The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-01-27
FULL MEMBERSHIP OF THE or
GANlZATiON WILL BE IN At
TENDANCE.
TO ELECT NEW DIRECTORS
Reports of officers and Standing Com
mttees Will Be an Interesting Event
of the Work of the Evening-Large
Amount of Work Done Last Year.

The annual meeting of the Bruins
wick Board of Trade will occur at
the city hall at 7:30 O'Clock this even
ing. This promises to be the most
interesting meeting that splendid or
ganization has yet held and the IN
dlcatlons are that a vast percentage
Of the membership of the board will
be in attendance. Many matters tf
deep interest to the entire community
are to be handled, reports of officers
and of the standing committees for the
year are to be elected and other mat
ters vitally etfecting the commerce
and the business OF the city will be
acted upon.
Lots of Work Done.
The board Of trade for the past year
has done an enormous amount of work
and those who are not in touch with
the situation have net the remotest
Idea of the nature and the scope i
has taken. All Of this activity will be
pointed out at the meeting this even
ing in the nature of reports from the
various officers and the committees
who have handled the several SUB
jects. The report of the secretary will
be another very interesting one as it
VIII go into tn" very vitals of the
work of the organization and bring
out many matters of more than pass
ing interest, which have engaged the
attention of the board during the year
just closed
Perhaps the most interesting event
of the evening will be the election of
a new board of directors, which in
turn and at its convenience will name
new executive committee and elec.
other officers. The present board con-
slsts of 15 members, including the see-
retary, who becomes an eX-officio
member of the board. 1t is also law
in the organization that two Of the Iii
rectors must come from the board of
county commissioners and two from
the city council, the other mem
bers are selected from the mem
bership OF the organization. The pres
ent board of directors is as follows:
l.. H. Haym, F. E. Twitty, E. L. Steph-
ems, e. C. Bruce, J. G. Weatherly, =.
II. Leayy, J. H. Hopkins, J. J Lott,
l.. T. McKinnon, NJ B. McKinnon, A.
l.. Church, J. P. Davenport, Geo. H.
Smith, A M. Ross and Albert Fendig.
The workings in the past year have
been harmonious and while large re-
suits have not crowned all the efforts
the directors, the executive commit
tee and all the officers have labore1
very hard for the general cause.
The meeting this evening is not by
any means limited to members of the
board of trade, and all Brunswickians
who do not belong to the body are in
vited to come out and incidentally they
are invited to join the organization.
The following call was sent out for
the meeting yesterday by Secretary
J. G. Weatherly:
January l the Brunswick Board of
Trade completed 16 months Of very ac-
tive work since its reorganization and
since the employment for the first
time of paid secretary to devote his
full time to the organization.
Full reports of the activities of the
organization during the past 16 months
will be made at the annual meeting
of the board of trade to be held in
the city hall council chamber Tuesday
evening Jan. 81, at 1880 p. m.
Every citizen of Brunswick is in
terested in and is invited to attend
this meeting. 1t is the belinf of the
directors of the board of trade that
the year 1914 will be the most pros
porous in the history of Brunswick |
Help the board O. trade bring this hap
py condition about. Attend the annu-
al meeting