The Sentinel=record., 1916-12-17
BELONG LEAVES EBEL IN CHARGE
CHANGE IN sECRETARYSHIP OF BUSINESS MEMS LEAGUE WAS
 MADE YESTERDAY.
Board of Governors Individually Win Tender Retiring Officer Dinner Monday Evening.

George R Bedding, one ef the best known citizens of Hot Springs and the | state generally yesterday turned the | tIce of secretary Of the Business i Mems League over to Waiter M EucI | This successor and assumed charge Of l the affairs of the DeSota Springs Wat l Ter Company
 The new secretary readily adapt ad | himself to his duties as his th.e. years atiiliation with this orgauizu- ten had made him familiar with the affairs of this office Toe the work of the Business Mems League he wi.l devote his entire time and attention i
 'l have relinquished every local in- | terest l represented as pubicit, agent said Secretary Fbel. T had been working for some of the local theaters and doing press work for oth. or interests in Hot Springs. but gay. it all up to devote my entire time to this office. l know | have very very important work to do and l shall cer- tainly strive earnestly and hard to make success Of it In the future l all my time and attention will be given to the interests represented in the work of the Business Mems Lea que"
 The advantage of publicity in con nection with the future work of the League was Illustrated last night when the Associated Press carried a story to all the newspapers this ser vice represents, detailing the visit here of the noted Indian athlete, Tom Long Boat who is in Hot Springs for preliminary conditioning before his last great race. which is 10 take place in February in New York, and of the engagement of Dr. Albert Bunell 1 Hunt, the Harvard professor, who is booked to lecture in Hot Springs il February.
 Secretary Ebel has been assured of the hearty cooperation ot the Board or Governors and President Gus Strauss to make his work the success he desires
 President Strauss and the Board of Governors Individuality will tender to Mr. Bedding a complimentary dinner Monday night which will be served in the Arlinet2n hotel They desire in this manner to show the retiring secretary of the League the high esteem in which he is held by those with whom he has worked and CO., op. e-ated to advance the best interests of Hot Springs.
 Mr. Beidinss life in Hot Springs has been most activ one. For the past 20 years he has been in the front ranks in public endeavor He is the only man in Hot Springs who was elected mayor for four consecutive terms. While executive of the city he built the city hall and auditorium and Hot Springs, during his admins tration, took important progressive steps which won recognition for the city as the worlds greatest health re- sort
 During the Worlds Fair in St , ! Louis, Mr Bedding was named presi. dent of the Board of Commissioners , which placed Arkansas exhibit m that exposition. His worth and ex- perience in important matters of this nature affecting the entire state won for him q place cu the Pacific Paua- ma Exposition in San Francisco, and he was sent by the Arkansas Commits sion to select a site and arrange for the states building in that big show
 After concluding his duties as may or, Mir Bedding took charge of the Business Mems League and succeed. ed in making this organization one of the most important and influential commercial bodies in the south As secretary of the Arkansas State Fair, Mr Bedding brought the States EX- position tO the attention Of the peo- pie of Arkansas in a maner to win their commendation, for it was rec ognized as the greatest meeting and Show Window for the products and resources of Arkansas, the state had ever known. His business interests in Hot Springs are many. and in the De Soto Springs Water Company he has an institution which is recogniz- ed as one of the most important and progressive in Hot Springs
 Walter M. Ebel, a well-known news peper man, has been elected by the Beard of Governors of the Business Mems League as secretary and as sumed his duties today. He will com bine this office with that of publicity representative for the city's inter- ests. For several years Mir Ebel has represented as correspondent a chain Of large newspapers throughout the United States, and for the past three years has been directly connected with the Business Mems League, so that he is no stranger to the duties of secre- t2ry of that organization