The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-10-14

and also for the highly successful
market days. That shows we can do
things with an effective organization.
will do all can to help"
j. l.. Jarvis: What do l think of
organizing a Commercial club?
think it would be very good thing.
We certainly need an organization of
that kind, and l would like to see it
go through"
G. F. Knappen: 81 am in favor of
a Commercial club upon just one
basis, that is permanency. 1 don't
want to see any organization for three
months or six months or year
These comet-like affairs accomplish
nothing for the town and are worth
nothing to anybody. What we need
is q good live club with first class
man at its head, pay him salary and
any time he is not making good tell
him, like they do a worn-out base ball
pitcher, that his time is out Make
him get behind all the various propo-
sitions Of benefit to the town and
boost. Business men have not the
time to leave their offices to push
street fairs, Fourth of July celebra-
tions ani other affairs of that kind
am in favor of a Commercial club,
but only on the basis l have describ-
ed"
Mayor Leighty: "The idea is a good
one and I would like to see it con-
sumated. We need a Commercial club
very badly, there is no doubt of that
A good live Commercial club that will
spend it's time boosting for the city
and nothing else is good thing for
any town. There are innumerable
ways in which the club could help the
college, which would be of direct bene-
fit to the town. Push the scheme
along, it's all right and l hope it is
worked out"
fine thing for the town, provided we
get live one The first thing to do
after the organization would be to pay
the debts left by the old Commercial
clubs. These do not amount to- much,
but they look bad. Yes sir, l am in
favor of the idea"
c. d. Kendall: II have joined two
Commercial clubs in Brookings, but
am willing to try again, as I believe
it will be of much benefit to our city,
that is if we get a good one. / would
be in favor of getting a good man to
devote his time to it and make him
get results. This would be my idea
of it, Then we would know where
to place the blame, or credit. Boost
it along, its good idea
M. G.. Carlisle: 81 am little bit
skeptical whether we could keep it
going, unless we financed it properly
and hired man to look after it's af-
fairs. 1t would certainly be a fine
thing for our town and l am heartily
in favor of it, provided, of course, that
we get real, live club"
r. F. Kerr: 81 have always favored
Commercial clubs and have always
helped organize them. We need a
good live club, but whether we can
finance it properly is a question. In
this town in order to get a successful
club there should be a man with the
interest of the town at heart at the
head of it. Let him devote part or
all of his time, if necessary to it and
pay him a salary. Brookings IS now
at a point where it might be said that
she found herself and with little
boosting she will start out on new
era of progress. If we can get another
road in here we can bring Brookings
from the eighth or ninth city in the
state up to the fifth or sixth, and
am in favor of anything that will do
that"
Town Boosting Spirit.