Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1914-09-08
Get Together Dinner.


A citizens fellowship and Get Togeth
er Dinner is to be given by the Board Of
Trade at an early date
The Board of Directors will meet
Wednesday evening to decide upon this
big get-together dinner for Charles
Town, Ransom and Jefferson County
citizens, at which all the plans and every
detail of tue reorganization movement
will be discussed and analysed,
The place to hold the dinner will be
decided upon later. There are several
considerations to be thought of in de-
termining the best place for the dinner
The Board of Directors will appoint a
dinner committee with the hope of
working out satisfactory every detail so
that a get together dinner will be the
most important ever held in Charles
Town.
The Importance of the dinner lies in
the character of men who attend and
their object in attending. The dinner
is going to be popular priced and equal
ly important. 1t IS going to be strict
ly informal dinner because 1t is going to
be a business dinner at which will be
presented the plans and methods for
making this city and county a better
and more important agricultural, indus
trial and mercantile community.
And not a man at that dinner will be
asked to pledge himself for a dollar to
support the movement. This is not go
ing to be money raising dinner, 1t is
going to be a dinner at which will be
presented in an able and mature manner
the definite and concrete plans for max
ing Charles Town and Jefferson County
the location for more factories, popu
lating the county and for making this
town more important trade center for
the people of the surrounding territory.
AFTER this dinner has occurred and
after men have had time to think over
the plans presented will be time enough
to raise money and ask for member
ships in the Board of Tra d, " said Presi-
dent George B. Goetz to a reporter.
"At this dinner the men present will
be told that no man in the town ought
to join the Board of Trade until he |
knows exactly what it proposes to do. !
then after he knows what it proposes to |
do he ought to be convinced that the
plaus adopted for accomplishing these
results will work out successfully before
he Joins. In other words we want the
men of Charles Town, Ransom and Jef
ferson County to believe in it and to
morally support this movement, or we
do not want them to come into it at all. |
Every man IN this town and county
wants to see better agricultural condi- |
tons and more factories. Are apples
advertised to the world and farmers
brought in to occupy our orchard,?'
In the plan of organization which
will be adopted, which will be published
later We have marked out a plan which
We think will advertise our apples, bring
new farmers here to occupy our orchards
secure factories and increase our mer- |
chandising, This same plan is accom-
plishing the results IN other towns"
''If other men agree with us we heart |
lily want their support, but only heartily
and unqualified support will be of bene-
fit to the Board of Trade"
The Board of Directors are deter.
mined to eliminate the town and county |
knockers in Charles Town and Jefferson |
County. Every town has its knockers |
and kickers, and Charles Town, Ransom !
and Jefferson County has its far share,
but the Board of Trade is determined
that they shall be answered and made
ashamed for complaining and never an
effort at coustl Il Give help"
In conclusion President Goetz said,
1.-The main method of the Board of D-
rectors is to unite the business men and
farmers of Charles Town, Ransom and
Jefferson County into one strong organ
ization."
The first step towards such move
ment is definite program of work
which the organization will attempt
This definite program has been in course
of formation and is not ready for publl-
cation.
AT the Board of Trade headquarters
today it was learned that the program
and platform of the Board of Trade will
not be published until it is adopted by
the Board of Directors and reorqaniza-
ton committee. The personnel of which
is being completed today.
The object of the citizens reorganiza- l
ton committee is to bring into harmony
with the Board OF Trade a number OF
big men of the town. These men are
to be consulted about the reorganization
plans, their suggestions and ,recommeu-
dations are to be sought, but before the
citizens organization committee is as 6
sembled definite course of work will 1
be mapped out and offered to this com.
mittee as suggestive program and plat s
form for the Board of Directors to take
up. S
This wolk or reorganlzlng the Charles t
Town Ransom Board of Trade is being c
gone about IN the same mature way bv
Mr.. Arthur A. Beckman that similar
work has been undertaken by him in a
number of different cities in recent
years.