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Show TWELVE-STORY HOfiE FOR COPlPiERCISL CLUB, PLAN Of SOME MEMBERS ?'!)fS!)R The Commercial club ha a new slogan. "A home of our own." A petition asking that Immediate steps be taken toward the erection of a structure costing $750,000 was 6lgned by at least fifty members of that ffi body yesterday. . The petition embodies an Idea which has been Ions cherished by the officers and merrbers, and the belief has now come to stay that the club has attained importance and strength to warrant so worthy a dwelling place. ... The petition, which Is now open to signatures,. will be presented to the. board of governors who will take office during the coming month. v The plan la to secure a location near the Federal building and erect S thereon a modern office building of ten or twelve stories, subdivide the two upper floors for the exclusive use of the club and Its members. To raise the money necessary outside of what the members them- selves would subscribe would be either to negotiate a loan In bulk for the sum or to float bonds, as the Masons have done In the . erection of their, new temple. 5)S)(S'i)S)S))i)(!)!)ffi) |