The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1889-03-30
TH1BoDAUx, La, SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1889
The State Press Convention.

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the Louisiana Press Association, has
issued his call for the annual convcn-
ton OF the association, fixing the
time for the meeting on the 18th of
May. The meetin. will be held this
year i'll the thriving little city of Thib-
odaux. LafOurche parish, where pre-
parations are being made by the
generons-hearted and progressive
citizens to entertain the representa-
tives OF the press in the grandest and
most hospitable style. One of the
pleasurable features of the meeting
will be days ride on board of 4
steamboat on the placid bosom of the
famed Lafourche river, where the
sight-seer will be surrounded with
the most enchanting and romantic
scenery and be enabled to take in the
beauty and lOveliness of that delight
ful semi-tropical region of this grand
State Of ours.
Every member of the Louisiana
Pres, Association should be present at
this meeting, and every newspaper
man and woman who is not IL member
should attend the Thibodaux meeting
and there become Il member. We owe
it to ourselves as members of a great
and noble profession to encourage and
cultivate the amenities of professional
and assOciatiOnal brotherhood. We
owe it to the readers of our respective
journals to acquaint ourselves with the
different sections of our State, that we
may speak intelligently when We have
occasion to write about any particular
section. We owe it to this great State
OF ours to cultivate that spirit of bro
therhOOd with the people of every sec
ton Of the State that will eradicate
from our minds and hearts every feel
ing OF sectionalism, and recognize only
Il unity OF interest and oneness of pur-
pose in the common effort to elevate
this grand State Of ours to the proud
prominence of equality in all things
with her sister Sta,es of the Union.
This we, rs journalists, can most effec-
tually accomplish by personal know
ledge of the necessities of the various
sections of our State, which can best
be attained by personal acquaintance
with those sections and their people.
This is the object sought in holding
these press conventions at different
points throughout the State, each year
at Il different place.
And further, by placing ourselves
under the associational bond, we have
the benefit of the counsel and OK
perience Of each other; which
makes us wiser, and elevates the toEe
Of our associated press by inspiring
those associated with the dignity that
alone is born of a knowledge of the
Importance of their calling. In the
great effort that is now being made to
bring Louisiana into prominence as a
desirable locality for home seekers
land in which the press "f the State
is leading) we, as journalists, need to
counsel together and acquaint our
selves with each other to bring about
the greatest good from !: cooperative
effort. 1t is our duty and should be
our pleasure to cultivate this associa-
tional relationship. For the good of
Louisiana journalism we trust that the
Thibodaux convention will have the
largest attendance of any convention
in the history of our association and
that every editor i'll the State who is
not already member will attend
and join the association. .-Ruston Cdt-
graph.