The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1906-06-08
BUSINESS

The Aberdeen Business League met
AT the mayors office Tuesday night
and elected officers for the ensuing
year, a. follows:
III. III. Scrape, president; Abe Ru-
bel, vice-president; j.. X. Young,
secretary; Neil McCaskill, treasurer,
and Z. III. Welch, II. s. Cunningham,
j. l.. Shell, w. L.. Watkins, j.. &.
Wicks, +. ID. Carter, w. G.. Peugh,
j. u. Thompson and Harry Payne,
directors.
Secretary j. X. Young then sub
mitteed his report.
The report cited efforts of the
League To locate various industries
in the town, among which was "A rug
factory, "A rubber tire factory, a min
eral plant factory, "A soap factory, a
lath factory, "A fertilizer plant, "A We
neer plant, an overall factory, a sew
er plant, a skewer factory, a paper
mill, a ladder plant, a furniture facto-
ry and an oil mill.
out Of these the furniture factory
was secured and the oil mill is a rea-
sonable certainty.
Among other matters the League
has been active in attempts to secure
improvement of the Tombigbee river,
and in having the Aberdeen and Can
ton branch of the L. T.. railroad ex-
tended to Sheffield, Alabama, and
subsequently, on to Nashville. A par
~ of railroad engineers has just gone
over the proposed line with a League
committee and prospect for the ex-
tension, at an early day, is promising.
The League is also uniting its eff
forts with the city administration to
secur lower insurance rates for Alb
erdeen.
In closing his report Sec'y Young
says:
I'VE feel that the League has just
begun its work and that the organi-
zation should be perpetuated. No
town can take up a proposition I'M
less IL has IN organized head. | had
several to write me hat they did not
consider any town as a fit place in
which to locate hat has no CONNER
cial body to look after enterprises. A
town without a League is regarded as
dead. We have money to the credit
of the League on hand and suggest
that collections still be made each
month. | would advise hat one half
of the assessment be collected from
each member. We have the most
solid town in the State and our peo-
pl9 should be urged to support the
League in its work of building up the
city. This report is not what | had
hoped, but feel hat is all that could
be done. | have had valuable assis-
trnce and advice from Mr.. Scrape
who has labored with me to accom-
plish that for which the League was
organized
Following is the Financial state
ment of receipts and Disbursements:
Total amount collected to
date ~l,3Il Do
Expenditure
Hack hire and entertainment
OF visitors : % 80
Option ON furniture factory
lot , 90
Expenses of Messrs. Lam and
Tubb to New Albany ...... q 20
III. III. Scrape, expenses to
New Albany to close deal
for furniture factory ...... q 10
III. III. Scrape, two trips to
Memphis to secure lot of
land from III. Humphries.. 10 90
DIR. Sykes, expense to New
Orleans To see |. 4. officials
also expenses of himself and
Mr.. Tubb on same mission
to Memphis. - 60
kilograms and tel. messages II IS
Salaries Sec'y and Treas. $50 %
Printing and stationery. 81 10
Postage 43 So
Advertising 40 10
Membership State League. 5 On
Expense l.. G.. trip .......... Ill II
Oil proposition hack hire IL 90
Total $75S 81
ash in bank 6l3 23
$1,371 55