The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-01-17
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
TO H0LJl@!\%!yNUAL ELECTION
MAJORITY OF MEMBERS q BOARD OF DIRECT.
ORS TO BE NAMED; EVERY MEMBER URGED
TOTURN OUT FOR ANNUAL MEET; SEW
ERAL IMPORTANT COMMITTEES
TO REPORT.

The annual meeting of the Glasgow
Chamber of Commerce and Agricul-
ture will be held in the club rooms on
Tuesday, January 21st, at 8 o'clock p.
m. At this meeting much important
business in connection with the club
will come up and it is the earnest re-
quest of the president and board of
directors that every member endeav-
or to be present.
In accordance with the bylaws of
the organization there will be six di-
rectors elected for the ensuing two
years. Any three of the chamber is
considered nominating committee
and can nominate a member to be
placed on the ballot for director.
At this meeting the secretary will
give in detail a report of the past
years activities. You. should arrange
to be present, also to bring in any
matter that will be of interest to the
community or county and should be
acted upon by the chamber. Each
member is requested to bring in a
friend who is not member so that
he may know Of the clubs activities.
The work of the Chamber of Com
merce and Agriculture during the
year 1918 has been almost wholly di-
verted to the war work of the nation
in this community and yet it has done
much good work along civic lines as
will be disclosed at the coming annual
meeting, where will be rendered var
ious reports of officers and commit
tees. The war work of the chamber
has been directed by government Off
GERS and bureaus and it has been so
heavy as to exclude great activity on
the part of officers and directors
along normal civic lines. The annual
election will result in reorganization
which we are confident will result in
the expansion of the chambers activ-
tiles along the lines mapped out when
the chamber was incorporated early
in 1917.
At the last annual election the fol-
lowing five directors were elected for
a two-year term: Sherman, Ackerman,
Young, Leonard and Murray. Six di-
rectors, majority of the board, are
to be elected. 1t is to be hoped that
every person who may be nominated
for director will refuse to stand for
election unless after careful consid-
Grafton he may determine that he will
take the time from his business in all
except emergency occasions to attend
regular and special meetings of the
board; there is no more important
work in the city than the work Of this
board.
The chamber is corporation whose
powers are expressed in its articles
of incorporation in the following
words:
The purposes for which this cor
poration is formed are the pro-
motion of commercial, agricultur-
al, industrial and social interests
of the City of Glasgow and the
County of Valley, in the State of
Montana, also to promote the gen.
eral welfare in the State of Mon
tana.
All the powers of the organization
under the statute are reposed in the
board Of trustees, which board elects
all other officers, has charge of the
property of the chamber and controls
it's work.
The duties of the committees are to
investigate and report to the board,
except in cases where the board grants
to committee certain powers.
The standing committees, under the
bylaws are as follows:
Ways, Means and Finance.
Merchandising and Mercantile In
terests.
Promotion Of Agriculture and Agri-
cultural Interests.
Roads and Highways.
Railways, Communication, Trans
portation, Freight Rates.
Marketing, Supplies and Distribu-
tion.
Irrigation, Reclamation and Recla-
nation Farming.
Promotion of Civic and Social Con-
ditions.
Education and Education Extension.
Special Committees are also fire.
quently appointed.
Thus it can be seen that the scope
of possible work of the chamber is
very great; it is only limited by the
amount of civic work the membership
can afford to engage in without neg
lect of it's private business.
The board of directors never hold
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