The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-29
TEE GEORGIA WEEKLY PRESS.
The Editors Have Arranged for an
Outing in July.

Outing in July.
The fourteenth annual meeting of the
Georgia Weekly Press Association will be
held in Elberton on Tuesday and Wednes-
day. July II and IS Mr.. ". S. Coleman,
president, who is one of the editors of the
Cedartown Standard. has perfected the
programme and arrangements for this
meeting and the annual outing, and d
splendid time is in store for the mem
bers of the Weekly Press of the state.
Four years ago this association met in
Elberton and was accorded royal re-
ception, and last year the citizens sent a
second invitation, urging the association
to meet there in 1900 The editors will
assemble in Atlanta on Monday. July 16
and take their special coaches on the
Sedboard Air Line, leaving Atlanta al
about y o'clock for Athens, where the
| association has been invited to be the
guests of the State University. the Nor
NAL School and the citizens. There will
be splendid banquet al the rooms of
the Athenaeum Club. At about $50
o'clock the party will resume their cars
| and reach Elberton at about IL o'clock.
on Tuesday morning the convention will
| be called to order in the Court House in
/ Elberton. and the formal addresses of well
come and addresses will inaugurate the
/ business session of the convention. Mayor
/ W. B. Adams and Hon Fl. ]. Brewer will
/ speak for the hospitality of that city. and
responses will be made by President Cole
man and Col. H. A Wrench, editor of the
! Madison Advertiser.
| Following the organization and a short
business session. an adjournment VIII be
taken to $50 o'clock in the afternoon
when the association will reassemble for
on ~ asw,-.-
gramme will be interspersed with bust
ness.
A paper will be read by Mr.. NJ. c. Will
cox, of the Mount Airy Protectionist. on
the subject of The Editor-the Many
SIDED Fellow" Mr.. c. f. Douglas, of the
Douglasville New South, will read a pa
per on the subject of Journalistic Sensa-
tonalism." Hon. j. f. Mercer, editor OF
the Fitzgerald Enterprise, will offer
Some Business Suggestions" which will
be followed by a general discussion on
the subjects above outlined
At o'clock the citizens will tender
their visitors a carriage drive over the
city. going to al. the points of interest
about the Granite City. In the evening
an informal reception will he rendered
the editors and their ladies by the citizens
of Elberton at the halls of the Harris
Allen Library, affordiug the visitors and.
citizens an opportunity to rem W their
/ acCuaintances of four years ago
| on Wednesday morning he association
will reassemble al the Court House when
a short business session will introduce
other literary features How a Weekly
Paper Can Be Run on a so Cent Subscrip-
ton" will be discussed by Editor D. b.
Sweat of the Waycross Journal
why We Charge one Dollar for
Country Newspaper" will be presented
by Editor J. y. Fouche. of the Melon
oueh Weekly.
Following these there will be a general
discussion
On Wednesday af ernoon the Granite
City cue club will give one of its ia
nous Georgia barbecues, with all the
trimmings which go along with these de-
ligthlul functions. 10 the editors of the
| association on the grounds at the big
spring near the Club House. These gath
| erings have become historic at Elberton
and the cue this year will eclipse any
thing ever YET attempted by tn IS social
| organization.
Al the same hour that afternoon the la
dies of Elberton will tender a recepGon
and entertainment 10 the ladies of the
| convention. These functions promise to
| be amone the most delightful in the his
! tory of the social side of The organize tio1
and the members are looking forward TO
them with delightful expectations
Wednesday evening at O'Clock. the
closing session of the associa lion will be
held. and two papers of unusual interest
will be raed by two veterans in the ranks
of Georgia newspaperdom. Capt. ". c.
| Napier. editor Of the Walker County
Messenger. will read a paper on Twenty
| Years 10 Georgia Weekly Journalism
and Col w. r. Revill. editor of the Meri-
wether Vindicator Will give some of his
/ "reminiscences. -" touching the field Of
| Georgia Journalism during his long life as
an editor and public man. These papers
| VIII be 70 lowed by an "eX0el fence meet
| ing" to be Concluded by The selection of
place ofmeetinR ard election Of officers i'm
mediately before final ADJOURNMENT
on Thursday morning the editorial par
~ will leave in charge OF President Cole
man. over the Southern Railway. for
roccoa. AT Il o'clock the party viii drive
in carriages out 10 Toccoa Falls and dine
ut Haddock's Inn. The party will see the
rustic scenes OF this famous fall. and re
urn to the city in time to lake their cars
al O'Clock for Tanlldh Falls.
A special train from Cornelia will carry
he party up TO the lodge, where a stop
will be mode until Fr<day afternoon, July
90 At p. m. the party will leave for
| Atlanta over the Southern Railway, ar
| irving at the Gate City at p. m. At
| Il 80 the same evening. the party will take
| three Pullman sleepers for Charleston
s c.. where they will enjoy a few days
outing on the Isle of Palms, disPorting
in the surf. on the way 10 Atlanta, where
the party will disbaud they will stop
Few hours in Augusta.
This outing for the weekly editor OF
the state. representing every section of
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