Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-08-05

MOWER COUNTY, MINI
HISTORY OF A WEEK.
The President and all his cabinet will at
! tend Gen. Grants funeral in New York
The party will leave Washington in I
special car on Friday, Aug. :. Apartment
have already been engaged at the FIFTH
| Avenue hotel. It is not likely that th.
president will return to Washington imme
diately after the funeral, as it is his purpos<
to take few weeks of rest and recreation
in the Adirondacks as soon as he gets away
DR.. Wood of Albany and Col. Lamont viii
probably be his only companions in the
mountains. In order to devote his entire
time to business which has accumulated in
his Office, the president will be compelled to
deny himself to callers, except upon urgent
public business, for several days.
A couple of aeronauts named VIM. J.
Smith and A. L. Talbot have been badger
ing each other in the Chicago papers for q
week until they finally made wager for a
balloon race to take place near the city on
the evening of the 1st inst A great crowd
gathered and the balloons went up about
1900 feet when they collapsed and came
down. Talbot made q moderately gradual
descent and was unhurt, but Smith fell the
whole distance and received fatal injuries
About one o'clock on the morning of the
Q1 or ,koI -, nko
Canada, and burned through the entire
night, doing damage to the extent of several
million dollars.
Stanley Huntly, formerly of Bismarck
D. T., but latterly of the Brooklyn, N. Y,
Eagle died on the 31st of July of consump-
tion. He was the author of the "Spoopen.
dyke Papers,
The Bankensand Merchants telegraph
company has been sold at public auction
and bought in for $500,000 by Edward S.
Stokes in behalf of the reorganization com
mittee.
The Democrats Of Virginia have nomi
mated Fitzhugh Lee for Governor, against
John =. Wise, the Republican nominee.
It is estimated that there has been a de-
crease of about 1000, 900 in the public debt
during the month of July.
Maud s. has been giving an exhibition
trot at Cleveland and has lowered her rec
ord to 2:08S<.
MINNESOTA EDITORIAL AsSOCIA-
TION.
The Minnesota Editorial Association held
its Seventeenth Annual Session at St. Paul
on the 26th and took an excursion to Min.
netonka on the Goth. Over one hundred
editors were present and the occasion was
an enjoyable one. The following officers
were elected:
President-H. A. Castle.-Farmers Advo.
cate.
Vice Presidents-A. W. McKinstry, Fari.
bault Republican,; Robert Miller Fergus
Falls Telegram: A. N. Dare, Elk River
News.
ne;og1e nGorresPSndjng % ling, secretary-Maj T. M
Recording secretary-C. M. Morse, Lake
Benton News.
Treasurer-David Ramaley, st. Paul
During the session the committee on res
olutions reported the following which were
adopted:
Resolved, That this association heartily
concurs with the suggestions and senti.
ments of our retiring president with regard
to the "amenities Of journalism,'' and de-
clares all attacks made or slurs thrown up
on one journa4 or journalist by another as
unprofessional and inconsistent with the
best interests of the profession, and that
while there should be always the freest
and fullest discussion of all questions, per
sonalities in such discussions are to be
avoided, and spirit of courtesy always
cherished and Practiced between members
of this profession.
Resolved, That a code of professional
journalistic ethics should be prepared and
adopted by this association, and any other
possible means should be used to elevate
the standard of journalism.
Resolved, That so soon as the same can
be properly maintained, department fol
professional training in journalism, with
lectures by men prominent therein, should
be opened IN our state university.
Resolved, That only well established
journals of recognized merit as newspapers
tion, should be recognized by law as medi
ums for official and legal advertising.
Resolved, That in the opinion of the as
ISOLATION the rates fixed by law at the pres
ent time in this state for official and lega
advertising are none too high for the worl
to the publisher by right, and that all cut
ting on legal rates is alike injurious to the
parties allowing such discounts, and to the
profession in general; that nothing is
gained in the end by the party seeking tc
increase his business by such methods, as al
| such cuts in business will always be met by
| competition, and the only result is to enrich
others and corner and impoverish the pro
| fession of journalism.
A report from the committee on adver
tising and ready print was asked for
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that the subject of ready print being
invested with so many difficulties, it wa.
| deemed advisable to make no report upo1
! it, but to leave it to the judgment of eacf
publisher whether he should use patent.
or not. The report of the committe wa.
as follows:
| Resolved, That it is for the interest O.
every publisher to adopt for himself {
uniform scale of prices for advertising
| under which all of his advertising patron!
will stand upon the same footing, and tha
the scale should be published in the paper
or posted conspiculously.
! Resolved, That the publishers, If they
make any discrimination in rates between
foreign and local advertising, should Civ,
the advantage to their home patrons upo1
whom they are principally dependent fo
the support of their journals
Resolved, That the practice of givinl
advertisements a preferred position, O
inserting advertising notices in the regula
news columns tends to depreciate the val
ue OF regular advertising space, to the low
ering OF the standard of Journalism, an,
ought to be discouraged; but that il ad
are thus inserted an additional price, equal t
from 25 to so per cent, should be charge,
over the price for the same matter if in
serted in the regular advertising depart
ment or without special position.
Resolved, That the practice of insertin
regular advertising matter as editorial o
news matter without the recognized dis
tinction in style or size of type that weul
enable the reader to distinguish it as an ad
vertisement is not for the best interest
Of the publishers and tends to demoraliza
ton.
In the matter of ready prints, your CON