresco We Buy in Carload Lots and You Get the Benefit of the DeVoe Lead and Zinc House Paint Bradley &Vrooman House Paint Valspar, Standard, and Many Other Well Kuown’ Varnishes ALL KINDS OF BRUSHES'AND ARTIST'S MATERIALS DeVoe Hot Water Wall Finish in Fact Everything That an Exclusive Paint Store Hand Having been in the basiness aver rad we years, we enjoy giving suggestions and will tell you how to use anything in the PAINT LINE John Jourgensen 242-244 West Yellowstone High: A Block and a Half West of Stockenen’s. Bank