The northwestern bulletin., 1923-06-02
Chicago TO Get Largest Crowds
Owing to Select Central
Location.
ELKS TO HAVE MORE
THAN FIFTY BANDS
The National Negro Business
League Select Hot Springs
August 1917.
(By the Associated Negro Press)

(py the AsSOclaued negro PreSSD
Chicago, June 2.-Chicago, top of
the world" for Colored America, will
be the great Mecca for tens of thou
sands of visitors this year, because
of the many conventions to be held
here, and others in the Middle West.
Three of the big conventions will be
right in the Windy City" Thou
sands of visitors are arranging their
tickets via Chicago" going or COM
ing, to many of the other conventions
for, as one prospective visitor stated:
1T doesn't seem like We have been
in the great Middle West unless we
spend some time in Chicago"
Chicagoans are preparing to extend
the traditional Chicago and Western
welcome to all who come. The house
wives are setting their house in or
der; the automobiles are being re-
painted when not replaced with new
ones; the business men are having
the thoroughfares put in apple pie
order" with new lights; the organ
izations and the society lads and las
sizes are fixing their dates already for
public and private social events.
J. A. Jackson, staff representative
of The Associated Negro Press, has
prepared the following schedule of
1923 conventions
There is every indication that the
colored conventions this year will ex-
ceed even those of 1922, according to
early activities that the different
committees are exhibiting. For the
number of visiting bands, the extent
Of sales with concession men, the pub
lie impression created and the hotel
business. volume, the 1922 conven-
items were all remarkable. The
weather breaks were, in the main,
very favorable. This year the I. B.
p. o. Elks of the World are slated
for Chicago, and this central location
should attract even more than the
fifty brass bands that went to New
AK. This occurs August 1916.
The National Negro Musicians
meet July 24-26 in the same city this
year. The National Negro Tennis
Tournament meets there also.
The National Negro Business
League and its affiliated bodies have
selected Hot Springs, Ark, August
1917, for their meeting place and
time.
The Supreme Encampment of the
knights of Pythias will bring 10000
knights to New York the
week of August 20.
The N. A. A. c. p, Kansas City,
Mo-, August 29-Sept. S.
The New York State Convention
CT the B. p. o. ,Elks of the World
is set for June 20-30. The National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People occurs in Kansas
City.
The American Woodmen's conven-
tioDs for the different districts are
as follows: District No. /, Okiaho-
ma City, June 4-8; District No. 2,
Charleston, s. c., May 14-15; Dis
Lrict No. 3, Nashville. Tenn, June
is: District No. 4, Columbus, Ohio.
July 1920; District No. S, Baltimore,
August 6-10.
The Shiners go to Indianapolis.
August 6-12, and since there are
moro of the membership OF this or
Ter In the cities Of the Middle West
han on the Eastern seaboard, 1t is
'air to presume that more than the
Ii 900 people who went to Washing
ton last year will be there.
The Benevolent Protective Order
Of Renders meet the first Tuesday
IN September for three days in Balti-
more, Md. Address Rev. Charles D.
Cummings, Grand Dictator, Luther
lille. Md.
More favorable business and labor
will find big reflection in
he spending capacity Of the crowds
hat follow these meetings.