Payette enterprise., 1924-01-31
MEETING Of CLUBS
A GREAT SUCCESS

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The joint meeting of Portia, XII
wants, Business and Professional
Women, and Chamber of Commerce
last Monday night taxed the club
rooms to their utmost capacity and
was 'howling" success A large
group of representative citizens who
believe that community of effort can
bring the community interest, up
lift and betterment, made up the
crowd. 1t was a splendid exhibition
of cooperative spirit.
mo man liveth unto himself
alone. At least there is scriptural
authority for this statement, and we
are safe in assuming that there is
little disposition to question its YER
acity. Outside of the family, the
oldest social institution; and the onlv
one that remains practically un-
changed down through the ages is
the community. Your relations with
the people who live around you may
be pleasant or unpleasant, but they
are fnescapable. Whether you like
them or whether you don't like them.
you must maintain some sort OF re-
latlons with at least a..Dart of the
other members of your community.
That being true, it is but intelligent
selfishness or the part of anv citi-
zen to take an active interest in.
and give literally of his time to those
things which make for a better com
mun1ty and thereby increase the op-
portunities for every citizen to en-
Joy life in the community. Upon
this proposition all the Clubs are
agreed. There is no greater service
for all these Clubs to perform to-
day than this work of selling the
community to itself in these joint
get-together meetings, in promoting
the spirit of unanimity and good
VIII among ourselves in order to
present a solid front in promoting
those material improvements which
VIII bring about closer relationship
between the town and the country.
between the community and the
logical community center.
After brief business program of
Portla, the following delightful pro
gram was given under the direction
10 Mrs. Paul H. Walker.
Mrs. Bradshaw, president of
Port1a, spoke briefly of the work of
the Club. This was followed bv a I
vocal duet, Drifting Down to Dixie"
by Bert Dunnick and Cy Anderson. /
Chesley Barton, president of Kiwanis
the speech, and present
I'd as representative Kiwanians
rreehafer's Prairie Flower Omar
.et composed of the inimitable star
performers, Al Freehafer, Bert Fitch.
jlyde Thurston, and the modest
Jhesley himself, who delighted the
audience with soul stirring seIec-
ION from the opera, ''The Little
'ra1rle Flower. In response to the
walton that followed the Quartet
ave beautiful rendition of classic
Mary Had a Little Lamb set to thei
une of 1.-THE Holy City,. Mrs. Her
'ert Davis gave a reading which was
o well received that the audi !
nee demanded another. Mr.. Me-
'arrolI, president of the Chamber of
commerce, after discussing the worL
t Chambers of Commerce in gener-
l. spoke OF his hopes and aspirations !
Or the local Club. Mrs. Fenske
epresented the Business and Pro-
esaonal Womens Club. This was .
by an exhibition butterfly
ance by Vergies Hodge. Hal Adams
Ias then called upon to give a dem
nstration of his powers in directing
Liza Jane, and in loosening up tbe
enumbed joints of the more digui-
led
The closing number of the nro-
ram, and the one that was awarded t
lie prize by common consent. was a V
luslcaI skit entitled, "Cynthia,s t
trategy', in which Frederick Shaw a
an impersonated Mr.. Perry, Cyn- a
mas father; Mrs. I. L. Thurston v
le mother; Mrs. Jack Whalen. Cvn- \
ma; and Mr.. Geo. H. Leger took the h
art Of Stanley Smith Young. who "
liza. G.
After the program a luncheon con- e
sting of sandwiches, pickles. cake d
I'd coffee was served cafeteria il
yle. n
All in all it was a fine meeting Il
mere ought to be more of them.
oRMER PAYETTE GIRL WEEDS n
Rev. and Mrs. Reed of Rodney CT
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