The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-16
STATE ASSOCIATION
BUSINESS MEN or AiABAMl
 WILL MEET HERs.
Interesting Program of Annual Con vention of Alabama Commercial and Industrial Association.
 Will Be Entertaind

'
 assemble in Montgomery thd members of the Alabama Commercial snd Indus-
 trial Association in annual session. l This will be the seventh annual meet. ing of that body. It met twoyears ago in Mobile. and last year at New Deca-
 tur. At the latter place the convention had not only q new Constitution adopt
 ed which made 1t a delegate body. and also working body during interven- ing sessions, but also managtd to have
 q delightful time with the titizens of new Decatur as hosts.
 This year the convention will be held in Montgomery. Both the President
 and Secretary of the State organiza-
 ton are Montgomery citkens, and thew naturally have felt an unusual in-
 terest in the details incidtnt to the
 preparation for the coming # the con- ! yentioD.
 The special Program Com mittee has been at work. and the result will show that they have used excellent judg- ment in the selection of tfis subjects to be discussed by the Association, and of the speakers to discuss them.
 The program so far arra1sedj is set out below: a'' H. i9 | prorram DsIiupn, | Addresses of Welcome, Hon. E.. R. | Joseph, Mayor of Montgomery, and | Mir. Alex Rice, President of the Mont | gomery Commercial and Industrial AS | sociation.
 Response, Mir. Erwin Crai ighead, Mo-
 bile.
 | Address of President. Mr. F. C.. | Shepard. Montgomery.
 | Report of Secretary, MT. l.. l.. Gil- | bert.
 | Reports of Standing Committees: | Advertising, Erwin Craighead. Mobile. | Agriculture. R. R. Poole, Montgom- I cry.
 | New Decatur.
 Legisiation, R. H. Clarke, Mobile. Manufacturing, T. S. Kyle. Gadsden. Mining, F. B. Blair, Tuscaloosa. Schools. R. E. Pettus, Huntsville. | Reports of growth and progress Of all cities represented. since last meet | Ing in New Decatur. made by the Sec retary, or other representative Of the | local organization present. | Reclaiming Waste Farm Lands. J. | Kasserman, Winchester. Tenn. Alahama's Undeveloped Water Pow CTS, H. c. Jones. Montgomery. l Opening of Coosa River to Through | Navigation, W. P. Lay, Gadsden.
 Rice Culture and Cane Growing, s. L.. Cary, Jennings, La.
 Investment of Foreign Capital in | Alabama Industries. Jas. A. Ward
 Huntsville. and R. A. Mitchell, Gads' den.
 Relation of Press to Industrial De velopment. E. w. Barrett. BirminS'
 ham.
 Municipal Ownership of Public Util. tiles. Jno, B. Weakley, Tuscumbia
 President Alabama Municipal League
 Election of Offlcers and selection oi next place of meeting.
 Friday. the local Association will ten' der the delegates to the Alabama Com.
 mercial and Industrial Association and the Alabama Press Association an old
 fashioned Southern barbecue dinner al Jackson's Lake. They will be taker there and back by a special train. One notes with interest the broad scope of the subjects 70 be discussed The paper by Mir. J. KasSerman o
 Winchester. Tenn, upon the Reclaim ing of Waste Farm Lands" should prove an exceedingly interesting and l valuable paper, as MT. kasserma2 II I a practical farmer and is known to b'
 an authority upon the question dis
 cussed. The discussion of Rice Cul
 ture and Cane Growing" by one prae
 tically engaged in it Is also a -1attel of interest, especially to Alabamians | where the crop is still in its Infancy
 The State organisation has kept-thai subject prominently before the farmers of the State for, the past year or two and a good deal of rice has been liant ed in South Alabama in consequence.
 Another valuable subject is that o
 'Alabama's Undeveloped Water Pew,
 ers." which will be handled by MT Henry c. Jones, who was the origina tor of the big development at Tallas
 see. He has made the matter a sup feet of close study, and has prooaolJ investiRated more rivers and streami than any other man in Alabama.
 will be a valuable paper.
 Another paper that will attract wide snread attention is that of Hon. Jno 1 B Weakley, Mayor of Tuscumbia, wht
 will address the Association upon th' subject Municipal Ownership of Pub lie Utilities" MT. Weakley is not only member of the Constitutional Con-
 vention now in session here but Is alst President of the Alabama Municipal 1 IeaRue recently organized in Birming' ham, and is known to have given thii l Eubiect much thought. It is one of tht live subjects of the day; one in whicf husiness men and commercial bodies are especially interested, and 1t is q most timely subject in most capaple hands. ,,,
 The Tuscaloosa Commercial Club will send down a strong delegation of it's most representative citizens. They realize that in sending representatives
 to a delegated body like the Alabama l Commercial and Industrial Association | their most influential and representa-
 tive citizens should be selected. The l delegation will be composed of Presi- dent F. G. Blair. Secretary M. L. Tuck | er. k. N. c. Snow Peter Clinton, l.. H. Maxwell, F. M. Moody. Phil W. Blond hIem, Robert Cochran. T .!9-l
 The railroads have granted a rate of l one and one-third fare for the round
 trip on the certificate plan for ali dele
 gates attending the meeting of the Ala
 bama Commercial and Industrial Assi- | ciation and the Alabama Press Asso- ciation on the 20th and Fist inst. The
 rate applies from any point in the | State.
 President M. Hohenberg of the we- tumpka Industrial Club has appointed the following delegates to the State Association meeting: Messrs. Cabot | Iull. ]. M. Jenkins, W. A. Austin, A. l.. Lancaster, J. H. Parker, H. J. Lancasz | fer and Louis Cantelou. They are all | a- rftiZena-