The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-06-08
STATE P0sInAsTERS
COMING next Week
WILL CONVENE ON MONDAY.
Men OF Note VIII Come From wash
ington to Help Entertain Gathering.
Reception Monday Night At Jener-
son.

Postmasters of the State will be
the guests OF the city of Richmond
next Monday and Tuesday, June IL
and ID, when the Virginia Postmast-
ers Association meet here for their
annual convention. A speciap pro-
gram OF entertainments has been ar
ranged by the committee in charge,
and the visitors will be given a. cor
dial reception.
Prominent officials from the Post
ofiice Department In Washington will
attend the convention, as well as the
postmasters from all over the State
With the wives and families OF the
delegates, several hundred visitors will
be in the city.
The committee. composed of Post
master Hay r. Thornton. president of
the Virginia Postmasters' Association;
Alvin M. Smith, J. r. Palmatory, w.
H. Adams. ID. II. Ferguson. A. H.
Mcdowell and @. C. Ruskell, at their
meeting held yesterday, formulated
plans OF procedure and entertainment
for the convention. and MIR. Thorn
ton, as chairman. made the following
announcement:
Convention Program.
Convention convenes at 10 o'clock
Monday morning. June IL, at the
Jefferson Hotel. and will be opened
by an invocation by the Rev. J. Y.
Downing, pastor Of All Saints Epis-
copal Church. The address OF well
come will be made by Mayor George
Ainslie.
During the morning session -ad-
dresses will be made by the following
officers from the department in Wash
ington: Hon. Otto Prayer. second as
sistant postmaster-ge Hon Car
ctr b. Keene, superintendent postal
savings department; Hon. J. G. Rooms.
chief postoffice inspector: Hon. G. N
Ellsworth, superintendent salary and
allowance division; Hon. W. s. Ryan,
city delivery. and Hon.
w NJ Money. chief disbursing Of
ficer.
The afternoon session of the con-
vention on Monday will be given over
to the consideration OF routine busi-
ness of the association. and any other
matters that are to be considered.
On Monday afternoon the ladies
visiting the city will be entertained by
a committee OF local ladies. attending
the performance at the Lyric Theater.
Reception Monday Night.
AZ o'clock Monday night a re-
ception will be given the delegates to
tH6 convention IN tne DariOr or the
Jefferson Hotel by representatives OF
business firms of the city.
Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock the
convention will meet for the election
Of officers for the ensuing year, selec-
ton OF the next convention city and
for n final business session
In the afternoon at $50 the dele
gates 10 the convention will attend the
baseball game at the park between
| Richmond and Baltimore, and at s
O'Clock a buffet supper will be served
In the roof garden OF the Richmond
Hotel An orchestra and performers
from the Lyric will entertain the
guests.
The City Council appropriated $500
for the entertainment OF the Post
masters Convention. and all the MEM
bers of the Council and Board of
Aldermen will act as a committee to
assist in entertaining the visitors.
Postmaster Hay r. Thornton ID
president of the Virginia Postmasters'
Association. and C.'N. Otey, OF Wythe-
Vile, secretary and treasurer.