The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-12-08

/ people of Hattiesburg from four to
! fve-thousand dollars year, conserva-
lively estimated.
! (e) Baptist Laymen Meeting-The
/ Commercial Club joined in an invi-
tation to the Baptist Laymen to hold
their convention in the city of Hat
+ tiesburg, which invitation was ac-
cepted.
(f) Freight Rates-Early in the
4 spring the railroads serving Hatties-
burg proposed an increase in rates on
coal from the Alabama and Kentucky
territory, and this club sent COM
mittee to New Orleans to appear be-
fore the Interstate Commerce Com
mission in opposition to said rate;
and later employed counsel to wage a
! fight before the Interstate Commerce
Commission against the raising OF
said rates. Apparently we had met
with some success, but more recently
! the increase in rates has been grant
ed by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission.
go Cleaner Cities Contest.-Our
club early in the spring, Joined with
! the Women't Federated Clubs of this
city in the Cleaner Cities Contest.
While Hattiesburg was not the sue
cessful contestant, we had the salts
| faction of knowing that Hattiesburg
was the cleanest of any time in its
history.
CHI 1916 Sunday School Conven-
( tion-The Commercial Club invited
the 1916 Sunday school convention to
Hattiesburg, and the invitation was
accepted and this convention will be
held in the spring of 1916
O Medical Association. - The
Commercial Club Joined in the enter
tainment of the Medical Association
in the early spring, contributing both
effort and money.
G) Field Day-We likewise, as.
sisted in the annual field day celebra-
ton, realizing therefore, the net profit
of approximately So which in turn
was expended in sending the Hatties-
burg High School contestants to the
Annual Field Meet in Meridian.
(k) Gulf Coast and Mississippi
Highway Association.-Ear in the
summer there was a movement start
ed for the adoption and construction
of a first-class highway from Gulf
port to Jackson, Miss A route through
Poplarville, Columbia, Monticello and
BrOOkhaven was logged and apparent
ly adopted by the Gulf Coast High
way Association. We Immediately
took the subject up and succeeded in
having organized the Gulf Coast and
Mississippi Highway Association ear
ly in August. and this association pro
ceeded to log the road from GuIfport
I through Hattiesburg and Collins into
/ Jackson, and likewise to log the route
/ from GulfpOrt through Hattiesburg
/ into Meridian We have every as
surance of having the road from Jack
son through Hattiesburg to Gulfport
adopted as q link of the Dixie High
way, and already this association has
been responsible for the doing of
great deal of good and permanent
work on the roads.
% 1916 Press Association.-We
sent a committee to West Point Mis-
sissippi to endeavor to get the 1916
Press Association to meet in Hatties-
burg. We lost to Clarksdale, Miss, in
this fight.
(m) Virgins Commercial Club
A committee from our Commercial
Club went to Virgins during the
summer and assisted in organizing
Commercial Club.
IN Annual Grown in Mississippi
Conventional committee from our
Commercial Club attended the annual
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meeting of the MISSISSIPPI
pi" convention, in connection with a
good-roads meeting held in Jackson
in June.
(Note:-These committees made
these trips at their own personal eX-
pense. and not at the expense of the
club, with the exception of the COM
mittee that went to West Point
(o) Roads for Beats =, 4 I'D 8
During the early summer months the
time seemed ripe for getting bond is
sues in beats 2, 4, and ) for the pur-
pose of constructing gravel highways
Our secretary spent a great deal of
time and energy in gathering data
for such a campaign. On account,
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