The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-03-01

Plans for the membership dinner
or the Board OF Trade. which takes
place next Monday evening. the 4th,
were practically completed yesterday
noon at meeting OF the membership
committee and prominent citizens
who have united with the Board OF
Trade officers In this big new move
ment for Wheeling.
The joint conference was held at
the Mcclure. with John II. Rennard.
chairman of the membership commit.
| tee. presiding.
Monday evenings affair will be
given at the banquet room OF the
Scottish Rite cathedral and invita-
tons to partake went out to every
member OF the Board of Trade last
night. II was determined. in order TO
have the best possible service. to limit
the attendance TO three hundred, and
these will be the first three hundred
that respond. The dinner will be in
formal. IL being planned that business
men will go direct TO the meeting
from their places OF business.
Presiding officer.
In the absence OF President c. A.
Robinson the committee Is casting
about for a suitable presiding officer
for the evening. The selection will
probably not be announced until Mon
day morning. II will be his duty to
present the speaker OF the evening.
Mr.. Edward F. Trefz. OF Chicago. a
veteran worker in the Chicago Asso-
citation OF Commerce. There will also
be short addresses by some of Wheel
ings leading citizens and a full ex-
PLANTATION OF the plans adopted for the
campaign.
Rennard Talks.
The spirit OF revival IL abroad in
| Wheeling" declared Chairman John
ii. Rennard yesterday at the close OF
the committee meeting. And it's a
good thing for the old town. Relig-
GUS revivals are good for the com.
! munity. and so are commercial re.
| vivals. When n town can experience
both at the same time il would seem
to be all the better. The one brings
nome to man his duty TO his home.
| mis- family and his fellow man: the
other his duty to the community in
which he lives. and which. after all,
embraces his home. his family and his
fellow man. The one merely compile.
ments the other.
| Wheeling is a fine old town. She
has been good TO her people. II IL
up 10 us 10 be good to her When all
our people come TO realization of
! this. and devote their energies TO i'm.
proving conditions in Wheeling and
70 take advantake of every oppor.
tunity offered for the upbuilding of
the town. Wheeling will respond. and
we1l have town that will be its own
best advertisement
Big Affair.
our people have gone into this
matter seriously The Board of Trade
has been a most useful institution in
this community. II has probably been
more efficient and enjoyed the regard
and support OF larger proportion OF
the people than similar organizations
in hundreds of other communities. Blu;
that is not enough. We are not doing
nearly what We can do with a bigger
membership and greater working
FUNDS. We have been proceeding on
the wrong hypothesis. We have been
contributing merely what was neces
sary to keep the Board OF Trade 20
ing. and too many of VA were no,
much interested IN results.
What We should do is 10 invest in
the Board OF Trade and invest heavily
enough to let our personal interest
follow our money, as IL would in any
other investment Then We will no,
be content with the mere knowledge
that We have a Board of Trade to look
out for US. but we'll get in the harness
and help the board OF trade De a pro
Queer for Wheeling. as well as a look
out
Il am satisfied hundreds OF other
men in Wheeling hold the same view
and that the time Is ripe for an old
fashioned commercial revival. Many
Of our best citizens have taken little
interest in Board Of Trade affairs. We
hope as n result OF this movement "a
enlist thousand members who will
become active workers In the Board
Of Trade ranks. ready TO serve on any
committee a. moments notice and
10 respond to any call. such a band
or community workers would be IRE
sistible. whether II was matter OF
getting a factory or convention. or
OF bringing about some local improve.
ment"
Some two thousand business and
professional men Of the city and VI
cinity we're surprised TO receive In
iheir mai yesterday morning n biz
Z fOurpage letter. which proved 20 he
the opening gun IN the BOARD OF Arade
campaign. The letter carried the foi.
lowing names NJ endorsing tho cont.
ments expressed therein for a greater
Z Wheeling through n bigger poard ~
Trade. In addition 10 the officers ana
directors. Howard HazIeft. n
| Hearne. David Kraus. George W
Lutz. 4. J.. Meyer. Joe. v Nayior u
IC. ogden. Lawrence r. Sands ana
I TaHnna % TaunV