Bismarck merchants are preparing for the holiday trade and are convinced that the trade will be as large as during any season in the history of the city. There is more money in the country than there was a year ago and the little ones and friends will be remembered.

The union meeting of the Young People's societies of churches, which was held at the chapel of the Presbyterian Church last evening, was most beneficial. Many valuable ideas were set forth by several members so that it is hoped similar meetings may be held in the future.

Ira Emory Burkhart, 4-year-old son of Raymond Burkhart, 220 South Third Street, was fatally injured late yesterday afternoon when struck by a delivery truck near the corner of Third Street and Sweet Avenue while playing with a group of children.

Mel Engle and N. M. (Nibs) Krueger have taken over the operation of the Midway Lounge between Bismarck and Mandan and are holding a grand opening today. A player piano is being permanently installed for the entertainment of customers.

Abe Goodkind returned from a commercial tour of the west Missouri country Tuesday morning. He gives a thrilling description of the killing of two white prisoners by the three Sioux Indians in the Glendive, Montana, jail.

The Oriole Club, formed three years ago with six members, met with Irma Logan recently. The pastime of the club is usually sewing, and at this season of the year naturally the girls also exchange Christmas ideas as to gifts.

Cheery Christmas lights in Bismarck homes will again twinkle this year in direct competition for Junior Association of Commerce home decoration awards. The best decorated home could win $25 in cash.

Thirty Soo Line workers and their wives gathered at the Grand Pacific Hotel Steak House to honor Wendell D. Brown, who retired recently after 43 years of railroading. He joined the Soo Line in 1919 after a year with the Milwaukee Road.

Experiments made by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road, with the thermometer ranging from 12 to 18 degrees below zero, proved the efficiency of steam heating for passenger coaches. Through trains from St. Paul to Chicago will now be equipped with steam radiators.

Joe Breslow deserves praise from Bismarck people for introducing here the simple buckthorn bark and giverine mixture, known as Adler-I-ka. This simple German remedy became famous by curing appendicitis; a single dose will relieve your stomach.

All three westbound planes of the Northwest Airlines are now stopping in Bismarck, after a brief discontinuance. The change gives the city stops of three westbound and two eastbound aircraft.

Weatherwise, it hasn't seemed much like the Christmas season in recent days, but every day brings the holiday nearer. A sure reminder of the fact are the various Christmas tree sales lots, now in operation around town.

Work on the seventh span of the great International bridge at the Sault Ste. Marie has begun and the "Soo" road will be completed and trains running December 15. The bridge is designed for the joint use of the "Soo" and the Canadian Pacific.

Capt. Grant P. Marsh telephoned the Tribune this morning that the Missouri River navigation had closed for the season, the river having frozen over at the bridge this morning at 9 a.m.

Jacob Horner, pioneer resident of Bismarck and last member of Custer's 7th Cavalry, left Bismarck recently for Los Angeles, California, expecting to arrive there Sunday. He plans to spend the winter in southern California.

The Bismarck Exchange Club has launched its safety project to teach safety to the local school youngsters. It started with a demonstration and the weekly Monday meeting and continued with an actual presentation at Wachter School that afternoon.

It is suggested that Dakota Territory purchase the body of the panther now on exhibition in this city and have it stuffed and mounted for the territorial museum. The suggestion is a good one. It would be by far the finest specimen in the collection.

Harry McLean, who has been visiting friends in the city for some time, left for Toronto Tuesday afternoon. Harry is a son of the late John A. McLean, one of the first mayors of Bismarck, and always enjoys a visit to his boyhood home.HHa

Nothing in Bismarck's recent history has provoked as much interest as the proposal to place city employees under civic service. The Tribune assists by printing point by point analysis of the proposed ordinance.

The Bismarck city commission approved without opposition five ordinances overhauling local dog regulations. One of them reduces the license fees to a flat $4 for all canines with no differentiation between male and female animals.

The lovers of dancing and physical development will be pleased to learn that an Academy of Dancing, Deportment and Physical Culture is about to be established in the city with Mr. A. T. Sherwood as principal. Forty Bismarckers are already members of the class.

