The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-01-11
s1OO LIBERTY BOND
GIVEN As REWARD
FOR BEST INCREASE
COLUMBIA PRODUCE co. DisTRlB-
uTEs ANNUAL GIFTS TO EN-
ERGETIc EMPLOYEES.
So, 10000 VOLUME BUSINESS
N. S. BeasIey Host at Annual Meet
ing of Managers and Hanquets
Them at His Home-t2 Houses Rep
resented Last Night.

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and celebrating the close of year O
successful business, the annual meet
| ing and banquet of the managers am
local office force of the Columbia Pre-
duce Co., was held last night at tn
home of the secretary and treasurer
Nv. S. Beasley, on West Seventh
street, with all of the managers o
| the IL houses of the concern ant
other employees and guests present
To A. l.. Killen, manager OF the Lo
retta branch, was presented a $40
Liberty Bond as reward for show
ing the leading increase in business
over that of 1916, while to each OF thu
other employees was presented Wa
Saving Stamp card with S. stamI
On it with the suggestion and advice
that they fill the card with SIS stamps
until it becomes a War Savings Ger
! tificate, thus showing their patriotism
and adopting the commendable habit
of saving. Stop watches were giver
also to each manager, to be used ir
bringing about more efficient use
of the telephone in long distance calls
the plan being to hold all of the mum
erous telephone conversations with
in the three-mnute limit. In addition
to the gifts there was liberal dis
tribution this morning of increased
salaries.
Reports of the various managers
presented at the close of the years
business showed satisfactory in
crease with a total volume for the
IL houses of $3,l60,OO0 During the
year a new branch house was opened
at Lewisburg.
The dinner last night at the Beas
ley home began at 1870 o'clock and
the evenings entertainment and JOLT
fication continued several hours, each
employee and guest leaving with a
glad heart and the determination ia
make 1913 the best year in the his
tory OF this company that is max
ing such gigantic strides in the pro
duce business Of Tennessee. Those
present included the following mana.
gers: l.. c. Bates. Waverly; A. B.
Chowning. McEwen; H. A. Peyton,
Dickson; Nelse Cherry, Dickson Ice
Co; j. r. Crowder, Fayetteville; w.
H. Lumnsden, Petersburg; C. c.. Sta
cey, Lewisburg; X B. Doyle, Chapel
Hill; p. ID. Bridges, Lawrenceburg; A.
l.. Killen, Loretta; and l.. l.. Brown,
Columbia. &>l''.. s"t. H,"'"~s
Members of the Columbia office
force present were Misses Irma Err
win and Myrtle McAllister, and Mrs
Hurt Atkisson, Besides Mr.. and Mrs
Beasley other guests present were A.
NJ Cochran of Nashville, president OF
the company; Miss Virginia Scott and
C. b. Hardison of Columbia.
The dinner was served in six
courses and consisted of sumptuous
array of delicacies drawn from the
produce storage room, such as turkey,
chicken. eggs and other articles not
to be found in abundance on the aver
age banquet table. The reception and
dining rooms were appropriately dec
Grated, and the place cards bore orig
inal verses, written by the young
ladies of the office force, conveying
some witticism on the life or tenn
permanent of each one present A typi-
cal verse was that at the plate Of Mr..
Cochran, who has had some difficulty
in securing a book-keeper since the
draft began it's work. This verse was:
There was book.keeper who had
but one hand,
Who Cochran thought was the best
man in the land.
He staid only two-weeks to Cochran s
dismay-
For two or three weeks Cochran
worked night and day
Not for love of Mike but for love OF
Uncle Sam"
That on the place card of Mr.. Beas
ley was:
Though the secretary OF this clan
Is not big nor yet little man,
He is strictly business. but honest and
just,
And it is needless to say that in hin
we all trust"