Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-13
|ED|TOR'L CONVENTION
Held at Green Bay Last Week by
the Editors of the State.
THE VALLEY TO ENTERTAIN.
Already Wausau People Commence
to Lay Plans For the Event They
Talk of Flower Carnival.

Last week the editors of Wisconsin
met in winter session at Green Bay
These winter meetings are for business
and many valuable questions to the
craft are discussed, officers elected for
the ensuing year, summer outing talked
over, etc.
The meeting was very successful
one, and the people of the beautiful
city of Green Bay, left nothing undone
for the comfort of all who attended.
What interests Wausau and the Wis
consin River Valley inhabitants is that
the editors will take their summer out
ing along the valley, starting in at the
Dells and ending at Eagle River, from
which place time will be spent on the
beautiful inland lakes of northern Wis
consin.
INVITATION FROM THE WIS VALLEY
ADVANCEMENT ASSOCIATION.
Secretary Lester A. Rose of the Wis
consin River Valley Advancement
Association gave the Badger editors
most cordial invitation to spend their
summer vacation in the valley Mr..
Rose bore the thanks of the association
to the Wisconsin editors for what they
had done for it. Just say you will
come and leave the details to u.s." Mr.
Rose continued: "We will try to make
things pleasant for you. We will do
things for you that never have been
done before. We will be as innovative
in our entertainment of you and your
wives as we were generous in our vote
of thanks. We will show you the banks
where the wild pine grows. We will
tent you new tenting grounds, sur
rounded by the prettiest lakes and the
grandest of summer resorting pleasures.
We will tent you in sight of the tepees
and wigwams of our red brothers,
there are few of them left. We will
show you Hiawatha up-to-date. We
will camp you where natures canopy
furnishes protection from storms. We
will quench your thirst from natures
crystal fountains and feed you game
meats and feast you on game birds and
fresh fish from the forest and streams.
OH we will fix that; we will have the
governor come along and send the
game wardens further north. Yes
we will tent you out where the
cool breezes ever fan the fevered brow
and lend rest to the overworked brain
Genuine rest is what you can have,
or we will furnish you one continu-
Gus round of sport. Wen take you
boating in the good old way, in the
primitive way, in birch bark canoes
The ladies that are timid and don't like
adventures, we will furnish with naptha
launches or take them riding on the
Hon. w. HI. Bradleys palatial train of
boats on Tomahawk Lake. To the
Isaac Walton's we will furnish guides
to the bayous, and coverts where hides
the wall eyed pike, the big mouthed
bass, the husky muscallonge OF to the
brook where speckled beauties are had
for the dropping of the hook.
"We have everything to interest you
and your people. We will start you in
at the Dells, then Port Edwards, Gen.
tralia, Grand Rapids, Stevens Point,
Mosinee, Wausau. Merrill, Tomahawk,
Rhinelander, Eagle River, then to the
Switzerland of America, the Venice OF
the Western hemisphire. By the time
you pass through the continuous round
of pleasure "nich you will encounter
from Kilbourn and the Dells to Eagle
River, you will be ready to take to your
tents and welcome such rest as we will
have prepared for you. dare not pre-
sent to you in its simplest array the
pleasures of the trip, because You don't
know the generous hospitality of the
Wisconsin vally folk as l do. The
naked truth, were / to tell it, would
place me under suspicion of optimism.
But come up to the valley this summer,
come up and have a good time.
II was expressly instructed by the
officers of our association to make it
plain to you that you were invited to a
novel treat, Tell them" said Col.
Kreutzer and Walter Alexander, that
they will be up against the real thing
when they strike the Wisconsin val
ley