The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-15

The new officers were lnducted INTO
Office and a consultation as to ways
and means for the year was in
dulged in. Retiring president Mar
tin read his concluding address and
President c. H. Bowen his inaugural
one. Other speakers addressed the
meeting.
Resolutions On Jail.
The following resolutions on the
county Jail were offered and adopted
by the club.
By Mr.. g. w. Tomlinson.
Resolved, That it is the sense of
this meeting that the directors of the
Commercial Club appoint a committee
to appear before the Fiscal Court
and urge upon them the erection of a
new Jail on Some site other than the
present one.
By Mr.. Lucien Beckner.
Resolved, That the President APP
point a committee Of ladies to visit
the iail and report upon it as a suit
able house as a dwelling for the Jail
OF, and its habitability as Jail.
The session convened about :45.
The first business was the reading of
the minutes by Secretary Beckner.
The Treasurer, Mr.. r. 0. Fitch, re-
ported $1465.20 collected during last
year and $500 expended.
The New Officers.
The new officers indicted into Of
? fee were:
President, c. II. Bowen.
Vice President, F. C. Murphy.
Second Vice President, H. 7.
Strother.
Directors, Joe r. Martin, j. W.
|, Chambers, NJ 7. McElGowney, j. E.
Grubbs, C. B. George, w. S. Duty,
Jeff Stewart and ]. T. Stokely. w. E.
Curry and James H. Martin were
elected directors in place of F. c.
Murphy, and H. S. Strother who were
chosen First and Second Vice Pres
idents.
Mr.. Martin, the retiring President
spoke of the things which had been
accomplished by the club during the
past year. He said we had the Y. M
C.. A. convention here and entertained
500 guests at magnificent banquet
At the beginning of the year, we urg-
ed the membership committee to get
busy and that they did so, the results
show for our membership was more
than doubled and at the close of the
contest we inaugurated we had more
than 400 members.
The Winchester News.
One of the most important matters
which we had on hand was the Sc
curing of the daily newspaper fol
Winchester, and that we have secur-
ed an up-to date one and one that Is
here to stay, and is appreciated by
our citizenship is evidenced by the
1000 subscribers which the paper
now has. 1t has been a wonderful
success not only for our immediate
community, but it is fast extending
its subscription list to the mountain
counties, thus bringing us into daily
touch with our mountain neighbOrs
We feel that this new enterprise is the
direct results of the Commercial Club
This club met with the promoters OF
the paper, presented the claims OF
Winchester and surrounding counties
urged them to launch the paper, anC
many of our members subscribed fol
stock. More should do so.
City Garbage Wagon.
The city garbage wagon was an
other result of the Commercial Clut
agitation. and it is useless for me tC
tell you how well pleased the city Is
with this new arrangement for daily
:. disposal of our garbage.
The Commercial Club had two rep
resentatives before the Committee OIL
Grounds and Public Buildings, IL
Washington. These representative
met with the sub committee and pre-
scented the claims of Winchester fol
an additional appropriation, and as {
result our appropriation was increas-
ed from $40, 100000 to 100000. We
do not mean to say that the CONNER
cial Club was wholly instrumental IL
securing this additional appropriation
but we do mean to saw that we gave
all the assistance that was requested
of us by our Congressman and othel
members of the Committee OF