At a recent meeting of the Commercial Club Assistant Attorney General Costello called attention to the need of united and instant action in the matter of the capitol building. Others echoed this sentiment and it was suggested a capitol commission be created during the upcoming legislative session.

Ballet fans from Bismarck and the surrounding area filled the City Auditorium Saturday evening for a performance by Col. de Basil's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, presented here under the sponsorship of Miss Florence Fritsch.

Open Your Heart, Bismarck annual Christmas charity sponsored by Lloyd Spetz Post No. 1 of the American Legion, commenced its 33rd year of operation yesterday. Headquarters this year are in the building on Main Avenue formerly occupied by the Dunahey's Paint Spot.

Professor Amos Robidou, the weather oracle, accounts for the snow and frost in the midst of his predicted Indian Summer on the ground that it is necessary for him to extract the cold from the atmosphere to make it warm. The Indian Summer will follow.

Arrangements are being planned for the re-opening of the capitol restaurant, and while it is not definitely settled, it is rumored that R. D.Coonen, who has conducted it during the last two sessions will again have the concession.

When Bismarck's Elks have a thing to do they want it done right. And therefore they do it themselves. That's why they looked into their own band to find musicians for the eight-piece orchestra which will play for the dance at the Dome Friday night.

Ad advertisement which Jerry's Supper Club ran in the Bismarck Tribune has been chosen by Swift & Co. as one the best in the nation. The ad, promoting the Memorial Highway night spot between Bismarck and Mandan appeared earlier this year.

There is excellent skating at many points on the Missouri and the youths of Bismarck are considering establishment of an ice rink. There is also interest in organizing a toboggan club.

Carpenters are busy placing shelving in the library of the State Historical Society's museum room, which will aid in caring for the many books which have heretofore been simply placed on the floor. The shelf space is badly needed.

Bismarck's annual Open Your Heart campaign was going full blast today with members of the American Legion and other volunteers bringing in goods to the headquarters at 220 Main Avenue.

The Interstate Commerce Commission has advised that the effective date of its order directing the abandonment of the Northern Pacific Mandan-Mott branch has been postponed. It is part of the growing effort by the Public Service Commission and the towns along the line to keep the line open.

George Gussner of the Central Block Market has imported an expert sausage maker from the old country. The fact that his steam sausage mill is going constantly is proof of the popularity of that article among customers.

Stanley Washburn, son of the late W. D. Washburn, Minneapolis, was among prominent visitors in the city Saturday at The McKenzie. Mr. Washburn is well known in newspaper work and also for his literary fame, having recently completed a new book.

Rules governing use of all city-maintained skating rinks and the warming house at the high school were posted today by George Schaumberg, who is in charge of the high school rink.

Model car building, one of the fastest growing hobbies in the country, will get a rocket ride to the top of the local hobby heap this weekend, with a huge "car show" featuring entries from throughout the state. The show will be the first held here since 1959.

The ladies of Bismarck are already discussing the question of a leap year party and it is expected that they will give the men a few good lessons in entertainment during the approaching year.

A falling ladder caused the loss of 12,000 gallons of kerosene oil at the warehouse of the Marshall Oil Co. this morning. The ladder was blown down by high winds and struck one of the valves on the tank, resulting in it being emptied onto the ground.

Tomorrow at 9 a.m. the doors of the Scott-Burr 5-10-and-25 cent store at 208-210 Fourth Street will be opened to the public. The store will handle a wide variety of goods, specializing in the 10-cent price range.

Demands for warm clothes, bedding and overshoes soared at Open Your Heart headquarters today as the first snow of the season warned of colder weather that will soon be facing the city's needy. The demand is most critical in the area of children's clothing.

The Rev. Caleb Ben-Ham announces that the services he will hold in the Episcopal Church today will the last for a couple of months, as he will go to New York on Thursday of this week to spend the holidays.

Hon. Patrick E. Byrne, private secretary to Governor John Burke, and his family have moved to their new magnificent home just completed on East Avenue A. The handsome house was designed by the Minneapolis architectural firm of Purcell, Feick & Elmslie.

