Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-20
A SUMMARY OF PROGRESS
IN AMER|CUS THE PAST YEAR
TabulaCd Statement Recently Issued By The Local Board
Of Trade Showing Work Accomplished

with the prospects Soou Aoi Z" ~
val of interest in the work of the To-
cal Board of Trade, the tabulation OF
the new firms and new business houses
established here last year is of special
interest.
Annual report of the Secretary, to
the members and officers of the Board
Of Trade; Gentlemen
l have prepared for your approval
an outline of the work undertaken
during the past year by the Board of
Trade, under the present administra-
tion, and will first take up the matter
of advertising
We have scured photographs and
data, advertising the advantages OF
this City and County, which has been
printed on envelopes and stationery of
the business men, and some thirty
thousand of these envelopes have
been used.
We have also written short stories,
calling attention to the points of inter
est in Americus and Sumter county, to
strangers and tourists, which, with A
picture of Sumter County good roads
has been printed in the Automobile
Blue Book.
Pictures of the Country Club have
been put in the Southern Railway
folders, and a picture of the Windsor
Hotel was placed in the Seaboard Air
Line folders.
To the Industrial Agents of the Sea-
board, Central of Georgia and South
ern Railroad companies, we have
furnished data for their files, giving in
formation regarding the raw material
available in Americus, Sumter County,
and this section, to induce the location
of new industries
We have distributed in railway sta
tons, and public places of the city,
ol; A NJ
and Sumter County, and this work Of
advertising was further carried out
by the distribution of these editions to
all those who attended the various
conventions which have been held
here, including the convention of the
Third District, the convention of the
State Dentists and the state firemen's
convention.
Through the courtesy of the loc II
militia, on their trip to Admission, Ala,
considerable literature advertising this
section, was distributed.
Copies of the forward edition and
pamphlets of Americus were forwarded
to all hotels of Atlanta, Memphis
Chattanooga Birmingham, Cincinnati,
New Orleans, and other cities. These
editions were also placed on the Sem
mole Limited each night through No
vember and December, thus bringing
tlis city to the attention of the num-
erous tourists travelling at that time o.
the year.
In all, about twenty-five hundred
editions and pamphlets of Americus
have been distributed and some six
hundred letters have been written in
answer to inquiries and giving infor-
nation regarding this section
Information has been given trade
papers as to industrial and building
operations here, which information
has been instrumental in keeping Am
ericus before the business world.
Without any cost, except that of
compiling same, a one-page ad waa
secured in the Manufacturers Record,
exploiting the many advantages of
Americus and Sumter County. Nh
Burns who is special correspondent for
the Manufacturers Record, was en-
tertained by us, and as a consequence
story entitled "The Heart of the
Peach Country" describing this sec