The chronicle=news., 1914-07-15
ALL TRINIDAD
READY FOR BIC
C0NvEN
To BEGIN
MONDAY
Large Delegation to be Pres.
ont. EIibofats Program
Has Been Arranged

Suuu6y uIBut tue ulS ueleSdIlOu Ol
The Retail Merchants of the State
will arrive in Trinidad on the Colo
rado and Southern. Monday morn
ing the big convention of the Retail
Merchants Association OF Colorado
will open at 10 o'clock with an ad-
dress Of welcome by w. H. Howell,
treasurer Of tic Trinidad Retail Mer-
chants Association.
From that time on the merchants
Of the state will hold forth in Trini-
dad for three days and the key to the
city will be turned over to them by
Mayor Dunqayy. A rousing conven-
tion has been planned by the COM
mtttees in charge and every effort
will be put forth to entertain the
visiting delegates In a royal style.
Fully one hundred delegates of the
state merchants will be present and
with outside guests the total number
OF visitors In the city ought to reach
three hundred. All extra rooms have
been reserved at the focal hotels and
in all probability all available space
will be taken.
The program for the convention as
1t now stands consists of reception
on Monday, grand ball for Tuesday
evening and the final banquet to be
held at the Cardenas hotel on We'd
nesday evening. The mornings will
be taken M with business sssaionsr
For Tuesday afternoon an automobile
trip has been planned for the dele
gates. The greater majority of the
machines will run over to Ration
showing the visitors the wonderful
Scenic Highway. A call has been
made for automobiles for the after
noon. All Trinidad citizens owning
cars and who would be willing to
over the Scenic Highway are asked
to hand their names to F. w. Cald-
well, the. merchant. Gasoline for the
trip is to be donated by the Contin-
entail and Texas companies. 1t is an
ticipated that this will be one of the
biggest social events of the three
days. Other trips will be made to
Stonewall and interurban car ex-
cursions to the surrounding camps.
The ladies will be entertained in the
best way possible and everything for
their convenience and comfort dur
ing their brief stay in Trinidad will
be accomplished. Mrs. w. H. How
ell has charge of the entertainment
for the lady visitors.
Trinidad will be decorated in the
gayest manner for the merchants.
Flags will be draped on all the
white way poles and the Commercial
street poles will be in by Saturday
and all ready to light up on Monday
night. -..-. .,...
Three addresses of unusual merit
have been scheduled on the program.
John Lynch, Pure Food Commission
er of the State of Colorado, will ad
dress the merchants Tuesday morn
ing. Anderson Pace, Industrial COM
missioner, Chicago Association of
Commerce, and Frank B. Connolly,
president Of the National Associa-
tion of Retail Merchants, Of San
Francisco, will address the merchants
Wednesday morning. Three full
days have been assured and three OF
the biggest days which Trinidad has
experienced are promised. Everyone
will Ind hand to entertain the mer-
chants of Colorado for the first three
days of next week.
The closing event will be the ban
quet rendered by the Great Western
Sugar Company and tn Holly Sugar
Company to the delegates and Ia
dies of the Retail Merchants Asso-
citation of Colorado at the Cardenas
Hotel.
Among the bigger manufacturing
merchants to be present will be the
Lindquist Cracker Company, the
Great Western Sugar Company, The
Shredded Wheat Company, Kellogg
Toasted Corn Flake Company anc
the Longmont Farmers Milling ant
Elevator Company.