Sunday, December 12, is to be observed in the churches of the world as Universal Bible Sunday and special services have been arranged at the First Baptist Church in Bismarck in recognition of the day.

The Bismarck Trades and Labor Assembly has rejected the idea of prefabricated temporary classrooms being considered by the Bismarck school board for use here. Labor delegates prefer architect-designed structures built with local labor.

James W. Foley, Sr., came in from Medora yesterday and will proceed east tomorrow. Mr. Foley has charge of the Marquis de Mores and Baron von Hoffman interests during the former's six months absence on a tiger hunt in India.

One man burned to death, another was badly scorched and three others escaped with singed hair and clothes when fire destroyed the new barn of the Standard Oil Company at Tenth and Front Streets. F. E. Derner, the new manager, died in the fire.

The oleomargarine market is "bullish" in North Dakota this fall for the first time since a legislative law laid a tax on the imitation butter product in 1911 and two western states are responsible for the rapid upturn, according to Culver S. Ladd, State Chemist.

A complete history of the North Dakota Oil Industry in the Williston Basin, covering some 93 oil fields, is being printed by the North Dakota Geological Society. It is expected off the presses by January 1.

Two of Bismarck's most popular old-timers, John H. Richards and J. J. Jackman, have left the city for a trip to California and a swing around the occidental tropics during the winter months. They will meet in St. Paul and start for the Golden Gate.

The TRIBUNE has just completed the publication of Oscar H. Will & Co's seed catalogue for 1913. About 200,000 were printed, an increase of 65,000 copies over the 1912 press run.

Bismarck's "wettest" sleet storm in the memory of O. W. Roberts, veteran observer at the U.S. Weather Bureau, occurred Saturday night and Sunday morning as three-fourths inches of ice fell burdened with .20 inches of moisture.

Art Leno, manager of the Bismarck Chamber of Commerce, has been appointed to the Communications Evaluations Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce Executives. "He has distinguished himself in the field of chamber administration," said Albert T. Boyd, president of the group.

An important matter at the meeting of the city council last evening was that of acceptance of the water works which were reported as completed and ready for operation. A resolution to that effect was passed by a unanimous vote.

The Schubert Symphony Club and Ladies Quartette will be at the Bijou Theater at Bismarck on December 18, under the auspices of the Knights of Columbus. The seats are being sold at seventy-five cents, a very nominal price and within easy reach of all.

Approval of an irrigation district in the Painted Woods area of southern McLean and northern Burleigh Counties was voted by landowners of that region recently. The actual count was 22 to 7 in favor of the question.

The total volume of mail processed by the Post Office during the three-day opening of the Christmas "rush period," revealed a slight decrease in pieces handled as compared to 1961.

It was reported yesterday that a family consisting of Charles Whalen, wife and daughter were drowned in the Missouri about twenty miles below this city Tuesday evening. He did not know he was driving near an air hole until the horses broke through the ice.

Custer Park skating pond was the scene of much merriment last evening, when the lights were on and a big crowd of young people were in attendance and enjoyed skating until late.

Dates for the 18th annual Missouri Slope Poultry Show were announced as January 12, 13, 14 and 15 following an executive meeting of association directors here. Detailed plans are not yet completed.

Bismarck' s first new bank in many years will bring a new payroll of 11 to Bismarck when the State Bank of Burleigh County opens its doors for business. The local headquarters will be in the former National Tea Co. store on Fourth Street.

The fact that some of the prominent men and heavy property holders have refused to subscribe for the board of trade fund has discouraged many of the small subscribers. Public spirited citizens should not permit their ardor to be cooled by the bears.

Friends of Aaron E. Boyce, who had a photograph gallery in the Dakota Block for about twelve years, will learn with regret of his death on December 6 from tuberculosis. He was born in New York State nearly 61 years ago.

Fastest transportation service ever offered between Bismarck, Denver and San Francisco was announced today by Hanford Airlines. A new schedule calls for departure from Bismarck at 12:50 a.m. daily and arrival in Denver at 9:55 p.m.

