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Progress Club
March 22, 1899
Fort Smith News Record
April 21, 1899
Fort Smith News Record
December 30, 1906
Fort Smith News Record
October 4, 1911
Southwest American
May 10, 1912
Southwest American
May 15, 1938
Southwest American
from Justin Farnsworth
During World War II the USO had gatherings there for soldiers on the second floor right / north side.
My father led singing there several times.
from Robert Jerrell
One Progress Club was upstairs in a building, across the from Shipley's Bakery on South 6th St. Red Box was running it, when it burned .
from Donna Sue Harman
Isaac Cohn was one of the first Jewish settlers in Fort Smith and opened the door for Jewish organization. The progress club was
a Jewish social group. When George Tilles became president, he urged the construction of a building for this group. It was built
in 1912 at a cost of $45,000. I found it on Encyclopedia of Arkansas. The Cohn and Tilles stories are amazing in that they were
so instrumental in the expansion of Fort Smith.
from Jim Spears
Now a parking lot between A&B on north 6th street.
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