Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-12-12
COMMITTEES
BEGIN WORK
OF DIRECTORS OF COM
MERCIAL CLUB ORGANIZED
COMMITTEES NAMED
TO MEET EVERY TWO WEEKS
Agriculture Committee Important
Has Much Work to Do.

An interesting meeting of the
Kootnai Valley Commercial Club was
held in the court house on Friday
evening. Secretary James of the
board of directors, announced that
the directors had met and organized
and that the various directors had
been assigned as chairman of stand
ing committees and had selected
workers on such committees as fol-
lows:
Finance Committee: ]. w. Reid,
chairman; H. l.. Monks and Harry
Storm.
Manufactures: H. o. jackson,
chairman; Ward Duvall and A. A.
Mcintyre.
Agriculture: F. A. Shultis, chair
man; w. p. Mahoney, w. j. Hoag
land, T. ]. Jones, M. Fitzpatrick.
Publicity: w. T. James, chair
man; G. w. Spoerry and A. B.
Ashby.
Mining: A. C. Moore, chairman;
A. j. Kent and M. P. DeWolf.
Good Roads: L. N. Brown, chair
man; j. B. Brody and C. w. Meg
quier
Membership: John R. Wiley, chair
man; J. w. McGlocBlin and Frank
Bottun.
The board of directors advised
the club that it had seemed advisable
to change the number of members
on the publicity from five to three
and to increase the number on the
agriculture committee from three to
five.
L. N. Brown reported that the
Good Roads committee had met and
formulated plans of work. The
county had been districted and Mr..
Brody has charge of all roads south
of the city limits; Mr.. Megquier has
charge of all roads north of the city
and Mr.. Brown has charge of the
Porthill and Copeland roads. The
committee will meet often and re-
lport where road work is most need
led. Mr.. Brown stated that the COM
mittee felt that the Main street OF
Boomers Ferry was more in need
of improvement just now than any
hoped to have the conditions of last
spring remedied. The committee
plans to work in conjunction will
the board of county commissioners
]. r. Wiley, of the membership
committee, announced that the cam
paign his committee would begin
would end when every citizen o.
Boundary county was a member O.
the commercial club.
Many suggestions of work for tn
agricultural committee were made by
: club members. 1t was suggeste,
that the commercial club encourage
the production of clover seed grow
ing, assist the Northern Idaho See,
Growers association, support tn
: movement to make this vicinity
| strawberry growing district, and la,
plans toward securing new settler
: for the Kootenai Valley.
1t was announced that H. w
Bliss had offered the free use for on
year of one of his billboards alon,
l the right-of-way of the Great North
: ern railway, for posters advertising
? boundary county.
I A. A. Mcintyre announced that tn
committee on manufacturing woul
I prepare a survey of the resource
2 of the county and would try to in
f terest capital in utilizing the pull
5 wood of the district.
, M. p DeWolf, of the mining com
l mittee, urged that the people of tn
= county quit knocking the mining in
, dustry and that they encourage tn
2 men who are trying to develop tn
a mineral resources.
| 1t was decided to change the meet
ing night of the club to the secon
and fourth Tuesdays of each month
The next meeting will be held at tn
court house on December 26th.