Measures to increase local revenue and to reduce expenses were approved for submission to the 1963 Legislature at a joint meeting of the League of North Dakota Municipalities Legislative and Executive Committees here this past week.

The Bismarck National Bank, of which James W. Raymond was President, will go into voluntary liquidation and its assets and liabilities will be assumed by the Capital National Bank, of which Col. Clarence B. Little is President. The deal has been in progress for some time.

The sisters of the Catholic school have made plans for their pupils to spend a pleasant afternoon on Friday, when the different grades will have their rooms in Christmas decorations and programs will be rendered.

Twelve members of the American Legion and its auxiliary Friday were organizing an unusual Christmas party to be held Sunday at Open Your Heart headquarters. They will then assemble to pack Christmas boxes for needy families.

A total of 557 people in the state committed suicide in the ten year period, 1952-1961, the State Health Department says. Cass County has the greatest number, 62, Grand Forks County had 43 and Burleigh and Ward Counties each had 29.

The St. Paul Globe reports the serious illness of John H. Richards, Register of Deeds of Burleigh County, who is now stopping at the Clarendon in that city. He is said to be dangerously ill with typhoid fever.

Workmen are now finishing the interior of all the guest chambers on the Sixth floor of the McKenzie Hotel and they will be ready for occupancy before the first of the year. There are thirty rooms on the Sixth floor, half with toilet and bath and half without.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported recently that while 1937 was a year of bumper crops for the nation it was the fifth year of heavy drouth losses for a large portion of the Western Plains region.

There were two things on the lips of most Bismarckers yesterday---the weather and the Christmas shoppers. The "shirtsleeves" weather continued, coming within two degrees of the all-time high for the date, set in 1908.

Mr. Luckow, manager of the Milwaukee Brewery in this city, went east last evening. He goes to Milwaukee to take care of the city business for the Fred Miller Brewing Company.

The report cards showing pupils' grades for the third five weeks of school are being sent home this week and they should be carefully investigated by parents and guardians. If pupils are not up to grades there's a reason and it would be well to consult teachers for the reasons.

Adult homemaking classes sponsored by the local schools have suspended their activities until after the Christmas holidays. Classes will be resumed January 4, and additional enrollments will be taken at that time.

The out-of-town legislators coming to Bismarck soon for the 60-day 1963 legislative session are having little trouble locating housing. The secret this year is Rep. James Johnson, a Burleigh County House member and, conveniently, also a real estate agent.

Thomas Nast, the man who has climbed to the topmost rung of the ladder of fame with the aid of a pen and pencil, arrived in the city yesterday in company with his son, a bright and handsome youth of 20 years. Last night's program was cancelled due to the blizzard and an unheated hall.

The city schools closed yesterday with appropriate exercises for the Christmas holidays and will reopen Monday, December 30, followed by a holiday the following Wednesday for New Year's Day.

State Treasurer John Gray was back at his desk today but declined comment on results of his Washington, D.C. relief funds mission until he submits his report to Gov. William Langer. North Dakota may receive "at least $1,500,000" in federal aid.

Open Your Heart's grocery shopping list for its Christmas baskets totaled over five tons of food as the basket committee began placing orders with grocers and other suppliers. The total bill is expected to approach $4,500.

Gentlemen desiring to make New Years calls should not fail to stop at the TRIBUNE office and take a look at the samples of New Year cards which have been received. The cards are not only beautiful, but are also novel and original.

New telephone directories are being delivered and many changes of the letter to the subscriber's number will be noticed. On account of subscribers getting the K subscriber on party lines when they called for J the J letter will be dropped and replaced by the letter X.

Christmas will be just another day for August Normand, 61, Michigan, North Dakota, murderer---oldest inmate of the North Dakota State Penitentiary---who for 40 years has been serving his "natural life sentence" there.

Directors of Dakota Malting and Brewing Co. are pushing their efforts to buy the firm's own mortgage. The Dakota Mortgage Co. has been formed to raise funds to buy the $130,000 mortgage now held by the Dakota National Bank of Bismarck.

