St. Johnsbury Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-1920, 1920-03-24
CITY FORM
GOVERNMENT
DISCUSSED
Emery and Brooks Arouse
Enthusiasm at Meeting
of Commercial Club

A business administration of muni-
cipal affairs was tho keynote of the
speakers at the annual meeting of the
Commercial Club in Pythian Hall
Thursday evening and the 100 who
attended were much impressed with
the advantages of Newport's city
form of government and the commits
sion plan as found in Sheridan, Wyo.
! At the banquet which preceded the
business Of the evening and addrcssi S
Mrs. S. J. Somervillc served chicken
pie as the piece &c resistance and the
members enjoyed one of the best sup
pcrs the organization ever held. At
the head table with President Asselin
were the ouo".;. Col. c. s Emery of
Newport and L. H. Brooks of Sheri-
dan, Wyc, Major Melrosc, Principal
]. A. Davis, Rev. Dr.. f A. Poole and
these directors of the Commercial
Club: Charles r. Peck, p. f. Hazcn
ard Arthur F. Stone.
At eight o'clock the members ad-
iourncd to the lodge room for the
business of the evening. The report
of the secretary and treasurer, which
was submitted in printed form, was
accepted. The secretary in his report
spoke of the success of the recent
Fourth of July celebration, the re-or-
ganization OF Company d, the eXemp-
ton from taxation of Taubel, Lip
ton G. Co., the Cary Maple Sugar
Company, J. W. Davies. owner of the
Plymouth Creamery; the encourage
ment of the boys and girls, and other
activities of the organization. The
past year 35 new members have join
ed and the club ended the year with
1924 members and bank balance OF
$51G.71. The report also referred 70
the fact that three of the staunchcst
supporters of the club have died dur
ing the year, Henry G. Ely, Judge
Walter P. Smith and George H. Cross
The following new members were
admitted: Major Melrose, E. E. Rug
giles, c. Roy Calderwood, DR.. w A.
Gage, Mr. McCarty, W.. II. Taylor,
O. A. Ulrich, L. A. Wood, DR. F.
w. Magoon, w. Fl. jerks, Carroll
II. Fox, r. c. A. Babcock, Mr.. Half
ner, Morton ]. Reed, S. F.. Richard-
son, Er. Dale S. Atwood, = L.-N.aHast-
ings, Dale Fl Simpson.
President Asselin in brief adj
dress of welcome said it was a great
delight to him to see such large and
enthusiastic gathering. He believed
that it indicated that the members
were interested in their town AMI
were glad to serve where they could
to make St. Johnsbury bigger and
better. He spoke of the success of
the Fourth of July celebration and
said that with all bills paid there was
a balance left over Of $602.1l. He
said the directors had voted to place
this fund at interest and keep it ssp-
arate from the rest of the clubs mon
ey as Il special fund. He spoke in
the highest praise of the success OF
J. II. Brooks in raisiHg the money, Of
the services of Charles G. Braley as
treasurer of the fund and said he
meant to have read at this meeting
the list of over 100 members of the
various committees that worked so
hard to make the soldiers welcome
the great success that it was. A vote
of thanks was then voted to J. II!
Brooks, Charles G. Braley and all
members of the various committees
for the hard work they did, to make
the celebration so successful.
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