The Holly chieftain., 1919-01-30
Dollar a Plate Spread at
High School Building.
MEMBERSHIP is NOW 81
COMMITTEE PROMISES 100
Club Enthusiastically Takes Up Mat
ter Of Furnishing Rest Room in
Holly for Farmers Wives and
Chldren-TO BE Maintained

Last Monday nights meeting of
the Holly Commercial Club was
another wave of enthusiasm which
amounted to "comber.'' The club
room was packed to capacity and is
pronounced one of the liveliest ses-
sions of the kind held in Holly FOR
many months.
The manifest of spirit and action
with which the banquet and other
propositions were discussed were
put over with an earnestness and
enthusiasm which portends success
and achievement for the club through
out the coming year.
The report of the banquet COM
mittee indicated that all the COM
mittee was waiting for in order to
do the thing up brown was the date
and the number likely to attend.
And after some littlediscussion.
Thursday night, Jan. Goth was fixed
as the date and dollar plate as
the price. The greater number
which favored $1.00 the eat as
against anything OF a lower price
also indicated that the Holly people
are not cheap sports.
Frther indication of the deerm-
ination of Holly business men to do
something worth while the coming
year was brought out in the report
of the membership committee which
showed 81 paid up members for the
year as against about 30 last year.
The committee also promised that il
given little more time and assist
ance they would make the member
ship an even 100 for 1919. the same
to include number of progressive
farmers.
Accordingly the membership COM
mittee was increased to seven addi-
tional, and on a motion the presi-
dent appointed A. Morich, G.. E.
Fortney, C. Clinton Page, F. H.
Puntenney, H. D. Steel, w H. Berry
and w. H. Heckethorn to reinforce
the regular committee.
The first real tanbigle enterprise
to be taken up by the club this year
was suggested by Edward Haber-
stroh, the barber, who declared that
a rest room for the farmers wives
ana little children when tney come
to town, was c1.ing n'ed of HOLLY.
He pointed out that to interest far
n. VS. to CON- aud trade at linil, We
should endeavor to make them COM
Portable when they come, and he
thought a neatly fitted up rest room
especially for the women aid child
rem with toilet accommodations,
would be one of the most practicable
things that could be done.
Mr. Haberstroh's suggestion met
with hearty response, and on mo-
tion Mr.. Haberstroh, H. w. Woods
and F. H. Allen were appointed a
out the cost of equipment and main
tenance and report at the next meet
ing of the club.
The matter of good roads elected
an interesting though informal re-
port from Mr.. A. p. Knuckey, chair
man of the board of county commits
sioners, of his attendance of the re-
cent meeting in Denver of the coun-
ty commissioners of the state and
their favorable attitude on the pro-
posed issue of $20,00O,00O in road
bonds by the state now before the
state Legislature, with important rid
ers or amendments which the COM
n,issioners had demanded. AS ori-
ginally framed this bond bill would
give Denver and the larger cities of
the state practically the major por-
tion Of the proceeds or such bonds
for road improvements, whereas the
commissioners of the state demanded
a square deal.
Mr.. Knuckey stated that in this
event the bond issue carried the
roads would be largely of concrete
and that Holly and Lamar would be
among the first two towns in the
Arkansas Valley to be connected up
with some of these new roads.
Supt. K. A. Shanner of the Holly
High school reported that efforts
were being made to arrange for the
combining of the school short course
week and the local dairy day lee
lures by men aand women from the
State Agricultural college and that
progress was being made toward this
end and that as soon as the neces-
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