The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-03-31
|UhIFOR N|ESOTA
IS AIM OF New BODY
Gopher State Takes Forward Step
Through Organization Of Com
mercial and civic Federation.
WEDGE IS MADE DIRECTOR
Is Intended to Foster and Unity Civic
Societies Of State and to Elm
mate Sectional Prejudices.

Minnesota has entered upon !:
movement in advance of any Other
state in the union for the co-opera
ton of her business men, farmers
merchants and professional men alike
in the formation ola new Minnesota
Commercial and Civic Federation
the organization Of which has just
been completed. =: Z. :.
On the board Of directors A. &
Wedge, vice-presidsnt of the .Firs,
National bank of this city, has beer
named. Mr.. Wedgesis also treasure,
of the state fair association. =
Articles of Incorporation had beer
filed with the secretary of state
March 2, 1915, and the recorder: OF
deeds in Ramsey county, March
and the directors in fulfillment OF
those articles elected, last Friday, the
following officers:
President, JudgesFrank T. Wilson
Of Saltwater; vicespresident, w. w
sivright, merchant. of Hutchinson;
chairman of executive committee and
executive agent, Allen D. Albert, Of
Minneapolis; additional members oil
executive COMMITTEES. George A. Hor:
mel, packer, of Austin, and E. s
Warner, manufacturer, of St. Paul
The Other Directors.
Other members ofsthe board Of di.
rectors are as follows. Frank E!
Willard, farmer, ofaCanby; A.. n
Stephens, banker, Of Crookston; Col
onel H. v. Eva, secretary and man.
ager of the Commercial club of Du.
luth; D. M: Neill, president of the
present Federation OF Commercial
Clubs, Of Red Wing; Frank e. Wade
president of the Fairmont Machine
company, Fairmonts F. A. Anderson
farmer, of Winona 4 49,. -.
Two vacancies the board, due tc
the inability to lserVesof George A
Fortsch Of Alexandria and Arthur r
Rogers Of aa1innea bpssf s. will be filled
later. NJ '"'
A Unified Minnesota. =
A unified Minnesota is the genera
aim of the new organization.
At present there are by count, more
than $500 commercial and civic or.
CARNATIONS operating separately
About 70 of them, all commercial
clubs, are. members of the present
Federation of Commercial Clubs Al.
ready additional organizations with q
membership exceeding $4,000 have in,
Dictated their purpose to join the new
body.
The Commercial and Civic Fedora
ton is to take the place of the pres
ent Federation of Commercial Clubs
The latter body will meet in St. Paul
Thursday, April Is, at 1890 a. NJ, al
the Saint Paul hotel, and as the plan
of the new and larger organization
came from the directors of the Fed.
Grafton of Commercial clubs, it is
expected on that day to vote to merge
it's existence into that of the Com.
mercial and Civic Federation. =
Radical Change Made. j
The most radical change is in the
scope of the work to be done. The
new body is intended to foster and
unity the civic agencies of the state;
to stimulate the towns Of the state tc
further civic activity; to. help elimi
nate the sectional prejudices of the
state; to improve living conditions
to advance the causes of better farm
ing, better merchandising, better
manufacturing, better transportation
and better legislation; and to foster
| better feeling between all occupations
throughout the state. Other states
have statewide chambers of com
merce But no state has undertaken
to bring together the farmers an,
other men Of the: state to worl
through one bureau for the genera
good of he state. =
In a statement issued by the di
rectors of the Federation Of CONNER
cial Clubs it was said:z 0~ Il :
Strength Of the Organization. !
"The plan is to put behind tn
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