Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-02-22
YE EDITORS MEET.
Minneapolis Gives the Association
4 Warm Welcome.
c. s. Mitchell, of Alexandria, Elected Pres.
ident at Thirty-fourth Annual Meet
ing of the Minnesota Editor
ial Association.

/ The thirty-fourth annual session of the
Minnesota Editorial and Publishers AS
ISOLATION was held in the West Hotel, in
Minneapolis. beginning February 16, and
closing the afternoon Of the 18th. The
meeting was one of the pleasantest and
most profitable ever held by the associa-
ton, and the members bear universal tes-
timony to the fact that everything pos
s1ble was done for their pleasure and
comfort by the Minneapolis Press Club
| In fact, the thought moulders had such a
good time that some of the members
brought to the attention of the organiza-
! ton proposition that in the future less
time be spent in pleasure seeking and
more devoted to the business which
| brought them there.
The meeting was called to order by
President Huntington, who, after few
Well CHOSEN remarks of congratulation,
| introduced Mayor Gray. Mr. Gray ex-
tended warm welcome to the fraternity,
put was sorry he could not give them the
Keys OF the city, owing to the fact that
| at the last meeting of the association in
minneapolis the keys were given to Pres
| loent Stranton, and the city had not re-
| celVed the keys back. Consequently the
doors or Minneapolis had not been locked
| against the editors and never would be as
| long as he (Mayor Cray had voice in
| the matter. In saying this Mayor Gray
| announced he represented the sentiments
! OF all the business men Of the Flour City.
| IN regard to loss of the keys the mayor
mad nothing more to say. Ex-President
| stanton was present but remained dis
| creetly silent. 1t was learned afterward
| that Mr.. Stanton said he could prove an
! abb and as long as he could do that it
remained for the other fellow (the keys)
| to look after his side of the case
The mayor was roundly applauded. One
of the editors was on the point of making
| a confession, but his friends and coad-
tutors restrained him on the ground that
| 1t would be a damaging admission and
| against the good of the order-that so
long as they held the key to the situation,
'''twere folly to be wise" Mum was the
| word after that.
! President Huntington, Of the associa-
! ton, took advantage of the precedent
| established by Ibis honor to read a pa
| per-a piece of paper-on which he had
]otted down few friendly notes of warn
ing, of advice to his brother editors as
| to the best ways and means Of outWitting
| the deceitful advertisers
| About that time six big cars of the
Twin City Rapid Transit Company rolled
up to the Hennepin avenue entrance Of
| the motel and some one yelled: '.Au
| aboard for the agricultural school,"
| Everybody got aboard. When the con-
came around some of the editors thrust
nickel at him, but he refused to take
| it. explaining that it was against the
! rules and that their money wasn't any
good anyway. The badge was enough, he
| said. But some of the men on the free
| hst-and they were used to riding gratis
were not satisfied. They seemed to think
they were being imposed upon.
Upon reaching the grounds the mem
! oers and their wives were taken in charge
! by Dean Liggett, who showed them all
the varied works of the institution, after
which bountiful repast was served
After dinner came speeches and the party
returned to the city. In the evening the
editors and their wives made up two
theater parties, at the Metropolitan and
bl]ou opera houses. At the METROPOLITAN
I some witnessed the performance of tho
Corlnne Opera Company, and others saw
through the Breakers" at the Bijou.
After the performance the editors-it
being stag party-gathered in the main
dining room Of the West Hotel. where
they Whiled away the hours until we'll
| into the morning with a social session, in
which song and story were very pleasant
~ intermingled. Colonel A. x. Schall,
president of the Press Club, was master
of ceremonies, and he made the fun fast
and furious.
At the second days session the follow
ing papers were read:
Where Every Editor May Stand, A. w.
Blakeley, Rochester Post-Record
The Editor as a Business Man, ]. A..
Wharton, Willmar Argus
Womans Part in Journalism, Mrs.
FRANKLIN w. Lee, Rush City Post.
Makeup and Type Display, John E.
King, Adrian Democrat
The Extended Influence of the Press il
Rural Mail Delivery Were General
Throughout Minnesota, Secretary c. P.
Stein, St. Paul.
The following officers were elected:
President-C. S. Mitchell, Alexandria.
First Vice-President-W. R. Edwards.
Tracy.
Second Vice-President-A. B. Allen,
Battle Lake.
Third Vice-President-H. C. Miller. St.
Peter.
Secretary-Charles P. Stein, st. Paul.
Treasurer-David Ramaley st. Paul.
Executive Committee-Frank Meyst. G..
c. Whitney, H. P. Hall.
During the taking of the ballot upon ths
presidency the fact developed that under
the constitution but one vote could be
| cast by representatives of any one paper,
and as soon as the ballot was concluded
the constitution was amended so as to
permit any member of the association to
cast vote and have a voice in the as
ISOLATION affairs. The usual resolutions
OF thanks were returned to those who
contributed to the welfare and comfort
Of the association.
A committee appointed to consider the
| address of the president reported in favor
OF taking up the matter of revising and
codifying the laws relating to legal print
ing, and recommended that the executive
committee use SO much of the funds Of
the association as necessary in placing
the matter before the next legislature
and securing the passage of the neces-
saray bills.
w. r. Estes, George N. Lamphere, H.
E. Hoard were appointed the committee
to care for the publication Of the next
law supplement.
The visiting women of the association
were given reception in the afternoon
in the corridors of the West Hotel where
the palm garden was pleasant resort
for the guests.
In the evening the few editors and their
wives remaining in the city were enter
tanned at the Press Club rooms with ster-
eoptfcon views of the war in the Trans
wall, shown by Thomas H. Russell, who
gave an appropriate lecture to accom-
pany each picture displayed.
The Muckross estate, which includes
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