The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-01
Must Have a Thousand Members
Before Nightfall.
NEED SEVEN HUNDRED
Blanks Ready and Committees
Are Organized.
Report at MONDAY Luncheon in
Club Rooms.

peka Commercial club by tomorrow
night, IS, the aim of a committee
which has been appointed to boost the
membership of this revived organiza-
ton. For this purpose tomorrow has
been made a red letter day and the
entire day will be devoted to this end
if need be. This is no new aim for
the Commercial club, which has re-
peated1y tried on different occasions
to swell the membership to this point
But there is something about it this
time that makes it look as though the
end would be reached. There is gen.
era1 feeling regarding the changes to
reach the thousand mark that "To-
peka Kan; Topeka Will"
But Topeka will not unless every
man who is interested in Topeka's fu-
ture either as business man or as a
private citizen lends aid to the cause
and allows his name to go on one of
the application blanks which the club
is sending around through the me-
dunn of the membership of the COM
mittee.
All Day to the Work
The committee which has the mat
ter in charge will devote it's entire
attention to this work tomorrow. E.
l.. Copeland, chairman of the COM
mittee has asked every member to
meet at the rooms of the Commercial
9,
at which time the final instructions
and plans will be discussed. Over
one hundred members of the club
have promised Mr.. Copeland to aid in
this work. There will be a number
of automobiles on hand and the work
will be carried on not alone on Kan
sas avenue, but in every portion of the
| city.
There is no way in which the city's
| interests can be better advanced than
1 Ich h0 1nIs 4f L.
tralized organization which will pull
for everything in sight, and have the
| unanimous backing of the citizens Of
the city.
E. L. Copeland, who is the chair
man of the committee is so anxious to
see his committee get started that he
| cannot wait until tomorrow. Early
this morning, in fact almost as soon
as he reached his office in the Santa
Fe general office building, he filled his
made the rounds of the Santa Fe Of
fees, and met with success in the
greater portion of his solicitations.
The membership of the Topeka Com
mercial club is now in the neighbor.
| hood of 800 men, This Is not enough
for an organization such as a CONNER
| cial club in a city of $4,000 should be.
1t will take membership of a thou
| sand to- carry out the programme
which the directors of the club have
1
| The soliciting committee will meet at
| MONDAY luncheon in the Commercial
| club rooms tomorrow after spending a
/, half day in the quest of new members.
| At this time the successes of the differ
| ent members will be reported and those
| who have done well will be able to in
| spire those who have not done SO we'll.
| Then with the knowledge that the de-
sired end is being realized, the MEM
bers will become more enthused for the
afternoons work. If the thousand
names are secured during the morn
1 ing hours, the committee will take
things easy in the afternoon, but if
member of the committee has said that
| the thousand mark will be reached, and
| that Friday April 2, will be a banner
day in the history of Topeka's growth
as well as that of the Topeka Com
mercial club.
Prospects Are Bright.
/ E Montgomery, treasurer of the To-
peka Commercial club. In talking to
! State Journal representative this after
noon said: Everything looks favor
able to the Commercial clubs securing
| a membership of a thousand by to-
morrow night. Every one who has any
interest in Topeka's welfare, not only
our business men, but all those who
Il own property, ought to be interested in
this movement, and If not already Il
member of the club should lose no time
in becoming identified with the organ
iZation which is now a large one. II
is the club of Topeka, club of all
the people. and is working for every
ones interests"
"Topeka Kan" get a thousand mem
bers and by tomorrow night possibly
by tomorrow noon we will know
whether or no Topeka WILL"
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