The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-06-08
CENTRAL Ky.
RETAIL MERHANTS
To MEET IN PARIS NEXT TUES
DAY-OvER TWO HUNDRED
DELEGATES ARE EXPECTED TO
ATTEND.

Paris will be honored on Tuesday.
June II, by the presence of about
$50 delegates representing all lines
o. retail trade in Central Kentucky.
10 attend the annual meeting of the
Central Kentucky Retail Merchants
Association.
The sessions will be held in the
court house. The meeting will be
called to order by Pres. d. p. Davis,
OF Frankfort. After the invocation
by Rev. w. E. Ellis. Of the Paris
Christian church, the following pro-
gram will be observed:
Address of welcome, by Mr.. John
J. Williams. Paris; response; report
Of president; report of secretary
and treasurer: report of committees;
address, What Advertising May
Mean TO the Small Town Merchant"
". G.. Simpson, Jr, advertising man
ager of the Frankfort State Journal:
address, do We Endorse Cut Price
Sales?" Hon. Leon Pothchilds, Shell
byville; discussion of topics by MEM
dorse other Than Conservative Buy
ing Under Present Conditions?"
James L. Isenberg, Harrodsburg;
address, A. w. McKeand, of the Nc
Keand Publicity Service, Indianap-
oils, Ind; new business; election of
officers: selection Of place of meeting
for 1918; benediction by Rev. o. r.
Mangum. of Paris Baptist church
The object of these annual meet
ings is to promote better under
standing and cooperation for better
business methods among the retail
merchants of Central Kentucky; to
enable merchants TO become &C
quainted with each other; to devise
methods of regulating credits and
protecting the members against pro-
fessional beats and imposters, and
to make for improved trade condi-
tions all around.
The delegates to the meeting are
well known and prominent business
men from all sections of Central
kentucky The organization of the
Association was effected a few years
ago when conditions in the retail
line were such that something had
10 be done for mutual protection
and mutual understanding. The
meeting was held last year in George
town.
Paris must get busy and make
preparations for showing these dele
gates that we have a live town. They
are not "hayseed corner storekeep-
ers," but live, progressive business
men who will form their estimate of
Paris and Paris people by the nature
of the reception given them.
The members of the Paris Business
Mems Club are actively at work in
the matter of arranging entertain
ment for the delegates. The hearty
cooperation of the people of Paris is
urged and expected, il we are to do
the right thing.
Let us then be up and doing
The Reception Committee, who will
meet the delegates are composed OF
the following:
Withers Davis, B. A. Frank, w. X
Blakemore, c. A. Mcmillan, r. r,
Walsh, Edward Prichard. Rudolph
Davis, Chas. Goldstein, Charles Will
moth, Harry Simon. Lawrence Price
E. B. January, VIM. Shire. Oscar L
Hinton, Louis Wollstein, F. p. Lowry
and Buckner Woodford, Jr.; Mes
danes Owen L. Davis, NJ. III. Daley
Rudolph Davis, B. A. Frank, Chas
Goldstein and c. A. Teller.
The session will be called to order
promptly at ten o'clock a. m. AT
adjournment will be taken for din
ner at the Hotel Windsor. After
dinner Judge Denis Dundon will de
liver a patriotic speech to the dele
gates. The afternoon session VII