The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1910-10-21
TAKING THE RIGHT STEP
A Local Commercial Club Or
ganized to Boost for
Orovi1le.
STARTS IN THE GOOD WORK
BY Arranging to Secure an Exhibit
For the National Apple Show
Held Next IN November.

Last Friday evening number of cit
izers and business men of Oroville held
a meeting in the office of John e.
Reese, and took a step that should have
been taken last spring by organizing
the Oroville Commercial Club. The
meeting was marked with enthusiasm,
an interest that promises not only to
be las. ing but beneficial in results, and
a uninimity of sentiment and fraternal
feeling that makes for accomplish
ment. The spirit of do things pre-
vailed, and the Club bids fair to be
noticeable power in advancing the in
terests of Oroville and surrounding
country. Organization was perfected
by the election of Fred. j. Fine, chair
man; Chas. f. Sigrist, secretary Ira
w. Follis, treasurer, to serve until the
first meeting in January, when officers
will be chosen for the ensuing year.
Such remarkable good results fol-
lowed the exhibition of Oroville pro-
ducts at the Spokane Interstate fair,
and the exhibit attracted so much ia
vorable notice and comment, that the
first action of the Club after perfect
ing an organization was to pass reso-
luton favoring the entry of an exhibit
at the National apple show, to be held
in Spokane in November, and an agent
was employed to 60 out among the fruit
growers and personally select samples
for the display. There are not a great
many orchards to select from. tits true.
but the fruit that the few orchards to
be culled over will produce is of
character and standard that the people
of northern Okanogan county will have
no occasion to be ashamed of, and
which in the language of the local
enthusiast, "will skin all competitors
a mile"
1t may not be out Of place to reel off
a brief homily on the subject of COM
mercial clubs, and their Importance as
a factor in the body polite. There is
no manner in which combination of
live, hustling, pushing individuals can
do better work for the advancement of
the place in which they live than
through the medium of commercial
club. 1t is a factor for good beyond
calculation in any community where
the spirit of fellowship and progress
dominates it's deliberations. All of the
towns in eastern Washington that have
made any marked strides in late years
owe it largely to the commercial club.
Therein men meet to discuss and pro-
mote the common interest. The cause
of the individual is merged into the
cause of the community, and it is sur
prising what can be accomplished when
there is disposition to all pull to-
gether. 1t amplifes the motto Sin
union there is strength" and conduct
ed upon lines of mutual endeavor for
the collective good an organization OF
the kind cannot fail of its purpose.
This paper urges that every business
man Join the local Commercial Club
and do his share for the common veal.
Let past failures be forgotten, let there
be manifested a spirit of mutual for
bearance, place the welfare OF the
town above personal prejudices, and
then by working in unison much can
be done for advancement and perman-
o,+ ;,,,nrovement of OrOVille.