Rural Letter Carriers' Association of Maryland
association · founded 1904
State association of rural free-delivery mail carriers that held its eighth annual convention at Ocean City on Monday 4 September 1911, in Trimper's Opera House, electing B. B. Cohee of Caroline County president, W. B. Stainer of Carroll vice-president, E. R. Pyle of Harford treasurer and J. B. Newcomer of Washington County secretary, with Newcomer as delegate and A. Fred Hartman of Snow Hill as alternate to the national convention. Its Worcester County branch had met at Ocean City on 4 July 1911 and booked the state meeting; the county officers were A. F. Hartman president, Samuel Maddox vice-president, E. P. Johnson secretary and J. D. Cropper treasurer. The resort was already a convention town for organisations the size of a state trade body.
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1936 · 1936-06-25
'The Convention City': in 1936 Ocean City took the Spanish-American War veterans, the rural letter carriers, the poultrymen and a four-town dual-highway dinner
'Ocean City is fast becoming known throughout the East as "The Convention City",' the Messenger wrote on 25 June 1936, and the season bore it out. Del-Mar-Va Camp No. 14, the only Spanish-American War veterans' unit on the Eastern Shore, hosted the state encampment on 20-21 June with Dr. C. W. Purnell of Ocean City as chairman and speakers including Congressman T. Alan Goldsborough, Mayor Howard Jackson of Baltimore, State Commander E. A. Mulrooney of the Delaware department of the American Legion and Past Department Commander James B. Freeland of the Spanish War Veterans of the District of Columbia; Col. Joseph M. Mann of Ocean City, who had been in Havana harbour when the Maine blew up, attended. Maryland's rural letter carriers held their annual convention there in early July and were praised by Goldsborough; Maryland poultrymen met on 29 July to consider a Consumer Research Bureau. And on 25 June the mayors and councils of Ocean City, Berlin, Snow Hill and Pocomoke City, with Selbyville, Frankford, Millsboro, Dagsboro, Georgetown and Milford in Delaware, sat down to a dinner meeting at the Hotel Commander to advocate a dual highway through lower Delaware and Worcester County over U.S. Route 113.
Dr. Charles Washington PurnellT. Alan Goldsborough
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