Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-07-07
THE PRESS
Incidents of the Association Meeting anc
Visit to Salt Lake and Denver.

The Press Association of Montana
indeed a favored organization and
its members have been given oppor-
tunities of enjoying themselves, rare
to any other organization and far |
that of the average Mon
tanian. The recent meeting of the
at Helena and the subse-
quent excursion to Salt Lake City
and Denver, afforded the editors a
brief respite from the unvarying
at the table and their wives
and sweethearts a much appreciated
change of surroundings for u fort
night, beside bringing the representa-
tives from different sections of the
state into closer communion and
1t was indeed an occa-
sion much enjoyed and never to be
The association met at T. INA
June Dist, that day being devoted to
introductions, n bath in the Broad
water plunge and a visit to Nick
kessler's brewery, the program be-
ing SO arranged All to treat n n
ma with no less favor than the
outer covering. In the evening II
reception was rendered at the Mon
tana club, where many of the mem-
beers enjoyed the dance. The second
day found IA much larger number i'm
attendance and was given to the
business end of the meeting. Papers
upon subjects vital to the interests
of the newspaper fraternity were
read and discussed, the dryer themes
being interlayed with humorous
papers and visits to the side room.
Many of these papers are of interest
fraternity and will apper from time
to time in the state press. In the
evening the visitors were rendered
a banquet at the Hotel Helena for
which 125 covers were laid, many of
the prominent citizens of the state
being in attendance. After an
elaborate menu had been enjoyed,
wine was passed and the toastmas-
ter, Eggleston, editor of the Helena
Independent, introduced i'm happy
vein the speakers of the evening,
among them being Mai. Martin
Maginnis, Col. Sanders, Editor Quinn,
the newly elected president of the
association, A. b. Keith and Editor
Anderson of Bozeman.
While i'm Helena the members were
allowed to ride free on all street car
lines, and telephone or telegraph to
any part OF the state free of charge
such messages. The citizens of the
capital city and the resident editors
did all in their power to render the
stay of the visitors enjoyable.
Wednesday morning sixty members
of the association, including about
twenty ladies, started for Salt Lake
City the guests of the Great Northern
Railroad company as far as Butte
and from thence the guests of the
Oregon Short Line. At Butte the
party remained four hours, being
met at the depot by a committee o
the Butte Press Club and escorted t.
the Butte Hotel, where a lunch was
served, after which many members
accepted the invitation of Manages
Mcguire to visit the theater and Sc,
as much of the play, 1.-the Twelve
Temptations" as time would allow
From Butte the party proceeded il
/ lnaein1 pn11mnn aars Hon M A
Clark bidding them an enjoyable ex
cursion i'm the shape of n donation q
several ases of champagne ant
several hundred cigars, the ladies o
the party enjoying the former quit,
as much as the gentlemen. The ruI
to Ogden, Utah. was made withou'
notable incident, the party there be
ing met by a committee of the Sal
Lake City Press club, among whicl
were President BloOr, Jas. b. Walker
formerly editor of the Helena Journa
but for some time past on the Sal
Lake Tribunestaf and W.M .Dolliver
formerly of Helena and well known
to many Fergus county citizens.
Salt Lake City was reached at 8 a
IN. and the first glimpse of zior
threw the party into raptures which
further investigation but served t.
impress. But according to the pro
gram b city proper was not tn,
first to be enjoyed and thirty min
utes after arrival the party was
taken by special train to Garfield
beach, on the great Salt Lake, the
greatest inland body of salt water
in the world and about forty minutes
ride from the city, the intervening
land being covered with salt formerly
part of the bed of the lake, which il
each year receding, notwithstanding
the lake has no known outlet. 1,
may be interesting to here note upoI
what conditions the MormOns base
their claim that Utah is the site o.
the Holy Land. Not many miles
distant from the great salt lake is a
large body of fresh water known al
Utah lake, the two being connected
by the river JOrdOn, which empties
fresh water into the salt body, the
chain corresponding to the Red and
the Dead sea and the river Jordon o.
the Christian Palestine.
At Garfield there is a beautiful beacl
which slopes gradually into the ses