The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-18
BUSINESS MEN HEAR REPORTS Semi Annual Meeting of Commercial Club. ELECTS NEW DIRECTORS Encouraging Outlook for Montgom-
 ery's Progress. Furniture Factory and Knitting Min Are Industries That Are In Prospect--Increasins Trade
 In Cotton.
 

crease Tn enthusiasm was noticeable Of manifest interest to the organi- zation was the report of the promotion ] and publicity committee on the prog ress of Montgomery's 1910 movement showing that every effort Is making to advertise Montgomery.
 Prospects of securing & furniture factory. employing about fifty men. was contained in report made by the manufacturing committee, and a proposition for the location of knit ting mill in Montgomery was pre- sented to the Club py tho chairman oi the committee The committee has hopes of getting both enterprises for
 A report Of importance was that sub mitted by the committee on agricul- fure and cotton. giving a review of Montgomerys cotton trade and agri- At last nights meeting four direc- tors were elected for the ensuing term. They are Fred s. Ball, John T. Walk The meeting was attended by Mont gomery's most representative and most earnest workers in behalf of the ad- vancement of the city.
 In calling the meeting of the Com mercial Club to order at s:s0 o'clock, President 4 e. Forbes said 1t was pleasure for him to say thas the netting was the first semi anual session of the club since it's re- organization.
 
 ing were read and approved. ana the club was then ready to receive reports from the various committees. AErteultnre and Cotton Trade. Frank D. Kohn. chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and Cotton Trade, read an interesting report of the prosperity of Montgomery's cotton trade. Up to July l. cotton receipts for the season of 1s06-os were 166.U00 bales. with stock on hand of 11.000 bales. These figures. he said. were 2s.000 less than the receipts for the same period of last year. but still they were most gratitying as an analysis of the statistics showed that Montgomery this year. has received more cotton in proportion to the total yield. than was received last year
 Montgomery's superiority as a cotton market. he said. are the increasing facilities for handling cotton. the high character of the cotton factors in Montgomery, and the fact that large lots of cotton bring a higher price in Montgomery than in surrounding mar kets
 Tn discussing the development oe cotton facilities in Montgomery. Mir, Kohn cited the modern. bonded ware. house now being erected and the faet in the world are represented In Mont gomery. In his report, he referred to the building In Montgomery or 0ne os the largest eomprssses in aan the cs s0uan; ,nn;
  and encouragement of agricultural in- terests, Mr. Kohni reported that one or the greatest things during the year has been the organization of the Ala. Montgomery, the first State Fair of which will be held in October. Hs predicted that the Fair will De the greatest ever held in this section oe the country.
 The report said 1t is fact that all stable agricultural products of fhe United States can be grown With profit in Montgomery county. It cited instances of success in gat graawitng ts st- tenslve improvements were shown Tn trucking and fruit growing.
 "The value of all Montgomery Coun- ty farms" said the report Tn cssS conciusS materially. The comforts and con yeniences of farm life in this county are continually increasing. The iarms of the county are being immpr.oyree mp.srss en no stretch of imagination to state that the development and improvement or farms and farm life have made Mont gomsry County the banner county or
 The report of Mir. Kohn, by unani- nous consent, was received and filed,
 Next was heard an exhaustive reponss as the committee on banking and trace statistics. This statement was pro nounced the most thorough of It's kind presented to the Cino .rsd m recent yvat yvate of thanks. It Is published elsewnere in The Advertiser
 Tn behalf of the entertainment com, nfttee Dr. F. C. Stevenson reported briefly the work of the committee dur ing the past six months Tbe club, he said, had had the pleasure or en, tertaining two bodies. the Rivers and tha Sonthern Newspaper Publishers Association.
 The chairman of the committee on insurance and taxation was absent but Secretary L. L. Gilbert, on oenaM of the committee. submitted a report that ranked among the most impor- mainly with the efforts of the Asso- ciation to secure the much -longed-for reduction in fire insurance rates TOT fr0m rhs the reSort was re ferred back to the committee on ln- surance and taxation.
 The chances of Montgomery to se- cure furniture factory and a knitting mill came before the meeting in report made to the meeting by John w Tullis, Jr., chairman of the com mittee on manufacturing He said the committee and that man was in Montgomery two or three days, appearing before the committee with view to locating lhSEOtF here. The factory would manufacture a medium grade of furniture and would employ about fifty men. Since the man left he had written the committee that he would let 1t know regarding the location as soon as another matter he had in hand was decided The committee was hopeful of securing the factory.
 There was a propositioon for the To- cation of a knitting mill in Montgom- cry said MT Tullis but certain amount of local subscribed capital was wanted and the committee could say nothing definite about the mill as yet
 MT Tullis noted the fact that Mont gomery Is 10 have a paper mill for the manufacture of paper from cotton stalks He said that the matter of sites fer manufacturing enterprises had been considered by the committee and it found if the location of such en- terprlses depended on this, it would take much trouble to get them here.
 w. NJ Cox, chairman of the mem bership committee, reported an addi- tion of ffty-one new members and the of five members during the past six months, and with co-op- eration of the club. he hoped to in- crease the figures to 100 during the year. -
 In the absence of George W. Jones' chairman. Frank P. Chaffee was call ed upon to report in behalf of the pub iicitv and promotion committee. He said he regretted the chairman was absent on a sad errand. the funeral of his mother