The indicator., 1904-03-19
NEWSPAPER
MEN MEET
Annual Session Of tho A. v. P. A.
Held ct Florence. and the Ed.
tters Are Royalty Entertained.
Canon City Chosen as tho Next
Place Of Meeting.

citation was held at Florence,
Monday last and those editors
who attended certainly had. good
reasons to congratulate them
selves for the good people OF Flor
ence gave them one OF the best
times in their precarious exis-
tence.
The visiting newmpaper men
were as follows: Otto II. Wang
elm, Boulder; IL. J. Holmes and
A. Newton, Glenwood Springs;
Guy U. Hardy, and Capt. II. NJ.
Mingay, Canon City; w. {. Hunt
Walsenburg; Z. q. Blair and G.
a. Hosmer. Trinidad; J. I. Law
less and Z. Frost Liggett. Lamar !;
M. McCauley, La Junta; u. w.
Barclay, Rocky Ford; Frank
Hays, Manzanola; 5. d. Brosius
ana /. byrneS, Pueblo.
J. Cory Baker. OF Pueblo, a
professional ad writer, also at
tended the meeting.
The business meeting was held
i'll the Chamber OF Commerce
rooms III handsome building,
well located, and the local news
paper men, Messrs. Watts, Moore
and Bissell, did everything to
make the session one OF pleasure
as well as oil profit.
canon City was decided ON as
the next place for the annual
meeting. Guy U. Hardy, OF
Canon City, was elected presi-
dent, w. L. Hunt, OF Walsenburg,
secretary; and I. Frost Liggett,
OF Lamar, treasurer; the executive
committee tor the ensuing year
Will be, II. Nj. Mingay, OF Canon
City, l.. y. Blair, OF trinidad, ].
L. Lawless, OF Lamar. The leg
islative committee is not yet Sc
lected.
When the meeting adjourned,
there were easy riding carriages
with spirited horses, in waiting
at the door, and under direction
OF J. Wallace, chairman OF the
Chamber OF Commerce and man
ager OF the United Oil Cos. prop
critics, the drivers whirled the
visitors out to the oil fields, to the
southwest OF the city, where hun
dreds o: derricks, with live, pump
ing wells were viewed by the VS.
itors.
1he oil industry OF Florence
is something tremendously large
and the district is still growing
larger. Ihe tame OF Florence
could well rest on its oil alone,
but 1t has in addition, coal, re-
duction works, cement and fruit.
The plant OF the U. 5. keduc-
ton and Refining Co. was next
visited and the crowd was shown
through by manager, J. .. Mac
Donald. Its one OF the busiest
and tidiest plants Of its kind, and
Mr. MacDoqald gave the visitors
a highly interesting description OF
workings OF the mill; two gold
bricks, each valued at $4,000,
had Just been shipped out, but the
editors contented themselves with
looking at the mouldS where the
bricks had been.
In the evening one of the finest
Danquets ever enjoyed by the
newspaper men, was spread at
The Fremont hotel, at the ex-
oense OF the Chamber OF Com
nerce. President J. Wallace
made the welcoming address in
few well chosen sentences and
hen turned the meeting over to
he tender mercies OF Phil Nc
Iuire, an old-time Puebloan, who
Icted the part OF POSTMASTER in
manner that made one think
hat he makes profession of it.
There were white carnations
or the guests and red carnations
or the hosts, visitors and enter
ainers being well distributed
throughout the hall as they seated
themselves at the best Florence
ad.
The Elks Club also added to
lie enjoyment, by taking the
lsitors to their elegantly furn-
he'd home and treating them in
right royal manner. The Elks
re all right.
FlOrenre 10 fortuc,+. =:
very lively and energetic Cham r
,r OF Commerce, with lots of 70
I'd push in it, and no doubt that
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