The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-04-15
GOOD MEETING
AT THE CHAMBER
JULIAETTA MAN MAKES ADDRESS
PLEDGING COOPERATION FOR
UPBUILDING OF COUNTY.
Nj. E. Lewis and B. L. Byrns Deliver
Interesting Addresses-Standing
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Committees Were Named.

OF commerce yesterday was well at
tended and the program was exceed
ingly interesting. e. w. Porter @
Juliaetta, prominent banker, mad
a splendid address assuring the Mos
COW chamber of commerce Of the co
operation of Juliaetta in every move
ment for the upbuilding and welfar
of the county.
Retiring President M. E. Lewis de
llvered splendid address on the worl
OF the organization during the pas
year and B. T. Byrns, the newly elect
ed president, outlined the work for the
coming year. He announced the ap
pointments on the standing commit
tees.
J. II. Gipson, progressive leader OF
Caldwell, made brief address an6
Judge Morgareidge in a few words ac-
knowledged the gift of Neptune Hose
Company No. 2 of $3.50 to the school
library fund.
Probably one of the most interesting
addresses on the work of the organic
alton was delivered by M. E. Lewis. re-
/ firing president. Mr. Lewis review
ed the splendid results obtained by the
chamber of commerce during the past
year which embraced the following:
Year Has Gone.
Another chamber Of commerce
year has gone. 1t may be we'll to take
look backward and recall some of
the incidents Of this year, the work
done, the work started and still un-
finished, and the work planned and
not yet commenced.
On the whole the year has been a
prosperous one for the Chamber. We
think it has also been such for the
town and its people. The past year
has been the first one in which the
Chamber has had a paid secretary
and this has aided greatly in the sue
cess the Chamber has made. We are
without debt, and with money in the
treasury. We have paid $455.S0 of old
debts left from former years. We have
better quarters, both for our cham
bers and for our Iuncheons, than a
year ago. We have much more ac-
tive membership, and a larger atten-
dance at these weekly meetings than
we had then. We also have a spirit
of harmony pervading the city that
means much, and has made us the one
prosperous point in the Inland Empire
that has known no backset in bus
mess affairs. We have made the La
tab County Fair for 1913 a success
and have carried the banner of good !
cheer to all other exhibitions in our
thus fostering very friendly |
feeling toward Moscow in all the sur
territory. This assures sue
cess for our 1914 fair, and should be
continued. We have started an era
Of beautifying and improving the city
which I hope will never quit This
means much to us as an educational
own. From business point of view
t is an asset and should be treated as
uch.
People Have Aided Work.
"Of course we could not have done
in x1rif1 1,o
nd help of the people of the town.
heir contributions in money have
lade much of this work possible, and
heir giving of their time and good }
ill when called on, have done a great t
cal more The management hopes l
lat the people will feel that the Civ c
lg of both this time and money has
cen an investment that has paid WELL t
"The largest single factor contri- X
uting to the success of the Chambers t
ork has undoubtedly been the work t
the committees. The committee t
ork, in the aggregate, in the past e
ear has been enormous The com
ittee reports that have been pre-
,nted to the Chamber do not show it,
1T few people appreciate the great
mount of detail work and patient in g
,stigation that have preceded this Fl
port. Many Of these reports have r.
eat value as reference documents, h,
i'd as guides to future work, and w
ould be preserved by the Chamber n,
e think the value of permanent COM
ittees for much of the work of the
amber has been demonstrated this
ar. These committees will of course
pire with this meeting, and their
,rk will have to be taken up by their o'
ccesors and carried on. There are ~
me committees, however, having "a
ecial work assigned to them, that se
We not finished and made final re- g
rts, and these committees are still
existence. / refer particularly to
; committee having charge of the
,essment work of the county, to the tlt
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