The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-22
The Press Convention.


sissippi Press Association convened
in West Point last Wednesday and
in session until Friday,
when it adjourned to meet next year
Mt Yazou City.
There was very little business done
vt consequence. The Association has
n constitutional aversion to- work.
Apart from regular routine matters,
the only matter that elected lengthy
was proposition for all
the members of the Association to re-
fuse to accept the publication of the
delinquent tax lists provided for by
the last Legislature at the rate of )
cents for each subdivision, the price
heretofore received for such work be-
ing 20 cents. 1t being shown that the
lew price axed in the new act was an
oversight, it was finally decided to
leave each publisher free to use his
own discretion about publishing, and
50 ask the next Legislature to raise
the price to the proper standard. To
secure this and other necessary lcgis-
lation the committee appointed at the
last meeting was continued.
From social standpoint the meet
ing was y brilliant sttccess. In fact,
the most valuable feature of these an
nual gatherings of the Press is the So
cial re-union. For the time person
al bitterness and asrerities are soften
ed or forgotten, and naught but good
feeling prevails. Old acquaintance
and friendships are revived and new
ones formed, and many an editor goes
home with a very different apprecia-
ton of his brother editors from that
received by reading their papers.
The people of West Point exerted
themselves to the uttermost to enter
tain their Press visitors, and the
Association never met with more
whole s0uled hospitality. On Thurs
day magnificent dinner, which had
been prepared by the hands of West
Points fair daughters, was spread al
the court house, and never was
feast more tempting or bountiful.
Four years ago the noble Christian
ladies of West Point broke the record
at Press Conventions by refusing to
serve wine at their Press banquet,
and we were delighted to find them
still true to the precedent then estab-
lished. Annual meetings of the mem
bers of the Press, to their honor be it
said, are no longer "annual DRINKS"
and to- the influence of the pure Chris
tian ladies of West Point, Meridian
and other places is this mainly due.
a complimentary entertainment
Thursday night by the West Point
Minstrels was highly appreciated and
keenly enjoyed.
West Point is wide awake, pro-
gressive town, and no place of it's
size in the State can surpass it. 1t
has population of between three
and four thousand, and it's site seems
to have been designed by nature fol
beautiful little city. 1t is well sup.
piled with substantial brick stores
and handsome, stately residences, a
cotton compress, oil mills, ice and tile
factory, machine sh ops, three rail
roads, stately churches and one OF
the finest graded public schools in
the entire State. A visit to this
school was one of the happiest cpl
sodes connected with the Association
stay in West Point. 1t is a magniii,
cent structure, erected at Il cost Oi
$25, ZOO, has eight different grades,
and an average attendance of $50 pu-
pills. AS Gen. Beall said, it is the
pride of West Point, and we'll it may
be.
Friday afternoon about As members
of the Association accepted an excur-
sion over the Georgia Pacific to Bir-
mingham, and the others departed
over the different routes for THEN
homes, bearing with them the most
Measurable recOIlectiOns of West
Point and her chivalous, generous
people.