The Brunswick news., 1916-10-25
Five Thousand Three Hundred
Dollars Was Amount Sub
sCribed to The Capital Stock
OF the New Company to De-
velOp the Satsuma Industry.
Strong Talk Was Made by The
Southern Railway Expert -
Committee VIII Canvass for Adj
ditiOnaI Stock Subscriptions
For This Great Movement.

The meeting last hight for the pur-
pose Of organizing local company to
develop the Satsuma orange etc, in
Gylnn county was one of the largest
ever assembled in the auditor !um of
the city hall In fact all of the avail
able space was taxed to care fof the
crowd and many were standing. Sec
ond Vice President Constance Miller
of the Board of Trade presided and
did so in his usual able and graceful
fashion. Secretary A. M. Smith stat
ed ''e purpose of the me2tnB, out
lined the plans for the organization
and read reports Of the local commit
tee recently sent to Mobile to inspect
the situation there. He also read tel
egrams and letters from many promi
nent Georgians all manifesting inter
est in the movement.
Secretary Smith who has labored
very hard for the success of the pro-
jcct closed by introducing Mr.. G. Fl.
Murrell OF the agricultural depart.
ment OF the Southern railway, Mr.
Murrell Is an earnest talker and he Is
very much pleased with the Glynn
county situat en- and asserted very
positively that he believed we could
do here just what has been done in
Mobile. He has been here for three
days and has made careful study
OF che soils of the county and his talk
was really interesting and enthusias-
tic. He had gathered collections of
products raised here in the county and
pointed out that in many other sec
tions these very products are money
ed crops.
The McbiIe situation was referred
to by all of The members of the COM
mittee who made the trip to that city
and they displayed unusual enthuas-
ian in the matter. Messers N Eman-
uel, +. l.. Stephens and l.. r. McKin-
non from the bankers committee and
Farm Demonstrators !. l.. Dunn all re-
sponded IN the very happiest fashion.
They told of the fact that the Satsuma
orange had added 100000. 900 millions
Cf dollars to taYah:C values in Bald
win county and had also added l5,000
to the popuaticn. Enthusiastic ad-
dresses were aso made by Messers.
l.. r. Akin G. s. TAFT and while they
were brief they were full Of interest.
Mr. Akin stressed the necessity OF
developing the country and the idea
that the country made The city
He said he hoped thai the move
ment would succeed and that 1t ought
to. President T.. II Mason CT the Ma
tionaI Bank cf Brunswick responded
TO the call Of the chairman. He said
that he remembered few years ago
that $4,000 was lost in celery enter
nrisc in Glynn county and that all
that the stakeholder got for their
money was q crop # 'cicles. That he
stated had cured him Of The farming
idea However. he thought the Sat-
suma Grange would grow here and he
would like 70 see it develOped.
The chairman then called for stock
8ubscripticns and there was no wild
rush TO subscribe Local committees
were named to 20 among the audience
and in all So 300 was subscribed.
Those who subscribed were Messers.
z. r. McGregcr. +. F. Twitty. ]. ].
Lott J. T. DnbberIv. r r. Briesenick.
l.. II. Haym n. II. Ballard, II. F.
duBignon ] B. G. Bitch. Stephens
and Allen, II. NJ. Branhsm, D. p. At
X nson. Oscar Johanuessen. ]. Fl. Kirk
land. G s TAFT. r. H. Parker George
r. Smith V r. Abrams, r. L. Phillips,
G. w Harper. r. II. Mason and Albert
Fendig
A motion prevailed that the chair
man name a committee to solicit sub
scriptions generally and that cbmmit-
tee will be named this morning
While the stock subscript ons last
night were not large. many well
known citizens being absent Lots of