The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-01-31
REAL pep MEET.
STAGED HERE At
c. Of c. SESSION
kIwanIs. Rotary. Lions cIubs Open
MId.wInter Meeting Of Chamber
With Noisy Program and
Fun FroIio.
EARLY HISTORY GIVEN
BY PRESENT SECRETARY
Reports Heard and Future Plans
Laid; o. c. W.. Fair Frounds
and Parks Among items for
Attention In ie22.

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modify known as pep" coupled
with hilarious fun that turned later
TO the serious consideration of prob.
lens confronting Chickisha and q
report OF what the Organization has
done through It's committees and
officers for the past Xix months. con.
,titutes a good meeting. then the
Chamber Of Commerce mid.winter
session held at the Elks club last
night. was n pronounced suc,esa.
The affair opened with storm
that reached the proportions OF
hurricane, pu;t!ng the officers IN
charge to the utmost TO quiet.
The attempt Of the Kiwanis club to
AXE charge OF the meeting was the
,ignal for the starting OF real
demonstration on the part OF Lions
and Rotarians and within a pair Of
minutes. the meeting would have
rivaled the widest college debate
scene or political convention that
ever functioned. With songs, yells.
catcalls and marvellous demon
stration OF sheer lung power. the
three clubs WED with each other
for supremacy and the disturbance
was quelled after some 10 minutes
OF riot with the verdict Of who won,
still in doubt Call II a dog fall.
The attendance contest. however.
was won by the Rotary club by a
few points and q token was pre-
sented to the Rotarian president by
the Chamber Of Commerce.
81 Best c, Of G. Meeting.
When the curtain was finally
rung down on the scene, all present
had voted that It was the "peppiest"
meeting the Chamber OF Commerce
ever held.
The outstanding feature OF the
session. aside from the noise and
fun. was the plea. APPARENTLY sub
seribed to by everyone present. to
join hands in the task Of selling
Chickasha' and to cast aside petty
things and unite In concentrated
effort to do things for this .city. 1t
was made plain that II one Is to live
in Chickasha and do we'll, 1t Is up
to him to cast aside hammer he
may be toting and pull, boost and
push for Chickasha. Along this line,
Alger Melton read a poem penned
by Jonas Cook, a former president
of the organization. The burden OF
the poem carried point that was
not at all blunt. 1t said plainly,
"If you don't like Chickasha, pack
your things and get out"
Introduce Past Presidents.
J. w. Conner, secretary OF the
Chamber of Commerce, gave a brief
history Of the organization Of COM
merciol body in Chickasha, stating
that w. w. Clark was the first
president Of such an organization
here The history followed through
the years to the present organiza-
tion, the Chickasha Chamber of
Commerce.
There were ten past presidents
present last night and all with the
exception Of one was introduced to
the meeting The following were
introduced to the meeting: w. w.
Clark, r. II. Dwyer. B. B. Bridges.
Jonas Cook, Ed F. Johns, Ben F.
Johnson, Orin Ashton, Alger Melton
and L. C. Hutson. Another former
president was present, but was too
modest to stand and be introduced.
He was j. B. Sparks.
The introduction of every past
president was the signal for storm
of applause, which was repeated
when r. H. Dwyer finished his short
talk on behalf of the past presi-
dents.
Past Work Outlined.
The work of the present organiza-
tion during the past six months was
outlined by ]. w. Conner in short
report. This report recorded the
work done by the various commit
tees of the chamber and included
the successful efforts In collecting
material and fighting the proposed
clipping Of four-mile strip off the.
southern edge of Grady county to
be added to Stephens county. The
work of the chamber in assisting
(COntinued on napa twOl