The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-03
COMMERCIAL CLUB |NSTALLS OFFICERS Cullman Business Men Hold
 Important Meeting ROADS ARE IN BAD FIX Bell Telephone Company Will Not h. crease Rates This Month as In-
 tended-A Booster Train
 Through Cullman

| Cullman, January 2.--fSpeeial )-The | first regular meeting of the Commercial | club for the year 1912 was held in tho offices of the secretary at : o'clock last night. The meeting was presided over by NJ. L. Robertson. president of the club. This was a very important meet ing of the organization and was at 1 tended by good number of the mem ! bers. Among some of the things that came before the body last night was the installation of officers for the en- suing year. The following well known gentlemen, having been elected at a previous meeting, were installed George Stiefelmeyer, president; ]. M Fitzpatrick, first vice president; Dr. J. l. Armstrong, second vice president; L. N. Buel, corresponding secretary; A. c. Coe, NJ L. Robertson and c. A. Stiefelmeyer were elected on the board of trustees to serve two years. The election of financial secretary and treasurer was postponed until later meeting.
 A letter from Vice President Hoxey of the Southern Bell Telephone com pany was read by the secretary where in Mir Hoxey stated that owing to the extreme pressure of business in the company office, he had been unable to reply to the proposition of the city relative to the lease of the telephone plant here, and that he had been able to consider the raise in the rates for the past month, consequently there would be no increase in the rates for telephone service for the month of Jan uary as had been contemplated by the company.
 In view of the face that the immi- grafton department of the state of Ala bama is preparing to send out a booster train in the near future, ad- vertfsing the numerous resources of the state a resolution was offered and adopted, that owing to the fact that 20 counties in the state would be al lowed representation on the train, that application be made to Hon. Lee Cow art immigration commissioner of Ala bama, that Cullman county may have a representative on this train. Asa B. Fuller was elected to act as such rep resentative for the county, and H NJ. Vanderputtee and Fred J. Buchanan were elected as a committee to assist Mir Fuller in securing a suitable ex- hibit data, etc, for tho display. It was stated that the booster train would be run some time during the month of May. and Cullman county already has the assurance of a representative on the train.
 report of the public roads was made by the committee for that pur- pose. The report showed that the public highways of Cullman county were in a lamentab1e condition, and asked that the committee be author ized to act in conjunction with the Gull man County Good Roads association for the betterment of the county's high ways and especially to aid them in their efforts to secure an election on the question of bond issue, which is deemed the only feasible way in which pike roads can be built The instruc- tions were given the highways commit tee and Attorneys J. M, Fitzpatrick and w. E. James were appointed as legal advisors to this committee and the Good Roads association.