The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1901-03-20
TonnahaWk Meeting.
Northern Wisconsin Press association
Meets in That City.

meeting at Tomahawk Friday and
Saturday of last week. The attend
ance was not as large as was expect
ed, but the meeting was voted to
have been an entire success. The
business sessions of the Association
were held DIT different times during
Friday and Saturday, and the
balance of the time was taken up
with the entertainment provided by
the citizens Of Tomahawk. The
visitors we're welcomed to the city il.
a neat little address by Mayor
Thielman on Friday, and in the even
ing the moulders of thought trip
ed the light fan tastic to the inspir
inc tones of Cones Wausau orches
ira until half past ten o'clock, when
all repaired to the dining room of
the Hotel Mitchell and enjoyed one
OF the finest banQuets ever given in
the Wisconsin River Valley. The
arrangement of the magnificent
dining no IN Immediately captivat-
ed the hungry editors, and they got
outside of the seven courses that
were served, in way that would in
dictate that th-ir appetltes accom-
panied them upon the trip. About
one hundred of the the Tomahawk
people were seated with the visitors,
and after the refreshments were dis
posed of, he gathering listened to
long list of speakers, who each 10
their turn answered to the call of
Toastmaster Judy, who presided
over this, his first banquet, in u
manner that would indicate that he
was an old hand at the business, and
had it not been whispered around
beforehand, no one would have sus-
pected that the worthy master Of
ceremonies was a Methodist minis
ter. 1t was two O'Clock before the
banqueters left their places at the
tables, but were the editors and
their hosts tired?-hardly! The
dance was resumed. and the crowd
made merry for a long time there
after The writer is not able to
state just what time the last of them
retired, but at four a. IN. we tore
ourselves away, leaving the prince
of entertainers, W. H. Bradley, and
a number of others in the height of
their enjoyment.
Friday afternoon the party was
taken on an excursion to the paper
mill of the Tomahawk Pulp and
Paper Company, where the business
OF manufacturing paper was demon
strated and explained. Mr.. A. M.
Pride, the general superintendent
of the company, looked after the
editors and their ladies, on this
excursion, and it is doubtful if MANY
OF them ever enjoyed a visit to a
manufacturing establishment more
than this. They traced the manu-
facture of the paper from the saving
machine at one end of the mill.
where the spruce was being cut into
blocks, clear through the different
processes, until paper came out of
the great paper machine, and was
rolled onto a spindle, ready for ship
ment. The great water power OBJ
tanned from the daming of the Wis
consin River was also an interesting
feature of this trip. The water
power secured at this point is snfi-
Gent to run all the factories and in
stitutions that could be placed along
the river, and means much to the
future, as well as for the present of
the industries now under operation
and soon to be constructed in the
valley.
La the Association meetings a
variety of papers were read, and
considerable time was allowed to the
que stion of foreign advertising, with
the result that after the matter was
thoroughly gone over, an expert /
mental plan was agreed upon, and a
committee consisting of the presi-
dent ard secretary was named to
put it into operation. The plan will
be given trial in certain localities
and the result of the scheme will be
announced at the next meeting.
Editor Williams of the Ashland !
News, extended an invitation to the :
editors to hold their next meeting in !
his city, witch was accepted, and !
tie lime of meeting was set for the !
early part Of September. It is