Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-02
BOARD OF TRADE.
Not a Quorum Present at the Annual
Election Of 0fleers-The Meet.
ing Adjourned Until Thurs
day Evening.

For the first time in quite n number
of weeks a meeting of the Board Of
Trade was called, to be held at the
City Hall at z p. III. yesterday. Ash
was the annual election of officers, a
quorum, at least, was looked for, but
at 1880, when vice president Clay
called the meeting Ia order, there
were but a dozen present. The sec
rotary mentioned the fact that the
meeting was called to elect officers
for the ensuing year. Mr.. B. r.
Cau,horn thought it would not be in
accordance with the constitution to
proceed without a larger attendance,
and asked that the law on that SUBJ
ject be read. The secretary explain
ed that the constitution of the Or
~ganization required the presence of
O third of the members, before ordi-
nary business could he transacted.
Mr.. d. +. Shea thought it best to
ignore the law on the subject, and
proceed with an election, as, perhaps,
it would be impossible to get so
many of the Board together again.
If the absent members objected to
this course, then let it be settled be-
fore the Directory. Mr.. d. E. Shea
made a motion, which received a
second from Mr.. A. G. Barnes. The
matter, however, went no further, as
those two gentlemen were the only
ones favoring an election under the
circumstances.
Chairman Clay then made the an
nouncement that no motion other
than one to adjourn would be in or
der. Mr.. j. G. Bassford accordingly
made a motion to adjourn until
Thursday evening, December 2, and
that all of the members present do
their best to bring out q quorum.
Carried.
1t is to be hoped that there will be
a big turn out, as the meeting is an
important one. 1t is.evident that the
Board of Trade should either do
something or disband.
The directors whose term of Office
expires with this election are G. B.
Macfarlane, Lewis Hord, J. f. Lew
ellyn, A. S. Houston, John Buckley.
The directors whose term of office
does not expire for one year are H.
A. Ricketts,, B. r. Cauthorn, L. Phil
lip, D. E. Shea, A. G. Turner.
The other officers are as follows:
President, Ex-Gov. G. H. Hardin.
Secretary, F. II. Mitchell.
LIST vice president, Green Clay.
End vice-president, J. B. Botkin.
Treasurer, Jacob Ruloff
To the Audrain County Christian
Missionary Cooperation.
Dear Brethren in Christ.
MEXICO, No., Dec. 1.-At the last
annual meeting of this cooperation
which was held in Mexico, Septem-
Der 9th to 9Th, 1886, we were elected
as the Executive Committee. We
take this method of reporting to you
what we have done since the Mexico
meeting. During this convention a
committee on future work was cho-
sen, consisting of n member pres
ent from each one of the churches
represented. This committee, after
due consideration, made the follow
ing report which was unanimously
adopted:
"We, your committee, on future
work, suggest LIST, that the executive
committee, consisting of the Presi-
dent, Treasurer and Secretary of the
Audrain county work, take the funds
now on hand, and at once proceed
to employ an efficient evangelist to
be sent among the churches OF Aud
rain county, to stir them up to zeal
GUS labor and to obtain cash and
pledges from individual members for
the further prosecution of this work.
Second. With the money thus rails
ed to employ him to hold protracted
meetings in destitute fields for such
length of time as the amount of
money thus raised will warrant.
Third. That the evangelist appoint
in each congregation a member who
shall be known as collector and So
%iicitor whose duty it shall be to col
lect the money pledged by the midi
vidual members not paid to the
evangelist, raise additional funds,
and send same to the executive CON-
mittee.
Fourth. That after making the
canvass of the churches and raising
pledges, the evangelist make GU,
a report of the same in triplicate,
one copy to be left with the collector
and solicitor, n to be sen to the
executive committee and the other tc
be kept by him for his own USE"
Acting under these instructions
!, we proceeded at once to secure the
!, services of an efficient evangelist and
after two months effort we have EN-
, ployed Bro. j. w. Strawn, formerly
minister of the church at Holden
Mo, who enters at once upon hi: