The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-11-26
NORTH IDAHOANS
MEET Big SUCCESS
MORROW OF WALLACE MADE
PRESIDENT-ENDO NORTH
SOUTH HIGHWAY In IDAHO

saturday noon saw Ine close Oh the
two day Sixth annual meeting of the
North Idaho Chamber of Commerce,
the most largely attended and most
successful session in the history OF
the organization. Representatives of
eight of the northern Idaho counties
presented their annual reports and
more than 25 out of town men atten-
ded every session in addition to the
Moscow citizens.
Platt P, Morrow of Wallace was
named president of the organization
for the coming year and George
Weeks of Coeur d'Alene was reelected
ecretary-treasurer Both men were
elected by unanimous vote of the
delegates.
Delegates voted unanimously to ac-'
cept the invitation of Wallace to hold
the semi-annual meeting of the associ-
alton in that city in June, 1922. The
invitation was made on behalf of Wal
lace by John McEvers, prosecuting at
torney of Shoshone county, and a
graduate of the University of Idaho
college of law. Lewiston was named
as the next meeting place for the
Seventh annual convention in Novem-
ber, 1922, by a unanimous vote upon
the invitation of w. J. Jordan OF
Lewiston.
Morrow Prominent Man
Mr. Morrow, the newly elected
president, is president of the Morrow
Hutton company, operators of a chain
of stores in northern Idaho. He is
one of north Idaho's most prominent
business men and he has been active
ly interested in the work of the North
idaho Chamber of Commerce.
G. P. Mix's resolution calling for
the earliest possible completion, all in
Idaho, of the North and South high
way was adopted by the delegates.
The delegates generally favored the
making of the highway into an ALL
Idaho highway with the elimination
of the missing link" or the one-half
mile of highway in the state Of WASH
ington.
Financial, crop, economic, road, tim
Der and mining conditions were re-
ported on by eight representatives of
northern Idaho counties as follows:
George r. Barker, Bonner county; w.
F. Taylor, Kootenai county; Platt P.
Morrow, Shoshone county; J. S.
Heckathorn, Latah county; Bert Saw
age, Nez Perce county; M. flanagan,
Lewis county; Seth Jones, Idaho
county.
Session Summary by Mitchell
At the close of the county reports
Perry w. Mitchell, president, promi-
nent banker and newspaper man OF
Nez Perce, summarized the sessions
of the two days when he said
'sAll of US have been benefited by
the meeting here in Moscow. This
has been the most successful meeting
in the history of the North Idaho
Chamber of Commerce but if we hope
to succeed we must keep going ahead,
obtaining cooperation and doing things
by ourselves for ourselves. We have
too many dreamerS in the state OF
Idaho, men who plan big things and
then do not do them. Follow up this
meeting with talk in your respective
communities and do not allow the ef-
fectiveness of this meeting to be lost"
AS president of the organization he
thanked the Moscow Chamber of Com
merce, the city of Moscow and the
of Idaho for the hospitality
shown the visitors during their stay
in Moscow.
Wallace Convention City
John McEvers of Wallace in invit-
ing the delegates to come to Wallace
for their semi-annual meeting in June
1922, said that the acceptance of the
invitation was the logical and equit-
able action of the convention. His
motion to accept the Wallace invita-
tion was seconded by George Barker
of Standpoint and carried unanimous
ly. w. J. Jordan extended the invita-
ton of Lewiston for the 1922 Seventh
annual meeting in November and this
oil I'M nj r.
cepted.
A motion made by Secretary Weeks
that the secretary of each local cham
Der of commerce be sent to all regular
meetings of the North Idaho Chamber
of Commerce at the expense OF the
local organization carried Platt F.
Morrow's motion that the assessments
for 1922 be the same for the local
chambers of commerce as in 1921 was
carried. The election of Mr.. Morrow
as president came with the unanl-
nous acceptance of the report of the
committee.
Outlines Immigration Plan
On the call for a discussion of a
comprehensive and practical plan for
increasing the immigration to north
Idaho of desirable immigrants Mr..
Weeks outlined such plan when he
told of the work of the Northern Pa
cific railroad company and system
Of interesting young men with COM
paratively small sums of capital into
to north Idaho. He took for
example the hundreds AMI thousands
of young men of New England, each
with capital OF from $4,000 to $25,000
who are interested into coming to
north idaho.
Secretary Weeks announced that
the splendid address of Kenneth c.
Kerr last night had been donated
without charge and that Mr. Kerr had
come to Moscow for only his expen-1
ses.' G.. P. Mix and c. A. Hagen an
that the Moscow Chamber Of
Commerce would pay at this time
their annual assessment fee of $100.
General Resolution Adopted
Hermann Taylor of Standpoint, for
mer lieutenant governor Of Idaho, as