Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-06-11
: ICHIGAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.
ANIMAL Meeting at Coldwater, Tuesday
and Wednesday, June lst and End.

ia Monday of last week there was Il
gre and unwonted scurrying around
an,ng the editors of Michigan, and
the ause of it all was the nineteenth
annual meeting of the State Press
Association to be held at Coldwater
June and 2, and to close with grand
excursion to the greatest Of American
wonders-Niagara Falls. To these
annual Outings" the editors of Michl-
gan look forward rs eagerly us the
schoolboy does to his summer vacation.
For weeks before the appointed time
there is planning and scheming how
best TO arrange matters that they may
be able to attend this annual picnic
and still have affairs ut home run
smoothly. There are words Of counsel
given to the rather reckless devils
to be sure and keep plenty of water in
the boiler on press day; list OF poin-
tiers written down for the new architect
of the local column; there is the
deciphering of the hastily written copy
that has been prepared; futile attempts
to think of something you known you
ought to say before leaving, and at last
the gathering up of whatever in the
wardrobe line an editor may be FORUM
ate enough to possess; counting over
of passes to see if they are all there
and last great rush for the train.
This program, with sundry and divers
variations, was enacted in many parts
of the state on the day above mention
ed, and we shall attempt to tell our
rea lers briefly, about some of the things
one of the members of this party saw
while absent on this trip.
In order to get into Coldwater Tues
day p. III. it was necessary for the writ
er to leave Alma at 1:l5 Monday p. m.
and stay over night somewhere along
the line. Ionia was selected as the
place and was reached just in time to
allow us to witness the Memorial day
services. This filledup spare time nice
ly, and O'Clock the next morning was
on hand several hours ahead of time
it seemed to us The start was made
for Lansing, where the transfer to the
Michigan Southern was to be made and
all along this route the ink-slingers kept
dropping i'll until when Lansing was
reached quite Il little party was assem-
bled. Here just time enough for short
walk up town and good look at the
handsome capitol building was given
and then as the train came laundering
in there ought to have been an artist on
the spot to photograph the different
styles and degrees of Misunderstanding that
ensued between the parties, and a
photograph to bottle up the great flow
of language that lasted until Coldwater
was ut last reached-aye until the party
had dispersed and there was no one
left to, talk to or at. The crowd kept
receiving additions until the lovely lit
tie city of Coldwater was reach at $50.
Here was found the city band which
dlscourSed some of its sweetest music
rs though to give us welcome not
easily expressed in words. Every car
riage III the city, nearly, was waiting
to convey the guests to the opera house
where many of the citizens were as
sembled to find their guests and escort
them home. The recession when form
ed, proceeded by the band, was over
mile in length and rather surprised
some of the people who had never
given much thought to the number
Tor appetites) of newspaper workers
The opera house reached, the roll was
called and the visitors conducted as
rapidly as possible to the homes of the
people who had so generously thrown
open their doors to the members of the
press, entertaining them right royalty
during their entire stay i'll that gem of
cities. 1t is with especial pleasure that
we think of the coy little home nest of
Mr.. and Mrs II. j. Cudner, Of the Cold |
water Republican,, where everything |
possible was done to make it pleasant |
for my companion and myself. Mr.
Cudner, though still a young man. has |
a most desirable position as one of the
proprietors Of one of the Oldest and |
best established papers in southern
Michigan and what he seems to prize
moso highly than all else-a life-partner,
cultured, refined and womanly and ap-
preciating fully, and justly proud of |
her husbands talents.
At 8 o'clock the evening exercises
opened with an address of welcome by
Mayor Mines, responded to by Sec'y
Fitzgerald Of the Association, i'm his
usual happy manner. This was follow
ed by President Aldrichs address which
was short, pithy, timely, practical and
completely carried away the editors. AS
well as the citizens who had assembled
to.listen to the exercises of the evening
and had crowded the handsome little
opera house to its utmost capacity.
a solo, the Discouraged editor"