The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-05-02
Telling Us What Is In Our City,
Is Aim OF The Club During
The Week
"Do YOU KNOW" SLOGAN
Open House For Business Men
Is Suggested BY Club AS
Part OF The Week

Part OF The Week
know Bismarck Week" opened
in Bismarck today. -
Launched under the auspices of the
Town Criers club of the city, which
has as one Of it's most important func-
tions the advertising of the conmun-
ity. the movement began to draw
support from all citizens of the city.
do You Know is the slogan OF
the week.
Under this caption the Town Criers
are out to tell what really is in Bis
marck to Bismarck citizens so that
every one in Bismarck may tell tito
the world.
Four-minute speakers will appear in
motion picture theaters tonight.
speaking in support of the movement.
Cards bearing the do You Know
caption was placed in various stores
in the city, which carried facts. con.
cerning the city's business which the
Town Criers committees dug up by
patient and laborious effort
Conduct Essay Contest
The essay contest which was con-
Quoted in the high school and in the
city schools has aroused great interest
Five dollars is offered to the student
in each Of the contests, one in the
high school and one in the junior
high school, for the best short essay
on Bismarck. Prizes of 50 and 81
are offered for second and third places
in each contest. The Winning essays
will be published during the week.
The heads of fraternal organizations
and other organizations in the city,
both of men and women, are asked by
the Town Criers to devote at least
ten minutes of their meetings this
week to a serious consideration Of
the city, its needs and its pOssibili-
ties.
Suggest Open House
Every busniness man IN the city IS
asked to hold open house to the people
of the city this week, to show to
people many thiags which the average
person doesn't know.
The Town Criers know by an actual
test-tried on their own members
that few persons can instantly cata-
logue the most salient features used
in selling" the city. In letter dis
patched to heads of lodge and other
organizations and merchants the pur'
pose of the week is set forth by the
Town Criers as follows:
Purpose Of Week
DO you realize that very few OF
our most loyal citizens really know
Bismarck-have catalogued her at
tractions-have noted her civic i'm
provements-her consistent growth IN
population, business, civic prestige
and as hospital center?
The Town Criers realize that every
citizen ought to know-Wants to know
his city so that he may be able to
tell the world some honest hard facts
when he is promoting his city as a
home, as business opportunity, or
an industrial advantage.
know Bismarck Week. will be
celebrated from May to May Z. The
Town Criers will undertake to i'm
plant upon the memory of every cltl'
zen some worth while information con-
corning Bismarck
every citizen is asked to join in
the spirit of the week" Few people
really want to knock their city, They
do not realize, of course, that the
failures they attribute to their city
are their own. A dog will lick the
hand that strikes it. Even so your
city feeds the mouth that decries IT..
The knocker, breads the knock. HE
always gets it, and always deserves it.
Most citizens want to boost our
city, but do not have the facts at
hand, hence this modest undertaking
on our part Of sending you this state:
ment of our plans and purposes, and
few of the facts.
Call for Discussion
If you are the executive OF LODGE
club or organization, We respectfully
request that the merits Of our city
be assigned for discussion at your
next meeting. Furthermore, we want
your ideas-any important facts-any
ideas on how best to coordinate the
booster activities, and how to cure
the knocker. Funerals are expensive,
and are often delayed to an untimely
date. We want you to help us lm'
press on everybody that Bismarck IS
no longer little cow town on the
frontier Tor boy in short pants);
but growing city, in the heart OF an
agricultural and commercial empire
(or quite big enough for long
breeches.)
MAY we suggest to you as busi'
ness or professional man that Dem
onstration Day /(not of some trade
specially, but of your own line) when
your patients, clients, or customers
are your guests, may be just the one
thing lacking to furnish bond OF In
innate contact between you and the
people whom you serve. Not merely
the baker showing how bread is made,
or the restauranteer how clean his
kitchen. Every line of business and
profession have much important in
formation their patrons should know
Ministers Aid
Many ministers Of the city aided the
cause of the Town Criers by referring
in their sermons to the civic duty OF
all citizens of Bismarck and to the
opportunity offered to do service for
the city.