A. A.'s Country-wide News Circuit

The second anniversary of the Pine Bluff, Ark., Group will be observed at a banquet April 24 with Rev. Sam D. of Rome, Ga., as guest of honor and principal speaker. Open to the public, the affair will include guests from 15 to 20 other groups in the area. Founded two years ago by Bill F., Memphis, the group in turn fostered the Fordyce Group about a year ago. Lexington, Ky., held its first anniversary with one of the original members, J.J. and H.H. of Cincinnati as principal speakers. Four of the original group as well as members from Mt. Sterling, Paris, Cynthiana, Frankfort, Versailles, Louisville and Cincinnati attended. The Lexington Group has grown to 40 with the central meeting on Thursday night and smaller meetings in Frankfort Monday, Cynthiana on Friday, at the Narcotic Farm Sunday afternoon at 1:30 and the Veterans Hospital at 3 o'clock. A banquet attended by 115 marked the recent first anniversary of the Niagara Falls, N. Y. Group which has grown from the original six to 25 at the present time. Speakers included the first local member, dry three years, first Tonawanda member, dry five years and first Buffalo member, dry seven years. The group recently went to St. Catherine's, Ont., and helped form a group there. Little Rock, Ark., has sent out notices that its seventh anniversary will be marked April 27. Principal speaker will be Dr. A. L. of Jacksonville, Fla.