Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-23

The members Ot the Pine BluH Board of Trade met yesterday after noon and prepared an invitation, which is to be extended to the Arkansaw Travellers Association at their coming meeting in June at Eureka Springs, to meet in Pine Bluff the following year. The To- cal Board of Trade assures the drummers that they will be enter tained as they have never been en- tertained before. They promise to give a mammoth banquet, ball and other features that annually char acterize the gathering of the com mercial men, and promise to pre- pare an excellent program of fes- tivities for their entertainment.
 The invitation will probably be presented to the association by one of the Board of Trade officials, who will go to Eureka Springs to per- sonally invite them. The local trav- cling salesmen will also urge the association to designate Pine Bluff as the meeting place for 1908. It is proposed to send a delegation of business men and members of the Board of Trade to Eureka Springs to work in behalf of Pine Bluff. At the annual gathering of the Arkansaw Travellers last year Pine Bluff was almost universally fa- vored as the meeting place this year. Fort Smith came forward. after Pine Bluff had virtually cap- tured the meeting and aroused Lit l tie Rock representatives in it's be- half. Jealousy arose and the tray cling men, not to show partiality between the Border City and our municipality, gave the convention to Eureka Springs.
 It is understood that Pine Bluff 1 is the choice Of tf>c Travellers ttis l year. Almost every member of the 1 organization includes Pine Bluff i'll his territory md the great hospital ity of local people and convenient location Of the city, itself, are two 'E.;e rtant thi, .:. in favor of the Jefferson county metropolis. A Graphic representative visited Little Rock last night. He took an active int i,, tE0 AY,1y T-,N wall e@:!rg last year, as special staff { correspondent for a St. Louis paper at the meeting and had oc- casion to interview several of the ! ti!cials of the association They declare that Pine Buff is most fa- vored oy the delegat ,s and that in all pr,3ability this cit? will secure the meeting. The St. Louis travel ing men, members of the associa- tion, are a unit for Pine Bluff, it l is said, s
 l Endorse Viaduct Bill.
 The Board of Trade also adopted resolution endorsing the bill to be introduced in the senate today i by Senator H. K. Toney authorizing the Cotton Belt and Iron Mountain i railroads to build a viaduct over their tracks in the East End. The i board of directors were urged to use their influence with the repre- sentatives in the general assembly: from this county to secure its passage.
 To Assist Cotton Association.
 The members endorsed the ac- tion of bcal merchant, who, in he past several months secured nice sum of money for the South ern Cotton Association by asking tne farmers for scent cash dona- ton for each bale of cotton pur- chased from them. This money was donated to the Southern Cotton As-
 sociation which is doing so much good for the producer and cotton
 Ter for the maintenance of the association. This was one of the
 suggestions made at the recent
 meeting in Birmingham. It is
 a~nred that the Southern Cotton i Association can do wonders, if given
 Ia proper funds, toward the bet
 torment of conditions among the
 cotton producers and buyers in the
 South. and that the contribution of
 rts upon each bale of cotton
 -o,d by the farmer is the simplest