The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-13
THEY'RE COMING IN
Commercial Club Has Added
Nearly 500 Members.
Still the Work Is Only Partly
Done.

The Commercial club campaign re-
suited in adding 400 new members u
the roll. However, this will not be all
At a complimentary dinner at o'clock
Friday evening where campaign ex-
periences were related and great en-
thusiasm prevailed, II teams pledged
themselves to procure 10 members eacn
between now and next Friday evening
prior to the Novelty theater party
which VIII be given by the losing team
the .HeavyWeights" under s. j.
Hodgins-in honor of Captain George
Godfrey Moores Fighting Twenty :
aggregation
OF all the subcommittee working in
the campaign, that under George God
frey Moore made the best showing, hav-
ing brought in 60 members. This en-
titles this committee to a hve pound
box of canoy offered by Sol Berkson,
five pound bcx If candy which was the
forfeit for being the low team N the
Fighting Twenty corlb lnatlon any any
which will be paid by the committee
of which N. 0. Rigby is chairman,
and a box Of sigars which was oHered
by N b. Burge, Luther Bailey ana
that could beat them to the place Oh
honor in the race.
The committee of the Fighting Twer-
ty composed of W. W. Webb, II a
Auerbaeh and E. L. Overton Won sec
Ond hOnOrS, with 81 new memoirs u
their credit Not far behind in the
contest comes Col J. W. f. Hughes
subcommittee in the same hgntlng
team composed of the colonel, j.. T.
Spalding and J. NJ. Brunt- They
brought in Al new members. The SUD
committee composed of n. b. BurSe'
Luther Bailey and John Nlcholsoh nav
80 names chalked to their credit sam
ZinaT,eerr1ar's committee in the right
inFr twenty bunch brought in &c names,
Marco Morro'S % names ana W. u
Rigby's Is. The chairmen and num-
her Of members by the "HeaVyWelghts
were. r. w. Thompson 40, NJ. ". Card
I'm % g. Petit 10, H. S. Putney
IA T. ". Reynolds IA. w. A. NelsWan-
ger 12. J. P. Slaughter IL s j. Hodg-
ms 10. 49, oco
The Fighting Twenty team claims 26O
brought in by their efforts. George
Godfrey Moore was jubilant over the
success of his team. He remarked sar-
castically: There are several so-calleo
Heavyweights who are now out OF the
kindergarten class and ready to De
graduated into an organ1zatloH Will
Glass; he said.
AS at the first of the year there were
numerous club men who had failed 70
pay up their dues; they were cropped
from the roll which brought the total
membership down to about 500. With
the new members taken in Thursday
and Friday the aggregate membership
is now about 1000. 1t is expected WITH
in a month. however. the coveted goal
j. 2O0-will be reached.
Twenty-Five men came into the club
from the Capper building and IL from
the Mills building, the heads Of these
business institutions having agreed to
pay a part of the yearly dues of any
employees that would become members
of the club.
In the confusion at the club while the
last returns We're being brought in sew
eraI of the cards wera mislaid and con-
sequently a half dozen or so names
have been omitted from the list pub
ished below.
List of New Members.
Following is a complete list of the
new mem bers obtained in the Com
mercial club contest
Matt Campbell, Horace Macferran,
J. D. Gossett, c. H. O'NeilI, w. c.
Fraser, z. A. Austin, Eugene S; Quln-
ton. John o. Waters, Robert D. Car
yer, E. NJ. Cockrell, Jas. A Jessop,
G. J. r. Smith, ]. f. Crockett, Clar-
ence Smith. J. A Burnett, H. D.
r Harrison. w. W. Gillispie, J.
Thomas & Co. (Paul Huycke). DR..
/. A Ryder. Louis He'll, Nannon L.
Heron, s. Gordon Arthur Lyke, F.
J. Bell Geo. W. Miller. Palace Cloth
ing Co. Give memberships), R. E.
Marling, Sr. and Jr., A. R. Bowers,
Ira w. Burdick, G. r. Miller, T. S.
Morrison. H. J. Nichols, I. e. Rein
kardt, Rev. a. A. Samson, T. w. Bal
ley. A. NJ. Fuller, r. F. Hayden, J. G.
Stonebeck. J. B. Russell. G.. E. Naylor,
Ira W. Bakers, T. E. Watson. Neale &
F'rick, D. H. Seymour, Harry S. Belts.
Ralph R. Peterson. w. A Layton, Ira
Romig, Chas. J. Shellhorn, Joe Rad
cliff. j. J. Corbitt A. L. Wiseman. c.
G. Smith, A S. Abbler, Bert Rucker,
w E. Bacon, A T. Berridge, c. F.
Whitney. H. r. Nachtigal. Hugh T.
Fisher, H. F. Guthrie, A. c. Nagel, H.