Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-19
THE VIRGINIA PRESS.
Opening Of the State Associations
Annual Meeting.
TWO BUSINESS SESSIONS HELD.
Driven Around the City and Welcomed BY
the Mayer
FOR THE PEOPLES GOOD.
Subjects Regarding Our Duties to the
Public Discussed.
CLEVELAND FOR PRESIDENT.
rfost of the Editors Think lie VIII lie
Nominated and Triumphanfiy
Elected In 1892.
The nexepaper.nen Of Virginia are

The newspaper.men of Virginia are
welcome guests in her capital city.
They should feel at home in Rich
mond, as all of our people, and espe-
cially their brethren Of the quill, wish
them 10 do.
The State Press Association opened
its second annual convention here yes
terday with perhaps the largest attend
ance that has ever been had upon such
En- occasion.
The days programme embraced two
business sessions, at which several sub
iects OF importance to the profession
were discussed, carriage drive through
the city, and an address of welcome last
by the Mayor, which was responded 10
by Judge Brand and President Pugh.
The association will hold business
sessions again to-day and will be rendered
a banauet at Zimmerman's tonight 10y
the local press. The body will probably
adjourn this afternoon or tomorrow
early in the day.
GIVEN IIiE BADdbS.
Messrs. John M. Price. OF the STATE,
and Ii. Theodore Ellyson, Of the DIS
PATCH, acted as Reception Committee,
and welcomed each Journalist as no en-,
tered the legislative hall and PROVIDED
him and lady, il so accompanied, with a
handsome old-gold silk badge Win the
following inscription
"second Animal Session (Seal OF VIZ
ginia) Virginia Press Association, hlch-
mond, Va"
SOME OF THOSE PRESENT.
Among those in the hall were:
Arthur A. Splitter, the Newcastle Re-
cord: John Whey, Newport News Com
mercial: Il. II. Barclay, Gazette, Lexlng-
ton, Va: Miss Eleanor Haye Barclay,
Lexington, Va; w. l.. Wardle and wife,
Radford Enterprise; S. @. Wells, professor
of mathematics and geology Roanoke Col
Ieee. Va, In behalf by request OF the
Times Register, Salem, Va. l.. Z. Catlett
editor West Point Yirginian; Thomas Is.
Crittenden, business manager west Point
Virginian; II. L. Hardwicke, formerly
Of the Standard, Abingdon now
Saunders, the Gazette, Radford,. Va;
A. G. Smith and wife, Daily and Weekly
News. Bristol Va Tenn. w. II. ii. Fren-
ger. Clifton Forge Review; W; Bullitt
fitzhugh and wife, Cape Charles Pioneer;
j. II. Wilcox. Portsmouth and Suffolk
Daily Progresses Il. @. R. Humphrles,
Weekly Times, Luray, Va. Harry Gilmore,
Roanoke, Va. James b. Caufeld, Gordons--
Vile. Va.:C. b. Camper. FIncastle VA
Herald: David May. Jr., Waverly Va;)
Sussex Gazette; ID. i. Selke, Index-Appeal,
Petersburg, Va. William Rely and wife,
Times. Winchester, Va. X. H. Martin, Viz
rinian and News, Woodstock, Va. w. III.
Tomney, Citizen. Glade Spring, Va. +; W.
A. French, Citizen, Glade Spring, Va;
a. A. Christian. the News, Pulaski. Va;
Charles L. Herbert, special Daily Herald,
Roanoke. Va: J. 4. Booz, editor and pub
Usher Waynesboro' City Times; William
Rieley, the Times, Winchester. Va. G.
A. Sullivan editor Montgomery DEM
ocrat. Radford, Va: Rev. J: +. Bush
nell, Our Church Paper, New Market. Va;
Daniel Bradford, Jr., editor aud proprietor
Weekly Union, Luray, Va; 4, II. Mason,
editor Abingdon Virginian; w. +. Quinn,
(principal Bell Heth Academy, represent
ing Roanoke Herald and Radford journal,
Radford, Va; A. 7. Funkhouser,, editor
State Republican, HarTisonburg, Va; o..
A. Movers. Pulaski Advertiser; William
Rullitt Fitzhugh, editor Pioneer, Cape
Charles, Va: Il. ii. Martin, Nirglnian ana
News. Woodstock, Va.