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The test: did 1907-era Walkerton hold a downtown social or athletic club of the Commercial Club or Round Table class — the businessmen's club, with rooms, a roster, and a noon table? Run against Howard (1907) whole and the town paper record reached, no such body is named: no Commercial Club, no Round Table, no athletic club with downtown rooms appears for this town in the census year or the register era that follows it. What the era shows instead is the ad hocRoss, J. Edward Place and their fellows) acted as a committee of the town without incorporating as a club — and, three-quarters of a century later, the Chamber of Commerce, whose register line (ruled January 1981) is the first businessmen's organization the record seats here. The booster function lived in the lodges and the paper, not in a club of its own.
The census-year roster, gathered: for 1907 the town's whole organized social roster is the census article's three bodies — Masons No. 619 (B. E. Williams; William A. Endley), Castle Hall Knights of Pythias No. 263 (Williams, through all the chairs; Endley, treasurer), and the Jesse Coppie Post, G.A.R. — with the Odd Fellows' hall standing over Bender's store from the earlier generation. A roster of four rooms and a handful of named men: that is the downtown of the census year, printed at its true size, and the Commercial Club class is a tested absence inside it.
Sources: Howard (1907), vol.