The Richmond Palladium And Sun Telegram

HOOSIER SALESMAN
IN CONVENTION

First Convention of Traveling Men of United Plant Begins Tuesday.

TESTS ARE TO BE MADE.

MEN WILL BE INSTRUCTED IN THE USE OF MACHINES—WILL BE WELL ENTERTAINED WHILE HERE.

The first annual convention of the traveling men of the new Hoosier branch of the American Seeding Machine Company, incorporated, will open in Richmond tomorrow morning. This is the first time that the traveling men of all three branches of the manufacturing concern have met, and the officers of the Hoosier Drill Company expect to show the visitors a time of their lives. While the men are in Richmond several dinner parties will be given in their honor at the Wescott hotel, and it is probable that they will attend the theater one evening in a body.

An excellent program has been arranged for the three days of the convention, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week. There will be some thirty-two traveling men in the city.

The reception committee consists of the following officers of the firm: Fred J. Carr, manager; Walter H. Bates, general sales manager; J. W. Lamson, assistant sales manager, eastern territory; A. H. Rice, assistant sales manager, central territory; W. H. Keisker, assistant sales manager, western territory; A. W. Rees, manager of collections and accounting; S. H. Jones, manager of improvements and patents; E. Christman assistant manager of improvements and patents; H. H. Huntington, assistant manager of improvements and patents, and E. S. Ralph, advertising manager.

Today all the men were entertained at the Wescott hotel. Tomorrow the men will be taken on an inspection trip through the local factory, and in the evening they will meet at the hotel for the discussion of matters pertaining to the manufacture and the sale of machines.

On Wednesday the field trial of all the machines manufactured by the company will take place at the experimental field northeast of the city on the New Paris pike. Here the workings of the machines will be explained to the men. On Thursday morning the machines made by the Kentucky branch will be exhibited and in the afternoon the Shortsville drills and cultivators will be shown.

The men who arrived today were: W. T. Connelly, of Chattanooga; M. C. Fitzgerald, Albany, N. Y.; J. A. Frost, Jr., Indianapolis; C. C. Geib, Millersberg, O.; J. T. Harris, Franklin, Ky.; C. V. Holderman, Nashville, Tenn.; Edgar Hubberd, Saginaw, Mich.; D. B. John, Xenia, O.; B. W. Lee, Trenton, N. J.; D. C. Legget, Big Rapids, Mich.; A. E. Murphy, St. Louis, Mo.; S. E. Metzger, Williamsport, Pa.; C. A. Marsh, Watertown, N. Y.; J. A. Moss, Baltimore, Md.; S. K. Miller, Jackson, Mich.; T. W. Noble, Lynchburg, Va.; A. T. Newton, Columbus Grove, O.; G. L. Perkins, Pittsburg; H. Potee, Jr., Madison, Wis.; Marion Rose, Vinton, O.; George D. Rogers, Louisville, Ky.; H. W. Rawdon, Fredonia, N. Y.; M. J. Sebolt, Louisville, Ky.; L. L. Sterling, Meshoppen, Pa.; N. A. Stedman, Greensboro, N. C.; H. P. Spencer, Butler, Pa.; S. E. Shearer, Sidney, O.; H. B. Thompson, Indianapolis; J. W. Thompson, Baltimore, Md.; E. W. Traux, Columbus, O.; F. E. Traux, Zanesville, O.; N. D. Vincent, Baltimore, Md., and A. L. Immerman, of Des Moines, Iowa.