The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-08-02
BUSINESS BODY ORGANIZED.
Chamber Of Commerce Launched,
with Charles Maurin as Presi-
dent and Entire Parish Repre-
sented in Directorate-Fund of
$4,000 to be Raised.

S@iieea III GiiSEtoFaLS-Fu una o
$4,000 to be Raised.
The mass meeting held in the
courthouse Sunday morning to re
/ celVe the report of the COMMITTEES OF
| seven, appointed at q previous meet
| ing held July Is to draft a consti
tuition and bylaws for the Chamber
of Commerce, was called to order by
Mayor Walter Lemann, chairman OF
the temporary organization. The pro
posed constitution was read in full BY
Secretary r. S, Vickers, and was
then taken up article by article, dis
cussed, and adopted with few
| minor changes. The instrument pro
vides for a board of directors com:
! posed OF nineteen members, as fol.
lows: The four officers-president
vice. president, secretary and treas
urer-of the organization; one each
from the eight police jury wards of
Ascension parish, and seven at
large. The membership dues are
fixed at a minimum of Sc per annum,
payable quarterly in advance.
The following officers and directors
We're elected to serve for the ensuing
year: Charles A. Maurin, president;
DR.. E. K. Sims, vice president; Rob
ert S. Vickers, secretary; w. D.
Park, treasurer; Geo. B. Reuss, first
ward; Frank G. Ayraud, second
ward; Jasmin Tobias, third ward;
Emile LeBoeuf, fourth ward; C. S.
Mcfarland, fifth ward; w. B. Stuart
Az, I,
ward; Elisha D. Dixon, eighth ward;
Alex. Bloomenstiel, A ]. Schroeder,
ALI W. Whiteman, Adolphe Meter
and Santiago TruxiIlo, at large. The
selection Of the other two members
at large was left to the board of di-
rectors, who were also empowered to
select an active head OF the organiza-
ton with the title of manager.
The body is to be known as the
Donaldsonvil1e Chamber of Com
merce, and the scope of it's opera
tons will be very much greater than
that of the old Prog1 essive Union,
which it supersedes.
The first meeting of the board of
directors was held Wednesday, after
noon at the mayors office in the
powerhouse, with President Charles
Maurin in the chair and Secretary
R. S. Vickers at his post. Messrs.
w. B. Stuart, AchiIle Picard, Emile
LeBoeuf, Frank Ayraud, AL White
man, Alex Bloomenstiel and A. J.
Schroeder were present.
George L. Rockwell, travelling rep
resentatiye of the Gulf States Farm
er, and formerly secretary of the
City Chamber of Com
merce, addressed the board, outlin-
ing in a general manner some of
the work that could be undertaken
BY the new organization, and offer
-ng many valuable suggestions for
carrying on the propaganda of pro-
sress and development. Mr.. Rock
well submitted a proposition to the |
board to take charge of theN cam
oaign for collecting the fund neces-
sary to carry on the work of the
organization, and committee COM
posed of Messrs. Maurin, Bloomen-
stiel and Whiteman was appointed
o negotiate with him regarding the
natter. A conference of this COM
nittee and Mr. Rockwell was held
Thursday, at which it was decided
o raise $4,000 or nothing, and Mr..
Rockwell was engaged to direct the
Nothing short of the
stipulated amount will be accepted,
Ind if the subscriptions do not |
aggregate this amount the sums
pledged will be returned and the
whole movement will be abandoned
While Mr.. Rockwell will not be-
sin work until Monday, he has in
'tituted partial canvass of local !
business firms and individuals, and
rom the spirit manifested is conf
lent there will be no difficulty in
'aising the amount designated as the
minimum to be provided for the use
# the Chamber of Commerce in
advertising the city and parish and
developing their resources.
Everybody seems interested in the
movement and anxious to cooperate
oWard insuring it's success, and all
eel it is destined to accomplish
results in bringing about a
nent of agricultural and industrial
Misses Laulie and Matt Colomb en-
ertained informally at daHcing
PARTY Monday evening at their lovely
lome in Lessard street in honor of
heir house guest, Miss Garnet Maui
in, Of New Orleans Those who en-
Dyed the pleasures the occasion at
orded were: Misses Rosalie Landry,
Aimee Maurin, Ola Poche, Nerissa
Narrick, Leona Maurin, Louise Gull
Beatty, Lucille DeRussey,
Blanche Landry, Nita Sims, Eunice
Belle Gondran, Jeanne
Iaurin, Edna Dalferes, Lise Brun and
Shirley Alleman, AMI Messrs. jim
ME Kock, Delmayne Hanson, Karl
leche, Payne Breazeale, Jaffrey Vega,
Stanley Sobral, Ray Blumenthal,
8ilIee Hanson, Lawrence Brun, Kit
ridge and Kline Sims, Victor Maurin,
Carlton Guillot, Nolte DeRuss2y,
slattery Alleman and Ward Poche.
Lunan Arnold. the S-year-old ne