Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1909 — DIRECTORS APPROVE CONTRACTS [ARTICLE]

DIRECTORS APPROVE CONTRACTS

One Hundred and Eighty-Six Contracts Approved by the Commercial Club and Settlement Made With the Salesmen. •V. • .V« * - * It was found when the directors board of the Commercial Club made settlement with the agents who superintended the sale of the lots that there were some duplications and the total number of contracts turned in was 186. All were approved and the terms of settlement agreed upon were made. The salesmen were not paid in full, but the balance of their commission will be paid after three or four months. Assuming that all the contracts are good the amount that will be realized when the lots are paid for will be $37,200; deducting from this the sale commission, $1,860, and the cost of thh land, $9,855, and there will-re-main $25,4851 Of course, there were some other expenses to the sale and there will be some constant expense in the maintenance of the club and in getting a factory. It seems to us advisable that the Commercial Club should decide at once to employ a secretary for the club who would give his entire time to the interests of the club, co-operating with President Warren Robinson. The duties of this person should include the collection, of the monthly lot payments, correspondence with factory people, and the attention to all details that will require a man of intelligence, experience and resourcefulness. In Mr. James W. Beckman we have an available man, and we feel that the Commercial Club would do well to call a meeting and discuss this plan and receive a proposition from Mr. Beckman. He was the instigator of the Elgin, 111., commercial club, and received the. heartiest endorsement from Elgin newspapers, and has recommendations from prominent men, among them one from H. C. Barlow, the executive director of the Chicago Association of Commerce, the greatest commercial association in the world. The Commercial Club here must economize and not let any part of its funds escape, and it should be abetted by various methods, and with a man of Mr. Beckman’s ability giving it constant thought, there will be many means suggest themselves of securing aid for the factory movement. To endeavor to carry out the plans so splendidly begun without the services of a man to look after it, would be very poor economy, and the results would be quite unsatisfactory. Mr. Beckman will make the club a proposition If they care to entertain it, and we believe that they should give him a hearing.