Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-19
$4,000 RAISED
BY MOULTRIE FOR
YEARS PROGRAM
Citizens There Have
Learned What They
Can Do

MOULTRIE, Feb. 19.-It was easy
to see at the big meeting of the Moul-
trie Chamber of Commerce here
Tuesday night why Moultrie has
grown in few years from small
crossroads town into one of the most
prosperous and promising cities of
Georgia, and why Colquitt county,
which many of it's citizens can re-
member as practically uninhabited
tract of virgin forest, has so. rapidly
developed into one of the finest agri-
cultural counties in Georgia or the
entire South.
1t is the spirit of the people that
has wrought these wonderful accom-
plishments; spirit of loyalty, of de-
termination and of cooperation, and
that spirit was unmistakingly express
ed in the annual meeting and BANQUET
of the Moultrie Chamber of Com
merce which was held on the fourth
floor of the Welfare building at the
Swift & Co. packing plant here last
night, attended by nearly 500 citi-
zens of Moultrie and Colquitt county.
Many years ago the business men
of Moultrie and the farmers of Col
quit county saw the necessity of get
ting together and joining in an effort
to improve their city and county.
The program of a combined COM
munity spirit in the city and the
county, each equally interested in the
other, has been successfully followed
by the active Chamber of Commerce
of which Moultrie has long been able
to boast, and the results of this pro-
gram are county of which it is the
commercial and industrial center.
Big Results Achieved.
The result of this program has been
to bring large manufacturing enter
prises to Moultrie, to bring hundreds
of new citizens to Moultrie and Col
quit county, to build good roads and
good schools throughout the county.
to carry out program of form dem
onstration and canning club work
which has become the model of excel
lence which other counties of the state
seek to emulate.
To show the faith that the people
OF Colquitt county and Moultrie have
in the program which their Chamber
of Commerce has been following with
such good results, and in order to en-
large that program for the present
year, more than $4,000 was sub.
scribed to the Chamber of Commerce
at this meeting. The budget of the
Chamber Of Commerce, which had
been prepared by the efficient secre-
tary, Charles B. Caldwell. called for
5000, and this sum would have
been entirely subscribed, but for the
fact that good many citizens who
wanted to subscribe werS absent.
and $1,000 was left over for these
men to contribute, "a committee hav-
ing been appointed to see them and
complete the budget.
1t is an inspiration to visitors to see
the ease with which this large amount
for Chamber of Commerce work was
raised; to see how gladly these pub
lie spirited citizens of Moultrie and
Colquitt county ANNOUNCED their shb-
scriptions.
The Best Investment.
One could see from the very atmos-
phere of faith that developed at this
staoe of the meeting that these men
realized from their past exuerierce
that the monev thew were subscrih-
ing was being invested more proftablv
than it could he invested in anv other
wav. Thew rnaliZad thot II was he-
cause thew had done sim'ler things in
| the past that it was possible for one