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Recommendations on Cleaning Up Boone, March 22, 1923

Committee Report to the Boone Chamber of Commerce

To Boone Chamber of Commerce, Boone, North Carolina

Greetings:

We your committee appointed to make suggestions for beautifying the town of Boone respectfully submit the following report.

1. Request that all property owners clean up and beautify their premises and the streets directly in front of their property and that each family or business has a trash can or barrel.

2. Request that the town authorities designate a suitable place for dumping this trash and see that it is hauled there and burned.

3. Appoint Mr. R.R. Johnson to get permission from the Railroad Company to beautify the “Y” according to Mr. Johnson’s plan.

4. Appoint a committee to see the county commissioners in regard to putting a fence around the courthouse grounds, beautifying the same and keeping the courthouse clean.

5. Request all stores and places of business to burn papers and not scatter them on the streets.

Respectfully,

Mrs. E.S. Coffey, Chairman

Mrs. McG. Anders

Mrs. Smith Hagaman

Miss Pearl Hodges

J.M. Downum

A.E. South, Secretary Commission

From the front page of the Watauga Democrat, Boone, N.C., March 22, 1923

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