Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-24
GREAT WELCOME
TO c. OF c. FOLK
ALL ALONG WAY
Rousing Meeting at Altoona
Feb. 16; Secretary McColgin
Making Arrangements

The Harrisburg Chamber of Com
merce trade excursion party is as
sured hearty welcome and a rous-
ing evening get-together meeting in
Altoona, where the first night of the
trip will be spent, February 16.
On Saturday morning E. L. Nc
Colgin, secretary of the Harrisburg
Chamber, and A. E. Buchanan, divi-
sion passenger agent of the Pennsvl-
vania conferred in Altoona with
Chamber Of Commerce officers and
hotelmen. Dinner will be served at
the Logan House where the Harris
burg party and the reception COM
mittee of the. Altoona Chamber will
dine together.
At s O'Clock, the Altoona Chamber
of Commerce will give a smoker and
get-together meeting of its members
and the visitors. The event will take
place in the new room and auditor
ium of the Altoona Chamber, which
possesses the most modern Chamber
of Commerce quarters in the State.
The Harrisburg band will play on
the balcony.
President W. c. westfan and Man
ager George II. Mosser. Hotel Chair
man Riley and Entertainment Chair
man DR.. Mckee of the Altoona Cham
ber and Manager McWilliams of the
Logan House made it plain that the
Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce
party would be given the. keys of the
city.
To Show En- Real Bunch
Last year, the Pittsburgh trade
excursion visited Altoona; but it did
not have a band and this year, Har-
risburg will give Altoona a new i'm
preston of what can be done in the
way of trade excursions. Further de-
tails of the visit to Altoona will be
announced later.
Through the cooperation of the
Altoona hotelmen and Chamber of
Commerce there, every member of the
party will be given good hotel ac
Commodations over night. Dinner and
breakfast will be served at the Logan
House.
Saturday afternoon. Secretary Nc
Colgin visited Huntingdon and Lewis
town and made arrangements for the
trade excursion visits to those cities.
Chamber of Commerce stated nothing
would be left undone to make the
visit of the Harrisburgers an event.
+. NJ. c. Africa, president of the
J. c. Blair Co, which operates the
first and one of the greatest fine pa
per tablet factories in the world. will
keep open house for the visitors.
party through the factory which is
only a block from the square.
The Huntingdon Chamber of Conn
merce operates a community house"
for the use of farmers and their
wives who visit Huntingdon. Free
reading and rest rooms are provided
for both sexes. This new develop
vice in a town of moderate size will
be found interesting says Secretary
McColgin.
AT lewiStown the secretary found
Burgess Leopold and Secretary Bur-
kett of the Board of Trade in con-
ference upon the very matter he went
there to see about. Arrangements
were made for the party to take
lunch at the Coleman House imme-
diately upon its arrival in special
street cars from the HN Junction.
After luncheon a joint half meeting
will be held between the Harrisburg
ers and the businessmen of Lewistown.
1t will take place In the courthouse.
just opposite the hotel. Special street
cars will be waiting in front of the
courthouse to take the party back TO
junction, where the trip westward will
be resumed.
Clean Streets Other Places
The borough of Lewistown will have
the brick paved streets swept and
flushed on February Il, the day
the visit is made. Lewistown is proud
of its large mileage of brick paved
streets and desires the Harrisburg
people to see and appreciate its i'm
proVements.
Conferences relative TO their par
ticipation in the William Penn High
way meeting in Harrisburg in March
were held to-day between officers of
the Johnstown Chamber of Com
merce and Secretary McColgin. Later
in the day Mr.. McColgin will confer
with interests in Tyrone relative to
the Trade Excursion visit there in
February and the William Penn High
way meeting. The Bellwood Cham
ber of Commerce will also be, inter-
viewed. Tomorrow arrangements
will be made for the trade excursion
luncheon and visit in Bellefonte on
February seventeenth. Lock Haven
also will be visited tomorrow.
officers of the Harrisburg Chamber
plan to leave nothing in regard to
trade excursion stops or the William
Penn Highway meeting to chance.
Those taking part in the trade ex-
Cursion may rest assured that this
years trip will be unsurpassed in the
way of local receptions say the Off
cials. This is the first time an ad-
vance visit has ever been made TO
every town on the route of the trade
excursions.
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