The Lamar register., 1911-04-26
ARKANSAS VALLEY ASSOCIA-
TON HOLDS LIVELY SEES
SION AT HOLLY
Proposition Of Boosting Valley PRO
ducts Meets With General
Approval

SommeTcAl dSSOcldLlou VI OolOTdoo
began arriving early this morning
from the lower valley towns, the
bulk of the crowd. however. arriv-
ing on the Santa Fe trains during
the afternoon.
From one end of the valley to
the other the valley delegates were
here to participate In the meeting
to further the "home industry"
spirit.
At the afternoon session which
was held in the Holly Commercial
club rooms Mayor McMurty well
coined the visitors In a short ad-
dress and after few livedy res
ponses by the delegates, President
Benedict called the meeting to Or
der to get down to the substantial
part of he session.
Secretary S. N. Hines read the
minutes of the preceding meeting.
The chair then appointed N. F.
Vidal. w. r.. Wright. r. A. Steen
as committee on resolutions.
Following this. the proposition
to prepare u general exhibit OF
ARKANSAS valley products for the
Chicago and other eastern land
shows was discussed at length.
being favored by a majority of the
members. but opposed by l.. Writ
Markham. who advocated the run
ming OF special demonstration
train through the eastern states
with the exhibit and local people
and also lecturers from the state
agricultural college.
Good Roads was the subject
Vidal of Holly, who brought some
of rousing good talk by N. +.
amusing incidents occurring during
the good roads day work at Holly
recently. April 8.
J. G. Davis of Holly was ap-
pointed a member OF the finance
committee.
The meeting adjourned to accept
an invitation Of the Holly COM
mercialites To take an auto ride
around the lower valley district.
The evening session was called
to order at 1880 with somewhat
larger crowd than during the
afternoon. as several added dele
gates from different sections of
the valley came in on late trains
and the Holly Commercial club
was well represented:
A. w. Sours OF Denver. q public
ity man OF considerable experience.
the line of what Denver Is doing
TO advertise and help her territory.
His talk was interesting and gave
the meeting some good ideas on
that line.
The most important question of
the evening and In fact the one
for which the meeting was called.
was that OF how to manage and
finance campaign for the use
of homemade goods. was brought
up on the report of J. N. Bundick.
chairman of the ways and means
appointed at athe Las
Animas meeting.
Mr.. Bundick said that full /
meeting of the committee had been
held at Pueblo tand that the whole
had been fully discussed and
that 1t was the unanimous opin-
ion of the committee that a cam
paign such as proposed would cost |
no less than $1,000 per month and |
inasmuch as the ones to be bene-
fitted were the manufacturers and |
jobbers of the valley. 1t was up |
to them to finance 1t. To this |
no encouragement has
been received from the manufac-
turers and jobbers and as Pueblo
was not we'll represented very lit
tie discussion was heard from
them.
Colonel Wiley of the Holly Sug-
ar company said that 1t was his |
belief that such a campaign should
be handled by the individual man
ufacturers and jobbers and not
through the association. The re-