The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-03-13
A Valuable Recruit

Marcn 1Ztn. 1911.
A Valuable Recruit
Application of Mr. Louis \. Long,
manager of the Ocala House, for !
membership was read and accepted. |
The secretary then read list of |
the members who for one reason or |
another had declined to pay their |
subscriptions for another year or
had failed in part or entirely to pay
those for the first year. Followed a
short but interesting talk by the sec
rotary and by other members of the
best method of inducing these mem
bers to remain on the contributing
list and to get new members. Many
good suggestions were made by the
different members
Mr.. George Mackay suggested that
committee of a dozen members be
appointed, three from each ward,
the secretary in the meantime to get
up list Of delinquents, dissatisfied
members and prospective members.
These would be apportioned out
among the committee. giving to each
member the names of those he could
best approach AMI in this way many
of the business men of the city who
are not now active members of the
Board of Trade can be induced to
! become live me nbers. This was
put in the form of motion and
! unanimously adopted. The secre-
| tary will get the list ready and
President MacKay announced that
| he would name the committee as
soon as he could give it some
thought.
| Postmaster r. T. Rogers wanted
to know how many members the
| board now had. Secretary Rooney
| replied that there were lis, count
| ing firms as individual members,
many of which have two or more
members.
| Secretary Rooney made a short
talk. telling of the achievements of
| the board during the year of his sec
retaryship, which closes April 10th,
and told Of the many good things
that were in prospect and the vast
and results that were anticipated.
| He said the county could not afford
to allow the Board of Trade to die,
| that there never was a time when
La, oh re
of usefulness so broad. He touched
on few of these matters, the cleo
trio road to Silver Springs that is
being worked on; the great million
dollar Oklawaha river project that
now requires the work Of wise
body of men to carry to its fruition; ;
that we had lost l.. E. Dozier, its
father and friend, and it behooves
as far as it can. He told OF the great
good the express rate agitation
started and focused by the board ;
the railroad freight rate meeting to
be held here Monday week, March
gard, which had been brough,
about by this board. and many other
things.
Mr.. Harris, Mr. Meffert. Mr.. D. W
Davis, Mr.. Carmichael, Mr.. Ditto
Mr.. R. l.. Martin, Mr.. Baxter earn
Mr.. Gary, Mr.. Phillips and Others
all spoke a few words of commenda
ton of the work CT the board and
the need Of it in the future. Mr.
Harris, particularly, said that in the
long years of his residence in the
: city he had never seen the future
look so bright or so Immediate!
fraught with good for effort expend
ed, and especially was the OTTAWA
ha river improvement, the trolle!
line and municipal docks to be push
ed forward
Several members spoke Of tn
good results accomplished this yea
by the advertising matter the Boar
of Trade had put out, and the grea
numbers OF tourists that have com
to Ocala by both lines of river boat
as we'll as over the railroads.
Mr.. Rooney spoke words OF prais
for the newspapers of the city, tell
ing of the loyal support they ha
given the board in advertising an
i always plenty OF it and of charaC
ter that the entire resources of tn
board could not have bought; Of tn
hundreds and hundreds of article
appearing in papers all over tn