The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1906-06-08
BOARD'SSCOPE
IS ENLARGED
Fort Pierce and St. LuCie County
is now its Territory.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS
Several New Members Enrolled Fourth
OF July Celebration TO be Directed
by the Board OF Trade.

The board Of trade was called to order
on Friday. June /, by President G.. II.
McCarty. Those present were j. s.
Geiger, Dr.. w. +. VanLandingham,
w. j. Nesbitt, Lee Fabcr, q. f.. Dut-
ton, j. f. Fultz, G. S. Tucker, Otis r.
Parker, A. G. Dittmar, II. G. Bronson,
w. r. Hardee, M. F. Goldsmith, w. f.
Tylander and +. L. Hemmings.
The minutes of the meeting of April
26 We're read and approved.
On motion of II. G. Bronson, the
following were unanimously elected to
membership: A. X. Wilson, &. Il.
Dutton, DR.. w. +. VanLandingham,
Otis r. Parker, w. X. Hardee, DR.. j.
H. Lloyd, Ed Edge.
M. F. Goldsmith made the report of
the committee for the purpose Of solic-
iting subscriptions for the relief of the
San Francisco sufferers. The report
| showed that Sl28.35 had been raised by
subscription, including the $25 appro-
priated by the board of trade, and
turned over to the secretary. The sec
rotary stated that the full amount had
been forwarded in the form of New
York draft to Hon. j. II. Phelan, chair
man of the relief committee, San Fran
cisco, Cal.
A complete draft of the constitution,
which had been adopted by sections
with many amendments at former
meeting, was then submitted to the
board for final adoption. AS the con-
stitution was being read several amend
ments were adopted.
In sections 2, 3 and 4, wherein the
boundaries, membership territory and
scope of business was limited to Fort
Pierce and vicinity within radius Of
fifteen miles, was amended so AS to in
clude the whole of st. Lucie county.
The initiation fee of $500 was made
to include dues for the current year,
and the dues were reduced from 70
cents per quarter to $l.OO per year.
Section of the bylaws, calling for
regular meetings of the board, was
amended to read as follows: Meetings
of the board of trade shall be held at
the call of the president, or by the see
rotary at the request of any three
members of the board Of governors. "
On motion, the constitution and by
laws as amended were then adopted as
Il whole.
On motion of H. G.. Bronson, the fol-
lowing resolution was adopted: That
the dues of the members on the rolls
ON July /, 1905, be RENTED to that date
and that dues be collected at the rate
of 81. 90 per year from that date.
The president stated that it was now
in order to take up the question as to
whether or not there should be a Fourth
Of July celebration this year.
w, j. Nesbitt moved that there should
be celebration and that the board Of
trade make the arrangements. The
motion was carried.
The character of the celebration was
discussed informally by the members,
and in another column will be found the
result of the discussion.
The annual election of officers then
occurred and the following We're unani-
mously elected:
President, c. Il. McCarty.
First vce-presdent, j, E. Andrews.
Second vice president, +. II, Fee.
Secretary, +. l.. Hcmmings.
Treasurer, H. &. Bronson,
Board of Governors, w. K. HalAoe
elected to fill the uncXpircd term Of
F. II. Fee, whose term expires 1900,
Y. j. O'Bricn and Dr. w. +. VanLan-
bingham (tcrms expire 1909, j. +.
Futz and G. Z. Dutton Germs expire
1909.
Moved by II. G. Bronson that the
secretary be authorized to procure nee
cessary blanks, receipts, stationery,
ETC., and that the secretary have the
constitution and bylaws printed when
every there are sufficient funds in the
treasury for that purpose, and that
warrant be drawn on the treasurer for
thaea amounts The motion carried