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FRIDAY MORNING MAR. IS, 1*14
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NUMBER 22.
HOTEL
SERVICE
VOL. 72
ESTABLISHED 1841
Will You Help
Build the
Will You Help
Build the
New Hotel
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Our Most Urgent Need Is a New
And Modem Hotel For
CITY’S GROWTH
IN BALANCE
IMPORTANCE NOW REALIZED
Now 1$ Time For All Good Mon
To Come To The Assistance
Of Our Fair City
Mr. J. L. Bradfield, one of the big-
vest merchants in the city and a man
n whose business judgement there
tan be placed much .reliance, states
that in his opinion a hotel, equipped
with all the modern facilities, con
noted under the proper management
would find a fertile field in this city
for making money. " Mr. Bradfield
further declared that we also needed
«n auditorium and backed his state
ment by the declaration that would
give $600 toward a movement of this
kind. y
One of the most progressive and
• ubstantial farmers of that progres
sive and substantial community, Sal-
fm, spent the week in LaGrange last
week as a juryman. Mr. Farmer
t topped at one of our hotels.
On the day he left the city he call
ed by to see his good friend Mr. R.
Key, and discussing the hotel
situation in LaGrange said, “What
LaGgange needs more than anything
<lse right now is a modern hotel—
one that can supply the accomoda
tions the times have taught us to
expect in a city. In spite of all the
progress this fine city has made in
other lines, she continues to ldg in
>>otel facilities, and no other phort
,-oming could be so detrimental to
the city’s good name.
“I love LaGrange and would ap
preciate as much as anyone the com
pliments which would be paid the
city by the traveling public if the
hotel facilities jurtified such. To
rhow you that I mean what I say I
would willingly take $2,000 stock in
k new and modem hotel, provided of
.ourse it would be conducted under
efficient management.”
Mr. R. O. Pharr of the progressive
firm of Pharr Bros. & Childs, has
this to say in regard to the hotel
situation: “It is very embarrassing
for LaGrange citizens to attempt to
hold any important conventions or
meetings of any kjnd that incur the
entertainment of out-of-town guests,
on acount of our inadequate hotel ac
comodations. Other cities the size
of LaGrange are operating hotels at
a profit and are benefitting from the
desirable advertising their cities ac
quire by having these facilities. Cer
tainly LaGrange should not delay
much longer.”
One of LaGrange’s good ladies,
who is public spirited enough to often
voice her sentiments in favor of ^the
erection of the new hotel, exclaimed
the other day that she had actually
i become ashamed to admit that she
was from a city of 12,000 inhabitants,
who were content to remain to far
behind other cities of this size in
hotel facilities.
Mr. G. L. Emslie, manager of Kress’
big five and ten cent store of this
city, in speaking of LaGrange’s im
perative need of a new hotel, said,
■‘I recently had a visitor from the
North,, who is prominently connect
ed with our chain of stores. He
arrived in LaGrange one morning
and having buisness that required
his detention in LaGrange for two
days, inquired of me the best Ho
tel in the city. With much humila-
tion I showed him what we had and
and let him'take his choice. The re
sult was that he caught the after
noon train for Opelika and came
back here the next day.
■“Not since we have opened in La
Grange have I been able to persuade
a visiting official to spend the night
in the city, with the exception of Mr
Holdcroft, who was obliged to re
main here over-night, expecting
some important mail.
"In my opinion LaGrange will never
be able to benefit to the fullest ex-
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PUBLIC SPIRIT
REMANDS IT
PROMINENT MEN GIVE VIEWS
Many'Declare Our City Cannot
Advance Much Further Un
less Hotel Is Built
kbGRAWGC, GA.
her big commercial
unless a new hotel,
equipped with the latest con
veniences is provided for visiting
customers, who would like to spend
the night here.
With a new hotel the beneficial
effect# could immediately be felt by
the merchants and other business
men in this city and when the ques
tion is asked, ‘Will a new hotel pay,’
my answer is that it has been made
to pay in other cities even smaller
than LaGrange and I know that La
Grange business will be given a great
impetus by it.” *
Such an enthusiastic and well
founded argument as expressed by
Mr. Emslie is reflected by practically
our entire city. LaGrange merchants,
by allowing the present conditions
to continue are submitting- to a great
stumbling block that could be remov
ed with just a little effort and public
spirit.
Mr. B. T. Woodall manager of the
LaGrange Hardware Company, wiio
recently move*! here from Barnes-
ville, states that that city, which is
much smaller than LaGrange is pro
vided with an up-to-date hotel, much
nicer than the ones we have here
and for the last few years it has paid
a handsome profit.
Mr. Woodall is an “old” traveling
salesman and he declares, that in all
his experiences on tha road he has
never yet run across a cjty of this
size, where there were as poor hotel
accomodations.
Mr. J. D. Hudson of the Hudson
Hardware Company, was emphatic in
his declaration that LaGgange mer
chants would enjoy a much larger
patronage and the field of trade could
be greatly widened if proper hotel
facilities were provided.
