The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-07
WATERS AGAIN SELECTED
PRESIDENT OF ALABAMA
MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION
Farm Loan Bank for Birmingham Endorsed and Much Other
Important Business Transacted-Doube Header Ball
Game and Fiddlers Convention Attractions for Today
Hospitality of Birmingham Praised in Resolution

ming ham for the location of this bank
Morris w. Bush, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, was called upor
and spoke for 20 minutes on the Fed
era1 Farm Loan Bank" Mr.. Bush told
the merchants in detail what a great
asset to the farmers the bank would
be. He explained the organization, the
workings and the rules governing the
loans made from this bank, and of the
extreme good it will finally do the
farmer of Alabama and other southern
states. Mr. Bush expressed himself as
bcirg highly pleased with the success
of the hard worked out plans for the
entertainment of the merchants. Il
only hope that you are enjoying your
visit to Birmingham as much as we
OF Birmingham are enjoying having
you with us. 1t is always pleasure
to have the merchants with us and we
hope that when you go home and have
occasion to think of and look toward
Birmingham that you will think of us
in connection with the city that put
the come in welcome
VALUE OF ADVERTISING
Jerome K Sterne, president of the Biz
mingham AID club, spoke to the merchants
Of the value of advertising to the retailer.
He stressed the advertising point, in that
advertising was the best investment a
merchant could make, when properly and
honestly done. A number of plans were
submitted to the visitors that would adj
vertise their goods and bring results.
The main feature of these was in the per-
sonal advertisement.
John Craft of Mobile president of the
Alabama Good Roads association, made
splendid speech to the convention on
the building of good roads in Alabama.
His speech was listened to with close
o,fil1r r,1ol1< ad
DIR. L. C. Branscomb made brief
speech asking the merchants to indorse
a resolution drawn up by the ministers OF
the Birmingham district asking Billy
Sunday to come to birmingham to hold
series of meetings. DR.. Branscomo
was of the opinion that this would be
one of the bess advertisements Alabama.
could get, and that untold benefit would
accrue morally from these meetings. The
resolution was accepted and adopted.
Several of the visitors maze short I'M
promptu speeches dealing with the mer-
chants problems, while j. Chaplne
Hodges was called to the front for a
short talk.
The merchants will give themselves
over to another day of sightseeing and
round of pleasure today. No programme
has been arranged for the morning and
the visitors will take advantage of this
to finish seeing Birmingham, transact
business and make new acquaintance.
They will attend a double header base
ball game at Fleetwood park at 2:S0 this
afternoon.
The old-time fiddlers' convention that
is to be held at the Jefferson theatre
tonight as an entertainment feature for
the merchants is expected to be one of
the best attended events of the conven-
ton.
CAR GIVEN AWAY
Immediately following the fiddlers' con-
vention the 1917 model new Ford car
given by the Birmingham merchants to
the visitors will be awarded to the per-
son holding the lucky number. Each
merchant has double coupon in his
coupon book one of which will be de-
posted in a box on entering the theatre.
After the entertainment a ticket will be
drawn from this collection and the hold
er of the same number will be awarded
the automobile Only visiting merchants
are eligible to this drawing.
Following are the officers elected to
succeed themselves for the ensuing year
at the meeting last night:
OFFICERS
w. L. Waters, president, Alexander
City.
]. M Houston, first vice president.
Town Creek
s. ]. Morgan, second vice president
Blocton.
S. H. Leeth. third vice president
Boaz.
v. S. Cage treasurer, Birmingham
William Blanks Everett, secretary, Bir-
mingham.
Directors-J. C. Dunn. Linden; o. c.
Moore. Union Springs; ]. c. Weaver
Lneville; J. HI. Walston, Russellville; w.
l. Mullins, Clanton; r. S. Jones. Carroll
ton: RAYMOND Harris Winfield; A. E.
Bell, Carrollton; j. n. Samuel, Talladega,
r. v. Windham, Mllport; Joe Tucker,
Lafayette; Linn Palmer, Dora.