The Sheridan House is gaining a reputation as a family hotel and promises to be the center of social brilliancy and cheer during the winter. Captain Call and family have abandoned their house on Prospect Heights and settled into rooms at the Sheridan.

In order that the 100 employees of the Bismarck Tribune Company may enjoy Christmas Day with their families as a complete holiday, the management will follow its long custom and no paper will be issued on the afternoon.

Sale of 123 drug products manufactured by 90 different companies has been halted by North Dakota because of misbranding, Culver S. Ladd, State Food Chemist, announced. Action was taken under the state's newly amended food and drug act.

Although many offices including state, county and city offices, and some businesses will be closed on Monday, December 24, most retail stores will open at 9 a.m. and close at 4 p.m. Bars will close at 6 p.m. Christmas Eve, as required by state law.

On Tuesday evening the Northern Pacific ticket office in this city was robbed of $100 and as this was the second time the burglars had thus paid their respects Ticket Agent Tuohy has resolved to pursue a vigorous search for the guilty parties.

The Christmas Cantata, entitled "A Night in the Orient " which was given at the Presbyterian Church deserves the highest commendation. Perfect harmony and expression marked the whole affair and it was in every way a pleasing musical treat.

Nearly 2,000 persons sat in reverent silence in the high school gymnasium Wednesday evening and watched a simple, beautiful enactment of the story of the Nativity.

The Christmas pageant of St. George's Episcopal Church will be presented today. Children of the second grade will portray scenes from the Nativity, while appropriate passages of Scripture from St. Luke and St. Matthew will be read.

The city schools closed yesterday with appropriate exercises in the different departments. In rooms 1, 2 and 3, on the south side, the exercises commenced at 10 a.m. and in the remaining rooms at 2:15 p.m.

Swedish Lutheran services, "Julotta," will be held at the courthouse Christmas Day at 6 o'clock in the morning. The Sunday School's Christmas program will be rendered at the courthouse Christmas Day at 7:30 p.m. All are cordially invited to attend.

Silent night, holy night, All is calm, all is bright. These words from the immortal Christmas anthem were never more applicable in Bismarck as Christmas Eve, 1937, found the Capital City prepared to celebrate the birth of the Christ child.

A North Dakota law prohibiting sale of candy cigarettes appears headed for its first court test here this week. It was passed in 1953 with the aim of discouraging minors from smoking. The Attorney General's office is almost positive this is the first time anyone has been arrested under the law.

Would Bismarck have a merry Christmas? A whirl about the city last evening was productive of a most emphatic answer to this question and the TRIBUNE assures its readers that nowhere on this gift-bedazzled land is Christmas more thoroughly enjoyed.

The Tribune was in error in stating the Christmas exercises given by the Salvation Army would be last night. The real day is Wednesday evening and at that time there will be the usual entertainment and tree. The program will be a memorable one.

Native deer played a more important role in Bismarck's first Christmas in 1873 than did the prancing reindeer of Santa Claus. Linda W. Slaughter, with the ingenuity of a pioneer mother, used antlered heads to make a Christmas tree for her 4-year-old daughter.

Slope area residents put the last touches on the celebration of Christmas 1962 yesterday. By noon, shoppers began thinning out in the downtown area as last minute errands were completed. The stores closed by 4, the bars before 6. Merry Christmas.

The first weather signal ever displayed in Bismarck now floats from the flag staff on the TRIBUNE building. Manager Sherwood of the Signal Office raised the cold wave signal---a white flag with a blue square in the center.

With the coming of the New Year, the United States government will enter into a new field of enterprise---the transmittal of merchandise by what is known as parcel post. The last session of Congress authorized this, but in little more than a experimental way.

Charles F. Amidon, long-time federal judge for North Dakota but inactive in recent years, died at midnight yesterday at Tucson, Arizona, according to messages received here. He was 81. The foundation of the state's civil code is the work of Judge Amidon.

Last minute contributions by generous Bismarckers have raised cash received by Open Your Heart to a total it is estimated will be sufficient to meet expenses of the 1962 campaign. Today donations reaches $4,747.74.

