The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-20
address, which was quite elaborate and en-

address. which was quite elaborate and en-
PERTAINING, he was, on motion OF j. A.
Leonard OF the Rochester Post, elected an
honorary life member Of the association.
Daniel Sinclair, the first president or
the association, who was unable to be
present. furnished an entertaining letter,
which was in some sense review of the
newspaper life Of Minnesota for the TWEEN
ty years which had elapsed since he was
president. Irving Todd Of the Hastings
Gazette supplied a reminiscent paper,
while Rev. G. g. Adams of Boston, who
had been an editor in st. Anthony in the
early ffties but returned east in 1859,
antedated every one in his highly enter
tanning address upon early journalism IN
Minnesota. His effort was recognized by
his election as an honorary member.
The custom of electing officers by COM
mittee report was continued, with the fol-
lowing result:
President--Joel P. Heatwole, News. North
field.
Vice Presidents-Louis e. Fisher. Pioneer
Press, st. Paul Charles l.. Davis, Argus, Red
Wing; c. A. Lounsberry, Tribune, Duluth.
Corresponding Secretary-Major T. NJ. New
son, st. Paul.
Recording secretary-G S. Pease, Union
Anoka.
Treasurer-David Ramaley. st. Paul.
Executive Committee-H. p. Hall, st. Paul
Frank A. Day, Sentinel, Fairmont; D. Sin.
clair, Republican, Winona;, G. w. Benedict
Sentinel, Sank Rapids; C. P. Carpenter, Trio.
une, Harrington.
The election Of officers concluded the
business meeting at Anoka.
The Banquet.
The notable event, however, was yet to
come. The citizens of Anoka had joined
with great unanimity, to entertain the
editors, and the history of the association
does not record greater hospitality than
twas lavished upon them on that occa-
sion. A banquet was served in the city
;hall, which was deliberately decorated, and
the most prominent ladies of the city
participated in serving the feast, which
consisted of nine courses. The descrip-
ition of the scene by the venerable editor
OF the Albert Lea Standard, H. G. Day
who Wasthen in his youth, was SO, apropos
THAT your historian adopts it, and makes
it a portion OF the permanent history
Mr.. Day impressively said:
Thirty rare and radiant maidens" fitted
softly about, and with bewitchng eye and
captivating smile, served the mortals at the
tables until they were so blissfully bewildered
that they imagined themselves im1nortals par
taking of the first sweets Of paradise.
Notwithstanding this outburst, it is due
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exemplary member Of the profession in
the state, but it is probably fortunate that
a second meeting was never held = in
Anoka.
When the feast had been concluded,
Alvah Eastman of the Anoka Herald
opened the verbal exercises with a short
address, concluding with calling upon
Granville s. Pease Of the Anoka Union
to act as postmaster, a task which he
most royalty discharged.
The Excursion.
The annual excursion planned by the
executive committee was from St. Paul
to Duluth, via the st. Paul G Duluth rail-
road, and from Duluth to Tower, via the
Duluth & Iron Range railroad.
The entire trip to Tower was made in
a violent rain storm, and when the party
landed, while the rain had ceased to fall,
there was an inexplicable pail of gloom
overhanging the town, which at first no
one could explain. Business seemed to be
suspended and little knots Of people We're
gathered at the street corners, while q
small number welcomed the party at the
depot with almost bated breath.
We soon learned the painful character
of the situation. G. A. Sellers, the lead
ing citizen of the town and the one who
had made all the arrangements for the en-
tertainment of the editors, among other
things providing a banquet, had been
killed about o'clock the previous day
by the bursting of a circular saw. He
owned the. hotel where the dinner he had
ordered was to be served to the party
and was interested in almost every enter
prise in the. place, as we'll as owning a
large mill. The editors were in a de-
cidedly embarrassing situation, having
reached the afflicted village without the
slightest knowledge Of the sad event
There was nothing to do but to make the
best of the situation, and the dinner
which Mr.. Sellers had provided was &C.
cordingly partaken of, while his remains
lay in the parlor on the floor above. I'm
mediately after dinner, brief funera
services were held in the parlor and were
attended by the editors, after which line
was formed. composed of the citizens and
editors, extending from the hotel to the
depot, which was but a few hundred feet
distant. and the coffin was carried through
this line by the pail bearers to the special
train which was to take the remains to
his former home at Chippewa Falls. Wis,
for burial