The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-11-17
Board of Trade.

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The Board of Trade met in the
Buckeye Club Rooms City Building
Monday. evening. y lt
This was the first meeting of the
Board since the election of officers
and but little business was transact
ed.
The secretary has been authorized
to correspond with the secretary of
the Columbus Board of Trade to se-
cure, IL possible, a member of that
body to come to Logan to address
the local Board. Logan and Logan
people never were overly enthusiasts
tic in the progress or advancement
of the city and the small attendance
ano still smaller membership of the
Logan Board of Trade and the lack
of enthusiasm manifested in one of
the most important organizations a
town or city can have, bears us out
in the assertion, we recently made,
that for want of hearty co-opera-
tion of our representative citizens
and business men the Logan Board
of Trade will not be success. tas
The objects of the Board are land-
able, legitimate and honorable, and
when we see that hearty cooperation
existing among our people and all
working in harmony for a common
end, the advancement and welfare
of our little city, none will be more
prompt to respond or come to the
front than the OHIO DEMOCRAT.
Some may say we are trying to
throw cold water on the project; not
SO, we are simply expressing the
status of the peoples minds on this
all important branch of the towns
commercial progress. When we see
a genuine move in the right direction
and can be convinced by the united
and concerted action of our people,
then we will retract, and wishing
them God-speed, do all in our power
to further the interests of the Board
along. ,Da
The above is not only we'll defined
pen picture of ours alone but of many
Others as well. There are none of us
but what will have to admit that
progress and advancement in Logan
in the past several years has been on
drag, not because of lack of oppor-
tunity to advance but because of that
lack of concerted and united action.
Opportunities have come and gone
while our sensibilities lay dormant
and the avidity for which the in
ventive Yankee which is in us failed
to grasp the golden opportunity
when fortune smiled ON US while
knocking at onr doors for admission.
A couple of years ago we had an
opportunity of bettering our condi-
tion when the question of municipal
ownership of natural gas was brought
up. 1t was one of those golden op-
portunities which come to us only
once in life time. 1t was a fatal
mistake on the part of our conserva-
tive element who for once overdid
themselves in conservatism and in
consequence hundred thousand
dollars has been taken out of Logan
from this one source alone when the
city could as we'll have had it in the
treasury, to pay off our Indebtedness,
pave our streets ana still have
enough left for nucleus to induce
capital to locate here. There are
other opportunities which we have
let slip through our fingers Just as
profitable to the community, which
space will not permit us to mention,
and the citizens are partly to blame
themselves, because instead of
thinking and acting for themselves,
they, In the past, have allowed others
to do,their thinking for them. Let
us cast off this lethargy into which
we have fallen and be up and
doing. Assist the Board in their un-
selfish undertaking by becoming
members and taking an active part
in the meetings and in the not dis
tant future we will be able to say.
that we live in the Queen City of the
valley not only in name but of fame
as well.
The hustling qualities of her citi-
zens and the active working power
of our live Board of Trade will then
be an incinctive to capital to locate
here. s.f.
The gentlemen who have brought
the new Board into life are certainly
to be commended.
The new Board is built on liberal
lines, aud If proper interest is
we can see on the distant
horizon the dawn of a new era, acity
where now stands town, the smoke
from numerous Industries and hear
the noisy but welcome hum of ma
chinery. ~
Logan has such future as we
picture here and none can weld a
mightier power towards the welfare
'f the townthan hustling Board of
rrade. A Board of Trade with the
support and good will of the citizens
u the town to back 1t can do much
owards getting better railroad facili-
les lowering insurance and tax rates.
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