Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-24


 graduated also the Ten Thousand Club. which. unlike Xenophone's Ten Thousand, was advancing, and hoped that no Anabasis would ever be writ ten of the Ten Thousand Clup oi Fl Centro.
 The announcement of the end of an irritating episode and the speak CTS forecast of harmonious progress were applauded heartily.
 The Club Speakers.
 The club program was then carried out and addresses were made by members of the club. J. Stanley Brown spoke interestingly and elo- quently of the conquest of the desert and of the courageous pioneers who fought and won the battle with for bidding forces of nature.
 w. F. Holt, the dreamer, whose dreams came true, was cheered long and heartily when he arose to tell of his Dream City. He said his dreams on the desert eight years ago had come true, and "Cney were going to come a whole lot truer'. In fact, he said there was no dreaming about it for he had good, solid, practical reasons for going ahead and doing what he had done. El Centro was proof of the solid basis of his dream, and he could see the time when the Ten Thousand Club would erase the first figure and put ? or 3 in it's place.
 Mrs, A. W. Swanson read a paper on "Womans Civic Influence, in which she urged the women of El Centro to join or cooperate with the club.
 Dr. Shepherd then announced that at a meeting of the directors it was de cided unanamously to take such steps as may be needed to organize the Womans Section of the Ten Thous- and Club, and he moved that the President appoint a committee of five women, who should be empowered to call a meeting of the women of El Centro for organization and work as they shall see fit. The motion was carried, and President Kelly appointed Mesdames Swanson,, Paris, William son, Hayden and Buttress, and an nounced at request of Mayor Pear
  son that the city hall was at their disposal as a meeting place at all times.
 City Attorney M. w. Conkling dis, cussed municipal problems" and the particular problems confronting new cities like Fl Centro, and told of the improvements being made and those yet to come. El Centro, he said, should be a unit in supporting those who are making the town; the mer- chants; the men of enterprise and courage, who had built splendid ho- tel, going beyond present needs and stepping into the future and seeing with the eye of faith the newspaper, making sacrifices to help build up the city.
 Dr. R. P Shepherd introduced as one of the most effective and potent influences for good, talked of Fac tors of Progress, and he made Helms and Pellett. builders of the Hotel Ore gon, exhibit in the list. pr. Shep- herds speech was the piece de resis- tance of the banquet.
 At the conclusion of his remarks Dr. Shepherd was requested by the presi- dent to act as toast-master and con- duct the informal proceedings. The impromptu speakers were General Su- perintendent Platt and Commercial Agent Knox, of the Southern Pacific, who gave good and practical advice to the people of the valley, and Niles Pease, president of the City Council of Los Angeles, who is making his first visit to Imperial County and who said the development of the region and the growth of Fl Centro particu. larly seemed to him little short of miraculous. The hotel, he said, was one that any city of fifty thousand might be proud of.
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