Information Sheet

 

 

R         Missouri Ozarks Chamber of Commerce.

1196                Certificate, 1929.

                                    One folder.

 

 

 

This is a “Certificate of Investment” in the Missouri Ozarks Chamber of Commerce dated 5 April 1929 for J. M. Cape of Steelville in Crawford County, Missouri.  It constitutes a three-year pledge to support the Chamber at two dollars per year.  Officers named on the certificate are F. H. Wielandy (Campaign Chairman), Claude Bass (Solicitor), and E. K. Ponder (Treasurer).

 

The Missouri Ozarks Chamber of Commerce was organized to promote “The Big Springs Country of the Ozarks,” and was based in St. Louis.  The President was Paul P. Hinchey of De Soto and the Secretary was Albert D. Sheppard of Doniphan.  Lon Sanders was Chairman of the Organizing Committee.  The Chamber had undertaken a “$150,000 Advertising Campaign,” to be raised in part through pledges from individual donors.

 

 

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