Payette County ID Archives News.....Payette To Have Commercial Club September 2, 1904
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Payette Independent September 2, 1904
Payette Independent
Payette, Idaho
Friday, September 2, 1904

PAYETTE TO HAVE COMMERCIAL CLUB

Preliminary Steps Toward Forming Such an Organization Are Taken at a Meeting 
Monday Night Where Great Interest Is Evinced—Indications Point to a Big Success 
for the Movement.

Payette is soon to have a commercial club and that it is to be a thoroughly 
efficient one there seem to be no question, judging from the determined manner 
in which its promoters are going ahead with the matter.

The first steps toward forming the club were taken Monday evening at a meeting 
held in the city hall and have since been carried on by a committee appointed 
at the meeting with directions to formulate plans for the new organization and 
to acquaint all citizens with the nature of the movement and invite their 
hearty cooperation.  The plans outlined by this committee are to be presented 
at another meeting to be held Monday night in the opera house for the approval 
of all who become members of the club.  At that time it is hoped to have a 
large representation of all commercial interests of the Lower Payette Valley 
and it is confidently expected that there will be, as the committee is composed 
of men who are known to be thoroughly active in any work they undertake, while 
they will be aided in their efforts to bring the advantages of a commercial 
club directly before the people by others who are heartily in sympathy with the 
movement.

At the meeting Monday night there was not a large attendance, as it had been 
gotten up on very short notice by workers in the movement who had not been able 
to give general notice, but a large percentage of the business interests of the 
community were nevertheless represented and it was deemed proper to go ahead 
with the preliminary steps.  All present, however, upon a discussion, were 
found to be of the opinion that no permanent organization of any kind should be 
formed until the matter could be laid before all those likely to be interested 
and a meeting held at which they could have an opportunity to be present.  
Acting upon this sentiment, a motion was then carried unanimously that B. P. 
Shawhan and C. E. Brainard, who had been selected as chairman and secretary 
respectively of the meeting, should continue to act in their respective 
capacities until such time as a permanent organization could be properly 
effected.  In line with this same idea, the chair was empowered to appoint a 
committee of five whose duties it should be, as stated above, to formulate 
plans for the approval of the next meeting and to go among the people of the 
community, personally  acquainting them so far as possible with the plans and 
advantages of such a commercial club as it is intended shall be formed, while 
it was taken as a matter of course that the newspapers of the city, as well as 
those interested in the movement but not on the committee, would put forth 
their best efforts to make the matter plain to all and to see to it that a 
general invitation was extended.  The committee appointed was as follows:  P. 
A. Devers, M. F. Albert, W. L. Ryder, L. V. Patch and E. C. Keith.

All present expressed themselves as being especially favorable to the plan of 
having the organization cover not only the city itself but the entire Lower 
Payette Valley as well, to the end that all our farmers and fruit-growers shall 
have all the benefits, and it was declared to be the sentiment of the meeting 
that they should be especially invited to become members of the commercial club 
and take an active part in its work.

There was considerable discussion at the meeting of the plan upon which the 
club should work and be made to benefit the community, but it was carried on 
only with the purpose of advancing some ideas which might prove of benefit to 
the committee in preparing its report for the meeting Monday night, when it is 
hoped and believe that all will have become so thoroughly convinced of the 
wisdom of having an organization whereby the needs of the community can be 
effectively looked after by united efforts, our splendid resources advertised 
from a central head to immense advantage, and all of the other benefits of 
cooperation, that they will evince their approval of it by participating in the 
work of running the club and lending it every encouragement within their power. 


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