The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-28
New Officers Will Be Installed
Next Tuesday Night.
WILL ALL BE THERE.
Every Member of Club Urged to
Attend Meeting.
Items of Interest in Real Estate
Circles.


L. 5. Ferry as president, and J. Will
Kelley as secretary of the organiza-
ton viii take place and a campaign
for renewed activity and an increased
membership will be started.
1t is expected that this will be the
largest evening business meeting of the
club which has taken place in many
months for the reason that there are
questions of vital Importance to the
welfare of the organization to discuss.
All members of the Knockers aggre-
CATION are expected to be present to
lodge complaints relative to the man
ner in which the club has been run in
the past. and Of course the reconstruc-
tionists should be there in force to
offer suggestions as to the policy of the
future.
Every one of the members should
feel that it is his duty to attend the
meeting and take some active part in
forming plans for future work with the
view of making Topeka a more pros
porous city, and better place in
which to live.
The retiring officers viii submit re-
ports covering the period beginning
the middle of January. The new Off
GERS will tell of their ideas as to how
the affairs of the club should be con-
Quoted in the future.
1T is important that every business
man in the city attend the meeting, .
said J. viii Kelley, who viii assume
the duties of secretary next week. THE
members should show interest in the
club other than in the social advant-
ages the club offers.
\ Business Organization
"The Commercial club is purely Il
business organization, and business
men of the city and every other citi-
zen should be awake to the fact that
the Commercial club can be built to
the point where all other business of
the city would circulate around the
club In other words the club can be
made the hub of the business inter-
ests.
Every accomplishment of the Com
mercial club that benefits the city in
any way means increased business for
the merchants, increased real estate
values, more work for employees, more
money for educational institutions,
more churches, and larger congrega-
lions. Consequently no citizen, no
matter how small his investment in the
city or how little prominence he takes
in civic affairs can afford to remain
out of the Commercial club.
THE sooner the citizens of Topeka
realize that the Commercial club is an
organization devoted to the best in
terests of all the people, and its only
embition is that the business of To-
peka shall improve, the sooner We'll
have a big. busy, prosperous city.
Directors Meeting.
Next Tuesday noon there will be a
meeting of the board of directors of
the club at which time the secretary
will make q financial report, and
general discussion as to the future
policy of the club will take place. The
question as to whether the member
ship fees shall be changed or remain
the same as they are at the present
time will be debated"
Il expect to give some of my ideas
at the meeting Tuesday night" said
y. B. Burge, president of the Topeka
Ad club, the Topeka Real Estate Deal
ers' association, and member of the
board Of directors of the Commercial
club, "as to how to make Topeka
grow.
THE first essential thing in connec-
ton with the growth and development
OF the city is to get together with the
and loyalty that goes with
the successful building of a city.
lit is useless to spend money in adj
vertising and invite new corners here
unless we are prepared to have them
come. If q new conner comes here and
finds a disjointed community-one that
is not loyal to the business interests
and the individuals that go to make up
the community"of course he will go
away on the other hand if he finds
a people full of enthusiasm about the
city, loyal to the enterprises, and
united on every proposition, then he
says, I want to get into such a place.
should Join Commercial Club.
1.-THE way to make a city grow is for
every business man, doctor. lawyer,
property owner. and good citizen to
belong to the commercial organiza-
tons and belong to them from the
standpoint of a business proposition.
There is not a merchant, professional
man, or property owner in the city of
Topeka who can afford not to belong
to the Commercial club from a dollar
and cents standpoint, for that is the
organization that pushes the city.
Every citizen owes to himself from
4 business standpoint to belong to the
club. Every man who gets money out
Of the city owes to those people from
whom he gets the money to put some
hing back into the city, for by doing
and clients-and they in turn continue
10 cooperate, and it is cooperation
that builds 4 city
Work of Committees.
AS the committee chairmen are the
life of a committee, and as there has
0een lack OF aggressiveness and hustle
)n the part of Il number of the COM
nittee chairmen of the club in the last
Tear. special emphasis Will be placed
pa the necessity for these men 10 get
1usy' and keep things moving.
Here are the committees and the
men VINO VIII De asked % prepare 4i0
Iuent reports Of the work being ae-
By their respective COM |
nittees:
Promotion committee. y. 3. Burge. |
chairman; street railway and tele-
phones. l. c. Bailey; immigration, r. (
D. Blaine; state and national legisla- /
ion, S. E. Cobb; Public health and |
'afety. g. G. Whipple; entertainment |
md advertisement. George 5. Badders; |
chools and education, F. L. Loyeiansl; |
-ivic Improvement W. G. Glenn: con-
'entions. Elon s. Clark; manufacturers (
ohn Purcell: charity and corrections. /
+ r. Carver: hotels, A F. Colson; ag- |