The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-15
THE COMING WEEK
DAY BY DAY.
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Monday.

New commercial treaty between
Great Britain and Japan, granting spe-
cial reductions on a large number of
British imports, becomes effective.
Leading American advocates of the |
new nationalism' will deliver ad-
dresses during the week at Chautau-
qua National Institution, Chautauqua,
N. Y.
Realty agents and operators from
all over the country will meet in Den
yer for the convention of the National |
Association of Real Estate Exchanges |
President Gompers, Vice President |
Mitchell and Secretary Morrison, of
the American Federation of Labor.
will be given hearing on contempt
charge.
A big merger Of companies engaged
in the Central American and West
Indian banana and tropical fruit
trade will be organized in New York.
National Association of Local Fire
Insurance Agents will open annual
convention in Buffalo, to extend three
days.
Golden Potlatch Festival, commem-
Grating the stampede to the Klondike,
will begin in Seattle and continue
through the week.
Tuesday.
Centennial of the birth of William
Makepeace Thackeray, the great nov
elist, will be observed throughout the
English-speaking world.
Special commission of Investigation
into the magazine postage contro-
versy, of which Justice Hughes is
chairman. will meet in New York.
Special election on the question of
adopting the commission form of mu-
nicipal government will be held in
Jersey City, N. ].
Birthday of Tom l.. Johnson four
times mayor of Cleveland, will be
observed by a pilgrimage of Ohioans
to Johnson's grave in Brooklyn.
International Association of Acct
dent Underwriters of the United
States and Canada will open three
day conference in Portsmouth, N. H.
international Association of Deco
rators of the United States and Cana
da will open three-day meeting in
Toronto.
Leading newspaper men Of the coun-
try will assemble in Detroit for the
annual convention of the National
Editorial Association.
Canadian Parliament will reconvene
and the government, with a majority
of forty in the Commons, will attempt
to pass the reciprocity agreement.
Wednesday.
Pennsylvania Democratic State Cen
trail Committee meets in Harrisburg,
when reorganization Of the party and
the promotion of harmony will be con-
sidered.
, President Taft will push button
inaugurating ground breaking cere
, monies for the Panama. California Elk
position in San Diego in 1915.
Shareholders of the Chicago & East
ern Illinois railroad will meet to rati
, fly the proposed merger with the
, Evansville & Terre Haute railroad.
, Thursday.
I Gunboat Princeton will leave Puge
l Sound for Samoa to relieve the gun
I boat Annapolis, which has been o,
/ the Somoan station several years.
e Merger of Evansville & Terre Haut,
e and Chicago G. Eastern Illinois road
v will be completed by ratification o
p stockholders of the former line.
J. Friday.
S Union and Confederate veteran
n will hold great reunion at Manassas
n Va, to commemorate semi-eentennia
v of first battle of Bull Run.
If Saturday.
n Hearing on the petition for the dii
l. solution of the Walter wellman Pola
k Expedition Corporation organized t
II finance balloon polar DASH" at Al
7 gusta, Me.
Special election will be held in TIE,
T. as on proposition to substitute stat
II, wide prohibition for the local optic
ID system now In effect in that state.
r Great Richard Wagner Music Fest