The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-23
PHONE TROUBLES
QUESTION TO COME BEFORE COM
 MERCIAL CLUB.
Wetumpka Merchants Have Urged That Efforts Be Made to Secure Bet ter Service Between That
 Town and Montgomery.

The semi.annual meeting of the Commercial Club. which is to be held tonight at 8 o'clock in the auditorium
 of the Club on Court Square, is ex-
 pected to be one of the most interest ing sessions of that business body in number of months. The discussions may be somewhat warm and exciting, and it is thought that matters of pub lie moment will be among those to be considered
 All of the Chairmen of the various committees will render their report for the past six months, and will include ip their reports recommendations on questions of public interest.
 Probably the most vital question that the Club will consider will be one con- corning the local telephone service. which will be included, in all proba- bility, by the reading of a letter which the Clubs Secretary yesterday re- ceived from prominent business men of Wetumpka.
 The letter was written by Floyd Tate, President of the Industrial As petition from all of the Wetumpka long distance telephone users, asking the local club to solicit for them bet ter and more adequate service. The petition of the Wetumpkans was signed by twenty-four prominent mer- chants and well known corporations, and made request that Montgomerians
 take the Wetumpkanss interests at heart and try to secure for them more long distance wires over which they can talk to local wholesalers and re- tailers.
 The petition is as follows:
 "The undersigned respectfully ask you to see the managers of the South ern Bell Telegraph and Telephone Company and urge upon them the ne cessity of putting in more wires be- tween Wetumpka and Montgomery for our mutual benefit Several years ago we were promised four to five separate
 wires between Wetumpka and Mont
 gomery. We had two wires then and
 we have only two wires now.
 "At that time we only had about ten
 subscribers. now we have eighty sub scribers and the lines are always busy, and we often have to spend several hours time in trying to talk with Montgomery if we succeed at all. Please be kind enough and see If
 we cannot get the long promised inn proved service and get two or three
 additional lines to relieve the traffic. One of the lines between here and
 Montgomery Is very often out of order. Montgomery and Wetumpka are VI tally interested in this matter and we ! trust you will help out the undersigned | telephone subscribers"
 Those who signed the petition were: | Floyd Tate, George D. Robinson, E. P. | Moore T. J Williams. Austin. Macon | and Sanford, Bank of Wetumpka, B. | l.. Geddis, Jr., Cashier: E.. G. Edwards, Gamble Hardware Company. T. J.. Britt, First National Bank. c. G. Me | Hnh | Company; Cain -Sedberry Drug Com
 pany, George r. Sedberry, Jr. w. M | Gamble, Holley and McMorris, M. D. | Still. Howle Bros, W. l.. Bloxam.
 Mertin and Wall, J Wiley McCanns,
 l.. D. Rouse, J. M. Austin, F. M
 Cain, B. O. Humphries and the We
 tumpka Printing Company.
 Besides a discussion of the telephone
 question, there will also come to the
 attention of the business men objec- | t1ons to the passing by the Legislature | of the Overton antitrust bill. s. J | Cassels. District Manager of the south | ern Oil Company and J. w. Black, | formerly District Manager. have been | invited to address the Club on this | question, and both have consented to | do so.
 | It is quite probable, also. that Sec | tfon 97 of the municipal code bill will | be brought within firing distance. The | section has reference to the taxing Of | merchants in proportion to the amount | of business which each does. Local | merchants as well as merchants from | all over Alabama. have represented to | the Commercial Club that the measure l Is drastic one and likely to do much harm to the business interests unless amended before the bill is passed, Four new directors will also be elect
 ed at the meeting tonight. succeeding Messrs. Ball. Haas. Stevenson and
 Walker All of the gentlemen whose
 term expires at this time have done excellent work during the past twelve months, and are among the most in terested members of the Club.