Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-06-29
MANY POSTMASTERS
|. COMING TO GEORGIA
Sixth Annual Convention of Sec
ond and Third Glass Officers
Will Be Held at Gainesville in
September.

Especial Dispatch to The Journal.)
WABASH, Ind, June 2S.-The sixth an
nual convention of the Association OF
Second and Third Glass Postmasters will
be held at the mountain town OF Gaines
vile, Ga. on September s, 9, 10, 1903, A. D..
and every postmaster in the United
States of the second and third class Is
expected to be present. You are cordially
invited; you are earnestly requested; nay!
more than that, you the commanded. As
president of the association I very earn
estly insist that the meeting at Gaines
Vile, Ga, shall be made a success. 1 adj
wise you gentlemen, one and ALL that af-
ter these several years of experience,
these association meetings are not only
Endorsed. but meet with the very hearty
approval OF the postoff1ce department. No
postmaster can attend one of these meet
ings and fail to be benefited by what he
sees, and hears and learns.
Gainesville is one OF those beautiful
mountain towns in Georgia, and the finest
resort city IN the entire south. We Of
the north all know OF the royal hospitality
of those chivalrous southern people. and
Mrs General Longstreet, postmaster at
Gainesville, who by her grace and elo-
quence secured for Gainesville. Ca, the
meeting for 1903, has assured US that II
we would come to Gainesville she would
pledge for us Just as warm a reception
as they gave General Sherman forty-four
years ago, only in a different way.
HAS PURE WATER.
Georgia is a prohibition state. but the
Gainesville postmaster tells US that they
have the purest water Of any state in the
union, but IL we northern postmasters can
not get along with water, by going into
the mountains above the city of Gaines
willie, we will get the benefit of mountain
dew I will take water for mine
have no doubt. brothers. but that the
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Gainesville, and we of the north owe tn
ourselves, and to the department and to
our brethren Of the south that the north
be fully represented also.
am not personally advised at this
writing OF the program, but II will later
appear in the Postmaster Everywhere.
The executive committee are enoeavor-
ing to secure special rates on all rail-
roads for the postmasters both north and
south. and 1 have no doubt they VIII sue
coed.
Now. brother postmasters, take notice:
First: Remember the department wants
you to attend this meeting.
Second: Remember that 1t VIII be one
of the most delightful outings for yourself
and your wife that you have ever taken.
or that you will take in a decade, and
that II will be attended with much pleas
ure and profit to us all.
URGED TO ATTEND.
Third: It is a duty that you owe 70
yourself, to your constituents, and the
department to attend this meeting, II
your circumstances will permit, and the
department will take note of your alb
sence. and as your president Of the as
ISOLATION, I am exceedingly anxious that
this shall be the best attended. and the
most interesting meeting in the history
of the organization
I, therefore, request that every post
master who reads this notice win advise
George E Marcellus, chairman of the ex-
ecutive committee. of Leroy, n. T.; Mrs.
Helen L. Longstreet. member Of commit
tee, of Gainesville, Ca; H. A. Hopkins,
secretary and treasurer, of st. Clair.
Mich, and myself as president, Wabash,
Ind, and at this meeting let US all gath
er and by so doing convince the depart
ment that we are Interested in the sue
cess of this meeting not only, but that
we are individually anxious to contri-
butte our mite to the success Of the great
postal service of which each one OF US Is
a part.
with best wishes for your future use
fulness, one and all,
Wabash. Ind. President.