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Show Chamber of Commerce to Make Membersmp Drive Crew of 150 Will Seek to Increase Qub Enrollment ..' v. I c-.'i . , : : ALBERT MERRILL, -Chairman West Divfciion 4 " " 1 r ' 4 II t J i PAUL NEWMYER, , Chairman East Division " J f OSCAR W. CARLSON, General Chairman tlon will be held dally. Mlrhlxan City, Jnd. and Cincinnati, O, already al-ready have launched atrenuoua campaigns to aecure tho next an anal eewesallswi An extensive collection of Civil and Hpaniah war relit will be dia-played dia-played In connection with tha en-cnnpment en-cnnpment here. These rvlloa and documents 'of historic interest Include In-clude a picture of the ffun crew that fired the first shot In the Spanish war. V 1 ' T Oscar W. Carlson to Com-mand Com-mand Workers Who Will Stage Intensive Campaign Cam-paign Starting Next Week With the slogan. "( More This Week." meaning chamber of commerce com-merce mem here signed up during tha week beginning September U4. a crew of let present members who have volunteered fnr eervlco will take the field one week from Monday and wag a continuous and determined fight for increased . membership. I Oreon John Hyde. I'tJh man-' ager of the Mountain Bta'es Tele- I phjone and Telegraph company and j chairman of thechamber'e mem-, bershtp commute, waa acheduled I to conduct thla campaign and ha hail worked out organisation plana; to fir the opening gun Monday morning. But business Interfered. I and Orion John left for the East to be gone several weeka. Thus waa r.eceaattated a delay of one week In the membership drive and elevation of Oerar W. Carlson, from a mere rear rank private to commanding general . of tha chamber'a army. General Carlson ' will hsv for Ms regimental' commandoes, rau! Newmyer and Albert Merrill. thn whom, according to J. H. Rayburn. secretary of the chamber, no bet-tic bet-tic could be aalec'ed. Officially, their reepectlv title Arm: General Gen-eral chairman, chairman "Keel" division and chairman "West" division, di-vision, the dty having been divined di-vined at Main street for purposes of th c'riv. SIX DISTRICT CHAIRMEN. Under Newmyer ther will be ell district chairmen sai follow: li. Lorain Bagiey. north, of r'trst South; N. C. Kill. Klrst t Second Sec-ond South: Klm.er.A- Kicker, Second Sec-ond South to Broadway; J. C. Rebhols. Broadway to Fourth Bouth; B. L. Burgon, south of Fourth South and Nephl J. Has-sen. Has-sen. Sugarhoua. Merrill will hsv five districts chalrmaned by E. S. Holt, north of Flrat South; C. M. Ball. First to Second Bouth. weat lo Second Sec-ond Weal: M. H. N'ldlg. second South to Broadway, west to Second Sec-ond West;-fj. E. Walker, south of I Broadway and E. W. Braby. First Bouth to Broadway, west of Second Sec-ond Weet. PRELIMINARY WORK OONE. ' Thl campaign will be th first ever conducted by th chamber of commerce In which th potential membership have been subject te a concentrated effort prior to th actual solicitation. It I aald. For several weeks, through tha medium me-dium of newspaper advartlaements and pcraoBSj letter from Industrial Indus-trial and civic leadera to a selected se-lected list of 130 namea tha of-flelala of-flelala have been attempting to aall th prospects, th Ideal for which th chamber atanda. Th actual drtv for member come aa a follownp to this preliminary work and thoee familiar with tha plaaa are enrhualaatio over th prospect of quickly building up th chambor's memberehlp to A point never reached before, ll la aald. |