The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-01-11
KEEN INT REST
Is MANIFESTED
The INITIAL MEETING IS AUSPICIOUS
Commercial Club Plans to End Year Free
Of Debt DR.. Cutlery is New
President

With probably keener interest than
has been evidenced by members OF the
organization in past years charac-
terizing discussions, the Commercial
club held the initial regular meeting of
the year Monday night, when officers
for the ensuing year were announced as
follows: DR.. j. ID. Cutlery, pres. !;
William Stewart, vice pres. j. M.
Culbertson. treas. K. E. Scott, re-
elected, sec. Other members of the
board are: Crawford G. Lennon. C.
J. Calkins, W. l.. Clark and Harry
Connaway..
A novel step was taken by the club
Monday night to secure funds the COM
ing year for the payment of possible
deficits. A constitutional amendment,
providing for 10 per cent assessment
of dues, was adopted. The assessment,
however, cannot be made, unless the
unappropriated funds of the club 8
treasury are less than $50 at the be-
ginning of any quarter. The member
ship OF the organization now reaches d
total Of 2l0. OF this 79 are country
members who pay the sum of so cents
per month as dues. The remaining
members. residents of the city. pay 81
per month. Thus, il it becomes neces-
ssry to invoke the assessment, a total
sum of $50. 10 may be raised from both
city and country members. 1t Isl not
contemplated, however, in case all dues
are paid promptly throughout the year,
that the assessment will have to be in
voked.
1t is also announced that the Com
mercial club will finish this year out of
debt. Since 1910. when the oragniza-
tion piled up an Indebtedness of more
than $4, 900 in preparing carload exhib-
it's of prize winning apples for the Spo-
kane national apple show and in con-
ducting campaigns of general publicity
the balance sheets of the organization
have annually shown red Ink. At the
present time the indebtedness reaches
the sum of approximately 81, 700. Sub.
scriptions, to be paid throughout the
coming year, will totally wipe out the
deficit.
At Monday nights meeting of the
club the proposed movement before
congress. to establish one cent letter
postage for certain zone deliveries was
discussed. The local commercial Or
ganization is prone TO disapprove of
the proposed bill, and has called on the
One Cent Letter Postage Association
for data that will give all plans of the
proposed movement.
President Cutlery announced appoint
ments of his committees for 1917 as
follows:
Roads ", L. Clark. c. e. Coffin and
C. N. Ravlin.
Ways and Means-all members of the
board Of directors.
Manufacturing-S. A. Mitchell, Tru-
man Butler and J. N. Culbertson.
Athletic-Will Mcclure. Ray Munk-
ries and Ed C. Eberly.
House-C. X. Marshall, C. Dethmsn
and A. G. Lofts.
Civic - DR.. II. l.. Dumble, E. A.
Franz and Kay W. Sinclair.
Membership-W. L. Nichols, c. G.
Lennon, d. G. Cruikshank, Mike Ray
and r. E. Scott.
River lmprovement-Truman Butler,
J. II. Koberg and Ed Hawkes..
Auditing Kay w. Sinclair, harold
Hershner and j. M. Culbertson.
Transportation Leslie Butler, j. II.
Fredricy and Ashley Wilson.
Horticulture and Agriculture--C. d.
Hoyt, E. W. Birge. j. II. Koberg, A.
G. Reed and T. l.. Tompkins.
Legislative-C. d. Nickelsen, E. o.
Blanchar and R. E. Scott
Entertainment-J. Adrian Epping,
Earl Franz, G. A. Molden and J. NJ.
Culbertson.