Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1916 — Getting Ready for Company. [ARTICLE]

Getting Ready for Company.

Here conies merry, blithesome Spring, coy and hestitating, flirting outrageously with everybody and everything in sight, but coming nevertheless. It is the gladsome, smelly time of the year; gladsome with glittering sunshine, singing birds and shooting verdure; smelly with fresh paint, the festive spray pump and burning trash heaps. Rut the smelliness is just as essential ;is the gladsomeness thereof, and especially so in the year 1916. Indiana should be getting such a cleaning up these days rts will make the state fairly shine with cleanliness, from the heart of the capital city to the fence row of the farthest county. The work should bo undertaken by all oflicial and civic bodies and by individuals as well. The thousands upon thousands of visitors who will throng the state this year will judge us by the general appearance of town and countryside as well as by the centennial programs with which we shall entertain them. So got out the old rake, place the lawn mower in a state of preparedness, spade up the flower bods, get action on the peaceful pruning hook, and soften up the paint brush. These implements of the arts of peace must figure prominently- and immediately in our centennial preparations.