The Dermott news. (Dermott, Ark.) 1910-1977, 1917-01-11
Board of Trade Reorganized.

One of the most enthusiastic gather
ings in Dermott lately was the reor
ganization meeting of the Board of
Trade on last Friday night in the dining
room of the Ghicot Hotel The pur-
pose of the meeting was stated in a
few remarks by Henry Bordeaux which
was followed by general discussion on
the subject of whether the Dermott
Board of Trade should be revived and
reorganized or not The consensus of
opinion was that this should be done.
Rev William A. Role was chosen tenn
porary chairman of the meeting and w.
ID. Trotter temporary secretary. 1t
was decided to make the dues one
dollar per month and all present who
desired to become members of the or
ganization were enrolled
permanent organization was then
effected by the election of officers.
This paft of the proceedings reminded
one of an old time political convention
for whenever any of the nominees OBJ
jected or declined their nomination the
''steam roller was brought INTO action
and went putting over.
The officers elected are az follows:
Carl Helmstetter, President; j. a
Bennett. Vice President; Henry Ber
deaux, Secretary; W. d Trotter
Treasurer; and g. f Kinney. Adver-
tizing Manager The Board of Di-
rectors elected are: J. c. Hoffman, D.
kimpel, Dr. +. f. Barlow. w d.
Trotter. William A Role and r. W
Marks.
After some discussion of the bill that
will be introduced in the coming meet
ing of the Legislature relative to the
imposition of flat rate of taxation for
ievees. the Board of Trade went on
record as not being opposed to the
present five mills rate but az most EN-
phatically opposed to the flat rate. SO
Legislative Committee was appointed
to study the defects of the proposed
bill and to confer with the Hon. Badly
Vinson and the other Representatives
relative to amendments to the
Objectionable features of the bill. They
were given full power to act in carry
ing out the wishes of the Board of
Trade and to go to Little Rock. if ne
cessary, to prevent the enactment of
said bill The committee is composed
of w D. Trotter, J. T. Crenshaw, and
DR. l.. A Buckner Several letters
were read from representative people
in Drew and Desha counties opposing
the same bill.
Mr. c. X Morley, President of the
McGehee Board of Trade. was intro
duced to the meeting and made a very
interesting talk on special work that
his Board is doing and has done. He
also made some timely suggestions on
cooperation. showing how no officers of
Board of Trade could make a success
unless they had the backing and CO
operation of all the members of the
Board.
The matter of the Profitable Farm
ing Meeting to be held in Dermott on
January 10th was suggested and after
enthusiastic discussion on the ways and
means of getting the farmers and
others interested in this meeting, the
following committee was appointed to
make all the necessary arrangements /:
Henry Bordeaux. Chairman. Elvin
Lephiew, and DR.. f. f. Barlow. The
manager of the Ghicot Hotel offered
the use of the Chicot Hotel dining room
for the meeting and the Hotel Der
mott Auditorium was also offered
1t was decided for the Board of Trade
to meet on the first Thursday night of
every month The management of the
Chicot Hotel has rendered the use of
the dining room and the offer was ac-
cepted for the present until perma-
nent meeting place is decided upon.
1t was voted for the President to APP
point membership committee to can
vass town for members, the committee
TO be appointed later.
The enrolment at this meeting
amounted to forty-two and it is hoped
that every business and professional
man in town as well as every man who
is loyal to Dermott and wants to helE
make it a greater and better Dermott
to join and lend helping hand A list
of the live wires" who are members
and who are helping in that way tc
make greater and better Dermott will
be published by the secretary from time
TO time in the Dermott News. X
The following are the members:
+. l.. Clark j. f. Leeper
Frank Johnson Henry Caster
Bert Nixon j. L. Crenshaw
r. E. Dent G. E. Kinney
w. S. Daniel V. f. Moss
W. T. Young Harney Parnell
Geo. w. Flowers c. II. McCroskey