The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-07-30
COLUMBUS, MISS, MAN is NAMED
FOR THIS IMPORTANT
POSITION.
EFFICIENT MAN IS SECURED
MIR. Weatherly Met With Board Of
Directors Yesterday and Left Last
Niaht-wiII Return to the City or
September f.

After four or five weeks of thor
ough searching and a far-reaching in-
vestigation, the directors of the
Brunswick board of trade. at meet
ing held in the office of Vice Presi-
dent F. E. Twitty yesterday afternoon
elected j. G. Weatherly of Columbus,
Miss, as secretary. The board has
had the matter of a secretary and ex-
ecutlve officer under adylsement for
many weeks, the question being han
died by special committee consist
ing of President L. H. Haym and
Messrs. Albert Fendlg and F. E.
Twitty
This committee has canvassed the
entire country in search of the right,
man for the job. Applications galore
have poured into the board, but the
secretary -eIect did not seek the ap-
polntment, having been recommend
ed TO the committee by the best of
authorities on the subject in the coun-
try. Mr.. Weatherly is 81 years old
and is at present secretary Of the
Columbus Business League, the Tom
bigbee River Association Improvement
company, and the Association of Com
mercial Secretaries of the State OF
Mississippi He has spent the major
r. ftion of his life in the publicity
line, was a former newspaper man
and is said to be one of the best
equipped men in the South for the
wcrk in which he Is engaged.
If his record is an index of what
may be expected of him here, he will
make good. His work at Columbus,
where he has been secretary of the
business league for the past two years
has brought him prominently before
the public and has gained for Column
bus the name Of having the livest
commercial organization in MISSISSIPPI
pi. In 1910 he was publicity agent
for Gov. Emmett O'Neal of Alabama
in his race against Colonel Mallory
for the governorship of his state.
Governor O'Neal gives him much of
the credit for his success at, that
time. He organized and is secretary
of the Tombigbee River Improvement
Association of Mississippi and Ala
bama, an organization that he pes
fected and has directed into an hon.
ogeneous whole working for the deep
ening and canalization of the Tom
bigbee river.
Mr.. Weatherly has held the posi-
ton of publicity agent to the Ala
bama State Fair at Birmingham and
the officials of that association rec
ommend him very highly as having
made record attendance possible
and brought the earnings of the as
sociation up to a high water mark
Mr.. Weatherly was in the city yes
terday and met with the board Of
trade directors in the afternoon. He
created a most favorable impression,
expressed himself as being delighted
with Brunswick and finally was elect
ed secretary of the board, to become
effective September /, when ne will
remove his family to Brunswick and
enter actively upon his new duties
He returned to Columbus last
night, where for the next four weeks
he will be engaged in winding up his
affairs in that city. The board is
now busy on the job of locating head
qaurters and when Secretary Wealth
erly arrives in September it is the
intention of the directors to have
handsome quarters awaiting him.