The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-06-22
MISS. TRAVELLERS
TO Have BIG time
Are Arranging for Unique Parade at
Their Third Annual Convention
in Columbus.

Special to The Neios.
Columbus, Miss, June 22.-The To-
cal convention season will be brought
to a brilliant close next Friday and
Saturday, when the Mississippi Trav-
elers' Association will hold its third
annual convention here. Elaborate
preparations have been made for the
entertainment of the knights of the
grip, and the local committee proposes
to give the 100 men who will attend
the convention the time of their lives.
The convention will start off in a
most suspicious manner, being inau-
gurated with a monster parade from
the Elks' Home on Main street to the
Industrial Institute and College,
where the opening exercises will take
place. This parade will be entitled
"The Return of Roosevelt" and will
burlesque the homecoming of Teddy
after the African sojourn. Costumes
have been ordered from st. Louis for
the occasion, and travelling men. will
be made to represent not only the
man whom tom Plat kicked into the
presidency" but members of the
hunting party and various animals
who inhabit the African jungles.
Tho TRAVELLING man boxyo
Mr.. T. j. Locke, Jr., prominent
wholesale grocer of this city, to act
as marshal of the parade, and he
promises to make the most unique as
we'll as the most spectacular pageant
ever seen in Columbus.
At $3.50 o'clock Friday morning the
delegates will assemble at the Column
bus Theatre, where the business ses-
sions of the convention will be held.
and after badges have been distrib-
uted, will fall into line and march to
the Industrial Institute and College,
the chapel of which will be the scene
of the opening exercises of the con-
vention.
The singing of "Praise God From
Whom All Blessings Flow" will open
the exercises at the College, and after
a blessing there will be the usual ad-
dresses of welcome and responses.
The delegates will be welcomed on
behalf of the city by Mayor Donnell,
on behalf of the local travelling men
by H. L. Whitfield, and on behalf of
the Business League by Walter Weav-
er. These addresses of welcome will
be responded to on behalf of the Mis-
sissippi Travellers by G. P. Gray of
Meridian, and on behalf of the visit
ng travellers by James R. Lusk of
Jackson. The speeches will be inter.
'persed by several musical numbers,
7ocal solos being rendered by Mrs.
lanes S. Cooper of Jackson and Miss
Katie Lou Brown of the music faculty |
If the Industrial Institute and Col
eye.
Friday afternoon will be devoted to
business meeting, and at 8 O'Clock
friday evening the travellers will be
uests of honor at a dance to be
iven by the young men of Columbus
t Lake Park Pavilion. This dance
ill be led by Miss Christine Rogers,
young lady from Aberdeen, and Lu-
ius Lide, prominent local society
ian.
Saturday will be devoted to the
'ansaction of business, and Saturday
light the travellers will be the guests
the Business League at a Dutch
upper. The local committee in
large of affairs consists of Messrs.
alter Weaver, Irwin Kaufman and
T. Locke, Jr.,and they are deter
ined to leave undone nothing which :
'uld possibly add to the pleasure of !.
ose who come to attend the conven- !.
On.