Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-05-21
LUMBER
Dealers MEET
HERE FRIDAY
Large Attendance of Men
Interested in Industry
Is Assured.

Arrangements have been completed
for the annual meeting of the Arkan-
sas Association of Retail Lumber
Dealers, which is to be held in Pine
Bluff Friday and Saturday of the
present week, and at which it is ex-
pected there will be very large at
tendance of retail lumbermen and
lumber supply. men, not only from Ar
kansas, but from points outside the
state.
A feature of more than ordinary
interest during the meeting will be an
address on advertising, by J. B.
Powell, instructor in advertising at
the school of journalism of the Uni
versity of Missouri, and another inter-
esting talk will be made by Emerson
D. Tenant, secretary and treasurer Of
the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoos.
Program.
The program in full for the meet
ing, is as follows:
Friday, May 26: -
Tia. m.-Registration and distribu-
ton of badges.
1890 D. m.-Annual Lumbermen's
lunch. Ladies' luncheon.
p. M, opening session--Address
of welcome, Hon. Simon Bloom, mayor
of Pine Bluff.
Response, L. r. Putnam, Northwest
| Arkansas Lumber company, Fayette-
vile.
Presidents annual address, J. w.
Trisschmann, East Arkansas Lumber
company, Paragould. IS
Secretary's annual report, J. B.
Webster, Little Rock.
Treasurer's annual report, H. F.
Rieff, Little Rock.
"The Business Mans Interest in
Better Farming" E. J. Bodman, chair
man of the Arkansas Profitable
Farming committee, Little Rock.
Interests Common to Manufactur-
ers and Retailers of Lumber" W. T.
Murray, Fordyce Lumber company
Fordyce, and member of the execu-
tive committee of the Southern Pine
association from Arkansas.
Better Advertising and Better
Business Methods for the Retailer" j
B. Powell, instructor of advertising In
the school of journalism at the Uni
versity of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.
publicity - The Lumberman's
Need, j. R. Morehead, secretary OF
the Southwestern Lumbermen's as
ISOLATION, Kansas City, Mo.
"The Lumbermen's Fraternity
Emerson D. Tenant, secretary ano
treasurer of the Concatenated Order
of Hoo Hoo, Saint Louis, Mo.
Appointment of committees.
z D., m.-The members of the asso-
tciation, visitors and ladies, will be en-
tertained at one of the Pine Bluff
theatres .as the guests of the Long
Bell Lumber company of Kansas City
9 D. m.-The lumbermen will be
given banquet at the Hotel Pines by
the Pine Bluff chamber of commerce
N. j. CAN'T, Jr., president, toast.
master.
Saturday, May 81: -.
$3.50 a. M, closing session-"Thrif
and Healthy Business Conditions,
Robert E. Wait, secretary of the Ar
kansas Bankers association, Little
Rock.
elbow Farm Papers Help Lumber
Dealers" Marco Morrow of Topeka
Kansas, representing the Agriculture
Publishers association.
"Lumbermen and Mutual Insu
rance" r. B. Fowyer Of the Indiana
Lumbermen's Mutual Insurance com
pany, Indianapolis, Indiana.
"Handling of Portland Cement by
Retail Lumber Dealers" F. L. Will
hanson of the Dewey Portland Gem
ent company, Kansas City, Mo.
Reports of committees-Auditing
Resolutions, Nominating.
Election of officers for the ensuing
year.
practical Suggestions" E. D. Fer
guson of the Blytheville Lumber com
pany, Blytheville, Ark.
Selection of time and place of hold
ing the next meeting.
IL m-Final adjournment.