The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-01-18

The annual meeting of the Cham.
ber of Commerce and agriculture was
held at the club rooms Tuesday even.
ing.
Despite the stormy weather and ex.
treme cold, over fifty members at
tended and voiced their expressions OF
approval on the review of the years
work by Secretary L. E. Jones.
Several matters came up for dis.
cussion and the club decided to coop.
crate in every way possible with other
organizations to get the government
to settle the controversy over the irri-
gated land in the valley and enable
the settlers to get patent and farm
the land.
The report of the secretary cover
ing the years activities, follows:
To the Board of Directors and Mem.
hers of the Glasgow Chamber of
Commerce and Agriculture:
The year of 1917 has been a sue
cessful one for the Glasgow Cham.
ber; it's work has covered a wide and
varied field, with satisfactory results
obtained, which has materially helped
in our progress. Our country being
in a state of war, We find many new
activities from the regular channel
of commercial work. The following
report will review to you the work
of the chamber:
1t was on January 9th that election
of officers was held, and the present
Officers were elected. L. D. Blodgett
secretary of the Lewistown club, gave
the principal address of the evening
He spoke of the necessity of a com.
mercial organization in every com.
munity and of the results that could
be obtained by cooperative efforts of
it's members.
On February 18th I succeeded Mr.
Sweitzer as secretary of thi sorga.
nization, at which time I visited the
commercial clubs at Lewistown, Great
Falls and Havre, for about week
before taking active hold of the club
This trip was one worth while, as
learned, from the live-wire secretar-
les of each of the towns visited, and
which helped to make some of our
activities more successful.
The first matter of Importance to
come before our organization after
took hold was the establishing of a
Normal School at Glasgow. We did
everything in our power to land this
school for Glasgow. A valuable ten
acre tract and cash bonus of $4,000
was offered the state to give our city
this school. However, the legislature
adjourned without taking action on
our offer. We are gathering all pos
sible data to be presented at the next
session of the legislature for their
consideration of Normal School here.
With the probable cooperation it is
probable that the next time this mat
ter comes up before the legislature we
will be awarded the school. Glasgow
today is known over the state for it's
excellent schools and with Normal
School our city will be classed as an
educational center for northern and
eastern Montana.
One of the most successful branches
of our activities has been our free
employment bureau. We have helped
many a person secure work who
seemed unable to do so without our
aid. In many cases this kept men in
the country whose services were need
ed here; thus we were solving the
labor situation. In April we at
tracted considerable attention by ap-
pealing to all communities in the
county to establish branch bureaus to
work through US with main purpose
in view Of taking care of the labor
on farms during harvest. The CO.
operation received from the other
towns was excellent. Several we'll
known agricultural magazines COM
mented on this plan and we received
considerable publicity through this
means. About 40 applicants read these