[Newspaper]
Publication: The Muncie Daily Herald
Muncie, IN, United States
THE OPENING TONIGHT
Opening of Commercial Club
Will be an Auspicious
Affair.
ELEGANT NEW HOME
For the Club Will be Admired by Many
— Big List Comprising Officials and
Other Hosts — Interesting Program
Which Will no Doubt Please All
Present.
The elegant new home of the Commercial Club will be formally opened tonight by a reception and entertainment arranged especially for the occasion. The members of the club will be the hosts tonight, after which they will proceed to business after the original fashion which has characterized this club as one of the most influential, successful, and progressive in the state of Indiana.
The new home which is to be opened tonight, is but one of many achievements of the body of representative men who are piloting the municipal matters pertaining to the advancement and preservation of the interests of the city of Muncie. The club is preparing to take up the business at once and the near future promises to record much development in the way of additional industries and improvements.
The event tonight will be the first of the kind that the club has ever afforded, an entertainment in a home of its own. The reception will be from 8 to 9:30 p.m. The program which will be begun at 9:30, will continue until 11 o'clock. The officers of the club are, George A. Ball, president; J. B. Long, 1st Vice President; H. O. R. Wall, 2nd Vice President; F. D. Haimbaugh, Secretary; Hardin Roads, Treasurer.
Board of Directors — Fred Klopfer, L. Herrmann, A. W. Brady, L. W. Cates, C. M. Kimbrough, F. C. Ball, J. C. Johnson, Robert Scott, J. R. Long.
The Entertainment Committee is as follows: L. A. Clark, O. W. Baldwin, E. W. Kelley, W. E. Hitchcock, V. E. Silverburg, assisted by Mesdames W. C. Ball, Eugena Kelley, C. M. Kimbrough, H. J. Keller, Burt Whitely, J. J. Hartley, James Bingham, C. M. Carter, C. L. Bender, H. H. Highlands, M. L. Hageman, C. W. Sherritt; Misses Rena Harris, Reba Richie, Grace Johnson, Esther Notting, Mayme Johnson, Clara Gill, and Llewellyn Hemingray.
The official program follows:
"Moonries" (Pache) — Apollo Club.
Reading — Harry Porter.
(a) "Sweet Heart" (Prentiss), (b) "Forsaken" (Koschat) — Apollo Club.
Reading — Harry Porter.
Tenor Solo, "Bid Me to Live" (Hatton) — Orville Harrold.
Reading — Harry Porter.
Baritone Solo, "Blacksmith's Hammer" (Thomas) — L. H. Colvin.
Reading — Harry Porter.
"Tis Ended" (Pache) — Apollo Club.