The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-11-10
ST. LOUIS SPECIAL
CARRYING BOOSTERS
ARRIVES ON TIME
MOUND CITY MERCHANTS WERE
HERE IN FULL FORCE ON
MONDAY.


Will Visit Thirty-Four Cities in the
South for the Purpose of Exploiting
Their Wares and Getting Acquaint-
ed With Business Men.
The booster special train from St.
Louis carrying about seventy-five
members of the Sales Managers AS
ISOLATION arrived here Monday after
noon. They were met at the depot
by a delegation from the Board OF
Trade and escorted up town.
They are visiting the south for the
purpose of boosting St. Louis goods,
and will see Huntsville, Birmingham,
Montgomery, Chattanooga, Jackson
and Winona and other towns. They
left st. Louis this morning and will
get back home on the evening of the
18th.
Seymours band of ten pieces is
aboard the train and came up town
and entertained a large crowd on
Seventh street with their splendid
music.
On board the train is every con-
'venience for travelling. All the meals
are taken on board and each man has
his berth and sleeps on board, al
though no travelling is done at night.
The train is in charge of Robert
e. Lee, secretary of the Association,
who carries the railroad tickets,
sleeping car tickets and meal tickets
for the whole party. Statesmen for
various houses will join the train
along the route and travel short dis
tances with their bosses.
The party is made up of represen-
tatives of number of we'll known
firms, and is as follows:
w. L. Allen, Sales Manager VIM.
Schotten & Co.; Phil A. Becker, Sales
Manager Geo. F. Dittmann Shoe Co.;
Jos. P. Plank, General Representa-
tive Anheuser-Busch Brewing Assn.
Jesse w. Blythe, Representative St.
Louis Post-Dispatch; F. M. Boone,
Jr., Secretary Curlee Clothing Co.;
John K. Broderick, Sales Manager
Broderick- Bascom Rope Co.; John A.
Bush, Representing Brown Shoe Co.;
Jesse Carleton, Sales Manager Car
Teton Dry Goods Co.; j. E. Davenport,
A. G. P. A. Louisville & Nashville
Ry.; J. T. Dyer, Sales Manager Bur-
row, Jones & Dyer Shoe Co..
G. Fauntleroy, of st. Louis, Attorney;
Flint Garrison, Editor The DrygOods-
man. Carl Gogel, Representative st.
Louis Times; H. B. Gordon, Vice Pre-
sident Norvell-Shapleigh Hardware
Co.; w. H. Gregg, Jr., Sales Manager
Mound City Paint & Color Co.; Louis
Herzog, Vice President L. Herzog &
Bro, D. G. Co.; G. N. Hitchcock, Asst.
Cashier National Bank of Commerce;
Clarence l.. Johnson, Div. Sales Man
ager Ferguson Mckinney Dry Goods
Co.; C. Porter Johnson, of st. Louis,
Attorney; J. A. LAWN, Assistant Sec
rotary Sales Managers Association;
Clarence r. Laws, Asst. Cashier Boat
mans Bank; J. R. Leavell, Special
Representative Mechanics American
National Bk.; }. E. Longmoor, -.
Assistant Cashier Third National
Bank; Robert E. Lee, Secretary Sales
Managers Association; H. J. Les
chen, Sales Manager A. Leschen &
Sons Rope Co.: l.. d. Mccormick,
Sales Manager Butler Bros; r. e..
McLoughlin, Sales Manager Hamil-
ton, Brown Shoe Co.; Ross H. Mc-Mil-
Ian, Asst. Cashier Mercantile Nation
al Bank; Thomas l.. Mauldin, Sales
Manager Ferguson-McKinney Dry
Goods Co.: A. G. Meyer, Sales Manag-
err Meyer Bros, Drug Co.; Henry E.
r. Meyer, Div. Sales Manager Har-
gadine-McKittrick d. G. Co.; S. K.
Miles, Editor Hardware Reporter; W.
B. Mills. Asst. Sales Manager Sim
mons Hardware Co.; w. e. Morgan,
Sales Manager Ely-Walker Dry Goods
Co: L. F. Mueller, Sales Manager
Beck & Corbitt Iron Co.; &. Percy
Noel, Representative Globe-pemo-
crat.: Ivan Osborne, Sales Manager
LevisZukosni Mercantile Co.; Fl NJ.
Owsley, Sales Manager Norvell-Shap-
leigh Harrware Co.. Harry Prufrock,
President Prufrock-Litton Furn. Co.;
r n Rinaman, Vice-President Am
erican Trust Co.; Henry Rohde, Sales
Manager ]. B. Sickles Saddlery Co.;
A r. Schollmeyer, President A. X.
Schollmever Realty Co.; Roy b.