The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-11-27

NJ ~ COMMITTEE In full Is as follows:
C.r,.,. AZ Nv. ~ bryan chairman; Mesdames
Sa,,er Waker, Keyworth. G.. A. Taft sam
McNiel, Uyaide Burns. Misses Celastc pn'
!ac, Eveyn Gardiner and Amy Knight An
important feature OF the disnlav ~ no
. .nnse IN tne department OF dairy products
VII ue soVu separator, handled, managed
.i'u explained by Mr.. ). j. Taylor.
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Fifteen hundred invitations IN tho trav.
eiins men OF Texas we're mailed Saturday.
Five hundred In one package stamina, ma
,eaSy TO be addressed were sent to MIR. J..
=. nnes,ser, grand secretary Of the U. c. r.,
at Dallas. Travelling Mems Day. Thursday
december s, will be one Of the most In,
teresting Of the week.
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Mr.. w. A. Leonard, editor OF the Angle.
ton Times, and Mr.. b. A. Smith, who has
been spending almost every moment az hi.
time for the last three weeks in gathering
together Brazoria county exhibit, spent
Saturday in Houston and arranged for
space at the Auditorium. Mr.. Smith said
VIII personally make about thirty Ave
entries In addition to the entries for Bra
zorla county, and YOU can Just put 4; down
that we will be here after the blue RIB IN
ana expect to carry 1t away with u.s." Mr..
Leonard smiled and said: THAT is about
the size OF it."
The Houston Saengerbund, under whose
direction the concert for Friday evening,
December ., VIII be given, was the first
musical Organization in the city to compete
ats programme. This programme is now in
the hands of the amusement committee
CONSISTS OF fourteen numbers and when toe
numbers by the orchestra are fitted in
tne evenings entertainment Will bs com
pieted and ready for the printer.
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Mr.. A. j. Birchfeld editor OF the Alvin
SUM- spent Saturday in Houston Mr.. Birch
Held said: Down at Alvin everybody Is
taking about the Fruit, Flower and yege-
taoie FESTIVAL and you can rest assured that
we are going to make good exhibit"
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In soliciting fruits for the Fruit, Flower
and Vegetable Festival number of indi.
viduals have said they only had small
quantity of fruit, perhaps but one kind.
and did not think it worth while to take
IT, Bring what you have, If it is only SUI
ficient to fill one plate, or a few cans of
choice canned fruit, and let us show our
visitors at the festival that we in South
Texas can excel the world in fruits III any
one mas fruits now ripe which are liable to
spoil before December s, If they will take
them TO MIR. Charles Shearn. chairman of
The lfuit committee, he will have them
preserved in cold storage until the festival.
Mrs. ID. d. Cooley 10 vice chairman OF the
lruit committee.
The following from the Alvin Sun shows
the interest felt:
Editor Sun.
We want every grower In this community
TO confer with us as to the best method of
making AN exhibit at the Fruit Flower md
Vegetable Festival Representative of one Of
the leading producing poants in Texas.
successful display Will hep us TO lind
customers and attract prospeclors. Those
who grow for market usually do not DIVER
silly enough to enter tor premiums, but
THAT should not prevent community DIS
play. Whatever the product and however
small your contribution may be, 1t will
help tn the general result and eventually
we will all be repaid for the trouble.
II. w. Wood.
C. w. Benson,
Committee
Alvin carried off first prize last year.
but she has got TO hustle II she captures
it this time. Alvin's exhibit last season
not only aroused other parts of this coun-
Even tourists from Southern California
read of our exhibit and came here 60 see
for themselves; TO see the country that
claimed ITO be a rival of Uneir own. They
came, they saw and were convinced. They
invested and are now happy. The Santa
Fe had cuts made from views taken of the
Alvin exhibit at the Houston Fpuit Flower
and Vegetable Festival, and used them in
the neat descriptive pamphlet published
last spring. Thousands of these little books
We're distributed at the Omaha exposition,
and tens of thousands sent out by the com
pany and the real estate agents. This o.
flee alone dispensed several thousand This
only goes TO show what benefits Alvin and
the whole coast country of Texas derived
from last years exhibit.
Messrs Wood and Benson are wide
awake, enterprsing men. and with the
proper encouragement and assistance of
our people these gentlemen will arrange
an exhibit that will not only carry off the
first prize, but will put up an exhibit that
will astonish the world. The material IS
here end all THAT is necessary is for our
farmers and gardeners TO do their part,
viz, furnish the produce, which will cost
them nothing but little time and palms. 1t
will be bread cast upon the waters. Every
new settler and every acre OF land brought
under a state of cultivation adds dollars
20 THAT now improved
Our Business Lesgue did some noble work
Tor the Alvin exhibit last year; let them
axe the same interest now and our success
IS assured
The members OF the press reception COM
ntttee met yesterday afternoon There were
present Chairman W. d. Cleveland, Messrs.
Cummings, Reichardt, Palmer. Swope, |
Joyle, Meldrum and Bryan. 1t was decided !,
@ entertain the visiting newspaper men on
afternoon, December 9. with an
oyster roast at Angerhoifer's. The ar.
engagements will be made upon the basis OF
100 guests. Messrs. NJ. II. Nc
MILAN. w. V. Cullom and c. Hoxhansen !
we're added to the committee 1t was CO.
,ided TO send out invitations TO every news-
,aper In the State TO be represented. Ihe
,yster roast was placed in the hands OF Mr..
Joyle The following gentlemen OF the
0ru!t. Flower and Yegetable Festival TO-
,acao committee are requested to meet
II, atr,,,,r n Moore at the office OF