The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-08

Chamber of Commerce was the next speaker, and, after mentioning the nu- merous conventions that Gadsden has entertained and will entertain this Commerce felt that the T. P. A. con vention was the most important of them all from the standpoint of the city.
 l A. B. Harris followed Mir. Vance in happy address of welcome, and he was | followed by s. S. Caldwell, who ex pressed appreciation at the visit of the travellers, and gave some idea of tha extent of Gadsdens industries LOUIS LOyEMAN TALKS Mr. Caldwell was followed by Louis l Loveman, who said that he had been l compelled to listen to travelling men l all his life, and that he appreciated the opportunity of having them in position where they would have to | listen to him. Mr. Loveman also told the travellers something of commercial l Gadsden and said that Etowah county l ranked next to Jefferson in the state l in point of tonnage shipped out l Henry Hiden of Post B made re- sponse to the welcoming addresses in very happy vein, paying high trib- ute to the hospitality of Gadsden. 1 Mai. D. M Scott of Selma one of | the organizers of Alabama division, was the next speaker Major Scott Ihelped organize the Selma, Post 2S years ago, and was recently reelected prsident of that post for the twenty bama division, Major Scott was as sisted by E. L. Higdon and w. R. Mabry and in the course of his re- marks, he paid high tributes to their worth.
 q have often visited Gadsden,' said Major Scott The first time l passed
 through this city l was walking man called General Hood was at the head of the column I was in. came here again in 1869, before you ihad a railroad here, and was com pelled to travel on a boat from Rome,
 Ga. The next time I came l had to travel by stage from Jacksonville I have been coming here ever since when I did not get a real welcome nor did I ever fail to find a live mer- chant here to sell goods to-
 1 On behalf of the manufacturers of Gadsden, Otto Agricola delivered short address of welcome to the T. P.
 A.. and he was followed by J. A. Car ney of Mobile. who stated that Le-
 Baron Daily would invite the conven- tion to come to Mobile next year. | M EANo AS UT lNlAL OhAlOR l E. D. Jordan of Gadsden, Post I, who was presiding, introduced Frank M. Means of Post as the official orator of Alabama division, and MT. Means toed the mark manfully. He made good on the introduction given him, and said: "In this section, we i have in cotton natural monopoly; we
 have in iron recognized supremacy; we have in wood the reserve of the
 republic. Gadsden has added lustre 1 to the state in the manner in which
 she has used these advantages to the betterment of herself and Alabama" l w. K. Mabry in a short talk said that | Gadsden had measured up to her oppor tunities and that Alabama had cause to | be proud of her.
 | MT. Jordan then turned the meeting over | to President E. I. Raney of Athens, who proceeded to name his organization com mittees preparatory to beginning work. l o. P. Smith headed the credentials com | mittee and associated with him were E. 1 D. Jordan and F. M Means. LeBaron | Daily was chairman of the committee on rules and T. c. Corwin and M. w. Low
 assisted. I headed the resolutions conn mittee and Maj. D. M Scott and Harry | Todd were associates.