The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-03-25
COMMERCIAL CLUB LAUNCHED
Fifty-Two Members Enrolled Who Pledge
Ten Dollars Each and Two
Dollars Per Month

men, including such others as had an
interest in the future welfare and devel-
opment of Leavenworth and the sur
rounding country, met in the opera
house Wednesday evening for the pur-
pose Of organizing, or recognizing,
the commercial club. And right we'll
was the program carried out.
Four of the most untiring town
boosters from Wenatchee were present,
DR.. D. w. King, for the past two years
president of the Wenatchee CONNER
cial club, Walter M. Olive, Hon. Frank
Reeves. and Ira D. Edwards. Tho
their coming had not been given out,
and was only known to few, came as
most agreeable and welcome surprise
to those present. The amount of en-
thusiasm they injected into the crowd
when each one recounted the great
good that had been accomplished by
the Wenatchee club, and only re-
quired united action in Leavenworth to
duplicate results, had much to do with
the success of the meeting. Every
Leavenworth man called on expressed
himself in favor OF the movement.
A temporary organization was effect
ed by electing DR.. ]. E. Shore tempo
rary chairman and Guy A. Hamilton
temporary secretary. The motion hav-
ing been made and adopted for the ap-
pointment by the chair of committee
of three to draft the constitution and
bylaws and report the same at the next
regular meeting, which is to be held
next Wednesday evening at the same
place, the chairman made the following
appointments: L. ]. Nelson, Guy A..
Hamilton and ]. w. Elliott.
For the purpose of getting the sense
of the meeting as to what the initiation
fee and monthly dues should be, a vote
was called for, which resulted in an
almost unanimous sentiment in favor of
making the dues 50 per month and
the initiation fee So After this pre-
liminary move in the direction of a
permanent organization had been made,
and a good deal of enthusiasm devel-
oped, the names of those who would
join was called for. Among the very
first to show their faith was Mr.. Edwards,
now of Wenatchee, but still interested
in the welfare and progress Of Leaven-
worth, and Mr.. Olive. Names began
to be called more rapidly than the
secretary could take them down until
forty-one had pledged themselves.
Then Mr.. Reeves, also and old time
Leavenworth resident, but now a citi-
zen of Wenatchee, because he said
when he left here ten years ago he had
only money enough to pay his fare to
Wenatchee, made the statement that
he wanted to be the fifty-first member
of the club.
The chairman appointed the follow
ing committees:
On Finance-Dr. McKeown, L. w.
Woodrow and Mike Fitz.
On securing quarters for the club
F. E. Carlquist, H. E. Carr and Deed
H. Magyar.
In order that Mr.. Reeves desire to
be the fifty-frst member might be
gratifed an effort was then made to Sc
cure the other nine members before the
meeting adjourned. The effort proved
gratifyingly successful. The nine were
promptly secured, with one more for
good measure, starting the club off on
the first night with membership OF
So, with $500 practically in the treas
ury, as many of those present paid
their initiation on the SPOT.
Following are the names OF those en-
rolled in the memberships:
March %, 1910.
We, the undersigned, wishing to
form a Commercial Club, do, by our
signatures hereto, signify our willing
ness to become members of said or
ganization and agree to support the
same.
We agree that the initiation fee into
said organization shall be $1,000 and
the monthly dues $500.
F. S. Jacobsen, Ira D. Edwards,
Walter M. Olive, o. S. Sampson, A. G.
McKeown, D. H. Magyar, J. w. Elliott,
R. T. King, Thos. Burke, H. E. Car,