The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-06-24
PRESS ASSOCIATION.

o'clock pm, Tuesday, II. II. Baskette
presiding; and DIR. +. l.. Z. White,
Secretary.
The following papers were repre>
scented by the gentlemen named.
Brownsville States-G A Mathes.
Carthage Herald-W F Harring>
ton, Robert Turner.
Chattanooga Commercial-H F
Griscom.
GAINESVILLE Tobacco Leaf-E l. Ing
ram, 7 NJ Riley.
! Cleveland Herald-T NJ Montgom-
cry.
Erin Review w j Broaddus.
Gallatin Examiner-Thos. Boyers:
Jr., j W Brown.
Humboldt Argus-A T Mcclure.
Jackson Tribune and Sun-B A
Enloe, Robert Gates.
Lawrence Press-James Tongue.
Lebanon Herald-Dr. K l. {
White.
Milan Exchanged j Brooks, W
A Wade.
Murtreesboro News-G H Baskette,
K l. Martin, J Il Osborne, w f Bas-
kettle.
Nashville Amerlcan--Gen. Ira 2.
Jones, Duncan X Doris.
Nashville Banner-R + Osborne,
4 n Grisham.
Paris Intelligencer-R NJ Dicken-
son.
Monroe DemOcrat-DB Grace.
Trenton Rehabilitation Williams.
Winchester Home Journal-W j
Slater.
SECOND DAY.
4 letter from Archie Thomas. of
the Springfield Record, President of
the Association, was read. 1t eX-
pressed regrets that he had been una
bic to be present.
Wilson Williams offered the follow.
ing which was adopted:
Resolved, that the members of this
Association furnish each other through
our Secretary, black list of such
advertisers us are known to be dead
/ beats.
Messrs. iWade and Baskette offered
/ the following:
/ Resolved that the Representative OF
Tennessee in the Congress Of the Uni
ted States are requested TO use their
I influence TO remove the tariff on paper
and materials used in the emanufac>
ture of printing paper. Adopted.
Il \ Enloe, from the committee to
select for essayists for the next annu-
al meeting of the Association, reported
the following:
III Brooks-"DigLity of journal
ism"
H + Gri,com-"The Intelligent
compositer."
q IL Baskette-"Our Country Elk
changes"
K NJ Dickenson-"1'he Relation
and duties of the Press to the Country
in political and Partisan Sense:
& \ Mathes offered the following:
Resolved that the barriers which
prevent women from entering the
field of journalism, as well lis many
other avocatiuns of honor and profit
to which she is well adapted, are
founded on prejudice and are grossly
unjust to the female sex.
Resolved. That the Tennessee Press
Association pledges lis influence indi<
vidually and collectively to give wo-
man uuimpeded access to the journa-
Iistic profession. Adopted.
The following, Officers we're elected
for the ensuing year: G. II BaSkette,
President; Ii NJ GriscOm, Vice Presi-
dent for East Tennessee, W j Slater,
for Middle Tennessee, and Robert
Gates, for West Tennessee; Il l. {
White, of Lebanon, Secretary; W A
Wade, of Milan, Treasury.
Ii NJ GriscOm invited the Associa-
ton to hold its next meeting, on the
third Thursday of next June, at Chat
tanooga. Unanimously accepted.
Gen. A w Campbell, of jackson,
and Hon. S 5 Cox were elected ora
tyrs for the next annual entertain
ment; Sam. w Small, of Atlanta, TO
deliver ali address; ID NJ Wisdom, Of
Jackson to write and read a poem.
G. w Armstead, of the Boil var
Bulletin was elected member of the
Association.
President Baskette appointed the
following Executive Committee fol
the ensuing year: Gen. Ira P Jones,