Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-20
IMMI.4R RATION.
Reports Of Meetings. Held TO Advance
the Movement so Bring Seiile-
msnt into the State.
Resolutions Adopted by the Citizens Of
Granbury and Hood COunty-Importsnt
Gathering at BaIIirssr
Hood County Organiz.s.

| Correspondence Of the Gazette.
| GRANBURY, Ten, Jan. 14-Pursusnt to
cali, meeting OF citizens OF GranOury
| end Hood c0uGty was held st the court
! house lsst Tuesdsy nigh, TO discuss the
gu Ct OF immigration and dey,se wsy.
| ana means 10 advertise the advantages {
! Hood county. john 2. Estes sas elecle-.
| chairman, sd Flank CASTOR secretary.
+ D. Wear introduced the 70 lowing
| resolution, Waic5, sitter 4 discussion pro
snd con, IVES adopted:
Resolved, l. That the chair sppoint :
committee OF five on immigration N.eT3-
ture and statistics for Hood county.
| 2. Thai II shall be the dug OF said COM
mittee 10 write N the county, sho aiDg
! its advantages and inducements to i'm
| migrants.
| 3 Tlst said committee shall have pho
| tograghs taken of several objects Of IL
! tereSt in the county, ard have wood cuts
! carved thereirGm, aud shall have Ell of
/ said literature and wood cuts published
10 pamphlet form, by lelicg the same to
! the lowest bidder.
| 4. That when Sll Work ordered to be
! done by said committee is satisfactory TO
! them, they shall audit the bills therefor,
and said bills SO audited shall be paid by
/ the Chairman of the fia&uCe committee,
! VINO SHALL IaSe receipt therefor and file
the same for his own reports,
s. That said com mittee keep an &C
count of ali expenses incurred by them,
and report the same TO this immigration
association whenever call is made for s
meeting by tie chairman thereof.
The following gentlemen were sp-
pointed as committee on immigration
and literature:
r D. Wear, J. D. Ballard, r. Clark and
". j. Moore.
MIR. Wear &iso offered the following,
winch WAS adopted:
Be il resolved by the citizens Of Hood
county aGd Gran9uIy in convention as
srmbled:
l. That the chair appoint committee
OF five On f3ance.
2. That It shall be the duty of said
committee to select it's own chaiImau
.. That said committee shAll collect
any sum By private donations, not to tx
coed 5000, shat may be needed by the
immigration committee in properly i'd
vertising Hood county.
That the chairman oi said commit
tee be authorized 20 hOEcr 81 drafts
drawn upca him 6y the chairman Of the
committee or immigration, literature,
| when propcrly iEdorsed ead Gpdioe0 Dy
! the SAID last nsmsd chairman.
! so. That said cAsirmsn OF said finance
committee be authorized 10 take receipt
Of sll monies paid out by him, ana report
the same 10 this association at Its regular
meeting. .
The following gentlemen were then ap-
| pointed as finance committee:
Major Formwalt. Sam Smith, E. A.
HarnGford, IN Farr and ID. G. Cogdell.
! Mr.. J. d. Ballard moved the appoint
ment of Il canvsssing committee, COM
posed of men from different S, ctions of
| the county, the amounts raised by them
to be turned over to the finance commit
tee. Adopted ard the following appoint
| ed:
Jess. Baker, r P De Graf nied. CAL
away Landers, l. j Carawag, J A. Ali
son, Captzin Num-, W. S. E bridge, Z I.
WOODBURY., j. G. Mason, W. ". Msx-
well, d. L Mutt, Jesse Kutt, j I. Sair-
ley, DR.. Cameron, Frank Helsley, f. Nj
Poveler, Cspssin Freeman, W. L. McGau-
gtey, NJ Skipper, W. B. Glenn, j d.
| Baker, John Fl. Allen, d. G. Bills, J r.
Boyd, E. C. Snow, R C.. Milliken, George
Ian ers. Arch Carmichael, S J. Thrsah,
a, ?. Green, J Ii. Hjuer, John NJ. VII
llams, J. d. Brown.
| Mr.. Wear introduced the following,
which wss adopted:
| Resolved, that u ia association be known
as the Hood County Immigration Society,
and that it meet once 4 week for the next
| three months.
3 That auy question of genera, Interest
may be taken up and discussed il the
said meetings, pro and con.
8. That these meetings be held on
! Thursday night Of each week.
John P. Estes wSs elected perma1ent
chairman &nd ]. d. Ballard permanent
secretary Of TIE Society.
The permanent secretary Tas instructed
to draw up psper defining conditions 81
membership; those VINO contribute to-
ward the object OF the society only to be
pembers.
/ Captain Fsrr moved that the bridge
question De discussed ar next meeting
Adopted Also that Captain B. B. Pad
dock be invited to attend and address the
next meeting. The ladies' ere Invited to
attend.
The Fort Worth GAZETTE and Hood
county papers were requested 10 publish
these proceedings.
Adjourned until next regular meeting
JOHN P. ESTES, Chairman.
FRANK CASTOR, Secretary.