Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-09-20
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THE 200 SEATS FOR HOME PEOPLE
ALL TAKEN.
Two Hundred visitors Coming-The Ban
quet VIII BE = Brilliant Affair."
.+t Reception win Open The
~ Ball.

The arrangements committee has
about finished it's work and every
thing is now in readiness for next
weeks exercises. A change to cooler
weather is the only thing needed to
guarantee a successful meeting in
every way.
The drive on Tuesday evening will
terminate at Bethel Female College,
where REFRESHMENTS will be served.
All persons who will allow the use
of their vehicles will please report to
either member OF the carriage com
mittee to-day or tomorrow. The
committee consists of "a. w. Tibbs,
Harry Hopper, Frank Bell and Ohio
Anderson. The carriages will be
needed at ESQ Tuesday,
The ladies committee on decoration
will meet at DR.. Hills this morning
at 10 o'clock to organize for the work
assigned them.
THE SEATS ALL TAKEN.
The 200 seats assigned to home
subscribers have all been taken
There have been no certificates is
sued to editors and Secretary
Gaines estimates the attendance at
200 at the lowest calculation. The
seating capacity OF the banquet
hall cannot be increased beyond 400
and those who have not engaged
seats can now only get in by filling
vacancies that may occur in the reg
ular list. The lists will be closed to-
night and the tickets issued tomor-
row. After to-day no seats can be
obtained except as above stated. The
tickets will be non transferable and
will be taken up at the door.
sEcRETARY's ANNOUNCEMENT. -
The Kentucky Press Association
will convene in annual session in the
city of HopkinsviIle next Monday,
Sept. q, and will be in session there
two days. The meeting promises to
be a representative of the asso-
citation and will in all probability be
the largest attended in years. The
The secretary has already booked ITO
with many precincts" yet to hear
from. Knowing how 'hospitable the
people of Hopkinsville are every ed
itor in the state wants to be there,
and where at all practicable is max
ing his arrangements to do 30. There
will be at least calculation I75 or 200
newspaper people there, I75 of whom
will make trip through to Atlanta.
Assurances have been given that the
Queen City of the Pennyrile will be
fully equal to the occasion in every
particular. The secretary is pleased
to announce that the details, both for
the converting at HopkinsviIle and
for the outing in the South have been
completed, and there remains nothing
to do save to tap the drum. Let
every editor who wishes to take the
trip reach Hopkinsville not
later than the evening of the 24th,
for the following morning at 5 o'clock
the association will leave by special
train for Atlanta, via Nashville and
G Chattanooga. The association will
likely breakfast On the 25th at Nash
vile, reaching Chattanooga for din
ner and spending the afternoon on
Lookout mountain and visiting the
battlefelds. The trip to Atlanta
can be continued that night or taken
the next morning, just as may be the
pleasure of the association. The run
from Hopkinsville to Nashville is two
and one-half hours, and from Chatta-
nooga to Atlanta six hours. For the
benefit of any who may not be famil-
ar with the two days stay in Hop
will say: Public reception
and ball at Hotel Latham Monday
evening; Tuesday morning at 9 !
o'clock at the opera house the bus
ness session will be held and the
address, of welcome extended by the
mayor Afternoon of Tuesday the
'ditors are guests of the citizens, who
will show them the sights of the city.
Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock at the
Hotel Latham will be held the ban
Iuet, the feature of the entire coca.
ion. Elkton Progress.
PRESS NOTES.
Mrs. Eugenia Dunlap Potts, of the
Illustrated Kentuckian. and her
ephew, Mr.. Van Hamilton Denny.
MY son of Judge George Denny, of
lexington, have engaged rooms at the
.atham duriug the Press convention.
Three "Crappers" Captured.
Will Wallace, John Ford and Will
ackson, all colored, were before
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