The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-03-24
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Holds Annual Meeting-Ofticers Elect
ed-L0Oking to the Employment
0 OF a Paid Secretary.

merc2 on Tuesday evening at C1Och'
There were about 25 or 80 of the mem
bers present. President I. H. Hunt
presided, and Mr.. Jno. B. Mayes, sec
retary, acted as secretary.
The first business taken up was the
report of the committee appointed
year ago to prepare a constitution for
the chamber. of commerce, which re-
port was submitted by Mr.. E. H. Aull.
The report was considered by items
and adopted and is printed in another
column of this paper.
The main business of the meeting
was to elect officers. President Hunt
submitted his annual report which
contained number of very valuable
suggestions and recommendations, all
of which ought to have the considera-
ton not only Of the members OF the
chamber of commerce, but of the cit1z-
ems Of the community generally. This
report is printed elsewhere.
Mr.. John B. Mayes, as secretary
and treasurer, submitted a report COW
ering the receipts and disbursements
of the organization. His report was
in two sections. The first covered re-
ceipts and disbursements from March
1, 1910, to December 81, 1910, during
the time that Mr.. S. S. Cunningham
was secretary and treasurer. This re-
port showed that the treasurer had
received s1,22272, and had paid out
S1,230.38. According to these figures
the chamber of commerce is due the
retiring secretary $7.66. The receipts
from January l, 1911, to March q,
1911, amounted to s221.25, and the
disbursements s2O23S. This part of
the report shows cash on hand S1S.87.
The report also showed that the out
going administration had paid $53O.Ol
of old debts, and had put s74.9O into
mating and improvements on the
roon1s. 1t ALSO showed that the in
debtedness of the chamber OF COM
meree at the time report was made
amounted to s35225, and as against
this there were amounts due the
chamber of commerce Of S104.95, leav-
ing the total net liability of s247.3O.
The report was received as informa-
ton.
On motion of Mr.. l.. W. Jones, a
committee of five was appointed to
recommend new officers for the ensu-
ing year. The committee was CON-
posed Of L. W. Jones, G. D. Weeks, #.
P. Johnson, W. H. Shelley and S. M.
Duncan. The committee recommend
ed first Jno. b. Mayes, president;
Jno. NJ. Kinard, first vice-president;
Robt. Norris, second vice-president,
and the following board: I. H. Hum,
C. T. Summer, W. &. Mayes, J. P.
Shealy, o. B. Mayer and W.: A. Nc
Swain. .; -.
It was stated that Mr.. McSwai1f
was not member of the organiza-
ton, and the committee retired to
place some one else on The board. On
their return they named Van Smith.
He was not a member, and, therefore,
could rot be elected. Mr.. S. NJ TnL-
can was named from the floor as the
other member of the board.
Mr.. Jno. NJ. Kinard then declined
the nomination for vice-preside and
DR.. C. D. Weeks was nominated. With
these changes the officers were unani-
mously elected.
Mr.. Jno NJ. Kinard stated that it
was very important to have a live
commercial body, and he was salts
fed that the only plan by which such
an organization could be kept alive
was the employment of regular paid
secretary who should devote his en-
ire time to the work of the chamber
If commerce. Mr.. Kinard suggested
that the only way the money for this
purpose could be raised was by the
corporations, and the banks and the
larger merchants putting up an extra
amount beyond their regular dues,
and that speaking for the bank over
which he presided that he would be
willing to be one of the number to
give $500 a year in addition to the
regular dues so that the proposition OF
the paid secretary could be tried, and
if it did not prove successful and
beneficial it could be discontinued af-
ter the first year. Mr.. Geo. S. Mower
agreed with Mr.. Kinard that paid
secretary was necessary.