Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-09-20


chief executive. Starting with a
membership of nine boards the State
Board has steadily expanded until
now under the progressive leadership
of President Boothby there are on the
rolls GA associations with combined
membership of 4940, according to the
latest returns received by the secre-
tary. Of the Boards in aalliation
with the State Board few are mac
tive, but generally they are wide
awake and nourishing, and engaged
in effective work for the uplift of
Maine.
The neurological roll for the year
includes the lamented Gorham n.
Weymouth of Biddeford, who had
served continuously and with rare
fidelity as treasurer since the State
Boards formation, the vacancy being
fittingly filled by the election of
Timothy f. Callahan of Lewiston who
has brought to these duties qualifica-
tions of high order. During the
early winter the State Board met
with a notable loss in the death of
William A. Wheeler of Portland, a
former vice president of the State
Board and for several years at the
head of the Portland Board; DIR.
Wheeler was treasurer of the fund
raised by the State Board for the
Pan-American Exposition and was
enc of the commissioners from Maine.
Among the deaths during the year
has been that of c. w Pike former
vice president of the State Board and
formerly president of the Fryeburg
ri af fax
months there has passed away G. p.
Noyes, State Board vice president
and president of the Gardiner Board
of Trade. II is only a few weeks
since a former vice president and 4
charter member of the State Board,
f. w. Gonant of old Town, closed his
career. Immediately prior to the
termination of the State Boards ses-
sion in Augusta in March a telegram
of sympathy was forwarded to the
sick bed in Boston hotel of an hon
ored Ex-Governor of Maine, and
within a few hours the sad an
nouncement was made of the death
of Hon. John F. Hill. Intimately
linked with the State Board is the
memory of Governor Hill for he was
the largest individual subscriber to
the fund raised in 1901 by the State
Board to provide suitable headquar-
ters for Maine at the Pan American
Exposition in Buffalo. 1t is also re-
called that one of the most prominent
-prandial speakers at the State
Boards last banquet was Hon. Her
bert NJ. Heath, whose eloquent voice
has only SO recently been hushed.
had an active year. Several new
Boards of Trade have been organized,
Chambers of Commerce have been in
augurated in Waterville and Lewis
ton, and a Business Mems Associa-
ton has been formed at Machias. II
Board of Trade circles throughout the
State there has been unusual activ-
ity. meetings have been numerous
and generally we'll attended, and
many and important movements look
ing to the advancement of their sew
eral communities have been inaug-
urated. the record of successful ac-
complishment being highly creditable.
BY vote of the Maine State Board
of Trade at its last session the State
Board will be represented by Presi-
dent Boothby, Secretary Blanding and
Treasurer Callahan at the forthcom-
ing International Congress in Boston.
The Maine State Board in the early
summer became a member of the In
ternational Congress of Chambers OF
Commerce and Commercial and Indus
trial Associations, which is an or
ganization representing the business
men of the entire world. Previous
Of
held at Liege. Belgium: Milan, Italy:
Prague. Austria and London. Eng
land: and the Congress which meets
in Boston. Sept. 1928. will be the
fifth. The elaborate program is
printed in sixteen different languages
and advices from the executive sec
retary indicate an attendance of up
wards Of 400 foreign delegates repre-
senting A countries and 200 Ameri-
can delegates.
Only the most cursory glance can
be made Of the industrial field, but
among the new manufacturing plants
are quite number secured directly
through the efforts of business as
sociations. a new cotton mill or
weave shed of large proportions is
being erected by the Bates Manufac-
turing Company at Lewiston. The
Shawmut Manufacturing Company
are expendng million dollars or
more in big pulp and paper Develop
| ments on the Kennebee and the St
| Croix Paper Company are developing
| Grand Falls above Woodland on an
extensive scale. The Ray Lumber
| Company have commenced to estab-
| lish a big lumber manufacturing
| plant in the heart of Piscataquis
| county to the west of Katahdin Iror
| Works with a side track of three
miles to the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way: the outcome of this develop
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