San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-05
T. P. A. NEWS
NEwsLETTERFRoM PRESIDENT LEE.
The Great travelling Mems Order
is Growing and Making
Rapid Advancement.

President Joseph u. Booth, OF
Texas division, has organized
new post to be known as Post X,
Texas division, at Gainesville, Tex,
and national chairman OF the press
com mittee, Benish, is now cooper.
ating with President Booth with a
view to re-ors anizing the post at
Galveston, aud to establish a new
post at Ell Paso.
Indiana Division is also display
ing some activity and has recently
organized Post ID OF that division
at Frankfort.
A state election was held by
special order OF the National Board
OF Directors in Massachusetts Di-
vision on November 30, 1895, in
Springfield, Mass. State officers
elected were as follows: w. M.
Titus, president, Cooley's hotel;
s. NJ. Hunt, vlce-president, So
Worth street; f. 3. Jervis, secre-
tary and treasurer, P. o. Box 656;
all OF Springfield, Mass. A board
of eleven directors was elected.
The state headquarters were trans.
ferred from Boston to Springfield.
IL is thought that the National
Board OF Directors will probably
decide TO hold the convention a,
rerre Haute, Ind, along toward
the middle or last of May.
The contest between the railroad
department of the southern divis-
ions and the Southern States Pas
senger association still wakes
warm and we notices that e. Z
Smith, chairman OF the railroad
com mittee, Georgia division L. p
A. of A., who is also chairman OF
the business mems committee and
representative of the Commercial
Mems Congress in this enterprise,
has published a map, labeled at
the top "Is Georgia Disseminated
Againstw The map portrays all.
the territory and roads covered by
the new Buckeye Mileage Ticket
which is sold at 2 cents per mile
fiat for a 1000 mile ticket good
over SO transportation lines.
Post @, OF Houston, has decided
to move headquarters to the Capt.
toi hotel.
Ex-National Director JEFF ID.
Mershon, having few weeks leis
ure, volunteered his services as
national organizer for the I. P. A.
of A. without pensation. He
has just organized post in Allan
ia, Ga.
The membership in the T. p. A.
of A. throughout the south is grow
ing rapidly. The southern divis-
ions are now all engaged in an
earnest fight to secure 2 cents per
mile mileage books, good over the
lines OF the Southern Passenger as
ISOLATION.
The Commercial and Industrial
associa ion, OF Montgomery, Ala,
which includes all the merchants
and public.spirited men OF that en-
terprising city, has invited Post A,
of Alabama division, to use its
rooms for meeting and organiza-
ton purposes.
Post ID, Texas Division, T. P. A.
of A., San Antonio, gave an enter
tainment Friday evening, Deem
Der q, in the Elks' room, San Au-
tonic, of a delightful character,
which was largely attended. One
of the objects OF the meeting WAS
to form a relief fund association
within the post, the object being to
create a fund with which to aid
members of the post who become
sick or in distress and unable to
provide for themselves and fami-
lies.
Post A, of Missouri, the great,
big, powerful and largest post OF
the association, having memb' r
ship of 1000, gave an entertain
ment Saturday evening, Decem Der
81, in the Germania theater at st.
Louis, complimentary to its men,
bers.
Post A, Indiana division, OF Fort
Wayne, gave a most delightful
annual reunion ball on the even
ing Of December 6.
JOHN A. LEE, President.
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