The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-07-18
NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS
RAatiE

MA lONAL NEGRO BUSINESS
LEAGUE.
The Fifteenth Annual Meeting OF
the National Negro Business League
will be held at Muskogee, Oklahoma,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Au-
gust 10, 20 and 81, 1914.
The Oklahoma state Negro Bust
ness League in cooperation with the
Muskogee Local Negro Business
League has arranged a most com
prehensive program for the reception
and entertainment of the delegates
who may be present. Aside from the
regular and most interesting sessions
of the League itself, arrangements
have been made for an Industrial Pa
rade or Thursday afternoon, August
goth, which shall embrace a large
number Of floats upon which will be
represented the progress and indus
trial achievement of the Negroes of
Oklahoma. Thirty (30) full-blooded
Seminole Indians in native and pic
turesque costumes are planning an
entertainment at the Fair Grounds,
following the Industrial Parade on
Thursday.
On Friday afternoon, August 21st.
the delegates will be given a view of
the city. A live stock and agricul-
tural exhibit, showing the great pos
sibilities of the southwest section, will
be open for the inspection of the dele
gates; also, on Friday evening, a
Grand Banquet will be given in honor
Of the delegates.
On Saturday, August %, a special
train will leave Muskogee for Boley,
Oklahoma, the largest and most pros
porous Negro city in the United
States. The train will pass through
some of the richest agricultural land
in the world much of which is owned
by Oklahoma colored citizens.
For the annual meeting of the
League, the Southwestern Passenger
Association has announced through its
chairman an intention to authorize
an open rate of four cents a mile for
the round-trip from all points in the
territory of the Southwestern Passen-
ger Association except Oklahoma, sell
ing tickets August 10th to 18th, inclu-
sive with final return limit to reach
original starting point Augusta 81.
The Western Passenger Association
through it's chairman also
an intention to authorize an open rate
of two cents a mile in each direction
from points in Missouri and Kansas
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sold on August 18th to August 18th,
inclusive, with final return limit to
reach original starting point prior to
midnight Of August 81, 1914.
Application has also been made to
the Southeastern Passenger Associa-
ton embracing the states south of the
Ohio and Potomac rivers, and east Of
the Mississippi river, for reduced
rates, and these will most likely be.
granted on the basis of four cents a
mile for the round trip.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
with headquarters in New York City
is planning to provide for the trans
portation of delegates from the east
ern territory-New York City, Phila-
uOiPuldj Nllhuiu6IOh, DalIlLlOlO anu
Washington, and for all eastern dele
gates who plan to be present at the
meeting. A special Pullman Car will
be provided if enough delegates sig
nifty their intention of making the
trip.
Delegates will most likely be pres
ent at the coming meeting in larger
numbers than eve before from the
Southern and Southwestern States.
1t is expected also that the east will
not be neglectful of it's duty, consid-
ering the fact that the Southern
States have always been so largely
represented at all of the meetings
which have been held in the North
and East.
The annual session of the affiliated