Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-04-06
EASTERN OHIO EDITORS.
Their Meeting at Cambridge Last
81. sai4 Week. -li

A meeting of sthe editors Of South
eastern Ohio was held in Cambridge, on
Thursday of last week, for the purpose
Of organizing an association for the ad-
vancement of newspaper interests. The
want of a local association has long
been fell owing to the lack of time in
the meetings of the State association, to
look after the real interests of the edi-
tors. The following members of the
press were present.
C. II. Matthews, New Philadelphia
Democrat; ]. E. Graham, Uhrichsyille
Chronicle; w. H. Host, Bowerstown q
Banner; J. J. Ashenhurst, Freeport
Press; w. A. Hunt, Belmont Chronicle
C. N. Gaumer. st. Clairsville Gazette
Geo. McClelland, ,Barnesvilie Enterprise
j. w. Hill, Quaker City Independent;
j. II. Aiken, New Concord Enterprise
X. b. Brown, GAINESVILLE Courier; J. F
Meek, Coshocton Age; E. r. Alderman
Marietta Register; S. M. McMillen, Ma.
rietta Times w. H. Cooley, Caldwell
Republican; C. Fl. Goodrich, Woodsfield
Gazette; j. II. Drennen, Martins Ferry
News.
At l o'clock a temporary organization
was effected by the election of Mr.. Nc.
Clelland, of the Barnesville Enterprise
as chairman, and S. NJ. Mcmillan, of the
Marietta Times, as Secretary.
On motion of Mr.. Drennen, of the O.
v. News, the different committees wers
reorganized as follows: Committee on
Constitution, kirkpatrick, Hunt and
Drennen; on Advertising Rates, Gau-
mer, Brown and Graham; on Patent
Medicine Advertisements, Alderman
Cooley and Mahaffey; on Reading No
tices, Graham, McMillen and Ashen.
hurst; on Advertising Agencies. Brown
Matthews and Host; and on Delinquent
Subscribers, McClelland, Cooley and
| Goodrich.
A recess was then taken for fifteen
minutes, after which the reports Of the
committees were called for. w. A. Hunt
of the BELMONT CHRONICLE, reported
the following constitution on behalf OF
his committee.swhich was adopted: .
This Association shall be known as
the Eastern Ohio Press Club.
The object of this club shall be to pro-
mote fraternal feeling among and en-
hance the business interests of its mem
the public good.
Its officers shall be President, Vice
President. Secretary, Treasurer and an
Executive Committee of three members
Any proprietor of any newspaper pub
lished in Eastern Ohio, may become a
member of this club upon signing this
constitution and the bylaws adopted in
conformity thereto.
The Committee on Advertising Agen-
cies, through its chairman Mr.. Brown
who made an eloquent speech in its IA
vor, presented the following report
which was adopted:
The committee recommend that here
after advertisements shall take the run
of the paper, and not be accorded special
positions.
The same price to be charged as fol
home advertisements, and prices strictly
adhered to.
If the agencies are known to be re-
spensible and worthy of credit, accept
their advertisements in the ordina.
ry course of trade, but if not, require un.
doubted security.
If agencies are found to be dishonest
notify other publishers by letter, giving
facts in reference to the transaction.
G. n. Gaumer, of the committee on
Advertising Rates, presented y scale of
rates, which, after an animated discus.
sion, was referred back to the committee
with instructions to prepare scale
based on circulation of 1000, and to
print the same and send copies to the
different members of the club, which
| would consider the whole matter at
their next meeting.
Mr.. McMillen, from the committee on
Reading Notices, reported as follows:
Ali patent medicine and otter foreign
reading notices, should be published un-
der special heading and not among
general reading matter, and your COM
mittee would recommend thai, after the
completion of present contracts, no
member of this association shall accept
foreign reading notices to be published
among reading matter. We also recon-
mend that the same charge be made for
foreign reading notices as to home ad
vertisers.
A suggestion being made that the
adoption of high rate for reading no
tices would have the effect to drive them
out of the papers, Mr. Brown responded
ers, and he believed to the publishers.
They are fraud on the people. A sub
scriber begins to read what he thinks is
an interesting story, and after he has
read half column he suddenly stumble 9
across cure for the itch. 1t is not t o
much to say that that man is disgusted.
The editors lend themselves to the
fraud, but they ought to combine against
it. The report was adopted.
G. McClelland, chairman of the COM
mittee on Delinquent Subscribers, pre-
sented a report, of which the following
is the substance:
The committee advised that the asso-
citation adopt the system of payment
within year; and after subscription is
due, and payment not made after notifi-
cation, TO stop the paper 1t is easier to
collect small bills than large ones. The
longer the paper runs tne harder it is to
collect the amount due. If the de-
linquent is swindler he is found out
sooner. We recommend the organiZa-
tion of bureau of information, which
should report the names of subscribers
who do not pay, and also dishonest ad-
vertisers. Publishers should refrain
from giving a man credit who owes
brother publisher. Let iU be under
stood that no man who owes for any
local paper in Eastern Ohio can obtain
credit from another.
Mr.. Alderman, from the committee
on Patent Medicine Advertisements. pre-.
sented the following reportI
Patent medicines have no special
privileges. On the contrary so many