HUNDREDS RUDY
FOR FIRST SESSION
Visiting Merchants Urged To
Register At Chamber Of
Commerce Tuesday
Hundreds of visitors are pouring
into Birmingham to attend the
seventh annual convention of the
Alabama Merchants Association,
which begins Tuesday and runs
through Thursday, according to C.
P. Varn, secretary of the executive
committee. R. O. Cranford of Jasper,
president of the association, has ar
rived and is hard at work with the
various committees lining up things
for a good start.
■Visiting merchants an4 their fam
ilies are urged to repfort after
9 o’clock at convention headquarters,
Chamber of Commerce First avenue
and Nineteenth street, second floor, j
and register. Here an official badge,
identifying the bearer as a guest of
the association, will be pinned on,
and a coupon book and credentials
will be issued, entitling each guest
to all the courtesies of an author
ized deligate.
Birmingham and Mobile will play
at 8 o’clock In the afternoon at Rick
wood field, where guests of the as
sociation will be admitted free.
Street cars going out to Rickwood
will be marked “Baseball,” and may
be caught at Nineteenth street and
Second avenue. Owing to the big
crowd expected at the game, the com
mittee on arrangements is advising
visiting merchants to go early, to
obtain good seats.
At 8 o’clock in th# evening there
will be a business meeting at the
Chamber of Commerce auditorium,
which the visiting merchants are
urged to attend. The invocation will
be given by Dr. J. A. Bryan. The
visitors will be greeted in short ad
dresses of welcome by General Chair
man L. C. Wilson, D. E. McLendon,
president Birmingham city commis
sion, and O. L. Bunn, secretary-man
ager of the Birmingham Chamber of
Commerce. President Cranford will
preside.
