The Holly chieftain., 1920-04-15
HOLLY IS CAPITOL
OF EAST PR0WERS
Lines Up with Great South
west Association.
SECAEfA1Y lACIvoR GIVES
DE1AuS or ORGANIZATION

-. Appel 1teo1Qeot, :. j. Tontou
Secretary and +. A. Northrup
Trsasurss-LsnaS Laid Down.
Prowers county allied itself with
the Great Southwest Association
of Colorado. Kapsas and Oklahoma
last night when the Holly CONNER
cial Club decided to take the lead
ership for this project in the coun-
ty after Donald MacIvor, general
al secretary Of the association, Id
dressing the meeting, had explain
ed there waa no possibility Of La.
mar taking ~ steps to boost the
big organization.
Tho assoeietion is organized to
advertise ~ the purpose Of secur-
ing more sottxsH for the last
great west colnTOeed Of Baca and
PrOwers counties Ia Colorado. the
three Oklahoma Panhandle cOun-
ties and a. southwestern Kansas
counties. 4lle organization Is con-
trolled bY j board Of governors.
Each county ses1ds one governor to
the central npdy,
At the meoking last night E. ].
Thayer w elected governor Of
ProWers county. L. n. Appel was
elected president of the county or
ganization, while T. j. POnton and
e. A. Northrup were elected secre-
tary and treasurer respectively of
the Holly unit. @
v Mr.. MacIyOf who was formerly
news editor ~ the Wichita Beacon
and who Ii now In charge Of the
,Gtest SOUTHWEST Association head
li1oItess afiaees ~ DFdEe City, ex
fS1 S16s9l 4n6s put the 0lF1ll
izatiOn to the Commercial Club
members He outlined the plan Of
advertising and displayed copies Of
advertisements which have already
appeared lin eastern farm and news
papers.
'The results from this advertis-
ing will be excellent" declared the
secretary. Judging from the num-
Der Of inquiries coming into our
office from prospective settlers.
We have more than 1900 in our files
now"
In pointing out why Holly should
lead the county in this move Mr..
MacIvor said:
II was in Lamar today and learn
ed while there that there was no
crystalized sentiment there for
pushing this movement. / believe
more good can come from Holly as
the association capital Of Prowers
county. Then, too, Baca county
has not felt particularly amiable
toward Lamar since the latter town
refused to back up the thing that
was to do the southern county SO
much good Therefore it behOoves
the Holly Commercial Club to line
up with the big move and with
Baca county. This would work
very nicely with your new road to
Stonington and your proposed tele-
phone line down there. At least
this is a good time to make capital
out of the mistakes of q cOmpeti.
tive neighbor.'
The secretary told in detail the
plan for distribution Of inquiries.
He pointed out the advisability of
Prowers county coming in to the
ASSOCIATION as q representative
dairying district for the benefit Of
prospective settlers who wish to
follow that line of farming. He
agreed to insert a picture taken
here Dairy Day in the booklet
which is sent to all inquiriers. A
separate article about Prowers
county is to appear in the MAY
edition of this booklet which Is
entitled "Citizens and Neighbors
Wanted"
There is no possibility, he point
ed out. that real estate men would
control the organization. He bas.
ed his argument on the fact that
only about ten per cent of the
membership in the entire organi-
zation is made up OF real estate
agents.
I'm short he concluded, this is
an appeal from business men, farm.
ers, ranchmen, lawyers and bank
ers together with merchants, for
eastern farmers to come out into
a new land OF opportunity and en-
10Y the success waiting here for
them. And the folk here must
make the newcomer welcome. We
must give him advice as regards
western methods OF farming which
are altogether unlike those OF the
east"
The quota to be raised Is based
on the bank deposits of the county
on Dec, 81. 1918. being one.tenth Of