Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-26
Event Will Take Place Semi
Monthly Following Success
Of Initial Experiment.
Other Interesting Events,
BY JACK l.. PATTERSON

WEST POINT, Ca, Nov. "a
West Point, the progressive little
metropolis of the Chattahoochee val
ley, deluged by flood on December
10, 1919, and devastated by cyclone
on March 2, 1920, with commemorate
enterprise and undaunted spirit is
setting an aggressive pace in the
commercial operations of western
Georgia.
Wednesday, November %, was CO.
operative sales day in this city, upon
which occasion more than one hun
dred mercantile firms sold one arti-
Gle each at less than the wholesale
price, and paid over the market price
for fifty bales of cotton, butter, eggs,
chickens and other products brought
in from the farms in the West Point
trade territory.
West Point is surrounded by the
most fertile farming lands in the
prolific Chattahoochee valley, and
the object of the co-operatives sales
was the stimulation of business and
the restoration of commercial activ-
tiles. These events will be held semi
monthly for two months and may be
continued through next year. On
December Z merchandise will again
be sold at reduced prices and cattle
and stock will be disposed Of at pub
lie auction on the streets.
No other city in Georgia is &C.
complishing more to restore the bust
ness world to normal conditions, and
business men from several Georgia
and Alabama points were present on
Wednesday to study methods and
make recommendations to the towns
which they represented.
1000 People Buy
Seven thousand people of both col
ors were taking advantage of the
many opportunities to purchase
merchandise at greatly reduced
prices. The streets were thronged
with people in congested activity
from nine o'clock in the morning,
when the roar of twenty-five shot
guns announced the opening of the
program, until shutdown. Automo-
biles and other vehicles were barred
from the fire limits to avoid acct
dents and give pedestrians right-of-
way from store to store and bank
to bank. At o'clock sixty premiums,
ranging in value from $25 down,
were given to the holders of lucky
numbers" that had been distributed
among the crowd free of charge. At
shutdown merchants agreed that the
sales had proved successful and We're
enthusiastic in their Endorsement of
the plan.
An airplane circus was furnished
by the Reeves Flyers, James G.. Ray,
of Birmingham, Ala; J. Ben Faulk-
ner, of Canton, Ca, and Robert Am
mons, of LAGRANGE, GA Walter
Sparks, photographer representing
The Atlanta Journal, made an as
cension in the plane with Aviator
Ray and made a number of pictures
of West Point and the assembled
crowds.
City Officers
The officers of West Point are:
Mayor, ]. R. Avery; members of
council, w. c. Lanier, H. L. Hill. W.
E. Booker, Sgd Fuller, Lee Herr
berg, and j. G. Roper.
Actively identified with every pro-
gressive movement projected in
West Point district is the Rotary
club with officers as follows: Presi-
dent, Hugh Mccullough, secretary,
S. P. Siegel. Another active organi-
cation is the board of trade. Off
GERS: Philip Lanier, president; Will
liam Huff, secretary. Phillip Lanier
is one of the most progressive citi-
zens of Troup county and is a leader
in every innovation.
Engineers are completing surveys
on a project that will eliminate the
possibility of high water on the
Chattahoochee river at West Point
in the future, work upon which will
be commenced as soon as the plans
are definitely adopted.
The great bridge constructed at
an expenditure of about $165,000 to
replace the one destroyed by the
flood in 1919 is one Of the most SUBJ
stantial in the state and cannot be
destroyed by raging waters. The