The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-25
NEARLY 600 SAILORS WERE
KILLED ON WARSH|P TODAY.
WARM GREETING To
INDIANAPOLIS men
Local Business Men Plan
ming to Show Trades
men" a Good Time.

Before night all of the more impor-
tant plans for the reception to be ten
dered the indianapolis trade Assoeia-
ton members who will be the guests
of the local commercial organizations
Wednesday evening. will have been
completed. A, ]. spekenhier. the gener-
al chairman. on Monday was in lndi-
annapolis in conference with secretary
Snyder of the association and ascer-
tanning the plans of the visitors, and
the places they will have on the pro.
gram.
Secretaries OF the Young Business
Club and the Commercial Club on Mon.
day sent out notification cards to the
members of the respective organiza-
tions, asking their cooperation and ur-
ging that each member meet at the
Westcott hotel Wednesday evening in
time to march to the Pennsylvania sta
ton to receive the visitors. Business
men and others interested in CONNER
cial matters, If not members of either
of the two clubs are also invited to
take part.
An Impressive Head.
The committees are planning to
make Richmond's welcome more i'm
pressive than that rendered any other
city, which the trade association has
visited. The better the impression
Richmond creates on the tradesmen,
| the greater will he benefits derived as
q nf a IF hn ital oil
men. Those who are in charge feel
| that inasmuch as Richmond stands to
gain as much if not more than the In
dianarolis men it is to the interest Of
the business men here to turn out in
full force. The notices will inform the
| members of the commercial organiza-
tions to be at the hotel at $50 o'clock
/ as by the time they are assembled
and have marched to the depot. the
special train from Portland will have
arrived.
After a short period of greeting at
the depot the indianapolis tradesmen
will assemble behind the indianapolis
Newsboys' band and march with the
! Richmond delegation, which will be
accompanied by the Richmond City
band to Tenth and Main streets,
thence to Eighth street and west to
the Young Mems Christian association
building, where the banquet will be
served.
! The banquet will be prepared by the
Ladies Auxiliary of the association and
it is promised it will be the best feast
of the kind ever served by that organi-
cation. Before o'clock the program
of toasts will be started The visitors
leave at $50 o'clock for Indianapolis
in order that the youthful band mem
bers will get home in time to go to
school next day. The toastmaster of
the evening will be attorney w. H.
Kelley. Charles Bookwalter, who will
head the visiting aggregation, will de-
liver an address for the visitors But
otherwise the program of the visitors
is not known. Mr.. Spekenhier will re-
port on this on Tuesday, if it has been
arranged.
Several we'll known after dinner
speakers of the city will combine to
give welcome and discuss commercial
propositions of interest They will in.
clude E. G. Hill, Indiana's most promi.
nent florist, s. E. Swayne, president OF
the Commercial Club, r. G. Leeds. Lee
B. Nusbaum, Mayor w. w thinner.
man and J. B. Godron, editorial writer
for the Indianapolis Sun.