Bend’s business men and Bend people are busily engaged in a campaign of publicity, the object of which is to keep the advantages of this place before prospective homeseekers and investors, thus inducing them to either settle here and help in the growth of the town or to invest their money in this section and assist just that much in the development of this section. As a result of this publicity and the attention Bend is receiving due to railroad construction, many people are coming here and the town is full of strangers all the time. What is the impression they receive regarding the town?

It’s a very poor impression if their judgment depended solely on the appearance of some of our streets and alleys. Littered with scraps of boards, tin cans, bailing wire, waste paper, etc., etc., a few of our alleys — and to our shame parts of our streets — present a most untidy and unkempt appearance. Everybody knows this should not be. This refuse matter should be cleaned up….