Mr. P. E. Redding, who is local ag
ent for the Ar B. & A. railroad, mov
ed here from Forsyth last year. In
regard to the hotel situation in La
Grange, Mr. Redding had this to say,
“We 'have about the best hotel I
know of in the state in a town the
size of Forsyth. There is nothing in
LaGrange that will compare with it
and Forsyth is a great deal smaller
than LaGrange. It is surprising to
me that with all the progressive and
wealthy citizens we have in LaGrange
the city has gone so long without a
hotel with all the modern convenien
ces. It is indeed LaGrange’s great
est need and here is hoping that we
can get something done about it at
once.”
Last summer we were able to en
tertain the members of the Georgia
Weekly Press Association Only by
the public spirited citizens co-opcrat-
ing and turning over their homes to
the editors. The convention was a
great success and much good adver
tising was derived from it.
There are other conventions that
LaGrange could get and more good
can be obtained, but can we continue
to impose upon the generosity and
hospitality of the people? While
there probably is not a citizen in La
Grange, who did not enjoy having the
editors, there were many perfect
strangers to this city, who came here
with the convention, who would have
felt much more “wanted” if they had
'been put up at a nice hotel.
But the good citizens of this city
are being aroused. LaGrange con
tinues to forge ahead in* construction
work, the merchants are merrily at
work widening their field of trade and
more and more people ard coming to
the city.
Some of these days, and let us
hope not far off, a group of strong,
minded, strong willed and strong
hearted business men are going to
come to the rescue of this fair city
and stop the cutting, detrimental re
marks that are making not only
traveling men, but people who would
be buyers go to the place where good
hotel service can be found.
Best'Advertisers
Only Represented
As you turn the pages of this pa
per, make it a point to carefully read
the advertisements. It is t6 your
advantage to do so. There is not a
single doubtful or unworthy adver
tisement in the lot. We'do not ac
cept that kind.
When we announced, upon taking
over the paper, that we would not ac
cept liquor, patent medicin§ or doubt
ful advertising of any kind,predic
tions were plentiful' that we would
have to abandon the position;, we
were told that we could not exist
without carrying patent medicine ad
vertising at least. Our rea'ders can
appreciate, therefore, how pleased we
are to have “won out.” We are
grateful to the progressive merchants
whose support has made it possible.
In addition to the high-cldss and
character of the advertisements, no
tice their attractive appearance. They
compare favorably with those of the
large city dailies. Our young men
take pride and interest in giving good
service to our patrons, and the ap
pearance of the paper is' a credit to
their skill as well as loyalty.
With The LaGrange
Dry Goods Cp. Now
Mrs..Maud Phillips, who for some
time past, has been connected with
the New Callaways Department
Store, has accepted a position with
the LaGrange Dry Goods Company
and will
call then
That LaGrange is now fast awaken
ing to 'the fact that she cannot af
ford to be impeded in her splendid
progress by the lack of hotel facili
ties is evidenced by the fact that, on
every side is heard the comment “We
can’t afford to neglect this great
jieed any Iongei\”
Not only is this need of our city
discussed locally but in many parts of
the state the travell/tg man and even
those, who are not directly interested
are at loss to know how we have
maintained such a reputation for
subBt<mM . progress when we
are cbhalan^y faced by the crying
need of. what most every city our
size has—a modern hotel.
A prominent insurance man spent
lust Monday night in LaGranghe,
also spent Tuesday but he didn’t
spend Tuesday night. Ihktead ha
■went down to West Point, engaged a
loom at the Uharles Hotel; and re
turned to LaGrange for bindhesa
Wednesday. In speaking of his ex
periences' here this nian told a rep
resentative of the Reporter that with
all the wealth there was in LaGrange
he could not see for the life 4f • him
why some citizens -a' group of citi
zens could not make a good ' hotel,
ccnducted under the right manage
ment pay her.e. He said that tho
Charles Hotel at West Point was
forced almost eveiy Monday and'
Tuesday night to turn patron's away,
who wanted rooms. ,
How many of these patrons do you
thir.k were people, who had come to
' LaGrange and done as ttie insurance
man did?
“If LaGrange is to retain her rank
in progress and thrift among cities
of her it in mSnafhfcn/ft t.hjit.
W. C. T. U. MEETING.
Because of the observance of week
of prayer by the Woman’s Mission
ary Society of The First Baptist
church, the Woman’s Christian Tem
perance Union will meet, Friday,
March 27, at three o’clock p-m.
ELKS ELECT OFFICERS FOR
SUING YEAR.
At a meeting of LaGrange Lodge.
B P. O. Elks No. 1084 held Wednes
day night the following members we: c
elected for the ensuing, year:
H. C. Fincher, exalted ruler; J.. 1).
Hudson, esteemed leading knight;
Alex Wynn, esteemed loyal knight; 15.
S. Pitzer, esteemed lecturing knight;
W. J. Albright, secretary; J. K. Har
ris, treasurer; C. W. Corless, tyler;
F. C. Ferrell, trustee for three years;
H. C. Fincher was elected to repres
ent the local lodge at the Grand Lodge
which meets in \Denver, Cola, on
July 13; this year with T. H. Nim-
mons alternate.
The meeting was quite an enthusi
astic one and a number of out-of-town
members were present from Hogans-
viile, West Point and other places.
Front view of the Callaway Building
Morning.
after the destructive hie of Monday