Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-11
BOTTLERS MEET
NEXT YEAR AT
CAPITAL CITY
Association Talks Professional
Problems at Meeting
Here.

Helena will be the convention city
for next year of the Interstate Bot
tiers association, delegates of the
organization voted at the opening ses-
sion Tuesday morning at the Park
hotel: The officers of the association
were reelected for the next year.
The officers of the association who
continue in office for the next year are
Charles P. Nevin, Butte, president;
Ray G. Small, Missoula, vice-president;
r. III. Wise, Billings, secretary.
The morning session was given over
largely to a discussion of professional
problems of the bottlers and question:
of a technical nature concerning thu
trade. Manufacturing methods and
sales plans were discussed, the pro-
gram being largely in informal discus
sion of these questions. In the after
moor the Commercial club was host in
an auto ride about the city. In the
evening, the visitors were the guests
of the Scott Sanford Candy company
at a banquet at the Park hotel, the
convention headquarters.
VII Choose Slogan.
Drink your beverages from a bot
tie" or some similar slogan soon will
be as well known as Say 1t With
Flowers according to r. Fl. Wise of
Billings. who represented the national
bottlers' association at the convention,
and who addressed the assembly at
both the morning session and evening
banquet.
THE sanitary way, the best way and
just as cheap way is to drink only bot
tied beverages" he said. THAT is a
fact being generally recognized and the
-a+:z-oJ a~eaoxn4;ar -. aaw offarTnr
large prizes for the successful slogan
which will be advertised as extensively
as was that of the florists. The slo-
gan will be chosen at the national con
vention next month at Atlanta, Ga"
Mayor r. VI. Armour was the prin-
cipal speaker at the evening banquet.
His talk was largely in the nature of a
welcome of the visitors TO the city. He
spoke briefly of the opportunities and
advantages of Great Falls from the
point of view of the manufacturer and
salesman. Turning to the work of the
bottlers, he complimented them upon
the work of their profession and the
possibilities for concerted action for
the good of the business through their
organization.
Sessions Close Today.
Other speakers on the banquet pro-
gram included President Charles r.
Nevin of Butte. J. c. Wild of Denver.
representative of the Illinois Glass
company, and r. Fl. Wise of Billings"
representing the national associate
executive board.
The Great Falls session was char
acterized by Wise as n of the best
conventions of the organization ever
held in the state. % bottlers being
present. The association covers the
states of Montana. Wyoming and idaho.
The sessions today will open with
business meetings this morning.
which will continue into the afternoon.
The entertainment of the afternoon viii
be fitted largely to the individual de
sires of guests. with automobile rides
for those who care to visit points of in
terest near the city and other forms
of entertainment for the visitors.
This evening the bottlers will be en-
tertained at the American Legion
bouts at the Grand theater. This
morning they will be lined up for a
group picture.