The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-04-07
TRADE BODY ELECTS
LECKS PRESIDENT
And Urges Members to Give
Him Earnest Support.

last Monday night elected Mr.. H. F.
Lecks president of the body to fill
out the unexpired term of B. E. JAR
rett, resigned. Mr. Leck's selection
was unanimous and hearty.
Lecks himself is hearty-anti-dys-
peptic, optimistic, joyful, genial, jol-
ly and just the man for the place.
Warner T. Hamm, presided at
the meeting, and he took occasion to
administer a really wholesome lecture
to the delinquents-those who toll not
and neither do they spin-the men
who lack enthusiasm and who have
been prone to forget the needs for
united Palatka.
M. P. Walsh said something valu-
able. Walsh is editor of New Flori-
da, the monthly publication of the
Florida Farms & Homes, Inc. He
spoke of the opportunities and ad-
vantages of Palatka for bonded
warehouse. He said he had been i'll
close touch with Williamson & Den
|
ed there the only bonded warehouse in
the state and as he believed the first
in the country to be operated under
the banking act.
He had urged ON Messrs. William
son & Dennis that Palatka was the
logical place for their next ware
house since it was their purpose to es-
tablish a chain of warehouses. They
had replied that if conditions war
ranted it they would come to Palatka.
Mr.. Walsh advocated the Board of
Trade securing the cooperation of Mr..
L. Cantrell, the county demonstra-
ton agent and his co-workers in ad-
joining counties to gather reliable da-
ia of crop conditions in this territory.
He would call meeting in Palatka
of these agents, the farmers and rep
resentatives of the transportation in
terests centering here to confer with
Williamson & Dennis and to secure
this bonded warehouse for Palatka.
He read from a letter from Will
hanson & Dennis showing what the
bonded warehouse had done for the
Gainesville territory. In 1914-15
they purchased for cash six car loads
of hogs in that vicinity. This year
they have purchased more than 30
,, carloads thus dispensing 100000 of
cash among the farmers.
Further, with the opening Of our
warehouse, which is organized and
bonded under the regulations of the
Federal Reserve Bank, we can say
to the producer. Your corn, peanuts,
beans, hay, and other staple products
: are now placed on the same basis as
your cotton We will offer you a
| cash price for these products, which
:, cash price is based on the present
+ wholesale market, or, if this price
does not appeal to you and you need
= money, you may store them in ware
= house and borrow Is per cent of their
= market value at per cent interest,
e and hold them for better prices.
/ "Our efforts have succeeded be.
t yond our expectations. Our receipts
Y of products on the second month OF
: opening doubled over those of the
: first month, and the third montt
S more than doubled the second. Corn
! beans, peanuts, chufus, hay and cot
ton have been both purchased anc
l. stored. Six per cent money has beer
4 available to the farmer for the frs
= time in the history of this State, ant
s the foundation has been laid for al
organized wholesale, cash market fol
Staple Farm Products, and basi'
on which the producer can handle HI
4 crop marketing intelligently ant
profitably. Florida corn has beel
tested and graded beside and in com
parison with western grain ant
classes, when properly prepared, a
No. 2, which is the highest grade o
merchantable corn. Florida haV
have been graded and classified ant
placed in favorable competition wit
l, the best western hays"
II Col. Jas. R. Murphy was present
II He said some things calculated t
produce q rush of enterprise of t
Il the heads of members-provided tn
words take. Murphy is plugge
himself, and he finds it hard to un
derstand how people can live in a fin
CITY like Palatka and not get togeth
I er in a united push for greater things
II A committee was appointed to tax
the school matter in hand.