Home Demonstration Club Leading Huntersville Clean Up, March 22, 1921

Home Demonstration Club Sponsoring Huntersville Clean Up, March 21, 1921

Huntersville is going to have a clean-up day that will make the town spick and span. The home demonstration club is going to boss the job and the promise is that, when these agents of cleanliness, progress and thrift get through, the town won’t be recognized by its own mayor and leading citizens. This big day will be Wednesday, but it is understood another day will be added if needed.

Miss Marian Davis, home demonstration agent of the county, has been to Huntersville and conferred with the members of the club, of which Mrs. Ernest Page is president. While the club is to be the sponsor for the spring renovation, all agencies there are expected to join in the work.

The thoroughness with which the people there, under the home demonstration club’s stimulus, have gone about arranging the program is shown by the fact that red, white and blue ribbons of merit have been designated as prizes to be awarded winners in the attractive-yard contest. All persons in the town will be asked to make a point of beautifying their yards and they will get a red, white, or blue ribbon, depending upon whether their yard is rated by the committee of judges to be in the first, second or third class.

Also there will be prizes given for those premises in the business section of the town that make the best show as to cleanliness, neatness and beautification. Int his case the prizes will be cash instead of in ribbons.

The A. T. & O. Railroad authorities will also be asked to help make the job of town beautification and cleanliness complete by beautifying the grounds about the station.

One of the items on the schedule of town beautification will be the care to be given to vacant lots and yards. Owners of lots will be asked to allow them to be planted in grass and flower seeds. The owners will be asked to contribute his share of the program of town enhancement by plowing up the lots and making the soil ready for planting, but the club members will undertake to do the planting if the owner is not generous enough and public-spirited enough to do this.

With a high school, enjoying state support and known as one of the most efficient in the county, with two active banks dong a good business and with other forward-looking civic plans under construction, the town is reported taking on an extraordinary air of activity and civic pride.

From The Charlotte News, Monday, March 21, 1921