“100 Attend Joint Meeting at Club” from the September 3, 1926 Door County Advocate
100 ATTEND JOINT MEETING AT CLUB
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Hear Reilly Speak Work of Land O’ Lakes, Inc.
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More than 100 persons attended the annual joint meeting of the Door County Chamber of Commerce and the Sturgeon Bay Woman’s club at the Door County country club Tuesday evening and enjoyed the program of short talks on problems of community and county betterment.
P. H. Reilly, field secretary of the Wisconsin Land O’ Lakes, Inc., was present as the principal speaker of the evening on the subject of continuing the program of selling Wisconsin as a premier resort state, and outlined the plans of his organization, pointing out that in spite of the name, the aim has been from the start to advertise all of Wisconsin and not any one section. The greatest work of the organization this year, he said, was the establishment of an office in Chicago to route tourist trade into Wisconsin.
Mr. Reilly, accompanied by his wife, announced that he would tour the county Wednesday to confer with resort owners on the plan of increasing the tourist business in 1927.
Resent Convict Labor
As the result of a petition from Ephraim and Fish Creek residents resenting the presence of convicts as laborers this summer at the Peninsula State park, Atty. H. M. Ferguson, R. E. Balliette, and Mrs. William Kinnaird were appointed by President H. E. Stedman to draw up a resolution to that effect and send it to Governor Blaine. The resolution, which is as follows, was signed by everyone present:
Whereas, the presence of inmates of state penal institutions in the Peninsula State Park is a menace to the tourist business in Door county, and
Whereas, the presence of such inmates is distasteful and distressing to Door county residents, and
Whereas, the Peninsula State Park was not purchased or developed as a prison camp or as an institution for the reformation of criminals;
Be It Therefore Resolved, that the Chamber of Commerce of Door county, Wisconsin, and the Woman’s club of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, jointly assembled do hereby petition the governor of the state of Wisconsin that he definitely and immediately put a stop to all efforts to locate inmates of Wisconsin penal institutions in the Peninsula State park permanently or temporarily.
“What We Can Do—”
“What We Can Do Industrially or Otherwise for Sturgeon Bay” was discussed by Atty. W. E. Wagener from the standpoint of the Chamber of Commerce and by Mrs. Roy Brooks from the standpoint of the Woman’s club. The former cited that local citizens would have to interest themselves in Sturgeon Bay before interesting outsiders, while the latter expressed as outstanding the buying of home products. Mrs. Brooks was of the opinion that if the number employed by the fruit men in Sturgeon Bay were checked up, it would be found that big industry is not lacking in Door county.
Atty. T. A. Sanderson, called upon to impress the audience with the value of the Door county folder, quoted many letters lauding the enterprise. He also cited the value of representing Door county at the Outdoor Life exposition which is held annually at Chicago.
Talk of Flower Show
The matter of having a flower show in Sturgeon Bay each fall was presented and requests for volunteer information on the management of such a show were asked to be brought to the Chamber of Commerce office. If found popular, show will be put on here this year.
Just previous to the words of greeting to the gathering by President Stedman, Mrs. Ruth Albert sang two solos. At the close. Miss Irene Thorpe also presented two solos.
Courtesy of the Door County Library Newspaper Archive
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