The Van Buren press., 1900-05-19
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spend delightful hour as guests of the

spend delightful hour as guests of the
Woman 5 Business club.
We thank the various transportation
lines for courteous treatment and name
as especially worthy of our kind con-
sideration the ST. Louis and San Fran
cisco railway, the Iron Mountain and
Southern railway, the Choctaw and
Memphis railway and the Cotton Belt Z,
aud the Little Rock Traction company.
We especially thank the Col. S. w.
Fordyce, who made the association his
personal guests for trip to Hot Springs
over the Little Rock, Hot Springs and
Western railroad. We thank Mr. John
G.. Lonsdale, vice president, and Mr..
Fred W. Gregory, general passenger
agent, for their presence on the excur-
sion, giving personal attention to our
comfort and pleasure, and Mr.. Brainard
Allison, whose courteous personal at
tention given this association from year
to year on the part of the Iron Mountain
railroad has made for him many warm
personal friends among cur member
ship.
We mention with peculiar pleasure
and gratitude the press Of Hot Springs
and the manager, r. E. Jackson, OF
the magnificent Park Hotel, for the
royal dinner and other valuable favors
and courtesies.
Whereas, The city of Hot Springs has
been justly named the Convention
City, by reason Of its accessibility, its
unsurpassed hotel facilities, its innum-
cradle attractions and its cosmopolitan
character, and
Whereas, The convention of the Nat
ional Editorial Association should be
be held vt some point easy of access
were the members may have every con
venience and and every opportunity for
recreation and amusement, and
Whereas, The members of the Ark.
ansas Press Association believe that
Hot Springs is the most eligible place
for holding the 1909 convention Of the
National Editorial Association There
fore be 1t
Resolved, That the National Editorial
Association is hereby invited to meet
in the city of Hot Springs in the year
1902 and be it further
Resolved, That this association here
by pledges its members to use every
means possible to place this invitation
before the national association in its
most favorable light, and further
pledges its members that in case we are
honored by the acceptance Of the invita-.
tion, to assist the people Of Hot Springs.
Whereas, the members of the Arkan-
sas Press Association were the recip.
tents of marked attention, q courteous
reception and genuinely hospitable and
affable treatment at the hands Of the
Hon. Geo. X. Belding, mayor of the
city of Hot Springs, during their brief
soJourn; therefore be 1t
Reolved, That the sincere thanks Of
this association be rendered to Mayor
Belding, and due acknowledgment be
made to him of the gratitude we feel is
due him for the manifold court estes ex-
tended, and for the many pleasures en-
joyed white in the city of Hot Springs.
The local press of Little Rock aided
by the Commercial League and the
Business Women s Club had made such
preparations as will cause the memory
Of the meeting to linger long In the
minds Of the "quill pushers, -
The meeting was called to order Tues
day morning at nine o clock by Presi'
dent Theo. Smith, and continued that
and the following day, being inter-
spersed Tuesday evening by reception
at the state house and Wednesday after
noon by a carriage drive over the city
In which the penitentiary grounds were
visited and the editors were shown the
large amount Of work which has already
been done in the construction OF thu
new state house. The blind school wal
also visited and an exhibition given o.
the splendid work being done by Prof
Dye and his assistants, proving to thu
visitors the advisability Of an even NOR,
liberal policy on the part of our legis
latures toward these and the others o
our elymosenary institutions. The driv,
was wound up by visit to the cit.
park, where refreshments were served
by the ladies composing the Business
Woman Club and each quill pusher'
decoated with q boutonniere of rar,
roses.
The time spent In attending TO th,
business portion Of the meeting wal
taken up by many subjects of interes
and profit to the attending editors, mucl
of which however, would not be OF grea
interest TO our readers and owing Il
lack Of space and time will have to b,
omitted,
The next meeting Of the Arkansas
Press Association will be held joint,
with that of the Texas Association n
Houston, Tex, on next April, when, h,
is now planned, IN excursion maybe
taken to Cuba.
Not alone to the citizens and press Of
Little Rock and Hot Springs but In NJ
small degree are the thanks Of the Ark
ansas editors due TO the kindness OK.
tended them by the passenger agents OF
the various railroad lines operating II
the state,
Joel Burrough was up from Mulberry
Thursday.