The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-08-24
IDAHO PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Holds It's First Annual Meet
ing at Ketchum.
Stirring silver ReSOlu-
tiOnS Passed

The Idaho Press Association, ac-
cording to arrangements, convened at
Ketchum on Monday, August 18th,
and as long as their poor, mortal
structures shall stand amid the storms
of existence, will those who attended
retain warm spot in their hearts for
the good people who entertained
them. The good residents of Ketch-
UNI, than whom no more open handed
and hospitable people dwells within
the borders of our beautiful state,
endeared themselves to every member
of the state press who was so fortu-
nate as to enter that little mountain
town on that occasion. AS broad
souled hosts, they stand on the high
est pinnacle. At Bellevue, the band of
that place boarded the train, and from
there to Ketchum the hills echoed and
reverberated with the melody from
their wcll-mastered instruments. At
Ketchum the members of the press
were met with carriages gaudily
draped in bunting and taken into the
city, where the citizens made them at
home on short notice. Hotels were
found, rooms furnished, and every
| manner of accommodation arranged
for the gawking editor without any
effort on his part whatever. All he
had to do was to gaze around, shake
hands and take things as they came.
Everybody hunted him up to shake
and get acquainted; he soon knew
/ everybody and everybody proved tc
be an old friend of ten years stand
ing. And wherever he went he fount
the name of the press a sesame O.
|, magic; at the springs or at the hotel
for grub or for a bunk, not cen
came from his pocket. "Though ou
q beloved country has paralyzed us as
people, swept aside our wealth, pu
our mills on the road to decay, ruinet
our industry and crushed our pros
e porous homes, we are still able t
make everything free to the press o
is the state which is tlreless in its fgh
for our rights" said the people @
Ketchum. God bless them, and ma
they never again see the dark days {
the present, and no better fortun
could be wished them than to eve
meet the same treatment which the
extended to the newspaper fraternit,
~ On Monday, owing to tie meetin
of the silver convention, the associ
was unable to hold meeting.
In the evening reception ball al
a grand banquet was rendered Il
members.
Tuesday morning until noon Il
association was in session, transactir
business of interest only to ther
selves.
In the evening the large hall W
filed to overhowing with an intel
gent audience who were expecting
lu- be entertained by the members of t
w press, which was entirely unexpect
by the latter A number of pape
had been prepared with the expect
I ton of reading them before the ass
- citation only, and to face, as we ha
a. said, an intelligent and large auC
ence, slightly threw us out of o
equilibrium; but, with the addition
music and singing by local talent, t
following program was gone throu
'h' with:
vii The Press and its Relation to the Del
ard opment of Agriculture in the Arid Reg
Die. r. II. Davis of the Caldwell Tribu
ga ga Should the Press be Subservient
Party Gum, of the Boise Ser
no. mel.
Woman in Journalism.-Ad Merritt
the Idaho Recorder.
Foreign Advertising and the Necess
sri- of Uniform Rates.-Geo. Chaplin, of
cry Idaho Falls Times.
III The Mission of the Press-Its Relat
on to Intellectual, Moral and Material De-
any opment.-Wm. Balderstone, of the Be
Nu Statesman.
iiie Importance of Organization am,
Newspaper Men-James Wallis, of
Montpelier Post.
7 The Country Paper and its Subscril
l.. Are its Efforts Appreciated ?-R.
Lockwood, of the Weiser Signal
The audience applauded frequer
,Ji rite and the newspaper men felt easier
: for Wednesday morning the edit
pS- were driven out to The beautiful