The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-13

lection of the next place for holding the convention, the adoption of reso- lutions and the appointment of va rious committees.
 More than 15O automobiles brought the delegates to Meridian, travelling from three ends of the Mississippi valley highway, one from the extreme north. one from the Mississippi gulf coast and one from Mobile. Each car contained a party of enthusiastic road boosters, each strongly of the opinion that the Mississippi valley highway was the most logical route from the frozen north to the sunny south as far as the Gulf of Mexico coast. and they took every opportu- nifty to express their ideas to that end.
 Welcomed by Governor
 After the convention had been called to order by President Pierson, who stated the object Of the conven ton as being to promote In every pos sible legitimate way the early com pletion of the great highway, three fourths of which had already been completed, Hon. J. M. McBeath, chair man of the Mississippi Highway as sociation. introduced Gov. Lee M. Rus sell of Mississippi, who delivered the welcome duuTtSb LO llC OCASS tNeSs7' Governor Russell said that all the re- sources of the state were at the conn mand of the highway boosters in Joining the north with the south by way of the Mississippi Valley high way. Hon. R. V. Taylor, former vice | president of the Mobile and Ohio frail- | road, now one of the city commission l CTS of Mobile, in responding to the welcome of the governor, stated that Mobile and his section of Alabama was to man behind the movement l for the completion of the highway ] and that the Mobile delegation was here to go on reco. as strong con tenders for the next convention of the association to be held in their city ! At the conclusion of the welcome | address and the response, President l Pierson resigned the chair to Cliff 1 Williams, vice president. of the asso- 1 ciatio1 I for the southern district. Vice | President Williams, in assuming the l chair as presiding officer, made few remarks, after which other speakers
 were introduced as follows: w D Robinson, Tupelo, Carl Thetford oi Bradford. Tenn; H. c. Dietzer, Mis- | sissippi state highway engineer O. Jackson; Mrs. S. A. Mex Kelvey of Spar ta, H.. and others. Mrs. McKelveS UDOke in tne interest OI tHe ptdutili' cation of public highways, and hel suggestions along this line aroused enthusiasm among the delegates anc
 tho audience the speaker being the
 recipient of much applause.
 At the banquet tonight President d. M McBeath of the Mississippi high
 way commission was master of cere' monies, the speakers being as follows Robert E. Lee, St. Louis; Mrs. Annf Kendall, Cit1 onelle, Ala; M. T Sharp Corinth, Miss. A. T. Stovall Okolona
 Kiss; R. r. Donad, Quitiman, Miss. | c. B. Nicholson St. Louis; Senator John c. Craft, Mobile; w. H. Patton I Shuluta, Mss; R. V. Taylor. Mobile Theodore G. Bilbo Poplarville, Miss Frank Boykin, Mobile; c. W. Thomas
 Citronelle, Ala.
 Each speaker was booster for bet
 ter roads and especially for the com
 pletion of the Mississippi valley high
 way and its Meridian Mobile branch
 Mobile. Ely Minn.; Bogalousa ant
 Springfield, Ill.. are strong contend
 CTS for the 1922 convention of the as sociation.