The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-09-19
VOTED TO CHANGE NAME
1t Is Now the Oroville Com
mercial Club Instead of
Development League
MUCH INTEREST MANIFESTED
In the Organization at Well At
tended Meeting Held Tues
day Evening

By unanimous vote at the meeting
Tuesday evening, the name of the
Oroville Development League was
changed to Oroville Commercial Club.
The name of Development League was
originally selected because it was be-
lieved that it would better indicate the
comprehensive purpose of the organi-
zation, but experience has demonstrat-
ed that it carried with it the impress
sion of private body, and for this
reason it was deemed advisable to
make the change.
The chef topic under discussion
Tuesday evening was the proposed
publicity campaign to be waged by
the Wenatchee Daily World in behalf
of the Okanogan valley. The prop
osition received the approval and en-
dorsement of the club at special
meeting held last week, when Rufus
Woods, president of the World Pub
fishing Co. presented his proposition,
which was that the World would carry
on six months campaign, advertising
the advantages and resources of this
valley and the several towns from
Brewster to Oroville, and that each
town should be given at least one
special edition, besides 1000 inches of
halftone cuts and many stories
throughout the entire period. In re-.
turn each community was asked to
provide as many two-year paid in ad-
vance subscriptions to the World as
possible. The endorsement of the rep
resentative organization in each town
was asked, and also that a committee
on data and publicity be appointed to
cooperate in gathering and preparing
material to be used by the World
during the period of the advertising
campaign. AT the meeting Tuesday
evening the club voted to assist in in
ducing citizens to subscribe for the
World on the understanding that ad-
ditional publicity would be given to
Oroville in return for greater num-
ber of paid up subscriptions The fol-
lowing committee on data and pub
licity was appointed: Frank NJ Dali
lam, jr., D. p. Wheeler, c. A. Powell,
A. p. Murray and J. F. Samson.
The club was informed that Fl. r.
Giles, head of the bureau of statistics
and immigration in the department of
the secretary of state at Olympia, will
soon visit Oroville on a tour of east
ern Washington for the purpose of
gathering information and material
for publications to be issued by his
department. The legislature approp-
rated $4,000 for this purpose last
winter, and it is a highly desirable
form of publicity. as it bears the au-
thority of state department and is
accepted as disinterested presenta-
ton of the resources of the several
localities of the state. The publicity
committee appointed to cooperate
with the Wonatchee D-iN World wae
instructed to prepare material for Nj
Giles and arrange to show hir' %"
much of the valley and surrounding
country as possible while he is here
report was received on the prog
ress made in building the Havillah
road under the supervision of J. A.
McGinty, which was highly satisfact-
ory to the club. The club voted that
Mr.. McGinty be given authority to
expend the balance of the fund raised
by the business men of the town as he
found necessary in completing the
road to the sawmill, the objective
point. From the character of the
work already done, 1t is said that the
Havillah road will be very good one
when completed and will provide
satisfactory means of ingress and eg-
ress to and from that country.
The question of arranging for the
visit of Prof. Holden and party was
passed until the next meeting await
| ing more definite information con-
cerning the wishes of the professor
in the matter.