Bismarck daily tribune., 1911-12-09


The seventh annual meeting and
banquet Of the Bismarck commercial
club was held in their hall last even
mg and there was good attendance
of members present and the gather
ing was one Of the most enthusiastic
in the history of the club. After the
banquet which was served fn the US
ual satisfactory manner under the d.
rection of VIM. O'Hara the election
of the new board Of directors was
held
AT the first meeting Of the new
board of directors a new president
and secretary will be e1ecteh and
they will take Office Immediately FOL-
lowing the first Of the year.
The meeting last evening was op-
ened by President George WeIch,
who told in few appropriate words
of the work of the club for the past
year and what isuexpeoted to be &C.
compshed In the coming twelve
months He told of some of the
needs of the community and outlined
some schemes which might lead to
the development of plans now In
ham,. y
The presidents report was followed
by that of the secretary, A. B. Welch
and the report was revelation to
those present insofar as what has
been accomplished is concerned. All
knew of course that the past twelve
months had been a year Of much &C.
tivity but to get the matter summar:
lied and detailed made the accom-
pIishments more real to the men,
bers. Mr.. WeIch also embodied in
his report some facts and figures
which 70 to show that Bismarck has
been moving ahead at a rapid pace
and that all improvements have been
made on a substantial basis and that
there is much to look forward to.
J. L. Bell, who s the statistical sec!
retary of the club always has a
bunch of figures for the considera'
tion of the club and the meeting last
night was mo exception to the gemer-
al rule and the report shows tnat
there has been a steady increase IN
tile city along all lines and the fig-
ures prepared by Mr.. Bell are always
given in a manner that gets away
fr,om tihe dryness Of most REPORTS
that are mostly made up of figures.
Most of THE statistics reported were
astonishing in the volume OF busl-
ness transacted in the various 1nuus-
tries I'm the city, and show THAT In
spite of the supposedly year the
city of Bismarck has not suffered
to any apprecfab1e extent.
The report of the house committee
which was presented by w. E. Butt
Ter shows that the social features OF
the club are we'll patronized and IN
making the report Mr.. Butler said:
For the past year the House COM
mittee has continued its work along
the same lines as In preceding years
and I believe that our efforts in TAX
ing care of the social features OF the
club have been successful. The
rooms have been crowded every noon
and every evening". the noon day
lunch ds we'll patronized, frequently
as many as thirty people having been
served.
The social side of the club Is
among it's most important features.
It is through the social end that men
may be got together to work for the
business end and it is only through
the entire membership working to-
gether that the club has attained Its
great success in advancing the good
Of the city. Those who have come
have grown better acquainted with
other business men and they have
THAT these other men are
not so bad after all and this acquadnt-
ance leads to their working together
better and the resultant good Isl
shown in the great strides this city
has taken since this club was first
/
There having been a great demand
for q new pool table your committee
has recently changed one OF the bfl-
lard tables into a pool table and
both the pool tables are now fn con-
,tant use every noon ands evening.