From the South English Herald – February 21, 1935
Commercial Club Organized
Sixteen businessmen met last Friday night and organized the South English Commercial Club. This club is not for the businessmen alone but for every one who is interested in making South English a better place to trade and a better place to live.
The first action of the club was a telephone call, while the meeting as in session, to Sigourney, with a request to the highway commission to do something about the mud hole folks were getting stuck in as they crossed Highway 22 coming in to town from the north. The next morning highway commission trucks dumped eight truckloads of gravel in the ruts north of the elevator. This gives a straight shoot into town. Action number one for a club not yet organized.
H.W. Raplinger was elected president, Don Buchanan – vice-president, and Paul C. Roberts – secretary-treasurer.
A special road committee consisting of H.W. Raplinger, Norman Walk, Don Buchanan, and W.J. Garrett was named to see what could be done about temporary repairs on the portion of Road 22 that goes through town. Those present at the first meeting were: W.B. Robison, R.P. McLain, Ellis Rickey, Don Buchanan, Fred Beach, Earl Dunn, John Powell, Fred Brock, L.J. Powell, Donald Sigafoose, Clarence Grove, Arden Kirkpatrick, C.H. Claypool, W.J. Garrett, Norman Walk and H.W. Raplinger.
