The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-15

1A A travelling salesman, who was A over in Huntsville a couple or days last week, the people of that live north Alabama town are making eXten- sive preparations for the coming Of the grand council of the United Commercial | Travellers May 26 and 2, which is but ] little more than a week away. | Birmingham has decorated itself quite extensively for the reunion, but this travelling man says you ought to see Huntsville The U. c. T. colors float to the breeze from every available loca- | tion, and still the work of decorating continues. The programme of entertain ment is being perfected and the old guard | of the Spring City council is grooming l Itself for a royal welcome to the visitors. Montgomery will have large represen- tation at the grand council meeting, but l Birmingham, as usual will be well ahead | of any other council in the state. An niston, No. Al, is the closest contender | for primal honors, and this live counci will have a very large representation at | Huntsville. If the Birmingham crowd doesn't look to it's wind, the Annistonans I may yet beat them out at the tape WOODRUFF WILL BE THERE l c. M. Woodruff and any number of
 other real live wires are sure to be on hand, and when that Anniston crowd get together on anything they push 1t
 through with a resounding bang. | The dope reads that the Spring City council has formed Lightweight Irish Brigade" which is headed by Joe Brad | ley, sylphlike person, who weighs Tn l the neighborhood of 320 pounds. His ac-
 ccmplices are Ed Baker who weighs even
 400 pounds, and Nick St. Dennis (no rela- tive of Ruth's, thank you).
 F The Heavyweight Irish Brigade IS headed by "Skinney'' McAllister whose ! gross tonnage never exceeded IS pounds,
 and he is six feet tall He is a brother
 of A. w., known to every U. c. T. in the | state as one of the livest wires that ever | happened
 | ladies auxiliary composed of the best that Huntsville has, promises to see l that the ladies of the council are well | cared for, and that the men do not get | lonesome.
 1 Will Wall, grand councillor who came | near being mayor or Huntsville, has promised to turn the town over to the l boys" and he says that one of the best l features of the entire two days will he the two-hour automobile ride over Mad ison county's POO miles of pike roads. Joe Bradley already has bought 5000 pounds of meat Of varied sorts, which he will begin to roast over green hickory logs at Merrimac thu day before the crowd begins to arrive. Sa aturday at noon the barbecue will be ready to serve, and
 Mr Bradley says every man present can have nine pounds of meat. Huntsville expects 100e, and he has 5000 pounds of [ meat.
 
 The Twickenham hotel will be head Iquarters for the convention, and P. B.. 1 Love, manager, promises the boysl that they will be well cared for. The dance
 at the Twckenham Friday night will be enc of the big features of the meeting, and the officers for next year will be chosen just before the dance.
 The meeting at Huntsville promises to be one of the most largely attend
 ed yet held and Will Wall says he is going to make every man who comes ! enjoy himself to the extreme limit. The T. P. A. of the state still are | talking about the wonderful entertain ment Gadsden provided for them, and the numerous new applications re-
 ceived at that meeting little more than | a week ago. The Gadsden meeting of
 the T. P. A. was not quite so largely
 attended as former meetings, but from | the standpoint of real good accom- plished it is by far the best meeting ever held.
 Every man present was a worker and many of them secured new applica- tions in Gadsden. The Printup hotel l Friday morning of the convention re- sembled the Tutwiler in point of it's 1 bustling activity. The lobby was filled l with delegates to the convention and numerous saleSmen not members of the T. P. A. were present on busi-
 ness. They immediately fell in with the T. P. A. spirit, and not man of them left the hotel to make his busi- ness calls without first signing a T. P. A. application blank
 The state membership campaign com
 mittee, headed by Frank Means, will prove to be one of the most import
 ant committees of the organization this year MT. Means is genius Tor di- recting such a campaign and is untir- ing in his efforts to increase the
 strength of Alabama division.
 H.