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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1913
Page
41
The 1913 Georgia division of the TPA adjourned in Albany after electing Jesse Bates of Macon post as president and reelecting James H Andrews of Atlanta post as secretary. Atlanta was chosen as state headquarters and city for the 1914 meeting, with a welcome program and committee reports shaping the proceedings.
Elisha Stevens sells tanks quits cigar and soda trade. W U C ¢ Tet lia fraterni ty notes friendly feeling. R L Wallacas travels after illness. ACT packs members by mail trains. Dickens and Curtis victims of accidents improving. George Byrd returns from Central road. ACT insures $10000 for loss of eyes feet or hands. King Morton travels from Chattanooga. RW Manley at Pure Food show in Atlanta.
The first resolution unanimously adopted by TPA delegates returning from the state convention in Albany Georgia on March 28 expresses thanks to the Central of Georgia for efficient service in transporting delegates from Atlanta to Albany and back. It also congratulates the railroad on having Mr W H Ware district passenger agent at Atlanta as a capable official, whose services and considerate attention during travel and the convention are warmly remembered.
A special call to all Gideons and friends to attend a meeting this afternoon in the Piedmont hotel convention hall led by Charles Tillman. Rev George B Stuart will lecture on May 184 for the Gideon Bible fund and to help defray expenses of delegates to the first International Gideon convention in Toronto this year.
R K Rambo of John Slivey Co lectured Georgia Tech seniors on salesmanship delivering the creed Our Salesmans Creed emphasizing honest methods, boosting, self belief, courtesy, generosity and competitive spirit as key to success in selling dry goods.
Dave Kirkland, of Sted Seal shoe fame, hosts Keen at his Lake Weir home. He dredged a five mile canal to divert water, draining 100 miles of ditches across Island Prairie, making land high and dry. A saw mill cuts cypress and pine for tenants houses as a town site for Maclan develops and a Silver Springs railroad is planned.
Paul S Pause returned from an injury and is in good shape. Thomas A Allen and Thomas W Hayne joined National Biscuit Company salesmen. Tom Clvatt and Bill Gaston from Fain Stumps attended. Walter C McNair reported CSA of Jacksonsinle inviting Atlanta S 4 for summer visit. Pure Food show country store raised funds for Home for Incurables. thanks to donors.
The many friends of Sam Binder learned with sorrow that he died in Chicago at midnight last Thursday after a brief illness. He was 37, a popular Atlanta business man, leaves a widow and two sons, and was connected with Binder Frame Manufacturing with headquarters in both cities. His brother Joseph Binder left for Chicago yesterday. R K Rambo of John Silvey & Co travels to New York for a ten day buying trip. T Peeples of Lamar Rankin Drug Co reports steady territorial improvements.
Albany last week hosted a TPA convention where the keynote impression was the broad gentlemanliness of traveling men. Speakers favored courteous listening over fireworks, with Chaplain Belk’s Psalm I guiding devotion. The group upholds just laws and opposes unjust privilege, earning broad support.
D M Braeswell with John Silvey and Co was called in on an old Plymouth Rock hen hatch on Friday last. H E Jessup with Lamar Rankin Drug Co reports good business on the West Point road. D H LeGrande returns to Premium Brand after short absence to cover South Carolina. Jo an Silvey and Co list Ins with several named agents this week. Phillips and W B Carlton of Capital City Tobacco return from southeast Georgia. M Rosenfeld returns from a Carolina trip. A E Robbe of Atlas Pipe Line spent Saturday in Atlanta. H Malone of Capital City Tobacco comments on The Constitution with Kring Line. Numerous mentions of others traveling to Alabama with orders.
Post B was well represented at the T PA state convention in Albany. Central of Georgia arranged two special cars on the Wednesday night train, filled with a large crowd of fellowship minded travelers. Atlanta participants included J H Andrews state secretary Dr S R Belk R A Broyles national director W M Jenkins Paul Toland R W Cameron F B Florence H L Florence C M Gailmard L C Darlington B B Jones LN Huff J C Wills A J Gwann JC West Cliff Baisden H FP Luckett RM Albernethy W P Fair Thomas F Goodwin and others including Mrs Fair Mrs Jones Mrs Anderson and others.
A brief verse by James Whitcomb Riley celebrates the traveling man with a toast to his success, the loved ones he leaves behind, and the journeys that mark his life. The section shifts to a report noting Peterson and Brown, Perry man & Green company, arriving from southeast Georgia, and lists salesmen from Richarda and Holyoke paper firms visiting.
Directory listing several Atlanta area associations with secretaries and meeting times includes Austell building unit secretary Jos HO Andrews Koof Phel secretary at Kiser building, Travelers’ Back fit, City Spiesmen’s Association and Gideons with meeting schedules and contact details at Piedmont Hotel and nearby buildings.
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