El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-04-18
EXCHANGE TAKES
BONDS
Ell Paso Stock Market op-
ems Quarters With Pa
triotie Ceremonials.

The Fl Paso stock Exchange over
subscribed its quota Of Victory Lib
erty loan bonds more than three times
over at the opening OF its new quar-
tiers IN the basement Of the First Ma
tic--l bank Thursday night The Vic
tory loan committee had placed the
quota Of the exchange at $4,000. and
subscriptions were made to the amount
OF SIS. GOO. The first three 500 bonds
were sold at s225 each 1t was stated
by the management that subscriptions
viii be called FOR and taken at each
session Of the exchange.
Ferns and Roses.
The new quarters Of the exchange
we're decorated with ferns and Anneri-
can Beauty roses for the opening
night and the building was packed
with representative men and women
The president. w A. Netrle. mace q
sh5-t talk before the selling Of stock
began. thanking the people OF Fl Paso
for their cooperation In the opening
OF the exchange
1T is the intention to make this the
Biggest and most successful exchange
west OF the Mississippi" he said
He read congratulatory messages
from J. D O'Brien, Of the Denver OIL
stock exchange, j. 4. HaBel, OF Lhe
salt Lake stock exchange the New
York curb exchange, Phillip ". Wren,
of the Boston stock exchange; the
Nettie Oil exchange OF Fort " ortn-
and a message from his mother, which
read Congratulations and sincere
hest wishes for the new exchange from
Private Wire.
Tom Johnson. vice president Of the
exchange. also made a short talk. II
was announced that private wire ser
vice VIII be inauEur1ted TO all leading
markets in the east as soon as ar
rangements can be made
PURCHASES Of Victory bonds were
made by the following:
Fl Pas0 Ranger. $4,000; J. s Currss,
$1,000. Mark Dunbar, S1opo7 W A
Nettle $1,000: W. l. Barnard. $luuus
7 r Moffett. $1,000; F. b. Hadloek
$1,000 Sharpnack g. Co, $1,000; h H
Major, $1,000. Fl PasO OIL Exchange
s100o- Tom B. Johnson $1,000; wilson
C. PorterfieId, $1,000. F. W Eayser,
$3.50 n A. FEEDER, $1,000; Nettle
Crowelf. $1,000: Greater Texas oil COM
rauy. $1,000 Ranger Burk oil CORPORA
ton. $500 c. G. Dues, $59e- F. H.
Price. $500. James i. Sadler. S5oOs Dr.
= c. Dvsart- $500: J. +. d'Allemand.
$500 W II. Peterson 5000 Herman
Black. $500: P W MLmore. $500 Sc
curitv Jewelry company. $3.50; =, g
Barnard 5000 g -. IalDerl. s-gu-
D. A. Mcclure. $500: X B. Creel. 500;
Mrs. Maud Allen. $500: Mrs ~ F.
Hampton. 5000: George d. Kendall.
$500. l. Wechter, $500; c. J Shapiro,
$50: Mrs. a. F. Parmelee, 500; A. J.
8IcKeown. 500: c. D. Rogers. 800:
f. J. Lubker. $780, Mrs. L. A Working.
500. Mrs Olive Meyers, $780, s s
Miller. $50 Carl s. Reeves. $50.
Several other $50 subscriptions were
received from persons whose names
were not announced to the exchange
officers.
Woman sells Stock.
shortly after the opening OF the
sales OF oil stock, Mrs c. d Rogers
mounted the platform and sold a num-
Der Of shares OF Ocean oil stock.
Officers and committees Of the eL-
change were announced by president
Nettle as follows:
President, ". A Nettle: vice presi-
dent. Tom Johnson. secretary H h
Major Recommendations. J. s Curtiss.
Listing committee-sIark Dunbar.
chairman: William Foy and L L
SharpnaCk
Finance committee. s. Curtisss C
c. Dues and j. r Moffett.
Executive committee-I'0m Johnson
". L. Barnard and C. 7. Tal1ert
Membership committee-1I. Melvin,
y. H. Ruddick, H. c. Barnard c. j.
Shapiro and p. J. NcKeowu-
Publicity commirtee--E- Il Rein
hart and II. z BoWden-