The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1905-01-28
BOARD OF TRADE MEETING

/ The Ocala board of trade held the
most unanimously cooperative meet
ing last night that ever convened in the
council chamber. The secretary had a
rousing fire, warmth glowed all around.
and the ideas in the minds of those
present crystalized and seemed to TO-
Gus intellectually as one period. An
other remarkable fact was that every
man present was on time promptly at
s o'clock, as they should be.
Mr.. Chambliss. banker. pioneer
grower of thoroughbred stock, and an
all round man of business ideas and
business doings, said: Mr.. Chairman.
we are here for business. to take pre-
liminary steps to get up a county fair
for Marion. and / move the chair ap-
point a committee of three to take the
first steps"
Jake Brown of Teapot fame and Tea
pot methods, fair and square and une-
quivocal. seconded the same, and it
was done.
President Ford then named Mr..
Chambliss to represent the financial
and general business interests Of the
town and county; c. l.. Bittinger, to see
the Ocala board of trade did their duty,
and d. s. Williams, to see the fair as
sociatiOn was duly kept in the process
sion of this commendable and educa-
tional work. This committee will meet
Monday night in theh consulting room
of Munroe & Chambliss' bank.
/ Business over. there followed a
splendid interchange of ideas on how
the citizens of Ocala should act in re-
gard to carrying out the provisions Of
the bond ordinance just passed. and
ter. co-operated with by the city coun-
Gil: that all its features should be so
served by the citizens of Ocala that the
city business should receive a part of
their interest as their own business.
for who foots the bills but the tax pay
err? And if there are unworthy officials,
with graftings, frauds and stealings,
who is responsible? Let every honest,
true and candid man put this in his
pipe and smoke it, and as the fumes
arise and touch his gray matter. say he
is one of such, or the other fellow.
Some one has asked: Now you have
the bonds. won't the money received
for them be stolen, like the sinking
funds which were laid aside for city
bonds a dozen years ago." Admitting
the last named fact, the reply was that
you who made the fippant assertion
are as culpable almost as the men who
manipulated the disappearance of that
money. This is said lest we forget our
duty as citizens. To pay taxes prompt
ly, cheerfully, is a cOmmendable thing,
but to see that those taxes are prop
erly and honorably applied and expend-
ed is a great deal more commendable
act. As you guard your private bus
mess with an eye of lynx, desiring
to make a success Of it, so part of your
attention is on your city, which is a
part of you.
1t was the unanimous opinion that
doing and didn't put stop to it should
be kicked from Sheol to Beersheba.
An interesting talk followed on hold
/ ing a state fair and what constituted
the essentials of success namely, mon
! ey populations and means to take good
care of the crowd.
Next Jake Brown sprang the propo-
sitiOn of an Ocala newspaper trust, a
consolidation of the Star and the Ban
! ner. and the people of the town own
! the stock and give the Brick City and
Marion county the best and away in
advance of any other community in the
state. in the shape of a newspaper.
of consideration. He believed in the
best and the best was none too good.
The best always declared dividends.
Next came the question of promoting
q home market for the products grown
by our county farmers. This led Mr..
Ford to remark that he had been Sc
riously thinking of this matter in con-
nection with the late cotton conven-
tions. where warehouses could be built,
growers store their crops. get a fair adj
vance on the same at a reasonable in
terest. and enable them to make an
other crop. until a favorable market
price would give them a sale Of their
cotton crops. He said it has been DEM
onstrated that as good. if not better.
; hay can. and has been grown in Marion
: county than was ever imported. To
/ meet this growing demand a warehouse
was needed to store this hay, on which
t our farmers could get advances and
: meet the requirements Of making a
: new crop. This work had to be sys-