The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-13
Annual Meeting of Greater
Vermont Association
in Session
BANQUET TONIGHT
IN BROOKS HOUSE
Gov. Gates, Congressman Greene, Theo.
n. Vail and President Hustis of Bos-
ton & Maine Railroad Will Be
Speakers.

n. Vail and President Hustis of Bos-
ton & Maine Railroad Will Be
Speakers.
Business men from various parts Of
the state assembled in the Vermont
| Wheel club rooms this afternoon at $50
o clock, when the opening session of
the annual meeting of the Greater Yer
mont association was begun. A dele |
| cation Of 20 came from Bennington. |
The first business was the annual re-
port Of James =. TAYLOR of Burlington.
secretary. There viii be addresses by
J. NJ. Ward, secretary of the Keene
| Commercial club, and John A. Scheuerle,
secretary of the Hampden County
/ Mass.l Improvement association. A
conference of manufacturers of Yer
mont viii be held at O'Clock.
The annual banquet will be servcd at
7.30 this evening in the Brooks House,
and there viii be remarks by Gov.
Charles w Gates, Congressman Frank
L. Greene, Theodore \. Vail, president
of the American Telephone & Telegraph
Co., and President James H. Hustis or
the Boston & Maine railroad.
Report of the Secretary.
After alluding to the influence of the
meeting of 1914, and after speaking of
the association S part in organizing the
Bellows Falls chamber of commerce and
the St A1bans Business and Profes-
sional Men 5 association, both history
making organizations, Mr.. Taylor said:
= The association is working for the ex
tension of the system of civic and COM
mercial organization until every com
munity in Vermont is organized for eff
ficiency.'
As to county agricultural agents, he
said, in part: . Impressed by the work
begun in Bennington and Windsor coun-
ties, the association in January, 1913,
put this proposition (an agent for ev-
cry eounty) up to all the other Vermont
counties, and now nine Vermont coun-
ties are manned by county agents, and
soon will be added 10th. -
Through the initiative of the associa-
tion boards of trade have arranged for
lunchenns in which business men frater-
nized with the selectmen and road com
! missioners on the days of the meetings
I with the state highway commissioner.
{ The plan was carried ont in 1914 by
> eight boards of trade and in 1915 by
e 10. Last year Mr. Gates, then state
! | commissioner, wrote: 81 consider that
one of the best moves you have made
: Boards of trade properly organized and
/ working along these lines can DO a
a great deal in awakening an interest
4 among the business men and in foster
{ ing q spirit of cooperation that Is alb
{ solutelv necessary to make our roao
scheme in Vermont a success This
year Commissioner Bates writes: 90 The
proposition is all right. The future Of
road work in Vermont depends upon tho
expression of public sentiment Thes,
| bo COLI
road commissioners have encouraged
and stimulated all those connected witt
r the work.
4 Vermont an Aggressive State.
Il The Greater Vermont better acquatnt
t ance tours have bound together the me-
lie of the counties, the men of the state
as They have enabled all to make persona
u inspection of Vermont business and o
! Vermont resources. One organization
practically surveyed the entire state i
three great two-day tours. The sugges
tion of such tours and in some case
blue prints of the routes have com
from the Office of the association.
a. Zone of the problems which Vernon
- faces, the speaker said, "is to sho,
the public of the United States tha
% Vermont is an aggressive state doin
av interesting and significant constructiv
,is work. So far as our work is origins
81 and suggestive to others, so far we ma
an secure news publicity. The last annu,
al meeting of the association called fort
of wide attention. The creed of the ass
am citation has been published with appro,
ing comment in commercial publication
i'll Washington, Boston and Chicago. Il
dustries day, the system of better I,
quaintance tours, the Greater Vernon
exhibit at the state fair, Railroad ia
in Cleanup week, good roads luncheon
"a all have been proved to have new
value for newspapers and magazin
y outside the state. -
ne ne With the cooperation of its constit
5ns ent organizations and manufacture
M ~ and communities the association ma,
- an exhibit at the state fair which illu
trated the progress of organized We
mont The commission has asked for
sly larger exhibit this year The associ
md tion worked to extend the cleanup cal
ing paign into the countryside as we'll
est the villages and cities. A unique fe
a ture was an arrangement with the IA
Ro roads to set apart May as a day
IVY special work of this kind along the
,ac rights of way. The directors of the ;
col | sociation have forwarded resolution
nal | signed by many organizations. to t
,me Vermont senators and Representative
ano in Washington urging the necessity
FRS. immediate action by the government
at