The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-01-13
ocALA. FLORIDA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 49, 1922


railroad with a viw to maintaining its
operation.
Was represented by Mr.. A. C.
Blowers at a meeting held in Orlando
in December for the purpose of secur-
ing a uniform road map for the state
and for the thrashing out of problems
connected with the routing of tourists
into Florida. Mr.. Blowers also repre-
sented the organization at the south
eastern conference of the American
Automobile Association held in Jack
sonville January and 6.
Co-operated in arranging for a
Chautauqua.
Co-operated with the baseball asso-
citation.
Found employment for a number of
persons during the year.
Adopted a resolution calling upon
the railroad labor board to abrogate
the so-called national agreements and
to permit the carriers to make their
own contracts and adjust their rates
in line with individual conditions.
Arranged for a lecture on" Getting
the Most Out of Retailing" by Mr..
W. F. Brannan, of the National Cash
Register Company, with which was
shown eight reels of motion pictures.
Co-operated with the Marion County
Fair Association in the preparation
of advertising and the securing of
publicity for the fourteenth annual
Marion County Fair.
The civic committee was instrument
tai in seeing that the location of the
restaurant building at the union sta
tion did not interfere with the propos-
ed improvements of the station plaza.
Kept on file list of rooms and
apartments for rent which list was
made use of by hundreds of visitors
and tourists.
Maintained an information table on
which were placed the booklets and
literature issued by the Board of
Trade and the booklets of many of the
commercial organizations of the state
with whom arrangements were made
for the reciprocal distribution of lit
erature.
Maintained registration book for
the tourists and visitors calling at the
Board of Trade room. The registra-
ton book contains the names of eight
persons from other states with whom
correspondence was had during the
year. If other parties came to Ocala
or to the county as result of CORES
pondence no record of it is available
who did not call at the Board of Trade
room. A special effort will be made
in the correspondence in the future to
have all persons call at the Board of
Trade room on their arrival here so
that some check can be had on the
number.
1t should be stated here that it was
as a result of correspondence with
the Board of Trade that the company
represented by Mr. G. II. Morthland
of this city purchased $4,000 acres in
the northeastern section of the county.
During the year, other organiza-
tions and committees of the same
made use of the Board of Trade room.
Among these other organizations
were the Ocala Baseball Association,
Marion County Creamery Company,
Capital Removal Club, the Ocala Ro-
tary Club, Marion County Farmers
Union, Farm Loan Association, Boys
High School Athletic Association,
Marion County Game and Protective
Association and others.
During the year your secretary at
tended the convention of the Southern
Commercial Secretaries Association in
Jacksonville and the Florida State
Commercial Secretaries Association in
St. Augustine. He attended meet
ing held at White Springs in connec-
: tion with the construction of state
I road No. and with committee from
that meeting appeared before the
state highway department in Talla-
hassee. He attended a meeting held
in Lakeland for the purpose of organ
: izing the Florida Tariff Equalization
League, and on the ninth of January
appeared before the state railroad
commission in Jacksonville with mem
bers of the Florida Tariff Equalization
League.
: Your secretary was reelected secre'
tary of the Florida State Commercial
Secretaries Association.
The board of governors held twenty
, two meetings during the year.
No general meetings of the organi.
: zation were held between April 28tf
and Dec. 22nd. After several efforts
in May to get quorum present al
general meeting the attempt wa:
: given up and as there came up during
the month following no matter of out
: standing importance which needed tt
be referred to a general meeting nj
t effort was made to obtain such meet
= ing until December, when two effort.
: wer made to obtain quorums without
/. success. 1t is because of this tina
, your secretary has proposed al
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