Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-04-19
CLEANUP AND
PAINT UP CAMPAIGN
7 To. OPEN soon
Every Effort Will Be Made to
Have Bismarck Become the
Spotless Town.
EVERYONE SHOULD
JOIN MOVEMENT
Commercial Interests Are Wide
Awake to Necessity of This

Everything is : set for the great
Cleanup and Paint-up campaign,
April 1880, which is to give Bis
marck a new Easter dress.
A final meeting of the Commercial
Club City Beautiful committee with
the ward committees of the senior
organization and of the Junior Cham
Der of Commerce was held this week,
and plans for the "drive on dirt" were
completed. Every ward was we'll rep
resented, the showing Of the Junior
Chamber being particularly crafty
ing, and to stimulate friendly rivalry
between the various committees it
was suggested that the Commercial
club and Junior Chamber Of Com
nerce committees which makes the
best showing be rendered a banquet
by the other committees at the close
of the campaign.
Municipality. OCo,operates.
The municipality is cooperating in
this eqort for a cleaner wholesomer,
more beautiful Bismarck. Mayor Lu-
cas- official proclamation is quoted on
another page, as is the annual pro-
nuncement of Health officer Strauss.
The strong arm of the city govern
ment will be employed to enforce
these commands, if necessary, but
Commercial club is convinced that
there is not citizen in Bismarck so
lacking in personal and civic pride
as to require more than the stimu
lus which will be impaired by the
Cleanup and Paint.up campaign.
The official program for the week
is published elsewhere in this issue.
This may be followed when cnveni-
ent, but it is not intended that it shall
be absolutely binding. It is an out
line which has been followed with
success by other cities in similar
campaigns, and it gives a general
idea of the, work to be done during
the week.
Wagons Will Be Available.
The Commercial club has taken
steps to assure the availability of an
abundance of waons durin the week,
and hOuseholders are requested to
notify the club as soon as their clean
up is completed. in order that there
may be no delay in the collection of
the debris. A uniform chare of so
cents per load or fraction thereof
vii be made, and the Commercial
club is ready to uarantee that the
transfers will do their share of the
work thor0uhly.
Property owners are also requested
to report to the club vacant lots
overrown with weeds or other nuis-
ances in their neighborhod, and these
matters will receive immediate at
tention. With the authority which is
invested in the police department of
Bismarck by the city's health ordi-
nances, there is no reason why this
cleanup should not be made COM
plete. tHa
'& Photographs to be Taken.
photographs of varius districts will
be taken before the beginning of the
campaign and preserved for compari-
son with views of the same premises
after the cleanup is completed, as an
object lesson in what can be accom-
plished by concerted effort. Suitable
prizes or certificates of merit will
be awarded the young people who ac-
complish the greatest improvement
about their own homes.
The public and parochial schools
will be asked to devote some time
Friday to a discussion of the Clean
up and Paint-up campaign and the
benefits which it will produce. Pas
tors of all the Bismarck churches will
be asked to refer to Cleanup and
Paint-up week in their services next
Sunday. Merchants will be urged to
do their part by Frightening up their
store fronts; removing dilapidated
awnings, posters and signs; general
raid will be made on posters stickers
and cards which have to come to