The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-15
2OOO GENTLEMEN
 EXPECTED HERE FOR
 MEETING THIS WEEK
All Is in Readiness for Open ing of Convention Wednes- day Morning-City to
 Do Herself Proud"

Everything Is in readiness for the 2oo( or more southern cattle men who will begin arriving in Birmingham for the third annual convention of the South ern Cattle Mems association, which con venes at the Tutwiler Wednesday morn ing.
 Arrangements have been made to have information booths at both the Terminal and Louisville and Nashville stations Virginia, North and South Carolina Texas, Louisiana. Oklahoma, Tennessee Mississippi and Georgia will be repre- sented by prominent cattle men and Ala bama Is expected to furnish fully 1000 delegates.
 Many of the merchants have agreed to have especially decorated windows for the occasion, and the Business Men $ league will distribute hundreds of hand some pennants to be hung in the windows and around the hotel Hobbies, welcoming the delegates. The American Hereford Breeders association, the Aberdeen An gus Breeders association and the Short Horn Breeders association will all have representatives.
 President F. l. Derby of the asoscia- ton is now In the city getting ready for the opening of the convention, hay ing just returned from the west, where. in company with Dr. Tait Butler, and numbers of the breeders associations, he has selected five carloads of extra fine breeding stock which will be offered for sale at the State Fairgrounds Friday August 20, beginning at o'clock. Col onel Fred Reppert and Colonel Carey M Jones, two of the most famous auction eers of live stock in the country, will cry the sale.
 Alfalfa Ball the Feature
 A number of entertainment features have been planned by the Business Men 8 league, Chamber of Commerce and the packers for the entertainment of the delegates Birmingham expects "to dc herself proud" and leave a most favor- able impression on the members one of the main entertainment features will be the alfalfa ball to be held at the Tutwiler hotel on the night of August 19 which will be given under the auspices of the Business Mems league. assisted by the packers. John T. Yeatman, chair man of the floor committee in charge of the ball, and will be assisted by the fOllOW1nS well KnOWH young iieu.
 Hunter M. Smith, Julian J. Wright, Jesse F. Yates, Dr. S. H. Welch. R. H. Hood, Lee Koenig. J. D. Baugh, R. L.. Gregory, Hill Ferguson, Steele Andrews. E. A. Jackson, R. F. Burnett, Herbert Levy, Hugo Marx, Jay Smith, pr. c. M. Nice, w. E. Kelly.
 Chairman R. D. Burnett of the Business Mems league general entertainment com mittee for the convention, has asked the oil tn mittee in assisting in looking after the welfare of the delegates while here:
 Citizens Committee Named
 E. M. Tutwiler, Jr., Judge J. T. Stoke ley J. H. McCary. T. H. Joy, B. M. Allen, c. H. Ungerman, Robert Jemison, Sr.' w. F. Donovan, Robert N. Bon. pr. ]. A. Kiernan. pr. R. E,. Jackson, Dr. Frank Hecker, H. A. Moore. r. W. Blackford w. F. Moughon, J. H. Edmondson Harry We'll Rudolph Schembs. c. F. White, J. P. Phillips, R. A. Lewis. Tom Tanner, J. N. Phillips.
 As published earlier In the week, about 100 prominent cattlemen of Jeherson county have also been asked to act as committee to make the delegates feel at home. The novel and unique feature of the alfalfa ball is the fact that the gentlemen will appear in their shirt sleeves and ban danna handkerchefs and the ladies in gingham dresses and sunbonnets, the most graceful couple to be crowned King Corn and Queen Alfalfa. One thousand inVi- tations have been mailed out to the society folks of the city and a great time IS an ticipated This convention Is said to mean more to the south than is realized by most people and Birmingham will come In for. share of the prosperity which the cattle industry will eventually bring to this section.