Weekly journal-miner., 1920-12-22

! SO44i Pi41ilSu Aui4l tIlC pdob veal, Out
 the general tenor of every report
 was looking forward to what further
 benefits may be brought about dur
 ing 1921.
 The report most significant, per
 haPs, for its forward-looking impli-
 cations and plans, was that of the advertising committee. read by
 Chairman Howard Cornick, coupled
 with those parts of the secretary's
 report bearing on this matter While
 the advertising committee has been
 crippled during the past year for
 lack of funds, money is available
 for the publication of POGO copies of booklet descriptive of Yavapai
 county, its scenery, industries and
 climate, and work on this booklet is being pushed.
 Among the suggestions advanced by the committees report, and
 brought out in discussion were those
 proposing a letter to doctors in other states, setting forth the ad- vantages of Prescott for those troubled with pulmonary disease, the supplying, under certain conditions, of Yavapai county letterheads to patients at the post, the printing of slogans on envelopes and letterheads used by businessmen in the county.
 Dr. Yount, chairman, reported for the committee on excursions, re viewing two out-of-town meetings of the chamber at Humboldt and Mayer and the five semi-official runs to Kirkland, Jerome Junction, Jerome, Clarkdale and Camp Verde, with especial emphasis on the high 1y successful Humboldt meeting. A good word was passed for good roads as an inducement to more out of-town meetings next year.
 Reviewing the activities > of the chamber as a whole during the past year, Secretary Sparkes mentioned its activities in behalf of the con struction of the court house and the Jerome-Prescott highway tie pass age of the million and a half road bond issue, furthering lighting and paving plans. The deeply-felt need for advertising was treated, the is stance of the planned Yavapai coun- ty booklet and agitation in favor of a state booklet being discussed. The question should be given first and serious consideration dur ing 1921, the report stated
 The trcasurer's statement by R. N. | Fredericks, showing an excellent was referred to the audit ing committee, of which F. A. Hath away is chairman.
 The question of Whipple Barracks . and the plans for securing its perm . anent transfer to the public health . were considered in the re port of the committee on military . affairs, by R. N. Fredericks, chair man. Following the defeat oi previous attempts 10 bring about this desirable change, a bill to accom- plish this end will be submitted shortly in congress.
 The reports of the Chautauqua committee, the committee on health and sanitation, by Dr. ]. w. Finn, and the legislation com- mittee, by Chairman J. H. Morgan, were all interesting, and showed ef- fective results obtained during the year.
 The meeting last night was pre- faced by a short talk from Webster NJ. Roberts, commander-elec of the Allan Love post of the American Legion, in which Roberts laid before the chamber the plan advanced by the national organization of employ ing secretary, stenographer and office for the purpose of taking care of the men at Whipple in regard to and other matters. Roberts requested the cooperation 0f the chamber, which was strongly assured by President Clark, and the matter referred to the committee on affairs.
 A vote of thanks was extended to the members of the entertainment Lester Ruffner, Gary Vyne, J. w. Finn, H. T. South J worth and j. L. Smith to Mir. An lerson, of the post, Mir. Smith of | he Roscry Floral company, and to I he Owl Drug company for the ex- client entertainment, flowers and Inner provided by them.
 Among those present al the meet S ng were: Dr. C. L. Yount, Bob V -onnell, A. H. Powers, o. r. Orthel, c )r. w. l. Linn, w. A. Drake, R. IL \. Fredericks, J. I, Gardner, ]. A. Hope, Ben Rybon, Dr. F. w. Bo- Il 'illc, ]. P. O'DclI, Christopher Tot f