Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1917-02-23
A Big Weather Indicator to
Mark Progress Of Cham
Der Campaign
MOVE LED BY MINISTER'S
Vigorous Campaign Closes
March !, With Bishop
Hughes at Dinner

A novel plan to hold the interest
in the campaign for new members for
the Chamber of Commerce, is the erec-
tiOn on Heron street of a huge ther-
mometer which will mark the increase
in new members as the campaign
progresses. The thermometer will
be in front of VOLTS department
store.
The therometer will be II feet high
and three feet wide, with the bulb in
red and have white background, so
that a glance at the mercury" will
show the spectators the results of the
vigorous work being done by w. c..
Mumaw, chairman of the special
membership committee, and his as.
sistants.
A big rally dinner at the Hotel
Washington, with Bishop Matthew S.
Hughes, of the Oregon Methodist Epis-
copal district, as the principal speak
er, will mark the close of the cam.
paign, Thursday evening, March 1.
Bishop Hughes is touted in news
paper reports as a forceful speaker
who has message to laymen as we'll
as churchmen and it is expected by
President T. B. Bruener, of the Cham
ber of Commerce, that those attending
the dinner, March /, will hear an ad-
dress well worth while.
This will be the first general gath
ering of the Chamber of Commerce
of this year and as the dinner is open
to the public in general, as are all
such affairs of the local commercial
organization, it is expected a large
number will attend.
Chairman Mumaw has set the 400
mark as the goal for his committee
and it is reasonable TO suppose that
this mark will be reached as every
business interest, as we'll as lay citi-
zens of the community, are vitality in
terested in the success of the Cham
ber of Commerce, body entirely de-
voted to the Development of Aberdeen
and Grays Harbor.
The committee handling the affair
consists of w. c. Mumaw, Rev. E. M.
Hill, Rev. T. H. Simpson, A. S. Hoon-
an, J. B. Benson, S. K. Bowes, T. H.
Blyth, J. J. Carney, Frank o. Dole.
E. H. Griffin, w. G. Powell, j. J..
kaufman, M. B. Lytle, w. o. McCaw.
II. P. Potter, w. H. Tucker, James
Thelander, V. T. Evans, W. S. Menden-
hall, w. B. Bargar and j. F. Hall.
Plans for the big campaign had
scarcely gotten underway when two
progressive parsons got into the fray
and took sides against each other to
obtain the largest number of new ap-
plicants.
Rev. T. H. Simpson, of the Pres
byterian church, and Rev. E. M. Hill.
of the First Methodist church, are the
ministers who have not only deter
mined to help the cause but also have
wagered theater tickets to the Blue
Paradise" at the Grand theater,
Feb. 2S, on the result.
Rev. Simpson has a good team
working with him but Rev. Hill also
claims heavy support.
Under the Simpson colors will be
J. F. Hall, manager Of the Adkins
Cash Grocery; V. T. Evans, editor of
the Southwestern Washington Labor
Press; H. H. Griffin, general agent
for the Northern Pacific railway on
Grays Harbor; M. B. Lytle, ageEt 4.
the Union station; S. X. Bowesssf
Bowes Brothers company; j. g.. BeH<
son, of the Benson Office Supply Coz
pany, and J. J. Kaufman, OF this Kauf-
man-Leonard Furniture compaly.
Rallying to the srppo3t OF the
Methodist pastor are9T n. Blyth, Of
Blyth & Blyth; W.aB. Hatgar, head
of the Grays Harbor Rusiness college;
A. S. Hoonan, of the Brown -Elmore
Shoe company; Postmaster John ].
Carney; Frank o. Dole, secretary of
the Grays Harbor Realty association;
William S. Mendenhall, sales manager
Of the Electric Service q Supply COM
pany; w. G. Powell, manager Of the
Grays Harbor Flour COMPANY and
w C. Mumaw manager of the Pacific
Telephone & Telegraph cosnpeny, who
also is chairman of the special COM
mittee on membership apD0lnted last
week by President T.sR Bruener, Of
the Chamber of Commerce.