The semi-weekly messenger., 1905-12-29
SOUTHERN COTTON ASSOCIATION
Programme Of Convention to be Held
Next Month in New Orleans
SUBJECTS OF THE ADDRESSES
Convention Will Last Three Days
and Matters OF Prime Interest and
Importance TO the Cotton Growers
VIII be Discussed-There VIII De
Two Sessions Each Day.

Birmingham. Ala, December "a
President Harvie Jordan. of the South
ern Cotton Association, who was in
the city today, announces the official
programme for the mass convention Of
the Southern Cotton Association al
New Orleans, January IL. IL and 13, as
follows:
Thursday morning, January IL.
Convention called to order at 10
o'clock by President Harvie Jordan
Address of Welcome by Hon. John
Parker. in behalf of THE Progressive
Union and the City Of New Orleans
Response by w. l. Foster. Shreve-
port, La.
Address '"rhe Southern Farmer,
Hon. Harvie Jordan. president Of the
Southern Cotton Association.
Address "Co-operation of Farmers.
Hon. Z. A. Calvin, Dallas. Texas. presl-
dent Farmers Educational and Coop
erative Union.
Appointment of committees.
Afternoon session.
Address Foreign Labor in the Cot
ton Fields" Hon. Charles Scott, Rose
dale. Miss.
Address Value of Manufactured
Cotton Compared to the Raw Pro-
duct" Hon. d. A. Tompkins. Char
lotte, n. G.
Address Closer Relations Betwee'1
Bankers and Farmers" John D. wal
ker, president of the First National
Bank Sparta, Ga.
Address TRADE Relations between
Spinners and Growers by }. A
Brown, Chadbourn, n. G.
Address Reorganization" by Walter
Clark, president of the Mississippi Di'
vision, Southern Cotton Association
Clarksdale. Miss.
Address value Of the Southern Cot
ton Association to the South" Hon
H. nj. Jacoway. Dardanelle, Ark
Friday. January 12. Morning Ses-
sion, 9 a. m.
Address "Object and Aims of the
Southern Cotton Association" Hon. j
MEG. Martin. Port Gibson, Miss.
Address Farmer. Banker and
Warehouse Man." W. G. P. Harding
president Of the First National Bank
Birmingham. Ala.
Address Cotton. the Basis Of South
ern Prosperity" E. D. Smith, presiden,
Southern Carolina Division. Southern
Cotton Association, Columbia, S. c.
Afternoon Session p. m.
Address Farming the Southern Cot.
ton Association" Professor J. F. Con
nell, Dallas. Texas.
Address "Diversifcation and Organ
ization,'' T.. B. Irwin. saltwater, Okla
homa.
Address Difficulties in Effecting
Thorough Organization" Hon. H. w
Seymour. Southern Cotton Association
Montgomery
Night Session s p. m.
Address Warehouses for Cotton.
w. J. White, Russellville, Ark.
Address Evils of Future Specula'
ton" E. r. Afford. Texas
Address Extending Our Markets
for American Cotton by Eristel
Ashcroft, Florence. Ala.
January IS. Morning Session 9 a. m
Address Federal Bureaus of Cotton
Statistics" Hon. w. F. Livingston
member of Congress. Covington, Ga.
Address by Hon. John Tempt.
Graves. Atlanta, Ga
Address The Newspaper and tt
Relations to the Southern Cotton As.
sociation.' H. Y. Brooks, Luverne, Ala
Afternoon Session o. m
Address capitalization" S. A. With
erspoon. Meridian. Miss.
Address Reorganization in Arkansas
by r. F. Burnett. president Arkansa:
division Southern Cotton Association
Chicatah, Ark.
Address Concert Of Action Hon
W. A. Dickson, Centreville. Miss
FINAL report of committees.
Ali papers and addresses are limited
to thirty minutes. All discussions are
limited to thirty minutes and speeches
to ten minutes.