Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-10-24
TO BOOST STATE
IN MASS MEETING
GREATER IOWA ASSOCIATION
PLANS 300 GATHERINGS FOR
NEXT MONTH.

will see something doing in various
parts of Iowa for at that time will be
gin the series of booster meetings al
over the state by the Greater Iowa
| association.
Plans are under way to hold during
that week, at least three hundred mass
! meetings throughout the state in be
| half of the Greater Iowa association
Every county in Iowa will be included
to the extent of at least two meetings
1t will be known as Greater Iowa
week.
/ For the purpose of properly devel
oping this Greater Iowa association
the state has been divided into thirty
districts, each district in charge OF
good, live commercial organization. In
many districts there are more of these
clubs and in those instances there will
be a sort of joint responsibility. The
plan as now outlined is to cover the
state between now and the 18th OF
November with posters, pamphlets
and other publicity, supporting the
stories which have been appearing IN
nearly all of the daily and weekly
newspapers of the state. The Greater
Iowa idea will be explained in detail
and the commercial organizations IN
charge of: the various districts will
work out a plan for holding meetings
in their respective districts.
The secretary and field secre> + IS
of the Greater Iowa association Ill
follow up these meetings in an ef-
fort to build up a state wide member
ship in the Greater Iowa association.
MI ha n
by the wide awake business men IN
each section, who will have evidenced
an interest in the work
Wherever possible the circuit Will
be covered by automobiles, some. OF
the counties being so located, however,
as to make it necessary to use the
railroads. Indications are that from
some points at least dozen automo'
biles-loaded with boosters-and en-.
thusiasm, will participate in some OF
the tours.
Then during the following week or
about the Goth of November, it is
planned to call a statewide meeting
of the Greater Iowa association. All
of the charter members and all of the
new members who will have been
brought into the fold by reason of the
big weeks campaign, will meet at
some central point and discuss the
proposition from one end to the other.
The officers of the association are:
President, W. w. Marsh of Waterloo;
vice president, Horace Deemer of Red
Oak; secretary, Woodwork Clum OF
Clinton.
A Proclamation.
BY the governor:
Whereas, the Greater Iowa associa-
ton, organized a few months ago
through the efforts of some of the en-
ergtic, enterprising men of the state
who passionately love her and have
deep appreciation of her possibilities
and splendid vision of her future,
and
Whereas, the said association as
whole, inspired by a like devotion and
vision, and extremely anxious to pro-
mote the great interests of the state
in all the lines of her activities, have
suggested that a week be set apart
wherein the people as whole may de-
vote themselves to the consideration
of ways and means to this end, and
be set apart wherein the people as a
whole may devote themselves to the
consideration of ways and means to
this end, and
Whereas, the said association for
the better accomplishment of said pur-
pose has divided and organized the
state into thirty districts for the pur-
pose of holding meetings therein dur
ing said week, and
Whereas, owing to conditions at
home and throughout the world more
opportune time could not be present
ed for the state to realize upon her
great possibilities and the hopes and
determination of her people for a
Greater Iowa and a proud distinction
among her sister states for all that
goes to make great, intelligent and
commonwealth.
Now, therefore I, G. w. Clarke,
governor of the state, do hereby set
apart and proclaim as the week for
said purpose, November Is to 81 In
elusive and urge upon the people that
they give attention and attend the said
that they assist in the funda-
mental purpose of the association to
develop a Greater Iowa in all that the
words mean-a better and greater
a state greater through
agricultural production,
through industrial expansion and de-
through the promotion and
development of her animal industries,
through the promotion of her COM
merce and trade throughout the state
and world, through the betterment of
her schools, her public highways,
the improvement of the condi-
tons of living among the people,
through better and more beautiful
homes and towns and cities through
out the state, and through the creation
of a great, over-mastering public spirit
and passion for Iowa and the "Beauti-
full Land" of inexhaustible resources.
| especially invite and urge the
women of Iowa whose influence along
many of these lines is so tremendous
ly potent and who long for better
and greater state to attend these meet
ings and participate in them and be-
come members Of the association.
are women's clubs asked to
to the end that there may