The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-05-01

Friday-Back yard day. Clean al
leys, repair fences and sheds, screen
garbage cans. put fly-traps on gar
bage cans. Put up screens, plant
thrift gardens.
Saturday--vacant lot day. Every
body join in and help school children
clean vacant lots and remove tin
cans, paper and dead weeds. Flow
and plant garden plots wherever pos
sible.
Speakers At Theatres
The committee of the Lions club
in direct charge of the clean up cam
paign consists of DR.. c. D. Durscma,
Fred Peterson, Archie Johnson, Har-
old Hopton, Wilbur Rohrer, Obert
Olson and William Harris. Arrange
ments have been made to have menu
bers of the club give four.minute
talks at the local theatres during
each performance throughout the
week, dwelling Oh the necessity of
helping to clean up the city. Movie
slides boosting the campaign will
also be shown.
Posters of various sizes and word
ings are being distributed to every
store in the city today and ali dis
play windows will broadcast the clean
up and paint up idea during next
week. f. H. L. Vesperman has do
mated the use of four Of his large
bill boards in the city for the SHOW
ing of large posters, and every taxi
cab in the city will carry a tire BAN
ner boosting the clean up idea. All
stores will also place clean up and
paint up campaign stickers on every
package wrapped during the week,
thereby carrying the message to every
home in the community.
The three Boy Scout troops in the
city will have 4 large part in the
work. The city has been divided in
to three districts and one troop will
have charge Of each. First. second
and third prizes will be awarded to
the troops at the close Of the cams
,, paign in the order in which each sec>
tion Of the city has responded to tho
appeal. A large map Of the city will
be placed in the Hoskins- Meyer dis
/ play window. with colored pins show
| ing which blocks have been cleaned
! up and which have not, reports being
/ made daily. BY consulting the map
each day, citizens may learn how the
clean up work is progressing in their
Boy Scouts will be particularly anxi-
Gus to get the pins in their particu-
is~ section all Of one color--that color
which shows complete clean up.
City will Help
| The city commission has promised
the Lions club the fullest coopera-
tiOn in the campaign, with the street
| department aiding materially in the
work. Bismarck has an ordinance re-
| quiring property owners to clean up
their property each spring, and this
/ law will be invoked in cases where
| people refuse to take part in the
drive to make Bismarck the "city
/ beautiful" In such instances the
! property win be cleaned up by the
city authorities and the cost Of the
work assessed against the property.
!, The Lions club has enlisted the
following organizations and people in
the clean up and paint up canlpaign:
All schools, all churches, the Boy
Scouts, the newspapers, the mayor,
health officer and street commission
er, the fire and police departments,
the WOmanS club, the Business and
/ Professional Women's club. and the
various welfare organisations. Thu
Rotarians' committee includes G. &
4 Young, +. ]. Taylor and J. P. Jack
con. The Kiwanis club committee il
composa6 Of B. Lumry, John HUSKY
and n. 1ystrom, and the Associated
j 81 Couanneres will BE Represented by
r, r. Ooddset, sscrstary. ].