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20 CHAPTER NEWS SALEM CHAPTER No. 1 This chapter has just finished a suc cessful membership contest resulting in the adding of 64 new members to the roll in a one month whirlwind cam paign. We split into two teams by al phabetical division, the "A” to "L” members winning over the "K” to "Z” team by a score of 42 to 22. The cap- ■ tains, Marjorie Judson and B Floyd Query, respectively, reported much riy-; airy'and Floyd strongly suspects the winners of pirating g his team’s pros pects! The “K” to "Z” members are now obligated to furnish the entertain ment features at the April meeting and we look forward with high expectancy ■ •to an enjoyable program. Since the first of the year, we. have gained over 75 new members and now have a member ship in excess of. 2 JO. Our new ipem- bers are hereby welcomed to our midst, and old and new are urged to partici pate actively in Chapter affairs. A fter'm uch travail, our entertain ment committee under the able.direc- tic-n of Webb Ross mastered enough financial backing to put on an associa tions danCe for all chapters in Salem. The committee is to be congratulated on the well planned and excellently handled affair held at the, V.F.W. hall 'on March 22r All who attended, and they were many, can attest that there was never a dull moment. Excelsior! Your scribe respectfully announces a dearth of personal news items, butt, still hopes that newsy notes of mem bers’ activities will be forthcoming hereafter ^co p io u s quantities. Karl A. Chapter, Weightmaster, is expected back to work soon after a two months’ absence during which he underwent a major operation at the Sa lem General. Frank Mercer, one of the "old tim ers” with the Highway Department has Recently taken a position as accountant with H unt Brothers Packing Company in Salem. John Herb, office building service employee, is back on the job after a couple of weeks of absence due to ill- ness., Our building is becoming spick and span again and we welcome his re turn,. 3g Lowell Shinn, our finance committee chairman, has. returned to work after a ten day trip 'to Minot, N.D., where he , was called by the death of his brother. George Kayser, our financial secre tary and general go-getter, reports oh the phenomenal progress of his son, age about four months. George T says thap although the boy’s vocabulary is still somewhat limited, he speaks quite flu ently (or S i t fluidly?^ George also surmises that another month will see' the prodigy reading well enough to un derstand the headlines as well as/-the rest of us now do. This modern age! ROSEBURG CHAPTER No. 2 " The Roseburg Chapter has adopted a plan of rotating their meeting place., Every other month the meeting will be held in Roseburg, the remaining months^ the meeting will be divided between the north and south end of the limits of the chapter. Theregular meeting in February was held in Drain, the one in March was held in Roseburg and the one in April will be held in Myrtle. Creek. The meetings are held on the second Friday in every month. The meeting in Drain , was very well attended, Drain and Elkton both being very well represented. There was- some lively discussion but everybody left happy after doing justice to the eats that the Drain members had prepared. I George Householder was unable to attend the last meeting due" to the work of a dentist who left George with a very,.sore and swollen jaw.
