Bisbee daily review., 1916-02-06
COMMERCIAL CLUB TO MEET GROWING NEEDS
 OF GREATER DISTRICT
Organization will Hold An nual Meeting Wedensday and Prepare for Events At tending Increased Properity.

Notices announcing that the annual meeting and election of the Warren District Commercial Club will be held Wednesday evening in the council chamber Of the city hall were ysster- day received by the leading business houses and the public spirited citizens that go to make up the membership of that body. The notice is brief, merely announcing the meeting and that conditions in the district arc nov such that wider field than ever be- fore awaits the tillage of the club.
 It was in February 1912, that, there was called a mass meeting hl the same room where Wednesday nights meet ing will be held fer the purpose O. organizing a chamber of commerce or some similar association, that should devote it's energy to organized en- deavors to bring to the Warren Dis trict and all parts of it such advant ages as might be obtainable. At that meeting a constitution and by laws were adopted and a direetorate oi nine consisting of H. D. McVay, J. N. O'Connell, Parker L. Woodman, Will jam Drury, Sam Frankenberg, W. A. Schwartz, Jesse Yoakum, r. E. Coles and Mark P John were elected. This board of directors selected H. D. Me Way, then manager of the Mountain States Telephone company as presi dent. Parker L. Woodman, vice presi- dent, J. M. O'ConneIl treasurer and Joseph H. Gray secretary. Of this directorate Jesse Yoakum is the only member of the present board, having served continuously eyer since. J. M. OConnell and William Drury have both died and Messrs. McVay and Woodman have left the district.
 Since the organization of the Conl- mercial Club it's presidents have heer H. D. McVay, William Drury, Jesse Yoakum, J. NJ. McGregor and John J. Bowen, the latter having just com pleted his second year as executive leader with a record or having missed but one regular or special meeting in two years. The other present officers are L. J. Overlook vice president, 2. " Beddow treasurer and Joseph H. Gray, secretary. the latter having held that office except for a period of three months, since the organiza- ton of the clob.
 It has developed in the Warren Dis trict, as in most other communities, that it must fall upon a small number to secure the desires of the larger numbers and hence the management and direction of the affairs of the club has fallen more and more into the hands of the directors. Annual meetings of members are held and special meetings are called when the directors deem this essential but gen orally it is the directors who must un- dertake any project for the club. They have their ears always at the group and suggestions from the individual members are all that is necessary to start the machinery of organized ef- forts in motion. At the annual meet ings the reports for the year of pre- sident, treasurer and secretary are presented and the members select those upon whose shoulders will be borne the work for the coming year. Later the directors meet and select their own officers.
 To recount the efforts and achieve ments of the Commercial Club in inc past years is a task too long to be undertaken here. Even an annual re- port is a rather lengthey document snd then it must be so summarized that it is practically a digest of the minutes and the report read at the