The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-19
HOOS|ER SALESMAN
IN CONvENT|ON
First Convention of travelling
Men of United Plant Be-
gins tuesday.
TESTS ARE TO BE MADE.
MEN WILL BE INSTRUCTED IN
THE USE OF MAcHINES-WILL
BE WELL ENTERTAINED WHILE
HERE.

The first annual convention of the
travelling men of the new Hoosier
branch of the American Seeding Ma
chine Company, incorporated, will open
in Richmond tomorrow morning. This
is the first time that the travelling men
of all three branches of the manufac-
turing concern have met, and the off,
GERS of the Hoosier Drill Company ex-
pect to show the visitors time of their
lives. While the men are in Richmond
several dinner parties will be given in
their honor at the Wescott hotel, and
1t is probable that they will attend the
theater one evening in a body.
An excellent program has been ar
ranged for the three days of the con-
vention, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday of this week There will be
some thirty-two travelling men in the
city.
The reception committee consists of
the following officers of the firm: Fred
]. Carr, manager; Walter H. Bates,
general sales manager; J. w. Lamson,
assistant sales manager, eastern terri
tory; A. II. Rice, assistant sales mana
ger, central territory; w. II. Keiskcr,
assistant sales manager, western ter
ritory; A. w. Rees, manager of collec-
tions and accounting; S. H. Jones,
manager of improvements and patents;
e. Christman, assistant manager of i'm
proyements and patents; H. H. Hunt
ington, assistant manager of improve
ments and patents, and E. S. Ralph, ad-
vertising manager.
Today all the men were entertained
at the Wescott hotel. Tomorrow the
men will be taken on an inspection
trip through the local factory, and in
the evening they will meet at the
hotel for the discussion of matters per-
tanning to the manufacture and the
sale of machines.
On Wednesday the field trial of all
the machines manufactured by the COM
pany will take place at the experiment
tai field northeast of tho city on the
New Paris pike. Here the workings of
the machines will be explained to the
men. On Thursday morning the ma
chimes made by the kentucky branch
will be exhibited and in the afternoon
the Shortsville drills and cultivators
will be shown.
The men who arrived today were:
w. 7. Connolly, of Chattanooga; M. c..
Fitzgerald, Albany. N Y; J. A. Frost,
Jr., Indianapolis; c. c. Geib, Millers-
berg, o.; J. T. Harris, Franklin. KY;
c. V. Holderman, Nashville, Tenn. !;
Edgar Hubberd, Saginaw, Mich; D. B.
John, Xeaia, O.; B. w. Lee, Trenton,
n. j.: D. c. Legget, Big Rapids, Mich.
A. E. Murphy. ST. Louis, Mo-; S. E.
Metzger. Williamsport, Pa; C. A.
Marsh, Watcrtown, N. Y; J. A. Moss,
Baltimore, Md; S. X. Miller, jackson,
Mich; T. w. Noble, Lynchburg. Va;
A. T. Newton, Columbus Grove, O.; G..
L. Perkins, Pittsburg; H. Potee, Jr.,
Madison, Wis: Marion Rose, Vinton.
o.; George D. Rogers. Louisville, KY;
H. w. Rawdon. Fredonia, n. Y: M. J.
Sebolt, Louisville, Ky: l.. L. Sterling,
Meshoppen, Pa; N. A. Stedman,
Greensboro, N c.: H. P. Spencer. But
Ter, Pa; S. F.. Shearer. Sidney, O.; H. B.
Thompson, Indianapolis; j. w. Thomp-
son, Baltimore, Md; E. W. Traux. CO.
lumbus. o.; F. E. Traux, GAINESVILLE, O.;
M ID. Vincent, Baltimore, Md, and A.
L. zimmerman, of Des Moines, Iowa.