The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-05-01
The GrOcers' Convention.


sIa T5l'alsGav afternoon, at 2 O'Clock the
IS assembled in the Circuit Court
V,SlrY' IF our beautiful court house.
To- ,sadr the invocation by Rev. joseph
a TsIoDe. of the Second Presby terrain
. cs-rsb Mavor James NJ. O'Brien
C..lniao,oad the delegates to our city in
We foIjowing weil-chOsen words:
u ..It * an Old and familiar saying
4so+ the way to reach mans heart
No t-5Eroryh his stomach, and this being
20 If follows that the members of
,,orr organization have very strong
~ mon our affections for it is to
I lor1 we must go for all things neces-
~, m sustain the inner man. One of
tbp poets has said:
".He may live without pictures, ne
r,av live without books,
Pint civilized man cannot live with
out cooks.
psssion but pining?
But show me the man who can live
without dining.
'If he cannot live without cooks and
without gdining, no more can he get
oIono without the grocer to whom the
cook must frts go to get the materials
for the dinner. You are absolutely in
dispensable to mans happiness and
Won can we'll believe In my sincerity
when [ say that we are indeed glad to
see YOU. and as the representative Of
fine people of Paris and in their name,
bid you welcome.
al do not go through the empty form
of turning over to you the gates of
the city, for 20 you there are no gates.
Here you are free to exchange ideas
and to go without passwords, to talk
over and adopt your plans for the
future. It is not worth while for me
TO take up your time with lot of
nlatitudeS about the value of organiZa-
4ion and the advantages of co-opera-
ton for you know much more about
such things than |.
when you have perfected your or
ganizatiOn and have some leisure time,
90 around and see our city. You will
lind that it makes the zenith city of
the unsalted seas look like the pro-
verbal thirty cents. Get acquainted
with our people; get to know them as
they really are, and [ feel sure that
YOU will enjoy. yourselves.
1T is a matter Of rerget to US ali
that your session is to be so brief, but
though your stay may be a short one,
though our meeting may be like that of
ships that pass in the night yet
when you have returned again to your
own homes, trust that IN the days
10 come, your visit here will be mark
ed in your memory as it will always
be In OuTs-With a white stone.
Dv0rl-o,+ Of
port, Homer replied on behalf of the
delegates and officers OF the State or
ganzation in a few we'll chosen re-
marks in which he cOmplimented the
local association for their zeal, in the
splendid effort made for the advance
ment of the cause of cooperation
among retail grocers, and for the nos
pltality manifested by the people of
Paris in general.
President Horner then called the
delegates to order for business. In
the absence of State Secretary j. H.
Reedy, Of Newport, James Simpson,
OF Cynthlana, was appointed Secre-
tary pro TEN.
The remainder of the day was devot-
ed to the discussion of different bust
ness propositions of much interest to the
merchants.
On Wednesday morning about one
hundred new arrival came in, making
the attendance between two and three
hundred. The convention got down>to
BUSINESS. A committee was appointed
70 draft constition and bylaws, and
alter several hours reported back to
the Convention. The report being
unanimously adopted. After the adop-
uOn OF number of important reso-
lutlons the convention adjourned to
meet at Frankfort in May, 1909.
After the business session of the
convention closed, the delegates head
cd Dy the Paris Elk's band, paraded
USTeL ne principal streets of the city.
they were followed by twenty-five de-
IWery wagons, decorated with flags
@uu DuAtlng, from our local retail
grocery stores. They visited the
ro"e5 Grocery Company, Dow-Hayden
~ IaflS Broom Factory, Paris Mil
u'iS o., ana q. +. Spears q Sons.
me delegates were high in the
PRAISE OF our city, many expressing
vi! sucn city with such fine streets,
pa1eInents, public buildings and bust
"eSS houses, did not have a hotel.
Tvs ne are sorry that almost every visi-
vi 70 cur beautiful! city always enters
ScOnplalnt about our hotels. Won't
t tOnle eterprising citizen take this mat
Jo.l "a hanq and erect a modern up-to-
c ca'e hostelry in our midst. 1t would
p PM be paying investment. If
ro SllS only had hotel we would have
"iT Any conventions held here.
b. Inc association closed with a grand
WVan9uet at the Elks' Lodge Room on
fo euneSday night. There were about
fo or hundred guests seated at the
. last. the tables were arranged
fb IOng each wall and in the center OF
s sre room, the speakers table being
Fsr" u liable in the middle. Judge
T 1Sa1' non Stitt presided as POSTMASTER.
as f fo subjects and those responding are
aT non; E. NJ. Dickson. Paris. Ky.,
Fr rng Man Before the Counter: MIR
ps 5ank 9. Walker, Paris Milling Com
To- aS, Reforms Relative to the Retail
lsn SGe nj Mr.: John A. Greene, Cieve
Cu' Ohio. Secretary of the Nationa
Of fOt Ger Association, Our Brother,
FrsI14ile e. NATIONAL; Mr.. J. E. Glenn
n;a;.l55Iort, KY, "United We. Stand