Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-01-27
At Busy Session Of The Hop
kinSville Business Mems
Association.
PHYSICAL R. R. CONNECTION
And Interurban Prospects Are
Discussed and Committees
Named.

The Hopkinsville Business Mems
Association held another busy ses-
sion Friday night with about forty
members present. Vice-President
w. R. Wheeler presided.
The Creamery Committee through
Chairman Cowherd reported that the
required number of cows to start the
Fox Co.'S. creamery would be Obtain
ed without difficulty. Peter Fox &
Sons Co. are asking free water and
free sewerage and exemption from
taxes for their whole plant for ten
years. The city has no authority to
exempt any of the plant except the
manufacturing part and that for on
ly five years The water and sewer
age company are private corpora
tons. This part of their proposition
is being looked into by the commit
tee.
A. H. Eckles reported his visit
to st. Louis to attend the regional
bank meeting and Geo e. Gary report
ed the result of the conference with
the l. c. officials on coal rates A
general discussion of rates followed
participated in by several members.
John C. Hooe said that the L. & N.
road had shipped more coal here than
ever before this season and had made
up in this increase Of business the re-
duction in the rates. The committee
on tuberculosis Sanitarium report
ed that no opportunity would be had
to confer with the Fiscal court be-
fore the first Tuesday in February.
The following resolution endorsing
Agriculturist Morgan was offered by
Geo. E. Gary and unanimously adopt
ed;
Resolved, that this association
wishes to go on record as endorsing
the efficient work of Mr.. Godfrey
Morgan, our county agriculturist,
during the pastyea We deem Chris
tian county and the Christi Coun-
ty Crop Improvement Association ex-
tremely fortunate in securing the
services of so proficient a man for
this position and do hereby express
our sense of his fitness for this es-
pecial work, of his ready and sympa-
thetic cooperation with the farmers
of this community. and of his I'M
firing energy and enthusiasm in up
building the agricultural interests of
Christian county.
Resolved that the fiscal court and
the Crop Association be notified of
our sincere feeling in this matter in
a fitting manner, and of our anxiety
that his services be secured for the
ensuing year, if such arrangements
have not already been effected"
M. C. Forbes started an enthusiast
tic discussion of an interurban rail-
road, participated in by several men,
bers. Mr.. Forbes also asked that a
committee be appointed to take up
with the Railroad Commission the
necessity of a physical connection be-
tween the L. & N. and l. C. rail-
roads here. Both railroads have
spurs into the yards of the Climax
Mills and the Mogul Wagon Works,
within six feet of each other, yet it
is impossible to transfer a car from
one to the other without haul of
nearly 80 miles around by Princeton
and Nortonville and back to Hop
kinsville.
M. C. Forbes, j. M. Neblett, Geo.
d. Dalton Eand Mayor F. X. Yost
were named as a committee to take
it up with proper officials. B. w.
Rowe, now in Bolivia, sent a letter
of inquiry about interurban pros
poets and he secretary was directed
! to advise m that there was fine
opening UGH enterprises.