The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04
ALABAMA EDITORS
TO NIAGARA FALLS
List of Those Who Will Make
the Trip.
A ROYAL ENTERTAINMENT
Is Being Prepared By the Commercial
Club and Newspaper Men of Bir-
mingham for Visiting Edi-
tors Next Week

Chairman j. D. Kirkpatrick. of the en-
tertainment committee of the Commercial
club, has called a meeting of his committee
and of all newspaper men in and around
Birmingham to be held in the Commercial
club rooms tomorrow afternoon at o'clock
for the purpose of making arrangements
for entertaining the Alabama Press asso-
citation which meets in Birmingham next
week The Commercial club and the press
of Birmingham are experienced entertain
ers, and they will see that the visiting
newspaper men have most pleasant time
while in the city.
Secretary j. A. Rountree, of the Press
association, has received letters from
newspaper men all over the state, and he
says that so far representatives of about
ninety papers have signifed their lnten-
ton of coming to Birmingham. This
means about two hundred visitors in all, as
a number of the editors have several men,
bers of their family with them. So far.
Mr.. Rountree has received the names of
sixty-five people who will go on the ex-
cursion to Niagara Falls, representing
about thirty papers. Tomorrow is the last
day on which passes for this excursion can
be obtained, and for this reason those who
intend going and have not notified Mr..
Rountree, he suggests had best wire him at
once.
The Excursion Party
The following is the list of those who
will go on the excursion. together with the
names which may be added tomorrow
w. w. Camper president. Times, Flor
ence; J. A. Rountree and wife, secretary,
Dixie Home and Manufacturer, Birming
ham; w. NJ. Bunting and Miss Olive Mich
OILS, Herald, Florence; Lee NJ. Otis, w. e.
W. Yerby and sister, Mrs. Florence Hud-
son, Watchman. Greensboro; S. P. West
and wife, Christian Advocate, Birmingham;
J. H. F. Moseley and lady, Labor Advocate,
Birmingham; C. H Frye and lady, Herald,
Pratt City; w. A. Brown, Cleburne Plow-
boy Edwardsville; Miss Annie Yerby, Her.
aid, Uniontown; NJ. C. Smith, Cherokee
Sentinel, Centre; F. A. Gillespie and wife,
Hustler, Hanceville; C. r. Bricken and
wife and H. Y. Brooke Journal, Luverne;
I. A. Levy and sister, Mirror, Eutaw;
Frank Crichton and lady, Banner, Clanton;
j. r. Whalen and Mrs. d. c. Adams,
Breeze, Columbia; Joe ]. Finney and R. r.
Tomlin, Inquirer, Piedmont; Thomas r.
Walker and wife, Banner, Gainesville; w.
=. GrlggS and lady, News, Spr1ngVllle; &c.
S. Smith, R. L. Freeman and wife, Enter
prise, Sylacauga; c. p. Lane and daughter,
Tribune, Huntsville; r. F. Johnston and
lady, News, Birmingham: e. Lesser, L.
Braun, Misses Carrie and Maggie Braun,
Courier Birmingham l.. Hensby Grubbs
and wife, Walter M. Grubbs and wife,
News, Decatur; Fl. NJ. Henderson, Citizen,
Scottsboro; w. H. Lawrence and wife,
Southern Home, Livingston; j. A. Wester-
1und and wife, Vineyardst, Fruithurst;
Edwin S. Jack, Beacon, Greensboro;
e. r. Calhoun and wife, News, Carrollton;
Walter King, Tribune-Gazette, Cullman;
James L. Herring and lady, Aegis Ash
vile; ~. s. Griffith and wife and Miss
Griffith, Southern Alliance. Ashville; s.
Finch and wife, and T. Arm and Miss Mia
Finch, News, Bridgeport; j. c. Norwood
and wife, Clipper, Collinsville; Jacob Pep
perman and wife, Alabama Knight, Mont
gomery; r. d. Lamont and wife, Journal,
Geneva; George W. Salter and wife, Cour-
ant, Evergreen; s. II. Morris and wife,
Recorder Berry; Robert Jones and sister,
Miss Alice Jones, Youths Friend, Eldridge;
J. H. Vaught and Monte Vaught, Chronicle
Stevenson o. II. Stevenson, Leader, Roam
oke; A. R. Powell and NJ. NJ. Tucker Clip
per. Elba; C. J. Hildreth and Miss Theo.
Hldreth, Advertiser New Decatur; J. M.
Dewberry and wife, Educational Exchange
Birmingham; Robert Rawls and wife, Cou-
rier, Athens; w. T. Wear ard wife. Indus
trial News Opelika: e. o. Nicely, Demo-
crat, Guntersville; r. l.. O'Neal and wife
Mercury, Huntsville; Percy Clark, Tele-
gram Selma.