The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-04
STATE BANKERS ID MEET IN COLUMBUS Public Reception Will Be Given
 To The Visitors 200 DELEGATES EXPECTED Funeral of Miss Lide Dobbs Took Place on Tuesday-Grand Jury Adjourns
 After Finding Ten
 True Bills.
 
200 DELEGATES EXPECTED

Columbus, Miss, February 3.-(SpecialO The Mississippi Bankers association will hold it's annual meeting in Columbus on Tuesday and Wednesday, May r and F, respectively. These dates have just been made public this morning. Hon. B. A. Weaver, president of the Columbus In- surance and Banking company Capt. c. A Johnston. president of the First State bank and Hon. Joseph Street, president of the Merchants and Farmers bank, the three local Repositories, held meeting yesterday to take the initial steps to- ward preparing entertainment for the vis- itors when they come to Columbus this spring. The programme for the business to be transacted at the meeting will be arranged by the executive committee of the association, and the local committee has charge of the social feature only. It was decided to hold a public reception and gathering the first night of the con- vention, at which time the delegates will be formally welcomed to Columbus. This meeting will be held in the chapel of the Mississippi Institute and College, which has a seating capacity of about 200O. Fol- lowing this reception a banquet will be rendered the visitors at the Hotel Gill mer. There will most probably be about 200 deieeates here to attend the conven- tion, coming from all parts of the state. There are 32s state and 2S national banks within Mississippi, and about one-half of these are members of the association. Eacn bank is allowed only one vote on all matters coming before the conventions, but sex eral of the larger banks send sev- eral representatives each year. At the close of the last days session the entire body will leave on special Pullman cars for New Orleans, where two days will be spent in taking in the sights and pleas ures of the Crescent Cent
 The funeral of Miss Lide Dobbs, who died Saturday morning, was conducted from the residence of her brother-in-law, H. M Knox, yesterday morning by the Rev. W. A Hewitt, assisted by the Rev. T. w. Lewis. Deceased was a regular attendant upon the Christian Sunday school and her classmates and Sunday school officials acted as pallbearers Those who served were Sam Halbert, J. D. Orr, H. B. Orr, Mrs H. T. Langford, Miss Emma Morris, Miss Mary Lofts, Miss Matte Brown and Miss Dotherow.
 C. C. Campbell and Miss Bessie Childers daughter of Col. and Mrs. John B. Chill ders were married at o'clock this aft ernoon at the brides residence on North Third avenue, the Rev. w. A. Hewitt officiating. The couple left for an ex- tended trip through the east, which will last about three weeks.
 aH-z Hendricks of St. Louis were married in the Worlds Fair city last Thursday and returned to Columbus yesterday MT. Caine is one of the prominent real estate dealers of the city and his bride has many relatives throughout this section. The wedding was a surprise to the friends of both parties.
 The Lowndes county grand jury, which has been in session at this court term for the past week, adjourned yesterday morning. Eighty-four witnesses were ex- amined, 24 cases dooketed and 10 true bills found. The.r report to Judge Buckley, while brief, covers all important points in regard to thelr work. c. F. Sherrod, Jr., was the foreman.
 The Columbia theatre hsa been released to James Nowby for the season of 19O9- 1910. Messrs Klaw & Erlanger will still be retained as eastern representatives. | The bookings for next season are already | quite numerous and good.
 The recently appointed board of health | organized last night. Dr. W. R. Mc- Kinley was chosen president; James T. 1 Harrison, secretary. pr. W. c. Brewer and J. J. Ellis are the other two mem | bers.
 The receipts at the local postoffice for | the month of January were s2133. .69, while
 for the corresponding month last year
 they were only $19S4.91. This makes
 satisfactory gain of $14S.7S for the month ! of January.