The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-06-21
PRESS ASSOCIATION.


The second annual meeting OF the
/ Tennessee Press Association met at
| Nashville, pursuant TO adjournment
at 10 O'Clock Thursday morning, June
| the 9Th, in the Supreme Court room,
! Capitol.
The meeting was called TO order by
! the President, Ira p. Jones.
CALLING OF THE ROLL.
| The roll having been called, the fol-
! lowing answered to their names: Il h.
! Baker, Democrat; Thos. BOyers, EI-
| 0H1iner; J w. Brown, Examiner r.
/ M. DickersOn, Li1telIiIeglceFt q. M.
| Emack, Cofee County DeHIOcrGti j..
| o. Griffith, Enterprise; A. 5. Hnrsley,
| HeraLCt; Ira p. Jones, President, Union
and AqJericd19j. T. B. Kirby, Vice-Pres-
ident, Times l.. w. McCOrd, Vice
President, Citizen; -ROlfe S. Saunders,
Ward, Ladies' Pearl; w. J, West
| brook, Bee; and r. l.. G.. White, Secre-
tary, Herald. ]. B. KillebreW, Union
and american.
NEW MEMBERS ELECTED.
H. G.. Bate, of the Laurence Journal
nominated by Col. Griffith.
J. B. Bingham, Of the Southern
Newspaper Union, nominated by L. IL.
Baker.
w. J. Slater, ofthe Winchester Home
Journal, by Maj. Emack.
Charles II. Brandon, of the Marshall
County Gazette, nominated by a. s..
HOrsley.
HONORARY MEMBERS ELECTED.
Mrs. Lide Meriwether, of Memphis
nominated by Rolfe S. Saunders.
Mrs. Nellie Gaines, Of Carroll county,
by Il. h. Baker.
I NJ GaffnrI Of Ir,
Col, KillebreW.
SEAL.
The thanks of the Association were
rendered to Paul 81 TaveI, of Nashville,
as follows;
Resolved, That the thanks Of the
Press Association be and is hereby ten
dered to Messrs. Paul & Tavel for the
very elegant and appropriate seal de-
vised 10y DR.. White which they have
executed and presented to this Associ-
alton.
Col. Griffith moved that q conuittee
be appointed to report on the p0ssibiIi-
ty of taking Southern tOur-visiting
the principal Southern cities about the
time of frost.
On motion, the Chair appointed the
committee: Messrs. Griffith, Saunders,
BOyers, Bate and WestbrOok.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
The following was introduced by Mr.
Purvis:
Resolved, That committee Of five
(the President of the Association to be
One) be appointed to draft suitable
law and memorial and present them
to the session Of the Tennessee Legisla-
ture, in order to secure a proper price
F,s. h., 81
ments in the various presses of the
State.
Mr.. Baker expressed his views at
considerable length. He was followed
by II. b. Kirby, of the Chattanooga
Times.
Secretary White was in favor of the
repeal of the laws on the subject of Ie~
gal advertising.
Mr. Boyers called attention to con-
ficting State laws on the subject. He
moved as an amendment that an ap-
preparation be made to have the COM
Inittee give the subject their earn est
The original resolution was then
adopted as amended.
SOUTHERN TOUR.
MT. Griffith, from the Committee on
a Southern Tour, made the following
report:
The members of the Association to
! meet on 3 given day at Birmingham,
Ala, the new city at the junction of the
Alabama and Chattanooga, and the
South and North Alabama railroads,
thence to Montgomery, Mobile, New
Orleans, Pensacola, Key West, Havana
Savannah, Charleston, Richmond,
Washington, Baltimore, Knoxville and
home.
The report was adopted.
None other than regular members
will be allowed on the exclusion.
Recess was then taken at y NJ. until
| p. NJ.