Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-06-06
PINE BLUFF BOYS AT EUREKA SPRINGS Special Train Bearing Local
 Delegation Arrived at the
 Convention Town This
 Morning on Time.
"PINE BLUFF IN 1908"
Is Seen Every yWliere-Traveling Men Made Mistake in Showing "Shorty LeWine' HOn0r-We Have a Good Chance to Win.
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special to The Grapn1c.
 Eureka Springs, Ark, June G. The special train bringing the big Pine Bluff delegation to this city to attend the annual outing of the Arkansaw Travellers, reached this place on time this morning and within an hour after their arrival almost every travelling man who had arrived previously was wear ing "Pine Bluff 1908" ribbon. The Pine Bluff delegation is head ed by Mayor w. l.. Toney, Presi- dent w. N Trulock of the Board of Trade, E. B. Bloom, w. w. Byrd, and other prominent business men l of that city. The Pine Bluff boom ! CTS are giving everybody the "glad
 hand" and the indicatins are that
 Pine Bluff will be one of the ] hottest contenders in the case for
 the meeting twelve months hence. If Pine Bluff does not win out, it
 will not be the fault of the happy go-lucky, determined delegation of business men and travelling sales
 men who are continually working
 the wires, so to speak for the Bluff City
 A rather amusing incident oc- i cured this morning soon after the :! arrival of the Pine Bluff aggrega- l tion. It became noised about that the smallest travelling man in the
 state had reached town and there
 was a scramble of travelling men to
 get to him and show him some
 honors. The person referred to was
 Rudolph Shorty" Levine, but in
 some manner the pleasure-seekers
 got mixed up on the proposition
 and mistook Buck Bloom for 1 the little man. They grabbed him
 and carried him for about block
 on their shoulders before the pop 1 ulaf Jefferson county man con- 1 vinced them that they had their dates mixed. He helped them find { Shorty" Levine, and at this writ
 ing Shorty" was still enjoying a
 ride on the shoulders of the fun
 makers.
 The Pine Bluff delegation is one
 of the largest in attendance at the
 meeting and there is no reason why
 that city should not win out in it's fight for the next meeting. That
 city has never had the convention and is really entitled to it. Fort Smith, which is nearer to Eureka Springs that any of the other places that seek the next conven- tion, did not send as large dele gation as was expected of them, al
 though they promise to bring more business men and salesmen here to- day and tomorro*s. Little Rock has strong aggregation of 1908" boomers here. Harry H. Myers. the Little Rock orator, will make the address inviting the salesmen to the capital. They came in this morning on a special train and brought band and flying banners with them. Hot Springs is also after the meeting.
 The streets are alive with flying , banners, flags and bunting. A street i fair aggregation has spread it's tents
 in one part of the city and what the travelling men are doing to the tented attractions is good and plenty The meeting will formally ; open tomorrow with athletics, : grand street parade, baseball game. i mardi gras festival and banquet. i Other entertainment has been pro- ; vided by the citizens of this city.
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