The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-29
FRIDAY MORNINGS
 PARADE WAS ONE OF
 GREATEST FEATURES
Large String of Automobiles
 Parade Through Streets. Mobile Gets 1917 Meeting. Johnson Grand Councillor
By ELLIS c. HoLLUMs
N ROM the standpoint of business at

Iy ROM the standpoint of business at tended to properly; from the stand A point of entertainment, and from the standpoint of good fellowship, the twelfth annual meeting of the grand council of Alabama, United Commercial Travellers, at Huntsville last Friday and Saturday, will go down in the annals of the organization as one of the best ever held.
 The Spring City council, and, indeed, all of Huntsville did itself proud in the entertainment offered the visiting mem bers of the U. c. T. From the parade Friday morning, to the banquet and dance Friday night on to Joe Bradley's barbecue Saturday at noon, the entertainment was all that could have been desired, and Joe Bradley had meat a plenty to feed all "that hungry crowd from Birming- ham," and then some.
 The battle for the 1917 meeting of the grand council was sanguinary to say the least Gadsden wanted it. and in George Plaisance the city had good fighting man, who believed in fighting to the last trench, and then using cold steel on his opponents. However, Mobile also had several fighting men, and the
 
 meeting in May of next year will be in Mobile and the members of the coun- Gil will be permitted to swim in the bay all they desire.
 The new officers elected Saturday morn ings are:
 Berto H. Johnson, Montgomery, grand councillor.
 Theo L. Meyer, Montgomery. junior councillor.
 w. l.. Wall, Huntsville, past councillor. A. Coke Smith, secretary.
 $. J. Bayne, treasurer.
 J. H. Pugh, Mobile, conductor.
 J. L. Sickle, Florence, page.
 H. D. Moore, Anniston, sentinel.
 J. P. Oliver, Birmingham, grand chap lain.
 Executive committee: o. P, Smith, Sel- ma; I. B. Balls, Florence; c. E. Abrams Birmingham; A. w. McAllister, Hunts vile.
 w. L. Wall was elected to represent the grand council in the supreme council meeting in June, and J. K. Oglesby of Montgomery is alternate. =
 GINGER IN MEETING
 Every member present was full Of ginger and enthusiasm, and the business session were filled with interest. Much good was accomplished for the organiza- ton, and for the individual members of the organization.
 Ine parade ErlQdy HlOTHlIlS was one UT the most interesting features of the two days meeting, and more thiA 100 were in the line of march, or rather in the auto mobiles which rolled, instead of marched. The automobile owners of Huntsville were so generous with their cars that there was a surplus of machines, and the U. c. T. delegates all rode in a good auto. An exhibit of thoroughness with which Huntsville prepared to entertain the visi- tors, it was impossible for a man with the U. c. T. badge on his coat lapel to pay for anything. The soda fountain operators refused to accept money for drinks. The cigar stores would not &C., cept payment for smokes. The street car conductors would not accept the money of a U. c. T. in payment for fares, and automobiles provided transportation everywhere, anyway.
 The decorations of the streets and build ings of Huntsville were a revelation even to the Birmingham delegates, for they