The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-10-26
REDS PAY FORFEIT TO BLUES
Rousing Meeting Follows Dinner Held
at Hotel haywood Monday Night and
Plans for Larger Organization Are
TO Be Carried Out at Once.

The eight hundred and seventy-fve
men who have made application for
membership in the Kenosha Chamber
of Commerce are to be formally taken
into the organization at great meet
ing to be held at the Rhode Opera
House week from tomorrow night as at
the dinner held at the Hotel haywood
on Monday evening, at which time the
Reds, the losers in the membership
contest, paid their forget to the Blues,
plans were completed for this meeting.
Wednesday night, November the first,
is going to be the real red letter day
in the history Of the Kenosha boosting
organization. Between now and the
date set for the meeting the formal call
for organization will be sent to every
man and woman who has signed an
application for membership. President
q. G. Simmons will preside and promin-
ent speakers from Kenosha and other
cities will tell the new members just
what the new organization plans to
accomplish and just how it plans to go
about it. At this meeting the board
of directors will be named, officers for
the first year. will be elected and COM
mittees appointed to have charge of
the activities Of the organization along
different lines of work. It is expected
that it will be the most enthusiastic
meeting of Kenosha men ever held in
Kenosha. Men who have been long in
the Chamber of Commerce work will
be invited to make short addresses and
local men who have shown a willing
ness to lead in the work in Kenosha
will tell of just what is planned for
the organization to do.
The meeting is planned as the big
getaway meeting for the Chamber Of
Commerce and after it is over it is
expected that the working organiza-
ton will be fully ready to start doing
things. A committee composed of Dan
0. Head, Ed. Dayton, E. j. Sullivan,
Adolph Epstein, James Cavanagh and
Mayor Charles Pfennig will have
charge of the arrangements for this
meeting. It is the plan of the com
mittee to have no doubt left after this
meeting as to just what is the purpose
of the organization. The meeting is
going to be interesting to every man
and woman interested in Kenosha
and there will be many men and
women present who are not members
of the association.
The Reds under the leadership of
Captain Ed. Dayton, paid their forfeit
to the Blues like real sports and there
were more than fifty gathered about
the banquet tables with the Reds foot
ing the bill. 1t was a real dinner
from soup-with real oysters in ito
| nuts and after the dinner was over
there was a real love feast of good
fellowship and town boosting.
Captain Dan o. Head of the winning
Blues, introduced James Cavanagh, the
acting president Of the Chamber of
Commerce, who acted as POSTMASTER
for the evening. Many short talks
were made, the list of speakers in,
Guiding Captains Dayton and Head
Secretary John Lind, E. J. Sullivan
w. T. Marlatt, Walter M. Burke
Joseph N. Funck, A. E. Bounsall
Adolph Epstein, Owen O'Hare, A. j
Paica, G. E. Gundlach, Judge G. E
Randall, w. D. Martin, Eugene La
Macchia, and l.. T. Hannahs.
Plans for seeking further members
of the organization were also dis
cussed and representatives of both the
Reds and the Blues volunteered fol
further work along these lines. An
nouncement of the program for the
meeting week from Wednesday even
ing will be made within the next
few days.