The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-04-17
LAST YEARS
GOOD SHOWING
Board of Trade Held An
nual Meeting Tuesday.
REPORT OF SECRETARY
Indicates That the Organization Is
Alive and on the Alert for the
Towns Enthusiastically All the
Old Directors Re-elected-Finances.

The annual meeting of the Brattleboro
board of trade was held "Wednesday
evening in the Grange banquet hall with
an attendance OF about so. The meeting
was called to order by President Charles
Q, Robbins and the business was transact
ed with little delay. Practically all the
old directors were reelected and the
same officers chosen. The principal
feature Of the meeting was the report OF
Secretary George E. Fox which follows III
full:
Mr.. President and gentlemen:
Another year of the board of trade has
passed by and gone on record. What mas
been achieved. what have we to show tol
| our stewardship are what you want to
| know, Briefly, and without taking toe
much of your time, | will note what has
been the result of the work of the past
y months There are l67 members en-
rolled upon our books. Nine have re
signed seven have removed from town and
two have died-A. V. May and George
l.. Greene-but others have taken thelr
places and today our membership Is W
to high water mark and about the. same
as one year ago. This shows two things
The hustling work of the membership
committee of which Charles e. GRAHAM
Is chairman, and the loyalty of Brattle
borOs business men to this organization
| have spent some time looking it W
and ! have yet to find a town or city
anywhere in New England that can show
as large a per cent of its citizens VINO
are members of a board of trade. l very
much doubt if you can find anywhere III
Inc whole country town OF o,OOO tha1
can show as large membership as we
nave right here in Brattleboro. ;,
Ihrty-eight meetings have been held
during the past year including the month
y meetings of the directors, general meet
ings, special meetings and committee meet.
lnlgS and your secretary has attended 81
OF the IS meetings. These meetings have
a good average attendance-much better
lhan the meetings of the previous year. ;,
The work Of the board of trade, as al
probably know, is sub-divided and dis
tnbuted among Il committees, one OF the
most important and perhaps the most i'm
poitant being the manufacturing and new
industries committee of which Mr.. Austin
Is chairman. This committee has been
energetic and faithful in correspond
ing, investigating and following up every
GieW that looked like a good industry fol
brattleboro. 1t secured the Lowell Scale
company to remove from Massachusetts
and continue here the manufacture OF
scales. This company is now well located
having about % men and producing an
article OF such universal use and so staple
d character that we believe it will
eventually develop into a large concern
mat will be OF great help and benefit
70 our town and community.
lour officers and especially the. mem
otfs o. this committee are very fully con
Niheed that it is idle to expect, in fact
auo9I impossible to secure large and wei
established concerns to move to Brattle
ogro. Such industries would dc and such
large bonus that it would be .,rohibitive
a. the very start. | have in mind the
esS9 OF the National Cash Register Co
VI Dayton. o. 1t was said that spot
sash qqtier of $4,000 was made this con
an I'm by the city of Buffalo to move to
'Ha1 elly, but even that large amount was