Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-05-29
BANQUET CALLS
FORTH ENTHUSIASM
WATERWAYS, INTERURRANs AND
A GENERAL BOOST oTTUMWA
is THE TENOR OF THE GATHER
ING HELD IN THE ARMoRY.

If the performance of man or
organization of men is an indica-
tion of the power of accomplish
ment of either, then indeed the
problems that from time to time
are presented to the Ottumwa
Commercial association will be
met unflinchingly and solved
without any fearful apprehensions,
for that organization proved in
the annual banquet given in the
Armory last night that they not
only know how to do, but actually
do and do we'll, lhat which they
attempt. So far did the effort of
the association in the excellence Of
last nights function surpass any
former endeavor in that direction,
SO complete in every detail was
the annual banquet carried out,
that it will go down in the history
of OttumWa's business organiza-
ton as an epoch in their existence.
The banquet was served by the OF
tumwa hospital a. ;iation and
was made doubIy successful by
the scores of pretty young girls
and young matrons who assisted
in the serving.
The fruits of the meeting were
seen before the close of the pro-
gram when by rising vote the
decision was made to hold NAM
moth mass meeting at the court
house on Tuesday evening, June
1, at 8 o'clock, when the final
steps will be taken to raise the
balance of the preliminary fund
necessary for the beginning of
surveys for interurban building.
TWO hundred men were on their
feet when the request was made
for all that would attend such
meeting and take part in the final
rally to rise to their feet.
What will be remembered as th
pest lesson in the logic Of commerc,
the loftiest and yet the most simpl
lecture on the science {
modern building ever heard in the cit
was given last night at the seventh al
nual banquet of the Ottumwa Con
mercial association at the Armor
by A. F. Sheldon of Chicago.
1t was business talk by a mastf
instructor whose l1nowledg
of the subject covers field perhar
wider than that of any man in til
country if not the world. Always ;
Ease and with his very difficult an
widely diversified theme in hand,
spoke to his hearers not in the ell
uuence of a Bourke Cochran but in tt
man to man talk of the master sale
man to his customer for he said tn;
all mankind regardless of callir
are statesmen. If one thinks that tt
talk was dry because it was pure
business, then let him think again
was an old theme as was brought OF
by the speaker, but it was also pr
Bented from new side and an j.
tensely interesting side at that. Mo
ern phraseology to suit the case W;
Injected here and there througho,
the address in terms coined by IL
speaker and covering a field TIL
Webster does not reach.
Stories Illustrate His Points.
Several stories illustrated the tai
Dne of which was a visit to an /
sane asylum where the keeper in te
ling of his study of the insane sa
that he had found that where the,
was evidence of cooperation amor
The patients, whether in play, fight
work, he found there symptoms
sanity and his experience proved II
theory to his satisfaction. In lii
manner where there was a want
cooperation he found symptoms of
sanity. This, said the speaker CO
lust as readily be applied to the bu:
hess world as to the insane asylul
The humorous allusion to a disea
common among business men, bo
employer and employee was broug
out by Speaker Sheldon and will DC
haps be made the text of many de!
notices by Ottumwa men. The tie
dency of some people to fly aoff Il
handle without due thought and
come profane, especially when &C
rected for some little sin of omissit
Or commission was termed "Hypr
boolia," with emphasis on the "boc
while somewhat different ailmeI
but just as hurtful and the symptor
Of which are indecision. inability
make up ones mind, ETC., This
termed "Aboolia,s with emphasis
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