The holiday editions of the St. Paul papers---Pioneer Press and Globe---of last Sunday---twenty-eight pages each---were so large that the readers will hardly get through with them this week. These editions also, however, contain a large quantity of uninteresting slush.

George Rickerby, who was arrested Christmas night on a charge of bootlegging booze and taken to the city jail, has been bound over to the district court and at the time of going to press his friends had failed to rally to his support and bail him out of jail.

Paintings of Prof. Paul E. Barr, director of the University of North Dakota Art Department, including 31 Badlands scenes, will be displayed this week in Memorial Hall of the state capitol building.

The late summer start on the new $300,000 Veterans Memorial Library in Bismarck is the big library event of the year. Readers holding library cards here number 10,741. Today donations reached $4,747.74.

The attention of subscribers and readers of the BISMARCK WEEKLY TRIBUNE is called to the clubbing page. Farmers want plenty of reading matter for the long winter evenings and the TRIBUNE has made arrangements to furnish the best at a low price.

The winter term of the Bismarck Business College will open Monday, December 30, under the old management. Some changes have been made and the school will be prepared to handle a larger number of students than before.

Memorial services for the late Judge John Burke will be held January 5 when the North Dakota Supreme Court convenes for the first time in 1938. Chief Justice Adolph M. Christianson said other prominent legal figures are expected to be present then.

Bismarck firemen were not exactly big spenders when it came to using water to fight fires this past year. A year end report by Fire Chief Al Ode showed the department used 1.8 gallons of water for every one gallon of gasoline used to deliver the trucks to a fire.

Dr. W. A. Bentley left on last evening's train for Minneapolis, having in charge one of the prisoners from the Penitentiary, whose eyes---nearly blind---are to be treated by an experienced occulist.

When a phony check artist can get a policeman to endorse a check for him he is some artist, but it is claimed that is just what Frank Rivers did to one of the Bismarck police force. Rivers is apparently a man who was worthy of confidence.

North Dakota struck a trial balance today weighing pros and cons of the legalized sale of hard liquor and beer. Net state revenue from beer and liquor sales in 1937 was close to a million dollars, according to official records.

The local construction industry has cause for optimism in 1963 after a year which saw commercial and residential home building hang onto the tide set at the start of the decade while public building sagged off the pace.

There promises to be a large number of New Years callers this year and they are naturally anxious to know who will receive. Ladies who intend to receive will confer a favor on all concerned if they will send their names to the TRIBUNE before Saturday night.

The McKenzie Hotel is often the scene of pretty social events and last evening a number of the ladies and gentlemen of Bismarck gave a splendid supper in honor of the officers and ladies at Fort Lincoln, making a company of about forty in all.

Efforts to organize a city hockey league here have been shelved in favor of a move to organize a strong all-city team capable of handling other top-notch clubs around the state.

State legislators and governmental and civic leaders will join for the first time in a growing national custom on the second day of the 1963 legislative session---a Governor's Prayer Breakfast. The Grand Pacific Hotel's Hall of Four Seasons will be the scene, and upwards of 200 persons are expected.

At the Bismarck Academy of Dancing, Deportment and Physical Culture, the first soiree of the season will be given this evening. Grand march at 8:30 sharp. Friends of the classes are invited. Admission, 50 cents per couple.

The local Odd Fellows have left nothing undone to make the masked ball to be given at the Armory tonight the biggest event of its kind given in the Capital City. At about midnight a sumptuous supper will be served in the basement of the Armory.

Milton Rue Wednesday purchased the Rose Apartments from the F. W. Murphy Estate in what was probably the outstanding Bismarck real estate transaction for 1937. The property is located on Third Street, just north of the Postoffice building.

The Kiwanis Club's Boy Scout Troop No. 2 proved to be a hearty group Saturday by undertaking the ambitious task of building a log cabin "deep in the woods," for camping trips next summer. Located south of the horse barns on land owned by John F. Sullivan, the 12 by 18 cabin can sleep the entire troop.