The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-03-02
COLUMBIA is
STATE MECCA
More Than 1000 Visitors Have
Attended Recent Gather
ings Held Here.

Columbia, the Convention City,, j!
title by which this city is known al
over this state and nation. Since Janu
sry and extending few months in the
future six national conventions and meet
ings, twenty y-ihree state gatherings, two
district meetings and nine county conven.
tiOns and conferences have been or will
be held in this city. More than 4.0O0
visitors have como here TO attend these
conventions. The Commercial Club has
been instrumental in getting many Of
these meetings here and have done much
TO entertain the visitors. The club has
given seven luncheons TO persons Of note
who have been in this city since the first
Of the year.
The national gatherings held in Co.
lumbia since January are the Northern
and Southern Baptist conventions and the
Missouri Methodist Foundation council
meetings. Those coming in the near fu-
ture are the National Fertilization Asso.
ciation convention in May or June, Jour-
nalism Week, May % to q, and the
Christian College Homecoming, May %
10 June I. The eleventh province con.
claye of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity
was held in Columbia Janu.
sG 2 and 3.
The district doctors convention was
here February !, and the Fayettc District
Epworth League convention will be held
March and 5.
Sixteen Of the twenty-three state con-
Ventions held in Columbia met here dur
ing Farmers Week. They were: the
State Agricultural Association, Missouri
Livestock Producers Association, Nilsson.
ri State Dairymans Association and State
Dairy Council, Missouri Creamery Opera
Ors and Managers Association, South.
Western State Dairyman's Association.
State Holstein-Friesian Breeders Asso.
;iation, Missouri Farm Bureau Fedora. |
ion, Missouri Corn Growers Association,
Missouri Rural Life Conference, Missou-
i Home Makers Conference, Missouri !
Draft Horse Breeders Association, Mis- |
ouri Federation of Livestock Shippers,
md Missouri Cooperative Crop Report.
rs.
Other state conventions have been: the
'tate School Administration convention,
'ebruay 8; annual convention of the
diocese Of Missouri of the Episcopal
hurch.' January 2426; Missouri Branch
{ Episcopal Women's Auxiliary, Janu-
ny q, and the Rotary club installation
ttended by clubs from different parts Of
he state.
The following state gatherings are
for the near future: High.
rhool basketball tournament, March II; Y
lissouri Association of Public Utilities,
lay q to 6; and the Twentieth Annual
Track and Field Meet,
lay 6. II
The county conventions held in Colum.
ia include: Columbia district Sunday
unday school association, February Is; II
olumbia township Sunday school con.
'ntion. February 6; Boone County Co.
perative Shipping Association, Febru.
y IA; Boone County Poultry Show, Jan.
iry IA to 20; Milk Producers of Boone
ounty, January 81. The efficiency con-
renee Of the Boone County Sunday
hool association will meet in Columbia
pril 4. iD
The complimentary luncheons given by II
e Commercial Club to visitors in the II
ly include: Board Of Curators, doctors II
this district, Baptist conventions, Epis-
pal visitors, Theodore Gary of State
lghway Commission; Governor Arthur
. Hyde, the State Board Of Agriculture