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CITY’S ANNUAL BATH ON SLATESecond Yearly Clean-Up Day to Be Observed in Every Section ofJoplin.GIVENMUNICIPALAiDFifty Teams and Drivers Engaged by Street Department to Haul* ' WmLMAway Trash.Joplin will be given its second annual cleaning tomorrow', when hundreds and perhaps more than a thousand loads of rubbish, garbage and trash are hauled away by about titty wagons and teams employed by the city. The odor and smoke of burning trash and paper will envelop the city tomorrow if plans arranged by the clean-up day committee of theCentury Club are fulfilled by residents of all parts of the felly.Practically every civic club has taken up the matter in its respective section and will urge upon the residents to do their part in the cleanup movement. The city garbage wagons will be in charge of William Ash, street commissioner. All partsof the city will be traversed by thehaulers, who will drive through thealleys and gather the rubbish thatis piled there. No trash will be hauled away by the city aftertomorrow.SchoolThe first clean-up dayChildren Assist.work, preparatory to was done yesterday by the school children, so as not to missattendance at school tomorrow. It is said they did remarkably good work.The clean-up day committee of the Century Dub, which has charge ofthe work tomorrow, consists of Mes~damos William Halyard, chairman; WHPam K. Price. A. W. Thurman, S A. Grantham, Benjamin Landauer, J .(). Dodson and Sallie Styles. Many other women are Interested In the movement and are leading in the work in their section of the city. While tomorrow is properlytermed “clean-up day** the r\lt;\lt;\%inceof trash and useless accumulationsin Joplin will continue the entire v eek uutil the dty is ■ cIeaned * t hor-oughfy. A determined effort is -bong made to improve the appearance of the Kansas City bottoms so as to five passengers a better impression of the city.A public dumping ground, to be purchased by the city, also is agi-taten by the Century Club.
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Joplin Daily Globe
Joplin, Missouri, US
Sun, Apr 06, 1913
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