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Show WILL GO AFTER iGjiraTii Commercial Clnh Pledges Support Sup-port to Modern Woodmen of America. CITY WILL HAVK TO RAISE .$50,000 TO StfCURU IT At Last Triennial Convention 200,000 Persons Were Attracted At-tracted to Milwaukee. At the meeting of iho board of governors gov-ernors of I he Commercial club Tuesday afternoon, first stops wero taken by the club for securing the nexL triennial convention of tho Modern 'Woodmen of America, which it is hoped will bo held in Salt Lake during the summer j of the year Hi 11. A delegation of six members waited upon the board of governors gov-ernors and requested tho support of the club. It was pointed out that at the last convent ion held threo years ago in Milwaukeo there were 200,000 visitors to that city. There were pres- ent 5000 members of the uniform rank of tho order in a parade. Jt was stated that there are over one million members of the order in tho United States. The conventions are held every three years oh account of the great expense attending them. Each convention, it is said, costs the mem-burs mem-burs of the order .OO.OOO, in addition to tho amount of money which is contributed con-tributed bv tho city where the convention conven-tion is held. It will be necessary for Salt Lake to contribute $50,000 to secure se-cure the convention. The convention this year is to be held in Peoria, 111., .lune Jb- where it i ij known '.ha. '.liu 5'0 :uml er of the Woodmen will go into camp, after tho manner of military organizations. As Peoria, according to the last census, is but two or three thousand larger in population than Salt Lake City, it is thought that this city will have little difficulty in caring for the convention. Tho board of governors of the Commercial Com-mercial club accordingly pledged the support of the club in the enterprise and the delegates from this section' of the country to tho convention in Peoria will be instructed by the members of tho order to cast their votes for Salt Lake for the convention of 1911. The matter will be in tho hands of A. D. McGuire. delegate for all of the lodges in the vicinity, to the convention at Peoria. |