Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-01-13
BOARD Of TRADE MEET
DireCtOrSHOld Regular Quarterly Meet.
ing-ImpOrtant Business
TO THE CITIZENS OF ALMA
Beard Gets Busy on Question Of New Depot
Present Facilities Absolutely Inadequate.

The directors OF the Board OF Iraue
held their regular quarterly meeting
at the presidents office Tuesday of
this week. All the directors were
present except two, the bankers, and
DIR. Lancashire who was at Saginaw.
The usual routiEe of business was
taken up. consisting chiefly of let ters.
reports bills and the like. All current
bills were ordered paid, and in this
connection the secretary was instruct
ed to collect in all outstanding dues
ct once. This will be done within
the next week or ten days. so get
ready.
Reports from the Little Giant Hay
Press Go. were received and allowed,
having been verified by the secretary.
This company starting as 1T did Just
st the beginning of the panic of 1907.
has made remarkably good showing
in every way. What particularly in
terests the board is the pay roll. and
j: is found that this concern is paying
out over 500 per month at Its
factory Tor labor alone emploved on
the premises, A substantial dividend was
recently paid TO stockholders out of
the earnings of the company and In ad-
dition a further sum was set aside to
Apply on Indebtedness. This COM
pany does more than any other insti-
tuition In town. bv far. to make our
local post office what it is All con-
sidered, the L. G. II. Z, Co. is
certainly winner
The monthly report OF the overall
factory was considered and approved
Mr.. McCaulev is doing well is increas-
ing his assets and is getting in a
position to make good paying bust
ness for for himself, and an ever in
creasing benefit to the city
The automobile situation was dis
cussed and it is the regret of every
director that matters should have
shaped themselves so as to make 1T
inadvisabie If not Impossible to com
plete the arrangements for locating
plant here The situation as out
lined in another column of this paper
would seem to confirm the good judg-
ment of the Board of Trade in Withhold
ing action for time. The matter
is far from dead. however. and it Is
hoped that the good work So far done
will not 90 for nauRht.
the st. Louis Commercial Club in
dicating that our neighbor CITY is
working for the common good. They
are asking very pointediy for better
service over the Pere Marquette Rail
road. They are asking for three
trains each way every day. and
especially fast train to pass here in
the after noon to reach the terminal
cities in time to connect with impor.
tant out going trains. This is a
move in the right direction and one
our railroad committe has been work.
ing on through DR.. Lancashire for
some months We believe we have
so far progressed as rs to see some
PRACTICAL results. The secretary will
continue the agitation, and with the
help which is being exerted all along
the line. spring. at the very latest.
should see the third train in opera
tion.
Along this line, the board took an
important step at its quarterly meeting
regarding our local passenger station.
Heretofore our railroad committee has
been content to ask for Improvement
in the platform and the depot. and
possibly sheds over portion of the
platform for the accommodation of pas-
sengers who must stand outside because
of lack of station room. The board
have tired of trving to get this and
have decided emphatically to go to
the root of The matter and demand
.iew station. This is going at the
matter in the right way. Why ask for
a temporary arrangement when IT is
only matter of time when the per-
manent Improvement must he made.
The hoard have come to the conclusion
that the railroads will not make the
temporary arrangement knowing that
il is waste of time and monev. Then
do IL right. and this is what we want.
The older residents of Alma will re-
member when the Ann Arbor road ran
north of town and circled towards st.
Louis. The Pere Marquette had
station about the size of the one now
In use ss union station. At that
time our city numbered about 1900