The Holly chieftain., 1920-01-15
T. ]. Ponton Is Reelected
Secretary.
CLUB ENTHUSIASTIC AS TO
DAIRY DAY CELEBRATION
Will Cooperate With Cow Club in
Making This Years Show Great
est Yet Held-Live Wire Commit
tee Selected to Assist.

The regular annual election of
officers of the Holly Commercial
Club was held Monday night and
resulted in the selection OF H. W..
Woods, manager of the Holly Dry
Goods Co, as president of the club
for the coming year. T. J. Ponton
was reelected secretary.
The meeting was largely attend
ed ind in accordance with previous
custom a board of five directors
was chosen as follows: II. W..
Wods, Frank Smith, T. J. Ponton.
Z. E. Fortney and C. Clinton Page
Tie new board met immediately
following the adjournment of the
meeting of the old club the new
board met and elected the presi-
dent and secretary as above.
During the meeting of the old
club Secretary Ponton read the
annual report of the financial
condition of the club which showed
balance of 10 cents in the treas
ury, which is the first annual re-
port that has shown anything else
than a deficit since Heck was
young" The report showed that
$4O3.l4 had been collected and dis
bursed by the club during the year
and for January OF this year.
In the absence Of President A. M.
Dicks who was out OF the city, Vice.
President Frank Sn1tA presiied.
The ballOting for members of
the board of directors brought out
about as many names as there were
business men in town but the con-
test finally simmered down to the
election of the five mentioned
above
After the election j. A. Pierce on
behalf of the Holly Cow Club ask
ed the cooperation and assistance,
both moral and material, of the
club in the Cow Clubs prepara-
ton for it's annual Dairy Day cele-
bratiOn which has been tentative
ly set for April Sth. This date,
however, is subject to change in
accordance with the convenience of
the judges of the cattle and horse
exhibits on Dairy Day.
Mr.. Pierre very forcibly put the
enterprise up to the club and i'm
pressed the assembly with the i'm
portance of the dairy industry to
Holly and vicinity. He asked for
the appointment of a committee
from the Commercial club to act
with a like committee from the
Cow Club in arranging for the an
nual Dairy Day show which by the
way, is one of the great annual
events of the valley.
Mr.. Pierces request and supple.
mentary discourse on the dairy in
dustry were warmly received and
the general expression which fol.
lowed, accorded the clubs unani-
nous and enthusiastic support of
the Dairy Day enterprise.
w. 5. Partridge, manager of the
Arkansas Valley Sugar Beet g. IT.
rigated Land Co. and president
of the Holly Cow Club, also spoke
in behalf of the club for Dairy Day
in the course of which he stated
that the celebration cost approx
mately $1,000, to which the board of
county commissioners contributed
5000, the Lamar Condensary 500,
the A. V. Land Co. 500, the d. A.
NJ. & P. Co. of Lamar 500, while
the business interests of Holly and
others usually contributed the
rest. Mr.. Partridge pledged that
the farmers always had and would
this year, do their level best to
make the affair success and that
additional effort would be made
this year to have a fine cattle and
horse exhibit 1t is planned to
have first class judge from abroad
to do the Judging. He expressed
the belief that Holly had been
more widely and favorably adver-
tised through these annual Dairy
Day celebrations than by any other
one thing. He said that Johns.
town was the only other town
where Dairy Day was made an an.
nual event, but that JOhnstown,
by reason of the greater develop
ment of the dairy industry in that
section, operated on larger and
much more expensive scale than it
was possible for Holly to do at this
time.
l.. NJ. Appel SPOKE enthusiastic